lying down

In the imperial study room of the Taiji Palace, a man in a yellow dragon robe sat quietly at the table and watched the memorial. He had a slightly curly beard, deep-set eyes, a vigorous figure, handsome and brave, about thirty years old.This person is the current emperor Li Shimin.

I haven't finished reading one of the memorials yet, so I put it down gently, took out another one, opened it for a rough look, and put it aside.Li Shimin frowned and asked the two people in front of him: "Xuanling, Keming, what's going on? Even after I read a few memorials, it was all droughts near the capital! The year I ascended the throne was flooded first, and this year is another Severe drought! I have ambitions, but I can’t make them. Could it be that I am not diligent and love the people? Is this God going to punish me?” The voice was a little excited.He really didn't understand that he had only been enthroned for two years, yet there were two consecutive years of natural disasters.

Du Ruhui glanced at Fang Xuanling who was next to him, and thought to himself, you are really like a wooden man, and you can't answer correctly even at this time.Du Ruhui stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, from the standpoint of my ministers, it's not a crime of man, it's just a natural disaster. Since his ascension to the throne, the Emperor has worked hard every day and loved the people like his own son. How can there be such a thing as heaven's punishment?"

Li Shimin's face turned slightly better when he heard Du Ruhui's words.Seeing that Fang Xuanling was still standing there like a log, Brick frowned again.Shen Sheng asked: "Xuan Ling, why don't you say anything?"

Only then did Fang Xuanling salute and said: "Your Majesty, it's not because I didn't answer, but because I was thinking about how to deal with the severe drought."

Hearing what Fang Xuanling said, Li Shimin immediately became interested. Being able to be the first and the former is a testament to his vision.He asked softly, "What's the best way?"

"Your majesty, it's nothing more than opening granaries to release grain to help the victims. What I'm really worried about is that there will be a plague of locusts due to the severe drought!"

When Li Shimin heard this, his face turned bitter, and he sighed, "I'm also afraid of this!"

If Ouyang Yu was lucky enough to hear this conversation, he must know that these are the two protagonists of "Fang Mou Du Duan".

In Panshan Village, until noon, the air inhaled could melt the internal organs, but the three people on the road didn't seem to notice it.

"Brother Ouyang, what's the matter with you? You didn't say a word during this half trip?" Han Xi asked softly when he saw that Ouyang Yu was a little wilted, and he didn't speak after hearing the flood last year.

"It's nothing, I'm just worried." Ouyang Yu replied casually.

Wang Chen over there bowed his head and remained silent, chewing each word of the two of them in his heart, stuttering himself, talking less and thinking more is his way of doing things.

"Ouyang Xiao, Xiao Lang, our village, the wells in the village are running out of water!" Wang Chen said in a serious manner.

Hearing Wang Chen's words, Ouyang Yu's heart tightened, he frowned and asked urgently: "Which well? Maybe take me to see it?" Although this Wang Chen has a stuttering disease, he is extremely careful, which is not light A simple sentence actually reminded him of the same place: Drought!

The three of them hurried forward, ignoring the sweltering heat.Wang Chen led the two of them to the three wells in the village, until they exhausted the pull rope of the wellhead hanging tube to get a full bucket of water.Ouyang Yu took a sip of water from his hands, and looked carefully, the water was very muddy, slightly yellowish in color. "The water level is too low, and there isn't much artesian groundwater in the lower layer! It's mostly seeped from the moist soil!" Ouyang Yu clenched his fists when he thought of this, and the well water in his hand turned into splashes, splashing on the water under his feet. On the loess, no wet marks can be seen in the soil in an instant.

The two people next to them were taken aback when they saw Ouyang Yu's expression.

Only the sound of "Gulu~gulu~" broke the short silence.Ouyang Yu looked at Han Xi, only to see Han Xi hurriedly clutching her stomach, blushing.

"But are you hungry? Han Xi." Ouyang Yu turned his head and asked, his expression softened.

"No, I'm not hungry, Xi'er can still insist on doing business with my brother, and my brother doesn't care about me." Ouyang Yu laughed straight at what he said. He said he was not hungry at the beginning, but he said he could persist at the end. The contradiction was cute.

"Let's go, Wang Chen, Han Xi, come home with me for dinner, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. How can I let you do things with me when you are hungry?" After finishing speaking, he took the two of them back to Li's house.

"Balang is back, this is the son of Wang Cunzheng's family, right? Hanxi is here too!" The old lady was looking after the chickens in the courtyard, when she saw the three of them walking to the door, she got up and asked each other.

"Mom, the meal is ready, the glutton in my stomach is screaming!" Ouyang Yu and the old lady got along very close, and joked.Han Xi next to her blushed, thinking that Ouyang Yu was saying that she was hungry, she lowered her head and pinched the hem of her clothes, but secretly looked at Ba Lang.

The old lady put down her work, put everything in the corner of her eyes, and said with a smile: "Stinky boy, I knew you were hungry. Your seventh sister-in-law and second sister-in-law are in the kitchen, and the meal will be ready in a while."

Wang Chen took two quick steps, bowed and said, "See you, Wang Chen, old lady!".

"You're welcome, come in quickly. When you come here, you will be your own home. I know you are a good boy. You work with Hachiro. It's hard work." The old lady has been in the village for many years. Gossiping, she told countless versions about Muramasa's affairs, she had a good image of Wang Chen, so she said it politely.

"My son, did you gain anything this morning?" The old lady saw Ouyang Yu stared blankly, and thought to herself that Balang had encountered a difficult situation, so she asked for help.

Hearing the old lady's question, Ouyang Yu withdrew his thoughts and said with a serious face: "Mother, I want to ask everyone, do you feel that the weather is a little different from previous years recently? Is there less water in wells and rivers?"

Seeing Ouyang Yu's rare serious look, everyone stopped their chopsticks and began to think.

"Mother, if Hachiro didn't ask that question, I don't think that I go to the small river by the village to wash clothes every day. The water has become shallower these days. I used to stand on the stones by the river to wash, but now I have to walk forward to the fine sand. I went up to wash it, and there is also the well used by the woman in the village. I heard they said that the water is not good enough, I am afraid I will have to ask someone to dig it again." Although Yunniang is a sassy girl, she has a delicate heart, and puts what she has. Tell what you saw and heard in detail.

Hearing what Yunniang said, the history that Ouyang Yu already knew would have to be reinterpreted, isn't he Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly?Didn't he affect the world and the times by wearing it in the Tang Dynasty?Thinking of this, he felt a sense of crisis in his heart. If a severe drought came and locusts were infested, but he himself knew all of this, he would definitely not let the tragedy happen to him.Even if I'm wrong, I still have to prevent locusts from sweeping across Panlong like clouds covering the sun.right!Must be warned!Ouyang Yu had an idea in mind.

The whole family was eating happily, but after seeing Yunniang's answer, Ouyang Yu suddenly became quiet, his brows were furrowed, and his expression kept changing.

"Brother Ouyang? Brother Ouyang! Why are you in a daze again? You've been in a daze several times this morning!" Han Xi's face was full of distress, but everyone had no intention of making fun of her.

"Yufei eats away thousands of miles, but there are no young crops and empty red soil! What should I do!" Ouyang Yu murmured, only thinking about the locusts, but didn't hear Han Xi's words, so Qilang pushed him beside him and said Those four words shocked everyone!