It is impossible to punish adults

Chapter 482 Famine
The group quickly assembled and were ready to set off for Shezhou.

On this trip, Yuan Mu probably learned the lessons from his previous trip to Yanzhou, so he brought a team of Yamen who were appointed to the Criminal Division to an unfamiliar place.

The journey from Tixingsi to Shezhou is not too far away, but you have to go overland first, and then take the ferry across the river.

Just as he was about to set off, the sky suddenly darkened, and a torrential rain poured down his head. Yuan Mu had no choice but to let everyone go back and wait until the torrential rain passed before setting off.

Mu Liuyun and Shen Yu moved two chairs, sat on the porch and watched the pouring rain outside. The rainwater fell on the roof and gathered into small water columns along the eaves, like clear water jade, falling on the ground, splashing Make a splash.

"Is it raining more frequently this year than usual?" Mu Liuyun asked Shen Xun, holding his chin and looking at the wet ground outside.

Although she doesn't like this errand to Shezhou, but the tolerance can't be canceled because of personal preference. In contrast, she doesn't like this kind of time when she was about to leave in a hurry, but was blocked by the heavy rain. a feeling of.

Shen Yu nodded: "Yes! It usually takes more than a month for the generation of Jiangzhou to rain, but this year is very strange, and it has started to rain non-stop!
However, my father has an apprentice who went back to his hometown to open a martial arts gym on his own. A few days ago, he sent a letter to my father. At the beginning of spring, there have been two or three rains in total, and the rain was so heavy that the ground could not even be wetted, so he wanted to ask how the situation in Jiangzhou was. If everything was normal here, he would come here after a while On this trip, Zhang Luo bought some rice in advance from Jiangzhou and transported it back to stock up.

After all, he opened a martial arts gym, and now his apprentices have taken in a lot of young and old. Those middle-aged and middle-aged children who practice martial arts are not as gentle as scholars, and they pay attention to eight-point fullness, delicious food, and so on. The master of the hungry wolf!
Their half full meal is enough to make you, Master, vomit!If you don't save enough food in advance, if there is a famine due to the severe drought, big things will happen! "

Mu Liuyun didn't have any doubts about this, after all, Yuan Jia and Yuan Yi were both sons of the Lian family, so they had a lot of appetite.When I was in Yuyong County before, those senior brothers of Shen Yu also had a lot of food.

These people are still like this, let alone those half-grown children who practice hard every day, they still have to grow their bodies and eat more.

"Yes," Mu Liuyun sighed, "It doesn't matter if it's a drought or a flood, as long as it affects the cultivation of grain, it's not a good thing after all, and it's easy to cause trouble!"

In the ten or twenty years that Mu Liuyun herself grew up, every year was pretty good, so she never witnessed the tragic scene of a famine with her own eyes.

The reason why she is so aware of the frightening famine is that there is a record in the letter left by her father, saying that when he went out to buy goods, he passed a place where there was a plague of locusts, and the overwhelming locusts gave all the food to him. After gnawing everything, the farmers have worked hard for half a year and finally have no harvest, and the granaries of every household are so empty that not even a mouse hair can be found.

It was recorded in Papa Mu’s handbook that the local people ate up all the grass and leaves they could find because they were so hungry, but it was not enough, so they had to peel off the bark. There were no trees to be found, and many people were starved to death.

Some people were so hungry that they even dug up the mud by the river to eat, and gnawed a few bites of the soil on the roadside, but they fell to death by those mud clods before they starved to death.

Along the way, what Mu Laopa saw was the barren fields and the miserable conditions of the people who were starving and dying, and he was very sad, so he recorded all these in his handbook.

Mu Liuyun was still young when he read this part of the manuscript, he only felt that the famine was really a terrible thing, and it left a deep impression on him, but he didn't think much about anything else.

Now that I think about it, if my father was a tea merchant, how could he pass through a disaster-prone place when he went out to buy goods?

Thinking about this, she saw that there was no slight rain outside, and couldn't help but sighed, thinking in her heart, I hope this year will not be like Shen Xun said, with drought and flood at the same time.

After waiting like this for a long time, the rain finally stopped, and the group set off immediately without any further delay.

After half a day of heavy rain, it was extremely muddy all the way after we set off. Considering the need to cross the river to go to Lynzhou, the carriage was really inconvenient, so Mu Liuyun also rode along with him, which was extremely hard work.

Because of the half-day delay, they could only find a post on the way to stay overnight at night, and continued on the road the next morning. In this way, they finally arrived at the riverside ferry until the morning of the third day.

Everyone was surprised when they arrived at the riverside. The continuous rainstorm caused the river to surge in a short period of time. The surface of the river was much wider than it looked before. I feel a little dizzy looking at it.

Fortunately, the ferry here usually needs to transport business travelers back and forth on both sides. The ships are so big that they can even carry people and horses. Because of the large number of people, they divided into two groups and boarded two ships respectively, and began to cross the river downstream. Shezhou marched.

The river is turbulent, and Mu Liuyun is an out-and-out landlubber. This was the first time when he went out before crossing the river in a boat. He wobbled on the boat. It was okay at first, but after a long time, he began to feel a little uncomfortable. Comfortable, looking at the turbid river tumbling under the boat, I just feel dizzy, and my stomach can't help but churn.

Seeing this, Yuan Mu hurriedly helped her to rest in the cabin, took out the prepared pills for her, and rubbed a little refreshing medicated oil on her forehead. After doing this for a while, Mu Liu Yun finally relieved a lot of discomfort, although he still felt that the ups and downs of the boat in the waves were not so comfortable, at least he felt a little refreshed.

Fortunately, this part of the waterway didn't take long. When it was dark, they arrived at the ferry in Shezhou. A group of people led the horses and disembarked one by one, and waited for the next boat to arrive before continuing on their way.

There was no place to live around the ferry, so they could only light torches, and walked forward in the dark for a while, and finally saw a post station by the side of the road. Yi Cheng came out to answer the door, judging by his appearance, he should have been slammed by the door call, looking at the yamen at the door was like seeing a ghost.

(End of this chapter)