Outside the southern city of Hailing County, the once lively Water Gate is now gone.

Chen Xian Ling put his hands on his eyes and looked into the distance.

After watching it for a while, I was pulled back to reality by disappointment.

Feng Yi, the new head of Hailing County, frowned and whispered to the officials around him: "This Xu Gongzi is too, it's been so long, whether the matter will be successful or not, at least send someone back to inform one or two, and if the eldest master continues like this, he will soon become a wangfu stone!" ”

Chen Hua heard the whispered complaint of the feudal lord Bo, and knew that in fact, the third-in-command of the county government was the one who told him.

He sighed and said: "How can things be so simple, Lao Hu has been gone for about half a month, and there is no news, let's ask for help, and we won't ask for all the blame!" ”

"But ......" Feng Zhubo took a step forward and simply said what he thought in his heart, "Xia Guan is not blaming Xu Gongzi, lord, you have also seen it, we have thought of all the ways we can think of, and all the food that can be scavenged has been scavenged, even so, by tomorrow morning, even the rice soup that can be seen in the shadow of the person will not be available in the porridge field!" ”

"Xiaguan is in his heart...... I'm in a hurry! Feng Zhu Bo said emotionally, and his voice was a little choked.

Yes, it's so miserable, the county still has its own granary on top, but a few days ago, even if Chen Hua was about to peel off the skin of the barn ambassador, he couldn't squeeze even a grain of grain.

More critically, the people in some places outside the city also began to run out of food.

There have been many clashes between the local people and the displaced people over this matter.

The conflict is not just talking, but a real fight.

Thousands against thousands, Chen Hua saw these people holding shovels and greeting each other's heads.

If it weren't for the fact that the place where the incident occurred was very close to the city, and there were guards who were under pressure, once the weapon fight expanded, the scene would immediately get out of control.

However, in the past two days, this situation has gradually disappeared.

It's not that either side has food, it's that everyone is already hungry and doesn't have the energy to fight anymore.

Looking at the thatched huts stretching in the south of the city, on such a hot day, the homeless people live in the stuffy thatched huts, and point to the thin land in the county in the morning every day.

The children, who were still running and playing noisily, lay dying in their mother's arms.

When the adults saw the living people, the light from their eyes was really like a hungry wolf in the forest, which made the officials who went to distribute porridge every day panic.

The local people are no better.

Because of the lack of food, the county government can only guarantee that the people in the city will be guaranteed as much as possible, because once Hailing County is in chaos, the nature is too bad.

The people outside the city were not so lucky.

The tenants did not say it, but they were lucky at this time, because there was a large family owner to support, and they were hungry and full, and they were still able to get by.

The worst are those yeoman farmers and small and medium-sized landlords.

They have lost their food, so they can use their money to buy food to survive, right?

Who knew that since the flood, the grain stores in the city have been as promised.

At the beginning, these grain stores also unloaded their door panels and opened their doors as usual, but as soon as they opened, the grain store guys hung up the wooden sign of "Sold Out Today"!

After a few days of being sold out, some unbelieving people began to abuse the grain store, and some people even rushed into the grain store and robbed the store of the bran and black beans.

Later, these grain stores simply closed every day and were no longer open!

When Chen Hua thought of this, his resentment against a group of big families in Hailing County deepened.

During this time, he convened the eunuchs, large households, and grain merchants, and I don't know how many times they discussed.

The skin of the mouth is worn out, but these people are either vain or indifferent.

Especially the Huang family, he said outside that it was impossible for the Caoyun Yamen to release Caoyun grain and transport it to Hailing.

Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.

This sentence immediately made the wall-riding faction, who were originally under pressure from the county government, cover the grain bags tighter.

Today's big families in Hailing County, except for the Xu family, who still insists on distributing food every day, almost all of them are united to fight against the county government.

Chen Hua was so anxious that his mouth was full of bubbles, and he found Xu Song and asked him for help.

Xu Song also helped him make an appointment with a few familiar eunuchs.

These people sold Xu Song's face, so they took some food out, otherwise, the county would have run out of food.

But if people give you face once, they will never give it a second time, and Xu Song will not be able to speak again.

No, I saw that the last bit of food had bottomed out again.

Chen Hua was burned inside, and he thought that if something happened in Hailing County, he would go to Beijing City to sue Caoyun Yamen for the imperial state!

Just when the county government and his party were about to go to the porridge field to have a look, suddenly, a deputy catcher of the third shift pointed to the river in the distance and said, "There is a boat coming!" ”

Everyone was overjoyed and turned to look at the river.

But when they saw that the ship was an ordinary small arrow boat, everyone was immediately disappointed.

The feudal lord glared at the deputy catcher and said: "It's not a grain ship, it's shocked!" ”

But Chen Hua didn't leave.

Because the south gate, the east gate, and the north gate are almost all occupied by the displaced people, so the people and ships who come and go to Hailing are afraid of accidents, and now they have all been diverted to the east gate. Isn't he afraid of accidents?

Estimating the skill of the tea, the little arrow boat got closer and closer, and in a blink of an eye came to the vicinity of the water gate.

When the sharp-eyed official saw the man at the bow of the boat, he was immediately surprised: "The eldest master, the third master, it's the second master who is back!" ”

"What?"

"It's the second master!"

"Great! Master Hu is back! ”

Lao Hu on the boat had also seen the county officials, he had already straightened out his increasingly wide clothes, and bowed respectfully to Chen Hua at the bow of the boat.

Waiting for the shore, Chen Hua watched the originally chubby old Hu lose weight like this, and the whole person was several sizes smaller, and he said with tears in his eyes: "Old Hu, you have suffered these days!" ”

When Lao Hu thought of the grievances and pressure he had suffered for a while, and then heard the words of the eldest master, a sour feeling suddenly arose, rushing straight to the tip of his nose, he ...... Tears were also shed.

"Lord Chen, I, Lao Hu, I'm useless......"

Chen Hua patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's good to come back, it's a long time, it's still too late after all......"

But when he was halfway through his words, he suddenly looked at Hu Xiancheng in surprise and said, "What did you say?" ”

Hu Xiancheng's Oscar-level acting skills suddenly broke out, and I saw him crying and grabbing the ground, almost fainting and saying: "Master, my subordinates are incompetent, and I didn't give you the food back!" Caoyun Yamen is too bullying! ”

Hu Xiancheng cried and said in his heart: "It's true that Caoyun Yamen bullied people, it's true that I didn't ask for food back, it was Xu He who wanted food back, I didn't lie to anyone!" ”

But after hearing this, Chen Hua suddenly felt that the world was spinning for a while, and the whole person's eyes turned black, and after stumbling, he almost fell into the moat.

Seeing this, Lao Hu hurriedly held him up and said loudly: "What are you doing standing stupidly?" Hurry up and help the old man back to the yamen to rest! ”

Just when everyone was busy and carrying Chen Hua back to the ya, a young man dressed as a white servant quietly withdrew from the crowd and disappeared around the corner not far from the city gate in a blink of an eye!