XXXIX. The dust has settled
How long is the suffering.
A few happy families and a few sorrows, when will a nightmare end? Fan Yuanwai woke up slowly, staring at the eager faces of the old and young in a daze, and in a trance, he only suspected that this body was still in a dream.
A short day, a long day.
The slanting light sprinkled all over the west window, and the lonely pillow was still warm in the brocade. It's really a dream in vain, but it's not a sweet dream, it's better than a midnight dream! Why don't you wake up from a dream for a long time? Just because people are awake, dreams are not dreams, and you have to face them when you wake up from a dream.
Everywhere, gloomy clouds and misty. Sad people, gathering places, looking at each other with tears in their eyes, speechless and choking. Now there are wicked people coming, robbing my wealth, cutting off my food, and the Fan Mansion is hesitating. The old man is unable to support himself, his wealth and food are empty, people are bedridden, and the family is desolate. What if you wake up? Say, "Master, are you okay?" and say, "Master, don't panic." "What's the use? Who can be fine, and who is not flustered? Then ask, "Master, what should I do?"
What can we do? What can we do? What can we do if the bandits abuse them are like tigers, the officials are as ruthless as wolves, and the officials and bandits collude with each other, and what can we do if a family is old, weak, sick, and disabled? Fan Guizhi closed his eyes and was silent for breath. The family was so worried that they were silent. No one in the room spoke, and the cold atmosphere became more and more oppressive and heavy, turning into a thousand boulders pressed against his chest, condensing into ten thousand years of cold ice and freezing his throat. No one could speak, the atmosphere in the room was so oppressive that everyone had turned into fossilized humanoids, and the air had frozen into ice!
One person couldn't stand it first, broke a boulder in his chest, and broke the ice with anger: "Wow, yes! I went with a certain family! I fought with them!" There are all people who understand, and there is only one who is confused. This steward is loyal and courageous, but his brain is not very bright, and this is said upside down, it should be like this-
"Fight with them! Wow, go, go with a certain family!" "Where do you go? Tiangong Xianjiale? As soon as you travel to the underworld? You can afford to fight, don't fight if you can't fight, don't mess around, don't fool the honest people here! Steward Xiong was bored with himself, it was the hammer on the stone that shattered his chest, swallowing the two heavens of ice and fire, and he couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, and he pushed the door and left, wanting to come to a show: Guan Yunchang went to the meeting alone!
"Come back. Fan Guizhi gasped lightly.
The bear housekeeper was originally full of enthusiasm, and he was lukewarm for everyone, and he couldn't hang it on his face for a while, and his heart was cold when he walked to the door--he was reckless again, and no one could afford to go to the meeting alone, and he didn't have a big knife, how could he sing? Sing to death? Sing it for the ages? Can't sing it up and down the stage, and he doesn't have a plan in his heart, and the old man is right in the middle of his heart, and he hurriedly strides back, and his heart is grateful, and the tiger eyes are already in tears: "Master!
Master Fan coughed and whezed, gasped for a long time, and struggled to stand up. Everyone hurriedly went up to help them and helped them get out of bed. Shaoqing was dressed neatly, and Fan Guizhi gasped: "I'll go out and have a look, you guys are waiting here." Everyone was shocked and hurriedly stopped and persuaded Fan Guizhi to say no more, waved away everyone and walked out of the door. Butler Xiong hurriedly followed and shouted, "Master, I'll go with you!" Fan Guizhi waved his hand behind his back and walked out of the door gloomily.
On the paths, in the corridors, there are endless pedestrians. When I went in, my hands were empty, and I came out with big bags and small bags to press my shoulders, and they were all radiant and laughing. The momentum has been achieved, and it cannot be stopped, how can it be that the enemy of 10,000 people is of the same heart! Laugh, laugh! Whose grain have you taken? Grievances are hard to snow and frost to laugh at! Can you know that the surname of the person here is Fan? But no one is looking at it! Hateful, annoying, sad and lamentable, my grain! Fan Guizhi wailed and staggered to the backyard.
There is little food in the backyard, there are a lot of people, and they are loaded and handed and carried on their backs, and they are all busy, but they are in order. Half of the officials commanded here, and the scene was well managed. More than ten servants have their own division of labor, and each party in the courtyard is assigned to distribute food. At the door, Yizhan sat down at the square table, waving his name, standing proudly beside him, counting the number of people with one arm, and it was incumbent on him to cooperate with each other.
Straw soldiers!
Fan Guizhi was remorseful, and his heart was like a knife. If he hadn't been confused for a while, he would not have fallen to such a state at this time! The straw soldiers will take the lead in making trouble, and the straw soldiers will show their might, so how can they forget? The straw soldiers bluff people and scare the birds is a sideline business, and the old business is exactly -- transporting grain and releasing grain!
There is not much food in the four compartments, and the black hand has gone to the grain hoard. The hateful little straw bale was arrogantly shouting and laughing at the birds, how could there be so many birds? But he couldn't take care of the many birds, people and birds, and the food was about to be moved: "100,000 stones, the root of life, my grain!
Bitter, bitter, bitter! The heavens should not be called, the earth is not spiritual, and no one listens to the cries and begs halfway! Only one person can solve the crisis, and that is the evil man among the bandits and the wicked among the bandits, and the bandit Xue Wanli! To solve the bell, it is necessary to tie the bell, and he would rather give up his sick body and fight with him! But the bandit in the autograph book stood leisurely beside the stone lion, and it seemed that he was in a good time, but he seemed to be waiting for a vacant position.
Fan Gui's heart was so anxious that he flew forward and knelt down on the spot: "Xue Ye, Xue Ye!" Xue Wanli turned a blind eye and dodged aside. Fan Guizhi cried again and again, got up and knelt again. Xue Wanli frowned slightly and stepped aside. Fan Guizhi couldn't cry, grabbed and knelt again. Xue Wanli shook his head and sighed, turned around and walked towards the flower garden. Fan Guizhi was not discouraged, and hurriedly got up to follow. Xue Wanli walked forward by himself, and after a moment he came to an old pine, stopped and turned around-
"Stand up!" Fan Gui's heart and liver trembled, his hands trembled and his feet trembled: "Xue Ye! Xue Ye!" Xue Wanli sighed: "Say it." Fan Guizhi sobbed and said: "Master Xue, please raise your noble hand and spare the hard-working little old man!" Xue Wanli smiled: "Don't dare to be, Fan Yuan's words are serious." Fan Guizhi begged in a low voice: "You can take the gold and silver Xue Ye as you like, but this grain is really the lifeblood of the little old man's foundation, and he can't give it up!" Xue Wanli shook his head and said: "No, how can you regret what you said?"
moved with affection, begged again and again with tears, how could this bandit be like a stone, just ignore it. Fan Yuan couldn't do anything else, so he had to wipe away his tears and be reasonable. You must know that the reason is on your own side, and the reason is to go all over the world! No matter how fierce and evil he is, a person will always be reasonable: "Xue Ye will definitely scatter this grain to the people, I really don't know if I am old, why is this so?" Fan Guizhi raised his voice and talked eloquently. Xue Wan's face was cold, and he looked at him coldly. Fan Guizhi didn't know what he meant, but he didn't dare to ask again, and he was at a loss for a while.
After a while, Fan Guizhi only felt that the pressure was getting heavier and heavier, and finally messed up: "I know, I know, but why does Xue Ye bother to bring a child to mess around and tease the old man?" Xue Wanli said lightly: "If it weren't for him today, according to what you did in the past, but by Xue's means, I would have taught you to be in a different place." ”
Fan Gui's heart was terrified, and he looked up. Xue Wan's expression was calm, and his eyes were calm. The four eyes met, Fan Guizhi knew that what he said was true, gasped a few times one after another, and hissed: "What is the crime of the old man, as for you to force each other to die!" Xue Wanli smiled and said: "I heard that you hoarded Juqi to raise the price of grain, and squeezed out your peers to occupy the grain market, I don't know if this matter is true or false?" Fan Guizhi was stunned for a while, and muttered: "The businessman's pursuit of profit is his own surname, and the old man does not steal, and the other does not rob, what is wrong?" Xue Wanli smiled: "If it is according to your reason, the thief is also his own surname, even if he steals you and robs you, it is right?"
Fan Guiyi was speechless for a while, only shook his head and smiled bitterly. It's a good mouth, but the sophistry is unconvincing after all: "Xue Ye, the two can't be compared, my Fan family businessman does business, and the people buy it if they want to, and if it's too expensive, they can't buy it, how can it be equivalent to bandits?" Xue Wanli smiled and said: "If people want to eat, how can they have no food? Others have to buy you if they are too expensive, and they are all reluctant to pay you money, how are you different from bandits?" Fan Guizhi asked again, opening his mouth.
"Fan Yuanwai, today you say that you are bitter, but do you want to say that the people were bitter in the past?" Fan Guizhi couldn't make a sound, closed his eyes and sighed. Xue Wanli said again: "Today, Xue Mou made you return the grain to the people and the things to the original owner, what do you have to complain?" Fan Yuan was speechless, and there were still complaints: "Xue Ye, the food here is the hard work of the old man all his life, not all ill-gotten gains, in the past, it was said that the little old man was at fault, but at this time, how could he bear to see that all his hard work was in vain!"
These words are reasonable, affectionate and modest, there are heavens, seas, earth, life, death and righteousness, and it is more difficult to deal with. People have saved up a lifetime of food, but who knows how many red hearts and how many black hearts? Xue Wanli closed his eyes and was silent, Fan Guizhi saw that he had stumped this wicked man, and he was hopeful again, and he was worried for a while.
"Today, Xue is here, not to harm you, but to save you. Xue Wanli sighed, pointed and said: "Fan Yuanwai, look at the people who receive the grain!" Fan Guizhi looked at it in a daze, but he didn't know that the grain was grain and the people were the people, and he said something outside of his words: "Nowadays, there are natural disasters for many years, there is a shortage of food everywhere, and ordinary people are hungry, and it is difficult to say-" Fan Guizhi sneered in his heart, he lacked me enough, how did others live, and what did he do outside the staff?
"You coaxed the grain in the disaster year, which made the people's suffering worse, and said that you could barely eat and wear, so I put up with you for a while, if you are hungry and cold, and there is no way to live-" Fan Guizhi was startled, and he had already realized, but he didn't know: "Hunger everywhere, only you have food everywhere, outside of Fan Yuan, there is no Xue here today, do you know that one day Fan Mansion will be burned in the whole city and destroyed by the anger of thousands of people!" Fan Gui's heart was shocked and sweated on his forehead, but he came to say that he had come to say, I am afraid that it is not this Xue Wanli alarmist:" You don't believe it, he said that death is coming, you don't have to regret it!"
"Do you know what it is like for a person to be hungry and crazy! Do you know what it is like for a family to be hungry and crazy!" Fan Guizhi was so frightened that his hands trembled, and Xue Wanli became more and more angry the more he spoke: "If a person is hungry and crazy, as long as he can swallow his stomach, he will swallow his stomach, and if he can't swallow his stomach, he will swallow his stomach, and in the end, his conscience will be swallowed in his stomach! Swallow your little Fan Mansion, but in an instant! You can't think of it, and have you ever heard of the allusion to the corpse in the year of the disaster, and the tragedy of selling children and girls, and eating by children!"
"You, you, don't say it again!" Fan Guizhi was in a trance in his heart, his eyes were empty, and he muttered.
"You say that you are bitter, why don't you think about the person who can't tell you the misery, how can you bear it in your heart? The book of sages and sages, have you read it all in the dog's belly!" Fan Guizhi was almost crazy, hugged his head and screamed: "That's not what I did, no!" Xue Wanli was also sour in his heart: "Come and say that you should think about things today, if that kind of tragedy happens in front of your eyes one day, do you dare to say a sentence that has nothing to do with you Fan Yuan?" Fan Guizhi slowly fell to the ground, his face was like ashes and panting. Xue Wanli let out a long breath of depression in his chest, turned around and walked away: "If you don't repent, Xue Mou will let you go today, and he will say that someone will come to take your surname!
"Xue Ye-" Fan Guizhi screamed sadly, but he didn't know what to say, he just sat on the ground and choked.
"Xue Mou is not a master, if you say a few words of nonsense, you don't listen to it or not, don't talk about right or wrong, don't talk about it!" Xue Wanli laughed and walked away: "Fan Yuan takes care of your noble body, come and say that you are good for yourself!";