Outside the inn, Song Qing, who was also dressed in coarse linen and linen, looked at Liu Mingzhi calmly: "Southeast? Northwest?"
"I'll go northwest and meet back before dark!"
"I know, then I'll go to the southeast. Be careful, Qingzhou Mansion is full of weird things!"
"I understand, wait!"
Song Qing looked at Liu Mingzhi in confusion. Liu Mingzhi bent down and groped on the ground for a while, rubbed his face with dusty hands, and messed up his hair. Mobile version
"Just act like one! Refugees should look like refugees!"
Seeing Liu Mingzhi's retreating back, Song Qing hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and began to fiddle with the same pattern. After a while, Song Qing, who was no better than a beggar, walked towards Dongcheng.
Liu Mingzhi looked at the surrounding streets, and there were very few victims.
If there is no locust plague, it is unexplainable. If there is a locust plague, where are the victims? Is it true that the victims were gathered in one place by Qingzhou officials as I suspected.
Liu Mingzhi, who was walking and stopping along the way, asked many children with grass tags, but these children looked at Liu Mingzhi cautiously.
When the adults around him saw that Liu Mingzhi didn't want to buy a child, they cursed him and drove him away.
Turning around and walking into a street corner, Liu Mingzhi leaned forward and looked back, only to see the adults around the children cursing and saying something to the children.
"Are these biological parents? Even if it is not said that they are separated by life and death, it shouldn't be like this! Who are these children?"
Liu Mingzhi, who was deep in thought, suddenly felt a strong wind coming from behind his head. He grabbed a rough palm with his backhand and twisted it behind his back.
"Oh, stop it, stop it, I don't mean any harm!"
"Why did you sneak attack me?"
"Who sneaked up on you? I wanted to tap you on the shoulder, but who knew you would start to attack indiscriminately!"
Feeling the strength of the person who was holding his wrist, it seemed that he really didn't have any skills. Liu Mingzhi let go of the person's wrist and adjusted his sleeves: "Who are you and why are you following me secretly?"
Behind me?"
The man whose wrist was caught by Liu Mingzhi exhaled and flicked his wrist and turned around. It was a young man in his twenties!
His clothes were covered in patches, his hair was messy, and his face was covered in mud. It was impossible to tell what he looked like. He could only tell that he was in his twenties based on his general outline.
"My name is Zhao Qi. Brother, you can do it. I'm still so strong after being hungry for so many days. Have you practiced before?"
Liu Mingzhi's eyes lit up and he secretly said that it took no effort at all. He looked at Zhao Qi with pretense of surprise: "Brother Zhao, I've been hungry for three days. I haven't had a bite of food. I live on a little water. You know where?
Can you find something to eat?"
Zhao Qi looked at Liu Mingzhi cautiously: "Although you look messy, you definitely don't look like someone who hasn't eaten in three days. Who are you?"
"Brother Zhao, I'm not lying to you. When I passed by Yunlai Inn just now, the shopkeeper gave me a piece of flour cake to fill my stomach, but there was only one piece of flour cake. Today is fine, and the next days will be terrible.
What should I do!"
Zhao Qi circled around Liu Mingzhi several times: "There is a refugee camp prepared by the government in the west of the city. Why don't you go there? There is porridge for alms there every day!"
Liu Mingzhi was stunned and muttered to himself. Could it be that he had really guessed wrong? The officials in Qingzhou Prefecture were really good officials! He couldn't help but blame himself, complaining that he should not generalize, thinking that all officials in the world are like those
Just like officials who drink the blood of soldiers.
"Brother Zhao, I just came from Chrome State and don't know the situation in Qingzhou. I have just been in the city for less than half a day, so I don't know the situation in Qingzhou Prefecture. Please forgive me, Brother Zhao!"
Zhao Qi looked at Liu Mingzhi in surprise: "Are you from Chrome State?"
"That's right, I just came from Chrome State!"
"Didn't the governor of Chrome Prefecture receive orders from Governor Tong? How could people flee from Chrome Prefecture to Qingzhou?"
"Brother Zhao, what do you mean by this? Can't the people of Chrome Province come to Qingzhou? After the locust plague broke out, people in Chrome Province had no food at all. I had to come to Qingzhou to find a way to survive. Dare you ask Brother Zhao about Qingzhou City?
Where is the government’s refugee camp? I don’t want to starve to death in the days to come!”
Zhao Qi looked around at the quiet street: "Brother, you are not from Chrome State. I can tell you have a Jiangnan accent when you speak!"
Liu Mingzhi was a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that the secret would be revealed so quickly. It seems that the accent problem is difficult to cover up!
Zhao Qi suddenly reached out and groped Liu Mingzhi's body. Liu Mingzhi wanted to resist and capture Zhao Qi, but he stopped after thinking for a moment.
Zhao Qi searched all the cuff pockets on Liu Mingzhi's body and nodded clearly: "Did the guards at the city gate also confiscate their personal belongings and have to stay in Qingzhou City?"
Liu Mingzhi was startled and then realized what Zhao Qi was looking for. He thought that when Qinglian put his body bag on the table when he was changing clothes, Liu Mingzhi felt a little lucky. The body bag might be an important item to open up Zhao Qi's gap.
Pretending to be a little embarrassed, Liu Mingzhi scratched his head and looked at Zhao Qi cautiously: "I didn't expect that Brother Zhao would find out. To be honest with Brother Zhao, I am a wandering scholar. I was not happy because of Qiu Wei's failure in the exam. I hid it from my father."
I was thinking of wandering poets. Unexpectedly, when I passed by Qingzhou Prefecture, the soldier guarding the city gate asked me if I had heard anything. The younger brother said that he seemed to have heard that the locust plague in Qingzhou was serious. These people robbed me indiscriminately.
I still have my identity certificate, but I can’t stay in the inn without my identity certificate. Even if I went to other city gates, they wouldn’t let me leave the city. I still don’t understand what happened!”
Zhao Qi looked at Liu Mingzhi with pity and sighed: "You really don't know the blessings in the blessings. Just because you failed in the imperial examination and couldn't take it with you in the rich land of Jiangnan, you came to a poor and remote place like Qingzhou Prefecture. Now
Well, I have become a refugee without household registration!"
"What, I've become a refugee. It's impossible. I have a certificate, but it was just confiscated by the soldiers in Qingzhou. I have a household registration. How could I have become a refugee? Are you lying to me?
Isn’t that right? Brother Zhao, please don’t scare me!”
Liu Mingzhi, possessed by the drama spirit, performed his anxious and uneasy look very vividly!
Zhao Qi shook his head and sighed: "You are also unlucky. Once you enter Qingzhou, don't even think about leaving. You said you are the same. If you can't say anything bad, you have to say that I heard that there is a serious locust plague in Qingzhou Prefecture!"
"Brother Zhao, what do you mean?"
Zhao Qi leaned forward and looked around, and found that no one was paying attention here. He waved to Liu Mingzhi: "Come with me! Let's find a safe place to talk!"
Liu Mingzhi squinted his eyes and hurriedly followed Zhao Qi. He finally had some skills, but he didn't want to turn back in vain.
Liu Mingzhi wanted to remember the streets he walked, but Zhao Qi didn't seem to completely believe him. He started walking in a zigzag manner. Liu Mingzhi looked at the scenery of the street and clearly walked there three times!
Finally, Zhao Qi led Liu Mingzhi to a dilapidated and abandoned house and stopped.
"You wait here first!"
"OK!"
Zhao Qi grabbed the door bolt and gently locked it, three times in a row, paused for a moment and knocked twice, and finally knocked five times in a row.
The dilapidated door opened immediately, and a man in gray robe walked out: "Zhao Qi, who is he when you finally come back?"
The man was surprised and looked at Liu Mingzhi who was standing aside with some caution. Liu Mingzhi clearly saw the murderous intention and nodded with a silly smile pretending not to know.
Zhao Qi glanced at Liu Mingzhi: "Brother He, come in and talk!"
The door slammed shut, leaving Liu Mingzhi waiting alone.
After looking around, Liu Mingzhi put his ear to the door and listened, vaguely and intermittently hearing the quarrel between Zhao Qi and Brother He.
"How can you bring a stranger here? What if he is a lackey of the government?"
"Brother He, he is an unlucky guy from Jiangnan. I can tell that, and I think he has some strength. If he can help us get out of the city, we can only go to the capital to file a petition after leaving the city. Otherwise, we will be alive sooner or later.
Starve to death in the city!”
"Officials protect each other and are complicit in evil. If you accuse us of anything, just do the opposite!"
Liu Mingzhi took a deep breath. There was indeed a big trouble in Qingzhou Mansion that could not be ignored. It was a pity that these officials dared to whitewash the situation.
Liu Mingzhi suddenly figured out the emperor's intention of letting Long Wuwei serve as the imperial guard!