Mrs. General, don't go

Chapter 173

Ning Yuanxiu, who has excellent ears, heard the reputation, and saw a fat man wearing a dirty robe and a messy bun on his head, waving his short arms. Seeing Ning Yuanxiu looking over, his mouth opened wide Yes, look at him.

Ning Yuanxiu pointed at him, and the guards went to bring him over.

"Mrs. Ning, my surname is Zhao, and I am the owner of the Ningjia chain store in Qizhou." The businessman surnamed Zhao, afraid that Jiang Jiao hadn't heard clearly just now, introduced himself again.

Jiang Jiao nodded, indicating that she knew.

"Tell me, what do you have to say to us." Ning Yuanxiu said.

The businessman surnamed Zhao looked around and pursed his lips in embarrassment.

"Let's go!" Ning Yuanxiu took Jiang Jiao and the businessman surnamed Zhao into the temporary tent.

Entering inside, Ning Yuanxiu asked Jiang Jiao to sit down. He stood beside her and said to the businessman surnamed Zhao, "Can we talk now?"

"Yes, yes!" The businessman surnamed Zhao, who was still looking normal just now, suddenly changed his face, and knelt down on his knees in a dark and respectful manner: "General, madam, save the people here! We have all suffered a great crime."

Jiang Jiao and Ning Yuanxiu looked at each other when they heard the words, Jiang Jiao said first, "Get up first, and speak slowly if you have something to say, with me and the general here, I will keep you safe."

The businessman surnamed Zhao looked up at Jiang Jiao and Ning Yuanxiu, but he didn't dare to get up, and just knelt like that: "General, madam. The matter starts with the young crop fee in Qizhou in March this year."

"Young crop fee?"

Jiang Jiao and Ning Yuanxiu, who had never heard of "green crop fee", asked at the same time.

"Yeah, young crop fee, only Qizhou has a young crop fee. Every March when the seeds are planted, the prefect will send his men to each village to charge fees ranging from the population to the number of seedlings planted.

In March and April of this year, Qizhou experienced heavy rain for almost two whole months, and there was no real sunshine for a day and a half. The rain flooded everywhere in the city and outside the city, and the people couldn't farm at all. They barely planted some seedlings, but only two days , It died in three days because of too much rain, and it is still the same after replanting.After so many repetitions, Zhizhou still sent his men to collect young crop fees outside the city as usual, but the people strongly resisted.

Zhizhou arrested a group of people who refused to pay the young crop fee and came back. They stood in cages at the gate of the city. There were twenty or thirty men and women in the cages. They were all tortured to death.

After they died, Zhizhou didn't give up. He even asked his subordinates to tie them together with a rope and drag them to every village outside the city.

Those people didn't live in peace after they died, and when they were dragged behind, they were already bloody and bone-strewn.

The common people were afraid and wanted to pay the young crop fee as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, Zhizhou refused again, and he doubled the young crop fee several times.

Some of them are unwilling to hand over, Zhizhou will." The businessman surnamed Zhao said here, paused, and continued: "Put the living people they captured together with those who have rotted and are out of shape.At the same time, extra head money is charged in the city, especially for those larger shops. People come to check the door at any time every day, and the money is collected according to the number of people entering the shop.Ma'am, Zhizhou, our chain store, will be a little more scrupulous. None of the other stores have escaped. Even if the person who enters the store does not buy anything, the owner still has to pay the person who enters the store.If they resist or are dissatisfied, they will be arrested and locked up together.

In this way, months passed one after another, and the sky finally cleared up, and then it was extremely hot, which was a bit hotter than the midsummer of previous years.

Then in the city outside the city, some people began to get sick from that corner. At first they had a fever, then they had a sore throat, and then they were covered with pustules all over their body, and when the pustules burst, they died.

At first everyone didn't care.When I found out later, it was everywhere.

Zhizhou sent people to build the wall overnight to take away those who were sick and those who were unable to pay the money before.They all rushed here, and the others were taken over to the wall. "

When Ning Yuanxiu heard this, he instantly understood, no wonder the seal on the official document sent to the emperor was not quite right, as if it had been stamped hastily.

Now it seems that the urgent official document should not have been sent by Zhizhou himself, but by someone else who couldn't see it and sent it under a false name.

"Then can you take me to the place where they keep people?"

Jiang Jiao got up suddenly and said to the businessman surnamed Zhao.

"Okay, as long as I can save everyone, my death is worth it."

Jiang Jiao's eyes lit up, she didn't expect the fat man in front of her, who looked inconspicuous, to have such a fearless spirit in this critical moment.

Ning Yuanxiu put away his thoughts and came back to his senses: "I will go too."

Jiang Jiao called Ning Liu to give some instructions, and then went to the medical account to tell Huang Yuyi some things to pay attention to, and then Ning Yuanxiu and two guards followed the businessman surnamed Zhao and went out of the city.

After leaving the city, Jiang Jiao took out a mask and handed it to the businessman surnamed Zhao: "Put it on, don't take it off unless it is absolutely necessary, and don't touch your mouth or eyes, or other damaged places with your hands."

The businessman surnamed Zhao took the mask, followed Jiang Jiao's example, and put the mask on his face.

A group of people walked six or seven miles and came to a small town near the city.

Before reaching the entrance of the town, a strong rotten smell came to the nostrils, and the person who smelled it couldn't help vomiting.

The businessman surnamed Zhao pointed to the inside of the town: "They are detained in the stables of this inn at the entrance of the town. Most of the people in this town have died, and the rest have been driven to the city."

When Ning Yuanxiu heard the words, he grabbed Jiang Jiao: "I'll go and see, you wait here!"

"No, I'll go in person. You wait here, and you don't know how to heal. It's useless for you to go in."

"I'm useless?" Ning Yuanxiu raised her eyebrows, but she actually said he was useless.

Only then did Jiang Jiao realize that she had made a slip of the tongue.

"I didn't mean that, I meant"

"Okay, I got it, let's go together." Seeing Jiang Jiao explaining in a hurry, Ning Yuanxiu couldn't bear it anymore, put his hand on Jiang Jiao's other shoulder, and interrupted her in a low voice.

Jiang Jiao pondered for a moment: "Okay then, pay attention when you go in, don't wander around, it's best to follow me all the time." After Jiang Jiao finished speaking, she looked at the businessman surnamed Zhao and the two guards, and asked: "How many of you are there?" So does one."

"Let's go, I will always follow you, Jiaojiao."

Ning Yuanxiu put his arm around Jiang Jiao's shoulders, walked into the town, and came to the inn mentioned by the businessman surnamed Zhao.

The guard kicked open the half-covered door, and several people entered cautiously. Before reaching the backyard, they saw several rotting and smelly corpses lying on the ground.

"Don't look at it." Ning Yuanxiu felt disgusted even after looking at it, so he covered Jiang Jiao's eyes with his hand.

Jiang Jiao held her breath, took a moment to relax, and removed Ning Yuanxiu's hand covering her eyes.

"I am fine."

(End of this chapter)