When Jiang Anyi followed Li Yubo back to the embankment, he found that something was wrong on the embankment, the noise was boiling, the crowd was divided into two teams and scolded each other, and several people dressed as officials were dissuading each other in the middle.

"Master Li is here." Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, the side with fewer people showed joy, and someone ushered in. Jiang Anyi thought to himself, could it be that the newly recruited Minling had a conflict with the previous Minling.

Li Yubo jumped off the horse, handed the reins to Jiang Anyi behind him, and asked one of the attendants who ushered in, "What's the matter?" ”

The attendant said with a bitter face: "My lord, you went to the yamen, and you went to settle the new people." Master Wei brought two hundred tents, where is enough. Moreover, the tents were so rotten that they tore open in a little bit of land, and only half of them could barely be used. ”

Li Yubo knew that there was no need to ask if these tents must have taken advantage of it, and spent two to three times the price to buy a batch of unusable inferior goods, which was the usual method used by the yamen for transshipment. Jiang Anyi silently made a note in his heart, and when the time came, he asked who was favoritism.

"There were fifty tents left in the storehouse, and the old man was squeezed by his hands, and another eighty were freed up, and the two hundred were added, and twenty or so people were placed in each tent, but fortunately the weather was not cold, and if they couldn't squeeze in, they were allowed to live outside in a leeward place."

Li Yubo nodded, expressed satisfaction with the handling of his subordinates, and said, "Hold on for three or four days, just plug all the gaps." ”

"Master Wei asked everyone to go to work, and the new arrivals shouted that they had no food and no strength, so Master Wei ordered us to cook for them. However, these people only have eight taels of grain a day, and it is impossible to arrange them according to the old man's hands. As a result, the newcomers felt unfair, made a noise, and asked for the same steamed buns. There is a certain amount of grain given by the yamen, and if the standard equipment of the old man's hands is followed, then the stored grain will be eaten up tomorrow. ”

Li Yubo frowned, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and he couldn't do anything without food in his hands, if he didn't need these novices at all, the eight thousand new people were obviously here to make trouble, but the order of Yuan County also had his considerations, so he could only settle down temporarily.

Jiang Anyi followed Li Yubo to the lunch at the Yamen, even if Li Yubo was not welcomed, the dishes served by the chef included fish and meat, four dishes and one soup, and white flour steamed buns were piled high.

"I explained to Master Wei, who knew that although I cooked according to the standard of the old man's hands, the food was not enough to let you go to the Yamen to transfer the adult. When the newcomers heard this, the noise became more and more intense, and when the old man heard that the newcomers wanted to eat their food, he naturally refused to let them, and the two sides refused to give in to each other, and the lowly people were trying their best to persuade them, and the adults finally arrived. ”

Li Yubo strode to the heights, glanced at the crowd, and said, "Li has just come back from the county, and he got the news from Ai Tingshi, and the relief food from the court will arrive in three or four days, so don't worry." ”

Seeing the relaxed look of the crowd below, Li Yubo continued: "There is not much left in the gap in the embankment, at most it will be blocked in two days, I calculated that there are still 300 stones of grain in stock, plus 200 stones newly transported, which is enough for everyone to eat for three days, so that the kitchen will work harder, and if you recruit 20 men, it will be supplied according to the amount of two catties per person." ”

As soon as these words fell, the cheers thundered, overpowering the surging sound of the river. Li Yubo thought to himself that if the disaster relief food was not available after three days, he simply took these people to the Yamen to ask for food. When the surrounding people dispersed, Li Yubo said angrily: "Where did Wei Shouquan die?" ”

The attendant was bitter

smiled and stretched out his hand to the west, and said: "Master Wei said that the river is surging and it is appropriate to hang Lun, and he took a few followers to fish at the bend in front, and also said that if he caught fish and added vegetables at night, he would do his best to fight the flood." ”

Li Yubo was already so angry that he couldn't speak, Jiang Anyi was depressed, the court's envoy was about to come, why did the officials of the Yamen dare to be so unscrupulous, could it be that they really thought that colluding up and down could resist the will of the Son of Heaven. Jiang Anyi didn't know that the river workers have been malgoverning for a long time, and the punishment is not winning, and most of them are collective corruption, and the punishment of the predecessors and successors is still the same, and the court can't punish all the river workers and officials in one go, so who will govern the river.

With the appearance of the soldiers in the four gates of Linhua County, and the porridge pot was a little thicker than before, the hearts of the victims were a lot calmer, and 8,000 people were recruited from the river embankment, and everyone who received the porridge had a share, and they were finally mixed with a bowl. Those who wanted to provoke saw that the opportunity was not good, and left one by one, and in the evening, they appeared in Toyota Village in the northeast corner of Linhua County one after another.

Toyota Village is 18 miles away from the county seat, the terrain is higher, there are no floods, there are more than 100 families in the village, and the path leading to the village is difficult, so no disaster victims come here to beg. There is a land temple under the locust tree in the west of the village, and Yang Siqi temporarily settled here.

There is no temple blessing in the land temple, and the heavy rain for several days makes the roof leak, and the rain just drops on the body of the land god, so that the mud god is paralyzed into a ball by erosion, and the villagers can't take care of it for a while. A fire rose in the stem on the side of the temple, and smoke came out of the hole in the middle, like a swaggering flag, approaching the temple gate, and a strong fragrance came out.

After the assassination of Yuan Decheng failed, he immediately went out of the city, took a turn in the mountains, found out that there was no tracking behind him, and hunted a wild boar, two hares and two pheasants in the mountains, and returned to the place where they met in advance with a full harvest.

It's still early, and his subordinates should still be in Linhua County to act on the opportunity, Yang Siqi personally handled the prey, ready to treat his subordinates. The chicken plucked its feathers into the pot, the wild boar was peeled and cut into pieces, and the two hares were skewered and roasted on the fire, and when the color was golden and oily, there was a chaotic footstep outside the door.

"It's really time for the rabbit cubs to come", Yang Siqi scolded with a smile: "Whoever brought wine, let's have a good time today." ”

"Master Yang, Brother Zhu is injured, come and take a look." A voice said urgently.

Zhu Lei was injured, Yang Siqi was shocked, Zhu Lei was the most powerful person in the hands of the people he brought this time, and he single-handedly planned to provoke the riots of the victims. Yang Siqi stood up, and seven or eight men poured in from outside the door, and Zhu Lei was carried in by the two. The two carefully put Zhu Lei on the ground, Zhu Lei supported the ground with his right hand, raised his head to look at Yang Siqi, and said ashamedly: "Yang Ye, I was plotted by the master of Long Wei, if it weren't for the brothers who sacrificed their lives to save each other, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come back to see Yang Ye again." ”

Yang Siqi calmed his face, reached out and tore Zhu Lei's left shoulder, and his clothes were torn open, revealing the purple wound inside, bulging like a steamed bun.

"Hurt by something?"

Zhu Lei shook his head and said, "I don't know, it feels like a small stone." ”

The small stone hurt like this, and Yang Siqi squatted down to look at the wound carefully. The connoisseur looked at the doorway, Yang Siqi found that the injury was not big, as Zhu Lei said, it was injured by a small object, a small object can cause such a heavy wound, and the person who did it was a master, and his skills were similar to his own. How could such a master let go of Zhu Lei so easily, didn't he want to follow the vine.

Yang Siqi's face turned pale

He asked, "Can someone follow you along the way?" ”

The man who spoke at the beginning said: "Yang Ye, don't worry, we didn't come directly, we turned several times along the way, and we didn't find anyone following behind." And I asked Xiao Luo and Xiao Yu to stay at the intersection, and someone should not be able to escape their eyes if someone follows them. ”

Yang Siqi nodded, the man who spoke was called Ren Qiang, he was thoughtful, and his words were credible. Stretched out his hand to take out the dagger from his arms, and said to Zhu Lei: "Bear with me, I will release the bruise from the wound for you, otherwise your arm will be useless." ”

As he spoke, the dagger cut off without hesitation, and the purple-red blood flowed out of the knife, Zhu Lei snorted, clenched his teeth and stopped making a sound, but he saw sweat on his head. Yang Siqi's hands and feet were nimble, and in a moment, he squeezed out the bruises, applied Jinchuang medicine to him, and bandaged it. Let Zhu Lei sit cross-legged, Yang Siqi put his hands against Zhu Lei's heart, luck dredged the meridians on his shoulders for him, and he was busy for two quarters of an hour before finishing the work.

Xiao Luo and Xiao Yu, who were guarding outside, had already returned, Yang Siqi beckoned everyone to eat, someone fished a piece of pork for him, and Yang Siqi took it in his hand and bit it dripping with juice. The others reported the situation while eating, and when Yang Siqi heard that Shi Aiwei had entered the city with the soldiers and food, his expression became more and more cold, and the situation became more and more unfavorable to them, and some things were going to be advanced, so tonight he went to find Li Dian as Li Yubo, who was said by the group of dog officials in the Yamen.

Jiang Anyi was arranged by Li Yubo in his tent, with a wooden plank on top of a few stones, and a bed of brown felt was the residence. Jiang Anyi is naturally not picky, not to mention that those twenty people squeeze into a tent and don't even have a place to turn around, it is not bad to have such conditions.

The sky slowly darkened, the earth was covered in darkness, and the rain that had stopped for a day began to fall silently. The fishing master Wei went back before closing the city gate, of course he would not live in a stinky tent, and the gruel people on the embankment ate fragrantly, which was inferior to pig food in the eyes of Lord Wei.

Li Yubo, who had been tired all day, returned to his residence, and just picked up a bowl and drank two mouthfuls of gruel, when the people who were on patrol at night broke in and said, "My lord, the river is rising." ”

Li Yubo dropped the bowl and left the tent, Jiang Anyi and two attendants hurriedly followed him to the embankment, by the light of the lantern, Jiang Anyi noticed that the river was about eight feet from the top during the day, and now it had risen nearly a foot, and it seemed that there was another heavy rain upstream.

"Everyone work hard tonight, you can't leave people on the embankment to patrol, and if there is danger, sound the gong immediately." Li Yubo also instructed: "Let people go and inform the nearby villagers who have returned to move out overnight, and say that the river embankment may break again." ”

Jiang Anyi asked with some puzzlement: "The river water has only risen by less than a foot, so it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

Li Yubo explained worriedly: "The quality of the river embankment was originally not good, but after several executions, the pressure was reduced, but now the breaches are mostly blocked, and the pressure on the river embankment has increased greatly." In addition, the river embankment has been eroded by floods for nearly a month, and it has been full of dangerous embankments, so I thought that the flood water would fall, and I would re-strengthen it after I passed this dangerous situation safely. ”

In Linhua County, most of the victims after drinking a bowl of gruel outside the city gate have curled up in the shack and fallen asleep, and there is no sound on the streets of the city, and occasionally one or two babies cry out, crying about the tragic scene in this world.

The back door of the yamen was quietly opened, a line of light came out of the door, and a black shadow flashed, and three figures appeared on the street. The lights are dim, and the uneven ground seems to have a huge mouth, ready to jump up and engulf the dark shadows walking on the ground.

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