Chapter 67: Tea Shed Tea
Tea shed tea?
She shrank in Shen Muzhou's big jaw, looked up, and could only see the bulge between his throat and the handsome jaw, and the peach blossom eyes slowly lowered his eyes, looking at her.
Shen Muzhou was stunned, and after holding her steady, he immediately let go, cleared his throat and asked, "Did they bump into you?"
Lin Yanxi's little head shook, looked at the few figures in the distance, and said with a slight frown: "The people in the pit prison said that it was the tea shed that served tea, and after they drank a cup of tea, they didn't know anything, and when they woke up again, they were in the pit and prison."
Shen Yu stepped forward and said, "Then let's go over and take a look, I have to tear down this kind of harmful tea shed for them!"
She also had this intention, looking at Shen Muzhou with apricot eyes, waiting for his meaning.
In fact, Shen Muzhou felt that at this time, it was better to wait for Xiaoliu to find officers and soldiers to seal the tea shed, but he couldn't resist the pair of apricot eyes like a deer, and nodded at the end.
With his permission, several people walked to the tea shed together.
The outside of the tea shed was already crowded with people, and a large number of homeless people squeezed inside as if they were dying, and several officers and soldiers kept people out with spears.
"Let me in."
"Don't squeeze it, let me in, sir, I still have two children, and they're dying of thirst!"
The crowd was crowded, all clamoring to enter the tea shed.
Shen Muzhou protected Lin Yanxi with his hands, frowning to block those homeless people, afraid of squeezing her, and his petite body was soft in his arms.
On the other side, Shen Yu's condition was not very good, he was squeezed together by several homeless people, and shouted helplessly, "Oh, who stepped on my boots!"
At last the three of them retreated to the back of the line, where there were two steps on which they could watch what was going on in the tea shed.
Shen Yu straightened up his messy hair and said, "This tea shed is a bit interesting, it is said to be a tea shed, but it is serving tea in a room."
Lin Yanxi didn't understand what it meant, blinked his eyes and looked at Shen Muzhou, he explained: "Normally, this kind of tea shed or porridge shed opened for disaster relief is all temporary and very simple, usually there is a shed roof, and there is no shelter on all sides, but this tea shed uses such a large house as a place for tea service, which is obviously intentional."
She continued to look thoughtfully at the tea shed.
A man dressed in an official mansion came out, raised his hand and shook it twice, signaling everyone to be quiet.
"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, listen to me."
"My grandfather is sympathetic to the people's feelings, and the people are struggling to make a living during the drought, so we hereby set up a tea shed for everyone, where you can come in and rest, drink tea, and continue to hurry. But now there are too many homeless people, and we can only receive a hundred homeless people a day, and those who don't get it today can come back tomorrow."
Lin Yanxi stood on the steps and repeated, "One hundred? There are more than 100 displaced people who have been abducted to work in the prison."
Shen Muzhou said: "When he opens a tea shed, there must be an entry and exit, a hundred people come in, and one or twenty of them are stunned, and it is not easy to be discovered."
She clenched her fists after listening, these people were vicious.
Looking at her righteous and awe-inspiring little appearance, he showed a faint smile, perhaps this smile was not even noticed by himself.
The man stood in the tea shed and touched his beard twice, smiling meaningfully.
As soon as the victims heard this, they rushed to form a long queue.
A woman ran up to everyone and shouted to the people in the tea shed, "Ang Lee! You unconscionable dogs!"
Li An was the one who had just spoken and asked everyone to line up, and when he heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he looked at her with disdain, "Where did this shrew come from?"
The woman was stopped outside by the officers and soldiers and cried, "You have harmed too many people, of course I can't remember."
"Folks, listen to me, there is something wrong with this tea shed! Don't be fooled again! I don't know where I'm going when I drink it!"
Li An snorted coldly and said indifferently: "It's nonsense, our lord is the county commander of the county, and he is ordered to open a tea shed to relieve the victims."
As he spoke, he clasped his hands into fists and raised them to his ear in a salute.
The woman asked, wiping away her tears
"Then I ask you, what about my father-in-law? Why did he drink your tea, and then disappeared for no reason, and didn't come out of the tea shed at all!"
Li An looked at her face and was stunned, then touched his mustache and sneered: "Your father-in-law didn't go back, you reported to the official, what are you looking for us to do?" Besides, the world is hot and cold now, maybe he left you and ran for his life, hehehe."
He cracked his mouth and laughed mockingly, his eyes glancing at everyone from time to time.
When the homeless people heard this, they also talked about it for a while.
"It sounds like the one from our village hasn't seen in days."
"That's it, if you lose your father-in-law, go to the official to find it, and the adults are kind enough to give you tea, if you don't want it, don't get in the way here."
"I heard that this month-long disaster has angered the gods and punished the people of Nanmin, and many people have disappeared inexplicably, and they may have been taken away by the heavens."
Everyone is there where you say everything you say, and the more you talk about it, the more evil it becomes.
The woman did not hesitate and said, "! Who doesn't know you're all in this together! What kind of official shall I report?"
"It's you who kidnapped my father-in-law! Give me back, give me back my husband!"
In the end, her voice trembled, her eyes were red with desperate pain, and she couldn't care about life and death after being in a hurry, so she squeezed in from under the spears of the officers and soldiers, and stretched out her hand to grab Li An's sleeve robe.
Li An frowned, covered his nose with a handkerchief, took a few steps back, and the officers and soldiers hurriedly grabbed the woman.
He looked at her in disgust and said, "I think you're crazy, you're a homeless person, what are we going to do with him?" Stop being vexatious! Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless."
The woman was pressed to the ground by two officers and soldiers, and she shouted hoarsely, "Let go of me! You pay me back, you pay me back!"
Li An shook his head and was about to go to the house, he waved his hand, and the officers and soldiers rudely grabbed the woman from the ground and dragged her aside.
She struggled hard, her legs kicked straight back, her fingers rubbing blood on the ground, her eyes full of crazy powerlessness, ", you can't die well! Harm the common people."
"Wait."
Lin Yanxi couldn't stand this scene, from the stone steps to the runway near the tea shed, Shen Muzhou and Shen Yu followed closely behind, she was a small one, at the outermost part of the crowd.
Shen Muzhou grabbed her waist, lifted her toes slightly, flew over several people, and landed on Li An's side, the officers and soldiers waved their spears, the tip of the spear pointed directly at the two of them, and he subconsciously protected Lin Yanxi behind him.
The sword was picked and easily cut off the spear's spikes.
Ang Lee frowned and asked, "Who are you?" Didn't you also lose some relatives and friends who came to me to look for them?"
Lin Yanxi smiled, bright and moving, and said in a delicate voice, "How do you know, is your heart weak?"
Shen Yu followed the woman who was dragged to the ground and asked, "Are you okay?"
The woman ignored her injuries and ran to everyone again and shouted, "It's true, you believe me, my husband disappeared after going in and drinking the tea from this house."
Ang Lee asked rhetorically, "What about the evidence? Based on your words alone, you don't want to scare everyone away and monopolize the water source. In addition to you, are there any relatives and friends who can prove that your husband entered our tea shed and disappeared?"
As soon as these words came out, the woman was dumbfounded by the question, and seeing this, there was a discussion in the crowd.
Lin Yanxi walked up to the woman and said, "You are simply a sophistry, the displaced people left their hometown due to the disaster, and they were helpless all the way here, where did they come from so many relatives and friends?"
Li An smiled and said, "Is there no evidence?"
He looked at the homeless people who were waiting in line to enter the teahouse with confidence, and said, "This woman has no evidence, but she is slandered, and we are at a loss for words."
"Tea is a good deed, never force to stay, if you believe the woman's words, you can leave on the spot, if you still want this cup of water, take the lotus leaves and line up, go into the house to get it."
Lin Yanxi said anxiously to everyone: "There is really something wrong with this tea shed, you believe me, and she is not the only one who has disappeared here, you must have heard of one
Don't go in for some rumors."
The originally noisy team fell silent, and people looked at each other, analyzing what she said.
While everyone was hesitating, a man at the back of the line squeezed to the front and said, "If they don't go, let me go, if I don't drink any more water, I'll die of thirst."
Li An smiled: "Please inside."
Riots broke out again in the crowd, and the homeless people rushed to the front, "Let me in! Let me in!"
"I'm not afraid of death, I believe in the master, let me go."
Li An smiled at Lin Yanxi and said provocatively, "Have you seen it? It was all of their own volition, and I didn't force anyone."
Lin Yanxi ignored her and tried her best to dissuade everyone: "Don't go in, I'll help you find a way to help you find a way to water, there is really a problem here."
"Get out of the way!" The homeless pushed her impatiently, for fear that because she had delayed time, she would not be able to squeeze into the hundred people.
Shen Muzhou held her up, frowned at her and shook his head, "Let's find a way."
The tea shed was soon crowded with people, and the officers and soldiers stopped the crowd with their spears again, and they were not allowed to enter again, Li An stood in front of the door and glanced at Lin Yanxi, evoking a mocking smile.
A woman was locked outside, looked inside unwillingly for a long time, glanced at Lin Yanxi, and sighed helplessly: "Girl, we really can't hold on, this bit of water is not a matter of drinking or not drinking for this group of displaced people, but a matter of life and death."
Lin Yanxi was puzzled: "Isn't the well water in this county town still dry?"
The woman had a bitter, unsmiling expression, and as she grinned, the chapped skin on her lips tore out blood streaks.
"We have come all the way, it is all an arid area, relying on a little dirty river water to survive, and finally came here, the well water at the entrance of the county has officers and soldiers, thirty dollars a scoop, one tael of silver and a bucket."
Lin Yanxi looked at the remaining homeless people in silence, their clothes were tattered, their mouths were white and cracked, their voices were hoarse and dry, their eyes were staring at the tea shed, and they were struggling to swallow their saliva.
For them, if they drink this water, they can survive to the next town, and if they don't drink this water, they will die on the road.
They never had a choice.
Shen Yu said angrily, "It's so infuriating, there is a great drought in the world, father...... Your Majesty, the tax on drilling wells for water has already been exempted, and this group of people dare to take the opportunity to make a windfall and ask for a price!"
"Let's go, I'll help you fetch water to drink, I'll see who dares to stop me!"