Chapter 61: Refugees
The cold winter is full of snow. The first heavy snow after the twelfth lunar month is blowing. Overnight, the entire Liang Kingdom is in the snow, with thousands of miles of mountains and silver covered with thick snow. The thick snow is spread on a thick layer on the ground. If you step in, you can't reach your calves. This big game
The snow came suddenly, and there was no preparation at all!
Dongyan County, a small village, a little girl who looks like she looks like she is eight or nine years old is walking on the snow in a shabby cotton jacket. She is wearing cloth shoes, but it is already broken, and her big toe leaks out. When she steps on the snow, the white snow directly passes over the little girl's calves.
My stomach and melted snow had wet my cloth shoes and trouser legs. The weather was very cold, and the cold wind blew on my face, like a knife cutting!
The little girl walked in the snow, leaving a line of footprints on the snow, holding some dry branches that were picked up by the snow, her face was pitch black, as if she had not been washed for many days, and she could only see a pair of big eyes.
, like obsidian!
My hands were so cold that they were red and my lips were a little purple because the weather was too cold, so cold!
"Mom, mom! Xiaoya is back!" After more than ten minutes of hand, the little girl walked into a small thatched hut in a small village with her branches. The hut was simple, the windows were rotten, and it was ventilated everywhere. There was a fire pit in the hut. Next to the fire pit, there was a bed, and a woman couldn't move.
I lay movingly on it and covered it with a thin quilt!!
"Mom, mom!" The little girl called out twice to the woman on the bed. She found that the woman held the dry branches and walked to the fire pit without saying a word. While breaking the small perception, she began to make a fire: "Mom, wait a moment, Xiaoya found the dry branches and set the fire immediately.
, When the fire rises, it will be no longer cold!..."
The little girl's face was dirty, and her frozen red and purple hands kept spraining the dry branches. While doing the fireworks skillfully, she talked to herself, as if she was talking to the woman on the bed, and to herself!
Originally, these jobs were not required to be done by little girls, but half a month ago, a sudden famine occurred in Dongyan County. In fact, when did there be any famine? Over the years, some famines will not occur in Liang State, but the real problem is
It was a plague disease and it also accompanied by famine. It swept through most of Dongyan County in a few days. No one knew where the plague occurred, but it came too hard, and it was a bit late when people came to the screening...
"Mom, wait, the fire will be gone soon and it won't be cold!"
Spread the tiny dry branches in the fire pit, ignite them with a rotten cloth, and place them on it. The little girl's technique is very skillful. In fact, she has been doing this for more than ten days. After the plague, her father who went to the next county never came back, and her mother was also
I couldn't afford to get sick when I was infected with the plague. I lay on the bed and almost all the people in the village were exposed, leaving only some elderly people who were infected or unable to walk!
Soon, the fire started. From the beginning, the small flame, everyone behind the road, a warm feeling appeared in the house, driving away the chill of the deep mountains!
"Mom, mom, the fire is coming!..."
The little girl was a little happy and walked to the bedside and called the woman a few more times, but the woman didn't say anything!
"Didn't my mother wake up yet? But Xiaoya is so hungry!" Seeing that the woman on the bed did not answer, the little girl couldn't help but touch her stomach. Two days ago, she had finished eating food in the room. She had been hungry these two days and couldn't stand it anymore, so she looked outside for her.
I took some wild vegetable roots back and cooked them, but now the snow is too thick and I can't find the wild vegetable roots!
"My mother said, you can sleep without being hungry, I will sleep too!" After standing in front of the bed for a while, seeing that the woman had not woken up, the little girl also climbed into the bed, turned into the broken quilt, hugged the woman and went to sleep with her eyes closed, but after sleeping for a while, the little girl slept no matter how she slept.
No -
"Mom, Xiaoya is so hungry. When will you get up and take Xiaoya to find food?"
"Mom, when will my father come back? Xiaoya misses him!"
"Mom, why are you so cold!"
After screaming a few times, the girl climbed up and looked at her mother. The woman's face, which was somewhat covered by her hair, had turned a little blue at some point, her lips were also blue-purple, and her whole body was stiff and cold.
Yes, after discovering this, the little girl suddenly became scared!
Her time passes by death, so why does it mean to be killed? The little girl doesn't know, but she knows that if a person dies, he will never wake up again and his body will slowly rot...
"Mom, mom, wake up!...Mom!"
"Don't leave Xiaoya behind, Xiaoya is afraid..."
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In Sanchuan County, Chen County, Kelai Restaurant, the street outside was covered with thick snow. Ning Caichen and Tang Renjing sat opposite each other on the window on the second floor!
Ning Caichen was dressed in white and a white fur coat on his shoulders. Tang Renjing was also dressed in casual clothes, not wearing the government office of the past!
"Your place is getting better and better business." Tang Renjing looked at the endless stream of guests around him and drank another glass of wine!
"Wine is good!" After drinking, Tang Renjing said: "After drinking your wine, it will be difficult for other wines to be eaten in the future!"
"If Lord Tang likes it, I will ask the waiter to give you a few jars later. Of course, the money will still be given, otherwise people will say that I am bribing the Lord later. I don't care, but it will be bad for others to ruin their reputation!" Ning Caichen smiled and gave himself and Tang Renjing a smile.
The man poured a cup and spoke!
"You boy, you are stingy, you have to find a reason for yourself." Tang Renjing cursed with a smile!
"I'm considering Lord Tang. The wine is small, but my sins will be great if I ruin my reputation!"
Ning Caichen drank a drink and smiled. This restaurant was sold more than a month ago and has now become a famous restaurant in Chen County. The most important thing is that Ning Caichen's memory of the earth played a great role. He has drunk the wine of this world once, and it is particularly strong.
, and it has a kind of astringent taste, such as not being able to handle the later work well. Fortunately, he had some understanding of the principle of brewing in his previous life, and it was not difficult. He even made it himself, but he couldn't get the famous wine, so he could still do it with ordinary rice wine!
The principles are similar. The newly brewed one was named Wuliangye by Ning Caichen. Because it was made of grain, it directly stolen the famous brand of the previous life. Because of Wuliangye, Kelai Restaurant became more and more famous and its business became better and better!
"I saw Lord Tang frowning recently, what are you worried about?"
"Yeah!" When he said this, Tang Renjing's face was a little heavy: "Recently, many refugees from Dongyan County came from outside the city. I heard that a plague occurred there, and most of Dongyan County was affected!"
"You are talking about the refugees outside the city!" Ning Caichen thought something!
"What else can I do besides this?" At this point, Tang Renjing sighed: "It's so difficult!"
It is difficult, of course it is difficult. At least tens of thousands of refugees gathered outside the city, either to enter the city or not. Chen County is just a small county town. So many refugees enter the city, and they are hungry and cold. God knows how troubles will be born.
"But there is a countermeasure. If these people are kept out of the city for a long time, there will be riots. Speaking of which, these people are all pitiful people."
"I don't know." Tang Renjing shook his head: "I reported this matter to the court ten days ago, but..."
"But there is no reply." Ning Caichen said: "Now the chaotic direction is in chaos, and those people in the court may not care too much about these things."
Tang Renjing didn't speak, and even outsider Ning Caichen could see clearly that he was not a stupid person, and in the officialdom, how could he not know about the affairs in the court? King Liang was stupid and very happy about merit, but he had no talent and virtue, and believed in slander, so that the Liang Kingdom is now
People are living in trouble and chaos arises.
"Mr. Tang, what will happen if a great Xia is corrupt inside..." Ning Caichen said again.
“Rolling.”
"Yes, it's shaky, what if the last pillar collapses."
Will collapse - Tang Renjing said instinctively, but he swallowed it back when he was on his lips. He looked at Ning Caichen in shock. He was not a stupid person, but on the contrary, he was very smart. It was because of his cleverness that he understood what Ning Caichen meant, but he made his forehead
Cold sweat broke out.
The building collapsed, this is a rebellious statement.
"Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn the boat. If the court does not handle this Dongyan plague well, it may have a long-term negative impact."
Ning Caichen said another word, but Tang Renjing stopped responding because it was a bit scary!
"Sir, sir, it's not good. Those people outside the city are rioting."
At this moment, an official ran in anxiously.
Chapter completed!