On this trip, only a dozen or so people close to Xuan Ye knew, and for the sake of convenience and not being noticeable, Xuan Ye only brought Zhang Pengrong, Nalan Rongruo, Chunxi and Mu Hui. 【Fengyun Reading Network. Please see the most complete!

Each of the five men rode a horse and galloped along the path, taking the lead on to the next destination.

"How far is it from the city?" Xuan Ye and Zhang Pengrong walked side by side and asked him.

Zhang Pengrong replied: "It's only two miles." ”

Xuan Ye was overjoyed when he heard this, and said to a few people behind him: "The road ahead looks spacious, why don't we race horses and see who gets to the county seat first, how about it?" ”

"Since the third master has started, let's accompany ourselves." Nalan Rongruo said with a smile.

"Maybe I haven't competed with the third master for a long time, but now I have to have a good comparison." Chun Xi also laughed.

"Alas, this idea is good, whoever loses will invite us to have a good meal." Mu Hui also came to the heart, thinking that she was in a hurry today, and she hadn't eaten much, and she looked like she was about to arrive in the county, so she should eat something good, so as to be worthy of their fatigue all the way.

"That's it, let's go." Xuan Ye laughed and whipped and galloped. The few people behind him were not far behind, and they all chased after them quickly, but the gap between the front and back was not too big.

The last one to arrive was Zhang Pengrong, according to the bet, he should be treated tonight.

"First of all, I haven't saved much silver in the past few years, and I'm afraid I can't afford to eat if I eat too well." Zhang Pengrong took out his money bag, threw it to Mu Hui and said, "That's it, girl, you can do it." ”

Mu Hui opened the money bag, and there were only a dozen or so pitiful taels in it, if she really wanted to eat a good meal, she didn't know how many dishes she could order. pursed his lips and sighed helplessly: "It seems that Zhang Gongzi is really incorruptible." ”

"However, I just heard that there is a shop in front of me, and the food is delicious and not too expensive, I wonder if a few of you can deign to go and try it?" Zhang Pengrong smiled at Mu Hui, and then looked at Xuan Ye and the three of them.

"Since it is the loser who treats him, it is naturally up to him to decide where to go. Let's just eat some of them. Xuan Ye patted Zhang Pengrong's shoulder and made another gesture of please: "Brother Zhang, lead the way." ”

Zhang Pengrong took a few people around for a long time, and under Mu Hui's complaints, he finally arrived at the store he said. As soon as I sat down, a bowl of tea had not yet been drunk, and there was already a commotion outside.

Mu Hui raised her eyes and looked outside, only to see a group of people running like crazy in the direction they had just come, all holding a bowl in their hands.

"What's going on?" Mu Hui grabbed Xiao Er, who was serving food, pointed to the door and asked him.

"At this hour, the porridge factory over there began to give porridge, and they all rushed to ask for porridge. It's late, but it's gone. Xiao Er shrugged his shoulders and said.

Chunxi also looked out curiously, the crowd was crowded, and it seemed that there were not many people going to the porridge factory.

"It seems that this year there has been a lot of damage." Nalan Rongruo also sighed.

"It's not." Xiao Er interjected: "These are all from other places, in the past, where could there be so many people in our small place." It's just that we have a magistrate here this year, and that's a good official. The opening of a porridge factory and the daily soup soup barely fed so many people. ”

"But the opening of a porridge factory should have been implemented a long time ago, how could it be that this county magistrate only came after he came this year?" Xuan Ye was very puzzled, remembering that a few years earlier, he had already set up a plan to open porridge factories in various places to help the victims and poor households. Now, it is really incomprehensible to hear such a thing from Xiao Er's mouth.

Xiao Er shook his head and smiled: "Yes, there used to be a porridge factory, but it was useless, it has been abandoned for a long time." In previous years, when there was a famine, the porridge factory still occasionally had porridge, but after a long time, especially in the harvest year, the porridge factory was closed. These adults would rather let the porridge factory be covered with dust than open a warehouse to make it convenient for the people. However, now, we have a good official here, and this porridge factory will be reopened. ”

After listening to Xiao Er's words, Xuan Ye's face stiffened, and he didn't know what to say. He stayed in the capital every day, thinking that the local people really made their lives better because of his decree to open a porridge factory, and saved them from starvation and cold. Now it seems that I have thought too simply.

"Is it the same everywhere else?" Xuan Ye didn't know who he was asking, and looked at the crowd outside expressionlessly.

"Yes, in fact, there are many places where this is the problem." The first person to answer was Zhang Pengrong: "In the past few years, I have seen or heard of such scenes in many places, and it is not unusual. ”

"I have seen a long time ago when displaced people starved to death because they did not receive handouts. Ironically, not far from them, there is a porridge factory with a closed gate. Chun Xi also said.

When Xuan Ye heard this, he put his eyes back on Chunxi, and pulled her anxiously to ask, "Really?" Have you seen it too? ”

"However, that was many years ago, and I haven't seen it again." Chun Xi only felt that Xuan Ye grabbed her hand with great force, I am afraid that even Xuan Ye himself did not realize that he had hurt her hand.

Xuan Ye's heart seemed to have been hit hard by something, and he was a little out of breath. He set his eyes on Nalan Rongruo's body again, only to hear the other party say: "I have seen it too, and there are them in the capital." Some of the officials, even though they were doing good deeds and giving porridge, were fierce and vicious, and they were more vicious than the cell bosses in their cells. The people want to eat a bite, and they suffer as much as they want, and as long as they don't conform to their rules, they all have to be beaten and scolded. Sometimes, they don't follow the rules at all, and they just blindly look at their mood and speak. Many would rather starve than be bullied by them. ”

"Is there no one to take care of such a thing?" Xuan Ye was furious, slapping the table, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

Nalan Rongruo and Zhang Pengrong both shook their heads helplessly and nodded, and only said: "Even if someone is in charge, most of them are hasty." Officials protect each other, and those who suffer are naturally the people. ”

"I once saved a mother and son from their hands, and gave some money to them, but it didn't take long for the mother and son to escape their fate and were found frozen to death in the grass. And on their bodies, there are whip marks of different shades, which are the actions of these soup cooks. Nalan Rongruo's words gave Xuan Ye another hard blow, how could he imagine that there was such a tragic thing happening in a place where he couldn't see.

In order to eat in one bite, competition is the law of survival. But these officials laughed at the survival of these people. Not only did they not give charity, but they even whipped these poor people.

Xuan Ye closed his eyes, feeling very uncomfortable. The crowd outside is all fighting for their own survival. They came from far away, maybe they had walked a long way to get here, or maybe they had just heard that the county officials here were good people, willing to think about the people, and willing to help. They did not hesitate to travel through mountains and rivers to come over, just for a mouthful of white porridge.

If, like the county order here, every place opened a warehouse to give soup to the poor, how could you see so many people snatching a bowl of porridge in such a small place.

As they spoke, the crowd had begun to move back, some clutching their stomachs and shouting hunger. Some people danced happily because they grabbed a bowl of white porridge today. Some people simply sat at the door of Xuan Ye's store, looking at the customers inside pitifully, hoping that they could also help.

Xuan Ye looked at the food on his table and had no appetite. He beckoned the people sitting outside the door to come in and eat, and called the shopkeeper to come over, and gave him a large sum of silver, so that he could bring them all the food in the kitchen.

Xuan Ye looked at these people who were grateful to him, his nose was sore, and he turned his back.

"How do you think this kind of situation can be prevented?" Xuan Ye asked Zhang Pengrong and Nalan Rongruo.

"I'm afraid that only by explicit orders and severe punishment can it have some effect. I am afraid, I am afraid, the officials protect each other, and there is some protection. Zhang Pengrong said: "If you are an official, pretending to be a minister, I am afraid it will be the same as today." ”

Nalan Rongruo also said: "The practice of this county order is very good, I do it myself, and I am still supervising it on the spot, so as not to let someone cheat and fool the past." At this time, they had already walked to the place where the porridge factory was located, and looked at the people in the yamen, who were packing up the utensils for serving porridge, while the people next to them were dressed in the official palace and were still directing. From time to time, he also discussed with the master next to him about the arrival of the holy car in two days, and the matters that should pass through this place.

"If we had followed a couple of people here as before, I'm afraid it would have been difficult to see such a situation." Recalling the cleanliness of the road in the past, the dirty mess around is now a kind of popularity.

"It seems that we did the right thing by making an unannounced visit first." Xuan Ye sighed: "The previous worries are still correct. In the invisible place, it is the most real. In the past half a month, every road we have traveled and everyone we have met is just an official who wants us to see. ”

Xuan Ye couldn't help but feel cold, deceived up and down, how many people participated?

"Third master, shall we continue to move forward?" Zhang Pengrong asked.

Xuan Ye looked up at the sky, the night was getting darker, and he said, "Let's go, we still have to move forward." At the very least, we still need to travel for three days to take a good look at the real life of the people. ”

Knowing what Xuan Ye meant, the group found a simple inn to live in, and the next day before dawn, they continued to hurry. The mighty team behind them could probably arrive at this county seat after dark, and I don't know if the place they saw at that time was the same as what Xuan Ye saw now.

Xuan Ye had already secretly made a plan in his heart, and on the day he gathered with the team, he would issue an edict, hoping to solve such a problem. so that the people will no longer live as he sees, waiting to be fed.