When Qing'er heard this, she became anxious first, and was embarrassed: "I saw just now that the little white wolf and his wife ran out of the garden and went north. What should I do, that fake Meng Ying must be the people of King Chang Nuuning and his group, the idea of beating our food, the first one in the morning was successful, and now the second one is coming out, will they come hard? Will it kill us with a single sword? ”

He Angelica groaned and shook his head and said: "Chang Nuo, if they only want food, then they don't have to use their true faces, pretend to be masked robbers, and a team of soldiers rush in, who is their opponent?" There are twenty-four households in the vicinity, even if each family only has 2,000 stone of rice, then this nearly 50,000 stone of grain, coupled with its weak guards, is not the fat sheep in the eyes of Chang Nuo and others, why do you cut us alone? ”

"Huh? Why? Qing'er said she didn't understand.

"This shows that most of them came for the signboard of the 'Meng family'," He Angelica analyzed, "The failure in the morning, Chang Nuo stayed and wanted to think about it slowly, but I happened to hear that Meng Ying had gone to the north for a while." I heard Fourth Uncle Meng Xuan say that Meng Ying seemed to have taken refuge in King Ning for some days in the past, and they may have secretly made Meng Ying's mask and plotted to do something bad in the future, so this time it came in handy. The man was sluggish and wooden, but it reminded me of a man...... Sima Mingyue, in the past, he pretended to be Fengyang, which is this virtue. ”

Qing'er was about to inquire again, but Mrs. Xu hurriedly came to report outside, and said sharply: "Oh no, no, no, lady!" Suddenly, a large wave of refugees poured into us, and the doors of every house were stuffed with water, and they were like locusts and hungry wolves. ”

"Refugees? How many people are there? He Angelica asked.

"There are countless of them," Mrs. Xu shook her head and sighed, "There are eight or nine hundred people if not a thousand, and there may be more later." Steward Du has already asked people to close the entrances and exits of Qingyuan, and all the people who can be sent out are sent to guard the door, but the group of thieves are so hungry that they can only crawl on the ground, but their strength is very great, nearly 100 people stand on the iron fence gate in the outermost circle of our garden, and the door is loose with only two shakes! ”

Qing'er retorted unhappily: "What bandits, those are refugees, the poor people who are suffering and suffering! ”

Mrs. Xu laughed disappreliantly, and said: "Lady, there are two things to report to you, one is Granny Feng, she just bought a trip and pushed it back to her house, and for some reason she went out for a second time......

He Angelica and Qing'er looked at each other when they heard this, weren't they coaxed out by the "skirt wings" that Qing'er said? But I heard Mrs. Xu continue: "The thieves and refugees are menacing, we can't stand it, Steward Du said that we can't just wait for her, and let that group of unorderly refugees in." They're all red-eyed and crazy, and you just shout to them, 'We're willing to help the disaster, please wait,' and they're just not listening. When we put it in the garden, we don't know how many things we will destroy, but we just want to give them food with a hot heart, and it is cold when we see them making a fuss and robbing them. ”

He Angelica couldn't deny that she was right, she had seen refugees affected by geodynamic floods and droughts many times in her previous life, because the Ming Dynasty was only 30 years old, and the treasury had not been full, and there was a huge difference between the disaster relief money that could be taken out and the number of refugees. In other words, when the emperor drew up every disaster relief payment, he had already calculated that he would starve some of them to death. Over time, the people developed a sense of distrust in the imperial court, and felt that they had to use "grabbing" to share such a small amount of food among a large group of people. As a result, the concept of "supporting the fierce crab to death and starving to death the soft-footed shrimp" has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people, and there are people and officials who compare refugees to robbers, and it is inevitable that outsiders like Qing'er will not be used to hearing it.

"You said there are two things to report, and what is the other thing?" He Angelica asked.

Mrs. Xu put on a little flattering smile, nodded and said: "There is a young lady surnamed Guan, when a large number of refugees were flowing just now, she was standing at the gate of Qingyuan, and she didn't have time to go back to her own house, so I decided to let her in to rest." Do you think there is a clean room for her to take a break for a day and wait for the refugees to run out before sending them off? ”

Qing'er asked sensitively: "Which Miss Guan, what is her name?" ”

Outside the courtyard wall, a tall, well-groomed young woman came out, with her own noble taste that generally does not eat fireworks in the world, and pointed at He Angelica and Qing'er with her chin, and said coldly: "It's me." She is Guan Yun.

Qing'er was angry when she saw Guan Yun, and snorted and said: "Whose delicate daughter are you, my family doesn't have a good house for you to live in, your brother's garden is just a street away, why do you come to stand in my family's cheap courtyard if you have nothing to do?" Xu Po, send off, send off! I don't share the sky with her! ”

Guan Yun sneered: "You have lived in my house for two or three years, and I have never kicked you out, and now the master here is not you, I am a guest of Meng Gongzi, what are you doing?" ”

Mrs. Xu added in due course: "When I came here, I met the third prince and General Chang on the road, General Chang recognized Miss Guan and said hello, but Miss Guan said that she didn't know the general. The old woman took the opportunity to give the third son and said that Miss Liuguan would stay for one night, and the third son nodded and agreed. The implication is that since the third prince is back, then of course this is the third prince's biggest, and his opinion is the guiding point for everyone's actions. It doesn't matter if He Angelica agrees or disagrees, let alone He Angelica's deputy.

He Angelica was silent, thinking about it, Chang Nuo's pretending Feng Yang and the Guan family opened a weaving workshop, and it was not strange that he knew Guan Yun, maybe he forgot his identity for a while, and he was more surprised to see Guan Yun here, and he suddenly forgot to shout. Of course, Sima Mingyue didn't know Guan Yun, and nodding was just a favor, but he didn't expect this to make them take advantage of the loophole.

Qing'er was so angry that she grinded her teeth at Guan Yun, and muttered in a low voice: "What a faceless woman, after hooking up one after another, first Duan Xiaolou is now Meng Ying, and she is the best at the top." Because she was so angry in her heart, she forgot that Meng Ying was fake, but she was really angry with Meng Ying thousands of miles away.

He Angelica glanced back at Su Zi and instructed, "You lead Miss Guan to Elk Hall, pick a bright room, and arrange for Miss Guan to stay in." He looked at Mrs. Xu again and said, "You stand for a while, I have two things to explain to you." ”

So, Su Zi led the arrogant Miss Guan with a bit of ice and snow to go out, He Angelica saw Guan Yun walking away through the lattice of the wall, and then turned to Mrs. Xu, who also showed a caring expression, and asked with a cold face: "You are very attentive and thoughtful to her, I am a little jealous, if I visit the garden of the Guan family one day, the descendants of their family are more enthusiastic to me than Guan Yun, I must be moved to reward her with a string of money." ”

Qing'er came to her senses, her round eyes aimed at Mrs. Xu, and asked in a loud voice: "Did you accept her money before you let her in?" "The more I think about it, the more likely it is, otherwise Mrs. Xu, who has always been in the guise of He Angelica, why would she offend He Angelica for outsiders for no reason. Hey, it's not right, even if Guan Yun gives Mrs. Xu ten taels of silver, Mrs. Xu is not worth finding a pleasure for the master who will serve for a lifetime for the sake of this small profit in front of her. Or, "You're going to change jobs?!" Qing'er pointed at Mrs. Xu's nose and shouted.

Mrs. Xu didn't understand the meaning of "job hopping", but she also waved her hand again and again, and defended: "The old slave can confiscate a penny from her, so many people are watching, she beckons outside the door, and I will open the door for her." Looking at Qing'er's expression of disbelief, Mrs. Xu gritted her teeth and told the truth, "The old slave has a daughter, and now she is serving Miss Guan's sister Miss Zhou, my daughter is all pointing at Miss Zhou, I have no reason to watch Miss Zhou's sister fall into the hands of those dirty and smelly bandits." Lady, you and the young girl are not usually generous people, why do you care about this little thing this time, and it is only right to think about sending away that group of robbers. ”

Qing'er didn't believe her words, and refuted: "I have seen Guan Yun have two sisters, none of them are surnamed Zhou, who are you to lie." ”

He Angelica asked: "That Zhou girl is not young, right?" Are you married? ”

Mrs. Xu was proud to mention this matter, and said with a smile: "Miss Zhou is a capable person, she was the eldest daughter of the Guan family, in the early years, because Xiangshi said that her parents were brothers, she called the Zhou family in the capital who wanted a daughter to take it, and her status over there was not high, but she had a way to marry into Ning Wangfu, do you say it is powerful?" I heard that she is very favored in the palace, and she gave birth to a boy, and she is afraid that she will be the son of the world in the future, and my daughter will follow her, so she has a place to go. ”

Qing'er stared at He Angelica with wide eyes when she heard this, and He Angelica looked at Mrs. Xu carefully a few times, and asked with a smile: "Look at the scarf on your head, could it be that you are still from Miaojiang?" What's your daughter's name? ”

"The lady has a good eye, I am indeed a Miao girl, and the daughter of the old slave is called Siniang." Mrs. Xu replied with a smile, although she didn't know why Angelica was interested in this, but it was not a secret, since she asked, it didn't hurt to talk to her.

He Angelica continued to confirm to Mrs. Xu: "I borrow, what is the name of that Zhou girl?" ”

"Her name is Zhou Jinglan."

I see, after sending Mrs. Xu down, He Angelica took a sip of tea and smiled sarcastically. I see, it turns out that Guan Yun and Zhou Jinglan are sisters, no wonder the first time I saw her, when I saw her in the Xinrong Hall of Luofu that time, I felt that Guan Yun was very much like someone she deeply hated. At that time, I thought that the two people just happened to look alike, and even the surnames were different, but later, I specially asked Qing'er if the Liao family or the Guan family had any relatives or in-laws surnamed Zhou, and the answer was also negative. I thought I was thinking too much, but it turned out that my eyes were too sharp, and it turned out that the world was too small and things were too coincidental.

Qing'er made a suggestion on the side: "First detain Mrs. Xu, ask her to write a letter to recall her daughter, kill the old and the young together, eradicate two traitors at once, and eliminate harm for the world." ”

He Angelica shook his head and said: "It's not appropriate, it's too reckless to do this, and I suspect that the kind of Easy Gu that killed me in my previous life is the masterpiece of Miao girl Xu Siniang, my daughter will, and her mother will not be able to protect her, so if you attack her in a hurry, who knows if she will use a killer weapon to deal with us." ”

The two faced each other silently for a while, and Steward Du knocked on the door. He was a short and fat old man with a beard, and asked for instructions outside the second gate: "Lady, now the Qingyuan is crowded with hundreds of refugees, I remember that the lady came to me a few days ago to talk about refugees, and there was a sense of help." I have the same opinion as you, but now that those refugees have arrived, they are really no different from hungry wolves, and I am also in trouble with what to do with them. ”

He Angelica gathered his face and instructed: "Go and open the granary, first take out a thousand stones of wheat, crush it coarsely with a stone pestle, and make bran cakes with water, add more salt to it, and use all the salt we have in stock." When it is done, let the family members spread it out evenly, and first quench the thirst of those people. ”

For those refugees who no longer have the slightest worries, only when they have the bottom in their stomachs can they solve the problem calmly. Second, those people who have eaten salty and dried will inevitably go to Jinghu Lake two miles away to find water, and how much can be dismissed, and the number of people will be reduced, so as to facilitate the maintenance of order.

Steward Du also probably figured out what He Angelica meant, and even said, "This method is good!" He Angelica was about to take the key to him, Chang Nuo and fake Meng Ying brushed their robes and put them into the courtyard, and said in unison: "No, it can't be distributed to people outside!" Obviously, they had been eavesdropping outside for a while, and when they saw that Steward Du was also there, they just moved the fake Meng Ying out to give orders.

Sure enough, after Steward Du gave the fake Meng Ying a salute, the latter gave a tough order: "Prepare a thousand barrels of diluted nitrate water, spray it at every entrance and exit for a while, and when the crowd disperses, prepare all the carriages and horses in the garden and transport the stored grain out of the garden!" ”

Steward Du smacked his tongue when he heard it, and looked back at He Angelica with a frosty face, according to the general rules, of course, he didn't say a word and listened to the words of the third son, but he could spray nitrate water on the refugees? If this spreads, the Meng family's century-old reputation will be gone, what kind of solution is the third son? In the event of another riot of refugees, the refugees who had been scattered to more than 20 families gathered their forces to fight the Qingyuan family, and how could the dozens of families in that garden be the opponents of the nearly 1,000 refugees?

"Steward Du, you go outside and wait first, I have two thoughtful words to talk to these two." He Angelica opened his mouth and commanded, "You don't have to go far, you will come in when I call you." ”