Jiang Ling looked at the bowl of soup in front of him, he really didn't have the courage to eat, got up and said, "I'll go out and take a walk." And he ran out of the house.

"Stop!" Su Mu scolded him and shouted, "Come back, sit down!" ”

Jiang Ling frowned a little disgustedly, but he also had to obey the order.

Su Mu took the lead in picking up the bowl, took a deep breath when he brought it to his mouth, and took a big sip. His eyes were slightly weak, and he swallowed with a "grunt".

Then, Song Zirui picked up the bowl, and when he heard the "grunt" sound, he also swallowed a big mouthful.

Looking at their slightly furrowed brows, I knew that this "hanging soup" was not a good thing.

Jiang Ling and Mu Yun looked at each other reluctantly, but Su Mu kept staring at the two of them with cold eyes, and the two refused to pick up the bowl of dark food.

Xia Yuyu sniffed, and a bitter smell instantly rushed to his head, which was very similar to the smell of Chinese medicine he had drunk when he was conditioning his aunt.

"Wow~"

Before she could drink it, she saw Jiang Ling covering his mouth and rushing out, which can be imagined how difficult it is to swallow.

Regardless of it, it will not die anyway, so it should be drunk with Chinese medicine.

Xia Yuyu puffed out his cheeks, and just fed the bowl to his mouth, but Su Mu on the side held his bowl. Said gently: "If you can't drink it, don't drink it." ”

Xia Yuyu, whose eyes were foggy, unconsciously showed a smirk that he thought was very charming.

Oh my God, is this the legendary "spoiling"?

After the meal, looking at the empty county office, Xia Yuyu couldn't sleep.

In ancient times, science and technology were backward, and it was simply impossible to adopt "water diversion in other places" and "artificial rainfall", so we could only allocate grain and funds for disaster relief.

But Lu Zixian said that the border is tight, and there is no extra food money to help the victims.

So they can only go and rob.

Xia Yuyu paced back and forth, only thinking about solving the drought, and had long forgotten about other things.

"Mu Yun" Su Mu, who had difficulty falling asleep like him, called her with a heavy heart.

Xia Yuyu heard the sound and held back her mouth, "Why can't you sleep?" ”

Mu Yun let out a light "um".

"That'...... What about going to sit? Xia Yuyu pointed to the gazebo and asked tentatively.

"Good!"

"Do you say that the imperial court really doesn't have time to take care of these victims?"

"In the year of the great drought and the tight border passes, most of the relief grain of the imperial court was filled with military rations." Su Mu paused, a little helpless, "It is inevitable that someone will take the opportunity to make a profit." ”

It's true that there are corrupt officials in any era, and now they are even more greedy for life-saving food.

Xia Yuyu, who listened to it, couldn't wait to tear them apart!

"What are you thinking?"

Xia Yuyu said his thoughts, "In addition to disaster relief, you can also build water conservancy projects, and if you can't do it, you can move your family!" ”

Then, Song Zirui, who also couldn't sleep, arrived first, "In fact, there is a certain precursor to the drought at the beginning, and people are often reluctant to give up the crops that have been sown, and still feed the livestock raised at home as usual, let alone flee their hometowns." He slowly explained and walked up to the two, and he said that it was also helpless.

Xia Yuyu, who listened to it, was a little angry and complained, "It's really brainless, my life is almost gone, and I still think about half an acre of dry land." ”

"A long period of drought without rain will inevitably dry up and die of crops in large areas." Su Mu added.

Song Zirui nodded approvingly, "Since the sowing has been carried out, there is very little food in the house, and people and animals have also fallen into a weak state due to lack of water. ”

"In the end, there will be a change of child."

"Easy to eat?" Xia Yuyu's eyes widened at Su Mu, his face was full of incredulity, "How did they do it?" ”

(Out of the last basic morality and conscience of human beings, people are often unable to eat their own children ruthlessly, so they will exchange children with each other, because children are not the main labor force in the family, so they become the victims of tragedy.) ）

As he spoke, the sound of hurried footsteps came.

I saw Jiang Ling covering his buttocks with his backhand, and ran to the thatched house in a hurry.

Occasionally, he saw a few people staring at him under the gazebo, and said as he ran: "You go on!" ”

Several people looked at each other suspiciously, and Xia Yuyu and Song Zirui laughed out loud.

Su Mu looked at the two who were smiling speechlessly, got up with a serious face and said, "It's not early, rest early." ”

After that, he brushed his sleeves and went back to the room.

Xia Yuyu behind him had already stopped laughing a little.

Who knows, when I raised my eyes, I saw Jiangling, who was clamped with a particularly embarrassed ass,

Xia Yuyu slapped the table, laughed and asked, "Are you pulling your pants?" ”

Jiang Ling gritted his teeth and glared at the two, eager to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to scold, a sharp pain rose spontaneously, stimulating his nerves.

The anus is like the tide of the Qiantang River, "poof", wave after wave.

Jiang Ling clenched his stomach with his hands, hunched his back and rubbed the wall, and he didn't dare to take small steps and run towards the thatched house.

Gangneung almost never left the thatched house that night.

The next day, Lu Zixian cooked another pot of bark soup.

When Gangneung saw the soup, he didn't want to drink it anymore.

Xia Yuyu saw the sweat on his forehead and his trembling legs, and deliberately pushed the bowl in front of him, "Come, Deputy Envoy Jiang, please use it!" ”

Jiang Ling's whole body had already weakened, and he glared at him, "Mu Yun, when did you learn to bully people?" ”

"Uh...... I, I, wasn't I like this before? Xia Yuyu weakly dragged the bowl back again.

"It's about to be soup kitchen, why do you still drink hanging soup?" Song Zirui's heart also refused.

Lu Zixian smiled helplessly, picked up the bowl in front of him and drank it all, and sighed for a while, and said, "It's porridge, it's better to have water." ”

Several people were puzzled.

Lu Zixian paused and continued: "There are 106,000 people in Lin'an City, 200 quintals of rice a day, what is it if it is not Qingshui?" ”

"What about the stolen rations?" Su Mu asked.

"One hundred and twenty grain wagons, six hundred loads in all."

"Six hundred?" Su Mu repeated in shock.

The holy decree clearly stated that it was 2,000 quintals, but why did Master Lu Zixian say that it was only 600 quintals?

That's too much to do.

Lu Zixian glanced at a few people, and found that the expressions of a few people were wrong, so he snorted coldly and asked calmly, "How much does the holy decree say?" ”

Anyway, Lu Zixian is also a seven-rank official, and he has been in the officialdom for many years, so he can be regarded as a clear man for robbery in the officialdom.

"Two ......"

"Sixty." Song Zirui rushed in front of Su Mu and replied.

How could Lu Zixian not see through his small movements, smiled indifferently, looked at the sky and sighed, "You might as well go outside with me!" ”

"Good!" Su Mu responded.

Lin'an, a soup kitchen.

The victims here are very similar to Xia Yuyu queuing up in the cafeteria to eat when she was in college.

Each person has a bowl in his hand, staring expectantly ahead, and when someone passes by, he stares at the bowl in the person's hand and swallows a mouthful of saliva.

A monk dressed in snow-white clothes and carrying a sword attracted the attention of several people.

He sat on the stone steps, his melancholy eyes lowered, looking at the bowl of porridge in his hand, which looked extraordinary.

Jiang Ling saw that he was neatly dressed, and concluded that he was eating and drinking, and he was extremely unhappy.

Quickly stepped forward and snatched the bowl over, and asked, "Okay, you Taoist priest has learned to eat and drink!" ”

When the Taoist priest saw that the bowl was taken away by others, he was not angry, and saluted him: "Xiaodao is just passing through this place and is hungry, so I have to do it as a last resort." ”

Daoist, Xia Yuyu instantly became interested.

Although the white-clothed Taoist priest has seen a lot, they are all played by actors, how can he miss the opportunity to see his face when he finally catches a job.

Xia Yuyu hurriedly ran in front of him and looked up and down, left and right.

This person is very young, the white robe is simple and clean, the long sword on his back is polished as bright as new, and his face is very handsome, but slightly thin.

"Hyosungchen?" Xia Yuyu clapped her hands in surprise and asked, "Are you Xiao Xingchen?" ”

The Taoist priest looked puzzled, and Shi Li said: "Xiao Xingchen is not in the mouth of the child, and the disciples under the Shangren are floating in the dust." ”

"Slap" Xia Yuyu slapped his head, came back to his senses and scolded in his heart: "Xia Yuyu, I'm afraid you're crazy, Xiao Xingchen is from the Demon Dao Patriarch, how can he appear here!" ”

"You're the Floating Life?" Su Mu asked.

"Exactly!"

Su Mu had long heard of Fusheng, he had an indifferent personality and wanted to transform sentient beings, so he left his master a year ago and traveled all over the world.

"What a Dao Master of the Immortal Wind Dao Bone." Su Mu looked at it, his tone was strange, and it didn't sound like a compliment.

"The Venerable Mortal, the Venerable Person?" Gangneung muttered two names.

Fusheng heard the words and said: "The Venerable Master is the next uncle. ”

Jiang Ling's eyes lit up, and he pointed at the two of them, "Huh! Then you and Su Mu are still brothers. ”

Looking at the puzzled eyes, Jiang Ling explained, "Su Mu has been under the Venerable Master for a few years, although he is not a disciple, but he is still half a disciple!" ”

Fusheng, who was originally vigilant, instantly relaxed, and hurriedly bowed his head respectfully and said, "Hello, senior brother!" ”

"No need!" Su Mu looked displeased, glared at the talkative Jiangling, and walked back to Lu Zixian's side.

Lord Lu, please drink this bowl of porridge. An old man in ragged clothes trembled and handed the rice soup in his hand to Lu Zixian.

Lu Zixian waved his hand and refused, "Old man, no need." ”

"My lord, you can drink a bowl." The old man prayed and pushed the bowl forward.

Lu Zixian still shook his head and refused, so the old man had no choice but to give up, sigh and go to the corner with the bowl.

Putting aside the robbery of military rations, Lu Zixian is really a rare good official.

"It's really a blessing to have Lord Lu in Lin'an." Su Mu praised from the bottom of his heart.

Lu Zixian said helplessly, "It's a blessing and a curse." ”

Su Mu was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand what the "disaster" meant.

I just thought in my heart that the court was powerless in this drought, and what could I do, the only thing I could do was to let Lu Zi hand over a few heads to go back and try his best to save more people.

After thinking about it, Su Mu still told him his thoughts.

Unexpectedly, Lu Zixian rejected him and said: "They are all people under me, they all have wives and children, and I Lu Zixian can't do it." ”

"My lord, have you thought about it? Stealing military rations is a crime of the Nine Clans, can you bear to let your wife and children go to the guillotine? ”

Lu Zixian was silent.

"My lord, if you hand over a few heads and say that they are robbers, no one will track down the nine clans of a robber."

Su Mu had already analyzed the pros and cons to Lu Zixian, and he was silent for a long time before he spoke, "This official Sansheng is fortunate to have the command to protect him. ”

A trace of joy flashed on Su Mu's face, Lu Zixian's method of handing over people could not only protect more people, but also allow him to complete the task, which was the best of both worlds.

"The commander makes you a big tree, if you can solve the livelihood of 10,000 people in Lin'an, what kind of head do you want at that time, I Lu Zixian will never say a word!"

"Ten thousand?"