I have a book to play

"There is food, the county government has distributed food!"

"It's saved, we're saved!"

"Live Bodhisattva!"

"Master Yushi is a good official!"

"And the eldest prince! I want to set up longevity cards for the eldest prince and your lord!"

The people in Jinling County who have not yet left, after learning that the county government has relief food, have formed a long queue at the gate of the county government under the command of the government officials.

Each household gets food per head, and many people hold the food, crying and laughing, and finally have a look of joy on their numb faces.

Such a long queue has been lined up from early morning to sunset.

Sun Xiancheng was busy directing the labor to distribute the food, and at the same time asked the master to register it in the roster to prevent over-distribution or under-distribution of food.

After finally finishing his work, he turned around and saw Sun Peng standing at the gate of the county government office.

"Master Yushi." Sun Xiancheng casually wiped his body with his hand, and then raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, but in the winter, he was sweating all over, "Thanks to my lord and Your Highness, I want Otherwise, trying to extract some food from the mouths of those stingy local rich men is probably just a dream."

"Food alone is not enough." Sun Peng shook his head.

Sun Xiancheng sighed: "But this water is hard to find."

Thinking of the blooming wells he saw in Wuyin County, Sun Peng naturally knew that it was not so easy to dig a well.

The well draws groundwater, and if there is no underground river where the well is dug, it is impossible to dig a well that can produce water.Obviously, there is also a shortage of water in Wuyin County, but in their haste, they don't bother to survey any underground rivers underneath. This is why wellheads can be seen everywhere in the county, but most of them are wells without water.

"Several wells in the city are already in jeopardy. If we rely on those canals, I'm afraid..." Sun Xiancheng shook his head. Let the canal out, I'm afraid this group of people will rebel."

Sun Peng watched as the people at the end of the line received the food, walked up to the thank you who still wore monk robes, and said with narrowed eyes: "The canal was originally used for irrigation of the farmland, and it was drawn by the river. Since it is the water for farmland irrigation, it does not belong to them, and it should be changed back to the original flow."

He paused: "For the time being, we need to arrange for the water intake of those wells. We can't exhaust the lake and fish."

After all, Sun Xiancheng had been sitting in this position for many years, and he was an indispensable right-hand man beside Mr. Huang in the past. Without Sun Peng's detailed explanation, he understood what he meant.

That night, I went back to my room, writing vigorously under the candlelight.

Sun Xiancheng's wife is a few years older than him. Seeing him like this, she felt a little distressed: "Why are you still writing? Go to bed early, and I have to help that little adult tomorrow."

"Ma'am, don't look down on him just because he is young." Sun Xiancheng stopped writing and sighed, "This Lord Yushi is indeed younger, but look around him, His Royal Highness Traveling together through wind and rain, and spending a lot of time on this matter, I'm afraid the future is limitless."

"I actually think that the future of this little gentleman has nothing to do with the eldest prince. He is clear and organized. Although he is young, he is not young, and he has enough courage. Even without the eldest prince, although he walks with difficulty, he still Maybe you can't walk out of the world of splendor. You, you are the one, don't underestimate him."

Sun Peng didn't care how Sun Xiancheng and his wife thought of him.

He asked Gou Qi to collect a lot of literature in the city, and together with Xie Chen, he read by lamplight for several nights, trying to find out how to find dark rivers and dig wells from the books.

Water classics annotations, maps, local county annals...

During the day, Sun Peng led people, braving the wind and snow, lobbying the country gentry and wealthy businessmen to change the canal back to its original position, looking for a dry well dug deep enough to allow water to flow again.At night, he plunged headlong into the sea of ​​books, and under the dim candlelight, he read the documents carefully without daring to slack off.

Sometimes I was really tired, read a book, and fell asleep drowsily.

I was in a trance in my sleep, and I didn't know who it was, talking in a low voice in my ear.Sometimes it would make him briefly dream about the year he lived in Jingming Temple, and sometimes he would be devastated, with starvation everywhere as far as he could see.

Probably because I was really too tired, even Chun Meng couldn't help doing a few times.

He couldn't see that person's face in the dream, but he just knew that there was no one else but Xie Chen who could make him so lingering in the dream.

But every time he wakes up and sees Xie Chen who is sitting on the sidelines concentrating on looking up documents, he always feels that his dreams are too...too unbearable.

In the dream, he was held in someone's arms, his earlobe was licked with the tip of his wet tongue, and his lips were gently bitten. Although there was no most shameful move, he could clearly feel it in the dream. The strength of the arm on his body, and the scent of sandalwood that made him shudder.

This night, I still slept in a daze. In the dimness, I noticed the scent of sandalwood intruding from the tip of my nose, and I was about to fall into dormancy. Suddenly, from nowhere, there was a thunderous rumbling sound.

It is not too much to describe it as the earth shaking and the mountains shaking, and the sky falling and the earth cracking.

"What happened?"

Sun Peng was awakened by the shock, turned his head and saw Xie Chen standing up from him frowning, the monk's robe brushed by his side, and the sandalwood scented his nose.

"Qilang, there is light on the mountain."

Sun Peng was taken aback for a moment, he didn't bother to recall whether Xie Chen was sitting beside him before falling asleep, so he quickly got up and walked out of the room.

A few days ago, for the sake of convenience, the group of them had temporarily moved into a small deep courtyard at the back of the county government office.Standing in the yard during the day and looking into the distance, you can still see the nearest mountain outside Jinling City.At night, this mountain, which is rarely climbed by people except hunters and woodcutters, will always be dark.

But right now, following the direction of Xie Chen's finger, Sun Peng could clearly see that somewhere on the mountain, there was a bright red light reflecting the sky, and he could still vaguely see the appearance of smoke lingering around.

"That... what?" Sun Peng looked bewildered, unable to find the explanation in the book from his mind for a while.

Xie Chen shook his head: "Go ahead and have a look."

The two went back to the house and put on their cloaks, and when they came out again, Gou Qi and the others ran out in a panic.The master and servant left the yard and walked straight ahead, and happened to meet Sun Xiancheng who also lived in the small courtyard next to the county government office.

"Did the grown-ups also hear the voice?"

"What is that?" Xie Chen was holding a lantern in his hand, and Sun Peng could clearly see a bit of fear on Sun Xiancheng's face by the candlelight.

"This sound is the anger of the mountain god that the people say. But today's sound is especially loud..."

Sun Xiancheng only spoke half of what he said, and more and more voices came from outside the county government office, noisy, noisy, restless voices came rustling.

The yamen was opened vigorously, and Sun Peng stepped over the threshold in one step, and what appeared in front of him were the people pouring out from all over the city.

These people who are still not free from the fear of famine seem to have rushed to the gate of the county government office, which is the safest place for them, with their food at home, their families and children, after hearing the rumbling sound that shook the ground. .

Everyone was looking at the red distant mountain. I didn't know who it was, and shouted "Mountain God" first, and then, in the crowd, people shouted "Mountain God" one after another, "It's the mountain god who is angry", " The mountain god is angry."

Then, one, two, three... Everyone knelt down and kowtowed towards the distance.

Some young children cried out in horror because they felt the atmosphere.The voice seemed more desolate and frightening in the crowd.

"That's not a mountain god."

Xie Chen turned his head, Sun Peng's face darkened, but his tone became more firm: "That's not a mountain god. There's something in the mountain."

"what……"

"Master Sun." Sun Peng interrupted Sun Xiancheng's inquiry, and said in a deep voice, "Please transfer ten people immediately, not twenty people with me, I will take people up the mountain."

"What's on this mountain?" Sun Xiancheng glanced worriedly at the top of the mountain that was gradually losing its light, "It's too late now, my lord might as well wait until dawn before going up the mountain. There are ferocious beasts in this mountain, and it's too dangerous to go up the mountain at night."

Sun Peng hesitated, and was patted lightly on the shoulder.He looked back, it was thanks to Chen.

"Listening to the movement just now, the things on the mountain will not disappear for a while, and they can still be found on the mountain tomorrow morning."

Even though Xie Chen said soothing words, Sun Peng still stayed up all night.

Until the sky turned white, Sun Xian Cheng transferred twenty men to him according to his words.Sun Peng made some simple explanations, and then he led the people up the mountain.For the matter of the county government, with the county magistrate Sun present, Xie Chen simply followed him up the mountain.

The road to the mountain is not easy to walk. Weeds are overgrown here, even if it is a road that was stepped on by human beings. In recent years, when the "mountain god" said it, many people did not dare to run up the mountain again, and the road was naturally covered with weeds. covered up.

But the strange thing is that the more you go up the mountain, the less living things you can see.Those wild animals that should exist in the mountains are actually not even a fur.

"There's something in this mountain."

"what?"

The one who spoke was a young man accompanying the team, a little thin, but he was considered a good hunter in the past.

Sun Peng stood still and looked around: "There is something here that scares those wild animals."

Having said that, he didn't see it with his own eyes, so he couldn't tell what it would be.

There are scouts ahead.It quickly folded back.

"There's really... really something in front!"

"what?"

"It's...it's a well!"

Hearing that there was a well, everyone became excited.

Sun Peng didn't stop them, and followed along the route that the pathfinders turned back, and soon found the well.

The well was very new, and someone in the team could tell at a glance that the well had been drilled for only two or three years.

There is a wheel at the mouth of the well, and a bucket is tied to a rope.Lying on the mouth of the well, I could almost see water underneath. Someone dropped a bucket and shook a bucket of water with difficulty.

There is a lot of water at the bottom of the well, but it is a pity that it is mixed with a lot of sand. Obviously this well has also been abandoned.

"Although the water is undrinkable, if it can reach the bottom of the mountain, it can be used to irrigate the farmland."

An old man shook his head regretfully.Hearing this, Sun Peng looked down at the bucket, and was about to look away when he suddenly called to stop the young man who was about to pour the water back into the well.

"There's something in the water."

The bucket was put on the ground, Sun Peng squatted down, reached into the water to grab the water and sand inside, picked it up and held it in front of his eyes for a closer look.

After a long time, he raised his head and looked at Xie Chen: "There are gold mines in this mountain."

Before everyone came back to their senses, there was a sudden boom in the distance.Everyone was taken aback and was about to shout "The mountain god is angry".Sun Pengteng stood up.

Xie Chen's expression also changed.

"It's the smell of fire. There are people in the mountains who are digging gold mines."