Chapter 18: Thrilling
Gu Junruo handed the cloth towel to Xiaochan, ignoring the gaze that followed behind him.
Xiaobei looked at his young master, looked at it again, and finally couldn't help it, he personally stuffed the cloth towel he was holding into his hand, gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Young master, it's time to wash!" ”
Only then did Han Mu retract his gaze, and he wiped his face casually and was about to drop it, but when he thought of something, he wiped his face carefully again.
Xiaobei couldn't help but glance at him.
Sensing his gaze, Han Mu glared at him with some embarrassment, what to see!
Xiaobei's face was inexplicable, but there were still two outsiders in this room, he consciously didn't speak, but followed their young master step by step, "Young master, the kitchen made porridge and steamed buns, I'll bring them to you?" ”
Han Mu: "No meat?" ”
"No," Xiaobei looked depressed, "Even vegetables are rare, let alone meat, I heard that now you have to buy meat from the Zeng family, the Yue family and the Yao family, and they may still have meat there." ”
Han Mu pursed his lips, he didn't want to go to these three families to ask for meat to eat, but it seemed that he looked like a corrupt official, he turned his head to think about it, and turned his head to stare at Gu Junruo, "Maybe there is no meat to eat today." ”
Gu Junruo was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you really want to eat meat?" ”
Although he wanted to think about it in his heart, Han Mu still shook his head and asked rhetorically, "Don't you want to?" Miss Qianjin, when did you eat less meat? ”
Gu Junruo said: "I don't want to, I'm a vegetarian!" ”
Han Mu grinded his teeth, and when he saw her leaving, he chased after her and asked, "What if it's ten days, a month, or a year?" Can you always be a vegetarian too? ”
Gu Junruo glanced at him inexplicably and said, "When the situation in Yixian County is better, you can naturally buy it if you want to eat." ”
"What if we don't have any money?"
Gu Junruo stopped, looked him up and down, and said, "If you can't even earn money to buy meat...... That's okay, I have. ”
"Your dowry is in the capital, where did you get the money?"
Gu Junruo said: "There are many ways to make money, the vulgar ones do something that buys low and sells high, more elegant, write some words, draw some paintings, make an article, Yixian County is still too small, but outside Yixian County is Chucheng, which is the state of Chuzhou, the literary style is quite rich, and the prosperity is not lower than Kyoto, I am confident that my calligraphy and painting can still be shot." ”
Han Mu was speechless for a long time.
Gu Junruo asked him, "What else do you have to ask?" ”
Han Mu said depressedly: "No, let's go have breakfast." ”
However, he was depressed for a while, and soon attacked himself by himself, and became happy again, "In a while, we will personally go to distribute relief food to the people." ”
Gu Junruo nodded in response.
As the new county magistrate, Han Mu should still have more contact with the local people.
Early in the morning, he changed into his official uniform and led everyone to the front.
Early in the morning, he didn't have time to punch and practice swordsmanship, and wearing this restrictive official uniform made Han Mu very uncomfortable.
He turned his neck, stretched out his hand and was about to move, the door opened in front of him, and dense people appeared in front of him, he couldn't help but take a small half step back with a "ho", "This...... So many people? ”
Gu Junruo was also taken aback, only to see that the square outside the county office, on the main street that stretched down, there were people everywhere as far as the eye could see.
The crow's head was raised, and the dark eyes looked quietly but expectantly, very quiet, if it wasn't for the door opened, they wouldn't have known that there were so many people standing outside.
So when did they come?
Han Mu put down his half-stretched arm, cleared his throat, and solemnly walked out with figure-eight steps.
Gu Junruo followed him silently, and the two of them stood on the steps facing the people, speechless for a while.
Han Mu, who had always been at ease, finally felt a lot of pressure at this moment, and at the same time became nervous.
The Yue family will talk about credibility, right?
I'm sure we'll be sending relief food and money today, right?
Han Mu silently met these expectant eyes, his hands under the wide official robe were clenched fiercely, and there were men and women standing in front of him, but more of them were old people and children.
Young and middle-aged, most of them are gone, and most of the people left in this county town are women, old people and children.
In the face of such a pair of eyes, even if their hearts are as big as Han Mu, it is difficult to be at ease, who can refuse their desire to survive?
So Han Mu opened his mouth and found that he had nothing to say about himself, who had always been talkative, so he could only say: "This county is waiting here with you." ”
The people should come down and stand quietly waiting.
Even the youngest children don't cry, they are very hungry, but the experience of this time has taught them that crying when they are hungry will not work, but will be even hungrier, and even give up because of crying.
Even if he couldn't help being hungry, he also cried quietly, and then the adult next to him stuffed a few green leaves, or leaves, or grass roots into his mouth with a numb face.
The child didn't mind the bitterness and unpalatableness, and chewed vigorously while sobbing quietly......
Everyone stood quietly, and in this silence, a reel sounded, and the sound of a whip sounded far away, and someone said: "Get up, get up, this is the grain for the county government-"
The rear slowly gave way to a road, and the front was also crowded to make way for the middle road, and everyone was looking behind with blazing eyes, wanting to see more closely.
In the crowd, the vast majority of people stood honestly, honestly squeezed to the side, trying to get out of the way, but there were also dishonest, seeing the grain bags going forward with the ox cart, some people in the crowd couldn't help but stretch out their hands, grabbed the grain bags on the car, and shouted: "This is grain, this is food that can live!" ”
Gu Junruo's whole body tightened, his back stiffened, and he grabbed Han Mu's hand, "Stop him!" ”
Before the words fell, Han Mu had already removed her hand, flew down the steps in a leap, and directly stepped on the shoulders of everyone in the crowd and quickly leaped over.
Everyone was attracted by that call, and the attention of the past was instantly attracted by him, and at the same time, the heart that was about to move was also slightly pressed.
In an instant, Han Mu flew to the car, stepped on the grain bag with one foot, grabbed the person holding the grain bag with one foot, and then threw it in front of him, he ordered loudly: "Xiaobei, arrest the person!" ”
"Yes!" Xiaobei led the official to leap down, kicked down the person who had just gotten up, and dragged him back after holding it down.
Han Mu stood on the grain bag, looked at the people of the city condescendingly, and said loudly: "This batch of grain is the relief grain borrowed by this county and Master Yue, and this county can guarantee that the people of the county, regardless of men, women, and children, can share it!" ”
"If looting is allowed to rise, not to mention that it will be difficult for the imperial court to provide disaster relief in the future, at this moment, who can rob the young people present? What about the child, what about the woman, what about the elderly? ”
As soon as these words came out, not only the old people and women began to be wary of the young people around them, but even the children looked at the adults around them with a kind of hatred and vigilance.
Han Mu waved his hand and said, "Get out of the way, let the relief grain in, and then the county government will start distributing the grain after the inventory!" ”
"Yes!"
The crowd began to squeeze me, and I squeezed you out of the way.