Chapter 23 Almsgiving
"Childe, here you go." In the morning, Xiao Chengzi shook Yan Tingyun awake, and then threw him a set of cloth clothes.
"Huh?" Yan Tingyun woke up from his sleep and was scared, and looked at the little orange in a daze, "What's the matter, what is this?" ”
"Clothes."
"Don't we have clothes to wear?" Yan Tingyun put on her shoes, yawned, and then washed her face.
"Why are you wearing such tattered cloth clothes?"
"Oh, my son. Do you know what happens if a pack of wolves starves for ten days and they see a fat sheep? ”
"Huh? I'll pounce on it. ”
"Then don't you hurry up and change your clothes, if you go out in this clothes, you will become that fat sheep."
“……”
"Hurry up, Miss is waiting."
The little orange went out chattering, leaving Yan Tingyun with a confused face. This little orange's temper is getting worse and worse, he was in the palace before, and when he saw him greeting him, although he was also very cold, he didn't have a casual attitude now. The point is that I actually feel that I am not uncomfortable with this attitude towards him...... Do you have masochistic tendencies? Yan Tingyun looked confused!
"Master, there are more and more people." A disciple of the monk came running and reported to Master Lingtong.
"Master, there are so many people, will there be not enough porridge we have prepared?" The little monk looked at the long queue, and there were really more and more people.
"You and Lingbao go to the temple and boil another pot of porridge." Lingtong said.
"But Master, there is no food left in the temple, and if we boil another pot, I'm afraid we will all starve ourselves."
There are more and more people who can't eat, and the temple can't make ends meet. The surplus food in this temple is decreasing day by day. In addition, it is about to pass the winter, and the weather is cold, I don't know if they can survive this winter.
"Let you go, and you go." Said the Lingtong Master.
"Yes."
Master Lingtong and a few other young monks continued to give soup to the refugees.
From afar, there was a long queue of refugees, holding a broken bowl in their hands, some of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, some were children, some were a family of four, and some were missing arms and legs. His face was dirty, and his clothes were in tatters.
When has Yan Tingyun seen this kind of scene, in his world, there are rich and noble people, they are profligate, they don't worry about food or clothing, they are rampant in Beijing. Their daily worries are where to have fun. Even the people in Beijing, they are all well-dressed, and those with small businesses can have food and clothing.
In his world, everyone can be fed and clothed, so he has always thought so. He had never been to the battlefield before, and he had never known that a life could be lost in an instant. Seeing these people in ragged clothes and yellow muscles with thin faces, Yan Tingjun felt as if his heart had collapsed.
The little orange saw Yan Tingyun's look of disbelief that was even more unbelievable than seeing a ghost, and when he saw him stunned, he walked towards the group of people.
It's no wonder that these princes and princesses are all pampered in the palace, how have I seen these.
"Your Highness, do you want to stop him?" The little orange looked at Yan Tingyun who walked over in a daze and asked Yan Wuge.
"No, let him go."
Yan Tingyun walked up to Master Lingtong in a daze, and Master Lingtong looked at Yan Tingyun, thinking that he was also a refugee.
"Donor, come, here you go." Master Lingtong made him a bowl of porridge.
Yan Tingyun took it blankly, and then looked at the porridge in the bowl, how could this thing be drunk?
Yan Tingjun gave the porridge to a person next to him, and that person was grateful to Dade for taking it. Immediately gulped down.
"You're a master of the psychics?"
"yes."
Master Lingtong smiled, his hands were not idle, and he continued to make porridge for people, and these refugees knew him. There is nothing surprising about this either.
"Why are you giving soup here?" Yan Tingyun asked, "What about the imperial court?" Didn't the imperial court exempt them from taxes and reissue the food for the winter? ”
Master Lingtong handed the spoon to the little monk on the side, and then looked at Yan Tingyun with inquiring eyes.
"Master, don't get me wrong, I'm a foreigner, passing through here, seeing so many people, it's inevitable to ask more." Yan Tingyun hurriedly explained.
"The donor is a foreigner, no wonder you don't know anything."
"In Luzhou County, in the past, farmers worked hard to make cloth, although they were not rich, but there was enough food every year to survive the winter. Life can be passable. Master Lingtong sighed and said, "But since Zhao Zhuangquan took office three years ago, the lives of the people have not been as good as day by day. ”
"In these years, all the grain cultivated by the people will be handed over to him, and the taxes will be increased. Whoever does not listen will be arrested and imprisoned. ”
"The grain supplied by the imperial court has been privately swallowed by the people in the yamen, you say, even if the imperial court promulgates a three-year tax exemption, but the emperor of the mountain is far away, this Zhaozhuang is the emperor of Luzhou County, what he said is the royal law, what can we do?"
"Then why don't you sue the capital?"
"Officials protect each other." Master Lingtong sighed, "I'm afraid that the person who wants to sue has already been arrested by them before he leaves Luzhou County." You say, do you still have your life after being caught? ”
"Even my temple has to be demolished by them several times."
"How can this be true? Outrageous! Yan Tingyun became angry after hearing this, why are there such bad people in this world, "Do you just let them take care of people's lives?" ”
Yan Tingyun's eyes were red, looking at this old and young sick person, he was not a bad person, although he was arrogant before, but he had never murdered other people's lives, I couldn't imagine that these people were so mad.
"We have tried the methods that should be tried, but the entire Luzhou County is Zhao Zhuangquan's force, and we have no choice. This winter, it's going to be white again. ”
Yan Tingyun was about to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by two people who came. Yan Wuge looked at a man and a woman who came over, and was instantly stunned! Although these two men did not wear face towels, he still recognized them!
Aren't these two the same people who robbed them on the road that day? How did it end up here!
"Master, this is the food for this winter." The man brought the rice off the wagon.
"These?"
"I'm sorry Master, but this year we can only get these grains."
"You have a heart, if it weren't for you and your wife, how could these people survive." Master Lingtong said movingly.
Yan Tingyun looked stunned on the side! Why are these two thieves here, and how is this master of the Psychic with them?
"Your Highness, look at those two people, are they ......?"
"Well, don't act rashly, let's observe first." Yan Wuge frowned. Why are those two people here.
"You, you, you two ......"
Yan Tingyun pointed at the two of them. The couple who had been talking to Master Lingtong only saw Yan Tingyun standing on the side at this time. Although Yan Tingyun was dressed in tatters today, they still recognized that clean face.
When the man saw Yan Tingyun, he immediately dropped the rice, pulled his own lady, and knelt down to kowtow to Yan Tingyun.
"Childe spares his life, Childe spares his life. My husband and I didn't want to hurt my son's life that day, we just, we just wanted silver. The two couples kept kneeling, "Ask the son to let the villain go." ”
"Chen Laosan, what's going on?" The Lingtong Master looked at the two people who were kneeling.
"Childe spares his life." The man who kowtowed was called Chen Laosan, and they knew very well that this person who was looking at them blankly, there were two powerful people behind him, and even the person in the carriage had not shown his face. Since this son is here now, it means that those two people must be around here.
"Get up first." Yan Tingjun went to help Chen Laosan up.
"Thank you, Childe." Chen Laosan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Your Highness, will we go over now?"
"Hmm." Yan Wuge and Little Orange were just about to walk over, when suddenly, Yan Wuge stopped Little Orange.
"There are officers and soldiers."
"Come on, get those two men for me."
"Officers and soldiers." Chen Laosan's face changed greatly and looked at the comer.
"Zhao Zhuangquan!"