The sick man turned out to be a loyal dog

After passing those few bandits who touched porcelain, the two of them had more foresight, and fortunately, they took the small road, otherwise, I'm afraid there would be a lot of trouble.

However, are those bandits robbing passers-by every day?

Shen Ning thought about it, and felt that it was not quite right. Although this is the only way to reach neighboring counties, due to the drought, there are not many people passing by here, so they can't grab anything by staying there, right?

However, after all, Shen Ning didn't know much about the situation, and thought that the group of bandits were desperate people from neighboring counties who came to rob him because they couldn't survive, but Tang Yanxiu thought of the group of bandits who robbed Mr. Xie.

According to Mr. Xie, the bandit's goal should be the money and food used for disaster relief.And Mr. Xie first set off to the county to appease the people. The specific disaster relief funds were carried by another imperial envoy, who came later, and there would be officers and soldiers accompanying him at that time. It was unlikely that he wanted to rob.

The two had their own considerations, and after about an hour's journey, they finally saw the village.

Hetian County is not as mountainous as other places. Looking from the two of them, the houses and fields are basically flat. The fields that should be full of rice are almost vacant at this time. Also good for sweet potatoes and other drought tolerant plants.

"How could it be so serious?" It was the first time for Shen Ning to see the scene of the drought with his own eyes. In the past, he had seen the news on TV, as well as the cracked fields. Seeing it with his own eyes was another feeling.

The two walked forward, and there was a small wooden sign at the gate of the village. In a field on the right, an elderly man was watering the crops in the field.

"Old man." Tang Yanxiu walked over, "Do you know where the county is going?"

Hearing the sound, the old man raised his head, looked with his cloudy eyes, and saw Tang Yanxiu and the two of them.

"The county seat! Just go south. Life is hard now, and few people come here. What are you doing in the county seat?"

The old man's hair was gray, his voice was hoarse, the wrinkles on his face were particularly clear, and he kept shaking when he spoke.

"I heard that there was a disaster here, and my family has a relative in the county, so I wanted to come and have a look." Tang Yanxiu made up nonsense, while Shen Ning looked around and found that there were several undried fields not far away. , but it is vacant with nothing of every kind.

"Old man, since your life is so difficult, I think there are still a few fields over there, why don't you plant something?" Shen Ning asked, the old man looked along the place he pointed, and then shook his head.

"No, that land cannot be planted!"

The old man shook his head, and the two were puzzled.

"Why can't it be planted?" The two said at the same time.

"The magistrate of the county said that the field is a first-class field. You can't grow anything except rice. The polished rice you plant will be paid as a tribute. If you plant other things, you will be arrested and sent to jail!" the old man said. Sighing while talking, Lizheng is also worried about this matter!

Shen Ning and Tang Yanxiu looked at each other, paying tribute?

Tang Yanxiu shook his head, saying that he didn't know about it, so the two had to write it down first, and planned to go back and ask Mr. Xie.

Saying goodbye to the old man, the two walked towards the county in the direction the old man said. Along the way, they met many people, most of whom were busy with their own affairs and watering the ground. It's not serious enough to alarm the upper echelons.

At least it is far from the severe drought that Shen Ning watched on TV in his last life, although the two are incomparable.

"Have you ever seen a drought?" Although I am not a local resident, isn't there another one beside me?

"I haven't seen it before. I only read the description of the severe drought in the book." Tang Yanxiu shook his head and told the truth.

"Then how do you think the situation here is better than the description in the book?"

"It's far from it." Excluding the order of the magistrate of Laoshizi, the situation in this county is not a "severe drought" at all. At most, there is a drought, but it is definitely not to the point where people will die.

"You don't think it's that serious?" Shen Ning was even more puzzled. Since the disaster wasn't that serious at all, how could it alert the higher authorities and send an imperial envoy?

"Then how do we tell Mr. Xie when we go back?"

"Tell the truth." Tang Yanxiu walked ahead, and the two walked out of the village. After walking for another ten minutes, the sun had already climbed directly above their heads.

"Take a break!" Shen Ning called Tang Yanxiu to stop, and the two walked to the side of the big tree to sit down and rest, and have lunch by the way.

"Drink some water and eat something. This weather can really turn people into dogs."

Looking at Shen Ning's rough movements and rough words, Tang Yanxiu silently wiped off the sweat and black lines on his head. Since he "woke up" last time, he, Fulang, has become more and more different.

Is he really still that "Shen Ning"?

Shen Ning fanned the wind with his sleeves, and didn't notice Tang Yanxiu's complicated eyes on him, and when Tang Yanxiu looked at Shen Ning, he saw a figure behind a tree not far away from the corner of his eye.

Tang Yanxiu remained calm and pulled Shen Ning's hand over. Shen Ning just wanted to break free, but his attention was attracted by the words written on his hand.

"Someone?"

Shen Ning has not been learning to write for a short time, and he can recognize most of the characters. Tang Yanxiu said there are people, so there must be someone following them.So, Shen Ning nodded, indicating that he understood, then quietly withdrew his hand and continued to eat.

The eating speed of the two was not slow, but after hearing a slight sound coming from a certain place, Shen Ning's eating speed obviously slowed down. Seeing Shen Ning's movements, Tang Yanxiu laughed, but he also cooperated and accompanied him eat slowly.

"Oh, these pancakes are really delicious, if only there is a bowl of soup!" Shen Ning sighed regretfully, as expected, another "Gulu~" came.

Tang Yanxiu looked at Shen Ning's mischievous face and laughed.

"Well, everything you cook is delicious."

Well, I was molested again, but this time I am in a good mood, forgive you.

Therefore, Shen Ning just handed over a "brother, don't make trouble" look, but forgot that with his current appearance and identity, in the eyes of the other party, this look was purely seductive.

So, Tang Yanxiu's heart trembled, and then he lowered his head solemnly to drink water.

Wait until you go back, when you go back, he will tell his little Fu Lang that it's wrong to be so seductive...

Two quarters of an hour later, the two had eaten and rested enough, and were about to get up and leave. However, after walking for a while, they didn't hear any movement behind them.

Not following?

Just as Shen Ning wanted to turn his head to look, the man had already rushed out from a small intersection in front of them, ah bah.

"Both of you, don't go any further!" The visitor's face was red, and he was a little out of breath. He was following behind the two of them, but they were eating. He was tired and hungry, so he leaned against the tree trunk. After resting for a while, when he woke up, the two had disappeared, so he had to take a shortcut and run over, luckily he caught up!

"Who are you?" Shen Ning looked at the brother who was standing in front of them, unexpectedly, the one following them would be a brother.

"I'm from Shimodamura, don't go any further."

"Why?" Shen Ning asked calmly seeing the other party's anxious look.

"Don't go, it's dangerous?" His face was flushed, but he didn't know what to say, so he almost turned around in a hurry.

"Look, we have relatives in the county, and this time they came to visit relatives. You stopped us like this, but you didn't say why, which made us very embarrassed." Shen Ning had seen enough, and decided to let the other party go. But it seems that this child should also be kind.

Knowing that what Shen Ning said was reasonable, my brother struggled for a while with a bitter face, then seemed to make up his mind, looked around, and whispered when he saw no one:

"Don't go to the county town, you will be arrested, they will take you into a big hole!"

Now Tang Yanxiu and Shen Ning frowned.

"Do you know what's in that hole?" Tang Yanxiu's tone was rare and serious.

"I don't know." Brother shook his head. He really didn't know. When he saw someone was caught in it, he ran away in fright. He didn't know what was inside.

"We got it, thank you." Seeing that Tang Yanxiu didn't speak, Shen Ning had no choice but to thank him first.

"You won't go there again, will you?"

"will not."

Shen Ning assured, brother looked at him worriedly, before turning and leaving.

Seeing his brother left, Shen Ning patted Tang Yanxiu's arm.

"Yuan Fang, how do you see?"

"Yuanfang, what is it?" Tang Yanxiu asked seriously.

"Uh..." Shen Ning choked, then remembered that there is no Yuan Fang in this world.

"Yuan Fang, it's the person I dreamed about last time, well, the investigation is very good!"

Tang Yanxiu: "..."

"Hehe", Shen Ning changed the subject with a dry laugh, "What do you think of what that brother said? Could there be a mine or something, haha."

Shen Ning originally wanted to change the subject, but Tang Yanxiu's face changed immediately as soon as the word "mine hole" was uttered.

"What's wrong?" Shen Ning saw Tang Yanxiu like this for the first time, as if something had happened that made him unable to settle down.

"If it is really a mine, it will be troublesome."

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