The loyal minister was forced to marry the traitor

The sky has always been high and the emperor is far away, Fang Yue covered the sky with one hand in Yongzhou Mansion, not to mention most of the people don't know the harm, even if someone knows it clearly, like this stall owner, he would rather keep things at peace than take the trouble to report.

Officials and officials have always protected each other, even if the common people have great grievances, they can't find a place to defend them.

"The girl was forced to death before, and the old mother dragged her sick and weak body to go to Beijing to appeal for grievances, but the magistrate sealed the family's mouth with 50 taels of silver. The girl's brother would rather ask for money than justice. Who will pay for such injustices?" Willing to understand?"

The contempt of human life can only be felt when it falls on oneself.

"Can you take me out of the city for a while?" After hearing this, Bai Yan was even more unwilling to meet Fang Yue early.

For this disaster relief, he made up his mind to go ahead and traveled day and night along the way, mostly because he wanted to see what the real Yongzhou Mansion looked like with his own eyes, instead of being concealed by the local officials and listening to them whitewashing the peace.

I had heard that Fang Yue was a rare and good official, but I didn't expect that it turned out to be a duplicity.

"Young master, I..." The stall owner pointed to something on the ground with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Bai Yan directly took out a silver ingot this time, "Let me be clear in advance, if you cheat even half of it, let alone not giving you this one silver ingot, I will take back even the broken silver I gave you earlier."

He came from Yingdu, and he was too unfamiliar with Yongzhou Mansion. It would be perfect to find a local, and the news of his arrival here would soon reach Fang Yue's ears. Wipe away all traces first, and then find a way to divert his attention.

"The little ones are naturally willing." The stall owner didn't seem to stand up, at first he was half perfunctory and half patient, but now seeing Bai Yan being so generous, he immediately changed his appearance.

The price of rice grains has risen, and the old and the young in the family have neither family nor income, and they can't even afford coarse grains. If Bai Yan gets the money in his hands, he can last at least half a month. As soon as the relief food arrived, it happened to survive this difficult time.

Bai Yan and the man hit it off immediately, and the other party simply took him out of the city as soon as he cleaned up.

Before entering Yongzhou Fucheng, it was the official road, and the scene on the side of the road had already made Bai Yan feel anxious, but now walking along the path, there are flood victims who are so hungry that they can't even walk steadily.

The wild vegetables had been dug long ago, but a group of five or six-year-old children climbed the tree and struggled to peel off the bark.

The man's name is Zhang Zhu, and he has seen it a lot in the past few days. He obviously didn't react much when he saw these things, "It's like this in several nearby villages. The people in Yongzhou prefecture used to rely on these crops to make a living, but now they're flooded, which means losing their fortunes." It's all cleaned up."

Most of the common people built their houses on the flat riverland, one piece after another, but this gave the opportunity for the flood to wreak havoc, and more than half of the houses were washed away, only a few of them barely supported like an old woman.

Bai Yan walked to a place and bent down to pick up a wooden rabbit that fell apart. It wasn't exquisite, but he stroked the rough lines on it, and saw two words engraved crookedly on it - "Nannan".

"The upper village was the first to be destroyed that night. Neighboring villages couldn't be rescued in time. Only about 50 people were rescued. The remaining nearly [-] people either drowned or couldn't even find their bodies. Alas..."

Bai Yan tightened his hands, the spikes on the wooden rabbit made his palms bleed, and Zhang Zhu didn't respond to calling him.

After a while, Bai Yan said, "Nothing, let's go on."

From daytime to nighttime, seeing the dark clouds slowly gather, Zhang Zhu tentatively said, "My lord, you have been walking for a day, and you haven't had any water. Why don't you take a rest first, and go elsewhere tomorrow?"

Not to mention a sick and weak young man like Bai Yan, even a strong man like Zhang Zhu was too tired to walk.

"Well, let's go back to the city first." Bai Yan also knew that there would be no results if he looked further, and walked over from several places around him, and the situation was similar. As for some faintly visible details, he just suppressed them first.

The two entered the city in the dark, but they didn't know that two groups of people almost searched the city of Yongzhou all day long, but they didn't find any trace of him.

Seeing that the villains in the Bai Mansion were about to jump in anxiety, only then did they dimly see a figure that looked like their own adults, and immediately rushed over without thinking about anything.

"My lord, my lord!" A few people checked up and down around Bai Yan, except that he was limping a little bit, but he didn't find any injuries, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm sorry, I made a sudden decision today, and I forgot to tell you guys, so I made you worry." That being said, Bai Yan never planned to tell them where he was going from the beginning to the end.

There are many people and the target is big. Fang Yue can find him by sending someone to look for him.

"My lord, you don't know that Fang Zhifu was in such a hurry that he sent dozens of people to look for you..."

Bai Yanwen Yan snorted softly, "I'm afraid I'm worried that I'll expose him, so I'm so anxious to find me."

"Huh? My lord, what did you just say?" The attendant didn't hear clearly.

Bai Yan shook his head, "It's nothing." He brushed off his sleeves, "Let's go, let me pay a visit to this 'clean and honest' Master Fang..."