Chapter 40: The Jingzhou Famine
It is said that Chu Ping came to the ground of Jingzhou Mansion and encountered a group of people blocking the road and robbing them, and after a closer look, he saw that they did not look like thieves, and the man was suddenly shocked and ashamed, and knelt on the ground and said: "The hero is really a good eye! In fact, we are not hooligans, let alone robbers, and we are all honest dealers."
It's only because of the locust plague in our Jingzhou area this year, which led to the loss of crops, and those officials and old men don't care about the life or death of our poor people.
I never thought about it, but today I met a really capable person like you, a hero, and I beg the hero to think that we are also forced to let us go!"
Hearing him say this, he turned his head and looked at the rest of the people carefully, and saw that all of them were yellow and thin, and saw that their eyes were filled with crystal tears, and they looked very pitiful, Chu Ping couldn't help but feel compassion, inserted the sword, took the burden, took out the money bag from the bag and handed it to the man, and said: "This old man, I have more than four hundred taels of silver here, I bother you to take it and distribute it to everyone, you each go and buy some rice and grain to go home, and live in peace!" I promise you that within a month, I will definitely let the Jingzhou Mansion open a warehouse to release grain and help you. ”
This person was excited, his eyes were filled with tears, his hands trembled and he took the silver handed over by Chu Ping, and said excitedly: "Thank you for your great kindness!
The rest of the people are naturally grateful, and they all miss Chu Ping's kindness. After some gratitude, they set off together and returned to their hometown.
After everyone left, Chu Ping felt a lot of feelings in his heart, frowned, shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "Ahem! It's really pitiful! Pity these simple peasants, not to mention the locust plague, but when they encounter such unkind and unrighteous dog officials, they don't care about the lives of the common people, it's really hateful!"
Shui Lingyu quietly walked over and said, "Brother Chu Ping, I know that you have a compassionate and chivalrous feeling, but how can you make a promise to them so easily?
Chu Ping glanced at Shui Lingyu, frowned slightly, smiled slightly, and said: "Lingyu, now is not the time to take care of your reputation, but to find ways to relieve the suffering of the people on this side, this is the most important thing."
I have always known that today's son is a rare virtuous lord Mingjun, he will never sit back and watch the suffering of the people of Jingzhou and ignore it, if I expected it to be correct, it must be some unscrupulous officials, from which to make a fool of themselves, and even want to make a fortune. Since I have encountered such injustices, how can I sit idly by and ignore them? Isn't this contrary to the great righteousness of 'chivalry'?"
Although Shui Lingyu was impressed, she still had some worries and worries, and said: "Brother Chu Ping, I know that you have to take care of this matter, but after all, this is an official affair, although you have a stunt, but after all, you are not an official or public official, you have no position and no power, how can you say that you can manage it? In the end, isn't it just causing trouble?"
Chu Ping waved his hand and said, "Lingyu, this is a bad statement! As the so-called people in the world are in charge of the affairs of the world, when there is an injustice, it is natural that we should do our best to solve it, instead of blindly choosing to escape. If that were the case, wouldn't there be more people suffering in this world?"
Shui Lingyu saw that she couldn't persuade him, so she had to nod and say, "Brother Chu Ping, since you have decided that you have to take care of it, then I will definitely do my best to support you." It's just that you must be more careful when you act! After all, dealing with officials is not a joke. ”
Chu Ping frowned slightly, smiled slightly, leaned in front of Shui Lingyu, kissed her forehead gently, and said with a smile: "Lingyu, thank you for your concern and support for me, please rest assured, I will definitely be more careful when dealing with the official family this time." ”
Shui Lingyu nodded and said with a smile: "Well, that's good! Brother Chu Ping, it's not too early, I think we should hurry into the city and find an inn to settle in, right?"
"Okay! Let's go!" the two joined hands and stepped into Jingzhou City.
It didn't take much time, so I came to the front of a "cyclamen" inn and entered the inn. Seeing that a guest was coming, the hall official greeted him with a smile and greeted: "Yo! Welcome the two guest officers to our cyclamen inn, I don't know if the two of you are sharp, or stay in the hotel?"
Chu Ping said: "Little Er, if it's not early today, of course the two of us will stay in the hotel." Tired little brother, choose two good guest rooms for us, remember, this female guest officer's room must be quietly and elegantly furnished, as for this money, I will never be short of you. ”
After hearing this, the running officer smiled, nodded and smiled: "Okay, guest officer! In that case, two guest officers, please follow me upstairs!"
Chu Ping and Shui Lingyu followed the hall official upstairs together, Shui Lingyu quietly leaned into Chu Ping's ear and said softly: "Brother Chu Ping, didn't you already give all the silver to those pretending thieves just now?
Chu Ping smiled and said softly: "Lingyu, you can rest assured, in fact, in my baggage, there is a silver ticket of one thousand taels and eight hundred taels, with these, are we still afraid that we can't afford to live in the store?"
When Shui Lingyu heard this, she was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and laughed softly: "Oh my God! Brother Chu Ping, I can't imagine that you are really a rich man! My Shui Lingyu has grown so big, but I have never seen what a thousand taels of silver tickets look like!"
Chu Ping smiled slightly meaningfully and said, "This is easy to do, wait a while and enter the room, I will ask you to see it with your own eyes!"
Shui Lingyu nodded and laughed softly: "Well, okay! I, Shui Lingyu, can finally open my eyes today!"
The hall runner led the two upstairs, selected two guest rooms, turned and went downstairs, and prepared a meal for the two of them.
Entering the room, Chu Ping first fulfilled his promise to Shui Ling, and after Shui Lingyu feasted his eyes, he was naturally pleasantly surprised, and asked: "Brother Chu Ping, so much silver, but I don't know, how did you get it?"
Chu Ping smiled and said, "What's the matter, Lingyu, do you still think that I will be the kind of thief who robs the house?"
Shui Lingyu frowned, pouted, and muttered softly: "Look at what you said, how can I think you are that kind of person? People are just a little curious! Why do you want to say such a thing? It's really annoying! I hate it!"
Chu Ping approached Shui Lingyu, patted her jade hand gently, and said with a smile: "Okay, Lingyu, don't be angry, I just want to make a joke with you, don't blame me anymore, okay?"
Shui Lingyu glanced at Chu Ping and said with a playful smile: "Who? Who is angry? Who is so stingy? Brother Chu Ping, tell me, who is she?"
Seeing Shui Lingyu so naughty and so cute, Chu Ping couldn't help but take her into his arms, smiled happily, and sighed: "Ah, Lingyu, Lingyu, I Chu Ping can meet you in this life, it's really a blessing! Lingyu, since I have your company, I suddenly feel that my life is full of color and fun, and it is no longer as boring as before." ”
Shui Lingyu snuggled tightly in Chu Ping's arms, and smiled comfortably: "Brother Chu Ping, being able to meet you is also my blessing! Since God intends to arrange for the two of us to meet together, then we should cherish each other and cherish our hard-won fate in this life, what do you say?"
Chu Ping nodded and said softly: "Well, Lingyu, you're right! We should cherish each other well, cherish every day and every moment we are together, even if we stay until the end of this life, we won't regret it!"
"you!" Shui Lingyu scolded softly rather dissatisfiedly: "Who said that the fate of the two of us will come to an end one day? ”
Hearing this, Chu Ping couldn't help but be stunned, slowly lowered his head, kissed her forehead, and said, "Okay, Lingyu, don't say such meaty words anymore." Lingyu, I don't think it's too early, you must be a little hungry, let's go downstairs and eat something, right?"
"Okay. The two walked out of the room hand in hand, ready to go downstairs for dinner.
As soon as he came to the staircase, Chu Ping suddenly saw a table in the corner of the inn lobby, sitting a martial arts knight, sitting there drinking alone, carefully looked at his figure, felt a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, and said in surprise: "Strange?
Holding Shui Lingyu's hand, he quietly walked over there. When he came closer, he was very surprised to find that this person was Ye Feng, and said with a smile: "Oh! Brother Ye, I said why is it so familiar? It turned out to be you!"
Ye Feng looked up at the person who came, and when he saw that he was Chu Ping, he suddenly felt overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly got up, clasped his hands into fists, and said, "Oh! It turned out to be Brother Chu! Brother Chu, I haven't seen you for a few months, I never thought that we met here." Come on, Brother Chu, it's better to meet by chance, please sit down with Brother Chu and have a few drinks with the younger brother, how about it?"
"In this way, then I'm not welcome!" Chu Ping returned the salute, and then, moved two chairs, let Shui Lingyu sit down first, and sat down next to Shui Lingyu, and after the two of them sat down, Ye Feng stretched out his hand to beckon the guys in the store to come, and asked him to add some more wine and food for himself, and prepared two more pairs of dishes and chopsticks. The old friends reunited after a long absence, and there were endless words between the two.
Seeing that the two of them were talking happily, but she was left out in the cold, Shui Lingyu suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and felt very uncomfortable, so she couldn't help but quietly come to Chu Ping's side, and asked in a loud voice: "Brother Chu Ping, who is this person? Why have I never seen him?"
After hearing this, Chu Ping suddenly felt embarrassed, and said guiltily: "Oh, look at my pig brain, I only cared about talking, and I actually forgot to introduce you two." Come on, Lingyu, let me briefly introduce to you, this Ye Feng Ye brother is my confidant and friend. Lingyu, Brother Ye, he is an extraordinary, chivalrous hero! In the past, I worked hand in hand with Brother Ye to punish and eliminate evil, how happy it was! Brother Ye, this Lingyu girl, she, she is ......" Speaking of this, Chu Ping didn't know how to continue, just glanced at Shui Lingyu secretly. Shui Lingyu glanced at Chu Ping secretly, and even lowered her head shyly, silently, just laughing secretly.
Seeing the two of them so reserved, Ye Feng immediately guessed the relationship between the two, clasped his hands into fists, and congratulated Chu Ping: "Brother Chu, I haven't seen you for a few months, I never thought that you, Brother Chu, were lucky to meet such a confidante with a beautiful face, Brother Chu, you are really a blessing! Little brother, I am here to congratulate you, Brother Chu!"
Hearing him say this, Chu Ping suddenly felt embarrassed, his face was red, he scratched his head, and said softly: "I'm sorry, Brother Ye, let you, let you laugh, it's really embarrassing!"
Ye Feng hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Alas, why does Brother Chu say this? Between men and women, it is a matter of course to talk about love and spend the love of children together, so what's so embarrassing about this? It's a pity that I don't have such a good blessing as Brother Chu, if I can be like Brother Chu, and I am fortunate enough to meet such a confidante, I am afraid that I will already be publicized to the people of the world, how can I hide it like Brother Chu?"
Chu Ping smiled and said, "Brother Ye, life is often unpredictable, I believe that Brother Ye, you will definitely meet your own crush in the future." ”
Ye Feng frowned, sighed, and said, "Ahem! I hope so, but at the moment, I don't care about this, but I'm worried about one thing! I don't know what to do? Now that I am fortunate enough to meet Brother Chu, I can ask Brother Chu for advice, I wonder if Brother Chu is willing to help Xiao Ji and solve this big trouble?"
Chu Ping raised his hand, gave a salute, and said: "Brother Ye Hugh is polite, if there is any trouble, please just say it! If it is really a tricky matter, I will definitely do my best to help Brother Ye and you." ”
"Thank you, Brother Chu!" Ye Feng sighed again and said, "Ahem! This matter is really hard to explain!" So, he told Chu Ping in detail about the trouble he encountered.
I don't know what Ye Feng is worried about? Let's see the following breakdown.