That day, Li Qi was sitting in the carriage. He was telling stories to Tang Yun and Wei Xinshan. Unexpectedly, the carriage suddenly stopped. There was a wave of movement that almost made Li Qi fall over.
"What are you doing?" Li Qi stopped talking and said, "Grandma, Yun'er, go and see what's going on."
Tang Yun nodded, got out of the carriage, and came back after a while, looking a little strange.
"What's wrong?" Li Qi asked.
"Someone stopped the marching team," Tang Yun replied.
"Who?"
"I don't know either, but you should go take a look, sir." Tang Yundao said.
Li Qi slowly got up and said, "Okay, let's go take a look."
After getting out of the carriage, he quickly came to the front of the team. As the general of the grain and grass team, Tian Hangnan was basically handling everything along the way.
Seeing Li Qi coming, he came over and said, "Mr. Li was shocked."
Li Qi glanced behind him and saw seven or eight people kneeling on the ground not far away, and all of them looked like beggars.
"What's going on?" Li Qi asked.
Tian Hangnan said: "Those unruly people blocked the road and complained about injustice. I will have them driven away right away."
"Calling injustice?" Li Qi was a little confused.
Tian Hangnan smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe they regard us as imperial envoys, so..."
Li Qi was a little curious and walked over before Tian Hangnan finished speaking.
I came to those people and took a closer look.
There were six people kneeling on the ground, four women and two men. They all looked young. There was a little boy who looked about eleven or twelve years old.
The clothes on everyone's body were in tatters, and they were all sallow and skinny. It was obvious that they hadn't had a full meal in a long time.
Li Qi looked at them and asked, "Where are you from? Why are you blocking our way?"
The leader was a woman in her twenties. With tears in her eyes, she kowtowed to Li Qi: "Sir... we want to redress our grievances..."
"Redress your grievance? Why don't you go to the local prefect?" Li Qi asked.
One of them said: "There is no use looking for the prefect, he is in the same group as those people..."
Immediately afterwards, several people started talking and crying, making Li Qi confused.
In the end, there was nothing he could do. Li Qi called Tian Hangnan over and asked, "How far is it to the next resting place?"
"Sir, we still have thirty miles to go."
"Okay, you take them down first and get some food for them. When we set up camp later, ask them to send someone over to talk to me." Li Qi said.
"Ah?" Tian Hangnan was stunned for a moment, "Sir, this..."
"What's wrong?"
"Sir, this kind of thing is not our business, and our trip is to Feiyan Village..."
"I know, but what can you do if you encounter something? I'll first understand the situation before we talk. Anyway, as long as it doesn't delay the march," Li Qi said.
Tian Hangnan smiled bitterly and said, "Yes."
Back on the carriage, Tang Yun had a smile on his face, and Li Qi asked: "What's wrong? It feels like eating honey."
Tang Yundao: "I thought the young master would not care about them..."
Li Qi said angrily: "Are you acting like your son? You asked me to go down and take a look. Don't you just want me to take care of this matter?"
Tang Yun, who was struck by Li Qi's words, blushed and felt a little embarrassed.
"Okay, since our Yun'er wants to be a good person, how can I not cooperate?" Li Qi said.
Tang Yun cupped his hands and saluted: "Thank you, sir..."
Tang Yun's family was brutally wiped out and he had been complaining for many years, so when he heard people complaining, he felt a little unbearable.
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After setting up camp, Li Qi sat in a tent, and Tian Hangnan brought a woman over.
"What's your name?" Li Qi asked looking at the dirty woman.
"My little girl's name is Chai Nianwei. She is from Shunzhou..." the woman knelt on the ground and said.
"Why did you block the road and complain?" Li Qi asked.
The woman sniffed, her eyes turned red, and she choked with sobs: "Those people with me, we are all from Zhoushun, and our whole family was killed..."
"Oh?" Li Qi was a little surprised, "Who did it?"
"I don't know..."
"I don't know?"
The woman nodded: "But those people must have colluded with the government, because when we went to report to the government, we were kicked out several times... In order to help our deceased family members seek justice, a few of us agreed to go to Beijing together... Who wants to go to Beijing together?
When we met an adult halfway, we just..."
Li Qi finally figured it out, looked at the woman and said, "I see you speak clearly, you have read a book, right?"
"The little girl went to private school for a few years."
"Being able to attend a private school...it seems like your family is pretty good in the local area?" Li Qi asked.
Chai Nianwei nodded slightly.
"I already have a general understanding of your affairs, but for the specific matters, I have to go to Zhoushun to see."
As Li Qi spoke, he said to Tian Hangnan: "Captain Tian, take them down first and let them live in the camp. I'll go to Zhoushun."
"ah?"
"Don't be arrogant every time. What's the point?" Li Qi said angrily, "We're not in a hurry anyway. Just prepare the carriage and I'll set off in a moment."
Tian Hangnan grimaced and said helplessly: "Yes..."
Li Qi did not bring more troops, but asked Wei Gang to drive the car, and he and Tang Yun went directly to Zhoushun.
Because he knew that it would be inconvenient for such a large group of people to go there.
There were more than 10,000 people in the team escorting the grain and fodder, so it would take a lot of time to stop and go with so many people.
On the way, Li Qi asked Tang Yun: "Where is this Zhoushun?"
In order to help Li Qi decipher the map in the "Tomb Book", Tang Yun spent a lot of time studying the geography of Daxia. Now she can be regarded as a living map.
"Zhoushun is a small city with a small area." Tang Yun said, "It only takes two hours to get there from our location."
"That's good. We can have dinner when we get there." Li Qi touched his stomach and said, "It's better for the monk to catch the train. I'll take a nap first and wait until you call me."
Tang Yun nodded slightly and took the blanket on the side to cover Li Qi.
Just as the carriage set off towards Zhoushun, on a small road, eight masked men were staring at Li Qi's carriage.
"What now?" one of them asked.
"What can we do? If the people on the carriage get to Zhoushun, we will all be dead."
"Brother, what do you mean..."
"It doesn't matter who's in the car, as long as he can't go to Zhoushun, we have nothing to worry about."
"But the driver, I think his martial arts is not weak... we..."
"What are you afraid of? No matter how good his martial arts skills are, he can still defeat eight against one?" the leading masked man said, turning to a person on the side and said, "Third brother, you go to the official road in front to set a trap first. After a while,