Mei Xiaoren shook Jiang Rong a few eye knives, then turned his eyes and calmly accepted the woman's thanks, "Thank you, girl." ”

Jiang Rong asked again: "The girl is from Xuanzhou"

"Exactly."

"That's too coincidental, my little brother is also from Xuanzhou, and now he is in Xuanzhou Mansion."

Mei Xiaoren had already slapped Jiang Rong's mouth.

She smiled at the woman, and only gritted her teeth in Jiang Rong's ear: "You can suffocate if you don't speak"

When she let go, Jiang Rong whispered angrily: "I'm helping you"

The maid was surprised: "The prince of the government is an official in the government"

As a man, you should always be humble in front of girls, just like Lord Chu did when he faced her.

Mei Xiaoren learned what Chu Yu had said before, and said politely: "I was lucky enough to eat the court, and I was just a small official with food and clothing." ”

"Dare to ask Gongzi's surname," Qingqing asked.

"Don't have your surname Mei."

Qingqing owed again, "Mei Gongzi is polite." ”

Mei Xiaoren returned the salute, "Since the girl still wants to pray for blessings, then I won't bother below, and if I still have something to do, I will leave first." ”

"Childe walks slowly."

Mei Xiaoren bowed his head and turned to leave.

"Qingqing girl, there will be a period later." Jiang Rong smiled, then left with Mei Xiaoren, and after walking a few steps, he said in a low voice, "Villain, you really don't know what to do, and you are not too young, like an official of your age, who has three wives and four concubines?"

Mei Xiaoren glanced at him contemptuously and didn't bother to pay attention.

"Qingqing girl moves like a breeze and supports the willows, quiet like a bright moon and an orchid, she is the best choice for you to marry a wife." Jiang Rong grabbed Mei Xiaoren's hand as she spoke, revealing the peace charm she was holding at her fingertips, "It is said that it is a peace charm, and the thoughts contained in it are not as simple as wishing you to be safe." ”

Mei Xiaoren withdrew his hand, stopped and looked at him, took a deep breath, and seemed to want to explain earnestly.

Seeing this, Jiang Rong listened attentively, but he heard a sentence: "What's your business?"

His smile froze, and he felt that his kindness was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs again, and he was inevitably a little disheartened, so he didn't say anything more.

The two left the temple in silence, and when they went out, they met two young novices who had returned from chopping wood.

"Amitabha, you said that someone may have set the fire last night"

"Yesterday I saw a pockmarked donor follow the female donor into the temple, and then the female donor lived in the guest house, and then the guest house caught fire, I don't know if there is a connection"

Mei Xiaoren frowned when she heard this, and was about to ask the two little novices about it, but when they saw that the words had been heard by others, they left with firewood on their backs, and did not give her a chance to ask each other at all.

Mei Xiaoren didn't think it was strange, because the monks were particular about not talking, and of course they would not easily confide in outsiders about uncertain things.

She still had an errand to do, and she couldn't afford to delay here, and since the girl was safe, she didn't need to delve into a mysterious word.

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The construction site where Mei Xiaoren is now is the fifth place she has seen, and further on is Jinzhou.

Under the pergola by the river, Mei Xiaoren stood with his hands in his hands, looking at the river and waiting for news.

"My lord, the terrain over there is relatively flat and a river bay, which is prone to flooding, and now the river embankment is being reinforced, and it is almost completed." The official of the Ministry of Works stretched out his hand to guide her to look not far downstream.

Mei Xiaoren turned his eyes and saw the river winding eastward there. The river is a plain, and the causeway rises over the floodplain where the river begins to bend, in case the water rises upstream, and floods the plain after the new river is dug upstream.

When she looked at the map before, she saw that there was a county town on the plain, called Taki County, which was built by the river.

Mei Xiaoren nodded, indicating that he understood.

The overseer hurriedly ran over and arched his hand: "Your Excellency, the few people you are looking for have been found." Then he turned around and ordered the soldiers to escort people in.

Several river workers lined up one by one to enter her line of sight, and Mei Xiaoren's brows furrowed for a moment.

She had seen a lot of people suffering along the way, but when her own people were tossed into this appearance and stood in front of her, she looked at it and felt extremely uncomfortable.

The seven men who came in were all former servants who had followed her, and they were unkempt and ragged, with wounds on their hands and legs, and some of them were still bleeding from their new wounds

Seven people, not a single one came out unscathed.

"Don't come and see your lordship yet," the overseer scolded, pointing at them with a leather whip in his hand.

A few people were like walking corpses, kneeling without raising their heads.

"Wait," Mei Xiaoren hurriedly stopped.

Perhaps it was the familiar voice that woke them up, and several people looked up at her in unison, and they were stunned as if they were in a dream.

"My lord," someone shouted in a daze.

Someone came back to his senses and was surprised: "It's really an adult"

Then, even though she didn't allow them to kneel, they kowtowed to her one by one.

Someone wiped tears in front of him: "Adults, the little ones thought they would never see you again." ”

Mei Xiaoren suddenly soured his nose, and had to struggle to restrain the complexity in his heart, and said calmly: "Get up." ”

After they stood up, someone pushed the person next to them. "Go and tell Chen Wu that the adults are here."

Another man hung his head: "It's useless to tell him, he can't get off the ground." ”

Mei Xiaoren frowned slightly: "What's wrong with Chen Wu?"

"His leg was stoned and broken"

Mei Xiaoren's gaze suddenly became as cold as ice, and he swept towards the overseer on the side: "What's the matter?"

The overseer seemed to be beginning to feel weak, and his words were whispered: "Back to my lord, when the embankment was built a few days ago, the long stone of the embankment fell and injured several people. He hurriedly bowed down and said, "I don't know that they know each other from adults, so I will go and ask the doctor to treat Chen Wu." ”

She asked solemnly: "

Now before the healing."

Someone whispered, "Before, everyone here could only wait for death." ”

As soon as these words came out, Mei Xiaoren's face turned terrifyingly blue.

The overseer hurriedly knelt down: "My lord, it's not that they don't have treatment, but there are too many injured people here, and the doctor can't keep busy, and the imperial court only allocated money for repairing the river, but not for them to treat their injuries, so we can't squeeze out more silver here."

Mei Xiaoren was angry, but he knew very well in his heart that they were indeed not to blame for the matter of silver.

There has never been much silver allocated by the imperial court, and she doesn't know anything else, but the Xuanzhou Mansion has already pasted a lot of silver in order to repair this river.

She looked at a few people and said to the overseer: "Including Chen Wu, I will take these people away, in addition, no one is allowed to add to the river workers' sticks in the future, we must pay more attention to their safety, so that the injuries on their bodies can be less than one place, and more people will have more strength." ”

"Yes, the lowly duty must remember the commands of the lords."

"You must do your best to heal the wounded here, and don't let them wait for death." Mei Xiaoren took a deep breath and said, "Regarding the matter of silver, I will go back and ask Lord Futai." ”

"Commanded by humility."

Mei Xiaoren went to the shed to visit Chen Wu, who was still recuperating from his injuries. In the past, Chen Wu, the group of officials under her command, ran the fastest and caught the most thieves, but now one leg is gone

She felt uncomfortable, but nothing could be done.

As night fell, Mei Siu-jen left the shed and walked along the river alone.

Lao Li had also come to see the river before, but he thought that Lao Li was just looking at the river when he saw the river, and he shouldn't have paid attention to these coolies.

If she hadn't had her own people here, she wouldn't have known that behind this huge project was a dark place.

It stands to reason that the workshop will report the increase or decrease in the number of river workers at regular intervals. With Lao Li's character, if he saw it, he would definitely ask the reason, and he would never ignore the casualties of the people of Xuanzhou, let alone let them wait for death.

What is lacking is just silver, Xuanzhou is a rich businessman, and the tax revenue has always been considerable, how could Lao Li be reluctant to allocate this life-saving money

So she guessed that the report of the workshop should only be reported to Gao Jingshu, and Gao Jingshu did not tell the prefect, after all, Lao Li is most concerned about the progress, these disgraceful things, I am afraid that the master of Tongzhi chose to hide it.

"It is painful to see those under him suffering"

Mei Xiaoren looked back, and Jiang Rong followed. He had been resting on the boat before, and had not followed her to the shed, but he must have heard what was going on in the shed.

Jiang Rong walked to her side, walked with her, and said as he walked: "I have been telling you all the way that building this canal is a move to work the people and lose money, you don't believe it." ”

Mei Xiaoren was silent. She didn't believe it before, she just didn't say anything like this time. She is a mere six-grade official, and she is soft-spoken, and it is useless to do anything but complain, and she will only make herself angry in vain.

"It is the prime minister who proposes to let His Majesty go east to the mountains and rivers, it is the prime minister who lets His Majesty go east by boat, it is the prime minister who lets the canal be dug, and it is the prime minister who must be completed before six months." Jiang Rong looked at her and said, "You don't have to wonder, if he doesn't work hard and hurt the people, how can he be worthy of the good word of Daning's number one traitor." ”