"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be," the old man squeezed half of the steamed bun in his hand, bowed down and replied: "The little old man's surname is Sun, and when he is old, everyone calls me Lao Suntou." ”

Gu Junruo glanced at the dog and asked, "Only this one grandson?" ”

Sanbao on the side took the steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth, eating it seriously, but he still heard Gu Junruo's words, chewed the steamed bun and said vaguely: "I still have my brother and sister, but they are all dead." ”

Han Mu, who stepped forward, was stunned when he heard this, and squatted aside silently.

The old grandson wiped his tears and said, "The year is not good." ”

Then Han Mu squatted aside and listened to Gu Junruo talk about the village, talking about the year, and knew that his family lived in Sunjiazhuang, and ninety percent of the entire village was surnamed Sun, and the remaining one percent was either surnamed He or surnamed Zhang, all of whom fled and settled down in the previous decades.

There are a total of 68 households in their village, which is considered a large village, and this time the flood came so quickly and so big that the houses were washed away at once, and many people were washed away by the water at that moment.

The rest of the village returned to the village to sort out their belongings after the flood waters receded, only to find that the food had either been washed away or had sprouted.

The farmland was washed away, and it was confiscated this year, so everyone had no choice but to flee for their lives in the county seat, or leave Yixian County directly and go north to survive.

There are many villages in the same situation as Sunjiazhuang, and there is not a single family of ten people left in the village at this time.

Only the three families were left in Sunjiazhuang, and those who died before died, and those who fled, and the population of the three families was not large.

Chen Huang was arrogant, and broke into the village with the man named Tian Feng, first robbed and ate all the little things they had left, and then forced them to come out and rob them together with a knife.

In fact, he doesn't need to be ruthless, the three of them have reached the point of exhaustion, and if they don't come out to rob others, they will starve to death.

So they can be regarded as half-pushing and half-pushing and half-pushing and coming out with Chen Huang.

Gu Junruo also asked about the situation in the county and the measures taken by the county government after the flood.

So they learned that the two wealthy families in the county, the Yue family and the Zeng family, had been helping the victims.

Han Mu asked, "Since you have opened a porridge shed, why don't you eat it, but come to rob people on the road?" ”

The old grandson said: "I went, why didn't I go?" It's just that there are too many people waiting to eat porridge in the county, the porridge water is limited, we have been in line for three days without a turn, we can't grab it, and we don't have the strength to fight, so we can only leave in the end. ”

He said: "If you continue to stay in the county, you will starve to death, and when you come out, you will not find food, so you can gnaw some bark and soil, so that you can live for a few more days." ”

Han Mu: "It's a robbery, right?" ”

The old grandson bowed his head in shame.

Gu Junruo glanced at Han Mu and said to the old grandson: "Let's do this tonight, tomorrow you will go back to the county seat with us, how to judge, there is your own law to decide." ”

The old grandson hurriedly asked, "Do you have anything to eat in prison?" ”

If they had, they wouldn't mind going to jail.

Han Mu: "...... Are you sinners, do you know what sinners are? You don't want to atone for your sins, but you want to eat my rice......"

The old grandson was confused, why did he eat this Langjun's rice?

Gu Junruo stretched out his hand to pull him away, "Okay, they're hungry right now, what's the use of you telling them this?" ”

"Why didn't it work? Although I don't like to study, I also know that one of the duties of the county magistrate is to educate the people under his rule, and I have just performed the duty of the prefectural magistrate and educate him. ”

"Cang Liao knows etiquette, food and clothing are enough to know honor and disgrace, they have no food and clothing now, your education is not as valuable as a grain of rice for them, at this time, using etiquette to educate them not only fails to achieve the goal, but also seems to be cheap etiquette and law," Gu Junruo said: "It's better not to say anything, and when their difficulties are solved, then they will be educated." ”

Han Mu touched his chin, "It's not difficult to solve their predicament, although I don't have a lot of money now, I can still raise a few people." ”

Gu Junruo glanced at him and asked, "What are you going to do with them?" ”

Han Mu turned his head to look at the robbers and snorted coldly.

Although they are very pitiful, it cannot erase the fact that they have robbed people with weapons, and if it is not them who are robbed today, but someone else, with the ferocity shown by Chen Huang, the fate of the robbed person will not be very good.

So Han Mu still decided to put them in prison, and only spared Lao Sun Tou and Sanbao.

Early the next morning, they pulled everyone on their way and set off.

Of the six robbers, one of them was tied to the back of the car, seeing that their faces were pale and their lips were pale, Han Mu still gave each of them a steamed bun and let them finish eating before leaving.

Sun Daguang held the last bit of steamed bread in his hands, tears flowed, they felt that if there were steamed buns to eat in prison, even if they were to be beheaded the next moment, they would be willing.

Only Chen Huang was biting the steamed bun while staring at Han Mu fiercely, and his malicious gaze swept over Gu Junruo from time to time.

Han Mu looked back, and as soon as Chen Huang touched his gaze, he lowered his head and lowered his eyes, avoiding his gaze.

Han Mu glanced at him coldly, stretched out his hand and pulled Gu Junruo, "Let's go, get in the car." ”

The woods where they stayed overnight were not very far from the county seat, and they arrived in less than an hour with people in the back of the car.

Xiaobei stopped the carriage, "Erlang, we're here." ”

He looked up at the dilapidated city gate with a shocked face, and sighed sincerely: "It's really broken." ”

"How broken?" Han Mu brushed open the curtain and probed out to look, and saw that the earthy yellow city wall was full of potholes, and even a lot of moss and weeds had grown, and then looked at the city gate, there was not even a guard, and there were no people in and out, only three or four ragged people lying in the doorway.

Han Mu: ......

He shook the corners of his mouth, "This is where I took office?" ”

Gu Junruo also stretched out her head to look at it, and was also shocked, but she quickly accepted the reality, reached out and patted him on the shoulder and said, "The people are so hungry that they go out to rob, and this situation has long been expected." ”

Han Mu: "The Jiang family deceives people too much! ”

He said indignantly: "Retaliate against me, take revenge on me, take the life and death of the people of a county to retaliate against me, it's just, it's ......."

Han Mu's vocabulary is a little small, and he can't find a suitable scolding word for a while.

Gu Junruo provided it kindly, "In vain to be a minister, in vain to be a son of man?" ”

"That's right! Vain to be a minister! Han Mu paused, turned his head to look at her, "What do you say for the Son of Man in vain?" ”

Gu Junruo's face was flat: "It's not another way to say that it's not a son of man." ”

She retracted her head and straightened her robe, "Being an official is not for the people, but for personal enmity and does not care about the life and death of the people, is this still the son of man?" ”

"No, you're scolding well!"

Gu Junruo corrected: "No, it's you who scold." ”

"I'll scold, I'll scold, I'm afraid of them," Han Mu looked at the people lying on the ground and felt the burden on his shoulders extremely heavy, he sighed: "Let's go, let's go into the city." ”

I hope the situation of the county government will be better.

The old grandson who was sitting on the wheel was trembling with Sanbao in his arms, and he also understood at this moment that this nobleman who had arrested them and saved them seemed to be the new county lord.