When Li Heng heard this, he didn't have much joy on his face, and only frowned and looked at the dock in front of him.

There were a lot of homeless people gathered at the wharf, all in tattered clothes, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and a few poorly clothed children sat in a leeward place, eating a piece of dry and black bread.

The one who divided the bread was a thin black half-sized child, and I saw that he carefully divided the bread into as many as evenly as possible, and distributed it to the children. The cake was not big, and it was only a small piece that could not be slapped in the hand, but the children's expressions seemed to be extremely satisfied, and they all cherished the cake and ate it in small bites, as if they were tasting the most delicious food in the world.

Seeing this scene in Li Heng's eyes, his heart had sunk, and he asked, "How can there be so many people?" Where do they live? ”

The news reported by the Di newspaper and the local government all said that these displaced people had been resettled at the expense of various counties, and they had shacks and porridge to eat, but what they saw in front of them was not the case at all. Calculating the time, no matter how slow the convoy of the imperial court goes, those cloth and rice grains should have arrived a long time ago, why are these homeless people still like this?

The boss of the boat didn't know Li Heng's true identity, but he knew from his words and deeds that he must be extraordinary, so he looked at his expression at this moment, and said to him left and right: "We are running the boat to watch the sky to eat, why don't they watch the sky to eat?" In the past few years, there have been droughts and floods, and there is always not enough food to eat in the fields, all of which have come from the north, and I have heard that there is not even a single grass growing in the land in the north, alas. ”

Li Heng didn't seem to hear the meaning of dodging in his words, and continued to ask: "Does the government care?" When I was in Beijing, I heard that the imperial court deliberately opened grain routes to deliver grain, and distributed a large amount of cloth, money, and goods to help the victims. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the boss of the boat, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and patted his forehead and said, "I asked the wrong person." I think you people who live on the sea, where will you care about the hardships of these people who dig in the fields? ”

The ship's rugged face instantly swelled up with a layer of anger.

The man who ran the boat has always been fighting with the sky, the sea, and the creation of nature, and he has a bloody nature in his bones, although he knows that he is angry with words, but he is also angry, and said angrily: "Mr. Tai also looks down on people, I have to run two or three times a year in this Shandong, how can I not know the suffering of these people?" But the gentleman is funny, what kind of grain cloth, what kind of shed porridge food? Have you ever seen these things? ”

He seemed to be talking about the prosperity, and pointed to the homeless people in the port and said: "If you are not afraid of Mr. being annoyed, these people are really good, and they can still make a living in the port, and they can earn a penny or two a day, so they can be half full." If the gentleman goes further and looks outside the county, then it is ......."

"Boss He, watch the anchor!" A stern voice sounded, and there was a strong warning in his voice.

The old man turned his head sharply, and when he saw the person who spoke, the anger on his face immediately vanished.

"Haha, who should I be, it turned out to be a nonsense matter, and the little brother didn't hear it!" He immediately smiled and stepped forward to talk to the Hu steward, with a flattering attitude, as if he had completely forgotten the existence of Li Heng.

Steward Hu smiled at Li Heng and said hello: "Sir, this is about to get off the boat." ”

Li Heng nodded lightly, did not speak, and looked into the distance with his hands.

The Baolong is going to and from Dengzhou Mansion to do business, and there are some things they really dare not say more.

Li Heng's brows tightened, looking at the busy and noisy port under the gloomy sky, silent.

The boat was soon stopped, the pedals were set up, and the steward of the Li Mansion had already gone ashore in advance to hire a car, and had someone set up a curtain, and the ladies abandoned the ship and boarded the car.

Dengzhou Prefecture is located in Penglai County, Chen Ying's first stop on their trip is here, after the carriage goes offshore, it quickly passes through the port and turns onto the official road.

Even though there were curtains to cover them, the gorgeous clothes on the women's dependents, and the tall horses of the men outside, still made the homeless people automatically avoid the sidelines, and no one dared to go up to ask for something, and watched with a blank face as the nobles disappeared among the flying dust.

A woman with a vegetable-faced face, dressed in an ochre-colored dress that could only hide her body, also stood at the back of the crowd, watching the carriage and horse depart from a distance, looking stunned.

Suddenly, there was a heavy slap on the cheek, and then a hoarse old woman's voice sounded: "You are a thing, where do you look at the wild eyes?" Why don't you go over there and drag the nets! ”

The ochre-clothed woman instinctively covered her face with her hands, and did not resist at all, but lowered her head and said respectfully: "Yes, mother, I will go now." ”

The old woman who beat her had a mean face, and a pair of inverted triangular eyes were burning out at the moment, staring directly at the woman, and chirping: "Bah, you deserve to be quick in this mouth, who are you trying to hook with this look?" Mother, I'm not one of those wild men, you can't deceive me anymore, you prostitute, mourning star, our family has really fallen for eight lifetimes, and you are such a daughter-in-law! ”

The old woman was so thin that she only had a handful of bones left, and she looked more and more weak in this autumn wind, but she was very energetic, and after scolding, she stepped forward and spat on the woman's face, scolding: "You shameless broken shoes, a nemesis of a thousand knives!" killed my good grandson, and now he wants to kill my son again. If my son dies, I want you to pay for it......"

She scolded and pushed the young woman incessantly, and she had to catch her breath a few times after scolding, and her breathing sounded like pulling a bellows. When she was done, she seemed to be tired, so she took the wooden stick that was used as a crutch, and panted in her heart, looking at the woman with a look that seemed to be quenched.

The ochre-clothed woman kept her head low, and said not a word, and her attitude was extremely submissive.

The old woman seemed to be satisfied at last, and spat viciously on the ground again, and went trembling with her stick.

It wasn't until she had turned the row of houses that the young woman looked up, wiped the spit from her face with her hand, and looked numb, without sorrow or joy, as if she had lost her emotional reaction.

A woman who was also very thin and covered with a green cloth cloth came over next to her, pulled the sleeve of the ochre-clothed woman, and persuaded softly: "Xiu'e, don't be like your mother-in-law, her mouth is not forgiving, and she is not really evil." Your Fang family is an honest family with eight families in ten miles, and your mother-in-law praised you behind people back then. ”

Fang Xiu'e smiled at the woman who persuaded her, but her heart was sour, she couldn't help but shed tears, hurriedly wiped her hand, and said, "I can save it, sister-in-law Zhou, go and get busy, there are still things burning in your pot." ”