Chapter 641: The Impoverished Village
The emperor didn't expect that he would fall for Feng Bai's scheme here, and he was very surprised, "You ......"
The ministers looked at the emperor one after another, pursed their lips and said: "I didn't expect you to have such a relationship with the prime minister, no wonder the prime minister pushed you to the throne, you are addicted to lust, you can't do well at all, this emperor should step down quickly!" ”
The emperor shook his head again and again, "No, it's not like this, don't listen to this person's nonsense, Tokhtar has nothing to do with me at all!" ”
In fact, after the death of the first emperor, the ministers were indeed not optimistic about this emperor, because he was indeed like Baili Yunzheng and Li Chuxia expected, he had already given up on himself, and he had no hope for life, let alone the spirit to govern the country well.
Everyone was actually very dissatisfied with him, not just because of the relationship between the detachment, but because of the emperor's own behavior.
So at this time, no matter how much the emperor argued, they would never believe it, so they directly ousted the emperor from power, and then held another vote, unanimously agreeing that Prince Yan was a good candidate.
So about five days later, Prince Yan ascended the throne.
On the day that Prince Yan ascended the throne, the entire imperial city was lit up, and there was a lively scene everywhere, but at this time, the biggest hero, Baili Yunzheng and his party, did not stay to accept Prince Yan's thanks, and directly said goodbye.
They continued on their journey, and after three days and three nights, on a starry night, they planned to rest in a nearby village.
The village looked dilapidated and deserted, with only a few houses with lights on, so they knocked on the door and stayed overnight.
It was an old woman who came to open the door for them, and she looked them up and down a little strangely, "You are passers-by here?" ”
Baili Yunzheng nodded, and said in a relaxed tone: "Well, yes, we passed by this place and wanted to come here for a night, I don't know if it is convenient for you?" ”
"It's convenient, but I'm afraid I don't have anything to entertain you in this room, and if you're not too shabby, you can come in and avoid the cold wind of the night." As she spoke, the old woman leaned sideways and made a way.
The man nodded to her gratefully, and the group was greeted and walked in.
When they entered the house, they found that it was as dilapidated as it was from the outside, and it didn't look like a place where people lived at all, and the walls were all four walls, and even the walls were a little leaky.
It's even poorer than they think.
Baili Yunzheng couldn't help but be surprised, "Have you always lived here?" What about the rest of the family? ”
"I'm the only one in this house, everyone else has left, this village is so poor, no one wants to stay here, I, an old woman, have lived around here for decades, and I don't want to move somewhere else, so I'm still here." The old woman said, spreading her hands, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"That's ......," Baili Yunzheng sighed, "I see that there is a lot of wasteland around here, why don't you cultivate something here?" ”
Although this village is small, there is a lot of wasteland around, and if you can attract some young and middle-aged people to open up the wasteland, as long as you work diligently and hard, although it will not be said to be rich, you can still fill your stomach.
The old woman shook her head lightly, and said helplessly, "Actually, why haven't we tried? It's just that I don't know why the fields around here are very few fertile fields that can be planted, but in fact, there is a large area where nothing can be grown at all. ”
Can't grow something?
Baili Yunzheng and Li Chuxia glanced at each other, not feeling a little strange.
When they came all the way just now, they didn't find any unusual places in this land, they were all the same soil, and it stands to reason that they should be able to grow things.
"We'll go out early tomorrow morning to see what's going on, and maybe we'll be able to find out why this soil can't grow food."
So they stayed in the old woman's house that night, but her family was indeed too poor, and could only barely find two rooms for them to rest for a while, and they slept in this room embracing each other, and at last they got up at dawn, and went out together to see the condition of the surrounding soil.
After Baili Yunzheng and Li Chuxia walked around here, they found that there was indeed no problem with the soil, the soil was soft, and it was a good place to grow food, but when they dug deeper, they found that there seemed to be another thing in the land.
Li Chuxia dug up a hard thing.
She took it out and found it to be a piece of gold!
It turns out that it is not that there is no food here, but that after the food is planted, it has to take root in the soil, but there is something below that prevents the soil from continuing to grow, so it cannot grow good food.
When they got this conclusion, they rejoiced, and it turned out that this is the reason why there is no food in this place.
"If there really is a gold mine down there, then the village will be rich." Baili Yunzheng touched the gold dug out of the soil and laughed happily.
"That's great, we need to tell the old woman about it." Li Chuxia happily touched the gold and walked back, and soon told the old woman about it.
"If we dig up all this gold, our village will be prosperous."
Hearing Li Chuxia say this, the old woman was very happy in her heart, "If this is really the case, then we don't have to worry about it in the future." ”
"Yes, but there is another problem in front of us, we have to find someone to dig up the gold, you are the only ones left in your village now, is there any young man who can help dig out the gold?"
This is a real problem.
After the old woman thought about it carefully, she suddenly clapped her hands as if she remembered something, "We should tell the village chief about this matter first, the village chief must have a way to bring back those strong men and let them help us dig gold together." ”
"That's a good idea, so let's tell the village chief about it."
The old woman nodded, led Li Chuxia to the village chief's house like this, and told the village chief about the matter, and the village chief was very happy when he heard about it, and immediately followed Li Chuxia to investigate the situation on the spot.
As a result, it was just like what Li Chuxia said, there was a gold mine hidden in it, and the village chief almost jumped up, "This is really good, but I calculated it in the morning, today is not a good day to start construction, why don't I go back and call someone, and we will come back tomorrow to dig out these gold mines." ”
Since the village chief has said so, they naturally have no opinion, anyway, only a few of them know where the gold mine is placed, and probably they won't run, come to tile today, dig tomorrow, in fact, it's all the same.
After they reburied the land and hid the traces of the gold mine, Baili Yunzheng and Li Chuxia returned to the old woman's house together.
Li Chuxia collected some wild vegetables and came back and made a fragrant meal, but he didn't expect that just as they were eating, several officials in official uniforms suddenly rushed in.
The old woman was stunned for a moment, obviously not knowing the purpose of these officials, she looked at them a little nervously and asked, "Uncle officials, what are you doing here?" ”
"Naturally, I came here to arrest people." After planting a circle in the house, the eyes of several officials immediately walked up to Li Chuxia and asked, "Today is today, you went to open up the wasteland?" ”
Li Chuxia was a little confused, so he naturally nodded, "Yes, I opened the wasteland." ”
She didn't know the purpose of these coffins, so she didn't easily tell her about the gold, but she didn't expect that these officials seemed to have confirmed something, and directly grabbed her.
The sudden change caught everyone off guard.
The impulsive Feng Bai took the lead in standing up, staring at the officials, and asked sharply, "What are you doing here?" Why are people suddenly arrested for no reason? ”
"Of course, this is not for nothing, she is disrespectful to Concubine Shu's mausoleum!"
Hearing these officials say this, Li Chuxia was stunned all of a sudden, which one is this?
Of course, they didn't know what kind of Niangniang's mausoleum was near that place, and these officials were about to arrest people indiscriminately, Baili Yunzheng was simply indescribably angry when he saw it, "We don't know about this matter at all, not to mention that we didn't open up the wasteland there." ”
At that time, they only used two hoes, discovered the location of the gold mine, and then buried the land, and if it were not for someone deliberately complaining, it would not be obvious that they had done anything there.
In other words, I am afraid that some people will interfere with it.
"Don't talk nonsense, no matter what, I'm going to catch you today." The official obviously looked unwilling to listen to their persuasion, and when he saw Baili Yunzheng angry, he simply pulled out the matching knife on his waist, and showed a fierce look in front of him with teeth and claws, "If anyone else dares to stop our work, we will definitely not let him go." ”
Baili Yunzheng originally wanted to rush up to rescue Li Chuxia, but he didn't expect Li Chuxia to look at him and shook his head gently.
She didn't want to provoke a war.
Especially at this time when the situation is not yet clear.
Baili Yunzheng could only give up stupidly, watching those officials take Li Chuxia away like this.
Feng Bai was obviously also very angry, "Dad, I'll go out to see the situation, I will definitely find the murderer who framed my mother behind my back!" ”