Chapter 51: Wandering in the Clouds
The county order did not dare to let these victims enter the city, so they could only set up shanties and porridge shacks outside the city to shelter and relieve the refugees from Lingzhou.
It's just that the grain from the autumn harvest has already been delivered, and the grain depot is empty, but there is an endless stream of victims from afar.
Bucket.
In the county office, Deng Qi, who was wearing an official uniform, was so anxious that he paced back and forth, sat down to drink tea for a while, and sighed halfway through the drink, and threw the teacup on the table.
At this time, the staff master who was filming to raise food suddenly ran in, and the county magistrate suddenly stood up and asked.
"How?"
Master shook his head.
Deng Xianling's eyes widened: "The big households in the county, where are the grain merchants and rice shops?"
The master spread his hands: "One by one, there is no surplus grain! A few families took some silver and rice grain, but the amount is too small, to no avail!"
"It's mainly the Lin family and the Sun family, both of which are big grain merchants, and they are unwilling to stand up, where do others dare to speak. ”
Although Deng Xianling was full of anger, he also knew that this kind of thing could not be forced.
After sitting down, I felt dry again, and I couldn't help but take a sip of the tea that was already cold: "Has the disaster been reported?"
"It has been reported, but the imperial court will not be able to send disaster relief food for a while, and most of the time, the states and counties will still have to provide disaster relief on their own. ”
The master is obviously an old officialdom, and he can see this process of the Great Zhou Dynasty clearly.
couldn't help but admonish: "Talking about this kind of thing is not about our Yunbi County." ”
"Do more wrong, do less wrong!"
Deng Xian Ling slapped the table: "This county can't just watch these victims starve to death at the foot of the city wall, right?"
The master is older and has seen a lot of things, so naturally he is not as bloody as Deng Xianling, who was a first-time official: "Natural disasters and droughts, how can human power restore them." ”
Deng Xianling thought for a while, and suddenly remembered someone.
"I heard that the son of the Lin family is kind and benevolent, filial piety and benevolence, maybe open a gap from him, let the big families in the county stand up for disaster relief, as long as this period is relieved, wait for the imperial court's disaster relief documents to be issued. ”
The master nodded: "This is also a way, I will invite Lin Gongzi to come to the county government now." ”
Not long after, a boy in brocade clothes entered the county office, the same one who was almost deceived by the master of Wutong on the street before.
The county government had a very happy conversation, and in the end, it was even Deng County's order to personally send Lin Gongzi out.
"It's all up to Mr. Lin. ”
"Deng County, please rest assured, when you go back later, you will admonish your father, this is also a matter of benefiting the country and the people, how can you not follow it. ”
But when he returned home, this Lin Gongzi was sprayed with blood by his father at home.
Dressed luxuriously with a pavilion hat, Lin Youcai stood up and pointed at his face and scolded his son, and saliva sprayed on his face: "Don't feel distressed when the cub sells Yetian, do you know what the grain has risen now?"
"Our Lin family relies on this natural disaster, at least several times the value, and then how many fields do we have to collect, now I don't need you to give me a meritorious test, and our Lin family will be truly developed. ”
"Where is the time to care about irrelevant people. ”
Lin Gongzi stepped forward: "The reputation is stinky, even if the son is famous, what face will he have to be an official in the future?"
Lin Youcai's eyes widened: "Why is my reputation stinky? Don't I have disaster relief? Haven't I produced food?"
"I obviously asked the family to pick out all the food in our stove, there is not a single grain left, there is not a single grain left, what do you want?"
Lin Gongzi pointed out directly: "Doesn't our family still have a lot of grain in the warehouse?"
Lin Youcai suddenly jumped up like a cat had been stepped on by its tail: "Don't even think about it, I, Lin Youcai, have no food, no food." ”
The fat rich man shouted at a high voice, as if he was afraid that the people outside would not hear.
Lin Gongzi said angrily: "I don't think you're without food, you don't have a conscience, Dad. ”
"You little brute, see if I don't kill you!"
A rage erupted, and the hall was in chaos.
In another large family in the city, the head of the house is a young man with a somewhat pale face.
At this moment, in front of the head of the Sun family, there was a master of Wutong wearing a Taoist robe.
Through a few special red pills and a few so-called supernatural powers, Master Wutong made the head of the Sun family believe in him.
"As long as you are willing to transport all this grain to Anle Temple, and change to Anle God in the future, I guarantee that there will be no Lin family in Yunbi County in the future. ”
"And if you worship the God of Comfort, you will be cured, and you will be blessed with good fortune and prowess from then on. ”
"Ahem!" Hearing the head of the Sun family behind him, he couldn't wait to say.
"I promised!"
Master Wutong's eyes narrowed, and he almost stood up and sang a Buddha name, and he struggled for a long time before he shook off the dust: "From tomorrow, you will be able to see what you want." ”
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At night, Lin Mansion.
Lin Gongzi quarreled with Master Lin during the day, and now he is grounded at home, and at night he is still thinking about how to persuade his father, so he falls asleep in his thoughts.
But it didn't take long for Lin Gongzi to suddenly feel that there seemed to be light outside, it was obviously night, but it was white outside the paper window.
Lin Gongzi was puzzled, pushed open the door and looked, and was suddenly dumbfounded.
The entire Lin Mansion has become a place covered by clouds and mountains.
The fog was heavy, I don't know how deep it was, Lin Gongzi was groping in it, but he couldn't see any other figures.
"What's going on?"
"Anyone?"
"Daddy?"
"Butler?"
No one responded.
At this moment, above his head, the clouds and mist dispersed, and the fairy light fell.
And he saw a man of God sitting cross-legged on the clouds.
"Lin Zhiya!"
And when he looked up, the man of God was calling his name in the clouds.
This scene made Lin Zhiya's eyes straighten.
"It turned out to be a fairy. ”
"Mortal Lin Zhiya meets the immortals. ”
Lin Zhiya was at a loss for a while, and then suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted again and again.
On weekdays, when I read books, I always thought about what would happen when I met the immortals, until I saw the immortals, I knew that I was not so bold, and my heart was full of horror.
The gods called him up, and he really stepped on the clouds, above the clouds.
Looking down from the sky, everything in the field of vision has become so small, as if thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are all under your feet.
Such a scene dispelled the fear in Lin Zhiya's heart, aroused his excitement and joy, and followed the immortals to swim above the clouds, looking left and right, and there was no moment in the hometown in the past to see so clearly.
"Can I borrow some of the food from your family?" At this moment, the clouds drifted to a warehouse, and the immortal suddenly stopped and asked.
"Immortals, just take it. Lin Zhiya said immediately.
The skylight opened, the clouds and moonlight fell, and the rice and grain in the granary fell into the clouds like a dragon absorbing water.
The mighty and the river is endless.
This scene made Lin Zhiya's eyes shine, and he felt that everything he saw tonight was better than everything in the past, and his horizons were broadened and expanded.
After some excursion, the immortals collected rice grain from a few more places, and then drove back to the clouds and stopped at the Lin Mansion.
From his sleeve, the immortal escaped a pill of elixir blooming with a halo of glow, just smelling a mouthful of fragrance, making Lin Zhiya feel clear and fluttering, and he was known to be not a mortal thing.
"This pill is called the Living Death Pill, which can be used to dissolve the flesh and bones of the living and the dead, and it can also be used to detoxify all kinds of poisons. ”
"You take it back and use it for yourself. ”
Lin Gongzi took this elixir, but he didn't know the deep meaning of the immortals.
The fog cleared, the wind blew, Lin Zhiya's body shook, and then he found himself standing in the courtyard in single clothes.
And in his hand, he held a jade-like elixir spirit pill.
Lin Zhiya realized that the scene just now was not a dream, but a reality.