Hou Jingru glared, "How to explain, that's your business." Anyway, because of this, I can't slander my benevolent fathers and arrest them as smelling incense cultists! Didn't you listen to my father-in-law? They are also victimized by the incense cult. ”

Mr. Qian nodded hurriedly, "That's what the adults said." The villain didn't dare to think about it. The villain wanted to say, otherwise, let's send a team of people to search around, if we can't find it, can we catch some people in the surrounding villages. This incense cult is rampant in this area, and there will be many people in the surrounding villages who will be complicit with them. ”

Hou Jingru thought for a while and glared at Mr. Qian, "What do you mean by this, kid, are you asking me to arrest people and pretend to be robbers?" I can't do this kind of thing! ”

Mr. Qian's face was a little ugly, and he laughed Gan, but whispered, "I know that my lord is a good official who loves the people like a son." But the emperor's side is not easy to explain, Grandpa Wei has already said enough, if we return empty-handed at that time. The emperor is angry, we can't afford this crime of bullying the king! ”

Hou Jingru glared at Mr. Qian, "Is it so serious?" ”

Mr. Qian hurriedly said, "Haven't you heard the phrase 'accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger'?" Let's do things for the emperor, then we have to be careful! If you are careless, you may move your head because of a trivial matter! ”

Hou Jingru was also a little panicked by what Mr. Qian said, hesitated for a while, and waved his hand to Mr. Qian. "Well, I don't care about that. Do whatever you like! ”

When Mr. Qian got this, he immediately turned his worries into joy, and bowed his hand to Hou Jingruyi, "My lord is wise, and I have gone to the official." After speaking, with a wave of his hand, he quietly turned around and left with a team of two or three hundred Jinyi guards.

On this side, Hou Jingru ordered people to make a few soft sedan chairs and carried Yu Ren and Liang Ruji into the city together. Then they found the best doctor to treat their injuries.

finally ruled in time, plus Liang Zongren has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his foundation is very good, so he picked up a life.

But a few people live in the house arranged by Hou Jingru, and they are always uneasy. Seeing that the injuries of the other people were almost healed, only Liang Zongren's injuries had not healed, and Liang Ruji found Yu Ren and hoped to leave the capital.

Yu Ren thought about it and felt that what he said was also reasonable, so he said goodbye to Hou Jingru and entrusted Liang Zongren to a friend of Liang Ruji who was a monk in the temple, and several others went south with Yu Ren.

Of course, Zhao Rui was also with them. That day, seeing that the situation was critical, Yu Ren asked Ruolan to take Zhao Rui to find a safe place to settle her down. Then come back to join them and rescue Liang Ruji and them together.

When Hou Jingru arrived with someone, Ruolan naturally went to pick up Zhao Rui in person.

So, everyone chartered a merchant ship to go south along the canal. Originally, the ship had a boatman. However, Liang Ruji and the others thought that there was a boatman, and it was inconvenient for everyone to speak, so they sent the boatman away, and their brothers in several gates in Tongzhou were in charge of the boat. On the boat, Yu Ren and everyone planned the affairs of this Juhe Village in detail. Zhao Rui was also pulled in by Yu Ren and participated.

Yu Ren also specially confessed and asked Zhao Rui to invite Yan Peiwei, who knew how to build a steam engine, who met at Wang Wenyan's house that day, to the village. A special yard was built for him there, so that he could study the steam engine with peace of mind. Match him with a few more helpers.

Zhao Rui agreed one by one, and used a notebook to write down Yu Ren's words in time.

When the boat passed through Shandong, more beggars began to appear on the shore one after another. At first, everyone didn't care, but after all, there will be beggars everywhere in the world. But after passing Dongchang Mansion, there are more and more of these people. From time to time, you can see groups of thirty or fifty people when they leave. Everyone felt that something was wrong.

After walking the waterway for two more days, I saw that I was about to leave Shandong, but there were more beggars on this road, sometimes there were many, and even hundreds of people came out together. Although it is now September, it will start to cool in the morning and evening. But most of these people are not covered with clothes, some even use a small cloth to cover their lower bodies, and there is also an adult with two or three children, wrapped in a piece of clothing.

Yu Ren has never seen such a tragic scene since he grew up. Although the situation of those fleeing the famine was also miserable when I was in Fujian, it seemed to be much better than these people, and the number was far less than this time.

"Lord Liangmen. What's going on? ”

Liang Ruji hurriedly walked over, "Xiao Xianggong still calls me Ruji!" As I said, now I am no longer the master of Juhe Gate. Whether you like it or not, you are already the de facto master of Juhemen. ”

Yu Ren showed a wry smile. He has a feeling of being relied upon, but sometimes, it's still a good feeling, at least it shows that people value you.

"Well, stepbrother, do you know what is the matter with so many beggars here?"

Liang Ruji sighed. "Shandong is really not doing well this year, and many places have suffered from drought. Although the autumn harvest came, the people did not receive anything, so they had to go out with their families to beg. There's no way around it. The local government has looted the benefits and harms of these years, and there is no surplus food in their homes. In a good year, the grain was barely enough to support the beginning of spring. In the spring, the things in the field began to grow slowly. Don't be afraid.

But this year, everyone knows in their hearts that it is impossible to survive until the end of the year. Therefore, many people went out early to beg. ”

Yu Ren nodded.

"Stepbrother, let's stop here for a day and go ashore to see what you think?"

"Everything is at the behest of the minister."

So, Yu Ren and his entourage landed in a small town in front. They pretended to be a family, and the Ruolan Ruomei sisters followed closely behind Yu Ren and Zhao Rui. This was quietly ordered by Liang Ruji in private, in order to protect the safety of the two.

It's not a small town, with several streets. A few people went ashore and first found a nearby noodle restaurant, intending to have lunch.

"Boss, bring us six bowls of beef noodles." After a few people sat down, Yu Ren said to Xiao Er.

The little two stood aside and listened, but did not move.

"Do you have any rice noodles with you?"

When Yu Ren heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised. "What are these words? We're here to eat, why do you ask us if we have rice and noodles with us? ”

Xiao Er hurriedly saluted Yu Ren, and then said with a bitter face, "Don't hide it from Xiao Xianggong." Villains, the price of this rice and wheat is ridiculously expensive now. In the past, a pound of wheat was only five or six wen, but this year, since the summer, the price has been rising, and now a catty of wheat has grown to more than fifty wen.

We can't help it. Therefore, in order to save money for the guests, we are also afraid that the guests will scold us. The shopkeeper set a rule for us: whenever a guest comes to the restaurant to order, first ask the guest if he has brought his own rice grain. If the guest doesn't bring it, explain the situation to the guest, our noodles here are ten times more expensive than usual. If the guest is willing to eat, we will do it, and if the guest thinks it is expensive, we are not to blame. ”

Yu Ren nodded, only then did he understand. So his tone softened, "You can bring us six bowls of noodles that are ten times more expensive!" We still eat. ”

Xiao Er nodded, and then went down.

When Ruolan heard Yu Ren's words, she couldn't help complaining. "Childe, didn't we bring rice on the boat? Why buy noodles that are ten times more expensive than them? This bowl is sixty wen! The six of us are three hundred and sixty wen this meal! It's not far from the boat, or you and everyone sit here, and I'll go to the boat to get rice! ”

After speaking, Ruolan was about to get up and go to Xiao Er.

Yu Ren smiled, but did not stop.

"Forget it, Ruolan, why bother so much, we just have to eat such a meal. Your son-in-law Yu has money, and this small amount of money can't help him. ”

Ruolan was very stubborn, "Then you can't waste money like this!" I'll fetch it, and you wait here. After speaking, Ruolan flew away.

Zhao Rui listened to Ruolan's words, and suddenly her face turned red.

"What's wrong?" Yu Ren saw that Zhao Rui suddenly blushed, and quietly leaned into her ear and asked.

"Nope. I just think Miss Ruolan is right. We really shouldn't waste it like this, whether we have money or not, it shouldn't be wasted. Alas! These Ruolan sisters are really good girls! I just don't know who will be cheaper in the future? Speaking of this, I couldn't help but let out a sigh.