Chapter 366: Behind Closed Doors
In the Tang Kingdom, Gao Yishui once reprimanded him, scattered soldiers, only thinking about one person when doing things, and did not know how to use people to control people. Now the words that Gongyi Yinxue said to him are very similar to what Gao Yishui said.
"What should we do?" Qin Ke asked.
Gong Yinxue said: "There are two things to do now, first, to count and confirm the grain in the official warehouse that can be opened as soon as possible, make a plan, and then distribute the grain to various porridge shops according to the plan, and at the same time, add two porridge sheds in the southeast and southwest of the city. Second, after the opening of the city gate, there will be a large influx of displaced people, my uncle got the news, Pingcheng is not very peaceful, maybe soon the people of the villages near Pingcheng will also flee to Jinzhou to seek refuge, if you let it go, I am afraid that when the time comes, it will be easy to make trouble, what the uncle means, no matter how many people are put in, raise them, maybe when the war starts in the future, they can become Jinzhou's help. ”
Qin Ke nodded, Gong Yinxue's words made him feel at ease, back then, if his parents could go to any big city and get a bowl of thin rice porridge, let alone let them help defend the city in the future, even if they went into battle to be a pioneer death squad, they would not hesitate......
Qin Ke lowered his head and looked at the porridge in his bowl and the half-gnawed white flour steamed bun in his hand, these two foods were like the difference between a chopstick and a hundred-year-old tree compared to the "gluttonous feast" on the table last night, but now, outside the city and on the way to exile, I don't know how many people can't ask for it, so they can only endure hunger in their stomachs under the gaze of groups of vulture crows, floating on the vast wasteland like ghosts.
He let out a long sigh and said, "When will there be no war in this world......
But after a while, he laughed self-deprecatingly in his heart: "As soon as there are many people, they will naturally rob it, and they will rob everything, as small as the head of a public loser, and as big as the ...... in this world."
After breakfast, Qin Ke and Gong Yinxue walked out of the August Cicada Pavilion side by side, but they were not in a hurry to go out, but first went to Gong Yinren's house to ask for peace, Gong Yinren looked at the two, his eyes were gentle, he probably explained some things, and took a piece of seal to Gong Yinxue, and then continued to go back to the room to lie down and recuperate under the urging of Zhao.
Before leaving, he said to Gong Yinxue: "You have always been sensible, and I am relieved to leave the matter to you." However, the porridge shop granary is in charge of your third uncle during the days you went out, you need to remember this time, the third uncle is your elder after all, don't easily brush his face before and after, of course, he really has something to do, you just come back and tell the uncle, the uncle will support you. ”
After hearing these words, Gong Yi Yinxue knew in her heart that although Gong Yi Ren was sick, he never had the slightest intention of letting go of the authority of the head of the family, and it also reflected from one side that he would only focus on the face of the public loser in everything, whether it was her third uncle or herself, once it touched the face of the family, it was not worth mentioning.
Outside the house, the carriage had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as the two of them got into the carriage, Qin Ke asked, "What do you mean by your uncle? Why do you want to give him face, but you want to let it go?"
Gong Yinxue motioned for the coachman to set off, listened to the clatter of the horse's hooves, and laughed softly: "Where do you want me to let go? Don't you hear the uncle say, 'Just tell him'? If you want to fight, you have to make a decision first, whether you should fight or not, and who should fight ......"
"So, he more or less knows something about what your third uncle did?" Qin Ke asked.
"In our opinion, the third uncle did some flies and dogs, but the uncle may not have taken it to heart, after the uncle was seriously ill, he was even less decisive when he was young, and only looked forward to the safety of the family house and the harmony of his brothers, so many things have always been turned a blind eye, including the fact that my fourth uncle missed and hurt people by 'sparring' with people in the early years, and he also turned a big thing into a small thing and pressed it down......"
Qin Ke sighed and asked, "So your third uncle ...... You know exactly what you've done that isn't shady, right?"
Gong Yinxue sneered: "Sometimes I really don't understand, he is obviously a rich and noble person with fine clothes and fine food, but he has to compete with those poor people who are about to starve to death for bowls of gruel......"
"Gruel, do you mean that he also has to be greedy for this disaster relief food?" Qin Ke screamed a little loudly, and as Gong Yinxue coughed lightly, he immediately laughed three times in the carriage, trying to cover up his gaffe just now.
Gong Yinxue smiled bitterly and waved his hand, "It's okay, the coachman belongs to our second room." ”
"He just doesn't care about the lives of those homeless people, it's all human lives!" Qin Ke nodded, but still lowered his voice.
In his heart, of course, a life of the homeless people is not worth the real money and silver he exchanged for those grains, he is not as self-reliant as the fourth uncle, and without the acquiescence of the uncle, he does not dare to openly recruit guests to worship, so he can only privately raise some Jianghu guests, so that he will not fall behind when he fights with the fourth uncle in the future. This is also the place where I look down on him the most, he is too selfish, he has not thought about it, if my father-in-law loses popularity in Jinzhou because of the outcast, even if he raises more disciples to worship, what can he do? On the contrary, the fourth uncle's personality is indeed a little arrogant, and he also hates my brother for being useless, but he is more qualified to inherit the public loser than him, but he has always had little bad intentions, and his joys, angers, sorrows and joys are also shown on his face. ”
"Then why doesn't your uncle let the fourth uncle do things?" Qin Ke asked.
"Because the fourth uncle has a bad temper, he will do it if he doesn't agree with him, but when he interacts with people, he must be a little tactful and gentle, if he blindly does things based on temperament, I am afraid that everyone below will complain. ”
Gong Yinxue looked at Qin Ke's righteous indignation for a while, and the appearance of righteous Ling Ran for a while, and her heart became more and more happy, and she was even a little glad that she met him instead of someone else for the rest of her life.
Over the years, she has been working hard to support the sky of the second room alone, trying to act as a big tree sheltering from the wind and rain, and protecting her only brother under the tree. In fact, she was already physically and mentally exhausted, and yesterday Qin Ke stood up bravely, although it was not for her, she still felt warm.
Qin Ke is a warm, kind, and true man, and he is a good man.
Yin Xue secretly clenched her fists and said to herself in her heart.
If only I could...... It may not be a bad thing to live with him all the time.
She thought silently, but quickly blushed, in order not to let Qin Ke see the strangeness of her expression, she pretended to open the curtain of the small window and looked out of the window, and threw all those miscellaneous thoughts into the noisy street with her eyes.
The coachman drove very steadily, and in less than half an hour, the carriage stopped in front of the gate of the official warehouse in the north of the city, but when Qin Ke helped Gong Yinxue get out of the carriage, he found that the problem he encountered was already a problem.
In front of the door of the official warehouse, there were porters who had been arranged by Yinxue early in the morning, and ox carts and donkey carts were scattered on both sides of the gate one after another, and empty barrels and flat poles were placed on them.
The gate of the official warehouse was tightly closed, and some of the porters leaned against the car and chatted, and some sat together to play dice, but they did not gamble for money, purely to pass the time.
But Gong Yinxue's brows were already wrinkled at this time, and she was dressed in white, looking at the porters and asking, "What about Ma Liu, let him come out and talk to me." ”
There was a commotion among the crowd, and soon a thin middle-aged man poked his head out of a donkey cart, saw that it was the male Yinxue, and hurriedly said respectfully: "Miss, I'm here." ”
As he spoke, he jumped off the donkey cart with agility that seemed to be extremely inconsistent with his age, and trotted in three or two steps to the front of Gongyi Yinxue.
Gong Yinxue looked at him carefully, this was not the first time she had seen Ma Liu, but this glance was extremely profound, and Ma Liu was a little panicked.
"Uncle asked you to bring people here to transport grain, not for your people to chat and gamble. Gong Yinxue said coldly: "Didn't the people sent by the uncle tell you clearly?"
Ma Liu said in fear: "Miss, where is this...... Of course, the person sent by the uncle made it clear to me. It's not that I don't want to go through the ledger and check the accounts, but the people here refuse to open the door at all, and I can't do it, I think I can't force the door in, so everyone is waiting for you to come over, Miss, these porters...... There have always been no rules, and after waiting for a while, I became lazy and made the young lady smile. ”
Gong Yinxue looked sideways at the unnatural smile on Ma Liu's face, her voice became more and more stern, and said, "You didn't tell them that this is what the uncle meant?"
"Did...... But they shouted through the door, saying that this official warehouse has always been in the hands of the third master, and they have never heard that the eldest master plans to change people...... They are in you, and I am outside the door...... What can I do if I'm a subordinate?" Ma Liu's face was crying, and the few wrinkles that seemed to be depressed along with Ma Liu's expression.
Gong Yinxue observed carefully for a while, feeling that he didn't feel like he was lying, and nodded while frowning, "Got it." ”
Then she tried her best to put away her anger, glanced at Qin Ke, and the two walked to the door side by side, she held the copper ring on the door and knocked on the door.
An impatient voice came from inside the gate: "Is there any end?" I said it, this official warehouse is managed by the third master, and you said that if you want to come in to see the account, you will come in and look at the account?"
Gong Yinxue's eyes flashed, and he said in a low voice: "I'm Gong Yinxue, open the door for me!"
The voice inside the gate seemed to be suffocated, and after a while, the gate still didn't move, and someone inside said in a loud voice: "What kind of public loses Yinxue, you trick me." Miss Gongyi went out of the city to buy food a few days ago, and she hasn't returned yet, where did you come out of the yellow-haired girl?"
Gong Yi Yinxue was furious: "I am Gong Yin Xue, I went back yesterday to Gong Luo! I have the personal seal of the master in my hand, don't you open the door for me quickly!"
With her roar, even Qin Ke, who was standing beside her, was startled, but inside the gate it seemed to be another world, and she couldn't even hear a sound at this moment.
(You should still cheer up, you must be better today, and go to bed first.) )