One hundred and twenty-four chapters, breaking in
"Oh, you kid, you've ruined all the good food!" Seeing this, the woman in coarse cloth immediately raised her hand and struck it.
Almost immediately, the boy began to cry out loud: "Mother, I was wrong!
Seeing that the child admitted her mistake, the woman sighed and took the child back into her arms: "You child, this rice bran was saved for you to eat by me when I was hungry, how can you spit it on the ground." ”
"Mother's ......" The child threw herself into the woman's arms and said with red eyes: "The rice bran is so unpalatable, I want to drink rice porridge." ”
"Now that this flooding is rampant, where can I get you rice porridge to drink? That is, this rice bran is issued by the imperial court, and there are only two bowls per person per day, so you should be more patient and patient. The woman touched the child's head, endured the hunger in her belly, and fed the rice bran into the child's mouth.
Lin Zheng watched everything on the side, he stepped forward and leaned over to look, what the woman was holding in her hand was indeed not rice porridge, but half-cooked rice bran like pig food!
The woman had noticed Lin Zheng for a long time, but she didn't dare to talk when she saw Lin Zheng dressed brightly, and when Lin Zheng approached, she immediately showed a nervous expression: "Big, my lord......"
"Don't be afraid. Lin Zheng comforted softly: "I am a person from the Luoyang Heavenly Master Pavilion, and I came here to check the disaster." ”
The woman saw that Lin Zheng's tone was kind and not like an evil person, so she nodded lightly, but did not speak.
Lin Zheng groaned for a while, took out some broken silver from his arms and handed it to the woman: "Tell me, where did the rice bran in this bowl come from?"
"This rice bran?" The woman was overjoyed to see the broken silver, and at the same time completely let down her guard, letting the child in her arms go to the side to play: "This rice bran is boiled in the granary by Bai County's order, and the victims can go to get a bowl every morning and evening." ”
"A bowl?" Lin Zheng was stunned for a moment and continued to ask, "A bowl per person?"
"Yes, you can only get one bowl per person in the morning and evening. The woman nodded: "Bai Xian Ling said that the disaster was serious, and the disaster money distributed was not enough for us to eat white porridge every day, so he thought about it and decided to replace it with rice bran, so as to ensure that no one would starve to death, Bai County Ling has already considered it for us." ”
Lin Zheng saw the woman's moved appearance, his pupils shrank, and his heart was already angry, but he still nodded with a smile on his face: "Thank you." ”
Seeing that Lin Zheng was about to leave, the woman hurriedly stood up: "Thank you, Lord for your charity." ”
Lin Zheng turned his head to look at the woman's pitiful appearance, and finally nodded and said no.
When he walked out of the rain shelter, Lin Zheng's face was already gloomy than the clouds during the heavy rain, and he looked like he was about to kill.
"What?" Wang Zixuan couldn't help but ask in surprise when he saw Lin Zheng like this, "There is a problem here?"
Lin Zheng told Wang Zixuan all about what had just happened: "I thought it was enough to give the victims rice bran to drink, but I didn't expect that even if I drank rice bran, they wouldn't be able to drink enough, and the county order of Baishi County would be hard to escape from death!"
Wang Zixuan nodded and smirked twice: "Interesting, I just saw someone talking over there, it seems to be the Bai County Order, let's take a look?"
Lin Zheng nodded with a gloomy face, he also wanted to see who the Bai County Order was, and dared to be so blatantly corrupt!
The two followed the victims to the granary, and looked at the fat man standing above in the crowd, this person was the county magistrate of Baishi County, Bai Yutang.
I saw Bai Yutang with a kind smile on his face, and he appeased the hearts of the victims in an official tone.
"Listen to me, although the disaster relief money sent by the imperial court is not enough, I will still let everyone eat and live in a warm shelter, and will never let everyone starve to death on the streets, please believe in the Zhou Dynasty and believe me. ”
Lin Zheng watched coldly below, Bai Xianling pushed all the pots that the victims could only eat rice bran to the Zhou Dynasty, and he used the stolen money he collected to win the hearts of the victims, and he was even more angry in his heart, and he couldn't help but come to the stage to expose the true face of this hypocritical villain.
Wang Zixuan grabbed Lin Zheng's hand and whispered in Lin Zheng's ear with great interest: "Look at it for a while, I want to see what other moths this Bai County Order can make." ”
"Are you hungry?" Bai Xianling asked the victims.
The voices of countless hungry people suddenly rose from around Lin Zheng and the others: "Hungry!"
This voice shouted without hesitation, and just by the voice, Lin Zheng could hear that the victims of Baishi County must have suffered a lot.
"Today, I paid out of my own pocket, please eat more, okay?" Bai Xianling asked again.
"Good!" the victims said in unison.
"Don't worry, everyone! there will be hot rice bran to eat soon!" Bai Xianling said with a smile.
After a while, the officials really brought up a few large iron pots from the back, untied the lid of the pot, which was actually steaming rice bran, and countless victims immediately held up rice bowls to coax, Lin Zheng noticed that the previous pair of mother and son were also among them, and the child's thin body kept squeezing towards it, as if he was afraid that he would not have his own bowl if he went late.
"It's really hateful!" Lin Zheng stomped his feet angrily.
Wang Zixuan also saw enough at this time, and pursed his lips disdainfully: "I thought that this Bai County Order was a person, but it was just this means to buy people's hearts, because this bowl of rice bran was not reported by the disaster victims and such an impossible thing happened, you said it is ridiculous."
"In the final analysis, it's all Bai County's fault. Lin Zheng glanced at Bai Xian Ling with a cold look in his eyes, and turned around to leave.
"Tiannian, you won't expose him?" Wang Zixuan asked suspiciously when he saw that Lin Zheng was leaving.
"Look at the hungry appearance of the victims, it's not too late to clean him up after this corrupt official has finished this meal, let's go to the county magistrate's mansion to wait for him!" Lin Zheng finished speaking, and walked towards the county magistrate's mansion.
Wang Zixuan nodded suddenly, and followed Lin Zheng to the county mansion.
In front of the county mansion, Lin Zheng and Wang Zixuan were stopped by two family members.
"Stop, what are you doing? I don't know what kind of place this is?" One of the family members was fierce, and regardless of the identity of Lin Zheng and the others, two long sticks stopped in front of the two, and one of them gently patted Lin Zheng's chest with a stick.
Wang Zixuan saw that the family members in this district dared to slap Lin Zheng with a stick, so he raised his hand and slapped the two of them in the face, which was a light slap for Wang Zixuan, but for the two family members who had never practiced martial arts, it was like being hit by a fast-moving carriage, and they actually passed out directly.
Looking at the two unconscious family members on the ground, Wang Zixuan clapped his palms: "Let's go in, I'll see who dares to stop us." ”
Along the way, Wang Zixuan and Lin Zheng stunned countless families, and finally sat in the lobby of the Baixian Mansion.
"This county government is really not so easy to enter. Wang Zixuan looked at the family members who were gathered outside the hall but didn't dare to go deeper, and a cold smile could scare everyone back a few steps.
Lin Zhengze's face was indifferent: "The fierce lord and evil servant, it seems that this Baixian Ling is really not a good person." ”
Outside the county order, the white middle-aged man who embezzled with the white county order came to the house with the middle-aged man with a goatee.
"I was put on the spot by the surnamed Bai, I didn't expect the rain to stop so quickly!" said the middle-aged man Bai Jing indignantly.
"He took a third of the money and went out to buy rice bran for the victims, and I think he swallowed all the money!" said the middle-aged man with a goatee, too.
"I must ask for the money today, I think he dares not to give it!" The two walked into the county mansion while talking, only to find that the atmosphere in the mansion was a little wrong.
Countless family members were holding sticks outside the lobby, not knowing what they were doing, the two of them angrily pulled away a few family members and walked into the lobby.
"What are you doing here?" the two scolded as they walked.
The family didn't dare to stop the two, so they could only hurriedly avoid it and make way into the lobby.
The two patted their sleeves, glanced at the surrounding family members in disgust, and walked into the lobby proudly.
"Who are the two of you?" The two of them saw that there were people sitting in the lobby, and then looked at the family behind them who had newly surrounded the lobby, and suddenly became alert.
"Who are we? Tell me who you are first? I remember that this is the Baixian Mansion, right?" Wang Zixuan crossed Erlang's legs, and the old god was in the way.
"We are businessmen in this county, and we have made great contributions to Baishi County, so we can freely enter and leave this county government. The goatee man said proudly.
"Oh, I see. Wang Zixuan nodded knowingly, and glanced at Lin Zheng, obviously Lin Zheng also saw that these two were also one of the accomplices in corruption.
So Wang Zixuan no longer hesitated, and pressed the two of them to the ground in just an instant.
"What are you doing?" the middle-aged man exclaimed, "You dare to do something to us? Believe it or not, Bai Xian ordered to cut off your heads!"
"Boy, don't let me find out who you are!" the goatee man threatened as well.
Wang Zixuan and Lin Zheng smiled helplessly when they saw that the two dared to threaten themselves.
"It seems that you still don't understand your situation. Wang Zixuan put his foot on the belly of the goatee man: "Now standing in front of you are the Luoyang Heavenly Master Pavilion Master and the Tianyun Pavilion Master, do you know that if you threaten me, you will have a reason to kill you?"
"Heaven, Heavenly Master Pavilion and Heavenly Fortune Pavilion?!" the white middle-aged man said in surprise when he heard this.
"What?" The goatee man also looked like ashes, just now he actually said that he wanted to find out the identity of the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Fortune Pavilion?
"You are suspected of embezzlement. Wang Zixuan said lightly: "Prepare to be punished." ”
The two of them lay on the ground weakly, even if Wang Zixuan didn't move, the two of them had no intention of getting up.
Bai Xian Ling also returned to the county magistrate's mansion at this time, and as soon as he entered the mansion, the county magistrate's wife suddenly rushed out to stop him and said, "Master, it's not good!"
"What's going on?" Bai Xian Ling couldn't help but lower his brows and asked when he saw that his always steady wife was so flustered.
"Two young men came in the lobby, injured a lot of family members, and detained the two merchants!" the county magistrate hurriedly explained the matter.
Bai Xianling's eyes froze, and then nodded meaningfully: "It's okay, leave it to me, you go and serve them two pots of tea, and I'll be there later." ”