Chapter 957: Troubled Times

"Madam, get into the carriage."

Everyone walked out of the courtyard inside, looked at the carriage parked outside, and hurriedly helped Aunt Xue into the carriage and went to sit inside.

Aunt Xue sat on the carriage, looked at the child in her arms, and said with a smile, "I can finally go home this time."

I also thought of an excuse to go home this time, so I said that the child was a wild child, and I don't know whose child was placed at the gate of the yard and picked up by Aunt Xue.

Because Aunt Xue was merciful, adopting this orphan in front of her could be regarded as atonement for Xue Pan's affairs.

Or maybe it's the providence of the people, giving Aunt Xue a chance to reform again.

Or to give the Xue family a chance to pass on the ancestry,

In ancient society, if the main mother had no children under her knees, then she would choose a son to pass on to herself, and then let this adopted son support her for the elderly.

It is not because there is no child under the knee, and there will be no incense sacrifice after death in the future.

At this time, Aunt Xue also muttered in her heart, "It's been a few months since I left this house, and I don't know what happened to the house."

Since Aunt Xue left Yunfu, she hasn't gotten any news from the outside world.

Food, clothing, etc., all of which were sent over on time by people arranged by Jia Yun.

However, these people kept secrets, didn't say anything, just did their own thing, sent things over, and left immediately.

Therefore, even if Aunt Xue often wants to find out what has happened in the house recently, there is no way.

If it weren't for the fact that there was Baozhu by her side chatting with her, I was afraid that this day would be really difficult.

Aunt Xue glanced at the scenery outside, looked at the bleak scenery here, and said, "What's going on in the last few months? Why are there so many fewer people?"

In the year of the famine, when there was war again, the two negative buffs came down, which directly made the life of the people at the bottom completely unbearable.

Even if it was a peaceful and prosperous era, because of the feudal economics with thirty-three taels of silver, the life of the people at the bottom was already miserable.

Now they are even more poor, and there is no way to live at all.

The poor who had no way to live either starved to death or rebelled and became bandits.

In particular, the Ping'an Prefecture around the capital is even more rampant with banditry, and it has completely reached a point of lawlessness.

In addition to not holding the banner of rebellion and directly rebelling, these bandits directly killed mad.

Due to the incompetence of the officials, the local government can only guard the area near the county yamen, and the grange villages outside the county yamen are powerless.

The situation in various places is becoming more and more troublesome, and it has fallen into a state of complete erosion.

The outside world is no longer safe, so Jia Yun must quickly bring Aunt Xue back.

Only by protecting Aunt Xue in the Yun Mansion can Jia Yun feel at ease.

And Aunt Xue has seen and heard all the way to the scene of hell on earth, which also makes Aunt Xue feel infinite compassion in her heart, and she can't help but sigh with emotion: "The days have become more and more difficult over the years, I am afraid that if this court goes on like this, sooner or later it will fall into troubled times."

Aunt Xue is not an uninformed boudoir woman, she has nothing to do these days, and Jia Yun also ordered someone to send a lot of books for Aunt Xue to read and pass the boring time. bμν.

Aunt Xue can also sit still, taking advantage of the gap these days, she has grown a lot of knowledge and knowledge.

She looked at the world outside the carriage, and it was miserable!

An emaciated old woman begging along the street sat by the side of the road, and her mouth was weak.

But whenever someone passed by the roadside, she hurriedly took the crutch in her hand, and in her hand a broken bowl with a mutilated hole in her hand, and as she walked, she cried out, "Sir, you can do well, give me a bite to eat!" I'm dying of hunger, so have pity on me, old woman."

There were also some ruffians who robbed the roadside

, chaos, murder and arson.

A sturdy ruffian hooligan was snatching passers-by in the street, angrily scolding, "Take you! Let go, if you don't let go, I'll kill you."

For a while, the face was gone.

As for Aunt Xue's carriage, it naturally attracted everyone's attention, but the people who came to escort this time were all armed with fierce soldiers, all of whom were burly, giving people a sense of shrewdness and fierceness, so that people knew at a glance that these people must be extraordinary and could not be provoked.

Don't say that these ordinary people are just a group of bandits, and they may not be able to defeat these people.

These people are the elite of Jia Yun's lineage secretly cultivated, and each of them is a master in the army, not to mention their martial arts, and they are all loyal, and they are the personal guards he cultivated.

Without such thunderous means and secret surprises, how could he dare to let Aunt Xue come back rashly?

Along the way, the surrounding people all got out of the way, not daring to approach this neighborhood.

They are really scared.

Who is not greedy for life and afraid of death?

After a while, the people came to the gate of the city, and they met the officers and soldiers guarding the city who were interrogating the people at the gate of the city.

These defenders stopped the passers-by, scavenged them for oil and water, and ransacked them.

But if you want to enter the capital, then you must leave the money to buy the road.

In turbulent times, the officers and soldiers are more ferocious and brutal than those bandits.

The officers and soldiers looked at the carriage and the group of people walking towards this side, their faces changed slightly, and they hurriedly stretched out their hands and stopped, "Who are you?"

The person who walked in the front slapped this person directly, and then took out the waist card in his hand and said, "Jinyiwei handled the case, you dare to stop it, don't you want to live? Get out of the way, and if you delay your uncle's business, watch your head."

The officers and soldiers guarding the city gate were immediately stunned, and they all made way of a way, not daring to argue with these people.

Chop first and then play, the imperial power concession.

If you offend Jinyiwei, you will lose your head tonight.

Jinyiwei is a violent institution in the dark world, and there is no morality and benevolence at all.

Therefore, in the eyes of these ordinary people, it is better to provoke the king of Hades than to provoke the Jinyi guard.

waited until these people went inside, and then slowly went to Yunfu.

And here in Yunfu, Jia Yun also found Xue Baochai and said, "Today, I ordered people to go out of the city, the world has been in turmoil recently, and it seems that there is another war, she is not safe outside alone, and only by taking her back is the safest thing." As for the matter of Tanchun, I have already sent someone out to negotiate, as long as I am willing to pay, I can redeem it. However, it's a long way from overseas, and it won't be a few months before we get the news."