There are many villages outside the city of Kyoto, but they are not enough to reach the many poor people who have been displaced by the war. Although they had the help of the imperial court, they often still had no food and no clothes.

So many poor people hid in the mountains and built earthen kilns or caves.

Su Zhen is going to the largest slum in the Huanyu Mountains, and I heard that after decades of development, they have established a small village.

Two horses, one black and one white, galloped out of the forest and stopped in front of a hillside.

Su Zhen and Jingyao stood on the slope and looked down, and sure enough, although there were trees behind the col opposite, it was not difficult to see that most of the small villages were grottoes or caves, and very few thatched houses had been built.

Jingyao looked up at the scorching sun overhead, raised the back of her hand to wipe the sweat, Su Zhen turned over and dismounted, and skillfully tied the reins to the tree.

"Huh? Why don't you leave? ”

"Tired, aren't you? Take a break. ”

"Oh, good."

Jingyao jumped off her horse, tied the reins, sat down on a relatively clean and flat stone, picked up a leaf and fanned it.

Su Hao kept observing her, and finally couldn't help but say, "I thought you were a pampered princess. ”

"You don't look down on people, I don't like the palace! If it weren't for the mother concubine sending a message saying that she was worried about me, I wouldn't have come back! ”

"Princess, you are friendly with the sister of the royal lord, if she can really enter the palace as a concubine, she will definitely participate in the harem battle, so how should you treat her in the future?"

"You mean late? Actually, I can't figure out why she had to jump into the fire pit and share the same person with so many women. How good it is to find a good person and spend the rest of your life together! ”

Su Zhen smiled, untied the water bladder around her waist and handed it to her, "Drink some water to quench your thirst." ”

"Huh?"

Today's Su Zhen may be because she has changed her official uniform, and her words and deeds are not at all like the Meng Lang boy last night.

"It's new, I haven't used it."

Hearing what Su Zhen meant, Jingyao blushed rarely, and after taking it, she pulled out the stopper and took a big sip, and the cool liquid was swallowed down her throat, dispelling a lot of heat.

She quietly glanced at Su Zhen a few more times and asked, "Su Zhen, you and General Xiao ...... Is there really some secret to tell? ”

"If you think too much, grass grows in your head."

"Su Zhen, you don't know how to be polite!"

Jingyao finally changed her opinion of Su Zhen, but in a blink of an eye, she became fragmented again.

The two sat under the tree to rest for a while, Su Hao looked at the willow branches above her head, jumped on the stone and dragged a few down, leaned against the tree, hummed a little song in her mouth, weaved along the ring, and then decorated with small purple flowers, and soon made a wreath.

After looking at it carefully, he directly raised his hand and clasped it on Jingyao's head.

Jingyao was shrouded in shadows above her head, the hot wind blew on her face, and the slender willow leaves scratched her cheeks, tickling.

He raised his head in surprise, but saw that Su Hao had already gotten up and untied the reins by the tree. She sat up abruptly, the garland on her head nearly thrown off, straightened it, plugged the water bladder, and asked, "Are we leaving?" ”

"Well, I didn't bring dry food, so it's better to go out early to save yourself from going hungry."

"Oh! That's it! ”

......

After descending the hill, they entered the col, where the trees were dense and the insects were chirping in the bushes, but there were obvious paths to discern the direction.

When the two of them approached the exit of the forest, they finally saw the smoke rising, Jingyao rubbed her stomach, and involuntarily pursed her lips and swallowed her saliva.

"Hungry?"

"Hmm." Jingyao's cheeks were a little hot, "I heard that you had an accident in the palace today, so I will leave the palace immediately, and I haven't had time to have breakfast yet." ”

Su Zhen looked at the dilapidated houses not far away and frowned, "But I'm afraid you won't be used to eating their food." ”

"It's okay, I'm not afraid."

As they had previously thought, the village had no symbolic boundary stones, muddy paths, and most of the villagers lived in grottoes and earthen caves, except for a few conspicuous dilapidated thatched huts.

There was a well in front of the village, covered with a stone slab, and Su Zhen stepped forward to look through the gap, but it was bottomless, and it was impossible to see if there was water in it.

The two entered the village and found it even more populated than they had guessed.

Fortunately, I didn't go far before I heard a noise in front of me, as if there was a dispute.

"Su Zhen, let's go and take a look."

"Hmm."

Not far away, a group of family members in gray cloth shirts surrounded a man in brocade clothes, who was covered in jewels and looked very vulgar.

They were confronting a group of villagers dressed in rags and linen in front of a thatched hut.

On the ground was a scholar in cloth clothes, wearing a black scarf, and holding two books with blue covers in his arms, but because of the serious tearing, he could no longer see the original appearance, but he still regarded it as a treasure and held it tightly in his arms.

In the face of this group of fierce and vicious 'vicious dogs', he struggled to stand up with the support of other villagers, looking at their smug appearance, he couldn't help but clench his back molars, obviously unwilling, but he had more than enough strength.

"You and other scum, it's insulting! To live, people must have blood! The literati are arrogant! Accumulation is just a process, it doesn't mean that we will endure and give in all the time! It doesn't mean you're right! All this food is grown by the people with hard work! They have lost their homes to war, and you have to deprive them of everything they have left! Why do you take all that food? What's more, it was your Huang family who was maliciously deceived at the beginning, so they rented your land and became tenant farmers! Be your slave! You guys! You don't deserve to be called human at all! ”

"Huh!" Huang Yi smiled sinisterly, his triangular eyes were full of evil spirit, "He Lan, do you think you have a part in talking here?" You are not afraid that Young Master Ben will be angry and burn down your broken thatched house! I don't think you have to follow these guys to farm and make a living, I heard that you once came from a scholarly family and read poetry and books. Why don't you go back with Young Master Ben and write an article for Young Master Ben to relieve your boredom? As for what kind of writing ... You should know ......"

"Phew!" Looking at the undisguised lewdness in Huang Yi's eyes, he spat him directly, and there was blood in his saliva, "I, He Lan, have nothing except this arrogant body, so how can I be afraid of being alone again!" ”

"You're such a! I don't know what to do! Come! Burn! ”

"Yes!"

Seeing that those family members went to find torches, they really wanted to ignore the laws and regulations and set fire to commit murder in broad daylight, He Lan's eyes flashed with panic.

An old man with frosty white sideburns tugged at his sleeve and persuaded him earnestly, "Xiaohe! You'd better hurry up! We can't fight them! ”

"I can't fight...... If you can't fight, you have to fight! This Heavenly Dao King Law, how can they have the final say! ”

"Poof! Idiot! He Lan, a pedantic scholar like you! You deserve to be bullied! If you help them, Young Master Ben won't be able to keep you! ”