"You went to Beijing to complain?" Bai Li swept down, and there were forty or fifty people in his eyes: "Are you all all?" ”

"Pretty much." The old beggar sighed: "But although this capital is big and there are many officials, none of them are willing to deal with our case." I finally found one, but it was an indiscriminate one, saying that we were lying and confusing the people to arrest us in prison. This child's father and mother were not there at that time. ”

"Caught by the official?"

"Didn't catch it, died." The old beggar hung his head: "Those people were originally going to arrest me, but his father was angry, so he stepped forward to theorize and was beaten to death by those angry officers and soldiers." His mother couldn't stand it and committed suicide on the spot. This kid survived. ”

"Alas!" Bai Li sighed: "I didn't expect that there was such a thing at the feet of the Son of Heaven." ”

"Something like that? There are many such things. The old beggar shook his head: "We stay here, and there is no way to appeal." I want to go home, but I can't go back, so I can only stay here and be a beggar. At first, we could still get a little food, but when the people here knew that we were here to embarrass the government and were worried about getting into trouble, they stopped giving us alms. If it weren't for the lady and the master, we wouldn't have been able to last a few days. ”

"What kind of grievances have you suffered?"

"Madame, have you ever heard of vegetable poison?" The old beggar looked up and asked very seriously.

"Vegetable poison? What is it? Bai Li was stunned, "It's the first time I've heard such a word, so please explain it to the old gentleman." ”

"It's the first time I've heard it, and even the rest of us have heard it for the first time. This vegetable poison came from the mouth of one of our local officials, saying that the vegetables we planted were poisonous and could eat the dead. ”

"Vegetable poison equals poisonous vegetables? But if it is a vegetable, how can it be poisonous? Did someone deliberately poison vegetables? ”

"It's not! Even if someone poisons someone, it won't poison a vegetable patch, or poison the vegetable patch of an entire village, right? We haven't sinned against anyone, who wants to hurt us like this. The old beggar hugged his head: "Our village is called Fence Village, and for generations, we have made a living by farming and growing vegetables." It rained all those days, and everyone was worried, for fear that all the vegetables planted in the field would be flooded. Fortunately, the rain stopped and the sun came out after a few days of continuous rain. After the rain, the vegetables grew very well, and we were still happy at that time, thinking that God was helping us, and that our hard work this year was not in vain, and we were finally going to live a good life. ”

"This vegetable harvest is abundant, so naturally we want to live a good life." A beautiful scene of a bumper harvest of vegetables appeared in Bai Li's mind, but soon, this picture was broken by the old beggar's next words.

"The vegetables are in abundance, and they grow very well, just like a big girl. We were reluctant to eat it, so we sold it in the bazaar and in the nearby villages. But the next day something happened. Those who ate the vegetables were all like plagues, and they died not long after. In our fence village, there were originally more than 300 people, and then we were left with death. The boss sent someone to investigate, and after checking and checking, he found the top of the radish, saying that this dish was poisonous and poisoned the person. ”

"Only turnips and no cabbage?"

"It's not just turnips, there's some other dishes." The old beggar sighed: "It's the first time I've heard that this vegetable is poisonous when I've lived so long. Without investigating, the government said that we had deliberately poisoned our village, sealed off our village, cut off our food, and deliberately starved our entire village to death. We still took advantage of the darkness to escape from the village. ”

"Then you're coming to the capital—"

"We want the adults in the capital to help us rehabilitate and avenge our grievances." The old beggar's eyes were red: "That is the home that we have guarded for generations, that is the land that our ancestors have used to survive for generations, how can this good vegetable be poisonous?" How did this poison come about? Someone has to tell me if someone deliberately poisoned us or something else. There are so many people in our village, we can't bear this charge for generations, we can't go back to our homes, we can't plant if we have land. ”

"The people live on food, and it is indeed pitiful to encounter this kind of thing." Bai Li frowned: "But how can this good vegetable be poisonous?" To poison the vegetables of the whole village, you have to buy how much poison and how much manpower and material resources you have to spend. Is this official a fool? If it was really artificial, how could so many people in the whole village not be able to ask and find out. ”

"It's really not man-made." Bai Ze looked up at the sky: "It's the problem of the rain." ”

"What I mean by this is that the rain falls to the ground, then penetrates into the soil, and then grows into the vegetables through the soil."

"Hmm!" Bai Ze nodded: "This kind of thing is rare in ten thousand years, even if the local officials are aware of it, they will hide it and not report it." ”

"Is it about the future?" Bai Li couldn't help but ask.

"It doesn't have to be about the future, but it's about the future. There are thousands of people in this world, how many can you meet like Lord Xin? It is not easy to be an official, and it is even more difficult to be a common person. ”

"Is there no way?" Bai Li looked at the people in front of him: "We can't watch them continue to wander in the capital." There are so many people, and there are children in them, how long will this be wandering? ”

"There is a way, but it may not be completely solved." Bai Ze got up and looked around: "There are three inns around here, just enough to accommodate them." Well, when they have eaten and drunk enough, arrange for them to live in an inn. The rest of the matter, slowly resolved. ”

"Thank you, old lady!" The old beggar knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "You two are kind-hearted people, you can give us so much food, we are already very grateful to hear us talk about these nagging words, and we dare not ask for anything else." We can't stay in this inn. There are so many of us, and it costs so much money to live in it! It's not appropriate, we can't even burden two well-wishers because of ourselves. ”

"Since your husband asked you to live, you can live in peace."

"No, we can't drag down the good Samaritans." The old beggar refused: "Today's food alone has cost two people a lot of silver." Even if you are a rich and noble family, this silver is not blown by the wind. No matter how ignorant we are, we can't even implicate the two of us and let them break the bank again. ”

"It's not a problem to live in an inn. It's okay to live in this inn for a day or two, but after a long time, the shopkeeper will inevitably complain, and maybe something will happen. It's better to use the money to buy a village in the suburbs, settle them all in, and then buy some rice, flour, grain, oil and vegetables, so that they can cook and eat by themselves, which also saves us the trouble. If this is the case, the house is still ours, and we will use it to play in Beijing in the future. If this matter cannot be solved for a while, they and these children will also have a temporary shelter. What does the husband think? ”

"Listen to Madame." Bai Ze got up and pulled Bai Li up: "I know a Zhuangzi, the size is just right, why don't you take a look with me." ”

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