Chapter 475: Officers and Soldiers Search the Village
"In this disaster, the imperial court has no plans to provide disaster relief. All of you stand down!" the officers and soldiers shouted at the people who were blocking the sedan chair and began to drive them away.
The people kneeling in the official sedan chair were some old, weak, sick and disabled people, who retreated to the side of the road amid the shouts and scolding of the officers and soldiers.
Those officers and soldiers shouted: "A few days ago, you people in the loquat pass dared to confront the officers and soldiers, and the county lord came here this time to hold those of you responsible!"
Someone among the people responded: "None of us have participated in the fight with the officers and soldiers. ”
The official master in the official sedan chair lifted the sedan curtain and said loudly: "We know that the people who are fighting with the officers and soldiers are not you, where are you young and middle-aged people?
Tao Ziyun and Moss Yu and Yuyuan were in the maze of them, standing behind the trees and bushes in the mountain pass, looking at the qi qi on the road quietly. Tao Ziyun recognized it, and the one sitting in the official sedan chair was still the former county magistrate Feng Shengshi.
The people who had already retreated to the side of the road still had an old man who explained in a loud voice: "Master Guan, the villagers who fought with the officers and soldiers are also forced to do so! Wu Xiancheng wanted to take advantage of the dry weather and the long time when the spring water was cut off to buy Young Master Zeng's land at a low price, so he started a dispute! Young Master Zeng was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he would definitely rally his tenants and family members against Wu County Cheng's tenants and family members! Officers and soldiers came to intervene, and in the melee, it was inevitable that the officers and soldiers would be injured, but including the ordinary people who planted crops, there were even more wounded!"
"You are just speaking for those who are dealing with the people, interfering with the aftermath of the official handling and not bothering to pay attention to you. Get up the sedan chair and go into the loquat pass! Go to the villages inside and settle accounts with those troublemakers!" Feng Zhixian put down the sedan chair curtain and instructed the officers and men to enter the loquat pass from the mountain pass.
The people who stopped the sedan chair were obviously also residents of the loquat pass, and they then entered through a granite road that was neither wide nor narrow in the mountain pass.
Yuyuan is holding his son in the maze. Tao Ziyun, who bowed his head and pondered, asked, "What should we do?" Do we fly in before them, or do we wait until we follow?"
Without waiting for Tao Ziyun to answer, Tao Yu preemptively said, "Let's wear the people's clothes, catch up with those people, and go in together, so that we can ask them about this matter." ”
"Let's go, keep up with the people. Tao Ziyun hugged his daughter and son from Moss Yu and Yuyuan in the hands of the lost city, "You go empty-handed, go first, I'll hold the child." It's good to cover my face, and now I don't want that Feng Zhixian to recognize me and see what they want. ”
Moss Yu and Yuyuan understood Tao Ziyun's intentions in the Lost City, Xianggong was responsible for supervising the supervision of local officials, and if you want to have a correct identification of the officials, it is better not to contact them head-on now. They said no more, but hurried after the people.
Tao Ziyun found the old man who came forward to deal with Feng Zhixian just now from the crowd. Amiably said to him, "Uncle, may I ask your surname?"
The old man looked at Tao Ziyun and replied humbly, "Don't dare, the cheap surname is Cao." The name mustard. ”
Tao Ziyun took the opportunity to ask: "Oh, Uncle Cao, may I ask the official master just now, what do you want to go in?"
Uncle Cao replied to Tao Ziyun sadly: "What else can I do? They went in to arrest people! The croppers and the families fought with the officers and soldiers, and everyone in the towns and villages knew about it. Now it seems. Those people in the government will not let those villagers go lightly. ”
Yuyuan asked in confusion in the lost city: "Those people have a holiday with the officers and soldiers, why don't they flee to other places, and wait at home for the officers and soldiers to arrest them?"
Uncle Cao replied with a wry smile: "After the officers and soldiers were beaten away, the family members who did not work did hide in other places. But the villagers still have to desperately guard the rice in the fields! So we, who can't do farm work, checked the movement at the mountain pass, and when we saw the government people coming, we asked the children who were running fast to go back and report the news, and we waited outside for time so that the villagers could hide in time. ”
Moss Jade also interjected, "So, those who should have been hiding are now hiding. But I don't understand, isn't the spring water already running out, and how do the villagers protect the rice?"
Uncle Cao replied with a strong spirit: "After the spring water is cut off, one day the spring water will be restored, and in this time when the flow is broken, the villagers can't sit and wait for death, so they go to the far away 'bluestone big rock pit' to fetch water, and in addition to using it for domestic water, they also have to pour the rice in the field, so as not to let them dry up and die, and wait for those springs to come out, and then fully irrigate." It's just that this year, the flow has been cut off for too long, almost 200 days! Another government has come to arrest people and arrested them, so no one has the strength to go so far to fetch water!"
"There's water far away, can't it be brought to you?" This situation immediately caught Tao Ziyun's attention.
"We can't attract it, otherwise we wouldn't have to go so far to fetch water. I know that a few of you are from other places, and you have come to visit relatives and friends who have been affected by the disaster here, and you don't come here very often, so I don't know why. I'll tell you directly, in the deep mountains more than ten miles away from here, there is a huge bluestone pit that originally had no water, and after the spring at the foot of the big stone mountain was cut off, after two days, the bluestone pit began to rise up until it formed a vast clear water lake, which is a big heavenly pool! Dinosaur weir water', everyone is saying, that is our spring here, it is hollow, there are big dinosaurs living in the cave in the spring, when the dinosaur is restless, it blocks the spring with its body, the spring is cut off, and then, the clear spring water produces a reverse flow, and it is accumulated in the big bluestone rock pit in the distance. That Tianchi is surrounded by big bluestones, and it can't lead water to it at all!" Uncle Cao said, feeling confused.
"How could there be such a strange phenomenon!" Tao Ziyun couldn't believe that the cave inside the spring could still hide extinct dinosaurs elsewhere!
Tao Ziyun and the others strolled and talked in the back, and the officers and soldiers in front had quickly dispersed to several villages in Loquat Pass, and searched everywhere inside and outside the house, making chickens and dogs jump!
The old, weak, sick and disabled people around Tao Ziyun looked at the situation in the village, all helpless!
Later, some officers and soldiers went to the official sedan chair to report: "Lord Feng! There are still no young men in the village who participated in the attack on our officers and soldiers!" (to be continued......