Song Yi

Chapter 284 Food Poisoning Victims

"Me? When did I tell you?" the store clerk said with a pale face.

Du Wenhao sneered: "There are straw clippings stuck to your head, you probably got them on the wheels when you piled them with straw. You were very careful and took a good shot off your body afterward, but you forgot that there was still a bit on top of your head!"

The shop assistant subconsciously patted the top of his head.

"There's no need to take pictures. Is it meaningful to take pictures now? Also, when you waved your hand just now, I saw oil stains on your cuffs! It should have been stained when you disassembled the wheels. Tell you, the axles used by each car The lubricating oil is different. Early this morning, the door of the inn has not been opened yet, and there should be no guests leaving. The oil is freshly stained. You said it was stained by helping other guests unload the carriage. Help Any guest from here, point it out, let’s compare the axle oil, and we’ll know if you’re lying! Find our wheels later, and then compare the axle oil to see if it’s the same as the oil on your shoulders and cuffs If it is the same, then you will know if it is you who stole the wheel!"

This time the buddy completely collapsed, speechless and didn't know what to do.

"Okay!" A shout came from behind, and Du Wenhao turned his head to see that it was Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi.The applause was said by Song Shenzong.

Song Shenzong walked up to Du Wenhao, and took a good look at him: "Unexpectedly, shopkeeper Du is also good at solving cases!"

"Thank you Fifth Master for your compliment!" Du Wenhao cupped his hands and said with a smile, "It's just that he's too stupid a thief and shows too many tricks."

Yu Ge'er clapped his hands and said, "Great! This time we caught the thief boy, twisted him and sent him to the police for punishment!"

The guy backed up a few steps in fright, and looked at the shopkeeper nervously.

The shopkeeper of the inn heard Du Wenhao's reasoning, and when he saw his younger brother acquiesced, he trembled with anger, pointed at him and shouted: "You! You bastard! You really did it?"

The shopkeeper's wife stomped her feet and shouted at the shopkeeper, "It's all your fault! I told him not to let him work in the store, but you wouldn't believe me, now it's over! He stole from the customer!" stick. "Tell me! Why do you want to steal the wheels of other people's guests?"

While dodging, the guy generally shouted: "Who told them to be so arrogant! They also caused me to be scolded!"

"You... you are a scourge! I will kill you!" The shopkeeper's wife chased and beat the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper stomped his feet with a bitter face and said, "Okay! Don't hit me yet! Hurry up and get the wheel and help the customer install it!"

The guy rubbed the place where he was beaten, walked to the hay pile with a sad face, pulled the hay to reveal a round wheel inside, carried it over, and with the help of two guys, he installed the wheel.

Yu Ge'er kept saying that he wanted to report to the officials, but the innkeeper kept apologizing to them, and also waived their shop money and wine money as compensation.

After leaving Wanxia Town, continue towards Dongming County.

The irrigation and water conservancy construction in the suburbs of Beijing is good, and there have been several snowstorms in the Kaifeng area, so the damage to the crops is not serious.But the further they went to Dongming County, the worse the farmland became.

In the afternoon, the farmland on the side of the road was cracked like tortoise shells. Occasionally, farmers could be seen sitting on the ridge of the field, looking at the fallen and dead crops, wanting to cry without tears.

Both Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi felt very heavy, and the car shed that was still laughing and laughing yesterday was lifeless.The emperor was unhappy, and several people didn't dare to smile anymore.

When they were looking out the window and sighing, the carriage stopped suddenly.Looking around, I saw many people surrounded by a tree with a crooked neck in front, blocking the way.

Eunuch Ning turned his head and said, "Fifth Master, I'll go down and see what happened. Our car can't get through with so many people around. We have to let them get out of the way."

Yu Ge'er heard that there was something exciting to watch, so she also got out of the car and followed to watch the excitement.After a while, he ran back again and said to Du Wenhao, "Master Du, there is a man on the side of the road who is sick, foaming at the mouth, rolling his eyes, so scary! Why don't you show me?"

When Du Wenhao heard that someone was sick, he looked at Song Shenzong, Song Shenzong nodded and said, "Then you go down and have a look, we can't just ignore death."

"Yes!"

Du Wenhao picked up the outpatient box, got out of the car and walked over, and saw a group of ragged people, all of them unkempt and sluggish, pushing the cart and carrying loads, all of which were tattered items, as if they were fleeing famine and begging for food group of people.He said: "Everyone, please make room. I am a doctor, and I will show you."

Everyone immediately gave way.He entered the crowd and saw a man in his 20s lying on the ground, his body twitching, foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes just as Yu Geer said.Asked: "What's going on?"

"Doctor, my son is hungry. He...he gave me all the leftovers he was going to eat, and he ate bark and grass roots himself. That's why..." A gray-haired old man Sitting on the ground, bowed his head and stomped his feet, weeping bitterly.

Du Wenhao shook his head and said, "No! He didn't eat tree bark and grass roots, but he was poisoned! You have to wash his stomach quickly,—Miss Yu, please go and get the water bag."

"Okay!" Yu Ge'er pushed through the crowd and ran back to the car to get a water bottle.

The old man was taken aback: "Poisoned? How could it be poisoned? Who would poison my son?"

"It should not be poisoning, but poisoning caused by eating poisonous food by mistake, because the toxicity of his poisoning is average, mainly because of gastrointestinal reactions, so it is likely to be food poisoning."

As soon as I said this, someone behind me said: "Very good! It turns out that shopkeeper Du not only understands medicine, but also has a lot of research on poisoning."

Du Wenhao turned his head and saw that it was Song Shenzong, who hurriedly got up and bowed, "Thank you for your compliment, Fifth Master."

"Water is brought, hurry up and save people."

Yu Ge'er handed the water bag to Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao took a little salt and poured it into the water bag to wash the man's stomach.

The patient's white-haired old father heard Du Wenhao say that his son had food poisoning, and immediately understood, he beat his chest and said, "Yes! I passed by the village earlier, and a kind-hearted family gave some leftovers. My son took the good ones. Give it all to me, he ate the rotten ones by himself, it must be like this.”

Du Wenhao nodded and said, "Rotten food has many pathogenic bacteria... and many evil poisons. I would rather be hungry than eat it, or I will get sick."

A ragged old man next to him sighed and said, "Little brother, why don't we know about it, but fleeing famine, it is already very good to have bad food. How can we be picky and picky?"

The white-haired old man kowtowed to Du Wenhao and said, "Doctor, please save my son!"

Du Wenhao hurriedly helped him up: "Don't worry, old man, I will cure his illness. His food poisoning is not serious, and he found it in time. After I wash his stomach with water, I will prescribe some medicine for him." , nothing serious will happen."

This time, Du Wenhao accompanied Song Shenzong on a private visit and was in charge of Song Shenzong's health, so he brought a box of commonly used medicinal materials and a full set of emergency equipment.

Wang Anshi glanced at these victims, stroked his beard and asked in a deep voice, "Where are you from? Why don't you plow the fields at home, but drag your family out to beg for food?"

This stone caused a thousand waves, and all these people complained: "If you can plow the fields and plant crops, who will come out to suffer this!"

"If you don't pick up green and yellow crops, can't you borrow grain from the government and repay it after autumn? The Green Crops Law clearly stipulates it!"

The crowd was talking even more, and the expressions on their faces were actually very indignant.A middle-aged man who looked bitter and vengeful even laughed long and sadly: "Haha! The Green Crop Method?! This is the Green Crop Method that ruined our family!"

"What do you mean?" Wang Anshi's face was very ugly.

An old man next to him quickly yanked him: "Shut up! Don't talk nonsense!"

The middle-aged man spat hard on the ground and shut up.For a while, the arena was quiet.

Song Shenzong said kindly, "Fellow folks, where are you from?"

"Dongming County." The white-haired old man said with tears, "I can't live anymore, everyone is going to the capital to ask for food."

Yu Ge'er said: "What a coincidence, we also went to Dongming County. How about it?"

The middle-aged man said angrily again: "How about it? If it's good, what are we going to leave our hometown for?"

"Tell you not to talk too much!" The old man pulled the middle-aged man hard again.

Song Shenzong chuckled: "Come on! Sit down and chat! We are in business, and we wanted to go to Dongming County to do some medicine business. It happens that you are from there. Let's chat and find out the situation. I have food and drink in the car." , Pigeon, you go get them!"

Eunuch Ning, Yu Ge'er and Lin Qingdai agreed, and ran back to bring cooked beef, flour pancakes, wine and water.Eunuch Ning also brought a futon for Song Shenzong to sit on, but seeing that Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi were already sitting on the grass under the crooked neck tree, he had to put the futon back on the cart in embarrassment.

When these victims saw the food, their eyes lit up, but they were too embarrassed to take it.Song Shenzong smiled and stretched out his hand to greet a child to come and sit beside him, picked up a piece of beef, and handed it to him: "Here! Eat, uncle gave it!"

The child gulped and looked back at a wrinkled woman.The woman should be the child's mother. Seeing that the child had something to eat, of course it was important to fill the child's stomach first, so she nodded quickly to let him eat.

The child just took the beef, but he didn't eat it himself. He got up and ran to a wheelbarrow, handed it to a skinny old man with lifeless eyes sitting on the frame of the wheelbarrow, and said to him: "Grandpa! You eat!"

"Good boy!" The old man took it, gulped his saliva, and sniffed, but put the beef to the child's mouth: "You eat first, and grandpa will eat later!"

Song Shenzong sighed, picked up the beef and handed it to the victims beside him: "Eat it all! Sit down and eat, there is not enough for the car!"

The disaster victims looked at each other, bowed to thank them, sat on the ground around Song Shenzong, picked up beef and pancakes, and gorged themselves.

Lin Qingdai hurriedly said: "Don't worry, be careful not to choke, drink some water!"

At this time, the middle-aged man who was doing gastric lavage had already drank the whole pot of salt water and vomited.After flushing his stomach, Du Wenhao checked his pulse again and said with a smile, "Okay, seven or eight out of ten of the poison in the body has been eliminated. If you take two doses of medicine, there will be no problem."

Du Wenhao prescribed the medicine, and there was a sand pot stove for decocting medicine in the car, and Lin Qingdai was in charge of lighting the fire to decoct the medicine.

The white-haired old man was very grateful when he saw that his son had regained consciousness, and although his body was weak, he was fine. He thanked him repeatedly.First he took two pieces of beef for his son to save, then picked up a piece of beef, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, and said to Song Shenzong: "Master, what do you want to know? I am a native of Dongming County, old man. Know something."

Song Shenzong said: "Well, let's talk about the disaster in Dongming County first. How is the disaster?"

The white-haired old man swallowed a piece of meat, sighed, and lowered his voice: "What is a disaster? Natural disasters are not as good as man-made disasters!"

"Oh?" Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi glanced at each other, "Man-made disaster? What man-made disaster? Is it a government office?"

The white-haired old man glanced at Song Shenzong again, and shook his head: "Well, it's hard for the old man to say, anyway, you're going, and you'll know when you get there."

Wang Anshi snorted: "You old man, you ate and drank, and you still hesitate at all no matter how you talk! Is it possible that we are afraid that we will sue the officials and arrest you?"

The middle-aged man earlier grabbed a bottle of wine, gulped down a few gulps, and interjected angrily: "That's right! I will repay the kindness of every little thing! I'm tired of living such a hard life, and I Don’t be afraid of death, let me tell you! ——Yes, man-made disasters are the government! It’s Wang Anshi’s gang of thieves who are full and have nothing to do to make reforms!”

"You!" Wang Anshi was so angry that his beard shook and he was about to get angry.Song Shenzong pulled him back, shook his head lightly, and said to the middle-aged man: "It seems that you don't like this reform."

"It's not just that I don't like it! It's just that I hate it! Last time they went to the capital to settle accounts with Wang Anshi, an old dog. My father was sick and I couldn't go. Otherwise, I would definitely follow. Even if I couldn't kill the thief, I would have to smash his house." Crack two big holes!"

Wang Anshi was so angry that he almost fainted on the spot. If Song Shenzong hadn't signaled that he was not allowed to speak, he would have been verbal and verbal.

The middle-aged man's father noticed that Wang Anshi's expression was different. Although the old man didn't know their real identities, he still felt that something was wrong, so he tugged on the middle-aged man's sleeve again: "Son! Say a few words..."

"Father! They are just peddlers in the medicinal material business, outsiders, it doesn't matter what they say! What's more, they are so kind to us!"

Song Shenzong said: "Yes, let's chat casually. If you want to talk, you can talk. We don't force you if you don't want to. We run around doing business all the year round, and we don't know anything about the farm, so I'm curious. Hehe .”

Everyone saw him with a pleasant face, and looked at him like a wealthy businessman, the old man sighed and didn't stop him.

While chewing the beef, the middle-aged man said: "When the young crop law was first announced, everyone was very happy to see the method mentioned in the notice."

Wang Anshi finally showed a little smile on his face: "Yeah, in the past, people were not able to receive money, and the common people had to borrow money and food from the big households in the village. Before harvest, when there is no harvest, you can go to the local government to borrow cash, green crops, money or grain to subsidize farming. It is also a loan. Borrowing from a big family is not as secure as borrowing from the government. The common people get benefits, and the court gets benefits Why don’t you borrow money from the government, and instead abandon your land and leave your home to beg?”

The middle-aged man snorted, and said: "You think we think about it, you have to know that the government's method is not something we poor people can afford to borrow and pay back."

"Why can't you pay it back? The interest is very low."

"Very low? Who did you hear that from?"

"It's announced by the government, two shares of the profit, not heavy!"

The middle-aged man got a little drunk, and stared at him: "Two cents is not a lot of money, is it? My lord, what are you kidding, you have to pay back 120 catties for borrowing one hundred catties of grain. Besides, it really costs two cents Li, I was so hungry that I insisted on getting a loan, but those who wanted to borrow couldn’t get it, and those who didn’t want to borrow were forced to wait. And the interest rate doubled!”

"Double? Nonsense! This is set by the court, who dares to change it?"

"The government dares to change it!" The middle-aged man took a sip of his wine, "The two-point interest will not be changed, but the court didn't say when to repay the interest, just change the time to repay the interest!"

"What do you mean?" Wang Anshi's old eyes widened.

"Borrowing in spring and summer, it is reasonable to repay half of the interest in the autumn harvest, right?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"Our Dongming county government stipulates that the interest has to be paid twice, and each time it is two cents! That is to say, the summer harvest has to be paid once, and the autumn harvest has to be paid again. Once changed twice, two cents becomes four cents! "

Wang Anshi was dumbfounded. He really didn’t know if he didn’t ask. He was startled when he asked. He never expected that the government below would implement it in such a flexible manner. The two-cent profit became four-cent profit, doubled.

Song Shenzong also had a sullen face, and said bitterly: "It's unreasonable! These dog officials deserve to be exterminated!"

Hearing that Song Shenzong blatantly scolded the official, he must not be a member of the official family. All the disaster victims felt a sense of closeness in their hearts, and they immediately started talking.

A young man said: "Dongming County is not considered ruthless. A few days ago, I heard a fleeing famine say that they are called ruthless. One change to three! Six cents interest! —— When borrowing a loan, it will be deducted once in advance, and it will be deducted in Xia Shou Once, the autumn harvest will be deducted again!"

Du Wenhao has been listening silently, thinking that there are policies and countermeasures that have existed since ancient times. The young crop law that benefits the people has become a mandatory allocation. With such a high interest rate, isn't it tantamount to exploiting the common people.

Song Shenzong frowned and said, "Then you don't have to take out loans, this is a reform to benefit the people."

"Huimin? Hui bastard!" The middle-aged man turned around and spat fiercely on the ground just now, "The young crop law of the imperial court is limited! How much each county has to lend, the government forces our five families to exchange money. After the guarantee, the amount will be distributed one by one, which is called "scattered young crops"! You can get a loan if you don't want to!"

The white-haired old man couldn't help but said: "Yes, and in order to ensure that all the principal and interest will be recovered after the fall, these officials and lords have restricted the distribution of distribution to mostly upper-middle-class households rather than poor-down households. The households were unable to repay. As a result, those who really wanted loans could not get loans, and those who did not want to borrow were forced to borrow..."

A slightly wealthy middle-aged man interjected: "That's right! My family was considered to be a little rich in the village, but the government's Baojia even tied us rich peasant households with other poor people to jointly guarantee each other. We borrowed a lot of money, and let the rich farmers pay it back, and we, the rich farmers, also lost it all, and became poor, and the money was taken away by the government office!"

A young man also interjected angrily: "We poor families used to be able to borrow money from rich families, but once the Young Crop Law came out, it was no longer allowed. We couldn't get money and food in the government office, and we were not allowed to borrow from rich families. We didn't accept it." At that time, there was a severe drought and catastrophe, how can we live if we don’t flee famine?”

Wang Anshi's face was livid: "How could this be!"

"Why can't it be like this!" the white-haired old man said: "After the reform, there will be natural disasters every year, not to mention the poor, even farmers with a little money will not be able to repay the government's loan if there is no harvest in the field! What to do? Arrest people! Once caught, they will be beaten to death, tortured to the point of inhuman shape! Forced relatives and friends to sell pots and sell iron to pay off debts before releasing people. What if there is no money? Take the land to offset! No land? Demolish the house! I robbed every piece of rotten wood in the house to pay off the debt! I have nothing left, so what can I do if I don’t run away from the famine?—Alas! The government and businessmen are the only ones who suffer!"

After hearing the old man's words, Du Wenhao couldn't help but nodded secretly. The government is strictly prohibited from doing business in modern society. , as long as the government is connected with the merchants, can't they intensify the exploitation of the common people?

Other victims also said indignantly, "That's right! My family used to work hard every year and still get half full, but now I have to come out to beg for food."

"No, my family was forced to death several times by the government. The child's father was taken away. Grandma and grandpa were all scared to death. I can still run fast, otherwise, I would definitely die in prison! "

"It's all Wang Anshi, an old dog, trying to snatch the last of the food in our bowls, damn it!"

……

This time he began to scold, and picked his head, followed by scolding Wang Anshi and the reform. These were peasants, and most of them had never been in a private school to learn the ethics of Confucius and Mencius, so the scolding was naturally very unpleasant.

Wang Anshi was so angry that he almost vomited blood. With a flick of his sleeves, he got up and walked towards the cart. He had been sitting cross-legged for a long time, but when he suddenly stood up and walked quickly, he felt dizzy and fell to the ground softly.

Du Wenhao and others rushed over to help him up. Wang Anshi stabilized his mind and felt better, so he waved his hands: "I'm fine!"

Du Wenhao whispered in his ear: "Master Wang, don't be angry, we will talk about it when we get to Dongming County to see the situation. After all, these are just the one-sided words of a few ordinary people and are not based on evidence."

Wang Anshi shook his head, said nothing, staggered to the side of the cart, got into the cart and lay down.

At this time, the medicine for the middle-aged man suffering from food poisoning was ready. Du Wenhao poured a bowl for him to take, and put the rest in a jar. The doctor ordered him to take two more doses.

While Du Wenhao was busy feeding the medicine, Song Shenzong continued to talk to the victims.

(End of this chapter)