Chapter 32 The suffering of the people in Yizhou

In the morning, the slightly wet coolness slipped in from the open carriage curtain, and Shen Sirong couldn't help shivering. When I opened my eyes, I touched a pair of bright eyes.

"Wake up?" Xiao Yuanqi helped her get up. Shen Sirong finished tling her clothes and found that the carriage had already stopped.

Shen Sirong moved his body and pushed the window on one side open with his white jade-like fingers. The drizzle outside gently hit her face, a little itchy. In front of him was a piece of grass, and the smoke not far away was above the gate. Shen Sirong couldn't see the words on it clearly.

"Have we arrived in Yizhou?"

Xiao Yuanqi nodded and said, "Yes, this is Yizhou, but it's just a border city in Yizhou. Let's stay here for one day and arrive in Yizhou Prefecture tomorrow night."

The carriage started again, and Shen Sirong simply washed the water stored in the car and then entered the city.

After leaving the car in the inn, Xiao Yuanqi and Shen Sirong strolled around the city. Two dark guards dressed as vendors followed.

"Where are we going?" Shen Sirong asked in a low voice.

As soon as he raised his eyes, Shen Sirong saw that the people coming and going on the street couldn't help looking at her and Xiao Yuanqi. Shen Sirong looked down at the lake green silk clothes he had just changed, and there was nothing wrong with it. Looking at Xiao Yuanqi, there is nothing strange about him standing with her in a light blue robe.

"Next time you come out, you have to wear a cloak." Xiao Yuanqi said unhappily when he saw Shen Sirong's look.

Only then did Shen Sirong understand that the people here were afraid to look at them more when they were handsome and handsome.

Xiao Yuanqi took Shen Sirong's hand and accelerated his pace.

"Where are we going?" Shen Sirong asked again.

"Look around."

Look? Is there such a big step meteor to see?

Suddenly, Shen Sirong bumped into Xiao Yuanqi's back. Before he could react, he was pulled aside again. Just now, they were standing where a thin and weak old man in his 60s was standing upside down. His coarse cloth clothes had been cut open, and the basket behind him fell aside, full of which was full of green leafy vegetables.

Only then did Shen Sirong find that Xiao Yuanqi's dragging has been far away from the market. I guess this is the place where the people live. The place where they stand is a place called "Hongfu". The door is magnificent, and the two stone lions on the left and right add a little more majesty.

At this time, there are several fierce men standing in front of the door. They seemed to find outsiders in front of the door. Those strong men whispered timidly and never left them. After a long time, they spit on the old man and turned into the house. When the golden ring on the door was no longer sound, the thin old man climbed up and picked up the green leaves falling on the ground one by one.

"This uncle, why did they hit you?" Shen Sirong and Xiao Yuanqi looked at each other, and Xiao Yuanqi blocked Shen Sirong behind him.

"Nothing, nothing." The old man is a little helpless.

Seeing that the old man carefully spread out each vegetable leaf, Shen Sirong asked puzzled, "Uncle, what are you going to take back these vegetable leaves for?"

The thin old man sighed heavily at them: "What else can it do? This world is not good..."

"Is the world not good? What a bad way?" When Xiao Yuanqi heard these words, he knotted and waited for the old man's reply. When the old man was about to open his mouth to continue talking, he suddenly raised his eyes as if he remembered something. He carefully looked at the clothes of Xiao Yuanqi and Shen Sirong, and then waved his hand in panic and fled away.

Looking at the hurriedly escaped back, Shen Sirong always felt that he couldn't let it go: "Let's follow up and have a look."

Xiao Yuanqi had this intention and followed the corner where Shen Sirong chased the old man.

The old man stopped in front of the back door of another mansion and the door squeaked. Xiao Yuanqi leaned against the wall. The old man bowed his body and said something to the doorkeeper. Shen Sirong couldn't hear it and had to look at Xiao Yuanqi. He put his face against the wall with a serious face, and his eyebrows were deeper.

After several repetitions, the old man's clothes were even more torn, and the vegetable leaves in the basket were also smashed. He lame through many houses and fields, and finally stopped by a tree.

Next to the tree is a thatched hut. An old woman was standing in front of the thatched hut. The old woman lowered her head and embroidered something. She embroidered a few stitches and wanted to look up at the distance. This thatched house is surrounded by some crooked fences, which are very different from the exquisite houses seen before.

His heart couldn't help sinking. Shen Sirong watched the old man come forward to hold the old woman's hand, remove the basket on his back, and soak the green leaves in the water.

"Old man, have you brought guests here?"

The old man was surprised to hear this. Xiao Yuanqi heard this and no longer hid behind the tree with Shen Sirong.

"The two old men are polite." Xiao Yuanqi came forward and arched slightly, and the king's domineering spirit did not diminish.

"You..." The old man recognized the two of them and guessed that they had followed him all the way, and he couldn't help getting angry.

When Shen Sirong came here, he found that there was no light in the old woman's eyes, and he could no longer see anything. No wonder her ears are so good.

However, how can she embroider something like this?

Looking along with her thoughts, there are many wounds on the old woman's hands, and the embroidered things are also uneven. I think she wants to try her best to share it with the old man.

Thinking about this, Shen Sirong's heart was infinitely sad.

"I hope you will forgive me. When we first arrived in your place, we just wanted to know more about whether this place is good or bad." Although Xiao Yuanqi's tone of questioning, the momentum invisibly made the old man feel depressed and could not say a word.

Shen Sirong pulled Xiao Yuanqi later and bent over him and bent down to the old man: "Madam, my husband and I just came here. We happened to encounter this today. I really doubt it. I hope you two can forgive us and solve our puzzles."

"There is nothing to say. You guys go..."

When the old woman wanted to say something, the old man interrupted with a refusal. The old woman was very puzzled and only heard the old man say in a low voice, "Maybe they are from Xijing. If the master knows, we won't even have a way to live."

When she said this, the old woman was no longer angry.

Xiao Yuanqi was no longer reluctant and went back with Shen Sirong after leaving. At the corner, he looked back and saw that the old man was putting the washed green leaves into the pot.

His heart is as heavy as ten thousand pounds. Shen Sirong hugged his thin waist in the dark, and his eyes were full of tears.

Is this the life of the people of Yizhou?

Xiao Yuanqi coldly raised the corners of his mouth. Those vegetable leaves that rich people don't want are the food of poor people. Is this Changli under his control?

The amount of grain opened by the court is enough for the people along Yizhou to survive the disaster. There is no disaster information this year, but there are still people who can't even eat a grain of rice. What are these officials doing...

Back to the inn, Xiao Yuanqi kept his lips closed and didn't say a word. Even the dinner was sent directly into the room, and he withdrew without moving a few bites.

There was an update outside the window. When I was about to rest, there was a lot of noise outside the inn.

"Master, there are many officers and soldiers downstairs. Do you want to avoid it?" Hearing an abnormal noise on the cold night, he went to the window to look. A team of officers and soldiers firmly surrounded the inn, and several leaders poured in.

Hearing the words of the cold night through the door, Shen Sirong's hand with a teacup fell down. She looked at the clothes on herself and Xiao Yuanqi, fortunately! Fortunately, the couple's unintentional reminder made her find how eye-catching their clothes are in Yizhou. Therefore, after they returned to the inn, they bought the cloth clothes of ordinary people and changed them. Shen Sirong even took off the gold jewelry on his head, leaving only a few hairpin rings.

"It doesn't matter."

Maybe he didn't speak for a long time, and Xiao Yuanqi's voice was so hoarse that it made people feel cold.

Shen Sirong held his breath and listened to the movement outside the door. Before long, a rapid sound came from the stairs. Sure enough, the voice of the innkeeper sounded outside the door: "Mrs, this is the room."

"Open the door, open the door. The deaf inside..."

Shen Sirong got up to open the door, but was pulled by Xiao Yuanqi. Xiao Yuanqi shook his head at her and signaled to wait.

"If you don't open the door, I will break the door."

Xiao Yuanqi stretched out his hand and pulled off the hairpin ring on Shen Sirong's head, and also messed up his robe: "I'm coming, I'm coming..."

"What's the matter?"

Xiao Yuanqi's eyes were hazy and he opened the door a little. It just allows people outside to see the situation inside. Through the gap of the wooden door, they can see the chaotic bed inside and a wonderful young woman who is tidying her hair.

The leading official smiled maliciously, and then raised his face and asked loudly, "Where are you from? Name it."

"We came from Lingzhou. Our ancestors made a living by business only because of changes in our family, so our husband and wife fled to your land and prepared to settle here."

After saying that, Shen Sirong had already sorted out his hair and covered his face with a piece of yarn. She walked to Xiao Yuanqi, took out an ingot of silver and handed it over: "Sir, I hope you can take more care of it in the future."

Take the silver in your hand and weigh it, and the leading officials will no longer embarrass them.

"Let's go to the next room."

Before leaving, the official looked at Shen Sirong a few more times, and Shen Sirong hid behind Xiao Yuanqi with a shy face.

Closing the door, Shen Sirong's shyness subsided in an instant: "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time."

Xiao Yuanqi also nodded: "I saw that Yizhou has been handed over. Why don't we go to other counties to have a look? They must not think we would go there."

The outer county belongs to Yizhou Prefecture, and most of them are farmers' farming places. You must be able to ask something.

"It's good. Let's go to the outer county." After saying that, Shen Sirong began to pack up his things.

The next morning, Xiao Yuanqi and his party quietly left the inn. In order to prevent suspicion, they left some things in the room. They only told the inn shopkeeper to go to see the farmland and real estate, and left some money to continue booking the room.