Wang Hu was sitting precariously at this time, and his stomach was ringing.

Yang Ming gave him half of what he ate.

Although Wang Hu was hungry, he ate unhurriedly.

Yang Ming felt a little guilty when he saw this.

His mood had nothing to do with Wang Hu, but it affected Wang Hu.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but care: "You haven't returned home at this time, won't your family worry?" ”

Wang Hu stopped his movements and replied with a smile: "I don't go home, there is one less person in the family to eat, and my father should be happy." ”

Yang Ming had mixed feelings for a while when he heard this.

"How many people are in your family?" He then asked.

"My parents, my brother, and my uncle lived with us, but I died of the epidemic last year." When Wang Hu talked about his uncle, Yang Ming could clearly feel the sadness in his eyes.

"How well did your uncle treat you?" Yang Ming asked again.

"It was my uncle who taught me to read and be a man." When he said this, Wang Hu's face was quite proud.

"He's a son of a family?" Yang Ming said curiously.

The literacy rate in the Han Dynasty was extremely low, less than five percent, and most of the people who could read were children of the family, which is why Zhang Yu was literate and Yang Ming was surprised at the beginning.

"Well, he's from the Yingling Wang clan." Wang Hu nodded.

Yang Ming was surprised at first, and then nodded.

This is the same family as Wang Xiu he met when he first arrived in Beihai.

However, it is not in the camp mausoleum, but when it arrives, it is not from a side branch, or it is in the middle of the family.

"What did your father do?" Yang Ming continued to ask.

"Sharecroppers." Wang Hu squeezed out a smile and replied.

"When my uncle was alive, he was a private school, and the family was still viable, but last year when there was a flood and a plague, my uncle died, and the field had no harvest and had to sell the land." But at this point, he unconsciously lowered his head.

Yang Ming was stunned.

The so-called tenant farmer is renting land for farming.

The common people had a land tax of thirty and one, plus military taxes, as well as poll taxes and conscription, and they were already struggling to get by.

But if he becomes a tenant farmer, half of the grain must be given to the landlord, which is no different from a slave.

He also knew why Wang Hu was so precocious.

It's just that the thought of the other party is no more than ten years old, which makes people feel distressed at the same time, and at the same time, they can't help but admire.

Those who can grow in the midst of suffering will surely achieve something in the future.

After eating, Wang Hu got up to say goodbye.

Yang Ming had already agreed to him.

After a few days of Zheng Xuan's teaching, he can take the bundle and worship Zheng Xuan as his teacher.

Zheng Xuan didn't have so many requirements for ordinary disciples.

And after Yang Ming knew about Wang Hu's background, he naturally took more care of him.

When eating, they will often leave him to eat together.

After regular contact, Yang Ming can feel more and more his intelligence and tenacity, and he is indeed a rare malleable talent.

This allowed Yang Ming to connect him with someone he knew in his previous life.

There was a man named Lu Fan in Runan, his family was poor when he was a teenager, but his appearance was outstanding, there was a rich family surnamed Liu in the city at that time, his daughter was beautiful, and Lu Fan fell in love at first sight, Lu Fan went to propose, Liu's mother disliked his family, but Liu said: "Would you rather be a poor person for a long time?" ”

Later, Lü Fan became an important minister of Wu during the Three Kingdoms, and Sun Quan compared him to Wu Han, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the official was the former general Yangzhou Mu.

The two are the same, they are both poor, but they are also poor.

On this day, Zhang Liao returned to the mountain.

Tong Hui's case could not be investigated.

Because not long after Yang Ming left, Zhao Yan found Cao Yuan, who was in charge of the warehouse, killed him in front of Tong Hui on the grounds that the file was not properly managed, and then led everyone to the warehouse.

When I opened it, it was empty, and there was not a single dossier missing.

Yang Ming's face sank after hearing this.

He didn't expect Zhao Yan to be so bold, and he really relied on his brother Zhao Zhong to have no king's law.

However, this method did make Tong Hui unsustainable.

"Is Tong Hui still there?" Yang Ming asked.

"Still in the county, there are rumors that Zhao Yan sent people to Huang County, but Chen Taishou did not summon Tong Hui back." Zhang Liao replied.

Yang Ming was thoughtful when he heard this.

Huang County is the seat of Donglai County, and this Chen Taishou is Donglai Taishou.

Sun Qian mentioned to him after returning from the disaster relief in Donglai that he was from the Xiapi Chen family.

The Xiapi Chen family is a local clan, and now the head of the family, Chen Qiu, is also Zheng Xuanshi, who just became a Sikong in July.

From this point of view, what he saw before the county government was not as simple as it seemed.

It was not that Tong Hui was not afraid of power, but that the local clans and the children of eunuchs competed for local resources.

Tong Hui is just a knife they chose.

That sounds a lot more reasonable.

The biggest cause of the disaster of the party is that the children of eunuchs stretch out their hands to the local area and invade the foundation of the family.

Although it was said that after the two disasters of the party, the scholars were weak, but it was in Luoyang.

Locally, scholars are still old trees with deep roots.

You don't see the party members being imprisoned, but when you arrive at the place, you are welcomed by the local scholars.

Otherwise, even if he Tong Hui is fair, what can he do to compete with Zhao Yan, a ten-standing attendant brother?

Fu Ya rushed to the county office, it shouldn't be after telling him about the old people, but more about the Chen family behind Tong Hui.

It is even more likely that Fu Shi asked Chen for help.

After all, it should be the end of this unreasonable one.

And Yang Ming's day was another knife that Fu Ya accidentally discovered.

It's just that he has his own ideas about this knife, and he didn't follow Fuya's design.

Thinking of this, Yang Ming smiled bitterly.

There seem to be more pits in this place than in Luoyang.

But in this case, he doesn't need to intervene in a hurry, he can wait and see for a while.

"My lord, there are officials on duty at the gate of the county now, and they are not allowed to enter and leave at will." After Zhang Liao finished talking about Zhao Yan, he mentioned it again by the way.

"There's an epidemic in Beihai?" Yang Ming reacted quickly.

Shaohai and Laoshan can isolate the locust plague, but the plague cannot.

The plague is such a thing, as long as people are moving, it will spread.

Zhang Liao nodded.

"You go down the mountain and tell everyone not to go out at will, and the maidservants who buy vegetables every day must also wear a potion-soaked linen cloth as a mask." Yang Ming said immediately.

He didn't want to wait until he went down the mountain to study, and became the commander of the light pole.

When Zhang Liao heard this, he turned around and left, and Yang Ming specially advised: "Ah Yi, don't let her go out." ”

After Zhang Liao left, Yang Ming went back to continue his research on Zheng Xue.

He won't stay in the mountains for long.

He will turn 20 in March next year, and he will have to perform the crown ceremony in the temple.

Even if you take the waterway to Luoyang in the west, because it is tracing the river and sailing against the current, it will take a lot more time than when you came.

In other words, he stayed in Donglai for a maximum of late January.

In this way, he has a maximum of three months left to study.

In these three months, it was not easy for him to learn Zheng Xue.

After a while, the sky darkened, and Zhang Liao returned to Buqi Mountain.

What Yang Ming didn't expect was that Ah Yi actually took a few people up the mountain with him, and carried a lot of ingredients and pots and pans.

"It's the maid who insists on going up the mountain, and the young gentleman doesn't want to blame the falcon." As soon as Ah saw him, he spoke, bowing his head and preparing to be trained.

Yang Ming stretched out his hand, took off the things on Ah Yi's back, and then turned around and moved into the house.

In fact, there is nothing to reprimand, Ah Yi is to take better care of him.

And there is a plague down the mountain, so it is indeed safer for them to be in the mountain.

Including Ah Yi's food, he also has some habits along the way, and it is always better than the things in the righteous house on the mountain.

Ah Yi saw that Yang Ming didn't reprimand anything, and happily got busy.

There were originally two rooms in the house, but Zhang Liao moved his mattress to Yang Ming's room and vacated the other room for Ah Yi.

This kind of adjustment seems to be not bad, the only thing that makes Yang Ming feel a little uncomfortable is that Wang Hu did not go up the mountain today.

During this time, Wang Hu came every day, and suddenly he didn't come for a day, but he was a little unaccustomed to it.

Then, this situation continued for more than ten days.

Even if Zheng Xuan re-taught, Yang Ming did not see Wang Hu.

Originally, when Zheng Xuan was here, he was going to worship his teacher, and it was impossible to forget this kind of thing.

Yang Ming asked the disciples around him, but no one had seen him.

His heart couldn't help but be a little worried.

Now that the plague is spreading under the mountain, Wang Hu may be hit.

With the conditions of their tenants, there is a high probability that they can only lie at home and wait for death.

Maybe even at this moment, Wang Hu is waiting for death.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Yang Ming finally decided to go down the mountain.

He asked Ah Yi to boil some potions, make sackcloth, and then went down the mountain alone.

When he arrived in Buqi County, he saw the officials on duty from a distance, and they were queuing in at the gate of the city to enter and exit, just like Zhang Liao said.

However, the city gates have not yet been closed, indicating that the epidemic has not really affected it.

Entering the city, Yang Ming went to his home to find two guards, asked people to rent an ox cart, brought some wheat and herbs, and then headed for Xixiang.

Wang Hu did not live in the city, but in Xixiang.

In the Han Dynasty, the township system was implemented, and the so-called Xixiang was on the west side of Buqi County, which was composed of several li.

Before he arrived, Yang Ming saw officials burning corpses on the side of the road.

When a person dies, he cannot be buried, he must be burned, and this is the only way to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

Along the way, green smoke rose everywhere, just like seeing the scene of Xianbei looting everywhere when he was merging states.

But if we really talk about it, the number of people who die from famine and pestilence is tenfold, or even a hundredfold, greater than those who die in war.

The ox cart arrived at the place where the king of Xixiang was, and the guards went to look for the place where he had grown.

Li Chang saw Yang Ming respectfully, even if he didn't know Yang Ming's identity, he knew that he was a noble person when he saw Yang Ming's outfit.

But he didn't advise Yang Ming to go inside.

Because this lane has been affected by the plague, the village has decreed that no one should go out.

Every morning, the chief would bring someone to knock on the door, and if someone inside agreed, he would ask if he needed to buy medicine or other food, and if no one answered, he would go in and carry the body out and burn it.

If you want to survive, it all depends on whether your family's stock and money are sufficient.

This is not the first time that the county has been hit by the epidemic, and the treatment methods have been relatively mature.

Just as they were chatting, Yang Ming saw a person walking slowly from the green smoke in the distance.

I saw that he was wearing a loose yellow robe, holding a nine-section scepter, and carrying a cloth bag cross-body.

Of course, the most conspicuous thing is the yellow kudzu cloth scarf wrapped around his head.