After Steward Du went out, Qing'er's first reaction was to look left and right, wanting to find some iron products to act as a shield and block her and He Angelica. And He Angelica also surprisingly didn't say much, just walked to the corner cabinet with a pen and ink inkstone, and drew a piece of snow paper to write. Chang Nuo and the fake Meng Ying glanced at each other and decided to wait and see what happened, so they didn't say anything, just stood with their hands in their hands, watching He Angelica's pen walk like flying, and wrote two in a blink of an eye.

After He Angelica finished writing, he simply sealed two pieces of paper with fire paint, handed them to Chang Nuo and fake Meng Ying respectively, and said with a smile: "There are two things in this, please go out of the Qingyuan and then open it, if you are satisfied, please don't come back, if you are not satisfied, you can come to me." ”

Chang Nuo and the two looked at each other again, not understanding what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd, or maybe her confident appearance aroused their curiosity, so they couldn't help but untie the snow note she handed over. Chang Nuo looked down at her with cold eyebrows, and snorted: "Don't think that you can fish in troubled waters like this, you can return the key today, if you refuse to hand over the key, you will be punished for the crime of bullying officials first!" ”

At this time, Qing'er finally shook off a piece of iron sheet from the furniture and guarded it on her and He Angelica's chests. He Angelica behind the "shield" smiled: "What do you say, I don't dare to call myself a first-class good citizen, but I am also diligent and duty-bound, I have never even done anything to bully people, how dare I bully officials." ”

"Don't be sloppy," Chang Nuo snorted coldly, "General Ben asked you for food, and you said that you were only responsible for keeping the food and had no right to dispose of it, and then said that the key was not in your hands." Why is it that when the housekeeper is here, you can mobilize grain with a word, what are you not bullying officials? You probably don't know that a crime of bullying can put you in prison for several years, right? ”

Qing'er glared: "You dare to bully her, Meng Xuan will find you to fight hard first." ”

The fake Meng Ying sneered: "It's just a concubine, it's not worth mentioning, what can Meng Shenshi do to me?" Even if she is in the main room, according to the product, she is a six-grade order, but General Chang is a fifth-grade, not to mention that she is just a lowly civilian. ”

He Angelica smiled, with three points of coquettishness and three points of banter in his words, and said: "The general is so forgetful, don't you remember that the law is cloudy, and the 'crime of bullying officials' is also divided into occasions, and it is only applicable to the court or when the case is investigated." I sat at home embroidering, ushered in uninvited guests, greeted with good tea and good food, and chatted warmly in two sentences. General, if you are in the military ranks, you should put on a guard of honor for the scenery, and first post to the Meng Mansion and then come to the door, you shouldn't come so sneaky. If you visit in a private capacity, you shouldn't use your identity to oppress me, an illiterate woman, or you will knock a hammer into the prefect's yamen, and you don't know who the person who fell is it. ”

Chang Nuo was silent for a moment and said: "In this case, I will not pursue this, you hand over the key and food." ”

"Nope." He Angelica shook his head.

"No?" Fake Meng Ying blew her beard and glared, "I just heard that you arranged to go out with a thousand stones of wheat, are you so foolish when you look at us?" ”

Chang Nuo also frowned and said: "Even if there are a thousand refugees, fifty stones is enough for them to eat for three days in a row, and you actually put a thousand stones of grain at a time, do you want to waste food?" "1,000 stone as military rations, enough for the front army of the army to eat for half a month.

He Angelica raised his eyebrows and replied: "As I said, I am only responsible for keeping the grain, and I have no right to dispose of it. The 1,000 stone of wheat I bought with Qingyuan with my own money, the average price is 100 wen and 10 per bucket, and the general wants to check the exchange of silver on the spot, or buy some with me, we are all welcome. As for whether taking a thousand stones out for disaster relief is a waste of food, that is, I try to play with my own silver, and I can't help it if I am not convinced, and I don't break the law by using wheat as firewood, right? ”

Fake Meng Ying and Chang Nuo were both choked, and He Angelica no longer gave them a chance to speak, and called Steward Du in, instructing the two to leave the garden in a hurry, and diligently asked the seventeen or eighteen guards to open a road from the corner gate to send them out. After Meng Chang and the others rode out with difficulty, He Angelica sent the deputy housekeeper Lao Fu to rearrange the matter of making chaff cakes, and gave him a hard rubber backup key.

After the people in Shui Qianju walked away, Qing'er was also puzzled, and said with her fingers: "I weigh 100 city catties, and my brother weighed me as heavy as two stone of rice, and that stone is 50 city catties, enough for one person to eat for two months, are we making too many chaff cakes?" ”

He Angelica replied with a smile: "It's okay, mixed with salt, that kind of dry brown cake is no problem for a few months in winter." Our kitchen is cooked, and it is convenient for them to eat, otherwise they will scatter some raw rice for nothing, so that those who are in a hurry without a wok, will not be able to eat it? Moreover, most of the refugees do not know the way, but only listen to the word of mouth of others, where it is easy to get food, they will flock in large numbers. Let's first produce two or three hundred stone of chaff cakes, so that the 1,000 people outside can eat and take, and each person can carry more than 10 catties of rations, at least half of the people will give up and continue to wander, and go back to their hometowns to start a new business. The other half of the people spread the news that there was surplus grain in Yangzhou, and tens of thousands of refugees in the southern region came here, just to find something to do for the government, they had hundreds of thousands of stone official food, and they also had leisure to find a monk to read the dojo, shouldn't they do something serious. ”

Qing'er glanced at the fence of the courtyard and said worriedly: "That Chang Nuo and the fake Meng Ying look very fierce, how can they just leave so casually, will they come to make trouble again?" We both know that Meng Ying is fake, but Steward Du doesn't know. ”

"Wait and see, maybe those two pieces of paper will be able to hold them back, and when we finish dispersing food, or wait for the 'reinforcements' to arrive." He Angelica is not completely sure, and he can only depend on luck.

"Reinforcements?" Qing'er's eyes lit up, and she asked, "Did you write the two letters that you sent out in the morning?" To whom is it addressed to? ”

"King Jin and King Yan." He Angelica replied.

"King Jin, King Yan?!" Qing'er was puzzled, "We don't know them, they are such big people, even if we send a letter for help, they won't pay attention." How do you know they are in Yangzhou? ”

He Angelica smiled and said: "I read my uncle's Xi file when I was in Mocha, and I saw that there were those two forces mixed in the last martial arts conference, and after the conference was over, they were still stranded in Yangzhou, I don't know what they were waiting for." At that time, I had no intention of calculating, so I remembered the foothold of King Jin and King Yan in Yangzhou, and asked the little girl in Qingyuan to secretly sprinkle my letter to them on the foothold. The letter did not focus on Qingyuan and the Meng family, but only said that King Ning and his soldiers were migrating to Yangzhou, and in line with the principle of 'the three armies did not move the grain and grass first', King Ning sent people to steal the grain in the hands of rich families on the outskirts of the city - as long as the news reached the ears of King Yan of Jin, could they not be afraid and could they not send their elites to inspect the situation? ”

Qing'er stroked her palms and smiled after hearing this: "This method is good, chase wolves and tigers, and let those birds and beasts bite each other, biting with a mouth full of hair!" ”

He Angelica bowed his head and said: "Even if the three parties can't fight, it is also beneficial for us to use the name of King Yan to force Chang Nuo and the others away." Originally, I wanted to go to the nearest Mocha to call a helper, but when I thought about it, it was good that there should be Gao Jue and Liao Zhiyuan there, if not, just a Song Fei and the like would not be of much use. And they are not our subordinates, even if they can rely on personal friendships, they will come as soon as they are called, and they will leave immediately, and they will inevitably have more tongues in the eyes of those who have a heart, and they are not as good as King Yan, what do you say? ”

Qing'er nodded thoughtfully: "The people of King Yan and King Jin, don't feel distressed if you kill a hundred, let them break their heads among the bad guys!" ”

"He may not be able to fight," He Angelica pondered, "Chang Nuo is a smart man who knows the times, and he may leave when he hears it." ”

"What did you write on the two pieces of snow paper you gave them?" Qing'er inquired.

"If I can take them away and tell you, otherwise a failed work, I'm embarrassed to show it."

In the afternoon, according to He Angelica's orders, a thousand stones of wheat went out of the warehouse, and in addition to pouring night incense and brushing the toilet in the yard, even Qing'er went to the battlefield shirtless to make bran cakes. Those wheat are all fine grains, which have been stripped of a layer of husk, so it is not difficult to deal with them, and after making five baskets first, and spreading them evenly according to He Angelica's instructions, the thousand refugees outside suddenly rushed here like a tide. When I go to other houses, I greet them with sticks and sticks, and this one actually throws bread outside, why don't you make people go crazy and grab it?

So, the mothers-in-law who poured night incense and brushed the toilet all stepped on the ladder and climbed the wall, and shouted to the crowd outside with full of anger, "The bread will be there soon, our grandmother said, the crowd watching that area is the most peaceful and the least fighting, and when the bread is sprinkled, scatter an extra basket!" ”

This kind of words were released, and it really had a certain effect, because some people had already eaten the bread, and the story of "Qingyuan giving bread to the refugees" had already spread, and it was not the kind of ghost trick that was promised verbally and paid lip service but not realized. Therefore, as soon as they heard that there were still cakes being made, those refugees who didn't have much strength and voice to make a fool of themselves discussed it one after another-

"Why don't we sit down there on that dry rocky slope and wait a while?"

"But they're not lying to us, are they? Because I am afraid that we will tear down the courtyard door of his house, we will deceive people with good words? ”

"They have already let go, saying that there are still dozens of baskets of flatbread, and they are enough, so a huge manor, and they can't run with long legs, what are they afraid of?"

"But for no reason, why did such a good thing come to the sky? I have walked nearly 100 villages and towns, no matter how rich and noble he is, he is not so willing to give up his face, often the richer he is, the more stingy he is, so stingy that he refuses to give even mud, often the richest family in the town, why is his family so generous and kind? ”

"I didn't listen to those mothers-in-law shouting, this is all his grandmother's idea, maybe the old man eats fasting and recites Buddha, and his heart is better than that of ordinary rich people."

"That's it, tens of thousands of catties of noodles have been given up, are you still afraid that he will not be able to add arsenic to the dough cakes?"

"I can eat arsenic if I have it, and I will be a full ghost when I die."

"I just don't know how long I'll have to wait, it's really torturous to wait like this."

"What are you anxious about, you make a fire at home to boil water and steam steamed buns, you can't get them without two hours of work, they have to slowly tinker with ten arms, so what? Haven't you already eaten one, it's much better than those who didn't pick up a loaf of bread, and you have time to talk here, why don't we divide into a group of thirty people, and each group chooses a team leader to maintain order, how about it? Didn't they say, "Where there is good order, more bread will be distributed?" The people who said this kind of thing were more than a dozen small people who were disguised as refugees arranged by He Angelica.

After about two hours, at dusk, the walls of the garden began to sprinkle bread again. This time, there were a lot of cakes, and according to a certain frequency, they were slowly sown outward, focusing on the camp of old and weak women and children who did not have an advantage in age and could not seize the favorable terrain. After some sowing, each refugee ate half a cake at the worst, and none of them had knotted stomachs and were in a bad mood; There are also lucky people who grabbed a few cakes to store grain in Huaidang, and some of them scattered in twos and threes, and rushed to Yangzhou City with rations.

And the people who ate the bread gradually felt thirsty, so the women who stood on the wall showed them the way to find water, and for a time most of them were scattered. At this time, several small doors were opened, and baskets of pancakes, cotton clothes, and cloth shoes were carried out, and after a rush was taken, hundreds of people dispersed. There are less than a hundred people left outside the garden, and they are all blistered on their feet, and they want to rest and leave tomorrow, or they can wait for some food to entangle, in short, there is no such fierce posture of the previous joint siege, and the door of the Qingyuan is occasionally opened, and the two families can enter and exit unimpeded.

Taking advantage of this gap, someone went out to look for Granny Feng, and it didn't take much effort to find it behind a dirt slope, only a piece of blue came out of his cheek, and he sprained his left foot. Other than that, there didn't seem to be any external injuries, but the person was so frightened that he was carried into the garden on a stretcher and never came back to his senses.

"Zhou's jewelry was stripped of and two pieces of clothes were stripped away," Qing'er made a report faithfully, "People didn't rob her of her sex, and it can be regarded as a thief." You don't know, she is dressed in a way that is more extravagant than a real noblewoman, and she is placed in the refugee crowd purely to attract hatred. ”

He Angelica pursed his lips and smiled, and was about to give some orders, but someone outside came to report: "Grandma, someone posted a visit, it was two beggars who were monks, and they wanted to see you by name." ”