Wife Kim An

Chapter 74

The bridge was washed away by the heavy rain, refugees piled up in Nianchuan, and the courtyard outside the city was already full of people.Days of heavy rain, dirty and messy environment, days without enough food and clothing, people with weak constitutions gradually caught colds and high fevers persisted.

On August 24th, there was a violent storm in Nianchuan, water began to accumulate in the city, flooded to the knees, and there were various complaints.Many pedestrians were injured by heavy objects blown down by the strong wind, and the serious ones died on the spot.

The money in the Song Family's shop was embezzled privately, and a few bags of rice were missing. When Song Xiao heard the news, she hurried back to the Song Mansion. Unexpectedly, she was hit by someone on the road, and all the heavy objects in her arms were empty.

When she touched it, her face sank.

"Bold thief, actually stole my things!"

Song Xiao was slightly annoyed, reached out and picked up the little thief who was about to run away.It was a little girl in coarse cloth and braided braids.

"Miss, don't arrest me to see the government... I won't dare next time..." The girl who was caught was terrified, crying loudly as she spoke. More like a little tabby cat.

Song Xiao was taken aback, and said in a daze, "It's you? Why are you in the city?" Didn't the magistrate say that refugees are not allowed to enter the city? Why did this child enter the city...

"Xiao Ling came in with a caravan. Miss knows me?" The girl said timidly, "Mother is seriously ill and needs money urgently, so..."

This little girl was Xiao Ling who was the girl Song Xiao saw pounced on Shen Junyi back then. At this time, she was skinny and her eyes were dull, which was very different from her lively appearance before.

Song Xiao said softly, "Don't be a thief next time, I know how to do medicine, why don't I help your mother take a look."

"Mother, the doctor is here!" Xiao Ling ran anxiously into the yard, his loud voice resounding throughout the yard.She ran to the door of the room, turned her head and stroked her chest, panting heavily, and then greeted Song Xiao, "Miss, this way please."

Song Xiao stepped into the room with the medical kit on his back.This is what she just got back to the Song Mansion.

This is a large dilapidated courtyard with about a dozen rooms. There are many people lying in each room, but most of them are old people and children.When she arrived, everyone poked their heads out and looked around curiously.

Why not five hundred miles outside the city?Song Xiao frowned.

Xiaoling's mother was weak, malnourished for many days and caught a cold in the rain, which made her condition worse and she was bedridden.Song Xiao decided to treat with acupuncture and moxibustion, and boiled some warming ginger soup for her.

Seeing that it was still early, Song Xiao saw the patients in other rooms one by one. After checking, Song Xiao found that except for a few with serious injuries, the rest were mild fever and diarrhea.She breathed a sigh of relief and wrote down the prescription.Just about to send people to grab the medicine, it suddenly occurred to them that they would not be able to enter the city at all, so they promised to come tomorrow with the medicine.

"Don't you live in the yard arranged by the magistrate? How did you live here?"

"The yard arranged by the county magistrate is overcrowded, and the food is getting more and more insufficient. The elderly, children, and those who are weak and sick and have no strength to restrain the chickens are all driven out. Sleeping outside, the cold wind is blowing, and it is raining heavily. Mother protects me In my arms, I am sick." Xiao Ling complained tearfully.

"Brother Shenxian found us a deserted yard not far from the city when he found out about it. Not only that, but he also brought a few bags of rice over here."

"Brother Immortal?" Song Xiao asked curiously, "Since there is Brother Immortal to help, why doesn't my mother ask him for help when she is sick?"

"Brother Immortal has helped us too much..."

Xiao Ling said guiltily.

"Mother was originally in poor health, but now she is getting sicker and sicker. I wanted to tell Brother Immortal, but Mother said that this would waste brother a lot of money, and we already owed too much...so I kept hiding it...but Mother I couldn’t make it through, so I ventured into the city to find doctors, and begged them to save my mother... But the doctors refused to treat me as soon as they heard that I had no money, and several of them did so. In desperation, I saw the young lady in her arms. When you get up, you will be tempted to steal."

She lowered her head, very embarrassed, "Little Ling will not steal anymore, thank you miss for saving my life."

Song Xiao raised his head and asked softly, "He... cares about you very much?"

"Yeah, the first time Brother Immortal rescued us, I thought Big Brother was really a good person. Now I really think he is an immortal, so before this catastrophe, he showed up to help us!"

Why is he so concerned about the disaster victims? His mother said that she met him in Yizhou two years ago. Could it be that he had been in a disaster before?He doesn't want to talk about his parents, does it have something to do with his parents?
"Sometimes I really want to grow up quickly and marry a fairy brother when I grow up!"

Song Xiao curled her lips unhappily, and thought jealously: Shen Junyi, your charm is so great!No matter how old a child is, he will like you!
"Unfortunately, Brother Shenxian has a big sister next to him. The two are inseparable and have a close relationship. Hey..." Xiaoling said sadly.

Song Xiao narrowed his eyes, and unconsciously exerted strength in his hands.

The wounded suddenly yelled, and she suddenly realized that the wounded in front of her was tightly tied around the neck with gauze, and she was almost out of breath.

It was already evening when Song Xiao returned to the Song Mansion.When she saw the lights in the room were on, and Shen Junyi's swaying silhouette was reflected on the window paper, her heart would always be warm.But now, there is a little more anxiety.

Song Xiao pushed open the door, saw Shen Junyi frowning looking at something, saw her coming in, put something in his arms, and greeted her: "Xiaoxiao, where have you been, why are you back so late?"

"Jun Yi." Song Xiao called out softly, leaning limply on his body.

"Huh?" Shen Junyi looked at her questioningly.

Song Xiao bit her lips and said, "Today, I met a little girl named Xiao Ling. Her mother was seriously ill, so I went to help her mother see a doctor. It was in a yard thirty miles outside the city."

Seeing that Shen Junyi was indifferent, Song Xiao paused for a moment, and said, "Junyi, you have been going out recently, I always thought you were busy with the business in the store. However, I visited all the stores of the Song family today, but they said There is no big business in the store recently. What are you busy with...or are you hiding something from me..."

"I hope you can tell me yourself, what are you doing these days..." Song Xiao looked into Shen Junyi's eyes seriously, and said softly, "Don't lie to me, okay..."

Shen Junyi was silent for a while.Song Xiao has visited all the shops, so how much does Song Xiao know... Is it true that I don't know anything, or is it a trial... or...

He said, "Xiaoxiao, in the past few days I have shipped a few bags of rice without telling you, and I embezzled money from the Song family to buy a yard outside the city..."

"Well, I know." Song Xiao let out a long sigh of relief.

Shen Junyi was taken aback, and looked up at Song Xiao complicatedly: "Don't you blame me for using money and wasting food without permission?"

"That fairy brother, it's you...why didn't you tell me that you have been helping the victims. I'm not a stingy person. If you run out of money, you can earn more, and if you run out of food, you can buy more, but you only have one life. I support it. You!" Song Xiao laughed lightly, stretched out his hand to hold Shen Junyi's hand, and said happily, "When you were silent just now, I was scared to death. I'm afraid you would rather hide it from me than tell the truth, and I'm afraid that you will lose your mind. Thinking of lies to deal with me."

Shen Junyi lowered his head and bit his lips secretly.

Song Xiao said softly: "Jun Yi, what do you want to do in the future, don't hide it from me. Tell me if you have any difficulties, and we will face them together. Promise me, okay?"

"Okay, I promise you." Shen Junyi smiled lightly.

Seeing Shen Junyi's promise, Song Xiao smiled lightly, and said casually: "Then don't hide it from me, who is the woman who was with you recently? I heard it from Xiaoling!"

"The friends I met when I went out a few days ago saw that I was helping the victims, so they helped together." Shen Junyi smiled, rubbed Song Xiao's hair, and said softly, "We have nothing, don't think about it. It's just ordinary friends. "

He didn't know why he deliberately explained it this way, whether he didn't want Song Xiao to be too careful, or he didn't want her to misunderstand.

"Then tomorrow, I'll go with you. I'm about to bring them medicine."

For some reason, Shen Junyi's words calmed Song Xiao's restless heart.

Why should she doubt him, she should trust him.

On the second day, Song Xiao took the medicine and went to the yard.She was not used to being called Doctor, so everyone collectively called her Miss.

Over time, Song Xiao gradually became acquainted with them.She and Shen Junyi would come every day at noon.She was in charge of seeing the doctor, and Shen Junyi was helping to boil the medicine, a feeling of husband and wife singing along.

Sometimes, Song Xiao could look sideways at Shen Junyi who was playing with children, and suddenly found that he had a special affinity for children.He smiles embarrassingly when he is teased by a child, sometimes he looks at a loss when he sees a child peeing his pants, but the most is the happy smile, the kind of joy from the heart.

She suddenly wanted to have a baby.In this way, Shen Junyi would smile so beautifully every day.

"Jun Yi, the natural disaster will be over soon." Song Xiao sat on the stone steps, blowing a comfortable breeze, and her wispy long hair fluttered with the wind.

She raised her head halfway, raised her hand, stretched it gradually, pointed to the sky and said: "Soon, the sky will clear up."

It feels good to help people. Sometimes, when she looks at other people's smiling faces and sees people getting healthy under her medical skills, she feels the meaning of living in this world.

Shen Junyi followed Song Xiao's fingers and looked at the sky. There were dark clouds and the air was dull, exuding the sultry and oppressive atmosphere before the rain. If the calm before the storm was like his heart.

On August 26, the stagnant water in the city gradually receded.

On August 27, the Luoshui River broke its embankment, and the flood swept in. All the houses and farmland were submerged. The victims were hungry and could not eat. The sound of crying was heard for dozens of miles.400 square miles were flooded, more than 50 villages were affected, and 1 people were homeless and slept on the embankment.

The famine is getting worse and worse, but the price of food is under the single-handed control of the Lin family.More and more civilians starved to death.

The magistrate sent people to repair the bridge. With the joint efforts of many people, the bridge was completed on August 31.

The rice was used by Shen Junyi to help the victims. If the Song family wanted to go to Sucheng together, they had to buy rice again, so Song Xiao stayed in Nianchuan all the time.

One day, I happened to meet Lin Yi, and he was surprised: "Miss Song hasn't left the city yet, the bridge was repaired yesterday!"

Song Xiao was overjoyed, and only heard him softly say: "The Luoshui River burst its embankment, and within ten days, Yizhou will be submerged. I don't know what the refugees will do without food..."

"Where are the people from Yang Family Village, have they come to Nianchuan?" Song Xiao asked in a panic.

"No." Lin Yi looked back and smiled: "The bridge has been repaired, I don't know when Miss Song will leave? Do you want me to send you off? Or rush to save people?"

"I will tell the magistrate. Ask her to send someone to save her." Song Xiao turned around and said coldly, "This is Song's business, and Mr. Lin doesn't need to care about it."

Song Xiao went to see the magistrate, but was ruthlessly rejected.The officials of the Yamen were busy repairing the dams of the Luoshui River, and had no time to take care of other things.

Song Xiao was in a hurry to tell Shen Junyi the news, but wasted time in the room.

The servants were cleaning the room, and Qingyan entered with an incense burner.The moment they passed by, Song Xiao suddenly grabbed Qingyan's hand.

This incense burner!

Although the smell is very weak, there is indeed a problem with this incense burner!Song Xiao, who had suffered many times from the incense burner, became more and more sensitive to the smell.

"Qingyan." Song Xiao said coldly: "Since what happened with Xing'er, didn't I tell you not to burn incense in the room? Who ordered you to put this incense burner!"

"It's Young Master." Qing Yan looked suspiciously at the eldest lady whose face suddenly sank, and asked cautiously, "Miss, don't blame Young Master, Young Master is also worried that you are telling me to do this."

"Worried?" Song Xiao's expression was very strange, "Why did he tell you?"

"I told my servants when I first came to Yizhou. The eldest lady didn't sleep well in the past few days. The young master said that it was because of the unacceptable climate, so the servants were asked to put incense in the room, which was the smell that the eldest lady liked before. Every night, Shaojun ordered it after the eldest lady fell asleep, and ordered the servants not to tell the eldest lady, but he was afraid that the eldest lady would think of something unhappy."

Song Xiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and her expression became even more strange. Finally, she sighed and said, "Put your things away and go down."

Song Xiao knew that she had always slept soundly at night recently, and nothing could startle her.It turned out that everything was actually this incense.Her most trusted person personally lit the incense for her.Moreover, he did this to her in Yizhou!

It wasn't just that Nianchuan had something to hide from her, but since he came to Yizhou, he kept it from her and guarded against her along the way.

He stuns her every night, and who does he want to meet privately!What do you want to do again!

She suddenly remembered the blood on Shen Junyi's sleeve not long ago. Shen Junyi had a tryst with someone else in the same room. Shen Junyi promised her that she would not hide things from her...

Song Xiao felt like his heart was being bitten by a bug and burned by a raging fire.

Song Xiao, calm down, what if there is a misunderstanding!Perhaps it was a misunderstanding!
"Junyi, the Luoshui River has burst its embankment. The bridge has also been repaired. Let's go back to Sucheng after the food is prepared."

Song Xiao lay on the bed, covered with the quilt, and suddenly made a faint sound.

"Okay." Shen Junyi said decisively, "Tomorrow I will prepare food for the trip."

Song Xiao smiled and said, "It's late at night. Good night, Junyi."

"Xiaoxiao, good night." Shen Junyi extinguished the candle with his own hands, and lay down beside Song Xiao.

Song Xiao closed her eyes, and to be precise, she breathed steadily, pretending that she was fast asleep.

Half an hour passed, and the people around me remained motionless.

Maybe it was because he was suspicious, maybe Shen Junyi really just wanted her to sleep soundly at night.She felt relieved and gradually became drowsy.

Suddenly, a whisper came from beside him: "Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao..."

Song Xiao's heart speeded up, and he tried his best to breathe steadily.

She heard, in the quiet night, a sound of pushing the door.

She opened her eyes, extinguished the incense under the bed, then exhaled slowly, washed her face with cold water, and slapped herself hard a few times.

Shen Junyi actually put the incense in the incense!Her previous suspicion was actually guessed by her!

Song Xiao went out of the room, she pricked up her ears, for some reason, she could hear Shen Junyi's soft footsteps not far away, she clenched her fists, and followed closely behind.

Half an hour later, Song Xiao looked at the high wall and was furious!Damn it, she can't do it lightly!
She walked along the wall and finally came to the gate.She stared blankly at the plaque on the government office, her heart gradually sank.

It turned out to be Yamen!Why did Shen Junyi go to the yamen to do something late! ?

Song Xiao waited outside the wall for half an hour. At midnight, there was a strong wind all around, and Song Xiao was shivering from the cold. Suddenly she heard a female voice coming from inside the wall, which was somewhat familiar.

"Junyi, you have always suspected that the things are in the yamen, but today I was on duty and took you to look around, but found nothing. Are you sure the things are in the yamen?"

"A few pages were torn out of the month on the file. She must have hidden it somewhere!" Shen Junyi clenched his fists tightly, exuding a murderous look all over his body, "To tear it up deliberately, there must be something inside!"

"But in the two years since I've been here, I haven't found a hidden space here. Could it be in the magistrate's mansion?"

"Go, go to the county magistrate!"

Song Xiao secretly looked at the window grille, and the woman next to Shen Junyi turned her face slightly, and she saw it clearly.

Master Qing!She was shocked.

Afterwards, she squinted her eyes and took a closer look. She always felt that she was somewhat similar to the young woman before. They were all familiar with Shen Junyi, and they called Junyi by his first name. They were both surnamed Qing. Could it be that they were the same person... Yes Disguise!

Before she could see clearly, both of them used their lightness kung fu to leave. Based on their conversation and flight direction, they were going to the magistrate's mansion!What exactly is Shen Junyi looking for!What is his purpose...

This Miss Qing doesn't look like a friend she just met, she looks like...

The sky gradually began to rain lightly, and Song Xiao felt completely chilled all over, but the coldest thing was her heart.

He actually lied to her...

She walked towards the magistrate's mansion with stiff steps, then slapped her face, and ran wildly in the light rain.

Dive into the county magistrate at night!Shen Junyi, your internal strength hasn't recovered yet, do you want to die!
Thinking of this, Song Xiao ran wildly in the rain even more anxiously.Worry, fear, and anxiety rushed to the tip of her heart in an instant.

With a "plop", she slipped on her foot and fell into the puddle with a sound of embarrassment.

magistrate.

The candlelight on the stage blew, and Zhixian looked up strangely.All of a sudden, a black shadow came, and a sword was placed on his neck.The sword pressed down slightly, and a deep and hoarse voice sounded: "The file from five years ago, several pages were torn out in June. Where are those papers?!"

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Zhixian tilted her head slightly, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw that the man holding him was a masked man in black. With a thought, she secretly observed the other's features.

"Don't move, or I'll kill you!" The man's eyes sank, his tone was murderous, "Where are the papers? What happened back then! Tell me! Otherwise, I'll kill you!" Every time he said a word, he threatened one cent.

Yin Jian took a step closer, Zhixian let out a pain, gritted his teeth and said, "Who are you? What could have happened five years ago, those papers were accidentally torn off by a note-taker! It's no big deal."

"Don't tell me, let me remind you." The man snapped off the magistrate's right arm with force, and said coldly, "At the end of April five years ago, Shen Ruoqing, who was originally the prime minister, was demoted to Yizhou and became the prime minister of Yizhou. The county magistrate. At the beginning of May, there was a flood in Yizhou, and the Luoshui River broke its embankment. The disaster situation was reported, and the empress allocated funds for the disaster, ordering Shen Ruoqing to help the disaster. Unexpectedly, the disaster situation was not only not under control, but expanded rapidly in mid-May, and the plague The spread spread, and the number of dead reached tens of thousands. In mid-June, the Queen learned of her anger and sent an imperial envoy to Yizhou. At the end of June, the imperial envoy Yan Rong pressed Shen Ruoqing back from Yizhou and put him in prison. At that time, the case was handled by Trial at the clan's house. The matter was investigated for more than a month, and countless gold and silver were found from the Shen's house, as well as evidence of corruption and bribery. The ministers jointly petitioned for severe punishment. Tens of thousands of people died, and Shen Ruoqing was sentenced to be beheaded at noon the next day. Shen Ruoqing's blood relatives were punished with one hundred rods. The whole family was exiled for three thousand miles, and their property was confiscated. The blood flowed all over the ground overnight."

The silver sword pressing on his neck trembled slightly. At the end of the man's speech, he shouted in a low voice, "What happened to this! You, as the magistrate of Nianchuan County, were responsible for disaster relief together, so it's impossible not to know!"

(End of this chapter)