Fenglin Tianxia – Queen with a Thousand Pets

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From Hangzhou to Haizhou, it was a good time, but the ship was overloaded, and Ling Qingyu did not dare to sail with full sail. Even so, he reached the sea off Haizhou in only three days. However, although Haizhou is close to the sea, it does not have a large seaport. You can only put down the boat first, and let an official with a few officers and soldiers go ashore first. After contacting the local officials, you can unload the ship.

After waiting for a day, the boat did not return. By noon of the next day, there was no figure in sight. The official who remained on the boat could not help being a little anxious, but he had the responsibility to take care of the food and could not send people to the shore, so he came to Ling Qingyu. , I hope she can send someone to see what happened.

Ling Qingyu thought about it again and again, decided to go with Yan San, and agreed that he would only go to Haizhou for investigation, not going deep.

Ding Dong and the others put down the boat and sent them ashore with a few sailors. The officials kindly gave her a horse for transportation. So Ling Qingyu asked Yan San to bring as much food as possible.

When we got to the shore, the ship in front was docked in the bay. The sailors said that the team of officers and soldiers had come ashore safely, but so far there is no news.

Ling Qingyu ordered one ship to stay and wait, and the other one should return to Fengshen first. Then he went ashore with Yan San, took the map drawn by the official, and looked at it carefully, only to make sure that the sheep intestine path should lead to Haizhou County.

Yan San helped Ling Qingyu on his horse, and then led the horse forward.

Not long after leaving the bay, there was a plain in front of me, with rivers crisscrossing the plain, but at this time most of them were dry, and occasionally there was a bit of water and mud. The land was very dry and cracked, and the original fertile land was nothing but rolling loess.

This is not only food, but also drinking water. Ling Qingyu and Yan San looked at each other, Yan San clenched the hilt of the sword tightly.

Turning a small bag of soil, the place in front of me should be a river bend, and some water stains remain in the depth of the river turning. Tired of huts, firewood nests and black and white refugees gathered on the banks of the river.

A group of refugees who were digging grass roots on the hillside saw the figure turning around on the top of the hill. After seeing someone riding a horse, someone shouted: "There is a horse!"

Many people rushed out of the grass huts on the river beach, just like the people digging grass roots on the hillside, staring at the horses standing on the hill. The green-eyed man seemed to see not two people a horse, but plates of braised pork.

Ling Qingyu, who was regarded as braised pork, said that his heart began to feel weak. There are probably hundreds of people below. They are ragged and hungry. The hungry people seem to be able to see the bones. The children are even skinny, as if there is only one big head left. These are people who have reached a desperate situation. .

"Master, do it well, give me something to eat, my child," a woman with her shriveled breast, holding a child, walked towards the two of them staggeringly.

Cocky, Yan Sanming Lu came out of the sheath, and the blade of his sword made a dazzling light in the sun.

"Xu Dong's, come back soon!" Seeing Yan San draw the sword, everyone backed up a little two steps, an old woman anxiously wanted to pull that woman.

The woman broke free of her, and still insisted on walking towards the two of them, saying: "You can eat with one bite, save the child, I will be a cow and a horse for you, anything will do."

"Don't come here again, or don't blame me for being ruthless under the sword." Yan San pointed the sword to her throat and forced her back two steps.

Looking at the shimmering blade, the woman stood still, but she still stretched the child in her hand as far as possible, trying to pass it to Ling Qingyu, and said: "Or, you bought him, as long as you can live, please , Save him."

The child was still in the swaddle, and he was dying, Ling Qingyu was not even sure that he was still alive.

"Sanniang!" A man stumbled over from a distance, shouting the woman's name, and when she saw the blade of the woman's throat, he yelled: "The master's sword keeps people, we haven't Malicious, not malicious."

Ling Qingyu pulled the reins of the pulling horse, and Yan San took the horse back two steps, but the tip of the sword was still pointing at the woman.

"Sanniang, let's go back, go back, news came from Haizhou, the court has issued relief food, we will have food immediately, there will be nothing to do in San'er, nothing will happen." The man supported the woman and said with joy.

"Everyone, the government informs you to go to Haizhou County to get food for disaster relief, everyone, go." There was a shout from the riverbank, and the people staring at Ling Qingyu and the two screamed for joy, turned around, picked up a bag that could hold food, and ran.

Most of the river beach was emptied, and all that could run ran away, leaving only some old people and some children.

Ling Qingyu's brows frowned even more tightly. The food for disaster relief was still on the Fengshen. Could it be that Haizhou had another food?

"Sister, sit here and don’t move. My brother will get the food. We will have food when we come back." A little boy placed a two-year-old **** a tree stump and said, "Don’t go away. Oh."

Ling Qingyu heard his accent like Central Plains Mandarin, got off his horse, walked in front of the two brothers and sisters, and asked, "Are you from Haizhou?"

"We are from the famous mansion." The little boy looked at Ling Qingyu and said.

"Daming Mansion, why did you get to Haizhou?" Ling Qingyu asked in a soft voice as far as possible.

"I heard that Dad said that Haizhou is close to the sea. Maybe there is water and there will be stuttering. We will follow."

"What about your parents?" Looking at the girls' cheeks, Ling Qingyu took out a steamed bun from the baggage and handed it to her.

"I'm starving. Daddy died half a month ago, and my mother died three days ago." The little boy snatched the steamed bun from his sister, then tore a small piece and fed it to her mouth, saying, "Slow down. Eat, don't choke."

"No one else?"

"No, in our village, there are only two of us, two tigers, and two of them, Daniel." The little boy pointed to the two boys standing in the distance, looking at the two boys with buns in his hands.

Ling Qingyu stood up, beckoned to let the rest of the children come over, and gave them the steamed buns in his bag. Seeing some children get it, he stuffed his mouth and said hurriedly: "Don't worry, eat slowly, don't choke."

"Let's go first." Yan San reminded Ling Qingyu from behind. If the hungry people come back and see the food, then they don't know what will happen.

Ling Qingyu stood up, knowing in his heart that if it was just one or two buns, it would not last long to save these children. He bit his lip and said, "You are waiting here. When I come back, I will take you away."

"Master is going to buy us?" asked a little older kid timidly.

A dozen pairs of eyes stared at her, with hope and fear in them.

"Well, my lord, I bought you, and I take care of food and housing, but you must listen to me in the future. If you don't listen, the lord will throw you back." Ling Qingyu said with great power.

"I'll be obedient!" The children knelt down and kowtow.

"It's not just obedient, it's the owner's life. Can you do it?" Yan San's voice faintly sounded behind Ling Qingyu.

Ling Qingyu suddenly turned around and wanted to say, I didn't want to buy their lives with a steamed bun, but after seeing Yan San's expression, I couldn't say it.

"If the master doesn't save us, we can only starve to death." Holding the sister in his arms, the little brother stood up and said, "As long as I can save my sister, I can do anything."

"Me too." "Me too." "Me too."

"Remember your words, if one day you violate today's oath, you will realize what is better than death," Yan San said coldly.

"Ah, yeah," Ling Qingyu drove the children to a nest, and said, "You find a safe place to wait first, and I'll come when I'm done."

"No need to go." Yan San clicked his chin on the road on the other side of the river beach and said, "The man has returned."

Ling Qingyu looked back and saw the dust billowing on the road in the distance, and a group of horses was galloping over.

Ling Qingyu concealed the children behind him, watching the pair of people approaching, and seeing that the leader was indeed the officers and soldiers going to Haizhou, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Master Ling? Why are you here?" The leading officer asked in surprise when he saw Ling Qingyu.

"Your lord sees that you haven't returned for two days, and you are afraid of something wrong, so you ask us to come and have a look." Ling Qingyu said.

"Fortunately, we met here. There are many refugees in front of us. If you go there, I'm afraid, let's get back on the boat first. The Haizhou Prefecture has already sent people to transport food." The officer said gently.

"The boat is waiting in the bay. You go first and we will come back soon."

"Then let's go one step ahead." The officers and soldiers looked at the child hiding behind Ling Qingyu, and said softly.

"Okay, let me go with the master." Ling Qingyu picked up the two youngest children, put them on the horseback, think about it, took off the food bag on the horseback, put it on the side of the road, and took the children We walked to the bay.

Soon after they left, a few old people who had been staring here came over, picked up the food bag, then clasped their hands together, and said, "Amitabha, good people."

Ling Qingyu asked the sailor to take the children aboard, but he and Yan San didn't rush to get on the boat, watching the officers and soldiers build a simple shed on the shore.

Ling Qingyu looked left and right, but he didn't see any other ships coming, and asked the leading officer and soldiers in confusion, "Guardian, are there no ships in Haizhou? There are no fishing boats?"

"Haizhou also suffered a severe drought this time, most of the fishing boats went out to fish, I'm afraid they won't be back in time." The officer said. Naturally, this is not the truth. The truth is that there are too many refugees, and some good people gather to grab fishing boats. As a result, after several conflicts, refugees and fishermen were killed and injured, and the fishing boats were destroyed. The refugees came in large numbers because they were expecting fish on the seashore, which was always a way to survive. However, Haizhou’s water source had been used for a long time, and there were so many refugees. The locals were very resentful towards the refugees. The act of looting the ship, so Zhizhou sent troops to suppress the refugees, and drove all the refugees out of Haizhou County. After several massacres, the riot was temporarily suppressed. And their team of officers and soldiers can safely reach Haizhou on the plains full of hungry people.

That's just relying on the lifeboat on the Fengshen. How long does it take to move! Ling Qingyu was sad.

The hungry Haizhou officers and soldiers repaired a simple official business on the bay. The unloaded grain was first piled up on the shore and then transported away by a tricycle. The prefect of Haizhou summoned some labor and promised one bucket of rice for three days. In this way, there are still more and more refugees gathering outside, looking for something to do in exchange for rations.

"Master, master." Ling Qingyu had just rested on the cliff next to him, but unexpectedly a man came out from below and kowtow to her.

"If you have something to say, don't knock, don't knock!" Ling Qingyu called.

The man raised his bleeding head and said, "Please hire me, master. I have the strength and can do anything. As long as one fight, no, half a fight, one bowl is enough."

Ling Qingyu frowned, looked at the tightly guarded bay, and said, "Did you find the wrong person? I am not from the government. Besides, hasn't the government started to distribute food for disaster relief?"

"The government said that we must first come close to the local disaster victims in Haizhou, and we must wait for the distribution of relief food if we escape from other places. Even the recruitment of labor and labor is close to the locals, but the family can't wait. I'm going to starve to death." The eight-foot man shed tears on his face.

Ling Qingyu is very embarrassed. She sympathizes with this man, but she understands that she cannot agree. First, she is only responsible for delivering food, and she can't intervene in other matters. Second, if she sends them food, there will be More people came to her, and she was unable to save so many people. The more frightening consequence is that the disaster is so serious now that the situation is already on the verge of breaking out. Once there is a little possibility, I am afraid it will impact this bay.

"We don't hire workers, but I want to buy some people." Ling Qingyu thought and thought, and said: "You have to think about it, if you sell it to me, you must follow my boat away from your hometown, I'm afraid it will never come back. Moreover, you can’t pass this news to others. I will only buy yours. If you pass it on to others, I will deny it.”

"The villain is willing, the villain is willing!" The man would kowtow again.

"Don't knock anymore, don't knock anymore." Ling Qingyu hurriedly helped him, seeing that someone at the bay had already noticed here, he said hurriedly: "Our boat will leave tomorrow. If you can make it to that time, it will arrive in the early morning. Come here, before that, you can't leak a word."

"The villain understands that he will never cause trouble to the master." The man kowtow again, turning around and quietly retreating from the beach.

"Wait," Ling Qingyu took a dimple from his arms and threw it to him.

"You kind heart will kill yourself one day." Yan San said coldly under the cliff.

Ling Qingyu was taken aback, and said in his heart, why do you seem to be a professional listener! ! !

"I know, I don't have that great ability, I can save everyone," Ling Qingyu lowered his head and said: "It's just that since I have this fate, I can help a little bit. Everyone has a time of death, if that time... "Ling Qingyu was silent. If then, his mother would not have died. Since this man can run into her, it is also a kind of fate.

But still have to say hello.

Ling Qingyu jumped off the cliff and went to the bay to find the official responsible for escorting food. The officials are making the final handover with officials in Haizhou. The food has been disembarked and transferred to the Haizhou government. If something happens, nothing will happen to him.

Ling Qingyu looked at the food in the bay, and estimated that it would be all taken away in a few hours, and said to the official: "Master Zheng, are you going to be almost done?"

"Okay, okay, we will be able to sail back tomorrow. This time, I would like to thank the master Ling." Master Zheng was in a good mood. When he saw the tragedy when he went ashore, he was also drumming in his heart. He has been a small official for many years and knows this well. Under such circumstances, civil revolts are most likely to occur, but fortunately, the handover is safe.

"I want to buy some servants, don't know what the price is now?" Ling Qingyu smiled with an expression that you understand.

"What kind of money is that now? A bucket of grain and a young laborer, a bucket of grain and a flower girl. The owner is a sailor?" Master Zheng laughed. He also knew that Ling Qingyu had bought some children to board the boat. Think about Fengshen. The number can take at least a few hundred people on the return flight. If it is sold to Hangzhou Mansion, it can be sold for two to ten silver per person. Well, this girl is a profitable owner. This business can be done together in total, and it costs a few thousand taels back and forth.

Master Zheng rubbed his hands and whispered: "Anyway, there is still some time, the lower officials can pick some people for the head, but that." He kept blinking at Ling Qingyu.

Ling Qingyu was stunned for a while before reacting, and realized that Master Zheng had misunderstood that she wanted to be a human trafficker. After thinking about it, she doesn't lack this little money, so she can save one person.

Taking out one thousand taels of silver bills from the bag, Ling Qingyu also whispered: "Then trouble Master Zheng, this is for the adults to drink, and I will ask the people on the boat to send the food down later."

Master Zheng went to the local official in Haizhou to whisper a few more words. The officer looked at Ling Qingyu, received a one hundred tael bank note, and left with Master Zheng.

Ling Qingyu sighed. She only pretended to be a few hundred stones of food in private. Now there are less than two hundred stones left. When she goes back, at least the food for the officers and soldiers cannot be shortened. One stone is about one hundred and twenty catties. If Master Zheng gave it to She bought a few hundred people back, so it would cost dozens of stones to buy people's food, eat porridge.

At dawn, the morning glow is like fire, rendering the horizon crimson.

"Your family...there is a huge population..." Ling Qingyu sighed unconsciously, looking at dozens of people standing under the cliff.

The man rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "Master, there is nothing to do. They are all in the same village, and they are all relatives." He didn't want to break his promise, but his wife immediately went to notify his parents when he saw that there was a way to survive. , Tens of legends, spread all over the place where their village gathered. Fortunately, their village was alone in one place because it was at odds with other people, and finally they didn't get all the alarms.

Yan San looked at Ling Qingyu's eyes a little bit amused, and thought to himself, fortunately, he asked Xi to steal some food and put it in his cabin.

Taking the villager on the boat, the officers and soldiers over there also came to report, saying that Master Zheng and they came back with someone.

"Ding Dong, take people into the cargo hold, be alert, and don’t put people with hatreds together." Ling Qingyu is very depressed, but the thing has been done, there is no need to regret it, but the attention must be paid to so many people, Who knows what the basket will be.

"This young man," a middle-aged man with a long beard who followed the man walked in front of Ling Qingyu, and said: "I have a reputation. I want to live with my family," pointed to the cabin, and then Said: "And our patriarch."

"Ding Dong, all those who haven't signed the contract will get off the ship!" Ling Qingyu said directly to Ding Dong: "Don't be idle, take it to the cargo hold, and lock the door for me." Fame, you uncle!

"You can't do this to us, I have a reputation, I want to sue the court!" the middle-aged man shouted.

"The master, the court stipulated that scholars cannot be bought or sold." An officer and soldiers leaned over to Ling Qingyu.

"Can the Xiucai take the boat for nothing?" Ling Qingyu asked, staring.

"Naturally not." The officers and soldiers laughed, and then took a step back.

"Master, do it well," the man hurriedly took away the middle-aged man and said to Ling Qingyu again and again, "I beg you, don't drive them off the boat."

The middle-aged man still wanted to refute. This is that the people bought by Master Zheng have begun to board the boat one after another. The middle-aged man watched as all those people were **** with their hands, connected into one, and climbed up like animals. The ship suddenly stopped talking and walked silently to the cargo hold below with the man.

Ding Dong annoyed them and stuffed the darkest place in the innermost place, and then said: "Don't think about messing around, our family is soft-hearted, our brother is not so kind, be careful not to starve to death and be thrown into the sea and drown."

The man unknowingly complained about the death of the dead talent, and when someone saved you, you still went to show the music, so that the people from the village would not be burdened by death.

Master Zheng bought a total of 600 people, and they were really carefully selected. The men are young laborers, and the women are young and beautiful. They also selected many handsome boys and girls.

Ling Qingyu looked at the people, then glanced at Yan San again without realizing it. Are these things going to be sold in the brothel?

Seeing some scholars in ragged gowns, Ling Qingyu asked Master Zheng: "Those people don't have fame, right?"

Master Zheng was stunned for a moment and said: "I don't know, anyway, they have written a deed of selling their lives. Haizhou Yamen also gave the official document, so scholars can also be slaves."

Talent! Ling Qingyu secretly gave a thumbs up. To Master Zheng: "The villain also wants to open some shops in Lin'an Mansion. I don't know if Master Zheng has any suggestions?"

"Then dare to be good! Just ask me about it. What do the masters think of the West Market? The business that opens up the restaurant Xiangtang Restaurant is very good!" To the refugees, Zheng Jin said: "It just so happens that you have a good hand. Good thing, it's a pity that you can't open the brothel master of Lin'an Mansion, otherwise, people don't need to look for it anymore."

"Then I have to trouble Master Zheng for help. After the restaurant and the fragrant soup restaurant are opened, Master Zheng will have to look after him. Why not participate in the stock as well as Master Zheng?" Ling Qingyu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

"Haha, the good intentions of being a master, but you can only vote for 10% when you are in the official position." The translation of these words is, you know how to taste, but my official position is relatively low, and it is estimated that I have to take care of others, so I only take your 10% bonus .

"Deal."