The guards and the elders came and went, but no one came into the shed, not even a glance.

Xie Yucheng hugged the pillar and sighed for a while, the pain gradually subsided, and he felt unbearably thirsty, so he glanced into the shed, and saw a thick tin teapot commonly used in the countryside on the table of the Eight Immortals in the middle, and next to the teapot, there were more than a dozen stoneware cups.

Xie Yucheng glanced at the crowd again, no one spoke, and he didn't make a bird.

Xie Yucheng moved to the table of the Eight Immortals, the cup was very clean, and the tea was not bad, Xie Yucheng drank a few cups in a row, and saw a large plate of thick mutton slices under the sarong next to him, and in the other bamboo basket, it was full of cooking cakes.

Xie Yucheng's eyes widened, what does this mean?

Big pots of tea, baskets of cooking cakes, how long are they going to stay here?

"Ladies and gentlemen, has the prince been here?" Xie Yucheng couldn't hold back, and looked back at the other officials who were scattered all over the place.

"I just arrived." The official closest to Xie Yucheng replied with a slight bow, and the rest of the people replied in a scattered manner: "I also just arrived." "Me too."

Xie Yucheng frowned, swallowed the words behind him, hesitated for a moment, but still came out, and saw a little guy in a hurry, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, "This little brother, may I ask if Lord Qin, or General Lu is not there?" ”

"Not there." The little guy replied very cheerfully, "I went out early in the morning, and the little one was waiting outside the gate, and I only saw the general and the prince go out early in the morning, and I don't know anything else." ”

"Which one of the people who is waiting beside the prince is there? Can you please come out and ask? Xie Yucheng saw that the little guy was about to leave, so he hurriedly stepped forward and stopped again and asked.

"I really don't know this, the little one can't even enter the gate, how can I know what is going on in the second gate, don't worry, sir, the prince and the general will definitely have to come back, don't you say?" The little guy is polite and welcoming.

Seeing that he really couldn't ask anything, Xie Yucheng withdrew his hand and stepped back, took a sharp step, and there was a sharp pain in his thighs and buttocks, so he hurriedly held his breath and stopped, and only when the pain was over did he breathe softly.

This is also the case, and it will come back in the end.

Xie Yucheng moved into the shed, looked at the old elm bench placed around the shed, the corners of his mouth were torn into eight characters, he was very tired, but this stool couldn't sit on, it was best to have a soft spring stool for him to lie on his stomach, and then ask a few dexterous girls to wash the wound with wet water and smear it with good gold medicine.

Over here...... Alas, bear with me.

Xie Yucheng turned around again, Liu Caosi, who was a little earlier than him, was older than him, and he couldn't hold it anymore at this time, so he moved two benches side by side and lay on them.

Xie Yucheng hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and was ruthless, and also merged the two benches, lying on them with his eyes closed, and suddenly felt so comfortable that he almost wanted to moan.

King Qin took Lu Yi and left early in the morning, but not this morning, but early the next morning when he arrived at the Yangzhou Post Station, when Lu Yi picked people to urge people to the yamen everywhere, he took everyone out of the post station, and checked the disaster according to the troubled places listed by Hu Panshi and the places where refugees gathered.

Hu Panshi commanded Yu Datou, Dong Laosan, Haiqing and others, Yu Datou and others commanded Xiaowu Xiaoliu Lai Zi Erpi, and the entire Pingjiang Gang was busy with a person turning over on his back, and his spirit was flying.

Outside Linping County, early in the morning, the sky was a little cloudy, the cold wind gusted, and the cold was refreshing.

Xiao Wu jumped in three steps, rushed into the temple of broken land with a run, and when he saw Dong Laosan at a glance, he suddenly smiled and smiled, "Third master!" ”

"You can't hold your head? The boss is not small, right? Dong Laosan pouted with disgust.

Xiao Wu smiled even brighter, as soon as the third master of his family opened his mouth like this, he scolded him for picking thorns, which means that the third master is in a good mood and very good!

"Don't laugh like this when you go out, damn, the victims of the disaster outside, you smile like this, look at your face, you can't see it!" Dong Laosan then said disgusted, and then turned to business, "Listen, the prince has not arrived at the end, the king and the eight calves in Linping County, Lao Tzu has to see him unlucky!" ”

The smile on Xiao Wu's face froze, and his two eyes stared at Dong Laosan, "Third master, Zhu County ordered him not to come out every day, he just came out yesterday, and today is so windy, he can't come out, that ...... Alas! ”

Before Xiao Wu finished speaking, he was slapped on the head by Dong Laosan, "You fuck, you've been messing with Lao Tzu for the past few years, you're all fucking in vain, right?" Can he come out and you listen to him? If you listen to him, why did Lao Tzu let you stay here for three or four days? Let you watch the hilarious? ”

"Huh? Oh! Third Master, alas, Third Master, don't fight, I understand, I just now, what is that, I'm so happy to see Third Master, I understand, I understand, I'm leaving! Third master rest assured! Xiao Wu was slapped by Dong Laosan several times, and turned around and ran.

"Don't worry! No, Lao Tzu has to keep an eye on it, if something goes wrong in this matter, Lao Tzu can't make a mistake. Alas, you kid wait! Dong Laosan thought of Uncle Guo from Boss Hu, and from Uncle Guo to the master in the eyes of the clouds, his scalp tightened one after another, today's errand is not half wrong!

Towards noon, the sun showed its face and was buried in the thick clouds.

A group of three or four hundred victims were scattered in a leeward depression, the old, sick and young huddled together in piles shivering to keep warm, and the younger ones who could move were scattered around, digging insects and grass roots, looking for everything that could fill their stomachs.

In the direction of Dongchenggen, more than a dozen wheelbarrows full of wheelbarrows came unhurriedly.

Next to the convoy, followed by an old man wearing a half-worn cotton robe, wearing a fur hat, and holding his hands, next to the old man, followed by an old servant dressed similarly, also holding his hands, looking around as he walked.

"Don't look at it," the old man's voice was gentle, "Zhu Xianling is afraid of the cold, on such a cold day, please can't come out, it's not once or twice, I've never come out, don't worry, it's okay." ”

"My heart is up and down, the surnamed Zhu has been ruthless for several days, saying that you have to catch you, master, or go back, master, I'll just go with you." The old servant was worried, his master was old, and his body was not very good, so he was really arrested and put in prison, but he couldn't survive for a few days.

"Look at this day, I don't feel at ease when it covers snow." The old man looked up at the sky and sighed a few times.

"If you don't worry, what can you do? This group of people, rushed from this county to that county, and now they can't even go back to their homes, and the surname Zhu is thinking about driving them away, starving and freezing, who dares to help the county? Whoever rescues is against the county master, what can the lord do? Alas, this way of heaven is so good, how can the hearts of people in this world be so bad? ”

The old servant spoke, spitting sharply.

"On this day, a heavy snowfall can really freeze people to death." The old man ignored the old servant's complaints, and looked up at the sky again worriedly.

"Master, don't fight useless ideas, the little master has just entered school, and Uncle Zhao from the neighboring county has been dismissed because of this matter, don't think about fame in this life, you can't hurt the little master. How smart the little master is, the best talent! The old servant hurriedly reminded.

"I know." The old man sighed again, "You go and see in a while, count, how many children, how many old people, how many patients, when it gets dark, come quietly again, send a few cotton clothes, send some medicine." ”

"Okay." The old servant listened to the old man's instructions, relieved his heart, and happily agreed.

While talking, several people and two people arrived at the leeward depression, and the old servant stretched out his hand to stop the old man, "Master, you are just here to watch, don't go over, there is really something, you should not know me, you just say that you are passing by to see the excitement." ”

The old servant said, waving his hand to signal the wheelbarrow to move on.

When the victims in the depression saw the old servants and the car, they hurriedly gathered around, and the old, weak, sick and young who were huddled in the depression to keep warm also hurriedly moved and tried to move over.

"Don't worry, don't worry, just like before, everyone has it, whoever robs it doesn't." The old servant seemed to do this kind of thing often, and he was familiar with it, and while beckoning the wheelbarrow to stop in a vertical line, he beckoned to everyone, "Just like the previous children, the old and young women are in the front, and the big men are in the back." ”

Three or four hundred people quickly lined up in several crooked lines, one after another, and took over the huge mixed noodles and hard steamed buns from the hands of the strong man in the cart.

There were just a few dozen people, and there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, mixed with shouting and shouting.

"Hurry! Go over there! ”

"You! Go over there, quick, surround! ”

……

The crowd suddenly stirred, and the old servant hurriedly waved at the old man and shouted, "Master, go away!" Fast! Come on! ”

The old man stood still.

It's not that he doesn't want to escape, it's that he can't escape.

He escaped, the old servant couldn't escape, and the dozen or so long-term workers who pushed the cart couldn't escape, and he was caught in prison, but he still had to confess him, and if they dared not confess, Zhu Xianling dared to kill them, they were all ants-like people.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a dozen or so wheelbarrows, old servants, and old men were surrounded by a dozen servants, one or twenty chief guards, and small servants.

Zhu Xianling was in his forties, wrapped in a thick fox fur cloak, wearing a fox fur hat, wrapped like a ball of fur, panting, crossing the arch of the little guy's long follow, and stopped in front of the old man, "Who did I say, it turned out to be you, the old bastard." ”

"County Honor." The old man bowed for a long time.

"Old man Zhao, we have no grievances in the long future, no enemies in the near future, I have been here in Linping County for four years, and I still take care of you, right? At least I didn't feel sorry for you, you embarrassed me again and again today, and really regarded me as a mud bodhisattva wood statue? Zhu Xianling ignored the old man's insight, gritted his teeth in a few words, he was really angry.

This bunch of troubles nested in his Linping County did not move, since the day this group of troubles did not know how to get here, he had never slept peacefully, strictly guarded, just looking forward to the same as Lingxian, this gang of troubles quickly starved away and froze away, as long as he was not in Linping County, he could not offend the top.

Alas, there is no one above whom he can afford to offend.

But this gang of scourges and troubles seemed to have taken root outside the city, and they did not come and go, from the first tens of hundred, to one or two hundred, and now to three or four hundred, and he was anxious to get a mouthful of big blisters, and people stared at them for a few days, only to find that someone had secretly sent food to this group of scourges.

But he caught it a few times, but each time it was a little bit off, and today he finally caught it up!

"Heaven has the virtue of a good life...... the old man said dryly.

He knew that Zhu Xianling's questioning had nothing to do with whether God had the virtue of a good life, but he really had nothing to say.

"Take it away." Zhu Xian Lingwo has been on fire for so many days, and he rode a horse to this wilderness on a cold day like today, his belly was full of evil fire, and when he heard a sentence of good life, he was even more angry, and he didn't want to listen to it more, so he waved his hand and commanded in a vicious voice.

"Get it back!" The head of the government officials ordered a few officials, and a few of the officials jumped off their horses, rushed into the crowd, and snatched the huge steamed bun from the hands of the old and young who were either stupid or were hurrying to stuff the mixed noodles and hard steamed buns into their mouths.

The crowd erupted in confusion and screamed.

"County Zun, you can be kind and accumulate some yin virtue." The old servant was extremely angry and yelled at Zhu Xianling.

Zhu Xian Lingqi's face turned blue, and he raised his whip and whipped it on the old man.

"Stop! Stop! Farther away, a succession of loud voices flew from far to near.

Before the stunned Zhu Xianling could put down the whip in his hand, he received a heavy whip on his back, "Let you stop!" Didn't you hear Lao Tzu's words? ”

"Lord Qin has an order: stop!" When the last loud sound sounded, from Zhu County's order to the chief of the government, almost everyone was whipped.

The escort team under Lu Yi's rule, whether it is riding or whip-wielding skills, is better than the people led by Zhu County...... There was no comparison at all, and the whips were accurately drawn on the heads and bodies of the officials and the elders who had moved their hands, but they did not hurt the victims who were fighting for steamed buns next to each other.

King Qin's horse was extremely fast, rushed out of the escort group, rushed past the stupid Zhu Xianling, reined in the horse, jumped down, and bent down to help the old man who was whipped to the ground by Zhu Xianling, "How are you?" Where is the injury? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, you ......" The old man was a little shocked by this change.

"This is Lord Qin, who came to the Jianghuai area to investigate and dispatch relief to the victims, and he just arrived, which made the old man suffer." Lu Yi also got off the horse, and while explaining, he shook at the old man to the end.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." The old man hurriedly ducked to the side, "That's good, that's good, these people...... Look, look at the prince, pitiful, look at this day, it's going to snow, the prince is really a life-saving bodhisattva......" The old man was frightened and surprised, and his words were incoherent.

"First distribute the food brought by the old man to everyone, and let the doctor diagnose and treat the injured." King Qin instructed Kexi, who hurriedly beckoned a few people, quickly divided the steamed buns, checked the wounded and sick one by one, and settled for treatment.

"The old man has kowtowed to you, the Bodhisattva of life." The old man was about to kneel down and kowtow, and King Qin supported him, "Xiao Wang can't afford it, Jianghuai suffered this calamity, thanks to a sage and a good man like the old man, if you want to say that the Bodhisattva of life, the old man can afford it, and Xiao Wang can't afford it." ”

"Lord Shengming, Shengming." The old man's excited lips trembled, grabbed King Qin's hand, and pointed to the group of victims who were surprised and hopeful in the panic, "Lord Wang, look at it, this is not a village scoundrel, they used to be honest people, they are all willing to work hard, they told me before, just let them go home, just get through this winter, Lord Wang, we Jianghuai are rich, as long as we ......"

The old man looked back at Zhu Xianling, who was half bloodied on his face, and his body was still frightened, "They are willing to raise their hands, but everyone hold their hands tightly, Lord Wang, you must take care of it to the end." ”

"The old man can rest assured, Xiao Wang entered from Yangzhou, in addition to personally checking from state to county, he also sent people out to secretly visit, as long as he saw it, he would definitely take care of it to the end."

The little guy had already brought a horse over and sat down with the old man, Lu Yi personally checked the whip that the old man had received, and saw that he had only torn his clothes, and there were shallow blood marks on his neck, so he was relieved, took two steps back, and stood behind King Qin.

King Qin squatted in front of the old man, "What is the old man's surname?" ”

"No surname Zhao, cheap name Ping." The old man hurriedly replied.

"I look at the steamed buns brought by Mr., and I think very thoughtfully, Mr. often does such good deeds?"

"Yes. The little old man was very poor when he was a child, thanks to the blessing of the Bodhisattva, he made a fortune, and the little old man felt that he was not so blessed, so he repaired bridges and roads, scattered wealth and helped people, in order to seek peace of mind. Zhao Ping'an's mood gradually calmed down, looked at King Qin, and then looked at Lu Yi, who was standing behind King Qin with his hands in his hand, and greeted him with a smile, only dazzled.

The two people in front of me don't look like real people.

"Since Mr. is proficient in charity, these hundreds of people, Xiao Wang wants to entrust to Mr. Mr. also knows that in the Jianghuai area, tragic events like today abound, and Xiao Wang can't stay for a long time. Xiao Wang left two guards, and Mr. only did the relief, and the rest was handled by the two of them, as for the county magistrate of Zhu Hongnian. ”

King Qin looked back at Zhu Xianling, Zhu Xianling's legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowing.

"You were born as a human being, this human heart, but you don't know where to lose it. You have forgotten that you are a human being, and you have forgotten what it means to be a parental official. The excerpt of impeachment, after I inspect it, I will write a single copy for you. As for how to write, it just depends on whether you can find people's hearts from now on, be a human being again, and know what it means to be a parent official. ”

King Qin looked directly at Zhu Xianling, and although his voice was low, he said word by word.

Zhu Xian Ling opened his eyes widely, and for a moment, kowtowed like pounding garlic, "Don't worry, the prince will definitely get it back, he will definitely be a person, the prince will be very kind, and he will be very kind,"

"I know your difficulties, today's matter, you just have to rest assured to be a good person, a good person, this matter, everything is borne by this king." King Qin said coldly and no longer paid attention to Zhu County's order.

Lu Yi stepped forward and dragged Zhu County's order, dragged him to the side for five or six steps, lowered his ear and whispered, with a smile in his words, "Lord Bodhisattva, this general is not, if it is a little bad, this general will send you back to the west." Jianghuai is in chaos, and the small county commander is not one or two. ”

Zhu Xianling's face turned pale with fright, and he only nodded desperately, but he couldn't say a word.

King Qin called two middle-aged guards over and pointed them out to Zhao Ping'an, "It's these two, don't worry, a sage pillar like Mr., as long as Xiao Wang is still there and has a breath, he will definitely protect the safety of Mr. Wang's family." ”

"Don't worry, it's only three or four hundred, don't worry." Zhao Ping'an's heart was hot, and he nodded again and again.

"Silver ......"

"The matter of silver, the prince doesn't have to worry about it, he can't even help three or four hundred people in Linping County, isn't that a joke? The little old man can afford to raise it at home, and he can still afford to raise it for a few months, no, no, our Linping County is not a place without good people, if not...... The prince is relieved, rest assured. ”

Zhao Ping'an waved his hand, they are notoriously rich and kind!

King Qin explained carefully for a while, and then together with Zhao Ping'an, he checked the victims, left two guards, mounted his horse and galloped away.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the three divisions in the Jianghuai area were trapped in the post station to settle the victims everywhere, and the time was very tight.