After peeling off the cocoons, the truth of the matter began to emerge step by step.
Yun Miaomiao thought that there must be some hatred between Zhou Guanmin and Magistrate Liang. Magistrate Liang and Magistrate Wang must have been imprisoned by Zhou Guanmin.
Otherwise, according to Zhou Guanmin's temperament, he would wait for death.
"Prefect Liang and Magistrate Wang should have been trapped under the ruins as expected. Qingyang, please ask Wang Cheng to keep an eye on the situation in the city. If there is any trouble, look out for it as soon as possible."
Yun Miaomiao is not a kind person. Magistrate Liang and Magistrate Wang have done many evil things, and they have vivid memories of what Magistrate Zhao did. She will not let them go if she has this opportunity.
"Ma'am, what you mean is~"
Yun Miaomiao nodded and nodded slightly, his intention was very clear.
"My subordinate understands." Qingyang turned around and walked out of the tent to find the royal city.
Beijing.
Gu Fengqing waited for the letters written by Yun Miaomiao. There were two in total. One was when Yun Miaomiao set off from Jiangning, telling Gu Fengqing everything about Jiangning, as well as the time and route of his departure.
The other letter was written after the incident in southern Hubei. Yun Miaomiao was afraid that Gu Fengqing would worry, so he wrote the letter back in person, in order to tell Gu Fengqing and Yun Su and reassure them.
After reading the letter, Gu Fengqing's expression was not good. Yun Su walked over and took the letter from his hand. After reading it, Yun Su couldn't hold himself back.
"I'm going to Enan to find my sister."
Xiao Zhuo realized something was wrong, walked over, picked up the letter in Yun Su's hand and read it again, "My cousin is fine, Yun Su, please calm down."
Gu Fengqing calmed down, then raised his eyes and looked at Yun Su, "You know, the exam time is very close. If you are running to the south of Hubei Province, you will not be able to participate in the round trip.
The exam is over, and nothing happened to your sister, it’s just a delay, Yun Su, you can’t be willful."
Yun Su said with a stern face, "But if my sister doesn't come to the capital, I'm worried that something will happen to her."
"With Qingyang and Dongqing here, most people can't get close to your sister." Although Gu Fengqing wanted to appear next to Yun Miaomiao immediately, things in the capital were already on the line. At the moment when he had to act, he couldn't do it.
host.
Xiao Zhuo broke Yun Su's body and said, "Yun Su, Brother Gu has already laid out the plan for the Yun family's affairs. The part of you passing the Jinshi exam is particularly important. You can't let it slip. My cousin is a person favored by God.
, is a lucky star. You see, she was there during the flood, saving everyone in Jiangning Village. Later, the locust plague, the plague, and now the burrow. She has never been someone who needs our protection. She is an independent, shining star.
It is the pride and reliance of all of us, do you understand?"
"I~" Yun Su was speechless for a moment, "What if my sister can't catch up?"
Gu Fengqing had a headache. Although Yun Su was Yun Miaomiao's biological brother, he was Yun Miaomiao's former husband. It was not okay for Yun Su to behave like this. What would he do if he kept clinging to his wife in the future?
"Yun Su, come here, brother-in-law, let's talk to you carefully. Even if your sister is in the capital, she can't stay with you all the time, don't you think so?" Gu Fengqing began to analyze it for him.
Xiao Zhuo just stood aside, listening to how Gu Fengqing brainwashed Yun Su, saying how men should be independent and how to be a strong person.
Yun Su was young and couldn't see Gu Fengqing's domineering and possessive attitude toward Yun Miaomiao. He was not a fool, and he couldn't see it even if it was so obvious.
Gu Fengqing just doesn't want Yun Su to be ranked first in her cousin's heart, and he is second. No, it should be said that the second one doesn't even count. The Yun family's affairs are second.
That's why I talk nonsense in a serious manner, which is disrespectful.
Xiao Zhuo couldn't listen anymore, so he turned around and went back to his room to study. Yun Su, on the other hand, listened very seriously, leaving Gu Fengqing stunned for a moment.
Yun Miaomiao didn't know what happened in the capital. Half a month had passed since the incident in Hubei. Even though all the people's efforts were used, only half of the people were rescued. The others were buried deeper underground without food and water.
Most of the people starved to death.
Fortunately, Yun Miaomiao stuffed food into the ruins, so the rescued people did not starve to death again.
"Madam, it's unlikely that there are people alive under these ruins. The brothers have been digging day and night for more than half a month. If this continues, something will happen. Didn't the higher ups send someone here?"
Wang Cheng went from feeling distressed at the beginning, to numbness later, and now on the verge of collapse step by step. He felt that he was going to collapse at any time and go crazy.
There will never be enough ruins to dig up, endless corpses to carry, endless tears to shed...
He can go into battle to kill the enemy without fear of bloody scenes, but there are innocent people buried here, so he cannot remain indifferent.
Yun Miaomiao understood how he felt, "You can't make a hasty conclusion on this matter. Leave everything to Qingyang and Dongqing. We can come to the people who need to be saved here. My godfather is the county magistrate of Ruizhou City, which is far away from Hubei."
The south is not too far away, so people in the capital may not have heard about this matter. It is reasonable for the godfather to write a note. I also remembered to write down the news that Magistrate Liang and Magistrate Wang had disappeared.
Know what to do."
Before, Magistrate Liang and County Magistrate Wang had an idea for Ruizhou City, so why couldn't she have an idea for Enan?
Wang Cheng pursed his lips, "Girl, are you driving me away?"
"No." Yun Miaomiao laughed, "I asked you to go back and send a message to my godfather. I wouldn't worry if it were anyone else. If you don't want to, you can just go back with someone you trust."
Wang Cheng's face relaxed slightly, "No, I'm going back. You may not believe what others say. I will definitely tell you what you said, girl."
"good."
After the discussion, Wangcheng left half of Yun Miaomiao's manpower, and the poaching was still going on, but as we went down, there were fewer and fewer people alive.
On this day, Yun Miaomiao was wondering about food and medicinal materials, when Dongqing and Qingyang walked in in a panic.
"Madam, I found it."
Yun Miaomiao was stunned for a moment, then realized what they were talking about and quickly stood up, "Where are they?"
Yun Miaomiao asked Wang Cheng to go back because he didn't want Wang Cheng to know about this matter. The fewer people who knew about Magistrate Liang and Magistrate Wang, the better.
"There is a secret room three meters down from the county government office. The two of them were locked in it and locked with an iron chain. When something happened, the two of them couldn't escape. They were underground again and were smashed down.
The boulder was crushed underneath, and it looked like he died on the spot. Except for his clothes, his face was completely ruined. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell who it is."
It turned out that this was Zhou Guanmin's self-confidence. In such an environment, it was extremely unlikely to avoid the damage caused by the earthquake.
"After digging out the person, bury him." Yun Miaomiao ordered.
Qingyang nodded, turned around and went out to deal with it.
Dongqing handed Yun Miaomiao all the expense accounts for the past few days, "Madam, there are more and more people outside, there is not much food left, and there are no medicinal materials left, what should we do?"
Yun Miaomiao pondered for a moment and said quietly, "You go and prepare a high platform. I have something to say to them. This matter is not our responsibility in the first place. The court has ignored us. Such an emperor should let them see clearly.
"
"Madam, would this be bad?" Dongqing was afraid that the emperor would settle the score with the Gu family.
Yun Miaomiao smiled quickly and saw through his thoughts, "Do you think that with us acting like this, the Emperor will not cause trouble for the Gu family? He will accuse the Gu family of not reporting the knowledge and will also tell everyone,
It's the Gu family's failure to save people, and it's the Gu family's failure to report it. This is not the Gu family's business. It's just because I am Gu Fengqing's wife, and the noble concubine has suffered the loss of Princess Jiayue. With this tone, she will not let the Gu family go.
It will be returned together."
"This is a matter for the imperial court. Even if the imperial concubine is extremely powerful, she can't bully others like this," Dongqing said angrily.
Yun Miaomiao laughed at his naivety, "As long as she wants, she can."
Dongqing couldn't refute, "I'll call someone right away."
After a while, he came over and asked Yun Miaomiao to come over. There was already a large crowd of people standing outside. It was so dark that it was impossible to see how many people there were.
Yun Miaomiao stood on the Dongqing selection table, holding a big loudspeaker in her hand, "Everyone, I have called you here today because I have something to confess to you. The food we found in the city is no longer enough for us people.
It's been seven days. If the court doesn't send anyone here, we will start to starve. Another bad news is that all the medicinal materials in our hands have been used up. If you can still move around, go to the surrounding counties and villages to find them.
If you find a place to settle down, you may still have a way to survive. If you wait here, you may just starve..."
Her words immediately caused the people below to explode.
"What, there's no food?"
"Then what should we do? Can't you think of a way?"
"There are no more medicinal materials. My son was just rescued yesterday. Wouldn't this cost me my life?"
"Then don't you think of a way quickly? Do you want to watch us die?"
"Even so, you are not afraid of thunder."
Dongqing was so angry as she heard the following words getting more and more unpleasant that she wanted to rush out to say a few words, but was pulled back by Yun Miaomiao.
"Madam~" Dongqing looked at Yun Miaomiao. They just saw that their wife was easy to bully, so they all spoke freely.
Liang Yingying stood in the crowd and sneered, "Yun Miaomiao, aren't you very powerful? I think you can help us all find food and medicinal materials. It's not difficult for you. You must be able to do it."
"Yeah, just go look for it."
"That's right, if you don't have it, go look for it. Do you want to starve us to death?"
Yun Miaomiao looked indifferent and glanced at Liang Yingying's proud face, "I am not as capable as Miss Liang and can donate all the county government's granaries and medicinal materials. Why don't you try to find Miss Liang? I can't find any.
A grain of food has arrived."
"You, Yun Miaomiao." Liang Yingying was looked at by the eyes of the people around her, and suddenly panicked, "My food was all stored in the city, and later I donated it to you, and there is nothing left."
Yun Miaomiao curled up her lips, "I also know that you are worried. I have asked Magistrate Zhao to write a note to the emperor, but more than half a month has passed, and no food or medicinal materials from the court have been delivered. My man is working in the Gu family.
Live, I also wrote him a letter seven days ago, asking him to please take care of your lord and write a note to the emperor, but the food still hasn’t arrived. I have thought about everything I should think about. I am also an ordinary person. I only suffered this when I passed through Hubei.
When I was in trouble, I naturally tried my best to give everyone a good meal and survive, but I really had no choice."
"This~"
The people below began to look at each other, "Magistrate Zhao did send people to help us. It seems that something happened in Ruizhou City in the past few days, so he called half of the people back. Otherwise, how can we just rely on a few of us to dig?"
Digging so fast."
"I saw her flying pigeons and returning them several times. She must be writing a letter to the capital. It doesn't look like a lie."
One or two started to guess.
"Is it true that the higher-ups are ignoring us?"
"Furthermore, Magistrate Liang and Magistrate Wang have gone out, and there has been no news so far. Even the capital should have heard about the deaths here."
"The officials don't care whether we live or die. If it were you, could you find something to eat?"
"Then we can't wait to die of hunger."
"I said that for a living person like you, you don't even want to go out to find someone to eat. You deserve to starve to death."
"..."
So many people were talking non-stop, saying that Yun Miaomiao would not take care of them to the end, some said that they were worse than a little girl, and a small number of people were scolding the court for being cold-blooded.
The effect had been achieved, Yun Miaomiao stopped saying anything, jumped down from the table, and Liang Yingying stood in front of her.
"You did it on purpose. You deliberately made me look bad in front of everyone." Liang Yingying asked.
Originally, these people were grateful to Liang Yingying for giving out so much food. Even though they had plundered it from their hands, they were still lucky to have such a batch of food for emergency relief. However, Yun Miaomiao made a fuss just now, and all of it became his own.
It was wrong. Some people blamed Magistrate Liang for not showing up for so long because he was afraid of trouble.
All this made Liang Yingying completely embarrassed, and she couldn't be angry at all.
Yun Miaomiao dodged her hand that stopped her and walked around, "If you think so, I can't help it. Miss Liang, I advise you to think carefully about what you are going to do in the future. After all, you are a rich lady.
, I’m afraid you won’t be able to recognize the wild vegetables, but don’t starve to death by then.”
"you...."
Yun Miaomiao returned to her tent. The digging in the city was almost done and it was time to finish.
"What?" Dongqing thought she heard wrongly, "Madam, you want to leave?"
Yun Miaomiao nodded, "It's not about leaving, it's about going back to Ruizhou City. As long as people here have brains, they will go to Ruizhou City. If so many people here go, Ruizhou City can't accommodate so many people, and we have to
If you care about the life and death of so many people, isn’t there a ready-made place closest to here where they can have a good place to go?”
"Madam, are you talking about Jiangning Village?"
"Yes, I will go back and discuss with my godfather first to place all these people in Jiangning Village. There are still some houses in Jiangning Village that can be lived in. If they are tidied up, they can accommodate so many people. Allocate land and houses to them.
It’s better than everyone going to Ruizhou City.”
Dongqing had to say that Yun Miaomiao was amazing, "Madam, you are so amazing. It would not be the best if so many people were here or went to Ruizhou City. When are you going to leave? I will ask Qingyang to come back and prepare."
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"No, you stay here, I can go back alone. If we all leave, these people will not make trouble for fun, and the credit for this matter must go to my godfather, he is the county magistrate.
It's been too long. It's time to move up. Doesn't the imperial concubine want to control this area? Now let her see what it means to shoot oneself in the foot."
They finally fought back, but Yun Miaomiao was not happy. Yun Su used the identity of the son of County Magistrate Zhao, and he was afraid that he would be made things difficult for him in the capital.
However, with Gu Fengqing here, although Yun Miaomiao was worried, she felt much more at ease.
When Dongqing told Qingyang, Qingyang was the first to object to Yun Miaomiao going back alone, "Madam, if something happens to you, what do you want us to do? The young master and the young master are both far away in the capital. You can't take risks, the noble concubine."
The enemy is watching from behind, the enemy is in the dark, and we are in the open, so we cannot take risks."
After hearing what he said, Yun Miaomiao felt that she was impulsive and that this decision was indeed somewhat irrational.
"Then I'll ask Dongqing to come with me. You can take care of things here in Qingyang. By the way, although Zhou Guanmin can't walk with his legs, he is not a simple person. If you can free up your hands, you should pay more attention.
Live him."
"Okay." Seeing Yun Miaomiao relent, Qingyang took Dongqing with him and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Madam, don't worry, Qingyang will abide by Madam's words and won't let anything happen here, let alone Zhou Guanmin make any mistakes or actions.
of."
"After my godfather and I finalized the matter in Jiangning Village, we immediately brought people back to find you. It may take a long time. Although the food is enough in seven days, it will still take several days to get to Jiangning Village from here.
In order to ensure that no one goes hungry, you will halve the food starting from tomorrow, and change the original three meals a day to two meals a day."
"Madam, don't worry, I'm here." Qingyang nodded, "I learned a lot from being with madam. I also helped Magistrate Zhao in Ruizhou City before. I have experience in this, including riots.
I can handle it.”
"good."
Having finished all the instructions that needed to be given, Yun Miaomiao took Dongqing with her and started on her way before the night was completely dark.
Walking all the way south, Yun Miaomiao did not dare to delay even though she was extremely tired. It took her three days and three nights to reach Ruizhou City. When Wang Cheng saw her, he was stunned.
"Girl, why are you back?" Seeing that she only brought Dongqing with her, Wang Cheng thought something had happened, "Did something happen?"
Yun Miaomiao shook her head, "I have something to come back to discuss with my godfather, please take me to see him quickly."
Wang Cheng did not dare to delay, so he quickly called for someone to carry Yun Miaomiao back to the Zhao Mansion. Magistrate Zhao had not eaten yet, but when he heard a message from his servants that Yun Miaomiao was back, he immediately put down his chopsticks and went out to pick him up.