Jinyi Music

Chapter 337
However, the prince looks gentle and gentle on the outside, but he is actually a dark and sinister person on the inside. Mou Biao is not sure what Yinger thinks about him, and he doesn't know how she blows the pillow wind, but he always remembers that she is the prince. Master's woman is naturally as far away as possible, but the more he is like this, the more resentful the Yinger girl's gaze is when no one knows it!

After they arrived in Datong, the crown prince did not hide his identity anymore, and sent people to inform the local government in Datong early, so many officials came to greet them fifty miles away from the city, and counted all the caravans including the crown prince and Wang Lun. Take it into the city.

The prince was naturally the largest and best house temporarily vacated in the city when he entered the city, and the people in the caravan only released him after careful interrogation. Finally freed, he left the Datong government office without looking back, only Pan Shixi lingered and refused to leave until the brothers and sisters of the Zheng family came out after receiving the goods, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile.
"Sister, where are you going to go after this?"

Zheng Hong didn't say a word, but Zheng Mao responded with a smile,

"Although it was delayed for a few days, fortunately the goods are all in order. We will pass the goods to the buyer, and we can set off to go back after collecting the money..."

Pan Shiyi's eyes lit up when he heard the words,

"Then... where do you live? I am escorting the caravan to the land. I will be fine after collecting the money. I plan to go back to the Xuan Mansion. Why don't we go together?"

While talking, his eyes were staring straight at Zheng Hong, Zheng Hong remained silent while Zheng Mao smiled and nodded,

"How nice the people are, how lively the people are..."

After saying that, ignoring the rolling eyes of his own sister,

"We all stayed at Tonglai Inn in Datong, you come with us!"

"Good good!"

Pan Shixi was so happy that he could see his teeth but not see his eyes. He talked with Hong Mao and walked towards Tonglai Inn.

The prince stayed in Datong for ten days. He inspected the border defense of Datong, visited the military camp, and went to the people to understand the people's conditions. After that, he set off for Yingzhou. Datong's local officials lined the road to see him off, and he was sent to a place twenty miles away from the city. At the place, everyone was relieved to see the horse-drawn carriage in which the prince was riding leave, and secretly rejoiced,
"Finally fooled the prince..."

They didn't know that there was no one in the car of the crown prince. Zhu Houzhao took Ying'er and Liu Jin three days ago, escorted by Mou Biao and other ten confidants, and went to Yingzhou first. After that, They rarely encounter dangers, so they went deep into the people all the way and visited everywhere, but they saw the sufferings of the people. The more they went to Henan, the more severe the drought was, and the starvation was everywhere. When they set off from Beijing, it was already midsummer , when we arrived in Henan, it was already late autumn, but this year in Henan, from the beginning of summer to this bleak autumn day, there was not a single drop of rain. The bark on the side of the road has been stripped off, the trees are dry and fallen, and the birds and animals are extinct. If you are brave enough, you can see the corpses that were dragged aside because of blocking the road.

At the beginning, Mou Biao ordered people to dig a hole to collect the bones, but there were more and more fallen corpses on the road at the back. They were all strong and strong, and they didn't have the strength to bury people anymore, so they had to learn from the people in front. Drag the corpses on the road to the side of the road to avoid being trampled and crushed. When everyone arrived in Kaifeng, they were shocked to see the chaos outside the Kaifeng mansion.

I saw that the city gate of Kaifeng Mansion was closed tightly, and within a mile away from the city gate, there were countless victims of disasters gathered here. Some who came early found a few pieces of wood to build a shack, and some who came later did not know. Where did I find some cloth strips and cloth belts, tie them together and use four wooden sticks to set up a simple sunshade, and if someone didn’t have anything, they picked up a few handfuls of grass and laid it on the ground, and it was a place to sleep , there are more hungry and thin-skinned victims, all of them with dull eyes and gray complexions gathered in one place, sitting or lying on the spot, they looked like people like that, they were clearly a group of walking dead, wrapped in a layer The skin is like a skeleton, and its appearance is really scary!

Standing on a high place, they looked around and saw Wuyangyang, which seemed to have no end, forming a continuous area, surrounding the city of Kaifeng, and the heads of the people on the top of the city were shaking. Strictly wait for it, for fear that the victims of the disaster will mutiny and suddenly attack the city.

Mou Biao and the others did not know how many such victims they had seen along the way. Everyone looked numb, and Zhu Houzhao also had a gloomy face. Everyone protected him and walked among the victims everywhere. The closer the city gate was, the more victims there were on the ground. In a place within a mile of the city, there is no place to even set foot!

Mou Biao frowned and looked at the closed gate of Kaifeng City,
"My lord, are we going into the city?"

He has more knowledge than Zhu Houzhao. He knows that in such a catastrophe year, it would be a greater disaster for the people in the city to let the victims enter the city. Therefore, wherever the victims go, all the state capitals will close the city gates. If there is food If there is no food, then they have to wait for the victims to starve to death or disperse on their own. Therefore, it is impossible to open the gate of Kaifeng City, so we can only find ways to close the city. The tokens and documents were sent into the city, and the people in the city found a way to pick them up into the city.

Zhu Hou took care of the victims all over the place and couldn't help sighing.
"When I was in the capital, I saw that the documents were urgent, saying where and when how many people died and how many victims were besieging the city. I didn't know it at that time, so I thought it was because the local officials were not good at disaster relief. Now that I am on the scene, it is... I know their difficulties!"

If such a large number of disaster victims are put into the city, the people in the city will suffer, so the officials closed the city gates and watched the victims starve to death. This kind of human tragedy happened right in front of them. Great torment of conscience!

Zhu Houzhao sighed again and looked at these victims with dull eyes and slow movements. In their eyes, there was no hope of life. They could only endure it day by day, until their lives passed away, or God opened their eyes. , Or the government will open the granary, and get a little food for survival, and continue this suffering!

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while, shook his head and said,
"Wait, let's find a place to wait until after dark before entering the city!"

Entering the city in the daytime, let the people see it, I'm afraid it will cause a commotion!

Mou Biao nodded, turned around and gave an order, and the subordinates searched around, and found a small hillside with few people. When they came over, they saw that there were more than ten people lying on the ground, including men, women and children, and it seemed that a family had fled. At this point, the subordinates wanted to go up and chase them away, but Mou Biao waved his hands and said,
"Forget it, there is no need to drive them away..."

Immediately commanding the crowd to draw their knives out of their sheaths, they formed a circle facing the outside, then invited Zhu Houzhao to go in, climbed to the slope and sat down, Mou Biao looked at the family, and saw that one of the young men seemed to be a little bit Li Qi, who was sitting with his back against a dead tree, stared at them with dull eyes,

"come here!"

Mou Biao waved at him, the man's thin face was blank at first, when Mou Biao took out a water bag from his waist, his eyes suddenly lit up, and Mou Biao shook him. shake water bladder,

"come here……"

The man stretched out his hands to support the dead tree and wanted to stand up. After so many days of hunger, he had already lost his strength. Then he slowly turned his head to look at him, and saw him climbing to the side of the slope step by step, Mou Biao threw the water bag to him,
"This is for you... let your family make room for us..."

Seeing the water bag, the man's eyes lit up, he stretched out a hand like a chicken's claw, grabbed the water bag, opened it and quickly took a sip, looked back and looked at his family eagerly, and hurriedly crawled back to remove the water bag To the oldest old man,
"Grandpa... there is water to drink, please drink some water!"

A water sac and the whole family took turns to drink it immediately. Mou Biao watched coldly from the other end, and saw that although the whole family had reached such a point, they were still orderly, giving way to each other. After taking a sip of water, he was going to feed the little baby in his arms. The little baby had a big head and a small body, and his eyes were extremely big. After taking a sip of water, he barely opened his eyes. It's so sad to see a piece of gray!

Mou Biao waved at the man again,
"come here……"

The man crawled over again, looking at him eagerly,
"This... lord... do you... do you have anything to eat? Can... can you give a bite to the villain? The villain... the villain will be a cow and a horse for the master... in return..."

Mou Biao looked at him and asked,
"Where do you come from, how long have you been here, does Kaifeng Prefecture open a porridge shed to help the victims?"

After finishing speaking, he took out a dry biscuit from the bundle at the side. When the man saw the dry biscuit, his eyes immediately shone with a strange light, and his ashen face suddenly flushed abnormally.

"Ow..."

A howl like a wild beast came out of his throat, and he didn't know where a force came from, and he rushed forward with a groan,

"Give it to me! Give it to me!"

Mou Biao had been prepared for a long time, he suddenly raised his foot and kicked the man on the shoulder. How could the man's thin skeleton body withstand the kick, and he was kicked back by Mou Biao immediately. , fell heavily on the ground, and their actions attracted the surrounding victims to turn their heads and look at this side blankly, but Mou Biao had already kicked that kick, and the dry thing in his hand The biscuits have been put away!

They had seen this kind of scene a long time ago. When the prince saw the disaster victims for the first time, he took pity on their miserable images, so he took out things from the bag and distributed them to them. It is enough for the crown prince to have nightmares for three consecutive days after returning to the Forbidden City.

(End of this chapter)