Chapter Forty-Nine: Desperate Survival
"Lord Wu, this woman should be a person from the Huai County who often cooks porridge and rice to the Mu family, since she has said this, I might as well wait and see how she handles it." Sun Zheng, the county guard, said that Cao Shu and Sun Zheng often talked about this woman, although he had never seen it, but he only felt that the woman in the city was the person Cao Shu always mentioned to him.
When the prefect Wu Yu heard this, he looked at the crowd that gradually stopped the commotion, and nodded silently.
When people are poor, they are the easiest to control and the most difficult to control, Mu Bingyue never dared to let them into the city, not to mention that the situation in the city was already a mess, and letting these thousands of people into the city at this time would only add more unpredictable variables to their plans.
She doesn't talk to them at length, she just grabs what they need most urgently.
Mu Bingyue slowly put down her hand, glanced at the two prefects who arrived in a hurry, and saw them standing quietly in acquiescence, so she nodded to them and instructed the soldiers on the side to find Shen Xue to come up.
After hearing this, the soldier looked at the county guard, and after seeing him nod in agreement, he took the order and left.
"First of all, I need everyone's help, first line up, one column for every ten people, one team for every ten columns, and stand in a line." After listening to her words, the discussion started again, Mu Bingyue looked around at everyone, and loudly suppressed the crowd's voice: "Immediately, immediately." ”
In that life, she participated in countless rescues, but the people in the disaster area there believed in the government, and after the initial chaos, they would consciously abide by the deployment of rescue personnel. And the uncooperation and distrust of the refugees here really gave her a headache.
Her heart ached because she spoke loudly, she didn't dare to say more, and the more she explained at this time, the more unconvincing she became, and sometimes she was the only one who could save herself.
The riots did not stop, and everyone watched and watched.
"Miss......" Shen Xue called in a low voice.
Mu Bingyue turned her head sideways, waited for Shen Xue to approach, and said in a low voice: "Let people transport all the rice over, and send as many cooking utensils and tarpaulins as possible, quickly!" ”
Shen Xue looked at Mu Bingyue, then looked outside the city, and hesitated: "There are so many people, even if we take out all the rice, I'm afraid it will only last one day." ”
"Let's get through today, I'm trying to figure it out." She could still transfer some rice from Song Lin, but the rations of these thousands of people were really not a small number.
Shen Xue didn't say anything more and left as ordered.
After a long time, the noisy crowd did not see any more movement of the people in the city, and the people did not know what to do.
After a while, people lined up in twos and threes according to what Mu Bingyue said, and some people took the lead, and the crowd gradually moved and began to gather.
Seeing this, Mu Bingyue breathed a sigh of relief, and stretched out her hand to point to the people gathered in front of the city gate, "You go and stand over there." ”
Hearing her words, the people crowded in front of the city gate exchanged glances with each other and did not move, Mu Bingyue's eyes narrowed slightly, and she raised her voice, "Stand over there for me." ”
People are soft-spoken, and she can't take justice to these 'thorns'.
The people in front of the city gate looked at Mu Bingyue, and then at the moving crowd, and finally walked to the place she designated according to her words.
The instigators were dealt with, and the rest went much smoother. Quickly cut through the chaos, Mu Bingyue began to command, and more and more people moved.
A woman of about twenty years of age, dressed in a rather beautiful manner, holding her crying child, stood at a loss in the midst of the chaos of the crowd. When Mu Bingyue saw it, she pointed at her and said, "You stand in the team." ”
The woman looked at her, and knelt down in the midst of the tumultuous crowd as if she had just woken up from a dream, and cried, "My child has been sick for several days, and I beg the girl to show mercy to let our mother and son go into the city to see the man. ”
The crowd fell silent for a moment, and some people looked up at her.
"There is no preciousness in life, and no one is exempt." Mu Bingyue was unmoved, "Quickly stand in the team." ”
Mu Bingyue's face was firm and unmoved, and the woman looked at her fixedly for a while, and finally choked and hugged the crying child and stood behind the team.
As soon as this matter fell, no one made any noise, and they all silently obeyed the order.
Mu Bingyue's thunderous means not only suppressed everyone, but also shocked Zhang Sheng, who had to go up to the city tower again, looking at Mu Bingyue, who was decisive in handling things, he gradually put away his contempt.
Next, only Mu Bingyue issued a series of instructions, and the decision to kill gradually stabilized people's hearts.
The people outside the city lined up in an orderly manner, and the first group of people who were pressed by the black had formed several small squares separated by each other, a team of 100 people, Mu Bingyue quietly counted the past, there were nearly twenty-six, that is, nearly 2,600 people!
Mu Bingyue couldn't help but groan, so many people didn't know that Song Lin's food was enough, but it was a pity that she really didn't know the details of the prefect here, so it was good to ask Song Lin.
Just as she was pondering, Shen Xue finally arrived with someone to transport rice, and Mu Bingyue looked back and roughly knew what to expect.
She walked up to the three county guards standing on the side and said, "Three adults, Bingyue needs to open the city gate to transport rice and grain out of the city. ”
Although the mood of the people outside the city has stabilized, before the situation is undecided and the plan is not yet made, she can only grieve them to live outside the city, and the situation in the city is already a mess, and it really can't withstand any variables.
There was no accident, and the county guard left everything to her to deal with.
Mu Bingyue turned to face the crowd standing in line, and said: "Now I need everyone to trust each other, the rice and grain have been transported to the city gate, I will open the city gate as I say, but I want everyone to act according to what I said before, who... Do not act rashly. ”
No one questioned it, Mu Bingyue looked at the only fifty or sixty people outside the city who had not been assigned affairs, "You are responsible for maintaining order, if anyone moves recklessly, or robs the rice and grain, you all have the right to detain it." "To deal with these leaders is to make them leaders.
The fifty or sixty people who had slammed on the door before thought that Mu Bingyue treated them differently and was responsible for punishing them for making trouble, but they thought that they would be assigned to such a 'high difference', so they were so surprised that they all nodded in agreement, and the man who caused the trouble did not say anything against it.
"Open the gates." The guards in the city received Mu Bingyue's signal and shouted.
The heavy gate of the city slowly opened, and the people outside the city looked into the city expectantly, but they did not move.
Mu Bingyue really relieved when she saw this.
The crowd acted according to Mu Bingyue's words, and the team of 100 people sent four or five people to the city gate to collect the supplies in order, and after receiving them, they went to the place designated by Mu Bingyue to prepare.
The women and children in the procession left to wash the rice and prepare, the old and weak went to collect firewood to make a fire, and the young and strong went to find the wooden stakes needed to build the pergola.
After the goods were distributed, the city gate slowly closed again, and the people outside the city did not seem to pay attention to this, but were busy quietly and orderly.
By noon, everyone had drunk hot porridge in the pergola that had been built, and the Sherlang who arrived later was also healing the sick among them, and everything was going on in an orderly manner.
Mu Bingyue saw that things were on the right track, so she was completely relieved and looked at the county guard Sun Zheng and the prefect Wu Yu.
The three of them noticed and looked at her, Mu Bingyue lowered her eyebrows and pondered, and finally felt relieved, and did not dare to ask, if they did not receive the secret order, they were afraid that the plan would fall short.
And when I went to Song Lin to borrow food, I was afraid that I could only last one more day.
Tonight...... Doomed to be difficult!
Mu Bingyue leaned on the city and watched, the red sun was in the sky, and the colorful light was reflected on her, holy and sacred, so that everyone looked at her a little distractedly.
Mu Bingyue gradually came back to her senses, looked at the three county guards who were looking at her, and walked over to greet them.
After the greetings, Mu Bingyue rushed to Cao Shu's house to see if it was possible for him to get through contacts and smuggle a grain boat from Weicheng.
On the way back, Mu Bingyue happened to run into a few people who came over.
Li'er and Liu Moyun sat in Mu Bingyue's carriage, approached her mysteriously and said, "Miss, now there is a God of Wealth sitting in our house, guess who it is?" ”
Mu Bingyue couldn't help but think of Furun in her mind, could it be that Furun heard the letter and came to help them?
Mu Bingyue's eyes were full of doubts, and before she could ask again, Li'er had already asked and replied to herself: "It's Liu San, that iron rooster who doesn't pull out a hair!" A truckload of gold and silver was delivered today! ”
It was him, Mu Bingyue never expected it to be him. A car?
When Shen Xue heard that it was him, she couldn't help but exclaim, "Liu San?!" That's when the sun is coming out in the west! ”
Li'er followed: "No! The large boxes of gold and silver, the dazzling slaves and maids, roughly estimated, must have more than 10,000 taels! ”
Mu Bingyue was really shocked by this number this time!
In order to think that Liu San has so much gold, it seems that the theory of Wanguan's family wealth is not groundless!
The world is impermanent, and she didn't expect that she would receive such a big blessing in the past with an unintentional move!
It's just in time! Mu Bingyue was shocked and sighed!
Li'er then threw down the heavy news, "Miss, Liu San said that there are still four or five thousand taels of silver owed to him by others outside that have not been repaid!" Liu San said that he would give the county some sweetness, and he would not worry about not receiving it. ”
It's really a twist and turn, a desperate situation, and the people are saved! Mu Bingyue sighed in her heart, turning her worries into joy.
……
After Mu Bingyue asked Liu San and Ah Dasan, who came to surrender wholeheartedly, to secretly buy grain in a rice shop, the price of rice in the city rose when they heard the wind, and it soared to a sky-high price in one day, and it was hard to find money.
On the day of the New Year's Festival, there was no festival in the city, and it was all a bleak time.
More and more victims gathered outside the city, but fortunately, Mu Bingyue had arranged everything, and the victims who came one after another all followed her previous strategy and formed a team to receive food.
In this way, on the third day of the new year, the news about the three kingdoms of Xuanyuan attacking Chiyan, the Chiyan Pass fell, and the city was lost one after another.
…… Then the news of the Xuanyuan Three Kingdoms Alliance moving west and capturing several cities spread back to China.