Splendid Pastoral Wife

Chapter 180 Investigation (2)
An'an and Lele each ate a steamed stuffed bun and drank half a bowl of soup before they stopped eating. There were three big plates of steamed stuffed buns and there were two big plates left. Lele asked the store to pack all the rest and gave it to the previous little one. Girl, the little girl thanked Lele with tears in her eyes, looking pitiful.

"Sister, where do you live?" Lele's sympathy is overwhelming today, and he looks like he's nosy about his own business.

"I live with my mother and many former neighbors in a ruined temple at the west end of the city." The child was still a little lisp, but she was still able to express her meaning clearly.

"Then quickly take these buns back and give them to your mother."

Seeing that the little girl was dirty, Lele took out her handkerchief from her sleeve, dipped some tea in it, and wiped her face carefully, revealing her original face, but saw that the little girl turned out to be very delicate and lovely The children in the family are only discolored due to long-term malnutrition, and their skinny skin conceals their original good looks.

"Thank you, brother." The little girl happily took the bun, holding it tightly in her arms, thanking Lele as if she was afraid of losing it, then turned around to leave, probably to go back to her mother eat.

Looking at the child's leaving figure, Yunluo turned to Tian Liusu and said, "Let's also go to that ruined temple to have a look."

"Okay." Tian Liusu agreed, knowing what he was thinking in his heart. He wanted to hear what the victims had to say.

Several people got up and Yunluo took out a silver ingot from his arms to pay the bill. Tian Liusu looked up and saw that he actually took a 100 taels of silver, and laughed half to death in his heart. Ever paid for something yourself?It's just a few buns, how can you use so much?This is the rhythm of clearly telling others that he is a local tyrant.

Before he handed it to the shopkeeper, he reached out and snatched the silver in his hand and put it into his arms, then took out a piece of broken silver and gave it to the shopkeeper. Seeing that she was so greedy for money, Yunluo took his silver as his own without saying a word , shook her head and thought it was funny, how short of money she was.

After finishing the calculation, several people asked the store where the ruined temple was, and then came to the ruined temple.

After walking for a stick of incense, several people saw a dilapidated ruined temple with gates on all sides standing alone at the westernmost end of Long City.

Outside the ruined temple, there were some disaster victims sitting and lying in disorder, old and young, all in tattered clothes, and they were all beggars. When those people saw Yunluo and the others coming, they didn’t look like disaster victims in their brand-new clothes. , I don't know why they came here, they all looked at them with wide eyes and some repulsion.

Tian Liusu clasped his fists and said to the victims: "Excuse me, everyone. We came to visit relatives from other places. We didn't expect to find out that there was a disaster here. In desperation, we asked here while walking. We will leave after a rest. of."

The dilapidated temple was already overcrowded with people who were affected by the disaster. When everyone saw them coming, they were worried that their arrival would make the small temple even more crowded. After hearing what they said, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and some people moved closer. A small area was left for a few of them to stand on.

Tian Liusu took a look at Yunluo and saw that he was frowning, obviously because he thought the place was crowded and dirty, so she leaned on his ear and whispered: "Only in this kind of place can we get the most accurate and useful information. Your Excellency, please bear with it, right?"

Yunluo looked up at her and saw that her eyes were like water, with a begging expression, so she couldn't help but nodded, obeying her in everything, and slowly squatted down in the corner for a long time.

But Lele dragged An'an around the temple, looking for the little girl she met in front of the steamed stuffed bun stall, and finally found her after searching around. She was curled up in a corner of the ruined temple, and a woman beside her was touching her. her head.

He happily ran over and squatted in front of her and called, "Sister."

The little girl looked up and smiled happily when she saw him, and called Lele and An An respectively: "Hello brother, hello sister, are you here too?"

The two nodded and saw that the woman beside her was holding a bun but didn't eat it, she just raised her hand and stroked her head, and couldn't help asking: "Sister, did you give the bun to your mother?"

The little girl shook her head: "I saved one of the buns you gave me for my mother, and distributed the rest to the neighbors. My mother said that we will have something to eat soon."

After speaking, the little girl pointed to An'an and Lele and gestured to the woman for a long time. The woman turned her head and smiled kindly at the two children, expressing her gratitude to them.

Tian Liusu was not far from the two of them, just happened to see this scene, she stood up and walked over and asked, "Sister-in-law, I don't know how you fell into such a situation?"

The woman glanced at Tian Liusu, and the little girl was busy telling her that Tian Liusu was An Anlele's mother, and then she suddenly realized that Tian Liusu turned her head and smiled at her and said slowly: "Sister, I heard you just said that you are Visiting relatives from other places? I don’t know where the relatives are from?”

Tian Liusu was startled, she really didn't think about it, after a while she smiled and said embarrassingly: "Sister-in-law, I came from Luoyi, a neighboring city, and we also suffered a disaster there, this time I came to join relatives Yes, my relative hasn't been in contact for many years, and it's my first time here, I don't want to hear that there was a disaster here before I found her home..."

She stopped talking at this point, the woman understood, her heart was probably a distant relative who had never met before, and they had never been in touch with each other on weekdays. This time they came to seek refuge after a disaster. Haven't found that relative yet?
She looked at Tian Liusu and said leisurely: "I heard that the imperial court's disaster relief envoys are already on their way, and they will arrive here in ten or eight days. When the court's disaster relief food is allocated, we can return home. "

"How did sister-in-law know that the imperial envoy has arrived?"

"The magistrate has already issued a notice, saying that when the relief food from the imperial court arrives, all the overcharged rent will be returned, so we will be able to get the lost food in ten or eight days."

"Sister-in-law, I heard that the magistrate collected the rent after the autumn harvest last year, and promised to return the rent after the imperial court's disaster relief food came out, but the food has not come down, and many people can't bear it. They have already left Longcheng. You escaped elsewhere, why are you still guarding here?"

"So what if we don't stay here? Besides, the magistrate has always been fair and selfless, and what he said will definitely be done. We have been waiting because we believe in him. Those who have gone out will probably come back one after another. "

Tian Liusu didn't expect that Sun Mingyu had such a good reputation in the hearts of the common people, so he couldn't help but wonder, what's going on?That being the case, then Sun Mingyu should be a good official who loves the people like his own son. How could he make the people under his rule displaced?He also felt that he was a little too daring, he dared to lie about natural disasters to deceive his superiors and subordinates, and if this matter was found out, it would be a crime of beheading.

(End of this chapter)