He bother obviously felt that something was wrong, and was about to catch up and ask clearly, but he heard a chant from between the dilapidated sheds: "Where are the people of the boiling sea camping?" Women have no silkworms, weavers have no ploughing. The source of food and clothing is scarce, and the prison pot is boiled and you lose the levy......"

The soldiers were overwhelmed, and commanded angrily: "Hurry up and plug the mouth of that stinky man, I will know what to do if I talk nonsense all day long, and the gods and gods disturb the adults." ”

"Yes!"

"Wait! The official went to see for himself. "Why follow that voice.

"The salt is not idle, and the wood is deep into the infinite mountain;

Leopard trails and tiger tracks dare not avoid, the morning sun goes out and the sunset is still ......"

Everyone turned the corner, only to see a middle-aged man in a long robe sitting by the stove with his eyes closed, holding a wooden stick in his hand, waving Fang Xuan, quite literati, the ground is a tree branch fork, behind him is a dilapidated cabin, the man in a long shirt is out of place with the surrounding environment, seeing that the people are not affected by it, still immersed in their own world, chanting: "The boat has not rested, and the heat of the giant stove has been thrown; The morning burns and the twilight is piled up high, and the waves turn into snow......"

Why stand next to him and close his eyes and listen, and wait until the man in the long robe finished chanting before he spoke: "The world loves to sing the words of Liu Sanchang lingering in the Goolan Washe, but rarely mention this "Boiling Salt Poem", Your Excellency is a scholar, why are you willing to lean between the grass huts, but not to take the test to gain fame and serve the country!" ”

Su Xiaolou held his forehead for a while, what else could he do? Most of them didn't get in, so why bother saying this is equivalent to asking a modern person: "Why don't you go to Tsinghua University?" Is it because you don't like it? ”

The man in the long shirt was embarrassed for a while, looked at the leader of the soldiers next to him, and was silent, Su Xiaolou immediately understood, kicked the buttocks of the leader of the soldiers, and shouted: "Our adults have been coming to this salt field for a long time, and we don't give us a cup of tea. ”

The soldiers hurriedly covered their buttocks and pleaded guilty, nodded and ran to get tea, Su Xiaolou shouted into the distance: "Your best tea, it's not good tea, we adults don't drink it!" ”

The man in the long shirt sighed helplessly: "It's just a salt man below!" Food and clothing are difficult, how to talk about gaining fame. ”

"Oh? It's even difficult to get enough food and clothing. ”

The man in the long robe sneered: "Presumably, you don't know what kind of life the salt people here are doing!" They boiled salt day and night, in exchange for only some brown rice, sometimes there is still a shortage of catties and two, minor illnesses are not treated and are not allowed to rest, if they encounter a serious illness, they will be thrown out directly to resign themselves to fate, this group of people did not take the lives of the salt people as their lives at all. At this point, the man in the long shirt threw the burning stick in his hand and slammed it on the ground.

Why bother with anger in his eyes, what kind of salt field is here, it is clearly purgatory, these soldiers are really hateful, to the life and death of the salt people!

Lu Datong lowered his head, and no one could see the expression on his face.

It just so happened that the leading soldier came over with tea, and when he saw why he looked at him murderously, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to step forward, he didn't understand how he offended this master again.

Why bother to order in a deep voice: "Today is not counted as their missed work, let the salt people stop their work first, they have gathered here, and the official has something to say to them." ”

"Little Command." Lord Qincha's mind was too hard to guess, and the soldiers didn't have time to think about it, so they hurriedly recruited two subordinates to do it, and the two soldiers held gongs and drums, and shouted while walking: "Assembled!" Assembled! Assembled! ”

Soon thousands of salt people gathered together, why bother looking at each of them with yellow and thin faces, dull eyes, and many people's backs have been bent, they are clearly people, but they are treated as animals, why bother to turn thousands of feelings into an angry roar in their hearts: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am the minister of inventory sent by the imperial court to inspect the salt, why bother, today I am here to inspect the salt affairs for the salt people, if you encounter injustice, please come to me!" ”

Why bother when the words fell, there was silence on the field, and then everyone looked at me, I look at you, and there were whispers of discussion, as if they were afraid of something, and they seemed to be suspicious of something, and the leader of the soldiers stood next to him and swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously.

Why bother immediately rushed to the row of soldiers standing and said: "Come on, show this leader ten sticks to the staff!" The leader looked confused, not understanding what he had done wrong and offended this master.

Su Xiaolou couldn't help but sneer, don't look at why you usually go on a rampage, in fact, there are still some wrists, otherwise you can't be so reused, seeing that the soldiers were afraid to step forward, they scolded loudly: "Lord Qincha dare not listen to the words, I think you all want to be beaten?" Don't do it yet! ”

The soldiers were frightened, and they rushed up together to press the leading soldiers on the bar bench and beat them, the sound of wooden sticks hitting the flesh and the wails of the leading soldiers came and went, and the salt people looked at the leading soldiers who were crying wolves, and they couldn't wait to step forward and spit on them.

Why bother shouting with righteous words: "You don't have to be afraid of anyone, if there is any injustice, why should I swear here, I will make the decision for you, for yourself, but also for your family, you must also be brave once." ”

The eyes of the salt people gradually became angry and resolute, and then a young man full of muscles came out of the crowd, and the angry soldiers were: "This group of soldiers withholds our food every day, and gives us brown rice, peeks at my lady taking a bath, and beats us with a whip, which is simply evil, and Lord Qincha wants to make decisions for us." ”

The salt people also stood up one after another and scolded the soldiers for what they had done, and even the half-human-tall children complained in a milky voice: "They also broke my sugar gourd." "It's so shameless, even children are bullied.

The soldiers hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted injustice: "My lord, you can't believe the words of these Diao people, we are responsible for managing these Diao people, and we will inevitably use some means, but we will never be like them maliciously accused, we are wronged!" ”

"Then it's wrong to exchange brown rice for fine rice?"

The leader of the garrison shouted: "Wronged! ”

These soldiers didn't admit it, Su Xiaolou said: "Lord He, it's not difficult to get evidence, just send someone to the rice jar of the village to take a look, and our Jinyiwei is willing to go and see it on behalf of the adult." ”

Got the affirmation of He Bi, Su Xiaolou took Lu Datong and walked towards the village, Su Xiaolou chose a family casually, and just after entering, he smelled a peculiar smell, it was the kind of smell emitted by the clothes absorbing the sweat on the body after work, Lu Datong had been standing at the door and covering his mouth and nose when he came in, he was very disgusted with everything in the house and was reluctant to come in, in fact, he didn't need to find where the rice jar was, the whole wooden house was a palm-sized place, and there were few things in it, that is, a bed, a table, a broken cabinet, and a few small benches, There were still scattered tools for refining salt on the ground, and in the eyes of those officials, the salt people were like donkeys pulling mills.

Su Xiaolou glanced at Lu Datong, Lu Datong reluctantly walked over, wrapped his hand with his sleeve and tore off the rags on the rice tank, sure enough, it was all brown rice, Su Xiaolou put his hand into the rice bowl and turned it from the bottom to the top, and the bottom of the rice tank was a little polished.