Notes on Evil Fox

The next day, on the banks of the Li River.The sky was overcast and cloudy, and a circle of common people surrounded the river bank. Lu Fanan, Rong Shiyin and other officials from the capital were all surrounded in the middle with dignified faces.

At this time, Hu Zhong ran over from the side and said loudly: "My lord, Mr. Zhang got up late because he was unwell, and he is currently changing clothes. He will be there later."

Deng Mengzi looked at the people around him gathering more and more, with a worried expression on his face, he stepped forward to Rong Shiyin and said, "My lord, I'm going to dredge the river tomorrow, but Master Zhang is ill at this time, what should I do?"

"Wait." Rong Shiyin said in a bad tone, seeming a little restless.Lu Fanan knew that Rong Shiyin was holding back some bad ideas. He had never seen Rong Shiyin's real anxiety, but he somehow knew that it would not be like this.But others don't know the twists and turns here, they just think that Rong Shiyin should be forced to be helpless at this moment, but he is still trying to maintain his composure.

After a long time, when everyone could hardly wait any longer, Zhang Zhizhi finally came to the bank of the river belatedly.

Rong Shiyin had already lost his patience at this time, and said: "What is the meaning of Master Zhang? There will be heavy rain in the near future, and the river will not be cleared. It’s still the common people, isn’t it?”

"Since Mr. Rong has spoken to this extent, in front of so many people in Xunan today, I will also open the skylight and speak clearly." Zhang Zhizhi looked at the people around him, approached them, and said loudly, "Xunan Encountering such a catastrophe and causing the people to be displaced, I, as a parent and official, have long been devastated. Now the officials who finally came to the court to control the water, thought they could save the people from the fire and water. But what happened?"

Zhang Zhizhi seemed to be unable to continue, and continued after a while: "Everyone has seen that the officials in the capital are arrogant and careless, and careless about human life. Now that young man's body is not cold, but the murderer is still at large. Such disregard for human life, don't we The common people look at it as a human being, how do you let us believe that you can truly serve the people?"

"The army is short of manpower, and the only way to dredge the river is to organize the people, but how can I put their lives in your hands? If the flood is really beyond cure, it's a big deal not to use this black hat. new home."

"No matter how difficult it is, there is still a glimmer of life. It is better than staying here and dying for nothing. In the end, it was just a stepping stone for you to get promoted and get rich."

Zhang Zhizhi's words actually have a lot of loopholes. Is it possible that the whole world is the king's land, and the shore of the land is the king's minister. Where can he go.But under such circumstances, a high-ranking parent official is willing to risk everything for his own people to fight against a group of officials who are higher in rank than him, have power and background.What he said was sincere and passionate.How can it not be moving.

Many of the common people had already sobbed, and for a while, many people began to criticize Rong Shiyin.Seeing that the people were in high spirits, Xu Wei was afraid of hurting Lu Fanan, so he rushed to take him away.Lu Fanan waved his hand, signaling Xu Wei to go down.

Xu Wei stood in front of Lu Fanan, hesitating and not knowing what to do.But seeing Lu Fanan's firmness when he shook his head again, he finally gave in.

But at the moment of stepping back, an illusion suddenly appeared in my heart, as if the young eagle, which has been relying on feeding to survive, suddenly started to stand on the cliff one day, preparing to learn to fly by itself.

Rong Shiyin looked at the excited crowd and walked to the middle, with an expression of incomparable sincerity on his face, but mixed with unbearable sadness, he only heard him say: "Fathers and folks, can you listen to me."

Rong Shiyin's attitude was very humble, and his words were extremely sincere, and the people gradually became quiet.Rong Shiyin said again: "Everyone should know that I, Rong Shiyin, am a native of Xunan. I ate rice from Xunan, drank water from the Li River, and grew up on this land. And because of chance, I was appreciated by His Majesty, and I was able to enter the court as an official. This time I came to Xunan to control the water, and things were very dangerous, but I can do my part for my hometown and the folks in my hometown. I think this is what I should do things."

"So in this flood control, I want to have a proper process and ending more than anyone else, to help everyone get out of the disaster as soon as possible, and rebuild my Xunan. You may not know that I am very soft-spoken in the court, and there are many people here. Things cannot be shaken by me alone."

Lou Shiyin paused, gritted his teeth, and said, "But today, since everyone must give me an explanation, in order to rebuild Xunan as soon as possible, and to clear up previous misunderstandings, let everyone know that I, Rong Shiyin, are not trying to gain fame. A villain who attaches great importance to profit and does not care about the life and death of the people. Today, I will give you an explanation."

As he said that, Hu Zhong led two guards to bring Li Mo, who was tied up in a big way, to the bank of the river. Rong Shiyin said: "Master Zhang, pay for the debt and pay for the murder. I will leave Li Mo to you to deal with."

"Rong Shiyin, Zhang Zhizhi, how dare you? My uncle is the right minister, if you dare to touch me, I want you to die." Li Mo shouted with his neck flushed.

When the woman complained that day, there were not many people present. The common people only heard that the officials of the capital had killed a child for no reason. Although they were excited, they didn't know the reason.

Now that they have seen this scene, they all understand.It turned out to be a relative of a dignitary in Beijing.No wonder Rong Shiyin was in such a difficult situation.All of a sudden, the tide of the crowd turned again, and they pitied Rong Shiyin one after another.

However, Deng Mengzi and Yan Xun, who were standing aside, couldn't hide their embarrassment.

Rong Shiyin exchanged glances with Zhang Zhizhi, Zhang Zhizhi calmed down, and said, "Since Master Rong is so sincere, the next official is not unreasonable. I will take him away today. As for the matter of water control, I will trouble you today." Go back and work out a detailed plan, and start work on time tomorrow morning."

……

In the evening, just as Rong Shiyin was about to go to bed, a few familiar hootings of owls sounded outside the door.Hearing the sound, he opened the door, only to see a white porcelain vase on the ground at the door, with a letter box tied to it.

Rong Shiyin picked up the things on the ground, saw no one was around, and closed the door.Put the letter on the table, on it is the greeting written by Ruyi and the explanation of the dosage of the medicine.Looking at the very irregular brushstrokes, which are like ghostly drawn symbols, you can't bear to look directly at them, and you can't help but laugh.He is really cautious, the handwriting is so ugly, and he doesn't want others to write it for him.

……

In the capital, Wang Baoyin went back to his study after he went down to court, and smashed a lot of things aggressively.He looked at the letter Deng Mengzi sent back on the table, his eyes were fierce.Then he sneered again, and said in his mouth: "Rong Shiyin, you are really good, you dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head."

Wang Cao walked into the study slowly, looked at the mess, and said slowly: "You, you are still too anxious."

"Father." Wang Bao hurriedly saluted when he saw that it was Wang Cao.

Wang Cao sat in front of the case, picked up Deng Mengzi's letter, and said, "It's interesting to kill three birds with one stone."

"Father, does this matter affect our plan?" Wang Baoyin asked.

"Just now in the court hall, although the emperor gave us a few words of admonition, the Li family is nothing more than relatives that we can't reach, and they can't implicate us." Wang Caodao, "I didn't want to move you earlier. Hidden, I think that a yellow-haired boy is nothing to be afraid of, but now I have to change my opinion. A Li Mo, let Zhang Zhizhi win the reputation of being honest and upright who is dedicated to the people and not afraid of the powerful, and disguises himself as a crack The innocent image of Zhongqiusheng also gave us a hat of bullying. I really underestimated him."

"Then after that..."

"You can figure it out, but you must be more careful, and don't leave anyone with a clue."

……

"My lord, the flow of the Li River is so fast that people can't go down it. The river is blocked in three sections. It's not easy to dredge it." Deng Mengzi refuted a young official's idea of ​​mobilizing all the people to dredge the river. .

"Then what else can I do besides this method, I can't ask Da Luo God to take this river away." The young official complained.His words were really rude, but no one refuted him.Because this matter is indeed in a bottleneck.

"Then can we change the river course?" Lu Fanan pondered.

"Change the river course?" Deng Mengzi asked in surprise.

"The right side of this tributary river is the main river, and the left side is facing a big mountain. How to change it?"

"As for modifying the original river course, it's even more impossible. There are three silted places. There is not enough manpower. Besides, there are people on both sides of the river course. If the river course is changed, you have to go directly through these villages and towns. Villages and towns also It is a catastrophe, no different from letting a river flow directly through it."

All of a sudden, voices of doubt rose one after another in the room.

Zhang Zhizhi looked at Rong Shiyin, Rong Shiyin knew what it meant, seeing that everyone was already arguing, Fang said: "The river course can be changed."

Deng Mengzi looked at Rong Shiyin in confusion, only to see Rong Shiyin pointing at the map and saying: "You can go from the right side, you see."

As can be seen from the map, there is a wasteland on the right side of the tributary river, and a big mountain at the end of the wasteland.This mountain is called Hell Mountain in Xunan.

The forest on Hell Mountain is luxuriant and the terrain is steep. Many plants are highly poisonous. There is a miasma forest in the depths of the forest. In addition, because few people come, poisonous snakes and beasts are naturally rampant.So gradually came the title of Hell Mountain, because the people who go in, even the corpses, rarely come out.

Because of this, no one knows that this seemingly majestic mountain is actually two separate mountains. In the middle of it, there is a very deep and narrow canyon.As for the fact that it is connected together from the outside, it is actually because the trees are too tall and dense, covering the canyon in the middle.At the end of the canyon is the coast.

"So to change the river channel from here, we only need to open up a section of river channel on the wilderness, connecting the dense forest canyon, the distance in the wilderness is not very long, and it is many times less difficult than dredging the river channel." The property market pointed to the map and said, "And The manpower required may not be water-based, so this is the easiest method."

"But what if the beasts come down from the mountains and hurt people? What about the miasma forest?" Zhang Zhizhi asked.

"Beasts are more nocturnal and more afraid of fire. At that time, the manpower will be divided into three groups. One group of people will dig from Hell Mountain to the tributary of Li River. This group of people only need to dig river channels during the day. There will be two more groups. , Digging from the tributaries, divided into day and night, shifts in shifts to speed up the process." Rong Shiyin calmly arranged, "As for the miasma forest, I will personally lead you to find the way when the time comes, and earlier I knew a quack doctor , I begged him to give me some magical medicine, which can avoid severe poison."

"Okay, then it's settled. I'll organize the manpower right away, and when the time comes, I'll trouble Mr. Rong." Zhang Zhizhi got up and saluted.

"Since the mountain is so scary, how did you know about the canyon?" Lu Fanan asked.

"Because I'm afraid I'm the only one who came out of that mountain alive."

Rong Shiyin said it calmly and indifferently, but the rest of the people looked at each other in amazement.

Lu Fanan looked at Rong Shiyin's usual sad and joyless face, and his heart suddenly dawned.

Is Rong Shiyin, who doesn't see sorrow and joy, calm and self-sufficient, once also a gorgeous young man, knowing sorrow and joy, and worrying and fearing?