Chapter 471: Up and Under the City
I don't know what the reason is, Shen Wei and Lin Yingyue outside the door have not walked away, and they are both waiting for Shi Yuan outside very tacitly. And Brother Shi got up and got dressed, washed up...... ** and got up in a short day!
"Sister Shen, the pavilion on Xianting Mountain outside the city is gone, you know...... What's going on? After a short silence for the two women with their own thoughts outside the door, Lin Yingyue remembered this matter and asked.
"This ......" Shen Wei actually didn't want to say to Lin Yingyue that when she mentioned Shi Yuan's illness on Xianting Mountain yesterday, Baihua's reaction. Because of this matter, she has not yet investigated and understood, if she tells Lin Yingyue like this, she is worried that it will bring trouble to Shi Yuan. But Lin Yingyue asked at this time, and Shen Wei always felt that she should say something to Lin Yingyue because of the embarrassment in her heart.
Thinking that Shi Yuanfang was holding herself and not letting herself get up, she was ruthless and opened her mouth to tell Lin Yingyue about yesterday's incident - if you want to blame it, you make Xiaowei so embarrassed!
Poor Brother Shi was still washing in the room at this time, while reminiscing about the spring light. didn't know that Shen Wei had already "retaliated" against him at this time......
"Sister, do you mean that Baihua, ...... to this stupid person" Last night, although Lin Yingyue also heard that Shen Wei had a lot of opinions on Baihua at the end, but now listening to Shen Wei's reaction to Baihua yesterday, for a while, it was a different feeling! Then he stopped talking, pointed to the house and asked.
Shen Wei heard this, but nodded silently: "Although I can't be sure yet, after I mentioned Gongzi's illness on the mountain yesterday, looking at the reaction of the hundred flowers, she must have a lot to do with Gongzi......
Before Shen Wei finished speaking, she heard the door behind her being opened, and then, she saw Brother Shi putting down the sleeves of his shirt that had been rolled up when he washed his face, and grinned at the two of them, and asked casually, "What are you talking about here?" Xiaowei, what did you just say? ”
"Humph!" Hearing this, the two turned their heads to look at Shi Yuan, and then snorted coldly in unison. Lin Yingyue picked up Shen Wei and walked towards the hall. And after Baihua took two steps, he turned his head and stuck out his tongue at Shi Yuan, as if he had avenged Fang Cai for embarrassing himself, looking very proud.
Brother Shi looked at the two who were angry for some reason, but he was confused: This script is not quite right! If Yue'er is angry, she can still understand it, but it's just ...... What kind of anger is this Xiaowei angry with? What did this girl say to Yue'er?
"Alas~ This blessing of Qi people is really not enjoyable!" Brother Shi thought about it for a long time but still didn't understand, so he sighed lightly, muttered to himself, didn't think about it anymore, and walked in the direction of the hall.
When Lin Yingyue came back, she bought some Yangzhou pastries on the street, so this breakfast was also very well prepared.
The frost boiled the new tea, and the dew divided the pastries. Each person has a plate of Yangzhou pastries, accompanied by a cup of flower tea that is not strong or light, but it happens to be a typical Yangzhou breakfast...... And when Shi Yuan arrived in the hall, Qingshuang and Qinglu were already ready early.
Brother Shi looked at the pastries on the table and smelled the unique fragrance of flower tea, which was originally a big move of his index finger...... But this meal was early, and he didn't eat it happily!
He didn't know what Shen Wei said to Lin Yingyue, or what Lin Yingyue said to Shen Wei. In a word...... At the dinner table, no matter how much they teased, the two of them ignored themselves from beginning to end.
This made Brother Shi very depressed! I still want to share a car with the two of them when I go back and discuss the wonderful life, but now it seems that there should be no chance......
After eating breakfast, a few people packed up their things and prepared to go back to Jinling. Two wagons are already ready outside, just ...... As Brother Shi expected, he was really left in a car by a person!
Yes, even Qingshuang and Qinglu were intentionally called to the car in front by Lin Yingyue, while Brother Shi was ruthlessly driven to Lao Yang's car......
Brother Shi, who was sitting in the car, held his knees with both hands, leaning quietly on the corner, just like when he came, he couldn't help but echo all kinds of "lonely" BGMs in his head...... But the good thing is that I don't have a fever this time......
Although the rain has stopped, there are many puddles on the road. Because it rained for a day yesterday, most of the refugees outside Yangzhou spent a day in the rain. Coupled with a somewhat cold early spring night, many elderly and children among the refugees could not stand the weather, and this morning, there was no heartbeat......
Unlike the lively morning market in Yangzhou, as soon as I woke up in the morning, there was a burst of crying and shouting among the refugees outside Yangzhou. Some people lost their parents overnight, some lost their children, and some lost their husbands and wives...... The so-called hell on earth is nothing more than that!
And for Yangzhou's errand soldiers, today is undoubtedly the busiest day. In order to prevent the plague, they need to put the corpses together and burn them all.
After a busy morning, they finally sorted out the bodies of the refugees.
Out of the south gate of Yangzhou City, at this time at the foot of Xianting Mountain, those officers and soldiers had already sorted out and gathered more than a dozen corpses. If you look closely, there is even a dying old man!
The "corpses" were to be burned, and the refugees gathered around them, some to see off their loved ones, but most of them came to see the excitement......
As soon as the fire went down, black smoke suddenly rose, and there was a miserable cry from the fire after the old man was burned...... Then there was no sound again.
The crowd gathered to watch couldn't help but tremble when they heard this scream, and Mu Ne's eyes were full of fear of death.
More and more refugees have gathered outside Yangzhou, but the food distributed by the government is getting less and less! Jiangnan as a prosperous place, in addition to many years of continuous waterlogging, otherwise there has never been a shortage of food, most farmers are living a self-sufficient life, so Jiangnan has always been the main food supply area in Nanqing.
But since the officialdom of Yangzhou was unmanaged, the peasant households could not stand the exploitation, and the landlords and bullies in the city seized their fields, resulting in a large number of refugees......
The price of rice in Nanqing, and even in Beiqing, is getting higher and higher, and those grain merchants will collect the grain and sit on the ground to raise the price.
Now the seedlings in the spring have just been planted, and the surplus grain is almost used, and it is the period of green and yellow. Not to mention the refugees outside the city, even the very few poor people in the city, many of them can no longer afford to buy rice, and have been driven out of the city and become refugees.
If this continues, the government's food will be reduced again and again. They knew that the corpses that were being burned by the fire would one day become themselves......
Because the government in Yangzhou could not bear the pressure of these refugees, they were very supportive of the behavior of those large families who set up pots and soup porridge on the official roads outside the city. When such a thing happens, they will send some officers and soldiers to maintain order.
At this time, Wu Nan, who had just entered Xing'an Temple, was making porridge outside the city with a few of his stone brothers. The refugees were crowded with broken bowls to get some porridge and rice, and from time to time there were shouts and whipping from those officers and soldiers......
On the city wall in the south of Yangzhou City, Baihua was looking at the wailing refugees on both sides of the official road below, with a somewhat grim expression. And standing behind her is the prefect of Yangzhou-Jin Yun!