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It has been three days since Xiaoxue arrived in Taoxi.

Taoxi, as a necessary place connecting Shaoling and the outside world, has a dangerous terrain and is an important part of the grain transportation channel.

Although he is young, he has fought the enemy several times, and he should be familiar with the dead, but when he first arrived at the border of Taoxi, he was deeply shocked by the dense bones of the wild, not to mention the fact that there were still living people kneeling next to the rotten corpses and tearing them apart The piece of meat was no different from a wild beast. When it saw a person approaching, it became alert and hurriedly hid the dirty flesh into its bosom.

Mr. Li Ji, who came with him, vomited at that time. When Xiaoxue picked him up, seeing his face mixed with tears and snot, he said out of breath, "How could they do this!"

Li Ji was talking about local officials.

Fortunately, both the Zhongzhou Army and the Qingzhou Army are elites, and the accompanying officials are also hard-working people. They distribute food first, stabilize the situation, and crack down on theft and murder in the city. Doctors in the city boil medicine and administer medicine.

Xiaoxue chewed licorice and squatted beside the medicine stove to fan the wind.

Li Ji said: "Today we found 20 people to carry the corpse and bury it."

Xiaoxue nodded and said yes, he knew nothing about government affairs, and left everything to Li Ji. He looked up and saw Li Ji's shoulders were trembling slightly, as if he was about to cry, and he didn't know how to comfort others, so he said, "Lord Li, let go of everything." Do it, the sky will fall and I...my brother will stand up to it."

Li Ji said hoarsely, "The hole dug earlier has been filled."

Xiaoxue was startled, and the two were speechless for a while.

The firewood under the medicine stove was crackling, Xiaoxue put the fan on Li Ji's table and said, "Let me see it for a while."

As Qiao Yu said, those who have no merit or demerit will be retained for inspection, those who have made merit will be reported, and those who have done so will be sentenced to death on the spot.

Xiaoxue previously felt that what Qiao Yu said was right, and that she could inspire and deter others by showing both kindness and power, but now she felt that Qiao Yu still underestimated Tao Xi's situation, because there were no people in the government now.

Even if they wanted to kill someone, they couldn't find it, so they ran away long ago!

Xiaoxue simply set fire to the documents in the government, the money and food were distributed, and the wood of the house could be dismantled together. Now that the coffin is worth more than gold, whoever takes a fancy to which one can go back and make the coffin board directly.

Li Ji disagreed, feeling that Xiaoxue was throwing the face of the imperial court on the ground and stomping on the ground, and even spit a few times, but he had to admit that when he saw the people who still had the strength to carry away the wood, he was indeed in Taoxi. I felt a rare joy.

For the convenience of the people in the city to find them, they all lived outside and set up tents in the city.

Xiaoxue swallowed the chewed hay.

The moonlight shone faintly on the ground, except for the patrolling people, there were occasional pedestrians on the street, all of them were in a hurry.

He opened the curtain of the hospital room and said loudly: "Doctor Lu, Doctor Lu?"

Mr. Lu yelled at him in the room, "I'm busy! Take whatever you want!"

Xiaoxue said casually, "Then I'll take it myself."

He rummaged through the medicine shelf, grabbed a soothing prescription from memory, took a paper packet, and stuffed it into his arms.

The little girl staggered out of the room carrying a basin of bloody water with gauze floating in it, and the bloody water wet the hem of her clothes.

Xiaoxue ran over to pick it up, and the bloody smell came over his face. He said, "Who is inside? How did you get hurt like this?"

The little girl is Lu Lao's granddaughter, she is only as tall as Xiaoxue's waist, and her eyes are dark. Xiaoxue heard that Lu Lao called her Ruyi, probably a nickname, Xiao Ruyi thanked her first, and then said bluntly: "I don't know. , He said that he met a bandit when he went up the mountain and was hacked by the bandit."

Xiaoxue splashed the bloody water into the backyard, and walked inside with the basin and the little girl, "Beheaded by bandits? We didn't see it when we came."

Ruyi said with a smile: "Because the general is so powerful, the bandits dare not come."

It was the first time for Xiaoxue to be praised by such a young child, and she said helplessly, "I said I'm not a general."

He swaggered in with a wooden basin, and Mr. Lu blew his beard and stared at him angrily, "Can't you bring in another basin of water?"

"Didn't you also say that you want to fetch water?" Xiaoxue retorted with a smile, her eyes fell on the wounded casually, her legs were wrapped in a thick layer of gauze, blood was still oozing out, and her face was covered with a layer of medicine. I was confused and couldn't see my face clearly, "What I told me before was a second-rank official. You are treated the same as a second-rank official now, so don't pick and choose."

Lu Lao said angrily: "You used to be a concubine serving the emperor, and I don't care about it. Go!"

The old man has treated a lot of wounded people since the flood, and when the situation is serious, he is sleepy all night. Xiaoxue has never seen him sleep. He has no good impression of the government. Xiaoxue's dealings with her were the result of her granddaughter's long-term struggle.

"Hey, I've gone."

"Don't forget to leave the medicine money when you leave."

Xiaoxue said aggrievedly: "Old man, we shipped all your medicines here."

Ruyi chuckled.

Xiaoxue sighed, and went to fetch water with a basin.

A medicine stove was burning in the courtyard, and the smoke flew up in circles, making it a little choking.

Ruyi stood in the yard, adding firewood for a while, fanning the wind for a while, never idle for a moment.

The little girl was plain-looking, with a pale face, tied in a double bun, tied with a red string on both sides, and a small silver pendant on it.

While thinking about the bandits, Xiaoxue looked at Ruyi.

There are many sisters in his family, and it is not uncommon for those who look like pearls and jade. The most outstanding of the same generation are deeply loved by the empress dowager. The emperor even thought of making her a princess, but the girl was only 13 years old at the time, and Empress Chen He prefers the daughter of the Bai family who has cousins ​​with his own family, so he gave up.

It's just that there isn't one quite like Ruyi.

Wealth and honor for many lifetimes...well.

Studying medical skills is already a side door. If you are doing these things, it will be really rebellious and demeaning.

Xiaoxue fetched a basin of water, and seeing the little girl forcefully raised the axe, she shouted, "Let it go, little ancestor, I'll go there right away!"

Before she finished speaking, Ruyi chopped down the wood with an axe, and the wood was split into two pieces.

Xiaoxue: "..."

Xiaoxue first ran to bring the basin into the room, and then went to pick up Ruyi's axe.

He was looking at Li Ji's mood just now, and wanted to find some soothing medicine to let him sleep, so why did he become a servant who didn't spend money on Mr. Lu?

Ruyi poured the decocted medicine into the medicine pot, the little girl was silent for a moment, and said, "When will the general leave?"

Xiaoxue thought for a while, "Wait until the situation stabilizes." Seeing Ruyi's blank face, he thought he was ridiculous. Why did he talk to a ten-year-old girl about a stable situation? "About ten days? Ruyi, I'm not a general." He corrected again.

Ruyi said: "Is the lord coming back?"

Xiaoxue smiled and said: "My lord and I came here because of the unstable situation in Qingzhou. If the weather in Qingzhou goes well, we will naturally not come back." As soon as he finished speaking, the girl burst into tears.

Xiaoxue was shocked.

He is used to seeing people cry these days. When he made people distribute food, some people cried and worshiped him. It was a kind of mood. Seeing Li Ji's poor handling of the previous officials made Taoxi almost a dead city, writing documents while writing It's another mood to grit your teeth and cry, but it's another mood to watch the little girl pouring medicine while wiping her tears.

He threw the ax hastily, and coaxed: "Stop crying." He had never coaxed a child before, so there were only a few words tossed and turned.

The little girl sobbed and said, "The people who come after that, are they still like adults?"

Xiaoxue took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears, and said comfortingly, "They are all selected by the imperial court, they are much better than us."

How could Xiaoxue know what kind of person came?Qiao Yu is as powerful as Qiao Yu, and he still has to do his best to interfere with the exam. To be honest, it's all luck to choose what kind of people to come here.

The aristocratic family is deeply rooted in the local area, and it is a blessing that those without background do not get along with it, but those with background... how many deviant Yuan Zanying are there in the world?

Even Yuan Zanying herself, after Ning You's case, wasn't it because of his extremely high background that he was saved from death, and he was just dismissed from office?

Ruyi said: "The previous people were also selected by the imperial court!"

She spoke outspokenly when she was young, and she said everything that others dare not say.

Xiaoxue wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "No, this kind of thing will never happen again."

He couldn't help but think in his heart, what would he say if the Yuanzan pen was here?How to do?

Elder Lu came out leaning on a cane, and the first thing he saw was Xiaoxue who was half kneeling on the ground wiping her granddaughter's tears, "Bastard!"

Xiaoxue jumped to avoid the crutches.

Ruyi was taken aback, and hurried to pull Lao Lu.

"you you you--"

Xiaoxue jumped onto the wall in three or two steps, and said, "I, me, what's wrong with me?"

Elder Lu almost fainted out of breath.

Xiaoxue didn't forget to add fuel to the flames, saying: "Your granddaughter still doesn't want us to leave, you drive people away now, how sad Ruyi is."

Old Lu said angrily, "Come down!"

"Do you think I'm stupid?" He pointed to his face, took out a small bag of candy from his pocket, and threw it to Ruyi, "Don't cry, brother will give you candy."

The candy was bought by Xiaoxue in Zhongzhou. Natural disasters and man-made disasters happened simultaneously in Qingzhou. It is a blessing in misfortune to have a place to buy things. Where can I find such sweet but not greasy candy with exquisite workmanship?

Ruyi hugged the sugar bag and nodded vigorously.

Xiaoxue jumped out lightly.

The so-called lightness kung fu, the biggest use is to make people look like they can't fight, and the qi is enough to get rid of internal injuries.

He went back to the camp, found an earthen pot and boiled the medicine.

As a result, Li Ji saw a bowl of black and smelly stuff, and most of his anger and powerlessness was diluted, leaving him helpless, "Why is this thing?"

Xiaoxue said: "This is a good way to soothe the nerves. I went up the mountain of knives and down the sea of ​​fire to fight evil tigers to find the herbal medicine. I also used golden nanmu as firewood and boiled it for nine hundred and eleven days."

Li Ji flatly refused, "I won't drink."

He would rather die than drink this stuff.

Xiaoxue has been by Yuan Zanbi's side for a long time, and she behaves a bit like an adult in his family, "I will still be knocked out after drinking and sleeping, you choose one."

Li Ji bit the bullet and said, "You hit me if you have the ability."

As soon as Xiaoxue raised her hand, Li Ji picked up the medicine bowl and drank it dry in one gulp.

He looked as if he had committed suicide by taking poison.

Xiaoxue patted Li Ji on the shoulder and said, "Don't forget to clean the dishes."

After finishing a lot of affairs, he stretched his waist and went back to the tent.

After Li Ji finished drinking, he only felt bitter in his mouth, and the taste of killing his life kept surging upwards. After suppressing it for a long time, he felt dizzy and dizzy, and fell asleep after lying on the bed for a short time.

The surrounding area has been quite quiet these past few days, and the post station has been opened.

Sitting in front of the sparrow cage that she had just bought with a lot of money, Xiaoxue said to Li Ji, "Tell me, can this thing deliver letters?"

Tao Xi has just experienced a great famine, and all food prices have skyrocketed. The government has released food, and the food price has dropped rapidly, only a little higher than usual, but meat and other things are almost as good as gold, so this caged bird spent a little snow. Two months' salary is even more.

Li Ji looked at him like a fool, "You want to write a letter to Master Yuan?"

Xiaoxue shook the paper in her hand, "It's finished."

"If you can't send them away, the money will be wasted if you let them go," Li Ji said.

Xiaoxue thought about it for a while, and she was convinced that although the official post was slow, the person who delivered the letter would never be beaten down and eaten.

So he sent the letter to the official post.

In the evening they added a meat dish - fried sparrows.

Xiaoxue picked up a sparrow with her chopsticks, and sighed: "This is the luxury of being an official." As she spoke, she was about to lose the sparrow's head.

……

After five days of ups and downs, Xiaoxue's letter was finally delivered to Yuan Zanbi.

Yuan Zanbi has been busy cleaning up the army these few days, and also clearing up the bandits outside who want to fish in troubled waters, so he seldom appears in the Governor's Mansion during the day.

But Xiaoxue's letter was of a special nature after all, and the visitor did not dare to neglect it, and even did not trust it when it was handed over to Qiao Yu.

In other words, it was because he didn't trust Qiao Yu.

In the middle of the moon, the Yuanzan pen finally came back.

Seeing the Yuanzan pen was like seeing a savior, and the messenger hurriedly handed it to the Yuanzan pen, which was still smelling of blood in the armor on his body.

He was probably afraid that this outfit would scare people, so before entering the city, all the members washed the blood from the gaps in the armor with river water.

Yuan Zanbi nodded, with an unknowable expression under his visor.

The messenger was tired for a few days and was taken there to rest.

Qiao Yu said casually: "I caught a few secret sentries. The price of food is too high right now, so it's useless to keep them. I ordered people to kill them. The bodies were thrown into a mass grave, and the heads were preserved with lime and ice."

If Mei Yingqin was here, I'm afraid he would have to slander him for killing people like hemp and insanity. Killing people is not counted, and the heads have to be kept.

Yuan Zan wrote: "Qiao Xiang thinks..."

"I don't think so," Qiao Yu smiled, "It's a great blessing to be with the family forever."

His denial was about as good as an admission.

Qiao Yu did this because he felt that their affairs with the aristocratic family were not over yet, and these heads would be excellent threats in the future.

The living and the dead have similar uses, but as Qiao Yu said, the price of food is too high, so it is useless to keep them.

Yuan Zanbi took off his visor and tore open the envelope.

Xiaoxue wrote three or four pages carelessly, and the previous page was probably a nonsense conversation with Yuan Zanbi, "Xiaoxue asked you how?"

Qiao Yu said softly, "Very well, how is he?"

What a fart.

Since the food arrived, besides coordinating the affairs of Zhucheng, he also chatted with the aristocratic family, all of which were extremely correct nonsense.

There are also letters like snowflakes pouring in from Zhongzhou, some are threatening, some are tempting, some are pleading, some are threatened by the emperor, some are soft-hearted, and some are eager to dig his ancestral grave. After reading it, Qiao Yu said with emotion: "Fortunately, the ancestral grave of the truth has been dug long ago."

The situation of Yuan Zanbi is even uglier than him. The letter from Yuan Shi alone seems to be trying to skin him. It's just that they spit out some of the relief food they swallowed!

Yuan Zan brushed Xiaoxue's nonsense lamenting the hardships of life and the difficult times of the world, "There were many cannibals in the city before, and their corpses were exposed in the wild. Now it has been greatly changed. Li Ji and all the adults are in charge. Please rest assured, the nearby villages and towns of Taoxi. The situation is similar to that of Taoxi, but it has improved," he read, and the young man who usually jumps up and down writes his business with calmness. I didn’t see it during the inspection, and more sentries will be added in the future. If there are no more disasters, everything will be back to normal in about ten days.”

Seeing Yuan Zanbi's face seemed relieved, Qiao Yu wondered how this man looked like his own son, but he said, "The child has grown up."

He really should be emotional.

Back then, Xiaoxue was just a child he called her sister who followed behind him and put on makeup, but now she can be her own.

"There is one more thing. I have doubts in my heart, so I ask my brother to clarify my doubts."

Qiao Yu was originally sitting upright, but when she heard this, she sat up straight.

Don't talk about official business, Xiaoxue started to write again. He first talked about what happened with Ruyi, and then said: "My sister said a set of rewards and punishments before, but when I waited, I found out that no one can be rewarded, no one can be punished. There are few people living here, and the only female relatives are not the wives of officials, but the singers who are bought for pleasure. If such officials are still used in the future, there will be natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the court can adjust food and people, but I don’t know. Is it enough to die again?"

Xiaoxue used sharp words, Qiao Yu nodded while listening and said, "It has my demeanor."

"I know I shouldn't be arrogant, but human life is like this, and I can't ignore it. I implore my lord, if you elect Qingzhou officials in the future, you can choose real doers."

Qiao Yu took the letter over and said with a smile, "Silly boy."

Yuan Zan pen looked at him.

Qiao Yu folded the letter a few times and said, "If Master Yuan replies to Xiaoxue, please add a few words I said: Qingzhou is optional, how can we intervene in Zhongzhou affairs? There are thirteen states in the world, thousands of cities, officials are appointed and dismissed, It is up to me and others to intervene. Even if your brother and I try our best to save the situation, what will we do after a hundred years?"

Yuan Zanbi looked at him without blinking.

Qiao Yu asked strangely, "What? Am I wrong?"

Yuan Zan wrote: "I'm curious."

Qiao Yu gave him the letter, "Master Yuan, is there anything else you're curious about?" He didn't seem to want to hear it, and said, "Send me back to rest."

Yuan Zanbi said: "Joe is too concerned about these things."

Qiao Yupi smiled and said, "Your food will share your worries, that's what adults say." He had no intention of going around with Yuan Zanbi, and said: "Even Lord Yuan is willing to offend the family for the sake of Qingzhou. As the Prime Minister of Wei, it is no big deal for me to pay attention to local affairs."

Yuan Zanbi seemed to have something to say, but Qiao Yu lowered her eyes and waved to him, "Come here."

He was already kneeling and sitting on the bed, and as soon as Yuan Zanbi walked in front of him, he stretched out his hand and took the cold armor into his arms.

Yuan Zan pen was condescending, but Qiao Yu looked up from the bottom.

He was dressed in thin clothes, and the cold air rushed towards his face against the armor.

Qiao Yu leaned on it as if listening to her heartbeat, half teasing and half teasing, "You're so cold, Yuan Bi."