Chapter 628: The tip of the iceberg (added by Xie Luqinghan, the leader)

Chapter 628: The tip of the iceberg (added by Xie Luqinghan, the leader)

  Chapter 628 The tip of the iceberg

  Zhu Xiu looked around subconsciously.

  After a while, he shook his head.

   "The subordinates did not see anything else."

  Except for this strange silence, no other sounds can be heard; except for the houses scattered so that the scene of stability in the past can be seen vaguely, no other things can be seen.

  Xu Mingyi: "This hour, shouldn't it be the time to prepare for supper?"

  Zhu Xiu suddenly.

  Supper...

  Yes.

  Xu Mingyi looked at a piece of residential house not far from the front: “But this way, there is no plume of smoke rising.”

   also did not smell a trace of the aroma of the meal.

  Zhu Xiu was silent.

  Do the people actually dare not make smoke for fear of inviting officials to come to grab food?

  Has it reached this point?

  Xu Mingyi clenched the rein in his hand.

  Where there are people, there is no smoke or fire.

  What is the role of the government? Instead of maintaining the stability of the people, it has become the biggest scourge in the eyes of the people.

  Before the flames of war hit here, the government had already ruined the livelihood of the people here.

  Or in the eyes of the court, the survival of the people is not the most important thing, the world is the only thing.

  Death some people, chaos for a while, or nothing. Raising enough soldiers, horses, food, and grass to "clean up and suppress the thieves" is the only thing they want, and for this, they can even consider the cost.

  Under the flames of war, the people who suffer the most will always be the people.

  A group of people slowly came outside the inn that Zhu Xiu had remembered.

  Like other shops, the door of the inn was closed tightly. Zhu Xiu stepped down and knocked on the door. No one responded for a long time.

   can only raise his voice: "We are passing by and want to stay here and rest for one night!"

  There was a faint sound of rustling conversation inside the door.

  After a while, someone unlatched the door latch. The two doors were first opened with a small slit, and an inverted triangular eye was exposed after the slit. Zhu Xiu and his party looked up and down.

  The person who opened the inn had a pair of bright eyes. After a few glances, he knew that he had come from outside. Only then did he open the door and greet people in.

  "The present is no better than the past, please forgive me for any negligence..."

  This is a middle-aged man with a short stature and a felt hat. He should be the shopkeeper of the inn if he wants to come.

  It was obviously a woman's voice who had just talked with him inside the door, and it was mostly the husband and wife guarding the inn.

  The tables and stools in the hall have been put away. The shopkeeper temporarily removed a few stools from the table and greeted Xu Mingyi and others: "Sit down first, and I will let the insider clean up a few rooms and come out."

  "Feed the horse to its fullness." Zhu Xiu lost his money bag and went over.

  The shopkeeper reached out and took it, took a look at the six or seven claret horses outside the shop, nodded hurriedly, and led the horses to the backyard.

"I don't know where you are from? Where are you going? At this moment, it is said that it is not suitable to travel far..." After the horses were set up, the shopkeeper brought two pots of tea. Obviously there was no more tea in the inn. The other guys.

  "We are going to Qianzhou to find relatives." Zhu Xiu chatted with the shopkeeper according to Xu Mingyi's confession.

  "Qianzhou..." The shopkeeper took a while to pour the tea and sighed: "Then you guys are not easy to find..."

"how do I say this?"

"You should know that Qianzhou was hit by a disaster two months ago. The Rongjiang and Donghe rivers have overflowed! Those dams have been repaired in the first place... Anyway, many counties and counties around Linyou were flooded. , Liquan, all suffered, hey..."

The shopkeeper lowered his voice and said, "Floods in the south are common, and it’s nothing in previous years. But now the government is overwhelmed. Where can the people of Qianzhou be taken care of? The flood has destroyed houses and fields, and there is no harvest, and many people have nowhere to go. Ordinary people mostly fled out of the city. Relatives who went to their relatives would go wherever they were. Not long ago, there was a group of victims in our small town. They were deported by the county magistrate. NS."

  "Besides, it’s not peaceful all around now, you guys must have seen this along the way? And the more you go to the state, the more chaotic the front, we are pretty good here..."

The shopkeeper said, he glanced at the handsome "young man" who was sitting there quietly eating tea, and kindly reminded: "Especially everyone is riding a horse again, now this is extremely eye-catching... The hungry refugees are now gangsters, and they are seen by the government. I am afraid that they may not be able to please them. At the moment, the government is collecting war horses all around, and some people's mules are taken away..."

   When Zhu Xiu was about to answer the call, Xu Mingyi swept his gaze towards the shopkeeper, and said, “I have some background in my family. Forgive them for not asking for trouble.”

  Shoun Lang's voice is clear and arrogant.

   Hearing this Yang's words, the shopkeeper was slightly taken aback.

   But I really know it in my heart.

  He said, how can anyone dare to ride a horse around at this time...

  I want to come too. If I don’t have any identity, I’m afraid my family won’t be allowed to go out this far.

  Especially this young man, although he is dressed normally, there are no very eye-catching objects on his body, but the nobleness of pampering can not be hidden.

  I’m afraid that I’m just rich, I’m afraid I can’t have such confidence, I want to come, most of them are officials...

This side of the shopkeeper made a judgment in his heart, and did not talk about this topic any more, only told a little more "Always be careful, those bandits go crazy and don’t separate", "It may not be convenient to find food anymore. , You still need to prepare more dry food to go on the road" and so on.

   After saying this, he said: "It's not early. If you have to hurry tomorrow, you should rest early."

  The woman just went downstairs at this time, saying that the room was cleaned up.

  Xu Mingyi and a few people went upstairs.

  Zhu Xiu walked at the end, and when she stepped on the stairs, she took off her cloak and put it in her arms, revealing the long knife behind her back.

  When Xu Mingyi and his party entered the room, they heard the couple's low voice faintly sounded from downstairs.

"I think they rode horses... Didn't the government still say two days ago that if there is a horse but not a horse, if it is reported to the government, a horse can be rewarded for one dollar? Shouldn't those who come from other places make it? "

"It should be the official's children going out...I didn't dare to ask more, and don't offend others, so as not to cause misfortune... Didn't you see, you have a knife on your body! Can someone who can bring a knife, can the officer go down? Be careful? Just wait, earn some house money and tea money..."

  The woman seemed to say something again, and the two voices gradually moved away. Hearing the sound of footsteps, they should have gone back to the backyard.

"Fortunately, the girl's words have suppressed them, otherwise the people who brought the government to the government will be in trouble." In the guest room, Azhu frowned and couldn't help saying: "It's all about the government's search for people's fat. , How come the common people are still helping with misinformation."

  Those who have horses must be reported to the government, and those who have food must also be reported?

  I just said that somebody’s mule was also taken away by the government. Could it be that he reported it to the government?

  Xu Mingyi took off the cloak, "If there is interest to be gained, I am not afraid that there will be no one who will serve as a tiger."

  People’s evil thoughts will be constrained by the current situation and magnified by the current situation.

  The government has stopped paying attention to etiquette, can you still hope that the people will continue to obey it?

  If they are just a group of ordinary passers-by today, showing a little bit weaker, I am afraid that it is not just horses that will be left behind.

  At first light the next morning, Xu Mingyi and several people left the inn.

Before he left, Zhu Xiu had bought breakfast and dry food early to come back-there was an early shop with the door open. When he went, there was a group of officials patrolling, watching that the shopkeeper of the earlier shop stuffed the leading official. The silver passed.

  A group of people drove the horse to the end of the street, faintly heard across a low alley, the cry of the old and the young was heard.

"Everyone, please do it, this is really the last bit of food in the family... My old man has been sick for a long time, and he has no money for medicine. I really can't lose this ration! Please, please. Lord, see that the two sons and three grandsons of our family have been conscripted by the barracks, so let us save some!"

   "Please, please, everyone! This is life-saving food!"

   "...uninteresting old shell, get out!"

  Listening to the movement, the old boy seemed to be pushed.

  The officials sent horseshoes away, and the cry of the old boy became more and more desperate.

  It was quiet all around, and no one seemed to dare to show up.

   Xu Mingyi, who had been listening, also did not come forward.

How can    come forward?

  Stop those officials and regain food for the old man?

  Can you wait after she is gone?

  Her heroes are indeed very prestigious, but what is left for the elderly will only be more terrifying.

   Without having to think about it, you can also know what you see and hear now, but it's just the tip of the iceberg of injustices in the world today.

  Only relying on her trivial hands, with such brute force and clumsy methods, it is destined to be unable to help them.

   "Send it to the old man, don't be seen by anyone." She took off the inconspicuous plain purse from her waist and threw it into Azhu's hand.

  People are sick, so they still have to take medicine and eat.

  Although we need to think about the big things, we should also do our best for the smallest things we see.

  The group continued on their way, still going in the direction of Qianzhou.

  Sure enough, as the shopkeeper of the inn said, the more you move forward, the more chaotic you are.

  One day, when passing a deep mountain, he also encountered a group of gangsters who wanted to rob. However, after seeing Zhu Xiu drew a knife and slashed one of them, the rest did not dare to go forward and entangle.

  In Xu Mingyi's view, the tactics of these people's robbery are still quite unfamiliar.

  Therefore, they only disperse the stool, and Zhu Xiu and others have not insisted on hurting people's lives.

  This night, I traveled for a whole day without finding a place to stay.

   "Looking at the ruined temple ahead, the subordinates will lead people to clean up, and the girl will be here for one night, right?" Zhu Xiu suggested.

  It’s late at night, and I don’t know the situation ahead, so it’s really not advisable to take risks anymore.

  Xu Mingyi nodded: "Okay."

  If there is nothing, I won’t leave it. Now that I have chosen this door, I naturally think of everything I should think of.

  The group drove their horses to the direction of the temple.

  There is fire in the temple. This is why Zhu Xiu, who was just a long time ago, can see the outline of the temple from a distance. If you want to come to it, there should be refugees or other people on the road to rest here.

  In this case, go to discuss it and make it convenient for everyone to work together overnight. There should be no big problem.

   approached in front of the temple, and sure enough, there was a voice coming out.

  (End of this chapter)