The carriage returned to the gate of Nanyang City, and Tao Qiqi, who was driving the carriage, found that there were many more refugees than the refugees he had seen before.

If it continues like this, it is estimated that Nanyang City will not be able to cover it, and I don't know when the relief food will come down.

It stands to reason that farming in the south has not been affected at present, and it has been almost a month since the summer harvest in May.

If nothing else, as long as the approval is issued, the granaries in various places can be put grain for disaster relief.

With food, the refugees don't have to wait at the gates of the city to give alms.

It is not a good thing that there are too many people in the disaster area at the city gate.

Once there is a disturbance, or something happens, small things can turn into big things.

It's just that for some reason, it's late June now, and I haven't heard of any news of the grain release.

This damn year of famine, I don't know when it will be a head.

According to the memory of the original owner, even if there was a drought in the past, it had not been so long, and it had been three years, and I don't know what the current situation is in the north.

She had encountered a sandstorm when she was leaving, and later heard that it had been blown two or three times, each time more and more severe.

If it doesn't rain in the north again, I'm afraid it will become a sandbar.

Since the city gate was about to be closed, Tao Qiqi didn't pay much attention, and after greeting the chief of the guard guarding the city, he took Nangong Yi directly into the city.

Tao Qiqi is with Nangong Ye, Nangong Ye lives in Lord Yang's mansion in order to facilitate entering and leaving the city, Lord Yang has greeted the people below in advance, so there is no need to give silver to enter and exit the city.

It's just that as soon as she entered the city, she heard someone calling her behind her.

Fortunately, Tao Qiqi's ears are sensitive enough, although the wheels of the carriage are a little loud, but Tao Qiqi still heard the call of "Qiqi".

And the voice was familiar to her.

Stopping the carriage, Tao Qiqi jumped and got off the carriage.

"Why are you going?" Nangong Yi asked suspiciously.

"It's nothing to do with you, just stay there." Dropping these words, Tao Qiqi walked to the city gate again.

"Seventy-seven, seven-seven, it's me." Ma Zhu saw Qiqi walking towards him, and happily raised his hand to indicate his position.

Tao Qiqi walked up to Ma Zhu and looked at him: "Brother Zhuzi, why are you, are you alone?" What about uncles and aunts? ”

Ma Zhu replied: "My father and my mother are there, and the whole village is there. ”

"And what are you?" Tao Qiqi looked puzzled.

"Qiqi, I'm sorry, I really can't help it, I just happened to see that you seem to be quite familiar with these officials, so I had to be cheeky and stop you."

"It's okay, if there's anything urgent, you just say it."

"My mother was a little uncomfortable this morning, I wanted to let her go into the city to see, but she was reluctant to spend the money, so she kept dragging it, but as a result, she vomited yellow water just now, and she couldn't eat anything, but this time it was almost dark when she saw it, and let her go into the city to see the doctor, and she said that she would wait for tomorrow. But I'm worried about ......."

"My aunt has always been used to frugality, and it costs a lot of money to go to the city to see a doctor, and it will be dark in a while, and where to live is also a problem, and it is normal for her to be reluctant to go into the city. Take me there. ”

"But those people ...... It's okay, I just want to ask, see if you can help talk to the officials, let them be accommodating, wait for us a little, and then close the city gate when we come out after seeing the disease. ”

Tao Qiqi thought about it, although she was not afraid of those people in the Tao family, but more things were better than less, so she nodded and replied: "Okay, you go and call your aunt over, and I'll tell them." ”

"Good. Thank you, Qiqi. ”

"It's okay, in the past, in the village, my uncle and aunt took care of me."

Then Ma Zhu went to call his mother over, and Tao Qiqi briefly explained the situation to the guard chief.

Naturally, the head of the guard will not lose face.

However, Tao Qiqi said hello, and he didn't see Ma Zhu and Aunt Ma coming.

Tao Qiqi looked in the direction that Ma Zhu pointed just now, and saw that Village Chief Ma was reprimanding Boss Tao with a displeased face.

Tao's is also arrogant and unreasonable, I don't know what a few people said, but I saw that Tao's went straight to the ground, and the eldest daughter-in-law seemed to be anxious.

Although Tao Qiqi couldn't hear what they were talking about, he could guess a rough idea.

It must be those people in the Tao family who saw that Ma Zhu successfully took the line of Tao Qiqi and could enter the city, so they wanted to follow along, and it was not a problem to have Tao Qiqi in it.

Not only that, but it also saves the cost of entering the city.

If you don't take advantage of such a big advantage, it's not the peach family.

But they still miscalculated.

Let's not say that Village Chief Ma knows about the situation between the Tao family and Tao Qiqi, and he won't agree to say it, on Tao Qiqi's side, the Tao family wants to take advantage of her? It's impossible to dream during the day or at night, and reality is even more impossible.

But it seems that the Tao clan is determined to keep up.

Seeing that she couldn't afford to fall to the ground, Village Chief Ma was really a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, just when Village Chief Ma was in trouble, Tao Qiqi came over, and then said slowly: "Uncle Village Chief, it doesn't matter, they want to go to the city to see a doctor." After all, you can't delay when you're sick. If there really is a three-long and two-short, we can't afford to pay that responsibility. Anyway, I'm just leading the way, and it's okay to bring one with you, and it's okay to bring two. The cost of going into the city is the same for everyone. ”

When the eldest daughter-in-law heard this, she looked at Tao Qiqi with a disdainful face: "Don't bluff people, you can make the official accommodating, can't you let the official exempt us from silver?" And I saw it just now, you took that man into the city, and neither of them gave him any money. ”

"When I said this, I really wanted to laugh off my big teeth. It was a relative of the prefect's family who went in just now, isn't it normal for the guards not to accept other people's money? Also, I don't have to give money when I go into the city, it doesn't mean that the people I bring in don't have to give. If so, will there be chaos in the city? What do you mean to be a prefect? ”

Tao Wuwu, the daughter of the boss on the side, couldn't help but say after hearing this: "Then you can also help to tell me that we are going to the city to see a doctor, and we are not doing anything else, we will come out as soon as we see the doctor, and we should not collect money for this time." Human life is a matter of heaven. ”

"I'm sorry, I don't have that much face, you have the ability to talk to the guard chief yourself. Look at your beauty, the captain of the guard should give you face. Tao Qiqi finished, looked at Aunt Ma and said, "Auntie, let's go, I'll take you into the city to see the doctor." ”

After speaking, Tao Qiqi hugged Aunt Ma and prepared to leave.

As for those people in the Tao family, they love to follow, and they don't follow them.

Of course, although Tao believed what Tao Qiqi said just now, she still wanted to gamble, so she took her eldest daughter-in-law and Tao Boss to follow behind Ma Zhu.

If they don't give the money, then they go after it.

If they really give money, then they will return it.

It's just that what Tao didn't expect was that Tao Qiqi really watched Ma Zhu take them into the city after paying the entrance fee for two people.

In this way, after weighing the pros and cons, the Tao family took the peach boss and they had to honestly return to the village to rest.

However, because he failed to enter the city, Boss Tao and his daughter-in-law went back and scolded Tao Qiqi angrily for a long time before stopping.