Chapter Ninety-Seven: Calming People's Hearts
Mazi's body stiffened, and then he quickly reacted, deliberately aggravating the words, making his official words sound more round: "I'm really from Baoding Mansion, our dialect gap is big, ten miles of different sounds, you don't sound very normal." ā
Gu Yunji's words reminded everyone that many people were secretly looking at Mazi at this time, and even the homeless people were suspicious of his identity, bowing their heads and discussing something in a whisper with the people next to them.
A catcher squinted at Mazi for a long time, suddenly found something, pointed at him and exclaimed: "This is not ...... Huang Er Mazi! ā
Gu Yunji suddenly turned his head sideways and looked at the catcher named Feng Song: "Do you know him?" ā
"Yes, I know him!" Feng Song's face was abrupt, and he pointed at Gu Yunji and said, "His name is Huang Er Mazi, his real name is Huang Dachuan, he is a local, he lives in Pingkang Lane, Xicheng District, and he is not a homeless person from Baoding Mansion at all!" ā
Huang Er Mazi didn't expect to be recognized so quickly, so he hurriedly covered his face with his hair and buried his head, covered his head and said angrily: "I, I'm not Huang Er Mazi, you recognize the wrong person!" ā
Feng Song laughed angrily: "Huang Er Mazi, do you still want to hide?" Tell you, I know you when you turn to ashes! ā
As he spoke, he stepped forward and picked up Huang Ermazi's head, revealing the other party's dirty face, pointing to a scar on his forehead and saying: "Gu Gongzi, look, this scar was smashed with a stone after he was found by the owner when he went to someone else's house to steal something four years ago, I was there at the time, I can't be wrong!" ā
Feng Song let go of his hand, turned around and stood next to Gu Yunji, and said: "This Huang Er Mazi is a scoundrel, and he doesn't have a serious business, he lives by petty theft on weekdays, and he hasn't made any major mistakes. I also said that I haven't seen anyone these days, I don't know where I went, but I didn't expect to eat this porridge! ā
was caught red-handed, Huang Ermazi's face was red and white, and he said stiffly: "This is the porridge given by the Hangzhou government, and I didn't say that the locals can't come to get it, I just want to drink a bowl to fill my stomach, can't I?" ā
Feng Song couldn't help it, spat at him, and said indignantly: "Huang Er Mazi, you are really faceless and skinless!" This is porridge prepared for the disaster victims, they have been hungry for months, and they haven't eaten a few bites of serious food, so you are embarrassed to grab it? ā
Huang Er Mazi's face was thicker than the city wall, and he didn't feel ashamed at all: "I'm also hungry!" The family is so poor that they can't open the pot, and they haven't eaten for several days, so why can't they rob them? Besides, I'm still a local, shouldn't the government give priority to me? ā
"You!" Feng Song couldn't get angry, and he wanted to fight when he raised his legs, but was stopped by Gu Yunji.
Gu Yunji didn't want to mess around with such an unreasonable person, so he simply bent down, grabbed a handful of sand from the ground, and threw it straight into the porridge bucket. Then he picked up the spoon and stirred it, mixed the sand and white porridge thoroughly, scooped out a bowl and handed it to Huang Er Mazi:
"Drink the porridge you want."
Huang Er Mazi looked at the white porridge mixed with a little sand in the bowl, his throat rolled, and he didn't reach out to pick it up for a long time.
Seeing this, Gu Yunji sneered, put the porridge bowl on the table beside him, and asked, "Don't you want to drink porridge, why don't you drink it now?" If you are really hungry for several days, then you can naturally eat everything, so how can you care about a little sand in this porridge? ā
As he spoke, he pointed to the group of yellow-skinned homeless people in front of him: "I believe that if Fang Cai were to be them, he would definitely drink cleanly, and he would not hesitate like you at all." ā
In order to prevent some people from being greedy for small gains, the porridge that has been given to the homeless people has always been mixed with a small amount of sand. It's just that today's action was in a hurry, and I didn't care about it, but I didn't expect that such a little omission almost made people like Huang Er Mazi take advantage of the loophole.
Huang Er Mazi was speechless by him, but he didn't want to bow his head and forcibly defended: "The reason why I don't drink it is not because I dislike the sand in it, but because I am worried that the government wants to assassinate us because of what happened last night, what if you poison it?" ā
Hearing this, Gu Yunji's eyes narrowed, and his expression turned cold.
He turned around and picked up the bowl of porridge that had just been placed on the table, held it high and shook it in front of everyone, and his voice was clear: "Everyone, look at it." ā
Then, with a tilt of his neck, he rolled his throat and swallowed all the porridge mixed with sand.
"Gu Gongzi ......" caught a glimpse of his movements, Feng Song wanted to stop him, but he didn't have time, he could only watch him drink the porridge clean.
The porridge is boiled badly, the rice aroma is very strong, the entrance is smooth, and occasionally you can feel the coarseness of the sandy soil, but there is no strange taste, except for some effects on the taste, there is no major problem.
Gu Yunji licked the porridge stains at the corner of his lips, and after turning the empty bowl upside down for everyone to see clearly, he casually put it back on the table with a soft crashing sound. He looked at Huang Er Mazi who was kneeling on the ground, his eyes burning:
"How? Now you should believe that there is no poison in it, right? ā
His move not only shocked Huang Er Mazi, but also shocked everyone present.
Feng Song thought before that the so-called help of the students of Luxi Academy was just lip service, at most they had a name on the sidelines and watched from the sidelines, and the matter had to be done by officials like them, that is, the reputation spread out and sounded good.
This porridge is mixed with dirty sand, and just a glance makes people lose their appetite, except for the long-term hungry homeless, but anyone who has a full meal on weekdays will not want to taste it. Not to mention the young master of a rich and noble family like Gu Yunji, at first glance, he has been pampered from childhood to adulthood, and his diet on weekdays must be very fine, where would he drink such a white porridge that has no delicacy at all and can only be used to satisfy his stomach?
But Gu Yunji not only drank this bowl of porridge just now, but also drank it so cleanly, without the slightest pickiness and dislike, and there was no imaginary shelf of the son of the family, and Feng Song couldn't help but look at him with admiration.
Huang Er Mazi didn't expect Gu Yunji to be willing to drink this porridge in person, but now all the excuses have been blocked by him, and he has nothing to say for a while.
He had nothing to say, but Gu Yunji had something to say. He crossed his arms and pondered for a moment, as if he remembered something, leaned over and looked into Huang Ermazi's eyes and asked, "Fang Cai Feng said quickly, I haven't seen you for a few days, so you should have mixed in with the homeless people and stayed outside the city?" ā
"But judging from the fact that you have just provoked trouble, can I make a bold guess that you also had your share in the people who took the lead in bewitching the homeless people to storm the city gate last night?"
Hearing this, Huang Er Mazi raised his head suddenly, and happened to meet Gu Yunji's bottomless eyes, which were extremely cold, making him feel like falling into an ice cave.
Huang Er Mazi shivered with ice in his eyes, and a cold sweat broke out all of a sudden, and he defended incoherently: "I'm me, I'm not, it's not me...... I didn't storm the gates, IāI didn't get involved in anything......"
Gu Yunji looked at him shaking into chaff, and a wave of disdain welled up in his heart.
Just like this bear, he really doesn't have the courage to fight with the officers and soldiers.
However, judging from the fact that he was able to stir up the emotions of the displaced people in just three or two sentences, even if he did not take the initiative to storm the city gate, he should have instigated people's hearts inside, and maybe he was ready to encourage the displaced people to rush into the city, so that he could follow behind to harass the houses and loot the property, but he was not innocent.
Thinking of this, Gu Yunji didn't want to listen to Huang Ermazi's quibbles anymore, so he turned sideways and said to the official next to him: "Okay, take him to the government and hand him over to the prefect to deal with." ā
With Huang Er Mazi as a lesson from the past, it will be much smoother in the back, queuing, taking bowls, and receiving porridge in an orderly manner, and no one jumps out to make trouble.
Looking at the satisfied and peaceful appearance of the homeless people when they drank the porridge, Gu Yunji breathed a long sigh of relief, and the string in his body that had been tense since returning to Hangzhou Mansion finally relaxed a little: In this way, people's hearts will be initially settled.