Live up to the breeze and the bright moon

For the next two months, Li Yu continued to negotiate and coordinate among the six counties.In the city, I met with local officials and squires from all over the country, and asked them to stabilize grain prices, open official warehouses, donate private grain, set up porridge sheds, and donate soft goods. In the countryside, I asked the local people about the disaster and the government's grain distribution.By the way, the rogues and robbers who stole and robbed food were arrested, and the officials who embezzled food were exempted.Among them, the most gratifying one is probably beheading Deng Jiang, the land snake in Shu County.

Deng Jiang is not an official, his mother is Concubine Xian's younger sister, and he and King Anyang are cousins.Relying on this relationship, his father became the second richest businessman in Shu County. When Deng Jiang came here, he no longer took any officials of Shu County into his eyes.Hearing that Li Yu was forcing big households to donate food in other counties, Deng Jiang let it go. If Li Yu came to Shu County, let him come smiling and leave crying.

Sure enough, when Li Yu arrived in Chengdu, the capital of Shu County, all the city gates were closed and no officials greeted him.Wu Ming wanted to go forward and call the city gate guard to open the door, but Li Yu stopped him. He knew that this was deliberately trying to give him power, and shouting was useless.So he still lived in the official post outside the city.

"When I was eating just now, I heard people chatting, saying that Deng Jiang, a local wealthy businessman, asked officials and gentry to boycott you as an imperial envoy. What are your plans?" Wu Yan hurried to Li Yu's room after eating, wanting to put himself " Wiretapping" information told Li Yu.

"Don't make any plans, let the soldiers come to block you." Li Yu replied while writing a letter.

"But now we can't even enter the city, are you not in a hurry?"

"No rush, it will open."

"So sure, do you have an idea?"

"I have no idea, it will open."

I felt a little displeased when I saw that Li Yu didn't speak clearly and went back and forth.He must still feel that he is too stupid to talk to himself in detail, so he doesn't ask any more questions.

Li Yu seemed to feel the resentment of the visitor, raised his head and said slowly, "You think, Chengdu is such a big city, one day, at most two days can close all the city gates, and you can't go in or out, three or four days, Even longer, can it stand it? So they will open the gates soon."

After I heard the explanation, my mood recovered a bit. "So that's the case. Hey..." Wu Yan sighed slightly, and it turned out that he was a scholar who was useless.

"Besides being a teacher, Kong Ming once told the young master, don't belittle yourself." Li Yu looked at my words and deliberately teased him.

Wu Yan was ashamed and annoyed by Li Yu's teasing, got up angrily and went back to his room.Li Yu smiled and shook his head, thinking that a child is a child.Wu Yan came back suddenly and told Li Yu at the door, "I'm not a child anymore."

Sure enough, on the third day, the gates of Chengdu were no longer closed.But Li Yu decided to go to the city in low clothes, without the imperial prestige.So Deng Jiang and the officials didn't know that Li Yu had already entered the city, and the imperial envoy hadn't arrived after five days. They wondered if Li Yu was too frightened to come, and they all secretly rejoiced.During these five days, Li Yu secretly visited the basic situation of Shu County, and learned that the official grain of Shu County had already been controlled by Deng Jiang. The famine raised the price of food, making it difficult for even the well-to-do people in Chengdu to buy food.Although the governor of Shu County was appointed by the imperial court, he was weak in character and did not dare to offend Deng Jiang. Most of the other officials were supported by Deng Jiang.Li Yu felt that the situation in Shu County was an unprecedented challenge for him, and maybe he only had to lose a few heads.

Today, Li Yu and his party "wandered" on the street again, came to a teahouse to rest, and listened to the locals chatting about local affairs.Xiao Er, with sharp eyes, greeted the four of them to sit down, but only asked Li Yu what tea he wanted.Instead, Li Yu asked Wu Yan what he likes to drink.Li Yu's actions surprised Xiao Er. It is very rare for the master to ask a small follower for his opinion.

Before deciding what kind of tea to drink, there were men beating and scolding and women crying at the door of the shop. To be precise, it was a girl who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old and was being dragged by several men. beat and scold.It seems that the girl's family couldn't pay the rent because of the drought this year, so the boss sent someone to arrest her and go back to pay off the debt. As a result, she couldn't escape and was caught up by the servants of the boss.

At this time, a few onlookers couldn't see it, and stepped forward to argue with the servants and started fighting. The girl took the opportunity and ran into the teahouse in a panic, and found someone to hide behind. This person was Wu Yan. .

Wu Yan felt the girl tightly clutching the belt on his back, begging in a low voice, "Young Master, help me, I am Lily of the Valley, I am Lily of the Valley, Young Master, please help me..." Wu Yan thought to himself "Linglan? But I don't know any lily of the valley before. You have mistaken me." Wu Yan didn't know what to do at the moment. He wanted to help this girl, but he knew he couldn't be too troublesome, so he asked Li Yu for help. gaze.

Li Yu originally wanted to pull the girl up from behind Wuyan and ask the situation clearly, but when he saw those servants walking over, he warned them not to be troublesome, and at the same time went behind Wuyan to pull the girl, and the girl was immediately caught by a The servant lifted it up, but the girl's hand was still holding onto Wuyan's sleeve tightly and refused to let go, she still looked like she knew Wuyan and hoped that he would save her, but the pleading voice became heart-piercing accompanied by crying , attracting everyone to look at this side.

Li Yu gave Wu Ming a wink, and Wu Ming immediately stood up to stop the person who was pulling the girl, but his words were very polite, "Everyone, why make the scene so ugly."

"Say it again, mind your own business!" The leading man replied.

"Absolutely, it's just that my young master rarely comes out to play once, and I don't want to spoil the interest. You stop first, let's persuade this girl to let her go, and the matter has nothing to do with us. Then what should you do, how about it? Otherwise We couldn't drink tea because of the trouble." Wu Rui was still very polite, the other party saw that Li Yu was going out with two guards and a entourage, and he was afraid that he had status, so he gave him face and stopped tearing up the girl.

"Girl, let go of our little brother too. It's not that we don't help you. This is your family business, and we don't want others to interfere."

Wu Rui persuaded, but the girl ignored Wu Ming at all, knelt beside Wu Yan, continued to hold Wu Yan's sleeve, and kowtowed while crying, "Young master, don't you remember me, I'm Lily of the Valley, please Please help me..." Wu Yan looked at this little girl who was about the same age as me, and really felt sorry for her.In the past, Wu Yan definitely stepped forward to save this little girl, but since he reminded himself not to be stupid all the time, he knew that even if he saved this girl, he would not be able to take responsibility for what happened afterwards.After saving her, if they send her home, these people will still catch her again.If he didn't send her home, his family might suffer, so why bother.

Wu Yan looked at Li Yu again, wanting to get some hints from him, but Li Yu acted as if it had nothing to do with you and you decided for yourself.So I said cruelly, and said with great difficulty, "You should go back with them, I really can't save you."

Hearing this, the girl stopped begging, her face was full of despair, she stood up slowly, and was taken away by those servants.

"That's right, it's true that he's not a child anymore." Li Yu patted Wu Yan, seeing his guilty face, but he had finally grown up.Wu Yan was not very happy when I heard Li Yu's "praise". It turned out that I am not stupid to be accompanied by such a difficult decision.

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