Chapter 115: No Favoritism
"Every time there is a catastrophe, there will be a lot of people who could have supported themselves to break their homes, the fields that could have supported their families will be exchanged for a little food by the rich, the houses that could have sheltered the family from the wind and rain will also be taken away by the rich, and the cattle that were originally regarded by the farmers as homemakers and their lives will also be taken away by the rich, and many times, the rich will not even let go of the poor people's housekeepers......
The poor man who has sold his land, his house, his cattle, and his dogs, and when he is always hungry and has no property to sell, he begins to sell his sons and daughters, and his wife, and when he has nothing, he can only sell himself as a slave to a rich family......
There are not many opportunities for rich people to make a fortune in peaceful days, but whenever there is a great catastrophe, there will be countless rich people in the countryside.
The reason why these people became rich was not because they suddenly created a new way of wealth, but because they collected the wealth of many farmers who could have been self-sufficient, and when the catastrophe passed and everything was restored, they naturally became rich......"
Chun Yu is a well-informed woman, and she is also a woman from a family that cultivates and reads heirlooms in the countryside.
She knows very well about the changes in the lives of the rural people. Now that I say it, it is naturally incisive and thought-provoking.
Li Si finished eating the noodles with his head bowed while holding the rice bowl, and after carefully cleaning himself, he looked up at Yu Xiurong and said: "I thought that the way to make money in business was to make delicious food, make warm quilts, build beautiful houses, make good things that others can't think of, and then sell them at a high price......
Yu Xiurong smiled and stroked Li Siguang's clean face and said: "Our family is like this, your master often says that you don't make evil money in the world, and the business you see in our family, whether it is anti-poison, or quilts, Jinchangfang canteen, and Fang City reconstruction, are all upright and good business."
Therefore, the cost of eating and drinking in the Yun clan is all clean money, and you were also raised by your mother with clean money and clean food since you were a child, and you don't have a little bit of blood.
The mother thought that she would raise a clean little girl with clean money and food, and such a child would definitely be blessed by God and would be safe and happy all his life. ”
Li Si lifted his head from Yu Xiurong's arms, gritted his fine teeth and said, "Mom, I'm richer than those rich people in the countryside, right?" ”
Yu Xiurong said: "Yes, even if you don't have enough money in your hand, your father, mother, and brother have collected the money and food that your father and brother have given you over the years, and your mother has collected it for you, of course you are richer than them." ”
Li Si showed a sinister smile at Yu Xiurong and said, "What will happen if I go to Yanshi and stabilize the prices of all the materials there?" ”
Cui Yao said with a smile: "The family that originally needed to sell ten acres of land to survive only needs to sell two acres to survive the famine, and the family who originally needed to sell cattle to survive is now enough to sell a donkey...... As for the families who sell their sons and daughters, they may only need to sell their daughters to survive the famine. ”
Li Si let out a long breath and said, "That's good, that's good, next time, I'll go to Yanshi County."
Before I do, though, I'm going to meet someone. ”
Cui Shi smiled: "Who are you going to meet?" ”
Li Si covered his mouth and smiled: "Ying Gong." ”
Yu Xiurong snorted and laughed, gave Li Sili a look at her messy hair, patted her on the back and said, "Respecting teachers and valuing education is the virtue of the Yun family, and it must not be violated." ”
Li Si nodded heavily and ran out.
Cui Yao said thoughtfully to Yu Xiurong: "Does the Yun family really respect the teacher?" ”
Yu Xiurong said: "You are about to become a master in the Yun Clan, and you still say that the Yun Clan does not respect the teacher?" ”
Cui Yao pouted and said, "I just think that Junhou's teacher Li Yifu is a little miserable now." ”
Cui Shi said: "After Li Yifu was imprisoned, the prince also sent someone to send quilts and food.
He also gave some bribes to the jailers, hoping that they would be kind to Li Yifu and not abuse him. ”
Cui Yao sneered: "If one day I am sent to prison, don't send me a quilt, eat, remember to send me a pack of the most poisonous poison." ”
Yu Xiurong raised his hand and pinched Cui Yao's plump buttocks and said, "Okay, what's crazy?" ”
Chun Yushi looked at Cui Yao's indiscriminate bouncing by Yu Xiurong, without half of the grace of a noble lady, extremely rude, for some reason, there was a trace of envy in her heart.
The snow fell and melted, and a cold wind blew, quickly forming a thin layer of ice on the surface of the earth.
Yin Erhu, who had just broken away from the crowd, clicked with Xue Changfeng, stepped through the thin ice shell, and came to shelter behind an old willow tree that several people couldn't hug each other.
Xue Changfeng looked enviously at the crowd in the distance and said to Yin Erhu: "I like to do things lawlessly like this. ”
Yin Erhu said: "Don't think about it." ”
Xue Changfeng said: "If you don't follow me, here and now, I am already a hero." ”
Yin Erhu said: "If you really do this, believe me, at this time, you are already dead, and I am looking for your bones everywhere, and I want to build a tomb for you." ”
"With the talents of you and my brother, it is not difficult to take advantage of the chaos to break out of the world."
"It's very difficult, and I just raised the flag to rebel, and the next moment I was informed, and then I was killed."
"It's always too frustrating when you think about things."
"From the time I was thrown by my family to the mass grave to feed the wild dogs, I no longer had any trust in the people of the countryside, and when the time came, because a few strings of money were betrayed by others, or for some food, it seemed that our brothers were worthless, and finally when they were cut by the officials with a thousand knives, they would be watched by groups of villagers, you know, they like to watch killing, and the more miserable people die, the happier they are...... Moreover, whether they kill you or kill me, they will rejoice, it makes no difference. ”
Xue Changfeng smacked his lips and said, "Where did you get these realizations?" ”
Yin Erhu said: "On the mass grave, there was a crow that landed on my face and wanted to peck at my eyeballs, but I grabbed it and came up with it while drinking the crow's blood. ”
As Yin Erhu spoke, he smashed his fist on the ancient willow next to him.
Gu Liu was smashed by this punch, and immediately, a weak baby cry came from the trunk of the tree.
Yin Erhu was taken aback, and clicked Gu Liu with his finger and said to Xue Changfeng, who was also surprised: "The old willow tree has become a refinement." ”
Xue Changfeng jumped on the branch of the old willow tree, and then got into the tree hole, and after a while, he came out of the tree hole with a baby in his arms.
The little baby is fat and white, and it is a baby girl, judging from the swaddling clothes with satin as the face, this is the child of a rich and noble family.
"There's a woman in there, but she's dead, and it's good for this hole to serve as a coffin, so I didn't move."
Yin Erhu has experience in raising children, after holding the child, he took a look, then ripped off his underwear, changed the child's diaper, the child is only five months old, probably because he is hungry, and he is still crying, Yin Erhu took out a candy cube and put it on the child's mouth for her to lick.
A child falling from the sky did not surprise Yin Erhu Yu Xue Changfeng too much, and less than five miles away from here, the group of people who had just passed by robbed Zhang Ren, a wealthy man in the village.
They ate and drank at Zhang Ren's house for five days before setting a fire before leaving.
Yin Erhu saw very clearly, the men of the Zhang family were neatly hung on the trees, the female dependents of the family were hung on the beams in rags, the food was eaten up by these people, the money was divided by the leaders and the people, and as for the livestock, they were all taken away by those people.
Judging from Xue Changfeng's records, Zhang Ren's family has a total of 4,780 acres of land, and there are two shops in the city, one selling salt and the other selling silk cloth, and the family is very wealthy.
This little girl should be a little girl of the Zhang family, who was held by her mother and fled from the Zhang family in panic and hid in this tree hole, as a result, she didn't wear thick clothes when she came out, and when Xue Changfeng saw that woman, she was blue and frozen by the wind and snow.
Yin Erhu put the child in his leather jacket and said to Xue Changfeng: "You go and bring the horse over, and the two of us will go to the city." ”
Xue Changfeng pointed to the little girl in his arms and said, "You plan to raise it yourself?" ”
Yin Erhu said: "Xiuniang is pregnant, it is estimated that it is a male baby, and when we return to Chang'an, the child should land, just raise this child together."
Anyway, they are all babies who eat, I don't know anything, I will be Lao Tzu's baby in the future, I will raise them indiscriminately for more than ten years, find a man to marry, and every year there will be a girl to drink, this business is done. ”
Xue Changfeng said: "The master's task didn't say that you would adopt a little girl under the guise of public wealth. ”
Yin Erhu said with a smile: "In the task given by the master, he didn't say that he wouldn't let me save this little girl. ”
Xue Changfeng let out a long roar and roared: "At first, Lao Tzu thought that your lord was a sinister, cunning, and fierce person, but after running for a few years and coming back, I saw that you were not dead, and I thought that your lord was also a person who valued love and righteousness, and felt that doing things under the command of such people should be happy and smooth, and he could make a great career."
I didn't expect that all day long, the flies and dogs were like bats in the night, and you never said anything interesting when you saw people, and you have never done an interesting thing seriously, so many heroes and so many money and food in vain......"
Before the words fell, Yin Erhu slapped Xue Changfeng on the back of the head, and said angrily: "You scared the child." ”
Xue Changfeng looked at the baby who only showed a small face, roared in a low voice, and went to the place where the war horse was stored.
When the two horses and three of them came to the gate of Yanshi County, they did not see the officials guarding the city here, the village brave, but the heads of the officials who were dead and blind at the head of the city were frozen hard by the cold wind, and they were as black as ink, but they showed a little bit of Kunlun Nu's demeanor.
The horseshoe stepped on the blue-striped stone and entered the city gate, and when they entered, Xue Changfeng found that there were many people watching them.
This is not surprising, there is still smoke in many parts of the city, and pedestrians on the streets are rushing to and fro, and they dare not look up.
Xue Changfeng took a long breath of burnt wood and said to Yin Erhu: "It smells of barbecue, but I don't think they are eating barbecue." ”
Yin Erhu said disdainfully: "Don't look at the chaos now, when the Tang Mansion soldiers arrive, they will immediately become obedient and obedient people."
Now, the surrounding area of Yanshi County has been blocked, and those wicked people can only escape to the wilderness and mountains if they want to live.
But ah, it's still very strange, these people are hiding in the county town and have no intention of entering the mountains and forests, do they really plan to pull the flag here and rebel? ”
Xue Changfeng said with some excitement: "It must be so, there are many mountains and forests around this Yanshi County, if they set up a village in the mountains and forests to protect themselves, when the time comes, they can harass the entire Yanshi County, and if they retreat, they can follow the mountains and forests to harm the surrounding three counties, if they can do the things of Yanshi County again in the remaining three counties, it is not difficult to pull up a team of fifty or sixty thousand people." ”
For Xue Changfeng's madness, Yin Erhu has long been unimpressed, the lord has long said to him that there is only one end for those who pull the flag and rebel during this period, that is, they are captured alive by the government soldiers, and they are pulled to Chang'an or Luoyang people to see.
The situation in Yanshi County is very strange, although there are fierce people with roe heads and rats everywhere, but the traders in the market are still open, and they do not seem to be affected by this chaos, but the most famous Yuhua Building in Yanshi County has been burned to a white ground.
After walking along the street for a while, Yin Erhu suddenly said to Xue Changfeng: "What rules did you say that Liao Wu, the leader, followed to kill people and destroy households?" ”
Xue Changfeng said: "Zhang Ren of the Zhang family is the patriarch of the local Zhang family, with nearly 5,000 acres of land and a net worth of more than 3,000 yuan.
For example, the owner of the Yuhua Building. ”
Yin Erhu shook his head suspiciously: "The patriarch of the Zhang family was exterminated, at least it proves that this Liao Wu is very disciplined, and there should be some strong foreign aid, otherwise, Zhang Ren raised his arms in the Zhang family and called out three or five hundred strong people to help him." ”
Xue Changfeng's eyes flashed, and he looked back at Yin Erhu on the horse and said, "Isn't there any more news from the Lord?" ”
Yin Erhu shook his head and said, "Only observation, recording, and the twelve groups of people are all doing such things." ”
Xue Changfeng was silent, and the two of them passed by the charred Yuhua Building, and saw that there were still many people there, dragging the charred wood to their homes, and some people kept checking in the rubble, occasionally finding a bowl with a broken gap from the rubble, and they couldn't help cheering.
Near the left of Yuhua Building, it is also a restaurant, judging from the wine guise hanging outside the door, this is a restaurant with wine for sale, just from the perspective of the floor area, at least two Yuhua buildings are large.
"Why can their family do business well?"
Xue Changfeng looked at the usual business in the store and couldn't help but ask.
Yin Erhu saw that the child in his arms had a sticky mouth, so he took Xue Changfeng to this two-story restaurant called Dongyang.
The guy greeted him with a smile and took the reins of the war horse and said, "Guest, this is going to be lunch?" ”
Xue Changfeng said: "Serve a certain family's war horse, don't be harmed by those thieves." ”
The guy said without changing his face: "Objectively speaking, Yanshi County was originally the fief of Princess Dongyang earlier, and the business of the princess's mansion was invaded by thieves." ”
Xue Changfeng nodded, walked into the restaurant with Yin Erhu, and came to a spacious private room upstairs where you could see the movement downstairs and sat down, the whole person was dumbfounded, as if he was thinking about something great.
Yin Erhu was not interested in the matter here, and asked the guy to come with warm water and wipe the baby girl's slimy mouth.
Five-month-old children can eat a little rice oil, and when the rice oil is boiled in the kitchen, the child will be poured, and the child will be considered alive.
Waiting for the food to come up, Xue Changfeng opened the records collected by various people in Yin Erhu's backpack.
The more I watched, the more frightened I became.
When he turned around, he saw Yin Erhu smiling and feeding the child rice oil with a wooden spoon, and the child also ate sweetly, so he forcibly held back his curiosity and poured a cup of hot tea and drank it.
A rapid sound of horses' hooves came, Xue Changfeng looked over, and saw a sturdy man jumping down without waiting for the war horse to stop, walking two steps quickly on the ground, and regardless of the war horse, he rushed into the Dongyang Restaurant and said loudly: "Is Fifth Master Liao here?" ”
Immediately, a strong man in blue with a height of eight feet opened the curtain and came out of another private room, looked at the man and said, "Does Boss Zhou have any good news for a certain family?" “
The man who came in hurriedly said: "Boss Zhou met the high-walled watchtower in Sancha, and he was eager to go down, hoping that Liao Wuye would participate in the grand event and lay down the Hu family in Sanchali, and Liao Wuye could enter the Hu family mansion first." ”
Liao Wuye laughed heroically and said: "Okay, these rich people who specialize in drinking human blood, if they don't die, we will not have a good life, go, we must go, let's go." ”
After saying that, he said hello, and immediately more than a dozen men came out of the Dongyang Restaurant and went away with Liao Wu's roar.
The little baby girl drank most of the bowl of rice oil, and then stopped, and fell asleep with her eyes closed, but the diaper under her crotch was a mess again.
Yin Erhu found a clean linen cloth and rubbed it vigorously in his hand for a while, and when the linen cloth was rubbed and softened by him, he warmed it in his arms, and washed the little girl's buttocks with warm water, and patiently wiped it dry, and then put on a new diaper for her.
Xue Changfeng was impatient with this, so he got up and left for a while, and when he came back, he saw that Yin Erhu had already carried the child in his arms, so he pointed to the dirty diapers piled up with the food on the table and said, "Are you going to do this along the way?" ”
Yin Erhu cleaned up the dirty diaper, took a sip of the noodle soup that was no longer hot, and said, "What did you do again?" ”
Xue Changfeng said: "It's not just that Princess Dongyang's property is fine, but all the rich families who have anything to do with the royal family are fine. ”
Yin Erhu said: "What does this mean? ”
Xue Changfeng took a sip of wine and said lightly: "This shows that this riot is related to the royal family." ”
Yin Erhu smiled: "So what? ”
Xue Changfeng said: "The king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy.
The man on horseback who came in just now, as well as Liao Wu, all of them have the shadow of the hundred horsemen we are familiar with. ”
Yin Erhu smiled again: "How are you doing?" ”
Xue Changfeng pointed to the food on the table and said, "Hurry up and eat, you only have time for half a stick of incense." ”
Yin Erhu stuffed a piece of Hu Biscuit into his mouth and said: "There is still plenty of time, we will have to find a place to sleep in a while, the child is too young to stand the cold." ”
Xue Changfeng said: "After the time of half a burnt incense, there will be six military oil bombs exploding here, and you may not have the time to eat well." ”
Yin Erhu put down the Hu Cake in his hand, looked at Xue Changfeng gloomily and said, "Don't consider the deaths and injuries here?" ”
Xue Changfeng said: "The first one in the warehouse will explode first, and the fire will spread here, and the people in the building will have time to flee for their lives." ”
Yin Erhu hurriedly drank the noodle soup, and said in the gap between the soups: "Why? ”
Xue Changfeng sneered and said, "Since they want to get rid of the rich people, it's best not to keep the rich families." The royal princess also wants to be alone. ”
Yin Erhu wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said, "It's okay, burn it clean." ”
The two of them left the restaurant, which had been thriving in the midst of the chaos, and rode to find a place to sleep.
Kankan found a good inn, and when he inquired about the property of Princess Dongyang's family and was about to live in the hotel, there was a loud noise in the Dongyang Restaurant on the street, and then there was a fire from the boss......