How did you come back?

Lu Ziqian stood at the door watching them act, Zhang Tiancai was stunned, and whispered into Lu Ziqian's ear: "Brother, can we not misunderstand them? Maybe they are not so bad, or the bandit leader intentionally wronged them."

Lu Ziqian: "You are still too kind, arrest them all."

"Catch it? Brother, really catch it?" Zhang Tiancai asked worriedly.

General Zhang was obviously much more mature than Zhang Tiancai. Before entering the city, Lu Ziqian had told him to arrest people when he got there.

Those officials all panicked, knelt down and yelled their wishes, saying that they had paid so much for the country and the people, and they would be wronged, which was unreasonable.

When they shouted, many people rushed over from outside, and they also came to stop them, shouting that their adults were wronged, and that their adults were good officials who loved the people like their own sons.

With so many people rushing over, Zhang Tiancai and the soldiers began to suspect that they were good at killing the enemy on the battlefield, but not good at facing the people.

They looked at Lu Ziqian, wanting to see how Lu Ziqian would solve the current problem.

Lu Ziqian didn't show any soft-heartedness, "Arrest them all, and ask them where they live and how much they have received."

The people who rushed in were terrified, yelling loudly that he was a dog official and wronged a good person.

General Zhang also hesitated, but Lu Ziqian still insisted, General Zhang ordered everyone to be arrested and interrogated.

The door of the government office was closed, and all the officials and civilians present were arrested, as many as a hundred people were arrested.

Lu Ziqian asked them to go to the prison first to see if there was any room in the prison, and who were the people locked up in the prison, to find out.

General Zhang took the soldiers under his command to take a look inside the cell, which was full of people.

The soldiers asked General Zhang, "Master Lu will not lock those common people into cells and then release all the prisoners in these cells, will he? Master Lu doesn't look very reliable."

General Zhang said with a cold face: "Since the emperor entrusted him with this task, it shows that he has extraordinary abilities, so don't talk too much."

Although people in this era do not have an ID card, they also have a household registration certificate that can prove their identity. Every prisoner will have a record of what they have committed. Lu Ziqian asked General Zhang to send someone to check these prisoners and look at the records in the yamen. right on.

As a result, after such an investigation, it was found that more than half of these prisoners were victims of disasters, and they were not criminals at all.

Those people who were captured just now were not ordinary people, but servants from the officials' families pretending to be them.

The soldiers who doubted Lu Ziqian's ability to handle affairs just now were all ashamed, and at the same time admired Lu Ziqian's ability to predict things.

Then Lu Ziqian sent them to count the victims in the whole city and surrounding villages. After counting the number, they went door to door to collect money and food, and then set up a few porridge places to give everyone three meals a day. Porridge.

After they went out, there were not many people in the city, and there were not many people in the village. Only then did everyone realize that everyone they saw after entering the city was the servants of those officials in disguise.

And the only people in the city were some big families and some merchants who opened shops.

The houses in the village were washed away, and after the water dried up, there were dilapidated houses left behind. In some places, the terrain was low-lying. It used to be a village, but now it has become a lake, and no one can be seen.

When they went back to talk to Lu Ziqian, Lu Ziqian felt that something was wrong, "A few hundred people fled to Beijing, but only a hundred people in the prison, and there must be a total of 10,000+ people in the villages and towns here. Where did you go?"

Lu Ziqian knew that the population in ancient times was small, but after a disaster, there must not be only such a few people left.

Do we have to thank those officials for locking up the victims so that they didn't die?

He went to ask the people in those prisons, and they said that they wanted to escape from the city not long after the flood happened, and they were kept here all the time, not knowing where the others went.

Lu Ziqian sighed, no wonder the officials here are unwilling to let the imperial envoys come over. On the one hand, they are corrupt.

On the other hand, people have all run away, and they have all become empty cities. If the court finds out about this, it will be a capital offense for everyone.

Lu Ziqian resettled more than 100 victims in the city. The city was not much better, and many houses were washed away. Fortunately, the government office was located in a high position and was built with good materials, so it was spared.

He asked people to repair a few unserious houses in the city first, so that people could live in them, and he went to look around.

Zhang Tiancai came back from the village and told Lu Ziqian that there is a Jinyao Fairy Temple on the top of the mountain, "The mountain roads over there have all been washed away, and a bridge collapsed. We can only go there by boat. We are all here now." , go and offer incense sticks to our mother."

Lu Ziqian looked at the location, the location was high, and the road was cut off, maybe someone fled there to take refuge and never come back.

"Let's go and have a look and find a boat." Lu Ziqian said.

General Zhang also wanted to go with him. Although there was only a stone statue in the Jinyao Fairy Temple, and it was not the real Jinyao Fairy, seeing the stone statue could relieve some of his thoughts.

They didn't go to too many people, and the city still needs to keep people.

When they got to the place, they found out that there was no river there, and it was almost dry into a stream.

Lu Ziqian: "Is this the river you mentioned?"

Zhang Tiancai: "It can be regarded as a small river."

The river was almost dry, so they rode horses instead, and when they arrived at the foot of the mountain, although it was dry now, the original mountain road was washed away by the water, and there were stones, dry grass, broken trees everywhere, and it was very difficult to go up the mountain.

Zhang Tiancai looked in the direction of the top of the mountain, "I guess it will take me a whole day to climb, and I will sleep in my mother's temple at night. When I was young, I always thought that it would be good if my mother didn't die, so that I could sleep with my mother. And let my mother tell me bedtime stories."

Lu Ziqian thought of himself when he was a child. When he knew that other children had mothers but he didn't, he also imagined that it would be great if his mother didn't die.

General Zhang said behind them: "Neither of you are so lucky, but the third princess was raised in Ayao for a while at that time."

Lu Ziqian didn't expect this to happen. No wonder the third princess treated him and Nan Qiqi as if they were younger brothers. The third princess even let the son-in-law do his best to teach him martial arts. Originally, he thought that the third princess was a soft-tempered person. Everyone is fine, it turns out that there is still such a relationship here.

It was almost dark before they climbed up the mountain. Fortunately, all of them are highly skilled in martial arts. Ordinary people would not be able to climb up the mountain at all. It is too steep.

Almost all the trees on this mountain were broken, but Najin Yao Fairy Temple stood upright. There were many small trees, flowers and plants growing near the Fairy Temple, but they obviously looked like they had been dragged by someone.

"Only our mother's side is fine, and there are flowers and trees. Is my mother's spirit?" Zhang Tiancai asked Lu Ziqian.

Lu Ziqian took a closer look, and found that the materials used for the construction of this Fairy Temple were all high-quality. I heard that Fairy Temples were built all over the country at that time, and they had to send people to inspect and accept them. It is estimated that no one would dare to cut corners.

There were also traces of plants growing on the way they came up, but those plants were pulled out, and the bark near the Fairy Temple was also stripped off, but for some reason these flowers and plants are still there, "There should be people in the Fairy Temple."

"Is there someone in the Fairy Temple?" Zhang Tiancai ran over and opened the door of the Fairy Temple. Unexpectedly, there were actually a lot of people lying, standing and sitting inside. The Fairy Temple was built so huge that it could hold five or six hundred people. They appeared at the door When it was time, the people inside were shocked, thinking that the pursuers were coming, and they were hostile to them.

Seeing this, Lu Ziqian said to them: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people."

Seeing that they didn't believe it, he pointed to the statue of Fairy Jin Yao in the center, "That's my mother, I'm here to save you this time. If you don't believe it, you can see what's under the altar in front of the fairy."

Just now everyone was looking in the direction of the door, no one paid attention to the altar, but everyone can be sure that there is nothing under the altar, but now everyone went to look under the altar, and they saw the food from generation to generation!

They haven't eaten food for a long time, and they almost ate all the leaves and bark nearby.

Because there are no flowers and plants growing in other places, only near the Fairy Temple, and it grows after eating, and there are many plants. They think that this is the manifestation of fairies, so they have been staying here.

But eating only the bark of wild vegetables will not last long, and now there is so much food!Fairies really appear?

Even Zhang Tiancai and General Zhang behind Lu Ziqian were shocked, "Ayao! You really! Really manifested!"

"Mom! Is that you?"

Lu Ziqian kept his expression from collapsing. He actually took out the food from the space just now, and he discovered a space skill, which is within his line of sight. Let something go, and that thing will pass.

Everyone believed Lu Ziqian's words after seeing the food. Lu Ziqian asked them about other people. They said that they hid here after the flood. Later, the road on the mountain broke down and it was not easy to go down. There was also water below. The water is gone.

But they didn't have the strength to go on anymore, so they stayed here all the time, not knowing what other people were doing.

Lu Ziqian said to let them share the food, and there will be food under the table every day in the future, and when everyone is full and strong, he will go down the mountain with them.

Lu Ziqian asked Zhang Tiancai to go back first and inform the soldiers in the city to make a mountain road out so that everyone could go down.

……

From time to time, there will be news about Lu Ziqian's situation in Beijing, and there are often rumors of fairies appearing to conjure food. Nan Qiqi can also receive a letter from Lu Ziqian. Every time he receives a letter, Nan Qiqi is very excited and can't wait to open open to see.

There are several pages of paper in each envelope, most of which are love words, and then the last few lines are what you have done recently, asking him if he is okay, and asking him if he misses him.

It was New Year's Eve, and it was snowing heavily outside, Nan Qiqi opened the window and listened to the sound of snow while reading the letter, after finishing each letter, when she turned her head, she happened to see Lu Ziqian who was rushing back in the snow outside the window .

"Why are you back? Isn't the matter still unfinished?" Nan Qiqi stuck her head out of the window in surprise, thinking she was hallucinating.

Lu Ziqian didn't have time to speak, when he saw Nan Qiqi, he couldn't wait to hold his face and kiss him.

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