The old man looked at Da Kui with both eyes, and his eyes were like torches as if he wanted to see through Da Kui and said: "My lord is from Shunyuan, don't you know?" Da Kui shook his head and said: "This official is not from Shunyuan, I am from Longping." The old man asked in surprise: "Longping is more than 2,000 miles away from here, how do you know about the disaster in Shunyuan?"

Da Kui said frankly: "This official came to Shunyuan City a few months ago, and he learned about the disaster from an old man. But the official has seen very little, and this time he came to verify the matter. The old man looked at Da Kui and asked, "My lord has traveled all the way from Shunyuan, and you can see the disaster?"

Da Kui nodded and said, "The hungry people change their children and eat miserably. The old man sighed and said, "It's so miserable. Da Kui hurriedly asked why, and the old man continued: "There are no people within a hundred miles around Shunyuan Mansion City, and there are more than 100,000 hungry people outside a hundred miles. Da Kui was puzzled and asked, "I heard that Lord Yin Meng of Shunyuan Mansion is a good official, but why did he turn a blind eye to the people affected by the disaster?"

The old man sighed: "Lord Meng has been deposed, but the current Fu Yin is surnamed Liang. This person is greedy for money and vicious, just because the people affected by the disaster are not Han Chinese, and this Lord Liang actually oppressed the people in every way on the grounds that 'their hearts will be different if they are not of my race'. The Han people have always bought grain for 500 pieces of silver, and if it were not for the Han people, they would have to pay three taels of silver a load. All of our ethnic groups are mainly farmers in the mountains and forests, but how can they have the money to buy grain? Now the 32 villages of Jiuzhai near the left side of Shunyuan are starving all over the wilderness. ”

Da Kui hurriedly asked: "This surname Liang is the previous Master Liang, where did he come from?" The old man muttered: "Your Excellency guessed well, this person's name is Liang Youcai." It was indeed the master of the Yamen of Shunyuan City. As for what the hell is going on, this old man doesn't know. ”

Da Kui couldn't help but ask again: "This official saw that the people in your village today are not like hungry people, but why?" The old man smiled and said: "In addition to farming, my Yao people can still eat bamboo rice and wild vegetables. But it won't last long. ”

Da Kui nodded and said: "In this way, the official will leave, and the old man can ask someone to go back to Shunyuan with the official, and inform the old man if there is something." The old man nodded and said, "That's the best, the old man will send it off." ”

On the way back to Shunyuan, Da Kui brought a young man from the Yao tribe. His name is Panbu, and although he is only twenty-three years old, he can be regarded as an outstanding hunter in ten miles and eight towns. Before going out, the old man asked him to change into a Han cross-placket and take off the cloth towel on his head. Because Shunyuan City now has a rule, there are no aliens and hungry people left in the city.

Panbu is very talkative, up to the etiquette and customs of various ethnic groups, down to the wild animals in the mountains, everything is like a few families know very well. Da Kui likes this character of Pan Bu, although everyone is hungry in a disaster year, he is already a happy smile.

When I entered Shunyuan City, it was already dark. Da Kui took Panbu to find the Shunyuan Inn.

Yang Xiaohu and Tian Feng had already arrived at the inn and booked a room, and when they saw Da Kui, they were busy leading them to the upper room. The four of them sat down around the table, and Da Kui asked Yang Xiaohu and Tian Feng in detail about the news they had discovered.

It turned out that the former governor Yin Meng had written a letter a few months ago to ask for grain for disaster preparedness, and King Wu approved the allocation of 200,000 quintals of grain and rice by Huguang Province. Along with the grain cart procession, there was also this Liang Youcai, Liang Youcai's nephew of Wang Fu, who participated in the politics of Huguang Province, and became the governor and master of Yin Yamen of Shunyuan Mansion when he arrived in Shunyuan. Subsequently, as long as the affairs related to grain and grass were handled by this Master Liang, and he took the opportunity to make money.

Lord Meng is an honest and honest official, so he naturally can't get used to Liang Youcai's actions, so he reported Liang Youcai's actions to the court in a fit of anger. Two months later, the imperial court dismissed Master Meng as a commoner in the name of ineffective disaster relief.

Da Kui couldn't help but itch the roots of his teeth when he heard this: "It's that Wang Fu again!"

Now most of the victims in Guizhou Province are around Shunyuan City, and what Yang Xiaohu and Tian Feng said is basically the same as what Da Kui saw. Da Kui instructed: "Tomorrow at noon, I will submit a prayer post for me, and this official will go to meet that Lord Liang." Tian Feng and Yang Xiaohu took the order. Da Kui said: "It's not early, let's go to dinner together and go to bed early." ”

The funny thing is that there is a famine outside the city, and the city is in a panic. There is anything you want to eat in the restaurant in the front hall of the inn, but it is still the same as the last time you came to Shunyuan City, but the price is more expensive. Da Kui, Yang Xiaohu and Tianfeng have walked so far, and it is time to have a good meal along the way. Da Kui called the shopkeeper in the front hall of the inn to order a table of dishes and a jar of wine, and everyone sat around the table and prepared to eat and drink happily.

The steps are very restrained, and she squirms and pinched like a little daughter-in-law when she eats. Da Kui was very unaccustomed to it: "Panbu, you eat like this at home? Saying that, Da Kui grabbed the chicken leg and took a big bite, and at this time he also let go, and the Shandong dialect burst out again.

Panbu blushed and said: "I'm not like this at home, this is the first time I've eaten with a big official, I can't..." Da Kui chewed the meat and smiled: "What's embarrassing, come on, let go and eat." He agreed and began to move.

Da Kui was stupid, Yang Xiaohu was stunned, and Tian Feng was stunned. Is this called eating? It is said that martial arts are almost the same, and that posture is much better than that of Da Kui. What swept the thousands of troops (with chopsticks), Haidilao Moon (with a spoon), two-pronged (one hand chopsticks and one spoon), good guy, at first glance, it is a practitioner.

The other three did not dare to slack off, and they all started to fight. Maybe the food that was grabbed was particularly fragrant, and the four of them competed happily, eating and drinking happily, just like a family. This also allowed Da Kui to see the boldness of the young man of the Yao tribe, and felt that he was very tempered with himself.

Everyone was eating and drinking, and a government official walked in outside the door, and when he saw Da Kui, the four of them came over and bowed to Da Kui and said: "Lord Tongzheng Envoy, the villain was sent by Lord Yin Liang of Shunyuan Mansion to send an invitation to Lord Tongzheng Envoy." As he spoke, he took out an invitation from his bosom.

Da Kui took the invitation and opened it to look at it, and couldn't help but praise: "Good words, Tian Feng, you help the official collect it first." As he spoke, he handed the invitation to Tian Feng, who got up and took the invitation with both hands and put it in his arms.

The official bowed his hand again and said, "Such a villain has retired. As he spoke, he bowed and took three steps back, turned around and went out the door.

Da Kui smiled: "What a quick news, I didn't go to him, but he came to me." Tian Feng said in a low voice: "My lord, please be cautious, and prevent the partition wall from having ears." Da Kui nodded and said, "Tomorrow, I'm going to visit this Lord Liang." ”

Early the next morning, Da Kui got up, washed up, went out of the room, and walked around the courtyard but didn't see anyone else getting up. I knew that they must be tired from the thousands of miles of saddle horses, and I couldn't bear to wake them up. Da Kui walked out of the inn alone and walked out into the street, walked and followed his memory to the small ruined temple he had been to before. Those refugees must have been driven out of the city a long time ago, thinking about the misery outside the city now, Da Kui couldn't help but feel palpitations.