Daoist Lin sister [Red House]

Yang Yi suddenly thought of another horrific possibility, couldn't help but blushed, stared in shock at a house on the side of the road with its doors and windows tightly closed, and said, "Or, they all slept in the house?"

"What?" Yong Yu asked puzzledly, "It's blue sky and white day, what kind of folk customs in Ping'an Prefecture, why are the people still sleeping in the house at such a time? It's the old and the weak, women and children who can't stand the cold and don't want to go out. There are always men and women. Ding wants to—"

As Yong Yu spoke, he suddenly came to his senses, his eyes widened, and he looked in disbelief at a restaurant three steps away, where there was no one in the lobby except for the wine tricks dancing in the wind.

Behind him, Daiyu was sitting in the carriage. It had been a long time since the two of them spoke. She couldn't stand the deathly silence, so she raised the curtain and asked, "Uncle Yang, brother, what's going on here?"

Yongyu turned his head and looked at Daiyu, but he was still speechless.

Daiyu was intimidated by the expression on Yongyu's face!

At some point, Yong Yu's face faded from horror, his face was pale and pale, tiredness from many days had crept into his eyebrows and eyes, and he seemed to have suddenly aged ten years.

"What's the matter?" Daiyu asked anxiously, feeling guilty.

Yongyu lowered his head, as if he had made up his mind, got off his horse, and rushed into the restaurant he had been looking at just now.

Yongyu stood in the lobby of the restaurant, patted the counter, and said loudly: "The shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, here are the guests! Serve the wine, serve the good wine!"

"Serve the wine! Serve the good wine!" Yongyu's voice echoed in the empty restaurant, and even spread far to the street, but no one responded.

"W-Where are the people here?" Zijuan helped Daiyu out of the car, and a group of forbidden soldiers surrounded the two of them.Zicuckoo couldn't help asking.

But no one could answer her question.

Yongyu still didn't give up, he rushed into the backyard of the restaurant, followed by Wenzhu.Yang Yi didn't dare to leave Daiyu easily, and ordered five imperial guards to follow him in.

"Ah!" After a while, there was an exclamation.

Daiyu couldn't sit still any longer, and together with Yang Yi, rushed into the backyard of the restaurant like the wind.

All I saw was five tile-roofed houses stretching across the backyard, three of which were collapsed by the heavy snow.The only remaining two tile-roofed houses have their doors wide open in the middle of winter.

Yongyu and Wenzhu were standing in a tile-roofed house, but the five imperial guards who came in blocked the door.

But the one who screamed just now was Wen Zhu.

Daiyu pushed aside the imperial guards and rushed into the house quickly.But Yong Yu suddenly turned around, hugged her, pressed her head into his arms, and whispered: "Don't look."

"Why?" Daiyu vaguely had a terrible and ominous premonition in her heart, but she didn't dare to think deeply.

"I'm afraid that after you read it, you won't be able to sleep again from now on." Yongyu said in a hoarse voice.

"How, how could it be?" Daiyu questioned and just asked.

"Ah—" Zicuckoo screamed and fell headlong.Fortunately, Yang Yi had quick eyesight and quick hands, and supported her.

"Zijuan!" Daiyu wanted to see how Zijuan was doing, but Yongyu still held her in his arms, refusing to let go.

"Let's go out first, we'll talk later." Yongyu said in a coaxing tone like a child.

Daiyu nodded in a muffled voice, and let Yongyu hold her in his arms and go out, without even looking at the bed in the room.

Several people returned to the courtyard again, but they were all speechless for a while.

On the other side, there was a powerful imperial guard holding on to the base of the wall to vomit.

Looking at the pale complexions of Yongyu, Wenzhu, Zijuan and Yang Yi, Daiyu didn't need to ask, she knew it in her heart, and she said after a long time: "But they are all dead?"

Yongyu nodded.

"Hungry, starved to death?" Daiyu still asked.

Yongyu shook his head and nodded again.

"Eating each other to death."

Eat each other to death!

Eat each other to death!

Eat each other to death!

There are four simple words, but how much blood, terror, hardship, bitterness and hatred!

Daiyu's eyes widened in an instant, and the anger in her eyes was like madness, and her heart was churning, vomiting and anger mixed together, straight to the sky!

It seems that in order to echo Daiyu's feelings, the sun that finally showed its claws suddenly hides in the dark clouds, and for a while, the sun is dark!

"Hmm—" It was Zicuckoo's groans and groans when she was in a coma that broke the silence.

Zijuan woke up leisurely, saw the pale face of Asparagus bamboo, was startled by him, got up hurriedly, and asked: "How can I—" Just as the words came out, he saw the tile-roofed house again, gasped, Almost fainted again!

"Go!" Yongyu ordered without waiting for Zijuan to faint again.

All the imperial guards hugged Daiyu and others and withdrew.

"Look through all the houses with closed doors, and see..." Yongyu couldn't say the following words.

All the imperial guards understood, gritted their teeth one after another, and scattered away.

Yong Yu turned around and ordered Lin Neng to drive the carriage to a place sheltered from the wind, and accompanied Daiyu into the carriage.

The carriage is narrow and cannot accommodate Zijuan ditto.Zicuckoo and asparagus stood guard beside the carriage.

Yang Yi was left, and ran to a well at the intersection, not knowing what he was looking at.

In the carriage, Daiyu held Yongyu's hands tightly, the anger and shock at the beginning was gone in her eyes, it was full of coldness.Daiyu said in a deep voice: "How dare those dog officials leave the corpse here and let us check it?"

Yong Yu shook his head, overly shocked, for a moment, he couldn't think clearly.

"Maybe my father-in-law pretended so much that he even deceived this group of wolf-hearted guys! They have nothing to worry about, so, then..." Yongyu was trembling with anger, and he couldn't continue.

Daiyu's brows became more and more tight, "If you say that, they are really a monolith. No matter how powerful father is, whether he is willing to join forces with them, they are sure to get out!"

Daiyu pointed straight to the point.

"After all, who is the master of the forces behind this Ping'an Prefecture? How dare you ignore the Tian Family and the Emperor?" Daiyu narrowed her eyes, looked at the dark clouds in the sky, and gritted her teeth.

...............

Zhushan County Yali.

Zhushan County is a small county closest to Ping'an Prefecture.If one travels across the mountains from Zhushan County, it only takes half a day to reach Ping'an City.However, if you take the official road, you still have to travel for two or three days.

When Daiyu and others arrived in Ping'an City, Lin Ruhai's guard of honor was walking to Zhushan County.

The magistrate of Zhushan County, surnamed Yu, has a single name of Li, Fengxian.So he worked as a county magistrate in Zhushan County, and once he did it, he worked for more than ten years.

Speaking of which, this Zhushan County is also well-fed. I don't know which generation has accumulated virtue.This time, it was snowing heavily in winter, and Ping'an Prefecture lasted for more than a month, and the houses were downed and people were wiped out, and there was no sound for a hundred miles.

However, Zhushan County, which is only a few mountains away from Ping'an Prefecture, has nothing to do with it.Not only was there no heavy snow, but also the plague of locusts in autumn, and the lady worm did not visit Zhushan County.

Seeing the loss of their neighbors in the past, the people of Zhushan County deeply realized the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and they were so grateful that they could not sleep day and night.For this reason, he rewarded the gods and offered sacrifices to the heavens in every possible way, and even spontaneously reshaped the golden bodies of the mountain gods and land in the county.

When Lin Ruhai arrived here with the grain transport officers and soldiers, the people of Zhushan County had already heard of his reputation for extortionate extortion and natural disasters, and closed their doors one after another.

Only Yu Li led a group of county government clerks, government servants and others to welcome him.

Lin Ruhai checked all the way, and saw that there were no signs of house collapse in Zhushan County, and there was no snow on the roadside.Although there was no one there, there was smoke from the kitchen, so he asked Yu Li, "Magistrate Yu, has your county not been affected by disasters this time?"

Yu Li didn't know what Lin Ruhai was thinking, and thought he wanted to search for it, he quickly bowed and replied: "It turned out that I was also affected by the disaster. Fortunately, the imperial court came in time for the relief money. There are also many young and middle-aged people in the county, and there are no corvees allocated on weekdays. This time, it was used to fight against the disaster. Therefore, it looks good now."

After Lin Ruhai heard this, he still had a good impression of Yu Li in his heart, but on his face he deliberately made a look of contempt, flung his sleeves, and said coldly: "The magistrate of Yu county is really an honest minister! After so many years, he has never Promotion, I think I have a lot of complaints in my heart?"

Cold sweat came down Yu Li's forehead immediately, he nodded and bowed his waist and said, "Don't dare! Master Lin is the humerus minister next to the Holy One. He governs the country and governs. How can a low-ranking official compare? The low-ranking official is only in this mere county. Tossing around, if you don't provoke the anger of the heavens and the people, you will be pitied by the heavens!"

Hearing what he said, Lin Ruhai couldn't help laughing in his heart, but his face was still tense, and he asked again: "Your Zhushan County is adjacent to that Ping'an Prefecture, do you know the situation in that Prefecture?"

Yu Li rolled his eyes, and said carefully: "This, this, although the lower officials are adjacent to that Ping'an Prefecture, they are separated by mountains and rivers, and they belong to different prefectures. I don't know the real situation there. It's just a little heard. heard."

"Oh? Then what have you heard?" Lin Ruhai said casually.

Yu Li kept stealing glances at Lin Ruhai's face, and said tentatively, "I heard that many people were killed by the snowstorm and freezing. If it wasn't, if it wasn't for the cold weather, there might be a plague."

plague?Lin Ruhai snorted coldly, using this as a shield, it's a good idea for them!

"Ping'an Prefecture is a rare and prosperous place. Why can't you even handle a snow disaster? The imperial envoy looked at it, and your small Zhushan County is not bad. How come so many houses collapsed in Ping'an Prefecture and so many people died of freezing ?" At this moment, Lin Ruhai was already sitting high in the back hall of the Yuli County Yamen, his eyes froze, and he asked forcefully.

Yu Li couldn't stand Lin Ruhai's official prestige, so his knees softened, and he knelt down and replied: "Your officials are confused, and you don't know it well. It's just, just, that Ping'an Prefecture was plagued by locusts and then snowstorms, and natural disasters happened frequently. There are corvees and miscellaneous labors, and the people, the people have no food in their hands, even the clothes and bedding that they had prepared for the winter before have all been pawned to pay off the corvees. Therefore, when the snowstorm comes..."

Lin Ruhai sat upright on the grand teacher's chair, with her head slightly lowered, and a plaque with "Breezy Wind and Bright Moon" hung on the top.The shadow of the outside sun shone in, forming a shadow under the plaque, just covering Lin Ruhai's eyebrows and eyes.

It is half sunny and half rainy.

In other words, the reason why Lin Ruhai stayed in Zhushan County was not only to give Daiyu and the others time to make unannounced visits, but the most important thing was to learn from the refugees in the capital that Zhushan was the only prefecture in Ping'an Prefecture where no refugees fled. county.

After he returned to the Ministry of Officials and found out the examination form of Yu Li, the magistrate of Zhushan County, he felt even more confident.

Yu Li has been the magistrate of the county for many years. One year, a chaste woman was born in Zhushan County, and her deeds are amazing.In that year, Du Ming personally wrote down a sentence on Yu Li's examination form: Talent is mediocre, temperament is cowardly, but he can be regarded as stable, so he should be the magistrate of Zhushan County.

After walking around Zhushan County in person and talking with Yu Li, Lin Ruhai had a precise understanding of both Zhushan County and Yu Li's situation.As soon as he entered the inner hall, his attitude changed drastically and he became aggressive.

Sure enough, Yu Li was very unintimidated. Lin Ruhai was such a wicked and corrupt official, but in the name of an imperial envoy, he casually threatened him with a few words. They all said it.

The corvée distribution even forced the victims to pawn their clothes. Needless to say, those houses were not even collapsed by the heavy snow, but occupied by people!

Although the imperial court's taxes and corvee are heavy, there is a bottom line after all, and it will be reduced every time of disaster.For example, this year, the imperial court has long decreed that all the people in Ping'an Prefecture will be exempted from taxes and corvees for one year.

However, it seems that behind the scenes, officials in Ping'an Prefecture not only did not exempt them from taxes, but they may even intensify and extort more money!

Lin Ruhai's hands on the armrests of the grand master's chair clenched into fists at some point.

There was a long silence.

Just when Yu Li was in panic all day long, thinking that Lin Ruhai was going to punish him for the crime of "failing to report the knowledge", Lin Ruhai suddenly changed his tone, with a strange smile on his face, and asked in a low voice, "I don't know what's going on here in your county?" Are there rare objects or famous calligraphy and paintings?"

Lin Ruhai originally wanted to talk about beauties, but suddenly remembered the two "peerless beauties" in her family, and hurriedly changed her words.

Yu Li was dumbfounded and didn't recall it for a long time.

It was Lin Ruhai who saw him in a daze, put up his airs again, and said solemnly, "Ahem, since you don't have any good things here, I don't have to stay for a long time. Magistrate Yu County, let's send this imperial envoy to leave at night!"

Be obedient and listen to the sound. At this point, if Yuli still doesn't understand what Lin Ruhai means, he doesn't even need to be a little county magistrate.Yu Li wiped his head with cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "Master Imperial Envoy, please stay here, Sir Imperial Envoy, please stay here!"

Yu Lidie said: "Although the place of Xiaguan is small, there are still some good things. Please move to the flower hall to talk about it, please move to the flower hall to tell about it."

………………

Yongyu took Daiyu through most of the street, there were many restaurants and inns, but none of them were open for business.

With the lessons learned from last time, this time, Yongyu didn't dare to take Daiyu into the store rashly.After searching in every possible way, they finally found a clean-looking Town God's Temple, and went into the temple to rest together.

Daiyu looked around and said, "This Town God's Temple looks quite tidy. There are incense candles and offerings on the tribute table. Why does it seem that there were people worshiping a few days ago?"

Yongyu was also full of doubts, frowning and shaking his head to express his ignorance, but while tidying up a clean place in front of the tribute table, he ordered Wenzhu to release Jindun to sit down with Daiyu to rest.

Not long after, the imperial guards who had just dispersed to check all turned around.

At first a leader stepped forward and said: "If you come back to the world and return to your son, the servants have checked, and not all the empty houses have dead people. There are dead people in six of the thirty households, but it seems that the dead have been dead for a long time. They all seemed to have died of freezing and starvation. In addition, there were traces of cooking smoke in the homes of five other families. The remaining houses seemed to have been unoccupied for a long time."

As soon as the leader finished speaking, Yang Yi also followed up and said, "There is something even more strange! The surface of the well in this city is actually frozen. If there are people in the city, how can they not drink water? Have a good four-eyed well." , how could you be willing to let it freeze?"

"However, if it is said that this is a dead place, what are the guards and passers-by going to say? In a dead city, where is the need for strict investigation and close guard?" Yang Yi asked again.

One problem after another, one doubt after another.None of the people present could answer.

Suddenly, Zicuckoo, who had been silent all this time, raised her hand because of being overly frightened and asked, "I, I also have a question, since, since the heavy snow has collapsed many houses, why did we only see it in the backyard of the restaurant along the way?" One house collapsed, and the rest were never seen again?"

A word to wake up the dreamer?Since there were no houses that collapsed under heavy snow, the so-called blizzard was too fierce, and many houses were collapsed.As a result, the people were either buried alive or died of freezing and starving.

"Then if it wasn't because of the heavy snow, why, why did the people in the restaurant eat each other, eat each other..." Daiyu didn't finish her sentence.

But everyone thought of the scene in the backyard of the restaurant at the same time, and couldn't help feeling sour.

"Since the natural disaster is not as fierce as the legends say, this city has become a place of death. It can be seen that it is a man-made disaster." Yongyu stood up and said.

Everyone was speechless, but they all had the same thoughts in their hearts.

"Catch thieves and take stolen goods. Since there is no one in this city and we can't find a place to stay, we will use the name card of 'our father' to pay a visit to the magistrate of the county government." Yong Yu said again.

Daiyu's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and she echoed, "Exactly, if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch a tiger's cub. Everywhere in this Ping'an city is weird, everything is wrong up and down, yet you dare to come here so blatantly. Even when I heard that an imperial envoy was coming soon, I didn’t hide it at all! I always feel that something is wrong. But it’s useless if we guess here, we might as well go and see with our own eyes.”

Yang Yi also nodded in agreement.

Several people went straight to the Yamen of the prefect of Ping'an Prefecture.

...............

In front of the yamen of the prefect of Ping'an Prefecture.

When the yacha saw Yang Yi and his party coming, Da Lala stepped forward and asked, "Who is here? Our master is not going to be promoted today, so I will go and find Mr. Zhizhou if I have something to do."

Daiyu heard it in the carriage, and couldn't help muttering: "What are you talking about? Leapfrogging the report, the magistrate is not afraid that someone will accuse him of dereliction of duty and corruption, so he will send him directly to the immediate superior?"

Yong Yu also felt very strange.Not to mention what the immediate superior said, isn't the magistrate afraid that they are sent by the imperial envoy?Do you know that he neither provides disaster relief nor fights against disasters, does not take care of any official duties, and does not even get promoted?

Yang Yi, however, was able to hold his temper quite well, knowing that the King of Hades is easy to see, but the little ghost is difficult to deal with.Yang Yi didn't say much, first took out a silver ingot and gave it to the yamen servant, and then showed the guide, booklet, and identification badge and other things.

The clerk looked at the things Yang Yi took out, and his face became more respectful, and he bowed to Yang Yi vainly, and changed his words: "I don't know what is Mr. Yang's business in our yamen?"

"To tell you the truth, since we were visiting relatives, we were only passing through Guidi. Thinking of the cold weather, we came in to have a rest. Unexpectedly, Guibaodi, the city is empty, and there is no one in the inn or restaurant. , told us to walk so many places, and only saw a dilapidated Town God's Temple. Our girl went out for the first time, and she was pampered when she was a child. In fact, "Yang Yi spread his hands, looking helpless, and said, " There is really no way to make do in that temple. Forced by desperation, I dared to think, can I borrow a night in the magistrate's yamen?"

After Yang Yi finished speaking, he seemed to be afraid of being too abrupt, and quickly added: "There must be a big thank you. And after I wait for Jinling, our master will definitely prepare a generous gift to thank you, the magistrate."

After hearing this, the yamen servant looked at Yongyu's appearance and was astonished as a man of heaven. He thought to himself that it was a profitable business, and he was benefited by Yang Yi. , sir, allow me to report back to the magistrate. It is up to you to decide whether to stay or not."

"Naturally." Yang Yi clasped his fists as a salute, and took a piece of jade pendant from his body, and let the Yamen take it in as a witness for the magistrate.

Not long after, the Yacha came out, followed by a middle-aged woman about 40 years old.

The Yacha led the woman up to Yang Yi and Yongyu, and introduced him: "Young master, this is our magistrate Wu's mother, who is now in charge of the inner courtyard. The magistrate has agreed that you will borrow money later." Stay overnight, let you follow Mama Wu to the guest room to settle down."

Yongyu showed a rare smile, and cupped his hands at Mama Wu.

Mama Wu is not a young person anymore.But he was also dazzled by Yongyu's smile, and thought: "Okay! It's strange that people in the capital say that people in the capital are extravagant, how old is this young man, and he is cold and alone, but he curled his mouth Even the old lady, I can't help being tempted! Oh, oh, oh!"

Mother Wu was full of thoughts, but it didn't affect her leading everyone to the back hall.It's also fortunate that she pretended to be good, otherwise, if Yongyu knew what she was thinking, he would be desperate to pull out his sword immediately and cut off a layer of her skin.

"This is the guest house. The second door at the back is our wife's yard? Don't go there. The small door to the west leads to the master's study, so don't go easily." Madam Wu led everyone into the mansion. In a small courtyard with a single door in the west corner of the back hall.

In addition to the two main rooms facing the south, this courtyard has three side rooms in the east and west. Although it is not enough for Daiyu and her party, they can barely accommodate them.

Yang Yi cupped his hands first and said: "Thank you, Lord Zhifu! I am really embarrassed to have interrupted you so much. I wonder if I can meet with Lord Zhifu and thank you in person?"

Madam Wu covered her lips and smiled: "Of course it is possible. But our master is busy with official duties at the moment, you guys should take a break first, and the master will send someone to invite you later."

"So, thank you, mother." Daiyu said to Wu's mother, Zijuan followed closely and stuffed a bag of broken silver.

Mother Wu collected the money and left contentedly.

Daiyu and the others had just sat down in the main room. They thought they would have to wait a long time before seeing this mysterious magistrate, but unexpectedly, someone knocked on the closed door of the guest courtyard...

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