Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 385 Arrival
When the rooster crowed, there was just a hint of whiteness in the sky. Qin Jingniang, who had hardly slept all night, got up early to wash and wash, and carefully cut off the red pills on the bedding with a knife.

"Huh? Jingniang got up so early?" Fang Yiai rolled over to grab the beautiful woman's arm, but when she opened her eyes, she saw Qin Jingniang who was cutting the mattress with a shy face.

"He Lang is up."

Qin Jingniang shyly put away the small piece of cloth, and gently turned the knife aside, for fear that the sharp point of the knife would stab her sweetheart.

Looking at the happy and angry Qin Jingniang, Fang Yiai let out a smirk, slapped her, and said, "My lady is so shy? Why were you so bold last night?"

"Hmph!" Qin Jingniang's cheeks were getting hotter and hotter, she lightly hammered Fang Yiai's chest, and murmured: "I didn't want to make you happy before, so don't bring out the divorce letter to threaten my family."

Seeing the sincerity on Qin Jingniang's face, Fang Yiai suddenly realized, she held the beautiful woman's hand with a smile, and said tenderly, "Thank you for your hard work, lady."

Qin Jingniang took advantage of the situation and fell into her lover's arms, slowly drawing circles with her green fingers, her almond eyes lightly furrowed, parting her crimson lips, and said in a happy tone: "He Lang, my family is finally yours."

"Jingniang, my good Jingniang, my sister Jingniang alone." Qin Jingniang's shy words made Fang Yiai very useful, and she couldn't stop smiling lightly as she embraced the beautiful woman, a heroic spirit suddenly emerged in her heart.

Caressing Qin Jingniang's hair, the smile on Fang Yi'ai's face disappeared, replaced by worry, "This time I went to Meiwu County to deal with the disaster, I'm afraid it's not as simple as it appears on the surface, and I'm afraid it will cause trouble again. The lady is worried."

"As long as we can be together with He Lang, the servants are not afraid of anything."

"Okay, but Jingniang, going to Meiwu County this time has a lot to do with it. Don't say He Lang in front of outsiders. If someone calls me Fang Jun, it's fine."

"Fang Jun? Brother Fang Juner?"

"Just like Shu'er, naughty."

After getting dressed and washing up, Fang Yiai and Fang Yiai bid farewell to the official of the post office, and the two of them galloped all the way towards Meiwu County.

After half a month, the two people who suffered from wind and frost finally arrived at the Caozhou government office, Caozhou County.

Arriving at the post house, after showing the seal as usual, Fang Yiai and Fang Yiai came to the house, one was busy arranging the bedding, and the other was sitting in front of the desk, holding a lamp to check the map of Caozhou.

"Caozhou is only a hundred miles away from Meiwu County. At the speed of our husband and wife, we will arrive in about half a day."

Saying that, Fang Yiai closed the map, walked up to Qin Jingniang, and said softly, "Why don't you set off at four o'clock tomorrow morning and stop at noon?"

"Why don't you rest for a while? We have been traveling non-stop for half a month, can He Lang's injury bear it?" Qin Jingniang muttered after finishing the bedding, combing her hair while sitting on the edge of the couch.

"It's fine if you're injured, but I'm afraid that there will be mixed fish and dragons in Meiwu County. I'm going to get off the horse and settle down at noon when the Yazhong police officers are on duty, so that I can give them a knife to chop Dingjun Mountain. The battle will be successful!"

Fang Yiai made a gesture of raising the knife, although the smile on her face was bright, but there was a glint of prey in her starry eyes.

"Success in the first battle? Is He Lang thinking of standing up?" Qin Jingniang stood up and said while changing her husband's clothes.

Thinking of all the masters and arresters in the inner yamen, Fang Yi's eyes became even darker, "I suspect that the former two county magistrates died in a strange way, and the police in the government office must have known about it. This time I went to Meiwu County, If you want to find out the flaws of Changsun Ye'an, you must pull out these people who hinder you one by one, let alone kill them, it is necessary to drive them out of the county government."

Qin Jingniang knew only half of what she heard, and she, who had never been in contact with government affairs, could not understand the truth. She handed Fang Yiai a cup of warm tea, and said with a smile: "My family, everything is under He Lang's orders."

"Good Jing Niang." Fang Yiai took the teacup, suddenly thought of arriving in Meiwu County tomorrow morning, then withdrew her palm, hurriedly dressed, and walked out of the room.

After a while, just as Qin Jingniang wanted to go out to check, Fang Yiai came back in time.

"What did He Lang do?" Qin Jingniang climbed onto the couch, and since the past half a month of groping, she has already transformed her into a real woman, and she will not act as calmly as before. Fang Yiai was even more tender.

Fang Yiai knocked the door latch upside down, sat on the edge of the couch, took off his boots, and said in a soft voice, "I just ordered the postman to deliver a message to Meiwu County, otherwise when the magistrate and wife of the county arrive, those messengers are still busy with their own tasks, there should be How embarrassing."

Qin Jingniang smiled when she heard the word "madam", and was about to go to turn off the lights, but Fang Yiai snatched her ahead.

At four o'clock the next day, the two of them made arrangements early, and after asking the postman for directions, they both headed towards the destination of the trip, Meiwu County, and rode their horses over.

All the way from Caozhou, the deeper you go, the more desolate the scenery on both sides of the road. There are still some potholes in the middle, which are obviously caused by years of disrepair.

"Meiwu County, what a meaningful name. Why is the land so barren that the county government can't even pay for road repairs?"

Sitting on the saddle, Fang Yiai couldn't help shaking her head and sighing softly. As time went by, the county magistrate realized how barren Meiwu County is.

Qin Jingniang looked at the fields on the left and right, and saw that the crops were pitifully withered and scarce. Even though she was ignorant of farming, she also noticed something strange, "Why are these crops so withered?"

"Henan Road has suffered from floods for three consecutive years, and it suffered from locust plagues in the early spring of this year, but some crops in the fields are good." Fang Yiai smiled wryly, and then murmured softly: "I just don't know how the canals and rivers are. The place where two court officials could die unexpectedly is an extremely sinister place."

At noon, Fang Yiai and Qin Jingniang finally arrived, under the jurisdiction of Meiwu County in Henan Province, which was most severely affected by floods and locust plagues.

There are 58 villages under the jurisdiction of Meiwu County, among which the largest one has two to 3000 people, and the small one has only three to 400 people. Although there are huge differences in the number of villages, they have one common characteristic—poverty.

After getting off their horses, Fang Yiai and Qin Jingniang walked in the village, looking at the dilapidated houses, they felt sad.

"Officer, why is this village so dilapidated? There isn't even a single decent house, they are all mud houses made of straw and mud." Qin Jingniang consciously replaced He Lang with an official, her almond-shaped eyes looked around, wherever she went , full of houses with courtyard walls made of mixed straw and soil.

Fang Yiai frowned and said nothing, and deliberately looked at the homes of several farmers with fenced yards, only to see that the granary in the yard was already dilapidated, and there was no shadow of half a grain of grain in it.

"Why is Meiwu County so barren? Henan Road is my Tang Dynasty's granary, it shouldn't be like this!"

As she said that, Fang Yiai, who was in a state of confusion, walked a few steps, and finally found two old men basking in the sun under an old locust tree.

Handing the silk rein to Qin Jingniang, Fang Yiai walked slowly to the old man, squatted down and said with a smile, "You two old men, may I ask what the name of this place is?"

Seeing someone's voice, the two old men raised their eyes to look at Fang Yi'ai, and said weakly: "This place is called Fuyang Village. Are the two guest officials going to Meiwu County? Go west for thirty miles from here, and you will arrive here." .”

"Fuyang Village?" Murmured, Fang Yiai saw the two old men's faces were yellow and thin, and knew that it was caused by hunger, so he quickly took out a few pieces of dry food from the horse's backpack, and stretched out his hand to them.

"Elders, please eat some dry food. There are some things I need to ask you two." After distributing the dry food to the two of them, Fang Yiai was about to speak when she saw the two wolfing down the dry food. go back.

The two old men have white beard and hair, and their appearance is extremely old. Although the average life expectancy in ancient times was only five or sixty years old, they looked like old men in their seventies because of long-term hunger, full meals and long-term hard work.

After waiting for the two of them to eat the dry food, Fang Yiai finally spoke up and said, "Both old men, although Meiwu County has suffered from locust plagues and floods, it doesn't mean that there is no surplus food, right? Even if there is no The county government doesn’t care about surplus grain? I heard that the imperial court has already filmed a song for disaster relief.”

"The county government will control our life and death? Last year, the floods flooded the fields. Instead of exempting the tax, the county government added [-]% of the tax. All the food we worked so hard to save went to the county government's grain depot!" One of the old men said indignantly.

"What! An additional [-]% of the tax?" Hearing this, Fang Yiai was surprised, but a trace of anger quietly rose in his heart. He never expected that the county magistrate and master of Meiwu County would be so bold that they would ignore the court documents. , Privately increased taxes, and a full increase of as much as [-]%!

After secretly scolding the county magistrate for being so cowardly, Fang Yi'ai was about to speak, but with the humming of a little song, the two old men hurriedly got up and ran back to their farmhouse as if mourning.

"Hey, a good horse! From out of town? If you come from out of town to our Meiwu County, you have to pay a passerby tax!"

"What a handsome little lady, she is much better than the sisters in Huimenglou in the county town."

Three or five arresters dressed in green clothes, wearing stiff cloth hats with pheasant-tailed sparrow feathers, and slung bright simple knives on their waists, swaggered to a stop beside Qin Jingniang, and several pairs of eyes looked at Qin Jingniang up and down. The meaning of greed in his heart, he didn't even bother to hide it.

(End of this chapter)