Don't move, this child bride is not easy to mess with.

After learning that Xie Chengan was promoted, Jiang was quite excited at first. When she learned that the capital was about to be besieged by foreigners and Xie Chengan needed to transport grain and fodder to the capital, she refused.

However, how could a woman from the Jiang family control the court's orders?

Jiang Ruiyan and Xie Chengan analyzed the pros and cons of this trip in detail, and came to the conclusion: This is a conspiracy, and Xie Chengan cannot be tolerated without going!

Not to go on this trip would be to disobey the imperial court and die.

If he leaves on this trip, he will either die at the hands of foreigners or die in the infighting within the court - or die.

If you don't want to be this official, you can still resign. In these extraordinary times, court appointments are equivalent to military orders, and there is no room for bargaining.

It is said that the army was defeated in August. Not only was the emperor captured, but more than a hundred court officials and generals were killed, including Guo Xuan, the Minister of Civil Affairs.

Apart from offending Guo Xuan, the only one Xie Chengan could offend was Ning Shilang. Unexpectedly, just because of refusing to marry, Ning Shilang would go to such lengths to punish him to death.

Knowing that he was unlucky, Xie Chengan suddenly relaxed his brows. This is fate, accept it!

He took Jiang Ruiyan to find Su Mulan. Since he was going to die anyway, he might as well take Mulan and abandon his official position and escape, hiding for a while.

Su Mulan may not leave this world anytime soon, so it would be good to be together for a while longer. The county magistrate Lao Shizi and the grain supervisor Tongzhi should all go to hell.

However, when the two of them arrived at Su Zhai, they found that there were forty or fifty people here, apparently divided into five or six piles.

Just now, Su Mulan wanted to go to Xie Chengan and discuss going to Beijing with him. Unexpectedly, before she left the gate, Mrs. Yu came in from the second door and said that there was a group of people outside the hospital asking to see her.

Su Mulan was surprised and walked out quickly to take a look. She was also surprised.

She knew everyone who came: Su Da and Su Er's family, Yang Lizheng's family, Yu's family, Liu Yuyi, Liu Yurou, and Chen Xingxue's family. There were also several families she knew in Dazheng Village.

Su Mulan broke her head and couldn't figure out why these people gathered together to look for her.

As a result, before she could ask, Liu Yurou rushed towards her and burst into tears.

Su Mulan frowned and called these people into the courtyard. Seeing that things were so unusual, she couldn't care less about the people who came, most of whom she hated, such as brothers and sisters Chen Xingxue and Chen Xinglian.

Su Mulan also saw five people, Master and Servant Xie Chengan, Afu, Jiang Ruiyan, Aji, and Qing Niu standing outside the crowd. She waved to a few people and asked them to come into the house.

The outer courtyard was not small, but there were already five grooms including Zhao Jingzi, Yang Xiaowu, Mrs. Yu and others. Suddenly another forty or fifty people poured in, and it was suddenly overcrowded.

After thinking about it, Su Mulan brought Yang Jing, Liu Yurou, Yu Lili, Madam Li Zheng, Su Taoer and other female family members to the inner courtyard, and asked the others to wait in the outer courtyard first.

Su Mulan naturally looked down upon the people of the Su family and the Yu family. They were already divorced, so there was nothing good to come to her this time. Since Liu Yurou chose to get involved with Chen Xingxue, she didn't want to talk to him.

Therefore, Su Mulan first asked Madam Li Zheng to explain her intention.

It turned out that Qinghan Prefecture was more severely affected by this drought. Not only did the crops fail, but what was even more serious was the locust plague. These monsters swept away wherever they went, even the roots and bark of trees.

Two months ago, the locust plague spread throughout Qingsong County, and Dazheng Village bore the brunt!

Unable to survive in the countryside, people from Dazheng Village flocked to the county seat. Not to mention the Yang Lizheng family, even the squires fled to the city. Under natural disasters, all living beings are equal.

Ordinary people had no harvest, but these squires only had more land, but they also had no harvest. Although they had more food stored, they did not dare to stay in the countryside anymore. These people were so hungry that they could not prevent themselves from grabbing food.

The county town has walls, so the population it can accommodate is limited. Especially Li Zhixian was slow to respond. By the time he thought about closing the city gate, tens of thousands of disaster victims had already poured in.

The entire Qingsong County was suddenly in chaos.

Fortunately, Menfan closed the city gate to keep out the flood of victims. Before the county government could sort out these people in the city, nearly 20,000 refugees had gathered outside the city.

Li Zhixian was so anxious that he was sweating. Of course he knew that these people really couldn't survive, so they came to the county to look for food. However, the official warehouse had released most of it half a month ago to stabilize food prices.

At present, Li Zhi County quickly opened warehouses to release grain in order to prevent civil unrest. It's just that the food in the official warehouse has reached the bottom, and it can only provide relief to the victims inside and outside the city for three to five days at most.

Li Zhixian was helpless and quickly summoned grain merchants, wealthy households, and gentry in the city to donate money and grain. Unexpectedly, all of these people are complete misers. Li Zhi County worked for two days to collect 900 shi of grain.

When Liu Yurou saw Madam Li Zheng talking about the county town, she hurriedly stopped crying, and she also added something.

Liu Yurou's father, Mr. Liu, had a great family business and owned a grain store. But since Liu Yurou took away most of her property after getting married, Mr. Liu has less money on his hands, so he is naturally unwilling to donate food or money.

He also wanted to wait until the price of food went up to make a fortune to make up for the shortfall caused by Liu Yurou's marriage.

Unexpectedly, this magistrate Li is actually a ruthless person.

He worked hard for two days and when he saw that he could not collect any money or food, he made a disastrous move.

There were tens of thousands of disaster victims in the city, so he sent government officials to instigate these people to rob the houses of those iron roosters!

Li Zhixian thought well, but he did not expect that hundreds of county government officials could not control these victims. They were obedient and actually went to rob the big customers.

However, after tasting the sweetness, these people are not willing to stop. At first they were just grabbing food, but later they started grabbing everything they saw, including women.

Mr. Liu's shop and house were all robbed. Not to mention the gold, silver, treasures, food and other items in the house, even the Liu family, Liu Yuting and the maids at home were taken away!

Master Liu was unable to stop him and was so angry that he fainted and was trampled to death by these red-eyed victims!

Liu Yuyi was not at home at the time, but he escaped. By the time he returned home, his family was already broken and everyone was dead.

Liu Yuyi went out because he previously persuaded Mr. Liu to donate food. As a result, Mr. Liu lost his temper and was kicked out of the house.

Liu Yuyi had no time to feel sad and hurried to find Liu Yurou.

Although this girl did not listen to the advice and insisted on marrying Chen Xingxue, the brother and sister quarreled so much that they almost broke off the relationship. But after all, he only had this kind of relative. After the disaster, he naturally wanted to see if anything happened to her.

As you can imagine, when Liu Yuyi rushed to Chen's house, the Chen house was being robbed!

Old Chen, Wu, and Chen Xinglian had come to the city to join Chen Xingxue and his wife a long time ago. Unable to survive in the countryside, the Chen family defected to Chen Xingxue, so naturally they did not dare to provoke Liu Yurou again.

Unexpectedly, after escaping to the city and only having enough to eat for a few days, I would be affected by the civil unrest again.