Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 28 Arrogant and Domineering
Kaifeng Funan City.

With more than [-] victims crowded together, it was inevitable that there would be mess.

Although the imperial court provided proper relief and arranged food and lodging, the victims fled all the way. They were sick and hungry, especially now that it was winter, and there were countless victims suffering from the cold. The imperial court did not have enough manpower to arrange everything for them. appropriate.

Song Qi squatted beside the six stoves, waving her fan, and the six stoves were all stewing medicinal soup.

Song Qi, styled Chubao, was born in Youzhou. Because of the cession of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures by the Later Jin Dynasty, he became a Han Chinese under the rule of the Khitan Kingdom.

With the progress of the times, Khitan can no longer be described as a barbarian.They also began to have their own thoughts, their own culture.In the fourth year of Huitong, Khitan imitated the Han system, set up tribute examinations in Yanyun area, and recruited talents.

Song Qi went to take the test and won the first place in one fell swoop.At first, he served as an attendant in the palace of Shou'an Wang Yelujing, and was later enlisted by Zhao Yanshou, the governor of Youzhou, to work in the shogunate.He won a good reputation in Yanyun, and he was called the Second Song Dynasty together with Song Xiong from his hometown.

Then the Khitan army broke through Bianliang, destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty, and changed the name of the country to Liao.Song Qi, as Zhao Yanshou's staff, also entered the Central Plains with the army.

However, due to the evil actions of the Liao Kingdom in the Central Plains, they were soon driven back to Yanyun.

Song Qi didn't want to go north to follow Khitan, so she stayed and voted for Northern Han together with Zhao Zan, the Jiedu envoy of Hezhong, and followed the general trend to follow Dazhou.

Zhao Zan was able to be a high-ranking Jiedu envoy, all thanks to an old father, he has no ability at all.Song Qi didn't want to be mediocre, so she said goodbye to Zhao Zan and came to Kaifeng to look for opportunities.

In Kaifeng, I met like-minded Kou Xiang and a kind of scholar who was struggling to survive in the cracks. While encouraging each other, they looked for opportunities to become an official.

Luo Youdu's "worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later" shocked Song Qi and Kou Xiang enough.

In this world, scholars are too worthless.

It is too difficult to be an official.

The two of them were unwilling to serve as staff members to those fat-minded warriors, so they were trapped in Kaifeng.

The two once wondered what was the point of reading by themselves?
Until he heard Luo Youdu's words, he suddenly became enlightened.

What is the so-called reading in my generation?Isn't it about self-cultivation, governing the country and bringing peace to the world?

Now that the victims of the disaster are gathered in Kaifeng, how can we who read the books of sages ignore it?
Song Qi and Kou Xiang called their relatives and friends together to the south of Kaifeng City to assist the court in taking care of the victims, doing their best.

Song Qi learned a lot, and knew a little about medicine, so she was responsible for making decoctions to dispel cold for the victims.

Six stoves surrounded him, making him sweat hot in this winter.But no matter how hot the stove is, it can't heat the fire in your heart.

"Chu Bao!"

Kou Xiang came striding forward, still holding a bowl of soup and medicine in his hand, came to the vicinity with an anxious expression on his face, and said, "Go and have a look, there seems to be someone dying over there."

Kou Xiang was from Xiabei, Huazhou, and he was also a number one scholar, but he was the number one scholar in the second year of his fortune in the late Jin Dynasty, and he was a sensation at the time.It's just that the champion of this era is not worth much, let alone the champion of the previous dynasty.

Song Qi's expression moved slightly, and she greeted a friend, asking him to help keep an eye on the fire, and followed Kou Xiang to an abandoned house.

The house has been preliminarily cleaned up, and there are seven patients living in it. They live in a very simple, just a wooden board covered with mats, separating the cold air from the ground.

The environment is already very good, at least there is a house to shelter from the wind and rain.Some victims, especially those who later lived outside the city, were in even worse condition.

Kou Xiang came in front of an old man, beside the old man was a crying little girl, who cried "Grandpa" while crying, making people feel distressed.

Song Qi stepped forward to feel the old man's pulse, feeling the subtle pulse, her brows became more and more wrinkled.

Kou Xiang didn't know much about medicine, so he couldn't stop rubbing his hands anxiously.

"No!" Song Qi muttered strangely.

Kou Xiang hurriedly said, "What's wrong?"

Song Qi said: "The old man's pulse doesn't seem to be sick..." He said he found something, and with his hands, he pulled the old man's front to the left and right.

"hiss!"

Coincidentally, both Song Qi and Kou Xiang took a breath.

The old man's abdomen was covered with scars from whips and sticks.

The whip wounds were streaks of blood, and the stick wounds were purple-black bruises. There were no more than 30 spots on the abdomen alone.

"Who beat this? It's too cruel!"

Song Qi gritted her teeth and said: "These whips and sticks avoid the vital points everywhere, and they are punished for torture!" He knew a little about medical skills, so he naturally understood that even if it only hits a vital point, the old man couldn't bear it at this age.It's purely to make him want to survive but not die, so that he can be labeled like this.

When Kou Xiang and Song Qi were trembling with anger, there was a commotion outside, cursing and howling.

"No……"

"not here……"

"Go away..."

"Stay out of the way..."

Both Kou Xiang and Song Qi realized that the little girl had stopped crying, and their expressions were frightened.

Kou Xiang and Song Qi looked at each other.

The two have a tacit understanding.

Kou Xiang sees where he can hide the little girl.

And Song Qi walked out of the house, intending to delay for a while.

Song Qiren just stood outside the house.

A servant with a stick appeared in front of Song Qi.

Song Qi wanted to ask.

Jia Ding kicked over directly.

"Go away! Good dogs don't get in the way!"

This kick was extremely hard. Although Song Qi was a scholar and scholar, she was born in Youzhou at least. She has the blood of Yanzhao in her body. She is tall and burly.But the servant's kick directly knocked him to the ground, his internal organs were tumbling, and he choked up some of the porridge he drank in the morning, and he couldn't get up.

Kou Xiang had no time to hide the little girl.

The servant kicked Song Qi away, and his eyes fell on the little girl, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he shouted: "I found it, the person is here."

With a whoosh, five people rushed into the room, all servants dressed in the same clothes.

Kou Xiang stood in front of the little girl, wanting to speak too.

That servant slapped Kou Xiang in the face.

"Where did you come from, a stinky scholar!"

Kou Xiang didn't have Song Qi's physique, so he was dizzy for a while, and passed out immediately.

"Flee, let's see where you go!"

The servant smiled ferociously, grabbed the little girl and dragged her out.

The old man was dying, but at this moment, he didn't know where the strength came from, he hugged the servant's foot, and bit down on his thigh.

The servant was in pain, and kicked the old man to death on the spot.

The little girl who was still struggling was stunned for a moment, her mouth was wide open, she didn't cry or move, she looked at her grandfather with blank eyes, and let the servants drag her like a dead dog.

More than a dozen family members gathered outside the house, talking about each other's achievements with a smile, extremely domineering.

Suddenly a group of yamen servants blocked their way and surrounded them.

The laughter stopped, but there was no fear.

The servant who kicked the old man to death shouted directly: "The general of the right prison gate, Wang Jixun, is dealing with family affairs, you idlers, please get out of the way."

(End of this chapter)