That Boss is chasing again

After half an hour, Yihan put down the embroidery and reminded softly: "My lord, it's time to rest."

"En." Yanqing spread the book on the small table, and asked with concern: "Are you not used to it these days?"

Suspicious Han's face flushed slightly, and he replied in a low voice: "Go back to the prince, no."

Yanqing, who observed her reaction, was puzzled, okay, why are you shy?

The subtle aura emanating from Yihan's body made Yanqing shut up in time and drink tea silently.It seems that the world consciousness has arranged for him more than one?There is another one who has already lurked by his side?

Yanqing shook her head secretly, unable to figure out what the world consciousness wanted to do.He chose to wait and see what happened, and see what happened.

The convoy traveled for five or six days and arrived in a small town.

There were not many pedestrians in the town, and everyone was in a hurry. Yanqing took a rest after the steward arranged the luggage, then changed into normal clothes and walked around the inn alone.

The inn they were staying in was roughly the largest in the entire town, and the strange thing was that there were no travelers to rest before they checked in.There are some people with tired faces sitting sparsely in the shop. There are tea bowls and a large pot of tea on the table. They don't look like people who are tired from the journey, but like people who are tired of life, coming out to hide.

The street where the inn is located is lined with shops of all sizes. When you turn around, you can see that the flow of people has increased significantly, but few women go to the street.

Yanqing walked into a jewelry store, and the storekeeper came up to him and asked him what he wanted. He declined the store's kindness, and looked at the jewelry on the bright side by himself, while paying attention to the movement not far away with his ears up. .

It seems that the daughter of a wealthy official and businessman in the town and her maid are discussing which one is better, with some small complaints mixed in from time to time.

Yanqing was surprised by the information revealed between the lines.

It was probably because the family wanted to send their daughter to the capital to participate in the upcoming draft. The daughter didn't like the atmosphere in the capital, and she didn't want to be a concubine, but she couldn't handle her parents, so she came out to relax.

Draft?

Yanqing carefully recalled the big and small events that happened before Beijing and Beijing, and there was no such thing as a draft.If it happened after he left, it shouldn't have been passed on so quickly. Depending on the situation, this news has been spread for a long time, and it has troubled his daughter for a long time.

When did the message come out and why did it come out? Why didn't Xiao Du's hidden guard report it?Yanqing felt that she might need to send a letter back to ask what happened.

After returning to the inn, Yanqing immediately recruited people to prepare pens, ink, paper and inkstones, wrote down the situation, and hurriedly sent them back to Beijing, and handed them over to Prime Minister Lin.

After resting for a day, he took a few people and simply packed some luggage and went to the next town where he planned to stay. The rest of the people and the convoy then set off. It would be best if he could keep up, but if he couldn't keep up, he would be temporarily stationed somewhere to wait for him. Just return.

Most of the roads along the way are official roads, unless there are private trails that do not pass through the official roads. Even so, there are not a few refugees encountered.

On the way, he met people who were donating porridge in a shed outside the city, and he could only take a look at the situation from a distance, and he couldn't do anything else.Even if he has a lot of grain stores in his hands, it is simply unrealistic to lower the price of rice.After the famine, it is necessary to balance the price of rice, otherwise it will cause turmoil and the consequences will be more serious.

Those who serve the government and the people cannot help themselves, and cannot control their actions.

Although it was not the first time to experience such a thing, Yanqing still felt deeply powerless.

It is easier said than done to be efficient.

King Ping and King Li set off earlier than him and should have arrived in the disaster area, hoping to ease the number and speed of refugees going north.

Along the way, Yanqing learned of unexpected, heard and heard incidents emerged one after another, which made him wonder whether the local government has been corrupted to the extreme.

In the five years since Xiao Du ascended the throne, how the imperial court has been functioning, if Prime Minister Lin hadn't been clear and bright, perhaps more than half of the imperial court would have been colluded with each other.The remaining half, half of them had a smooth official career, and the other half were courtiers of the former emperor Tuogu.

Fortunately, Prime Minister Lin replied to his letter, indicating that the countermeasures had been handed over to Xiao Du, and the next step was to be supervised by the Minister of Rites.

A few days ago, Shang Shu acted as an agent of government affairs, and Yan Qing was quite satisfied, so it was considered the best arrangement. Prime Minister Lin was old and frail, and he was really unable to manage the huge court anymore. Home.

The DPRK and China need to inject fresh blood. The next imperial examination will be in the spring of next year. Before that, let's do other things well.Maybe it will really take a long time to stay in this world.

Yanqing got off the horse and found a relatively square stone by the side of the path to sit down and rest. Others also stopped to find places to rest.

Leaving the horse's rein, Yanqing let it look for food by itself.

The path they are on is close to the nearby poplar forest. The forest is not small and can hide many people. Yanqing is not worried about encountering robbers. The people he brings are all people who can protect themselves. No matter how bad they are, they can run away. , he doesn't have to worry about it, as long as there is no burden to protect himself, it's not a problem.

The reason why I chose here is just to know the situation of refugees.

The closer you get to the disaster area, the more refugees there will be. However, King Ping and Li Wang personally brought relief food here, so there should be fewer refugees who fall into trouble.

They met several times in the front, and gradually became less and less, maybe the situation is slowly easing.

After sitting for a long time, there was no movement. Just when Yanqing was about to call back the horse and set off to continue on the road, commotion and screams came from the forest.

Yanqing got up and took two people to investigate, crying and even the sound of blood splattering came into her ears.

"Whip." Yanqing calmly said to the attendants following behind.

The two looked at each other, and one of them untied the spare leather whip wrapped around his waist and handed it to Yanqing with both hands.Holding the whip, Yanqing signaled the two to speed up their pace.

As he entered the depths of the woods, large areas of mottled red traces seeping into the ground came into view, Yanqing lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Save—" the woman's weak cry stopped abruptly, Yanqing remained unmoved, and continued to move forward steadily.

As the blood stains gradually increased, the whip in Yanqing's hand was rolling between his fingers, and at a certain moment it stopped suddenly and was pulled forward.

Cheng Yao (eight)

"Which grandson? Come out, sir!" The rough man in the uniform of a government official yelled and got up from the ground, with a very eye-catching whip mark on his back.At his feet was a woman with a big belly. She had just lost her breath, and her body was covered with scars, some of which were deep enough to show the bones. Only the abdomen was still intact. It was obvious that the woman desperately protected her.

Yanqing stood behind him with a gloomy expression.

A man's accomplice nearby heard the sound, and his clothes were still stained with blood, cursing and holding a knife at Yanqing and asking: "Where did you come from, don't meddle in your own business, get out!"

"Who told you to do the massacre of the people?" Yanqing asked, rubbing the whip in his hand.

"It has nothing to do with you," the man raised his chin arrogantly, "Don't talk too much about the affairs of officials."

Yanqing didn't care about their nonsense, raised his hand and whipped each of them to the ground, two attendants immediately stepped forward to pinch them.

Throwing the whip to one of them, Yanqing squatted down to examine the woman's abdomen.Found that the woman's lower body was wet, Yanqing felt depressed, and pulled out the dagger used for body protection to cut open the woman's rough clothes.Then cut open the woman's round abdomen, bloody.

The two attendants couldn't stand it anymore, and returned to their resting place with the two officials.

Slowly and carefully separate the flesh and blood, the sense of solemnity towards new students and the sense of wantonness towards life, the former makes people feel calm, while the latter makes people feel violent.

Yanqing's hands were as steady as Mount Tai. When he saw the baby struggling to slide down, he paused for a moment, then smiled, patiently took the stuck baby out of the woman's belly, and carefully put it in the coat he just took off superior.The baby has just been born and has to do some cleaning.

He rearranged the woman's clothes, wrapped the baby in his arms, went to the place where he was staying, and ordered a few people to bury the murdered person in the forest, and hurried away to find a cleaner water source.

After a lot of effort, the baby was finally cleaned up. It was a red and wrinkled ball, and it was a girl, and I couldn't tell who it looked like.Her mother looked like a delicate and gentle woman. I don't know what this little guy could look like.

Taking the baby to say goodbye to her mother, Yanqing took her and hurried to the destination.

It seems that the killing of people is not limited to this area. From the interrogation of the two officials, they are only following the orders of their superiors, and their superiors are also doing things for others.

Yanqing does not know who she is working for, but no matter who she is, she cannot let it go easily.

The destination of their group is Chun County, the county seat near the disaster area.

After arriving outside the city of Chun County, Yanqing changed out of the dusty clothes, and Fuxu also changed into new swaddling clothes.

Yanqing gave the little girl a nickname of Fu Xu, the name that came to her mind when she saw the morning light on the horizon when she set off early in the morning, hoping that she would get out of the dark night and enlighten herself.

Fuxu sucked her fingers in her arms, her small face was tightly wrinkled, and she was on the road with Yanqing and the others these days, but she couldn't get too good milk, except for being very hungry and meowing like a kitten, most of the rest of the time she was sleeping.

Covering Fuxu's face with swaddling clothes, Yanqing hid in the crowd and moved towards the city gate with the big flow. He heard that there was a notice posted on the city gate, and the refugees and the common people flocked to see the notice. Being able to play by ear, other people were also scattered in the crowd, and they were scheduled to meet up after entering the city.

There are not many people who can read and write, and they may not understand what is written on the notice, but they must see it with their eyes to be at ease in their hearts, and the content will be clear when they listen to the poor scholars under the notice.

Yanqing also listened to it for a while, and the general idea was that in a few days, the porridge would start outside the city, and at the same time, officials would be sent to register the information of the refugees.