Bai Qi said this sentence unhurriedly, as if to let Qin Ke hear it as clearly as possible.

"With a sword?" Qin Ke turned his head to look at the Bodhisattva sword he had placed on the table, and was a little stunned for a while, since it was a marriage, the sword was a murder weapon, it shouldn't have been worn by his side, right? But Gao Yishui said this, there must be a reason for him.

He hesitated and asked, "Why?"

Bai Qi shook his head and said, "I can only help deliver the news, as for what Mr. Gao is thinking about, I actually don't know." ”

He blinked and quipped, "Maybe for Mr. Gao, I'm not enough for him to trust completely?"

Qin Ke hurriedly shook his head and said, "How could it be! With Brother Bai's character, he has no reason not to trust you." It's just that Lao Gao has always liked to pretend to be mysterious, and it's all stinky problems, don't worry. ”

"Of course not. Bai Qi laughed, "I said it in passing, but I didn't mean anything else." ”

He stood up, held his ink-colored long sword, and said: "The words have been brought, I am not convenient to stay for a long time, the situation in the border area of the Mo family is unknown, I have to get in touch with other ink people as soon as possible, and the defense of Jinzhou should also be as perfect as possible now, after all, it is the first major defense line of our Mo family, and it is necessary to resist a vicious battle in the future." ”

As he was talking, footsteps sounded outside the courtyard, and a man dressed in a housekeeping shirt walked in, bowed his head and said humbly: "Mr. Bai, the master asked me to invite you over." ”

Previously, Bai Qi had a special visit to the public loser as an ink person, and the first time they met, the two talked for a long time, the public lost Ren was worried about the defense of Jinzhou, and the ink man was good at arranging the formation to defend the city, and now Bai Qi is also a frequent visitor to the public loser, and the free entry and exit of the public loser will not cause people to look sideways.

Qin Ke sent Bai Qi away, turned around and went to the front hall, and sat on a table with Gong Yinxue, who had already gotten up and freshened up, and after the meal, they both went out and got into the carriage again.

The whip crackled, the coachman roared and galloped up the street with the carriage, Gong Yinxue was still reading a book in the carriage, Qin Ke helped her lift the curtains, letting the sunlight outside in.

"Are you going to check the warehouse today?" Qin Ke looked at Gong Yinxue and frowned seriously, and chuckled.

"I'm not going to go yet. Gong Yinxue said: "I arranged for Ma Liu to do the matter of checking the warehouse, looking at the reaction of the third uncle yesterday, it is estimated that he has already started to fill in the holes, and the rest is the chaos in the account records, which Ma Liu can handle." ”

"Then where are we going?" The carriage moved steadily, and Qin Ke's ears gradually heard the noisy sound of the market.

Gong Yinxue lowered her head and continued to read the book: "Go and see the porridge shed, the city gate was opened yesterday, and I don't know how the people who entered the city are now......

The porridge shed is set up near the city gate, and the morning porridge has been distributed for a while, because the official warehouse was opened, and the public loser made a decision that each adult can receive two more steamed buns in addition to two meals of rice porridge a day.

When Qin Ke and Gong Yinxue's carriage stopped not far from the porridge shed, the people were holding complete or broken bowls in their hands, lined up in a long line, slowly moving forward like a thousand-legged centipede.

At this time, it should be almost noon to eat, but the people in front of the porridge shed need to carry the bowls one by one to the big pot to receive rice porridge and steamed buns, and there are only two people in the porridge shed who are busy, and the speed is naturally not guaranteed.

The carriage of the loser was luxurious, and the two horses in front of it were also carefully selected high-headed horses, which soon attracted everyone's attention, but the common people didn't care much about the origin of the people sitting in the carriage, they licked the pottery bowl without a grain of rice, and only thought that this queue could move forward a little more, and then go a little further.

But they found that the thin man who gave the soup soup to the public loser put down the big soup spoon in his hand at this time, and the fat man who made the steamed buns also followed, and the two of them trotted towards the carriage, and suddenly the voices of dissatisfaction in the crowd came and went, and the people at the front of the team gritted their teeth, and wanted to reach out to hold the big spoon in the pot, but they were hit in the wrist with the scabbard by the officers and soldiers with serious expressions on the side, and let out a cry of pain.

Seeing this situation, Qin Ke couldn't help but want to go over and scold, but Gong Yinxue reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes and shook his head at him, which made him press down.

"Miss. The tall and thin middle-aged man looked at Yinxue and was slightly excited.

Originally, Gong Yiren handed over the matter of the porridge shed to Gong Yinxue to manage, and she then took someone out to transfer food, so she let Gong Yi take care of it.

Under the hands of the public servant, the officials who took care of the granary were all fed by him, but those of them who worked in the porridge shed, the hardest and most tired people, did not have much oil and water, and they did not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, and they looked forward to the return of the public Yinxue to continue to take care of things.

In their hearts, Gong Yinxue is at least a person who sympathizes with her subordinates, is approachable and does not put on a show, although there will be no oil and water to make when doing things under her, but it will not be harsh even if there is no mistake, and as long as she does it decently, she will often be rewarded.

Gongyi Yinxue also recognized this famous family, in fact, she had a good memory since she was very young, and she could remember everyone who talked to her, and then she grew up, and even those who only had one side of the relationship would not forget or be confused.

She nodded and asked, "Song Liang, why are you and Zhang Guang here?" ”

Gong Yinxue glanced at the queue outside the city gate again, and frowned: "When will this score end?"

"Miss, we'll get up and make porridge and steamed buns, but this ...... I'm afraid it's going to take another hour. Song Liang's face was sad, "Now there are only two people in the porridge shed, me and Lao Zhang, there were originally two more, one was burned two days ago, and the other went to eat in shifts at this time." Alas. I also mentioned this manpower to the third master before, but the third master didn't think so, but said that I was making a big fuss because I wanted to get a few more relatives to come in and mess around. Wronged, there are several porridge sheds in the southeast, northwest and northwest, which one is not busy getting up early and greedy for darkness, where can he still mess around?"

Gongyi Yinxue knew that this was another mess left by Gongyi, when she was in charge, this porridge shed was also four people, but now there are several times more homeless people than before, but I didn't expect Gongyi to take this matter to heart at all, otherwise, with his status at home, it is not a matter of a sentence to send a few family members to help.

"Is this the case with several other porridge sheds?" asked Gong Yinxue.

"The south of the city is better, the north of the city is estimated to be half a catty, the west of the city is even more chaotic than ours, a few days ago the people also made trouble, almost smashed the porridge shed. Song Liang frowned and said: "But that's because the daily porridge is too thin, and it is the same as water to drink, so there will be an accident, and now the porridge is thick white rice porridge, and it is also accompanied by white flour steamed buns, and no one complains." ”

Gong Yinxue waved her hand, asking the people who followed behind her to record the situation reported by Song Liang in the file, and then she glanced at the long queue, read the expectant and anxious looks on the faces of many people, and hurriedly instructed Song Liang and Zhang Guang: "You two go over to work first, don't delay the soup kitchen."

As she spoke, she turned back to the two family members who came with her and said, "You guys, go buy a few more pots, and help them temporarily today." ”

"Yes. The two housekeepers bowed their heads and answered.

"Thank you, Miss, for your kindness. Song Liang was overjoyed, thinking that as soon as Yinxue came back, the situation would be different, and suddenly there was more energy in his chest.

The family members did their own things, Song Liang picked up the big spoon again, Zhang Guang on the side also looked full of confidence, the ranks of the people squirmed again, and the noise in the crowd gradually subsided.

Yin Xue turned her head and was about to talk to Qin Ke, but was attracted by a small cracking sound and scolding.

I saw a skinny child, dressed in tattered and dirty clothes, almost unrecognizable in the color of the fabric, squatting on the ground and covering his head, and in front of the child, there was a broken pottery bowl, rice porridge scattered all over the ground, and it was steaming hot.

"Your eyes are white, sir, you can't see me as big as me? Look at my clothes. The one who scolded the child loudly was a nobleman in splendid clothes who looked extravagant, but this nobleman's standing was a little unstable, and his face was reddened with a hangover.

"Cry, cry, cry, cry!" the noble boy walked in vain, stretched out his hand and smashed the child's head again.

The corner of his brocade robe was slightly stained with rice porridge, because the clothes were dark satin, which looked a little conspicuous. And the few people standing next to him could see that they were also children of rich families, and they began to laugh at him wantonly with the intention of drinking, probably saying that Gongzi, you are unlucky, hurry up and spit a few mouthfuls of saliva on this child, so as to go to bad luck or something......

Hearing this, the noble son's eyes became even more fierce, and he leaned forward and kicked the child, and the scolding became louder and louder.

Qin Ke frowned, in broad daylight, a few people are really a bit excessive, just a child, but at the age of six or seven, he is as thin as a stray kitten, this noble son is so drunk that he can't even stand on his feet, or he bumped into other people's children first......

And he looked sideways, wanting to ask if Gong Yinxue should go up to help, but found that her eyes were complicated, so he asked a little strangely, "What's wrong......?" Know him?"

Gong Yinxue sneered and said, "Not only me, but I'm afraid that there will be no one in Jinzhou who doesn't recognize him, but you shouldn't have seen him...... This is the precious son of my third uncle's family, his name is Gong Yincheng, and he is the same generation as me. ”

"It turned out to be my own family. Qin Ke smiled bitterly, and there was a hint of hesitation in the steps he was about to take out.

"It's just that whoever he is, even if he's drunk, it's not right for a child. Seeing that Gong Yincheng was about to raise his leg to kick the child who had fallen to the ground and couldn't get up, he finally couldn't hold it back.

But Qin Ke still stood in place and didn't move his steps.

It's not because he is inconvenient to step forward to interfere because of the face of Gong Yinxue, but at this moment, the situation over there has changed, and a thin figure rushed out of the street, stood in front of Gong Yincheng, and stopped the instep of his foot that wanted to kick out.

It was actually an old face, Qin Ke and Gongyi Yinxue were slightly stunned.

"This, isn't this Chu Gou?"

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