After Meizi finished drinking the porridge, Meng Changqing asked her to help her to the corner and sit down.

Let Laicai and the guards retreat, and then ask Meizi: "Which county are you from?" ”

"County master, we are Qian Zengzhuang people under Liangzhou Mansion." After the woman next to her finished speaking, she was afraid that the county official would blame her for talking too much, so she hurriedly added: "She is not a person who talks much." ”

Meng Changqing nodded, and said to Mei Zi again: "You are physically weak due to long-term hunger, and your situation does not meet the conditions for conscription, why did you come here?" ”

"We are all ......"

"Let her say it herself."

Meizi said: "It was my man who said that coming here can be full of food and save food at home. ”

"It's true that there is enough food here, but only those who can do the work are accepted." Meng Changqing said, "I am very gracious and allow you to rest in the pit for a day tomorrow, and let this eldest sister bring you food, but after a day, you will have to work with others." ”

"Thank you, county master." Mei Zi knelt down at Meng Changqing.

The eldest sister next to her taught her to speak, "I want to thank the county lord for his kindness." ”

"Let's go back and rest after relieving ourselves here, and I'll go out and say hello to the guards of your group."

The eldest sister who was holding Meizi sighed repeatedly, "Ouch! It turned out that Beishan County met a good official, no wonder the men had enough to eat, and there was food to bring home, ouch plums, we can meet a good official. ”

Meng Changqing came out of the stove room, and the people waiting outside turned into eight directions.

After explaining to the guards, she asked, "Where is the wealth?" ”

"Madame called you over for soup, and he went first." Bafang wiped his mouth, "Young Master, how is the person inside?" ”

"It's relieved." Meng Changqing handed him the needle box.

"That's not a big deal, is it?" Bafang said, "If we die just after we come, we will be unlucky." ”

"What's unlucky." Meng Changqing said, "Which time does labor not die? As long as the city wall is built, hundreds of people will not be held accountable. ”

Bafang asked: "Look at what you said, that person can't live?" ”

"If you continue to live as usual, you shouldn't live long. She is under the rule of Liangzhou Mansion, and it is said that she will not starve like this. Meng Changqing asked, "What kind of soup did my mother stew?" ”

"Red bean soup, boiled with brown sugar, sweet."

"Since you've drunk it, help me get the needle box back first, and then find a new official document to come out, and I'll use it when I go back."

"Yes."

When she came to the pit where Wen's and them were, her mother also mentioned it.

Listening to Meng Changqing talk about the woman's situation, Wen sighed: "The poorer the family, the more women can't live." ”

Liang chirped and said: "The one who stuttered and barely kept you alive has been calculated, and more is sold for some silver taels for the rest of the family to live."

Sold to a good master's house, that is considered to be an escape, but most of them are sold to unsightly places and tortured to death. ”

Wen patted her on the back, "It's not early, you go to sleep first, I'll talk to Changqing for a while." ”

"Why is my mother so excited?" Meng Changqing asked.

Wen lowered his voice slightly, "You'll know sooner or later, so I'll tell you now." Your mother was sold by her family for silver, and she was resold several times in the hands of human teeth, but fortunately she did not fall into a dirty place, and was bought by her master, and then learned the craft of embroidery.

Your mother is a very gracious person, and it was to save her master that she entered the general's mansion as a concubine.

Otherwise, where would your mother take a fancy to someone of your father's age. ”

Meng Changqing vaguely heard gossip, and there are various versions of gossip, and now he knows the truth.

"My mother's master, what did you do?" Meng Changqing asked.

"It's because of an embroidery sent to the palace." Wen said, "This was more than ten years ago, when the first emperor was still on the throne, but in fact, the current emperor has run the country, and it is the time when the harem is chaotic."

The East Palace is even more unstable, and the current concubine and the crown princess at that time are vying for power, and they are looking for fault everywhere in order to catch each other's mistakes.

Actually, it's not that there is anything wrong with the embroidery itself.

But in the end, it affected your mother's master, your mother had no relatives in Beijing, and there was no way to save people.

When she was stuffing silver everywhere, she happened to hear the news that I was going to marry your father.

She volunteered to be your father's concubine, and her only request was for me to rescue her master. ”

"I see." Meng Changqing put down the soup bowl.

Wen Shi heard the movement behind the curtain and decisively changed the subject, "Now that there are 30,000 people, are you sure that you can build the city wall?" ”

"It has to be built! The personnel and materials are complete, even if the Yan army comes, I will build the city wall in the face of the war! ”

Meng Changqing suddenly remembered, "Mother can see Brother Dai today?" ”

"I asked him to go to Liangzhou City to buy things, and he came back in the evening, do you have something to look for him?"

"I asked him to go to Liangzhou City to find a few doctors, but he never replied to me about this."

"Xiao Dai told me that he followed the persuasion of those doctors for two days, and no one wanted to come here." Wen said, "Liangzhou is already short of doctors and medicines, when you went to the military camp to pick people, I visited Liangzhou City.

In the entire Liangzhou City, there are only two conspicuous pharmacies, and there are only one or two doctors sitting in the hall.

They are too busy with their own business, how can they be willing to come here to suffer?

Xiaodai even went to the doctor in Yangmen County, and the other party said that if there was an emergency, he was willing to go to the doctor, but it was impossible for him to stay here every day. ”

"What kind of emergency can wait for the doctor to come from dozens of miles away to save his life?" Meng Changqing suddenly asked: "Dr. Hu's pharmacy, business is fine." ”

"Don't count your idea on him." Wen said, "It is not easy for him to stay in Liangzhou, if you go further, I am afraid that he will run away with his family overnight." ”

"Mother misunderstood, I wanted to ask him to prescribe some medicine."

Wen: "Then I misunderstood. ”

Meng Changqing coughed twice, "I still have to write an official document to Master Wei, go back first, and my mother will rest early." ”

"You have to rest early, too."

Meng Changqing was destined to not be able to sleep early, and the official document he wrote to Wei Fangyun was changed again and again, and he didn't feel sleepy at all when he wrote about the subtleties. Hearing the third watch outside, she simply got out of the hole.

Not far away, the outline of the city wall can be seen under the moonlight.

It was originally an official document handed over to Wei Fangyun, but it arrived in front of the emperor a few days later.

"The Wen family follows the rules, how can they raise such a person as Meng Changqing." The emperor stared at the large piece of praise in front of the official document, and was very puzzled.

There are a total of five sheets of paper in the official text, and three of them are all about the content of Sima Fart.

Heaven and earth rotate day and night, and there are three shifts on the construction site.

In a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-eighth day, and another six days passed, and it was time to change shifts.

At the beginning of the day, just in the morning, Meng Changqing took her fine hemp rope and walked in the direction of the city wall, and every day at this hour, she would go to measure how long the city wall was new.

From yesterday to now, the foot-high city wall has been built for nearly half a mile.

At present, the length of the city wall is nearly eight miles.