After arranging the people, Ning Changrong didn't bother more.

"Changrong, do you think this surnamed Dong will agree to us?"

"Surely, he has the people in his heart, he has compassion." Ning Changrong had been observing the other party, and he saw Dong Zhongren's unbearability when he thought of something.

"Do you know how he was deposed by the imperial court?"

Ning Da Niu shook his head.

"You can understand that he was deposed only when he spoke for the people, and a person who is willing to speak for the people will not be bad, and he must have a conscience in his heart."

Ning Changrong explained as he walked: "When he walks around the city in the next few days, I believe he will figure it out." ”

It also takes time to give up the patriotic ideology of loyalty to the monarch that has been adhered to for most of his life.

"And what if he still can't figure it out?"

Ning Changrong chuckled, "Don't you understand?" The corners of his mouth were flattened, and his face was expressionless, "He'll figure it out." ”

……

Dong Zhongren thought that after the other party arranged him, he would send someone to monitor him, but he didn't expect to send someone to watch him, so that their family could move freely.

Even three meals a day are sent over, looking at the dishes are not bad, although they are all vegetarian dishes, but they are all fried with meat oil.

Looking at the woman who put down the food box, he couldn't help but ask, "Do you all eat such dishes?" ”

The woman looked at him with some confusion, "Yes." ”

This answer surprised Dong Zhongren a little, Ning Changrong did not treat him with special preferential treatment, nor did he treat him harshly, but just provided him with ordinary home-cooked side dishes every day, just like he was an ordinary person.

But the food of the ordinary people in this place surprised him greatly.

When he was an official in Nan Chen, he inspected the lives of the common people, not to mention meat, even a few grains of rice were hard to see, and he relied on water to fill his stomach, and even so, he had to bear heavy labor and taxes.

Now the name of the new emperor has been changed to Dachang, and it is officially the first year of Dachang after the Chinese New Year, but the people's taxes have been received in Dachang for five years.

Dong Zhongren couldn't be sure if Nan Chen could continue for five years.

"You, what do you do at home?" Dong Zhongren couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Me? That's what I do at home. The village said that they needed someone to help with the cooking, and the food I cooked was good, so they asked me to deliver it. The woman said honestly.

It's just that if you farm in the countryside, can you eat meat oil for three meals a day at home? is still full of food, at least the landlord in Nanchen can live such a life, right?

Dong Zhongren couldn't help but continue to inquire about the news from her.

"Are all your families in the countryside like yours?"

The woman looked at her strangely, "That's definitely not the case." ”

Dong Zhongren breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if it was not good, if every family here was so rich, then his insistence would be too ridiculous.

"My family is just an ordinary family in the village, and there are many families who have found jobs in the county, and those days are more comfortable than my family, and I can eat meat several times a month."

As the woman's words fell, Dong Zhongren's face froze completely.

The woman looked at the old man as if she was very interested in their lives, and she had come to deliver food anyway, and the family was fine for the time being, so she simply talked to the other party about their days.

"General Chang is a good man, when we came, there was no copper on our body, General Chang is willing to lend us grain seeds for us to cultivate, and return them when there is a harvest, and now the granaries of our families are full."

"When the field is not busy on weekdays, you can still find some short-term jobs in the county, and you are not afraid of being blackmailed, as long as there is something, you can find those officials patrolling the city, and the officials will designate you to be the master."

"There is also the village chief of our village, who used to be soldiers, but he was injured and couldn't take a knife before he came back, our village chief is fine, he will take us every time he pays taxes, and he is not afraid that those who are officials will ask for more of our food."

"The people who collect taxes also have a good attitude, which is different from the people we have met before."

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, sometimes I wake up suddenly and wonder if I'm living in a dream, there is such a good place in the world for us to catch up."

When the woman left Dong Zhongren didn't know, the information the woman said had too much impact on him.

The orthodox court disregards the life and death of the people, desperately collects forced labor and taxes, and pulls Zhuang Ding to fight, Chang Yuan, who is a thief, actually loves the people so much, is deeply loved by the people, and is praised by everyone?

Dong Zhongren wanted to believe what the woman said, but he didn't want to believe it, he was very awkward, no one took care of him, so he went out into the street and carefully observed the life of the people under the rule of the anti-thief.

"Stinky tofu, sell stinky tofu."

"Sugar gourd, a sugar gourd."

"Steamed buns, freshly baked meat buns!"

"Stop, I'm going to Dongjia Alley."

"Let's go, there is another event in the department store and supermarket today, let's hurry up, we may not be able to grab it if we go late."

The surrounding environment is very noisy, the voices are boiling, and the market is full of fireworks, and in it, Dong Zhongren even thinks that it is now a peaceful and prosperous era.

After a day of shopping, Dong Zhongren came back expressionlessly.

Dong Zhongren's eldest son, Dong Si, greeted him worriedly.

"Dad, are you alright?"

Dong Zhongren waved his hand and walked into his room dejectedly, as if his spirit had been drained.

Dong Zhongren didn't sleep all night, he was thinking, thinking about what he insisted on, thinking about whether that kind of court was worthy of his allegiance? Is it worth his insistence?

Do the people want that kind of court?

In fact, the answer is already in the heart.

……

"Mr. Ning, didn't that Dong Zhongren come to you? Do you want me to help. Xiu Mu met Ning Changrong's Zhang Xifan and stepped forward to ask.

That woman was found in their village, and he naturally knew Dong Zhongren's current situation.

"You don't have to worry about it, if you don't train today, just rest well, read more books and read more when you have nothing to do, and you will definitely be useful in the future."

Zhang Xifan laughed, "It's not that Mr. Ning doesn't want to read and read books, it's just that I know that word, and I don't know that word. ”

Zhang Xifan chatted with him for a few more words, and then the two separated.

Walking to the door of the county office, Ning Changrong saw a figure, and he raised his eyebrows and was not surprised.

Although he did not send someone to guard Dong Zhongren, the other party's every move would fall into his eyes.

He believed that as long as Dong Zhongren had a serious understanding of this place, as long as his heart was towards the people, he would not believe that Dong Zhongren would hold on.

"Mr. Dong, have you figured this out?"

Ning Changrong said as he walked.

Dong Zhongren walked into the county government house with him one after the other.