Xiaoba's eyes widened, and he asked puzzledly: "That's what you said!" Why don't you let me say? ”

"You, huh!" Xiao Qi twisted his head to the side angrily and no longer cared about this younger brother who lacked a string in his brain.

Hua Ronghua held back a smile and persuaded the hard-hit Niu Ya, "You can keep it for yourself, the two of them are not hungry at all, they are making trouble here!" ”

Mo An and Qin Shan outside the car couldn't help laughing, the two little young masters can see it now, their personalities are completely different, the little seventh young master is more shrewd, what he has or wants is mostly to pry his younger brother to do, but the little eighth young master is more upright, usually he believes what his brother says, so he is often scolded, but he accidentally ripped his brother into the water every time, so in the end, the two brothers were always trained together.

"Two little masters, the slave has a bun of cloud slice cakes, do you want to eat it?" Mo An listened to the little eighth young master sobbing quietly in the carriage, and immediately softened his heart and gave his snacks.

Before Hua Ronghua's words of refusal were spoken, Xiaoba had already shouted to ask for it, and he didn't even bother to wipe the tears left on his face and was about to jump off the bench to lift the curtain, but the carriage suddenly stopped at this time, and Xiaoba stood unsteadily and screamed and fell forward, thanks to Niu Ya who stretched out his arms because of sadness, and pulled him directly into his arms before he fell.

The situation of the others is not much better, everyone is staggering, Mo An is the worst, he was in a hurry to offer a treasure to the eighth young master and did not sit firmly, he actually planted it directly in the carriage, and the cloud cake in the oil paper bag also fell a lot on the floor of the carriage.

Hua Ronghua didn't care about his injured arm, and hurriedly looked at Xiao Qi, who was pulling in a panic, with a worried face, "Xiao Qi, how are you?" Does it hurt somewhere? ”

Xiao Qi shook his head and said sensibly: "Mother, Xiao Qi doesn't hurt, does it hurt Mother?" ”

"The baby is good, and the mother doesn't hurt!" Hua Ronghua went to see Xiaoba, who was already full of tears, "Xiaoba......"

Before Hua Ronghua could ask, Xiaoba had already burst over with tears in his eyes, "Mother, I'm scared to death." ”

"Don't cry! Don't be afraid, don't be afraid Hua Ronghua hugged Xiaoba distressedly and patted it.

Xiao Qi on the side was envious for a while, and without saying a word, he squeezed into his mother's arms to be appeased.

"Ouch, Qin Shan, how did you catch the car? There's a little master in the car! Mo An was angry before he got up, and he shouted at Qin Shan, who was rushing to the car.

Qin Shan ignored Mo An and asked Hua Ronghua apologetically, "Mrs. Hua, it doesn't matter if you and the two young masters do?" ”

Hua Ronghua subconsciously moved the arm that was hurt, but now there were no other symptoms except for the pain, and then said, "I'm fine." Why did you stop all of a sudden? ”

"It was the carriage in front of me that suddenly stopped, and I stopped suddenly." Qin Shan explained, "I'll go to the front to see what's going on." ”

"I'll go." Mo An said in annoyance, and handed the cloud cake slice in his hand that had not fallen apart to Xiao Ba, "Two little masters, you eat first, and the slave will come back in a while." ”

Xiao Ba had a cloud cake slice in his hand, sniffling, and finally stopped crying, and ate it with my brother, one by one.

Mo An went for a while and didn't come back, Hua Ronghua had the heart to get out of the car in person to check on the two children, and just when she wanted to ask Qin Shan to go to the front to take a look, Mo An came back, followed by Fuxi.

"What's going on?" Seeing that the faces of the two of them were not very good-looking, Hua Ronghua's heart also lifted and asked, "What's wrong?" Could it be that there are bandits robbing? ”

Xiao Ba, who was eating cloud cake slices on the side, heard the words bandits robbing, and his eyes lit up, and he looked up and asked Hua Ronghua, "Mother, is my father going to ride a big horse to save us?" ”

"Huh?" Hua Ronghua was a little stunned for a while, and he didn't connect to Xiaoba's brain circuit.

It was Xiao Qi who added a sentence to the side, and Hua Ronghua understood.

Xiao Qi said: "Uncle Mo'an said that Daddy is a big hero who fights on horseback, and he specializes in fighting bad guys. ”

I see, so when Xiao Bayi heard that there were bandits robbing, he thought that his father would come to save him?

Hua Ronghua glanced at Mo An, although he didn't often talk about Gongxi Chu, but he couldn't stop someone from talking quickly!

Mo An was about to lose sight of the two children smiling, "Two little masters, it's not a bandit robbery, there are no bad guys, so the master, your father, will not come." ”

Xiao Qi lowered his head in disappointment when he heard this, and Xiao Ba pouted angrily.

Hua Ronghua hurriedly diverted the topic and didn't let them talk any more. "Mo An, what's going on up ahead."

It was Fuxi who replied, "Mrs. Hua, there are a lot of victims in front of you who have blocked the road, and the Royal Forest Army is worried that it is the mountain bandits who are robbing the road, so they stop and be on guard!" ”

"What? Refugee? Hua Ronghua was surprised, "Is there a place in Jiangnan that has been affected?" ”

No wonder she was so surprised, in the past three years, she has seen rich and beautiful, prosperous scenes of people and animals, not to mention the disaster victims, even beggars are rare, and now suddenly it is said that a group of disaster victims have blocked the road, how do you hear how you think it is impossible!

Fuxi also shook his head, but then said: "The wealth of the seven mansions in the south of the Yangtze River is worth more than half of the imperial court, and in recent years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and I really haven't heard of any disasters." ”

"Yes, if there is a disaster, then the local government will not let us hold an exhibition!"

"The fairs held by Mrs. Hua are all held in the state capital and county capital, maybe it is the county and township below that are the disaster?"

The sudden insertion of the voice made Hua Ronghua stunned, and turned his head to see that it was Imperial Doctor Mei who had been in Jiangnan for three years with Fanwutang.

Since he followed the team on the road, the imperial doctor has shrunk in his carriage, and he is almost invisible to him, even if he does, he still doesn't say a word, and his cold appearance makes people feel unattainable, but if anyone in the team is sick, he will also take action, and the technique is neat, and the effect is very fast. If the team stops to hold an exhibition, then the imperial doctor will take his apprentice everywhere, and he won't say where he went, anyway, it will be a day.

Now that he suddenly opened his mouth because of something other than illness, not to mention Hua Ronghua, even the others were taken aback.

Everyone glanced at each other, no one dared to pick up Imperial Doctor Mei's words, Fuxi and Qin Shan, who knew a little about his origin, both knew that although the imperial doctor was not of high rank, he was also a celebrity in front of the emperor, even if he was now snubbed to a group of people without rank as an entourage, but no one knew if they would soar again in the future!

Hua Ronghua didn't know his details, but he just felt that he was more difficult to get along with, but at this time, he asked curiously: "How does the Imperial Doctor know?" ”

Imperial Doctor Mei glanced at him and said lightly: "You are here to collect money, and all you see are flashy gold objects, so naturally you can't see those people who are living in difficulty." ”

"But, this is Jiangnan!" Hua Ronghua bit his lip and stubbornly looked at Imperial Doctor Mei to ask for an answer.

"Mrs. Hua, under the scorching sun and there are shadows, let alone a house and a place?" Imperial Doctor Mei tugged at the corners of his mouth, as if sarcastic.

Hua Ronghua felt extremely uncomfortable in her heart, and even felt a little bottomless, is it because she has held exhibitions everywhere in the past three years, but it has affected the people at the bottom?

"I'll take a look!" As he spoke, Hua Ronghua was about to get out of the car.

Mo An hurriedly stopped, "Young lady, don't get out of the car, in case you collide again......"

Hua Ronghua glanced at him, "I'm not an important person, why are there so many collisions?" ”

Hearing this, Imperial Doctor Mei on the side looked at Hua Ronghua, and then looked into the distance and said, "It's here." ”

Two Guards arrived nearby with an old man and a boy of seven or eight years old, and Fuki went over to ask a few words, and then led them over.

"Mrs. Hua, Master Imperial Doctor, this is the leader of those disaster victims, I specially asked him to come over and speak." Fuxi pointed to the old man.

The old man was extremely thin, his back was a little bent, his beard was gray, his face was yellow, his wide coarse cloth clothes were a little empty, and his eyes were a little gray, he knelt down with the lean boy who was also in tattered clothes, and said in a dumb voice: "I have seen all the old ladies and gentlemen. ”

Seeing such an old man kneeling down for himself, Hua Ronghua felt a pantothenic acid in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Old man, get up quickly, you don't need so many courtesies." ”

Seeing that the old man stood up with the child, Hua Ronghua asked, "Old man, where are you people, and why do you gather on the official road?" Not far away is Quzhou Mansion, right? ”

The old man slowly stood up and sighed, and said, "It is Quzhou Mansion in the past, and we are people from Wutong Township, Quqi County, Quzhou Prefecture. ”

"Then why don't you farm well at home, what are you doing on this official road?" Mo An couldn't help but ask.

"This master, we want to plant, but we don't have land!" The old man couldn't help but wet his eyes as he spoke.

Mo An said strangely: "There is no land to rent and go to the labor shortage!" ”

"I don't have to rent land for my family." The boy next to the old man couldn't help but interject.

"Land? How can you say that there is no land if you have land? Fuxi also asked curiously.

The old man told the matter as it was, and everyone understood it.

The old man's surname is Ding, because he knows a few words, he plans to be a shopkeeper when he was young, and he saved a few dollars, and later used the money saved to buy a few acres of land and marry a daughter-in-law, and his life is slowly getting by. Old man Ding gave birth to five sons, and the five sons married their own sons, and the land has reached more than 30 acres from the first few acres to the later purchase through land reclamation.

However, such a good day has changed since the prefect's brother-in-law came to Quqi County in the spring of last year to become a county minister.

Although it is said that the county is the deputy of the county order, but here in Quqi County, it is the opposite, the county order is just a decoration, and all the big and small things in the county are the county Cheng, that is, the prefect's brother-in-law. This county ruler not only loves power, but also loves money, and has added a lot of additional taxes to the villages under the rule of Quqi County. Naturally, the villagers were not convinced, and some people complained to the prefect, but they were beaten back by the prefect, saying that the tax collected by the county was also for the construction of the dam, which was a reasonable collection.

There is an Anlan River near Quqi County, although it is not every year to send water, but in the past it has also been sent in the spring, although in previous years the county government also said that it was a tax to repair the dam, but most of them were paid by labor, which is like this county Cheng only collects cash? Moreover, the harvest was so high that many peasants had no money in their homes, so they had to sell their grain and livestock, and some even sold their rice seeds.

Everyone thought about it tightly, and when the rice was planted, they would go to do some casual work, and the half year would pass, and it would be easy to do it when the grain came down in the second half year. But I didn't expect the county to collect the money to repair the dam but did not send people to repair it at all, the heavy rain in spring washed away the Anlan River dam, and Wutong Village, which was closest to the collapsed dam, was the most severely affected, and many villagers' rice seeds were borrowed, which made it even worse.

Many villagers collectively went to the county government to ask for an explanation, but the county said that Wutong Township was set up as a flood discharge place because of its low-lying terrain, and all this was designed and had already been announced, so that everyone should not make trouble. In order to make an example of the monkeys, he also dealt with a few people who took the lead in making trouble.

There are many timid villagers who have no choice but to leave their hometowns and go to relatives, and there are also many people who gamble and go up to sue in one breath, and the hardest-hit old Ding family is also one of them, and the old man Ding was pushed to the leader because he was the oldest.

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, it turned out that these victims were real, but they were caused by man.