"We want to eat, we want to drink, we want to live! Let's go into town, let's get in! ”

Downstairs in Qingzhou City, a large number of excited people gathered together, carrying several corpses, and crying under the city tower.

Some excited young people were throwing stones and mud at the city wall.

Shen Junwang and Chen Zhizhou stood on the city tower, looking at the people who were blocked by the city wall, and couldn't help but ask angrily, "What's going on?" Why is it suddenly messed up? ”

A small official wiped the sweat on his head and hurriedly said: "Go back to the county prince, go back to the adult, the little one has inquired, and it is said that someone in the county below ran to the village to steal sweet potatoes and was caught and killed." The people in the county were hungry and anxious, saying that those villagers did not save them when they saw death, and they refused to take out food to save everyone's lives, and deliberately wanted to starve them to death, so they gathered a large group of people to go to the village to grab sweet potatoes. Those sweet potatoes are the lifeblood of the villagers, and they all point to the sweet potatoes to live, so the two sides fought and killed several people. As soon as the people in those counties saw that they couldn't take advantage, they carried the corpse to Qingzhou City. ”

After Chen Zhizhou heard this, he couldn't help but curse, and then turned his head to look at King Shen Jun: "Old man, what can you do?" ”

King Shen Jun frowned and looked at the people under the city wall, and his heart was complicated.

These people are all people who have been driven to a dead end.

If it is not handled well, it will definitely cause a chain reaction, and it will be difficult to get it at that time.

"Wait."

Chen Zhizhou almost missed, "Huh? Old man, do you mean to keep waiting? ”

What are you waiting for? Wait for the county lord to come back with food? God, how long has it been, the county lord has not heard from him at all, he can wait, but are these people downstairs in the city willing to wait?

King Shen Jun didn't reply: "Do you have any other ways besides waiting?" Open the gates and let them in? ”

Chen Zhizhou shook his head vigorously, joking, at this time, open the city gate and let people in, and his body and bones are estimated to be able to tear and gnaw on these people.

The people in Qingzhou City are more or less richer than the people in the county, so there is still a little food for the time being, and it can last for three or five days.

But before Chen Zhizhou could finish thinking about the matter, suddenly there was a chaotic sound in the city.

"My lord, the king of the county, it's not good, the city is also in chaos."

Both of them were stunned, and quickly turned around and went to the other side of the city wall, only to see smoke billowing from somewhere in the city.

"My lord, it seems that the yamen is on fire."

Then there were officials who ran desperately towards this side, shouting loudly as they ran: "My lord, it's not good, someone went to the yamen to make trouble and set fire to the yamen." ”

Chen Zhizhou was so angry that he jumped to his feet, "Do these people want to rebel?" ”

As he spoke, he took off his official robe and rushed to the yamen.

King Shen Jun stretched out his hand and pulled him back, "This matter is not quite right. The people outside the city gate made trouble, and the yamen was burned at the same time, which is not like ordinary people making trouble, but like someone deliberately causing trouble. ”

Chen Zhizhou's expression froze, "Old man, do you mean that someone took advantage of the chaos to incite the people to make trouble?" ”

King Shen Jun sneered, "The old man has seen a lot of this kind of trick, and I think that the people behind the scenes have already mixed into the city, and they should cooperate with the people outside the city, and deliberately provoked a stir at this time." I just don't know what the purpose of this troublemaker is, don't worry, wait and see. ”

Chen Zhizhou admired Shen Junwang's ability very much, so he also stood still and decided to see what these people wanted to do first.

About an hour later, the fire on the side of the yamen was extinguished.

But there was another part of the city where a fire broke out.

This time, it was Lin Ruan's house in Qingzhou City.

Subsequently, a rumor began to circulate in the city.

The natural disaster was caused by Lin Ruan. Because the sweet potatoes she got out of nowhere are themselves hoodoos, God wants to punish these places where sweet potatoes are grown, and use drought methods to completely destroy sweet potatoes. And the people in these places are also implicated because of the cultivation of sweet potatoes.

Originally, this rumor sounded nonsense, but it happened that the drought did start when the sweet potatoes were planted.

Desperate people, when they are cornered, hear something that they think makes sense, and they are convinced.

So the rumor spread ten, ten, hundreds, and soon spread in the city.

Some people whose homes had run out of food began to be incited to run to the doors of Xunwei Ji and Roast Duck Factory, and surrounded the shops to death.

I don't know who said in the crowd: "Lin Ruan made so much black-hearted money, those strawberries and peace fruits were sold so expensively in the past, they were all the silver of the common people in the pit, this is a demon girl, she has never been well-intentioned." Everyone rushed into the store, there must be a lot of food and a lot of silver in her store, everyone rushed! ”

The people who had lost their minds immediately rose up in groups, smashed open the doors of Xunwei Ji and Roast Duck Restaurant, rushed in and rummaged around.

Lin Ruan's shop actually had nothing in the store for a long time, and before she set out to get food, she asked people to stop the business of the two stores, and took out the business income of the last six months, bought food, and gave porridge in front of the store every day to help those called Huazi.

So these people rummaged through the store, and they didn't find anything of value.

The instigator added: "It seems that the demon girl had already guessed that there would be this one, so she moved everything from the store." What to do? We don't have a way to live. ”

Another person said: "Then go to Chen Zhizhou, the dog official and the demon girl are in the same group, we can't find the demon girl, so we will go to the dog official." He must know where the demon girl hid something, and if we catch him, we will have a way to live. ”

So the people went to Chen Zhizhou's mansion again.

Chen Zhizhou's mansion was also empty at this time.

The instigator climbed up and shouted, "Did you see it? The dog officer also ran away, and no one cared about our life or death. What are we going to do? ”

The people are also confused, yes, Chen Zhizhou has run away, what are they going to do?

The man stood on a high place with an excited expression and said: "Everyone has seen it, this is the court of the Great Zhou, this is the parent official of the Great Zhou, something happened, they took the lead in escaping, leaving us ordinary people behind." This is to force us to a dead end! ”

"That dog official must have fled to Kyoto, and when he escapes back to Kyoto, he can live a comfortable life again, and maybe he can be promoted to a higher level and live a more prosperous life. As for us, we can only be starved to death. Why, we are also human beings, why do they do this to us! ”

The people had already lost their minds, and after being brainwashed like this, they were all full of resentment towards the court.

It was the imperial court's support for Lin Ruan's promotion of sweet potatoes that led to this disaster.

It was the court officials who left them to flee for their lives, regardless of their lives or deaths.

What did they, the people, do wrong? The court doesn't care if they live or die, what are they going to do?