Chapter 50: Seeing the Status Quo
The sun is full of smoke and heat, and it is a fly and mosquito to sit idle. Yan Du wore a brocade green robe, stood upright at the gate of the courtyard, and said to Wei Huan, who was still changing clothes in the room: "Just change your clothes, why are you so inky." β
"It's coming, it's coming!" Wei Huan, who was standing in the screen and changed back into his own clothes, walked out while tying his belt as soon as he heard Yan Dui's urging.
"Huh! You dare to run outside without even getting your clothes on? Yan Duan saw Wei Huan's loose robe, and hurriedly shouted anxiously.
Wei Huan looked up at Yan Du when he heard the sound, and saw that she had already turned her head away from looking at herself, so she couldn't help but smile lightly: "It's all men, what are you afraid of?" β
Yan Duan slammed the open door of Wei Huan's room shut, startling him who was about to step out.
"This is Kun Dao Temple, pay attention!"
Wei Huan listened to the lessons of people younger than him in the room aggrievedly, and he didn't feel good in his heart, but it was not easy to refute, after all, he was still under the fence, and he still had to pay attention to what he should pay attention to.
"Yes, yes, it's Xiaosheng's fault!" Wei Huan's helpless voice came from the room, Yan Du stared at the door tightly, if he hadn't put on his robe properly after opening it, he would give him a slap of pleasure.
With a babbling sound, I saw the well-dressed Wei Huan open the door and walked out slowly and refreshedly.
"Did you bring the letter you sent home?" Today, Aunt Shizuhiko asked the two of them to go to the town to buy, and it happened that this Wei Huan was also going to ask someone to call his family for relief, so he went to do things together.
Wei Huan patted his chest, holding the letter in his arms, and said confidently: "Definitely." β
"Let's go!" Yan Du led Wei Huan out of the Taoist temple through the back door and walked to Peach Blossom Town.
The peach blossoms are flying in March, the peaches are fragrant in May, Yan Du still remembers Xiao Feng's instructions to drink a sip of peach blossom wine!
"Brother Li, don't you ride a horse?" Fang Fei went off, Xia Mu was overcast, Wei Huan looked at the path in front of him with no end in sight, and said with some concern.
Yan Du listened to Wei Huan's words, and blinked his apricot eyes: "It's only more than two miles of road, what kind of horse to ride." β
This Wei Huan's family has a little money, so he went out to serve the horses? Dare to shout tired for two miles, it is the first time she has seen such a squeamish scholar.
Wei Huan sighed slightly, and said helplessly: "Okay." "He's never wasted his energy on unnecessary things, such as walking, shortening his time, and reading a few more lines.
However, walking with Li Fu is not a waste of time.
This Li Fu seems to be a hard-working young man, but except for his rude posture when eating, he is still polite at other times, and last night he used "Chinese" to imply that Emperor Hui is not a good monarch, which shows that this person reads poetry and books. Although he likes to make fun of himself on weekdays, he has never seen when he crossed the courtesy, his thoughts are correct, his actions are upright, and he does not lose the bearing of his son's family.
Daheng, there are such interesting people!
When Wei Huan thought of the time he spent with Li Fu, his various behaviors were both conflicting and mysterious, which made people curious, if he went to Shudi, he must tell this anecdote to his old friend.
Of course, Yan Dui, who was walking on the side, didn't know what Wei Huan was thinking in his heart, there were weeds along the way, Xu is Peach Blossom View was rarely cared for, no one had taken this deserted road for a long time, and he had to draw his sword to weed and cut branches as a last resort, Wei Huan saw this, and suddenly said:
"Brother Li, don't weed and open the way."
When Yan Du heard this, he immediately stopped waving the sword in his hand and asked suspiciously, "Why?" β
Wei Huan pointed to the barren grass and fallen leaves standing around, covering the entire road so that he couldn't see the direction clearly, and said: "This road is the only way from Guanzhong to the town, but the Taoist aunts have not opened the road, so that the direction of this weed is chaotic, just to make outsiders unable to walk the Peach Blossom View, so the view can be so quiet." β
Yan Du followed Wei Huan's hand and looked around, indeed, if it wasn't for Aunt Jingyan who had explained to her how to walk before, she would have been lost here, she suddenly thought of the Yishui River at the foot of the Octagonal Mountain, and the Qimen Dunjia that the master said was also somewhat similar here.
"Do you even understand this Qimen Dunjia and the gossip maze?" She suddenly raised her head and stared at the unobtrusive white-faced scholar in front of her, a little surprised, and a little surprised.
"I don't understand!" Wei Huan shook his head, and immediately poured a plate of cold water on Yan Duan's excitement and extinguished it.
"Wei is just speculation."
Yan Du couldn't help laughing when he heard this, thinking of all kinds of books in his big book, and he had to admit that this person was observant and knowledgeable, and it seemed that he was not bragging about passing the state exam.
Suddenly, she saw that there were still a few bright red fruits hanging on the tree in front of her, if it weren't for the unknown road here, the fruit on this tree would have been picked by the hungry people a long time ago, and where was there anything left. Thinking of this, she swung her sword and cut off two and handed one to Wei Huan.
She took a bite, not sweet but extremely thirst-quenching.
"Although the road is boring, there will be occasional gains on the road!" Yan Duan raised the red fruit in his hand, turned his head to look at Wei Huan, and smiled with red lips.
Wei Huan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and take a bite of the plump and juicy fruit. He's red, sweet, and tempting.
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It is said that if the sword is fast enough, the person who is killed will not feel pain when he dies!
And those who starve to death will definitely go through a lot of struggles before they die, they will feel unprecedented powerlessness and pain, and they will gradually collapse and watch themselves die.
In this case, it is better to be killed than to starve.
Yan Du looked solemnly at the Peach Blossom Town in front of him, the faces of the people who fell on the side of the road were yellow and thin, many shops on the street were closed, and it was so lonely that even the breeze that blew was dyed with a bleak charm.
"How so?" She couldn't imagine that these human tragedies were happening not far from her.
Wei Huan is the same as Yan Duan, his mood is heavy, the streets are full of begging people, last year he could still have three meals to eat, live and work in peace and contentment, and now a spring tide has washed away all the goodness.
"I'm from the south, and I've seen a lot of these tragic things along the way!" Peach Blossom Town can be like this in the north of Huainan, and in the south of the disaster, there are three steps and one starving people, and ten steps and one white bone.
"You say, should I be deceived for my three hundred taels?"
Yan Du looked ahead, her eyelids drooped, in fact, she was too naΓ―ve, how could there be so-called perfection in the disaster land, she had never seen starvation everywhere, so she dared to laugh at this Wei Huan's dismissal of family wealth, if it was placed on her, it would be like this:
"I'm sorry, I didn't see the status quo!"
Wei Huan shook his head gently, seeing it clearly, what can he do? They are all just civilians, how much can they do?
"Do you want to help them? Gang out one by one? He asked softly, and the boy was still distracted.
Yan Du shook his head, his expression could not hide his sadness, and a pair of heroic eyebrows furrowed tightly: "I don't know"
Wei Huan sighed, raised his hand and touched Yan Dui's little head that was pretending to be too much on his mind, and said, "Then go and see if they are worth helping!" After all, you only have five taels of silver......"
Yan Du glanced at him when he heard this, and at this time, he was still mentioning some silver, and his hand holding the sword suddenly tightened by three points. However, Wei Huan is also right, first observe clearly, what is the reason for this Peach Blossom Town, which is away from the center of the disaster, to have such a serious famine.
When the two of them walked to the rice shop, there were already many people surrounding the rice that had just been served, but they didn't buy it, but just looked around with sad faces.
Yan Du and Wei Huan glanced at each other, and when they stepped forward, the price of this rice was really ridiculously expensive. Although Yan Du is the daughter of a rich family, in the days when she studied martial arts with her master, she never did any rough work, and she naturally knew the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt.
"Two taels and one pound, that's not a money grab?" Wei Huan pointed to a load of rice in front of him in surprise, all of which were yellow-brown, uneven in size, and sandwiched with small stones and broken shells.
"Love to buy or not!" The owner of the rice shop stared at Wei Huan who was talking arrogantly, and dared to come up and twitter crookedly if he didn't buy it: "Look at your poor and sour face, now the whole town has my batch of rice, if you don't buy it, dig the bark and eat it!" β
Yan Duan's apricot eyes were filled with anger, staring straight at the rude-language rice shop owner, scolding and scolding, and the spittle stars that spoke flew to the rice that grabbed the money.
If you want to make a small profit in front of you and make a fortune for refugees, you will inevitably set yourself on fire!
"Alas, bring me a pound!" Suddenly, a woman beside her said helplessly: "My husband works for the government day and night, and he only gets three taels for a month, but I didn't expect that this catty of rice would cost a lot of money." If it weren't for the fact that the elderly and children in the family were really hungry, where would I dare to take out this money! β
Yan Du looked at the pound of yellow rice in a daze, removing the pebbles and rice bran, how much else could be left!
No, the court must have known about the famine, and the situation was so serious that it was necessary to open a warehouse to release grain, so why could the profiteers still raise the price of grain?
Yan Du hurriedly followed the woman just now and asked, "Madam, you just said that the family members work for the government, and you take the liberty of asking, do you know what you do?" β
The woman was frightened by Yan Dui's abruptness, and at first thought that she had come to rob her of her rations, but when she saw that Yan Du was upright and handsome, with good eyebrows and good eyes, and did not look like a bad person, she replied: "How can I know carefully as a woman, I know that my husband is at the shore of the town, helping the government to transport some goods and work as a coolie." β
After hearing this, his mind buckled on the guess just now, and he hurriedly thanked the woman, and then took Wei Huan and ran to the shore of the town.
Wei Huan was still angry all the way, muttering in his mouth: "What do you mean by a poor and sour face, my appearance is sought after by many people in Lingnan!" β
Yan Du turned his head to look at the awkward Wei Huan, the tangle and boredom in his heart were dissipated a little, and he couldn't help but knock on his smooth forehead, but said on his mouth: "What do you care about the words of the profiteer?" For these people in this world, the rich is the uncle. β
Wei Huan touched his forehead, which didn't hurt at all, and was surprised that Li Fu didn't make a heavy hand this time, and after listening to her words of relief, he couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart, the rich one is the uncle, then he Wei Huan may be his grandfather!
"Where are we going?" He suddenly realized that he had been pulled out of his way by Twilight.
"Docks." Yan Du pointed to the port not far ahead, and said with a little cold in his eyes.
"I want to see what this government is doing day and night!"