Glued up by my father's nemesis

Yan Fei stared at Qi Jingsi's trembling eyelashes in a daze for a long time, he didn't escape, and even secretly hoped that Qi Jingsi could open his eyes now, grab his hand and say to him——

"I found out."

He wished that Qi Jingsi could know about the unspeakable feelings in the young man's heart.

But Qi Jingsi still didn't open his eyes.

Although Yan Fei didn't soak in the muddy water all night, but counting today, he didn't close his eyes for almost two days. Leaning on Qi Jingsi's shoulder, he rubbed his sore eyes and soon fell asleep.

When the next morning came again, he was finally "woke up" by the light in the sky——

Dawn finally ushered in Ting County, which has been raining for days.

He opened his eyes and couldn't see Qi Jingsi beside him, he raised his head nervously, but saw Qi Jingsi standing not far away.

Qi Jingsi was looking at the dam in the distance, she was only wearing a layer of single clothes, and the outer robe was wrapping around Yan Fei's body.

It was nothing more than an ordinary piece of coarse cloth, soaked in the river water, and drenched thoroughly by the rain.

But right now Yan Fei took up the clothes with both hands and brought them to the tip of his nose to sniff, but he felt an indescribable smell of reassurance and attachment.

He got up slowly, walked lightly behind Qi Jingsi, and thoughtfully helped Qi Jingsi put on his coat.

Qi Jingsi's figure froze slightly, and Yan Fei understandingly let go of the hand that was about to hug Qi Jingsi's waist from behind.

After a while, Qi Jingsi finally said, "I'm not cold."

But Yan Fei obviously didn't want to continue this topic, he walked up to Qi Jingsi, opened his arms facing the rising sun, slowly closed his eyes and said, "The sun is out——"

"En." Qi Jingsi silently nodded.

"Jingsi." Yan Fei suddenly tilted his head and looked at Qi Jingsi seriously, "Thank you."

Qi Jingsi glanced at Yan Fei from the corner of his eye, "Have you got the relief food?"

"How do you know?" Yan Fei laughed.

Qi Jingsi turned her head to look at Yan Fei, but quickly turned her head away after just one glance.

Even a blind person could see the relaxed and happy look on Yan Fei's face; Qi Jingsi sighed lightly, and ignored Yan Fei's knowing question.

"The food for disaster relief, the money for post-disaster reconstruction, as long as I have spare time these days, I will count them." Yan Fei took a deep breath and began to say seriously: "After you took people away that night, I sorted them all out overnight. Wrote it into a document and handed it in early yesterday morning."

Whether it was the immediate imperial envoy or the county magistrate of Ting County, he ran past them one by one.

"But until noon, no one was willing to nod." He pouted his lips as he spoke, "They all said that they didn't have the authority to open warehouses to release grain, and they always said that the roads are currently blocked by floods, and all paperwork handed over to them will be given away. stay home."

He tugged on Qi Jingsi's sleeve, "But didn't you obviously come here?"

"I just begged them to take out part of the food first so that the victims can have a bowl of porridge to drink, and wait for the approval from the higher authorities before opening a warehouse for disaster relief, but even so, no one is willing to agree."

"But you still have to get food." Qi Jingsi looked straight ahead.

This is an affirmative sentence.

Because with the persistence of that "little blind man" he knew, Yan Fei would not come back if he didn't have food.

"Yes, at noon yesterday, I was still listening to the imperial envoy talking to me in an official way." Yan Fei followed Qi Jingsi's eyes and looked into the distance, "But the news that the embankment has successfully stopped Hong Feng has just arrived, and the imperial envoy is behind him. He came out holding His Royal Highness's documents—"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally wrote to open warehouses to provide disaster relief. All the disaster victims are put first. If there are any adverse consequences or punishments, he, Li Pu, is willing to fight as the Crown Prince."

Yan Fei roughly recounted the content of Li Pu's document, and slowly added a little contempt into his soft tone at first.

"My little uncle said that I was still too young. At that time, I thought highly of myself, and I didn't want to admit it. Now it seems that I am really too young..."

Qi Jingsi gradually realized that Yan Fei's words were a bit strange, he turned his head to look at Yan Fei, but Yan Fei no longer looked at him, and only slowly said——

"It's not that I haven't thought about why this document came so coincidentally, but I never thought that people's hearts can be so dirty."

Yan Fei lowered his head slowly as he spoke, remembering what Qi Jingsi said in the cave before——

Human hearts, sometimes, are darker than animals.

"I just thought they didn't want to take responsibility for the Usha on their heads. Although I disagree, I can understand it; it's just that I never thought of it..."

When Yan Fei finally got the approval of the imperial envoy, he went to the granary to take the grain to the street, only to see that the notices that had been rushed to the eaves of the porridge sheds in the county town earlier than him were written by the imperial envoy carefully, even without hesitating to outline them with gold lines .

The notices are posted all over the streets and alleys of Ting County, as long as the place is not flooded, especially the porridge sheds for disaster relief, I wish I could post them all; And the imperial list at that time.

The content of the notice, in summary, is nothing more than the paragraph that Yan Fei recounted to Qi Jingsi before, the content in Li Pu's document.

Yan Fei got the permission to go to the granary to pick up the grain, and it took only an hour and a half. How did such a large number of finely crafted notices be completed?

Why did Li Pu's letter arrive at the next moment when the dam successfully resisted the flood peak?

Zhuangyuan Lang is a disciple of the emperor's teacher, and he was personally raped by Lin Guangji, a talented scholar of the year. It is really impossible to see this and not understand it.

Since the notice was prepared a long time ago, Li Pu's paperwork must have been delivered long ago, and the adults above withheld it because they were afraid that if the flood could not be stopped, the food stored in the small government office would be destroyed. After all, it is limited——

They are keeping a way out for themselves.

"That's why I want to thank you—" Yan Fei finally looked back at Qi Jingsi, his eyes met, "If you hadn't stopped that flood peak, everything would have been washed away by the flood, except the tens of thousands of lives in Ting County , and the truth about this 'natural and man-made disaster'."

"I didn't stop the flood alone. Thank you for what I did."

Qi Jingsi looked at Yan Fei's moist eye sockets, only the four words that the other party said just now were in his mind——

Natural disasters.

The flood is a natural disaster, so what is the man-made disaster?

Is it just the inaction of the imperial envoy and the county magistrate?

The food arrived a little late, and the disaster rescue was also late, but all this has finally come.

Maybe Yan Fei didn't mean to say something, but Qi Jingsi saw some clues after spending a day and a night on the embankment.

"Ting County has been a major grain-producing county for hundreds of years." Qi Jingsi looked at the fragile river embankment in the distance, "The water conservancy of the river embankment is the most important thing. Even I understand this reason. They're all idiots."

"Yes." Yan Fei affirmed: "I checked before I came to Ting County, and the imperial court allocates a fixed amount of money every year to the major grain-producing counties along the Peishui River to build dikes and open canals."

"Little uncle asked you to check it?" Qi Jing thought of Yan Fei who was so tired that he fell asleep on his back that day, and his voice was softer than before, "I looked at it yesterday at dawn, and this embankment is not like that at all. Every year someone reinforces the renovated look."

The embankment is somewhat similar to the pier, and its construction is nothing more than earth and stone.

The crushed stones used to build dams are usually fixed in bamboo cages, mixed with large stones to form dams, and finally bonded with soil; however, no matter how hard the stone is, it will inevitably be eroded if it is immersed in water all year round.

The wharf in Pei County often had to be renovated during the dry season. At that time, it happened that the dock workers were free. In order to make a living, Qi Jingsi also took over such work.

"I have searched among the ruins of the collapsed dam, and found almost no new stones, all of which have been severely eroded by the water flow, proving that the dam has been in disrepair for a long time."

Qi Jingsi was almost sure of his own conclusion, he didn't need Yan Fei to admit it, he just continued talking.

"Even the bamboo cages for gravel are woven sparsely and sloppily. Such bamboo cages cannot be used at the pier, let alone the river embankment—"

"So even if the embankment was renovated a few years ago, it was probably just a formality."

It's not good to have a secret in your heart, especially to "deceive" your sweetheart, Yan Fei doesn't want to have any secrets with Qi Jingsi; he smiled when he heard the words, let out a sigh of relief, nodded and said: "Yes."

"In the water conservancy embankment project in Linxian County, someone enriched their own pockets. To put it bluntly, what does this have to do with me?" Qi Jingsi lowered her head and stared at Yan Fei with sharp eyes, "Why did you and Lin Yu hide it from me?"

"Besides, it's just a corruption case. Who is the little uncle, and you are cooperating with others. Do you need to investigate for so long?"

Yan Fei bowed his head nervously and remained silent, avoiding Qi Jingsi's gaze.

"You're nervous again, Yan Fei, didn't my little uncle realize that you don't know how to lie at all? Why did you let me lie to you?" Qi Jingsi said aggressively, "You said that the money for opening the canals of Gudi is allocated by the imperial court every year. So, the things here must not be as simple as a Ting County, right?"

"Where does the money here go?"

Qi Jing thought about the horse team he met at the foot of Lanshan Mountain that day, the horse team was carrying empty boxes to Ting County, and the same box he moved on the pier in the end was unbearably heavy——

If it is said that there is real gold and silver in it, this amount is reasonable.

"There is a big man in Beijing City who is manipulating all of this." Qi Jingsi asked himself and replied, "The reason you are hiding it from me is because this person—"

"It has a lot to do with me."

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