Kai Fu Han

Chapter 32 Luo County Lieutenant

October 25, Chen hour (8 o'clock).

Early in the morning, because they were about to reach their destination, the clansmen were very excited. They got up early and completed the dismantling and loading of the campsite faster than usual.

Today's weather is clear and clear, with only a few scattered white clouds in the blue sky, which seems to indicate that today is a good day.

After walking for about an hour, Liu Xinqi, who was walking in front of the migration team, could already see the city wall of Penglai County, the capital of Dengzhou, from a distance.Outside the city are patches of wheat seedlings that have just sprouted up.

When we reached Jiangjia Village, which was more than three miles away from Penglai County, the migration team stopped. Because this Jiangjia Village was close to Penglai City, there was no fence built. There was a small drying ground outside the village, and the village was not big. The maximum number of residents is three to four hundred people.

Seeing Liu Xinqi's large group of people walking towards the village, many people gathered around the village entrance to watch the excitement.

Walking to the village's drying field, Liu Xinqi arranged for the tribesmen to set up camp, and then walked up to meet the village chief of Jiangjia Village. The village chief stood in the front of all the villagers and was very eye-catching.

"Excuse me, we moved here from Liujiabao, Changqing County, Qizhou on the East and West Road of Beijing. Qizhou was hit by the military disaster a month ago and had to move away. We are planning to settle down in Dengzhou Prefecture. Today we will use the sunbathing field in your village to rest. One day." Liu Xinqi said straight to the point, already here, the surrounding population is quite dense, and it is not easy to find open space without crops. "Please bear with me if I disturb you."

After saying that, Liu Xinqi waved back, and a soldier came over with a stone of grain in each hand and placed it between Liu Xinqi and the village chief. The soldier was tall and burly, and he still looked very relaxed carrying two stone heavy objects.

"A little thought, please accept it."

The village chief looked very embarrassed, and he definitely didn't want to agree. Who knew whether this wave of migrating refugees would occupy the magpie's nest.But I couldn't say no, because this group of people was two or three times more than the people in the village, and there were countless horses in the team. There were more than a dozen people who were very burly, and they looked like warriors at first glance. There are huge cars as far as the eye can see.

It is obvious that the power is much stronger than Jiangjia Village. If it weren't for the fact that most of the team were women, children, old and weak, the village chief would have wanted to report to the official immediately.

"We can only stay until tomorrow at most. You have to leave tomorrow, otherwise I will have to report to Penglai County." The village chief thought for a while and reluctantly agreed. He recruited the villagers, took the food, and turned around to take the spectators with him. When the villagers entered the village, they obviously did not want to have more contact with Liu Xinqi and the others.

Most people in ancient times lived in the countryside, because most people in ancient times made a living by farming, and it was inconvenient and affordable to live in cities.Most of the people living in the city are officials, wealthy businessmen, big landowners, and citizens who serve these people.

Therefore, Penglai County, the capital of Dengzhou, is not large.

Liu Xinqi took Zhou Xinyuan and accompanied Luo Gao back to his home in Penglai County. When they walked to the edge of the city, they saw that the southern city wall of Penglai County was only five or six miles long. Assuming that the county seat is square, the area of ​​Penglai City should be about ten square kilometers.

This is already very large, probably because Penglai County has Penglai Port and its maritime trade is relatively developed, so Penglai County is larger than the counties Liu Xinqi has seen along the way.

Based on this area, the permanent population of Penglai County should be larger than that of the previous counties. Those counties had a smaller population of 6000 people and an increase of only 1 people.The permanent population of Penglai County should exceed 1.

This is also the reason why Liu Xinqi did not lead the migration team into the city rashly.Compared with the permanent population of Penglai County, there are too many people in Liujiabao.

After entering the city, he walked north, passed the small bell tower in the middle, and came to North Street. After walking for more than 100 steps, Luo Gao led the two of them into the alley in the northeast corner. On a door hung "Luo Gao" Stopping in front of the courtyard of the Mansion, Luo Gao stepped forward and knocked on the iron knocker hanging on the door.

"Bang, kuang, kuang..."

After a while, a man who looked like Xiao Si opened the door. When he saw Luo Gao standing outside the door, he fainted at first, and then shouted in surprise, "Master! You are back."

Then I saw that Xiao Si did not welcome anyone in, but turned around and ran inside, shouting "The young master is back! The young master is back!!!"

Luo Gao turned around and smiled awkwardly at Liu Xinqi, and led the two of them directly into the opened door.

Go around the screen wall and come to the front yard. There are five houses in a row in the yard. There is an arch on the east wall of the house. There should be a yard behind it. This yard is just the first entry.You could hear Xiaosi running to the yard behind to announce the good news.

As soon as I walked to the middle of the yard, I saw a middle-aged man walking out of the front room, followed by an old man who looked like a housekeeper in his 50s.

The middle-aged man walked up to Luo Gao in a few steps, raised and lowered his hands, feeling very excited. "Father, the child is back." When Luo Gao saw the middle-aged man, he knelt down and kowtowed.Then he knelt down and hugged the middle-aged man's waist.

"It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back!" The middle-aged man hugged Luo Gao's head with tears in his eyes.

When Liu Xinqi saw this, his eyes were a little moist and emotional. This scene of father and son meeting reminded Liu Xinqi of his late father.

"Gao'er is back... Gao'er is back..." As the voice came, a middle-aged woman ran out of the arch, crying as she ran.When Luo Gao saw the woman, he stood up quickly, ran to the woman in a few steps, grabbed the woman's raised arm with both hands: "Mom, it's me, I'm back."

"It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back!" The woman kept looking at Luo Gao up and down, as if she could see the dust of his life in Luo Gao: "I've lost weight and become darker."

"Although I have lost weight and become darker, I have also become a lot stronger. No one can say that I am a weak scholar with no strength anymore." Luo Gao patted his chest and said.

Having said this, I finally remembered Liu Xinqi and Liu Xinqi who were following me. They quickly let go of their mother's arms and came to Liu Xinqi again. They introduced to their parents: "Father, mother, this is my savior Liu Xinqi, and this is Xinqi's master Zhou Xinyuan." Mr. Zhou."

"I've seen Lieutenant Luo, I've seen Mrs. Luo." Liu Xinqi quickly bent down, cupped his hands, and greeted Luo's father and mother.

"Since you are Luo Gao's savior, don't be polite. If you don't mind, call me uncle." Luo Gao's father Luo Cheng said.

Ancient people still valued kindness. Otherwise, Liu Xinqi's origins were unknown, and he would never have called an official his uncle.

"Then it's better to obey orders than to be respectful, Uncle Luo." Liu Xinqi responded obediently. After all, he was about to ask for something from someone, so he would not suffer any disadvantage if he said something nice.

"Come, let's do it inside. Mr. Zhou will also come in and sit down." After the courtesy, Luo Cheng let Liu Xinqi and Liu Xinqi into the living room of the main room. Several people sat down one after another. Luo's mother looked at her son for a while, then went to the backyard, probably to prepare for food. went.

The few of them chatted politely for a while, and finally got down to business.

"Father, the Xinqi people have migrated thousands of miles here and want to settle down. I promised before that I would help." Luo Gaoxian said.

"Oh? I wonder how many people are in your tribe?" Luo Cheng asked Liu Xinqi.

"940 people." Liu Xinqi replied.

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Hearing the number of people, Luo Cheng didn't respond for a while.The living room became quiet, and Liu Xinqi felt uneasy, knowing that settling these people would be troublesome and expensive.

"I've come a long way. I think I'm already tired. Let's take a short rest first. Let's have a meal here at noon and let's talk in detail." Luo Cheng did not agree directly. Instead, he stood up and said, "I still have some official business to deal with here. Let Luo Gao take care of it first." Treat you."

"Father..." Before Luo Gao could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Luo Cheng.

"You can take your two benefactors to the guest room to rest for a while."

"Okay." Luo Gao responded helplessly.

Several people came to the guest room.

"I'll go talk to father. You guys rest here first, and I'll come down and bring you some tea and fruit preserves." After a few words of conversation, Luo Gao couldn't sit still anymore and stood up and said.

"You go ahead." Liu Xinqi replied. It's hard to say polite words like "Don't be embarrassed". This is related to the fate of nearly a thousand people in Liujiapu. No matter how "embarrassing" it is, Liu Xinqi has to bear it shamelessly.

(End of this chapter)