Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

"You're sending someone now ... Actually, you should have been in Huai'an, right?"

"..."

They glanced at each other and said nothing.

I knew at a glance that they were the default.

So I said: "Then you should pay a little attention to the movement of a person in Huai'an."

"Who?"

"Han Ruoshi."

"Han Ruoshi? It's that Pei--"

"Yes, that is Mrs. Pei."

They were all quiet for a while, as if some people had realized something, Xiao Zhong said bluntly, "Did you say that the medicine was bought by Mrs. Pei?"

I said calmly, "If I guess correctly, it should be."

He said immediately: "That's easy. We'll get someone to go to the government to help you steal the medicine."

I couldn't help laughing, and said, "She has collected all the medicines that can conceive in Huai'an City. When she piled up, she might fill up this room. How could she get it back to Huai'an, it wasn't someone? Did you know at a glance? "

"You mean, she did it secretly, why?"

"..."

If you really want to explain to him clearly, then the words will be long. I just simply said, "She doesn't want the unborn baby in my belly to be safe. Proceed. "

"So it is."

I nodded and continued to say, "It was yesterday night to collect medicinal materials. At this time, the medicinal materials should not have been destroyed, because there are still movements in destroying such a large number of medicinal materials. She will not act rashly. So I would like to ask Your people pay attention to her movements, especially the people under her. If someone leaves the house from the back door, please follow up. "

"You mean, her people sneaked out, most likely to deal with the batch of medicinal materials?"

"Yes."

"Then after we follow up?"

"..."

"Will you kill those people and take the herbs?"

"..."

I thought about it and said, "If those people haven't done anything to destroy the medicinal materials for a while, they don't have to do it, monitor them. But if they want to destroy the medicinal materials, they try to stop them. If they can't avoid them, they must Don't kill everyone. "

Brother Chen nodded: "I see."

I didn't speak, I just looked at them calmly.

Brother Chen said immediately: "I see."

He turned around and named a few people and said, "You go and do this. Be careful, you must be careful not to expose our people, let alone let you find you."

"Yes!"

Seeing that they were about to go out, I said, "Be sure to remember, no matter what, try not to kill those people. Remember, remember!"

They looked at me and nodded. "Okay."

After that, I left.

Brother Chen said to the little bell again, "Hurry up and find pen, ink and paper."

Xiao Zhong promised to go out.

When only Brother Chen and I were left in the room, he glanced back at me, especially when he saw my hands on his stomach, frowned slightly, and asked carefully: "You ... Okay? "

I also glanced down, but there was nothing in my heart, and I barely said, "It should be able to hold it."

He was silent for a while and said, "We ... we didn't think that much at the time."

"..."

"Sorry, it hurts you."

"..."

I looked up at him in amazement. Although I know this person's heart is not bad, I apologize to a hostage that I have hijacked. This is not something ordinary people can do. I have a better impression of him. After some, calmly said, "You are also trying to save your family."

The moment I said this, I regretted it.

His eyes turned red immediately, and I remembered that before, they said that at noon that day Zhou Chengyin was drumming and beheading them, his parents and his wife and children.

Now, his family is ruined, leaving him alone.

Seeing his eyes flushed, his fists pinched and his bones crackling, and my heart hurt slightly. After a while, I gently asked, "Brother Chen, I want to ask you something. "

He looked at me: "What's up?"

"You guys, why are you doing this?"

"..."

"Zhou Chengyin they rebelled, all the officials in the city were killed, and those who resisted them in the barracks were also killed, and some belonged to them. So far, why do you ... want to rise against him?"

Brother Chen said, "You want to say that all the officials are dead. Why do we ordinary people have to do nosy?"

"... Of course, I'm not saying that you are nosy."

He waved his hand: "I see what you mean."

"..."

"To be honest, in fact, we used to think that as long as there is a bite to eat, who is the official and who is the emperor will not have a great impact on us ordinary people."

I nodded.

"But the problem is, let's not let us eat this meal!"

I was shocked and looked up at him.

Brother Chen said: "You know, the people in our provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are all Dalits, and the taxes imposed on us have always been the heaviest. Not only that, those who are in charge of the government are tyrannical and exploitative. Harmful, it can be said that all of us have their bones squeezed out! "

My throat narrowed and I said, "I understand."

I understand too.

Once, he also survived in such an environment, and it was also the resistance brought by this oppression that made Liu Qinghan resolutely embark on the career path.

Brother Chen also said, "But in the past few years, the court's policies suddenly started to change."

"..."

"They changed the tax collection method. At the beginning we did n’t understand it, but later we realized that this method can make us people pay less tax, and like Zhou Chengyin, people in Qiantian, a family of thousands of hectares, used to collect taxes Less than us, and then pay taxes according to the fields they have! "

He said that there was light on the dark face, and said, "That's great!"

"..."

"At that time, we were all very happy!"

"..."

"Thousands of people in Jiangnan haven't straightened their waists all their lives. At that time, we finally felt as if we were looking forward to living!"

"..."

"Even if the officials think of any way to exploit us, but as long as this tax collection method is changed, we are really relieved. At that time, the family began to have surplus food."

The corner of my mouth couldn't help but smile slightly.

I can almost imagine that their ecstasy at that time-as ordinary people, really did n’t want much, just a little bottom in the rice bowl, enough to make them confident in the future.

Thinking of this, my eyes are hot.

Light cold, light cold ... if you know, your dream has actually been realized; if you know, you have made so many people feel the joy of life; if you know, it is your way to make so many people have Faith in living well, can all the pain you have experienced be smoothed out?

Do you know

I was a little bit deliberate, and the next moment, I heard Brother Chen's low voice: "But as soon as Zhou Chengyin rebelled, everything changed!"

I shuddered.

He frowned and said, "Their Zhou family, originally in Huai'an, dominated, and had previously colluded with the dog officials of the imperial court, occupying so much of our land and forcing us as slaves. Even if it is carved on the wall, Huai'an's wall can't be written! "

My eyebrows also frowned.

Although I have n’t experienced it myself, at the beginning in Jixiang Village, so many evil deeds made by the officials of those government offices, I also have some experience. A powerful gentleman like Zhou Chengyin is a hegemon in the place. What can he do? I'm afraid it's worse than what I've seen before.

He is also the "victim" of Pei Yuanzhang's new policy.

As Wei Ningyuan was worried before, the Central Plains is not the only family of King Jiang Xia in Jinling. The powerful gentry in other places will be affected by the New Deal. The sisters of the Han family followed Pei Yuan to rebel, and people in other places will also respond. , Which has caused today's situation!

At this time, I have no time to think about whether the current situation is what Wei Ningyuan said at the beginning-the situation of putting the cart before the horse and putting the cart before the horse.

This is just a Huaian, a Zhou family.

Brother Chen went on to say, "What's more you don't know is that as soon as he captured the palace, he closed the gates, and Huai'an became his own! He sent his own family, and The soldiers in the barracks are searching for grain from house to house, no, not searching for grain, but grabbing grain! "

"..."

"Not only the food, but also the ironwares of everyone's homes in the city were taken away and melted into weapons."

"..."

"Moreover, we were forced to enlist in the army, saying what to do, what the king's master."

"..."

"We ca n’t live, we do n’t have any food left in the house. If I were taken away by them, there would be no parents, wives and children left in the house, not even food, but I would starve to death in a few days!"

"..."

"and so--"

My voice trembled slightly: "So, you escaped from the barracks with these people around you?"

"Yes."

"..."

"Who knows, as soon as we fled, they arrested all our family members, and--"

At this point, he had choked so much that he couldn't say anything, buried his head deeply, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

I feel terrible.

I can understand the remorse in his heart at this moment, but if I were to change it, I would do the same, because the family would starve to death if he did n’t run away, but he did n’t expect that Zhou Chengyin ’s first killing demonstration was kill His family.

I didn't talk anymore, I just looked at him, because I knew that this kind of hurt, no matter who's soothing, could not be healed.

But Brother Chen is also a stable person. After a while, he gritted his teeth, wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, raised his head to look at me, and said, "I'm determined, even if Xiao Zhong's family is saved Come out, I won't give up! I must follow them to the end! "