Chapter 38: Goodbye, Young Master
Li Ye nodded. Since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the problem of refugees has not been truly solved. It is only divided into severity. If the problem of land annexation is not solved for one day, the refugees will not be cut off for one day. In the five prefectures of Pinglu, only by looking at the style of the Wu family and Huabuzhushan in Qizhou, you can know how difficult the lives of the people are. It is not surprising that you encounter refugees along the way.
Thinking of this, Li Ye glanced at Cui Keli. This Confucian scholar did have the people in his heart. He would not have known how much burden it would be for the Cui family to bring refugees back to Qingzhou Cui family, but he still did this. Moreover, even though he knew that the trip was dangerous, he still asked his guard to take people back, which would show his mind.
Not long after everyone walked, the carriages in front suddenly slowed down, as if they were blocked by someone, which was quite noisy. Li Ye called Yang Feng to ask, and the other party said distressedly: "Oh, a group of homeless refugees, I heard that they were starving to death and were crying in front of me. The boss couldn't stand it, so he asked the guys in the carriages to share half of their dry food."
Li Ye, Cui Keli and others looked at each other, dismounted their horses and carriages, and followed Yang Feng to see what happened.
On the roadside in front of the carriage, there was a group of ragged refugees, both men, women, young and old. Some were already dying and could not move. The charriage and horsemen were distributing food to them, which immediately attracted everyone to rob them. The boss was trying to maintain order.
There were also a few women and children who surrounded the tree, and there were wailing sounds in the middle.
Li Ye and others walked up and saw a dirty child sitting under the tree, holding a woman who had already died, crying heart-wrenchingly. The child was seven or eight years old, with a messy and yellow hair. He cried until now, and tears could not flow out of his eyes. The woman in his arms had become skinny and bone-skinned, with protruding cheekbones and sunken eyes, and looked a little scary. Her exposed arms were dry like dead branches, with eye veins, and her meridians were eye-catching, without any flesh and blood.
Next to the boy, there was a rotten pear.
A white-haired old woman choked and said, "It's not easy for this mother and mother. The day before yesterday, his mother secretly ran to the ground and picked up half-rotten pears for him. When she came back, she was covered in scars and her knees were still bleeding. She didn't know how many times she fell on the road and was chased and beaten. She couldn't stand firmly, and her face was even less bloody..."
The old lady wiped her tears and said, "This child is a filial child. She is reluctant to eat the half-rotten pear. She wants to give her mother a meal. His mother refused and taught him a good lesson... He kept the pear in his arms. When he walked here today, his mother finally couldn't hold on and fell down. The child took out the pear and wanted to give it to his mother for a bite of life. But who would have thought that the pear had completely rotten and could not be eaten at all."
The old lady cried so hard that she sat on the ground, but still couldn't help but say sadly: "It's a sin. In the end, neither of the mother and the mother were beaten for this... It's a sin!"
Li Ye and others looked at this scene and their faces were not good-looking. Su Emei quietly turned her head and wiped her tears.
A round body suddenly knelt beside the woman. Amid the strange appearance of everyone, he reached out to catch the other person's pulse. It was Wei Xiaozhuang. He concentrated for a while, and suddenly gritted his teeth and sent a slight spiritual energy into the woman's meridians. From time to time, a hint of blush appeared on the woman's face and he actually coughed twice.
"Oh, I'm so angry!"
"Living? Could it be alive?"
"Master, is there any help?"
Everyone was surprised and talkatively. The boy was stunned for a while. Suddenly, he knelt in front of Wei Xiaozhuang and kept kowtowing. Soon his forehead broke and blood oozed out: "Please help my mother, please help my mother..."
Su Emei quickly helped the boy up, turned her head and asked Wei Xiaozhuang with concern: "Can you save me?"
Wei Xiaozhuang's face turned pale and she gritted her teeth and said, "I'm not sure, but I can give it a try!"
The refugees were immediately delighted and kept asking Wei Xiaozhuang to save people. However, when everyone looked at Wei Xiaozhuang, they still had a lot of awe and did not dare to come forward. The conspicuous Taoist robe was a majesty that should not be violated.
Trickley hurriedly said, "Please help her onto the carriage, who can make porridge? Where is the carriage?"
Wei Xiaozhuang picked up the woman. As soon as he got out of the crowd, he saw that the carriage that was originally at the end of the convoy had already stopped on the side of the road. The tea cauldron that was originally used to cook tea was also held in Li Ye, and corn had already been placed in it. He said to Yang Feng and others: "Get water."
In the eyes of the refugees holding big cakes and constantly swallowing them, the carriages and horses suddenly became busy.
Wei Xiaozhuang carried the woman into the carriage, Li Ye went to process the corn, and turned around and used spiritual energy to make the porridge on the spot. When he finished all this, the woman was still not awake, but when Su Emei fed her porridge, she could instinctively swallow it, and it seemed that she was saved.
The refugees who received the good news all shouted to the immortals and worshiped Li Ye, Wei Xiaozhuang and others, but Li Ye's expression was extremely gloomy.
In the end, Tricky took the group of refugees a little while. He had no guards and could lead them to Qingzhou. He could not bear to throw them on the roadside and let them go on a path of death, so he could only take them with him.
In this way, if there are food rations for cars and horses and money that Trekli and others carry with them, they will never starve to death. Trekli's idea is very simple, to take them to Penglai, and then take them back to Qingzhou to find a way to settle them.
On the way, Cui Keli said to Li Ye in a heavy tone: "Qingzhou is better. After all, it is the governor of the prefecture. There are more refugees in other states, especially since it has not been peaceful recently. Wars in the Central Plains have spread, and many refugees have fled, and many have flocked to Pinglu. As the troubled times are approaching, all the forces in Pinglu are trying to expand their strength and hoard food, so more people have lost their land, and many people have been stolen by the green forest bandits, and more refugees have correspondingly."
He sighed: "If this continues, even if Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's riots do not come, Pinglu will be in chaos. Once they come, these refugees will fight to surrender to the riots for a meal."
Li Ye said in a cold voice: "The Cui family's property was originally managed by someone, and there were tenants who farmed the land under his name. Now that Mr. Cui brought back so many refugees, how can the Cui family resettlement? It can't be kept as an idle person."
Cui Keli said in a deep voice: "The only way is to reclaim land. But reclaim land cannot solve the fundamental problem. It also requires the Jiedushi to start from the big picture and raise the strength of the whole town to eradicate the problem of refugees."
Li Ye was silent.
In this way, more and more refugees followed behind Trickley's carriage, and all the refugees they encountered on the road joined in consciously or unconsciously. Within one day, more than a hundred people were present.
This Confucian scholar led a long refugee team toward an unpredictable future.
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It was day and night, thunderstorm.
Carriages and horses were hanging on the post station, and refugees were crowded under the eaves of the corridor.
After delivering food to the refugees, Li Ye was standing up with a tray. When he looked up, he saw a lightning bolt struck not far away. In an instant, Li Ye saw a petite and graceful figure standing on the top of the locust tree outside the post station, standing in the thunder in the rain and standing on the leaves.
The rain was dripping with rain, and it all flew backwards three inches away from her body, outlining her Zhuo Yue's figure to the fullest. Her clear and clear eyes saw Li Ye under the lightning on a rainy night. The indescribable tranquility and depth, the hairbands and purple hair that drifted with the wind and rain were spiritual like ghosts.
This is the third day night when the Wang family received the hero post.
More than twenty heroic posts have been sent out in the Qingyi Yamen.
Li Ye knew she would come.
Shao Siming.
Li Ye handed the tray to Su Emei beside him, "You stay behind."
In her strange gaze, Li Ye rose up from the ground and jumped straight towards the treetops!
The man was in mid-air, and Lu Jujian was already in his hand. In the dark night sky, a shiny blue color slashed down!
Shao Siming quickly made seals on his chest with his hands, and the flame-like spiritual energy jumped up and down at his fingertips, which was indescribable to the eye. Several green leaf chains shot out from the locust tree under her feet, wrapping each other around like a spirit snake, facing the sword energy falling from the air.
Li Ye finished slashing with one sword, followed by the second sword, and the third sword again!
Three blue colors are like three waves of sea waves, one wave pushes the other.
The sword energy cuts the leaf chain, and the waves of spiritual energy suddenly swept open in a round shape. The leaves flying over the locust tree are flying everywhere. Under the lightning flash, they are knocked down by rain!
After three consecutive waves of air, Li Ye had already arrived above the locust tree. Among the broken leaves flying all over the sky, Lu Jujian broke through the rain curtain and stabbed straight towards Shao Siming!
Jianfeng suddenly arrived in front of Shao Siming. Li Ye had even seen clearly that the other party's pupils in his clear eyes. However, he did not see the other party's panic. From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the other party's flexible fingers were still changing rapidly and forming seals.
A chain of Ye as thick as an arm suddenly flew out from Shao Siming, and instantly wrapped around Lu Jujian. In the flash of lightning, he led the sword body off the track. Shao Siming tilted his head slightly, and Lu Jujian flew past her eyes.
The two of them passed by, and the flying purple hair floated on Li Ye's face, numb and itchy. In the gap between his hair, Li Ye saw the other party's exquisite and flawless earlobes, with an amethyst earring falling below. A glitter of glaze flashed in the afterglow of the sword energy.
When Li Ye turned around, Shao Siming had already swept straight from the treetops, his clothes were flying forward, and his long hair covered half of his face. She raised a seemingly weak arm, and at the moment when she couldn't find out, she drew a yin and yang figure in front of her fingertips.
A wave of green leaves suddenly rose up in the locust tree, and countless leaves soared, turning into sharp small swords and shooting out at Li Ye!
Li Ye waved Lu Jujian and splashed out a sword light like fish scales, protecting his whole body tightly.
Breaking through Ye Hai's sword net, leaping at the top of the tree, and jumping towards Shao Siming again.
Shao Siming turned around and flew away from the treetops. His arms and sleeves danced flat, like an irrespectable lark.
Li Ye raised Lu Jujian diagonally, locked Shao Siming's back with his eyes, stepped on the leaves and chased him quickly, and opened a straight air passage in the rain, gradually moving away from the station.
The Grand Secretary’s Destiny has not yet appeared, but Li Ye is not afraid at all. As long as he does not take action at the post station, he can avoid the disaster. As for ambush, Li Ye seems to be alone now, but he is not actually alone.
Chapter completed!