Chapter 53: The Scramble for Refugees
The aura around Gu Rin suddenly changed.
Just now, his face was cold, and the cold aura he exuded seemed to be about to cut her, but he didn't know what he was thinking, and the expression on his face suddenly softened.
It's really hard to figure out.
The man suddenly snorted softly and said, "You're right, he's a child." ”
Gu Rin curled the corners of his lips slightly, "Let's go, go back to eat." ”
By the time the two of them returned to the inn, Murong Xuan had already finished eating, sat at the table and waited for them, and said very dissatisfied, "It's not good to eat, what are you doing." ”
"Nothing." Su Yu said, "Have you finished eating?" When you're done eating, go upstairs and rest. ”
Murong Xuan pouted slightly, "Don't tell me anything, don't always treat me as a child." ”
"What are you not a child?" Murong Xuan slowly picked up the chopsticks
Zi said, "Have you finished memorizing the scriptures, do you want me to test you?" ”
In fact, Murong Xuan and Su Yu came out this time, in addition to repaying Su Yu's kindness, the most important thing was to avoid reciting those tedious scriptures when they left the palace, so as soon as he heard this, he immediately restrained the dissatisfied look on his face, and went upstairs to rest.
After this chaotic night, the group packed up and prepared to continue on the road, but the two people in the carriage became three.
Moving in the direction of Shushui County, the scene along the way gradually became depressed, Murong Xuan lifted a little curtain and looked out, there was no more on the street
There are vendors selling their wares, replaced by refugees in ragged clothes looking for food.
"Why are there so many...," Murong Xuan muttered.
The wandering people on the street were all unclothed, their faces were haggard, Murong Xuan had never been out of the palace, so he naturally didn't understand the suffering of the people, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"Let's take a good look." Gu Rin said lightly, "This is the real folk, not the prosperity that has always been written in the article." ”
As they were talking, several people were interrupted by a burst of crying.
"Eat! You eat! How can you live without eating! ”
Su Yu's expression was stunned, and he directly opened the door curtain and jumped out of the car.
In the mouth of the alley not far away, a woman with her hair scattered, her face full of tears but her expression was very hideous, and in front of her stood a child who was only two or three years old, crying and crying, with blades of grass still hanging on her mouth, and the woman was frantically pulling up the withered yellow weeds on the ground, and stuffing them into the child's mouth one by one.
"Eat it!" The woman said madly, "If you don't eat it, you're going to die!" ”
Su Yu was shocked in his heart, how could this be.
Although she is stronger than Murong Xuan and can understand some folk sufferings, but when she saw it, this was the first time, her heart was sour and incomprehensible, and unconsciously, a layer of tears had appeared in her eyes.
"How can you eat grass?" Murong Xuan looked at all this in disbelief, "Is she crazy?" ”
"She's not crazy." Gu Rin said, "If you don't eat grass again, this child will be starved to death." ”
Murong Xuan was silent for a long time, "Where is our dry food?" ”
He repeated it over and over again, frantically searched for it, and jumped out of the car with the package in his hand.
Murong Xuan's appearance attracted the attention of the mother and son, and the woman stopped crying, nervously hugged the child in her arms, and said cruelly, "Who are you?" What do you want! ”
Murong Xuan stood at a loss, thought for a while, threw the package in his hand, and said, "There is some dry food here, you can eat it, don't let him eat grass anymore." ”
The woman hesitated, snatched the package in front of her, and opened it.
The food contained in it instantly attracted all her attention, and she didn't care about her dirty hands, so she grabbed a piece of dry food and stuffed it into the child's mouth excitedly, "Eat quickly, eat quickly." ”
Murong Xuan squatted on the ground and watched them gobble up, until he had almost eaten the dry food before asking, "You guys are like this... How long has it been. ”
The woman and the child filled their stomachs, and they also understood that Murong Xuan wanted to help them like this, so they replied, "Engong, you don't know, we have been like this for more than three months. ”
"There is no food, and drinking water can only point to the moat." The woman is miserable
replied, "I can't buy it, and the people in other places have deliberately raised the price of grain to sky-high prices, which is to force us to death." ”
Murong Xuan was puzzled, "But, the imperial court has already provided disaster relief, haven't you gotten the silver?" ”
The woman sneered, "The emperor is far away, where can the imperial court know about our misery, I'm afraid that the disaster relief money has already entered the pockets of the government, and the people of the government take the silver to other places to enjoy happiness, but they can only suffer our group of ordinary people, and no one knows if they starve to death!" ”
Murong Xuan was about to continue to ask something, but the afterglow suddenly swept to Zhou
Around the sneaky refugees approaching this side, the woman also saw this scene, and immediately hugged the package that Murong Xuan had just thrown over.
Gu Rin walked out and said in a deep voice, "Murong Xuan, come back." ”
"I want dry food too."
"You gave them, and I want them too!"
"I'm so hungry..."
The people around him kept making various sounds, Murong Xuan's eyes were slightly red, and he said loudly, "You wait, I'll get it for you!" ”
Gu Rin frowned slightly, until Murong Xuan got into the carriage again
, then clasped his wrist and said, "You can't give it to them, we have limited dry food!" ”
Murong Xuan lost his temper, shook off Gu Rin's hand, and said stubbornly, "Don't stop me, they are too pitiful." ”
"There are millions of such refugees, and you help them all?" Gu Rin sneered, "With your own strength, can you help me?" ”
"Can't I do what I can?" Murong Xuan retorted, "As a prince, why can't I think about the people? ”
Su Yu couldn't help but persuade, "You're still too young to understand..."
"I understand!" Murong Xuan sat there with his head bowed, his eyes slightly red, "You always think that I don't understand anything, I'm not a child anymore!" ”
Su Yu sighed, stopped talking, and let Murong Xuan distribute the dry food they brought to the refugees under the car, Gu Rin's expression was cold, and he kept standing aside and watching coldly.
The group had not eaten for a long time, and suddenly they could not eat much to eat, and several of them stuffed the rest of the dry food into their arms, and their eyes drifted and landed on the carriage.
Gu Rin saw everything in his eyes.
"Anything else?" The refugee asked, "That's not enough, is there anything else?" ”
Murong Xuan was stunned, "No, this is already all our dry food." ”
The man looked Murong Xuan up and down, shook his head and said, "No, you are so rich, you must still have it." ”
"Not really." Murong Xuan said helplessly, "We didn't bring that much dry food. ”
"What about the silver? There's always silver. The man said excitedly, "We have no food, we are so pitiful, can't you help us?"
”
"Enough!" Gu Rin said sharply, "It's up to us to help or not, do you want to force this kind of thing?" ”
"If you don't help me, I'll rob it!" The man shouted, rushed towards Murong Xuan, and pulled his arms into claws with both hands and a clear goal, Murong Xuan was still young and inexperienced, and he was stunned when he saw this posture, Gu Rin snorted impatiently behind him.
pushed Murong Xuan away, raised his leg and kicked the man in the chest, and the man fell to the ground with convulsions.
Murong Xuan finally reacted and shouted on the side, "Don't hit them!" ”
"Shut up!" Gu Rin said angrily, his eyes were cold and irritable like never before, "Come on, throw him into the carriage for me!" ”
The surrounding secret guards obeyed the order, and immediately poured out from around the carriage in a neat manner, completely ignoring Murong Xuan's shouting, lifting him up, and throwing him into the carriage very roughly.
"It's all the other way around!" Murong Xuan got up from the ground, "Don't you know who the master is!" Who the hell are the Seven Emperors..."
The unspoken words were directly blocked by Su Yu's eyes, and she whispered angrily, "Are you crazy?" Didn't you promise me not to tell me who I was? ”
Murong Xuan returned to his senses a little, grabbed Su Yu's hand irritably, and sulked on the side.