After the Spring Festival, Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan got on the carriage back to Luxi Academy and continued their study journey in the new year.

Along the way, Gu Yunji saw many homeless people, either kneeling on the side of the road and begging, or groups of people wanting to move south. All of them are ragged, with yellow faces and thin muscles, as if they will run out of strength and fall down at any time, which makes people can't bear to look at it more.

The farther south you go, the more displaced people there are, and they gather and flock to the city. However, the gates of the major state capitals were heavily guarded, and the displaced people could not enter the city, so they could only set up shacks outside the city and settle down temporarily.

The terrain outside the gate of Hangzhou Fucheng is open, not to mention that there are thousands of displaced people, and the ground is covered with black pressure, if it is not for the officers and soldiers to clear the road, Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan's carriage is afraid that they will not even be able to enter.

Gu Yunji looked far ahead, and found that at this moment, there were at least five times more officers and soldiers at the city gate than usual, all of them were dressed in armor, describing solemnly, staring at those homeless people who came to test and look, just looking at it made people feel terrified.

The carriage was moving slowly in the queue waiting for inspection, Gu Yunji waited a little impatiently, lifted the curtain of the carriage and asked a soldier standing guard on the side of the road: "Little brother!" Why is this entry into the city so slow? I've never seen such a strict investigation before, right? ”

Seeing that he was dressed extraordinarily, he thought that he was the young master of a big family, and the soldier's attitude was relatively gentle: "This son, be considerate." If this gate is not inspected more slowly and guarded more strictly, the homeless people will take the opportunity to sneak in. The prefect gave a death order, and not a single homeless person was allowed to enter. ”

Gu Yunji frowned: "If you don't let the displaced people enter the city, don't you just care about anything, let them stay outside the city like this and slowly starve to death?" What a reason! ”

Under normal circumstances, the magistrate would not easily let the displaced people into the city. But that's not nothing, at least the government will come forward to give porridge and build sheds, provide clothes and food, and let the displaced people settle down.

But looking at these displaced people outside the city, they are disorderly and chaotic, and there is clearly no government management. Not to mention the soup kitchen, even the few dilapidated shacks were built by the homeless people themselves. At this time, many people are gathering bark and grass roots, ready to satisfy their hunger with these things.

Hearing this, the soldier showed a wry smile: "The small one is a big-headed soldier, he only knows how to do what he is told, and I can't control anything else." These homeless people are not completely without food, and occasionally some rich families come to give soup porridge, and they can barely survive. ”

The spontaneous soup giving behavior of the rich cannot guarantee the time and quantity, even if the homeless people fill their stomachs today, what will they do tomorrow? The bark and grass roots will also be harvested one day, and at that time, will the homeless people who can't even barely survive stay outside the city, waiting for alms that come and go?

Thinking of this, Gu Yunji sighed and sat back in the car helplessly.

In the distance, the steward of a large family in the city was selecting a maidservant among the vagrants, and he easily bought a few half-aged children at a very low price. Listening to the reluctant sobbing and whimpering when the child was separated from his family, Cheng Yan couldn't bear it, so he simply lowered the car curtain and didn't listen or look.

When I closed my eyes, the faint cry was still clearly in my ears. Gu Yunji buried his head and said in a low voice: "Even if you can't enter the city, can't you set up a tent with porridge?" This is still the first month, and many homeless people are still wearing single clothes, I am afraid that many people can freeze to death even if they are freezing, Lu Xianzhi is really ruthless. ”

Cheng Yan sighed and said, "The newspaper has not published the regulations for accepting the displaced people, and Lord Lu should not have received the order from above, so they don't want to take the risk and use the treasury to appease the displaced people." In this way, he had to delay one day and wait for the court to allocate Anmin's money and food. ”

"But how many more people will die every day it drags on? Don't they know? Gu Yunji's eyes were red, and his voice was a little astringent, "These officials, who live with the mud every day, think that as long as they keep the black gauze hat, they will be fine, as for how many people have died, they don't care!" ”

Gu Yunji didn't think there was anything wrong with Mingzhe's self-preservation, but it was also in the case of fighting each other in the officialdom, rather than watching the homeless people die in front of him, rather than taking the risk of doing something outside the jurisdiction.

Hearing him say this, Cheng Yan's expression darkened, but he didn't answer again.

After a long wait, the carriage finally moved to the gate of the city, and after several people finished inspecting, they asked the coachman to send the carriage back to the carriage and horse shop, while Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan prepared to walk into the city.

Just as the two of them got out of the car, they suddenly heard an anxious voice next to them:

"Master Jun, it's good! Let me in! My daughter had a high fever and couldn't delay it any longer. I promise, as soon as we see the doctor, we will come out immediately, and we will definitely not stay in the city! ”

Gu Yunji followed the prestige, and saw a middle-aged man who looked like a homeless person holding the child in his arms, speaking a lame official dialect with a strong local accent, and kept begging the officers and soldiers to let him in, he was dirty, wearing a pair of tattered straw sandals, and was so anxious that he was about to kneel down for the officers and soldiers in front of him.

The officers and soldiers were impatient with his begging, and with a snort, the bright blade flashed, and the man was frightened to take a few steps back, and reprimanded coldly: "No is no way!" If you entangle again, I'm welcome! ”

Seeing that the man was so frightened that his body trembled but still refused to give up, Gu Yunji's heart moved, and he stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The officers and soldiers put away their blades and softened his tone at him: "It's nothing, it's just that there is a homeless who is unruly and has to go through the process, so I am stopped." Didn't disturb Childe, did you? ”

Gu Yunji shook his head, looking at the thin child in the man's arms who was burned and his face was flushed, he frowned, and asked a little unbearably, "Can't you really let him go in and take the child to see a doctor?" ”

The officers and soldiers showed a look of embarrassment on their faces: "This ...... It's really not good, the prefect said that not a single homeless person can be put in. ”

Gu Yunji pointed to a few stewards who were buying the children of the homeless people in the distance, and asked, "Then why can they?" ”

The officers and soldiers reluctantly pulled out a smile and explained: "This is different again, they are buying servants, and they can naturally bring them into the city with a large family as a guarantee." ”

"Okay, then I'll vouch for them and let them both go into the city." Gu Yunji's eyes were firm, and his tone was unquestionable, "I am a student of Luxi Academy, although I can't compare to the big families in the city, I can bring dozens of homeless people in, but it's no problem to bring their father and daughter, right?" ”

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers froze: "Childe, this is not suitable......

Gu Yunji took out a silver ingot from his arms and put it in his hand, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Now, is it appropriate?" ”

"Suitable! Suitable! Feeling the heavy weight in their hands, the officers and soldiers suddenly smiled, and their attitudes took a big turn, "You can take them in now!" With that, he removed the fence and let the man in.