Chapter 91: Sect Rebellion - Qinglou Turmoil (1)
It wasn't until this group of victims came close that Xu Feng really saw clearly, and for the first time, he really saw the appearance of the victims on the previous films, television, calligraphy and paintings. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Hundreds of people were all dressed in baskets, with yellow muscles and thin muscles, old men in their seventies and eighties who were dying, and children with muddy faces and empty eyes. The children were naked, their bodies grey-black in the colour of the dirt and sweat of the long journey, and their lips were covered with layers of dry skin. Frail body, every rib is clearly visible.
Everyone had a look of disgrace on their faces. In order not to expend a little energy, he didn't even say a superfluous word, just walked blankly under the scorching sun. Their speed was slow, not like they were walking, but they were moving, raising up more than half a man's dust on the official road.
In troubled times, people's lives are as cheap as dogs, and it is really "the people who are prosperous and the people who are dead", Xu Feng sighed in his heart.
Seeing a pergola with shade on the side of the barren official road, these victims were like fish in the water, fighting their last strength and squeezing under the shed in a mess.
Immediately, several half-grown children with no clothes on their faces gathered around the table of four with innocent faces, staring at the tea in the bowl with expectant eyes.
Xu Feng got up and walked to the boss, took out a large ticket of three hundred taels of silver and stuffed it into the boss's hand, and said in a low voice: "Give them all the food and drink." You keep twenty taels, and the rest is divided according to the head!"
The boss was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses. A pair of rough hands wiped and wiped on the linen apron, and took the silver ticket with trepidation.
There is a disaster in Zhongzhou, Xu Feng said in his heart, fortunately, it is only a corner of the east, otherwise even Panxilin's career will be impacted.
What Xu Feng didn't know was that the war in the northwest of the Great Xia Dynasty was becoming more and more intense, and the scope of the war was becoming more and more extensive, and the power of the imperial court was pressed on the war in the northwest, and it was no longer able to take care of the natural and man-made disasters in various parts of the dynasty.
The shadow of the war has quietly moved south from the north, and the dignitaries and wealthy businessmen of Tianxia Prefecture and County have even been ready to avoid the station, and the business of the Jin Wangfu has been impacted, and Panxilin's career has also suffered great pressure.
Disasters and thieves are linked, and when there is a year of great disaster, it is often accompanied by turmoil. This year, the government has no time to provide relief, and the bandits are even more unscrupulous. Gangs of bandits composed of unemployed vagrants often roared to gather and loot villages, and even unscrupulous hyena sects colluded with bandits to carry out large-scale human looting and property looting under the pretext of protecting the territory and the people, forcing good people to do low-level miscellaneous labor in the sect and secretly expanding their power.
Some counties in the eastern part of Zhongzhou have been emptied, and instead of starving to death or killing, they have moved or fled with their families to Huizhou, which is richer and can feed more people.
A large number of people poured into Huizhou, and the only way to pass through was this official road under the Burning Star Tower. Follow this official road, cross Lijiazhuang, and then go to the richest and most prosperous Salt Lake City on the north side of the foothills of Yunmeng Mountain, and pass through Yunmeng Mountain through Qingtian Gorge, even if you arrive at the first big city in Huizhou - Baishi City. It was only here that the hearts of the fleeing people were completely settled.
The big clans and wealthy merchants who had obtained the news of the dynasty's northwest war and the emperor's secret letter from various secret channels had long been ready to go south. Even many of them have their own industries in the rich Huizhou, and they just take refuge for a while like traveling, and then return when Zhongzhou is calm.
They dragged their families with them, and servants flocked to the front line of the Yunmeng Mountains in droves, creating an abnormal prosperity in Salt Lake City. The inn restaurant was full, and even the girl who picked up customers in the green building was a little unbearable, frowning and frowning, complaining that there were too many customers, while excitedly counting the silver in the show box.
The third child praised Xu Feng's righteous deeds again and again, and even the thirteenth looked at Xu Feng with strange eyes. The fourth senior brother also said: "Senior brother is not mistaken, the senior brother is really kind-hearted, righteous and wealthy." I think we'll let the junior brother contract the cost of going down the mountain this time. ā
The third senior brother was silent, and the thirteenth senior brother Fang Yutong nodded again and again, without waiting for Xu Feng to open his mouth to argue, the matter was decided.
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There is no man who is not lustful. Moreover, in the Great Xia Dynasty, it was a normal thing to visit the Qinglou, and even the third senior brother who was dedicated to the Tao would not force an objection, although Fang Yutong objected verbally, but there was a faint expectation and excitement in the depths of his eyes. Because this is the first time in his life that he has gone to the Qinglou, he said that he was not excited, it was false.
Salt Lake City, Flower Place.
The voices of the people are boiling, and the flowers and wine are noisy. As soon as the four brothers arrived at the door, a turtle slave nodded and greeted them with a smile: "Four masters, please!"
Stepping into the large hall, a middle-aged bustard immediately greeted him with a handkerchief. Seeing that two of the four were carrying weapons, especially Xu Feng and Lao Thirteen Lang Lang's eyebrows were chic, at a glance, he knew that it was not an ordinary person fleeing, and the other shrewd-looking son was still a little familiar. Hurriedly smiled and asked, "Yo, four fairy sons, welcome to Liuhuafang." Four masters, can there be a good girl?"
All the regulars of the Qinglou have their own choice of good friends, or called Xianghe, and they generally choose the girls they know when they come here. Xu Feng and Lao Thirteen were both for the first time, and there were any familiar girls there, and they all looked at the fourth child.
The fourth senior brother said: "The easternmost room on the second floor is vacated for the master, call the rouge girl out, and they are casual." ā
Xu Feng guessed that the fourth senior brother was a frequent visitor here, but he didn't guess that the senior brother was so generous in spending other people's money. The second floor is a private room, which is a bit more expensive than the first floor, and the east room faces the direction of the Great Lake in Salt Lake City, which is even more expensive.
When the old bustard heard this, he smiled even more cheerfully, knowing that his brothers were generous masters. immediately shouted loudly: "Quick, help the four sons upstairs!"
Under a sound, a group of girls standing at the bottom of the stairs were purple and red, and the warblers and swallows floated over, and before they arrived, they smelled a fragrant wind, and seven or eight girls surrounded the four of them upstairs.
On a hot day, the girls wore thin as cicada wings, and while going upstairs, they deliberately rubbed sensitive parts on people's bodies, the fragrance was blowing in their noses, and their ears and temples were grinding. Before he walked into the private room, he was ready to completely tease out the desire in the man's heart.
Xu Feng saw such a formation there, and he was a little panicked, but when he saw the old thirteen with a blushing face and flustered eyes, he found a little comfort in his heart. Fang Yutong is not yet thirteen years old, and in Xu Feng's eyes, he is a young boy who has just started to fall in love, and there is a place for him to play in Fengyue Field.
The old thirteen was already twisted, and his pretty face was as red as a big girl. The more handsome and shy they are, the more they provoke these bold and open girls. Originally, it was two girls next to one person. Supporting the woman in yellow who supported the third senior brother, he saw the third senior brother going upstairs straight and straight like a zombie, no matter how he teased, he was as calm as water, and snorted in a fit of anger, giving up this incomprehensible charm and running to the handsome little brother next to him.
There are girls on both sides, this girl in yellow simply supported the body of the old thirteenth division from behind and walked up, a pair of peaks and mountains in thin shirts pressed on the back of the thirteenth senior brother, as soon as the warm fragrant nephrite touched, the thirteen hearts suddenly swelled with turbulent waves, as if even the ordinary stairs could not go smoothly, under the grip of the three girls, staggered, as if drunk.
Finally walked to the private room on the east side, the rooms were all cleaned up, the four of them sat down, and there was a full-time running hall to bring rock sugar green orange tea, as well as melon seeds, dried fruits, longan and other snacks.
The girl who greeted the guests in the hall reluctantly retreated, the girl in yellow looked petite, and before leaving, she didn't forget to rub Fang Yutong's chest, and said movingly: "My name is Jiaojiao, I remember people." ā
The old thirteen was so embarrassed that he didn't know how to answer, and said with a flushed face: "Remember, remember." ā
provoked the fourth senior brother to laugh, and the third senior brother couldn't help but laugh.
A few snacks on the table have not been tasted yet, and the good wine and food are on the table, and Xu Feng feels a little sorry for his silver. However, it is rare for the brothers to come out once, and it is not good to be too ruthless, I just hope to eat more and not spend these silver taels in vain.
Liuhuafang is a relatively high level in the Qinglou, and the people who go in and out here are either rich or expensive, and pay attention to the charm of some literati. The guests were first greeted by the girl to sit in the wing, and then ordered the good girls to talk and laugh and eat together, and then went to the pavilion of each girl to do business. Only the wild prostitutes hidden in the countryside and alleys are not so particular and start doing things when they meet.
Three girls came up one after another, one each sitting next to the third senior brother, Xu Feng and the thirteenth senior brother. Maybe the third senior brother Meng Gu was too unkind in the hall, and the girl next to him was not a lively temperament. It's an older girl. With a round face, a clean and broad forehead, and very fair skin, she doesn't speak very much when she sits there, but looks like a serious woman from a good family.
Xu Feng and Fang Yutong are different from the two around them, as soon as they come up to drink, they frequently persuade them to drink, and Xu Feng's side is a plump and mellow girl, with a pleasing appearance, with a peach blossom face, and a lively and cheerful temperament at first glance. And Fang Yutong's side was the girl in yellow who pushed him upstairs, who had already gently fed the old thirteen with chopsticks, and the old thirteen's immature pretty face was flushed, and it was not to eat, nor was it to eat.
From this arrangement, it can also be seen that the boss who runs this green building is quite scheming.