He secretly followed King Pengcheng with a few attendants, and indeed he saw the sneaky little moves of some people.
King Pengcheng seemed to have returned to his fiefdom with a large army, but in fact he changed his clothes and went to various taverns and teahouses in Youzhou again. He did not leave Youzhou until mid-December.
Because they were far away, Huo Qubing couldn't hear what King Pengcheng was talking about inside, so he had to hurry back to Longgang Academy after they left.
After listening to Huo Qubing's words, Xie Yuan pursed his lips.
Teahouses, taverns, gathering places for people from all walks of life.
What did he do there?
Forget it, let’s forget about King Pengcheng for now.
"Unjust, have you bought all the dry food and coal?" Xie Yuan asked.
The thing he asked Huo Qubing to do before was to buy dry food and coal.
The reason why he had to wait until the Four Kings left before continuing to buy was because he was afraid that these people would find out that he was hoarding things and try to snatch them away.
"Back to my lord, I bought them all." Huo Qubing nodded and asked in confusion, "My lord, there are only about ten people in the academy, why do you need ten thousand stones of coal and dry food?"
"Since the beginning of November, disasters have occurred all over the Central Plains. Frosts have also damaged crops. The aristocratic families and the government have no time to take care of themselves in order to avoid disasters -" Xie Yuan looked at the heavy snow, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
"They don't care about the life and death of the people. Those who have some food reserves can use some to replace coal. Those who don't even have food reserves can only starve and freeze to death."
It’s not unreasonable for Zhumen to be stinky with wine and meat, and freeze to death on the road.
These chaotic times are not unreasonable.
The Jin Dynasty was at war all the year round, and the people lived in fear every day - under such public security, the order of etiquette and music had long since collapsed, let alone any laws.
"My lord, do you want to save those people?"
Huo Qubing's question brought Comrade Xiao Xie back to his thoughts.
He straightened his clothes, nodded and said: "These dry food and coal seem to be a lot, but if they are really divided into the hands of the people, they will not be much. I will take these things down the mountain first, and then you can go to the secret room of my bookstore to get some.
Take out the box of gold and exchange it all for coal and dry food."
Huo Qubing nodded.
Despite the fact that their lord is poor, he is truly a man of great wealth.
So when he learned about a certain comrade's small treasury, Huo Qu's patient became numb.
Xie Yuan led a group of disciples down the mountain to help the people. After Lu Zhong heard about it, he also wanted to go with him, but Huo Qubing stopped him.
"Lu Xiaolangjun is a man of great wealth. My lord cannot afford to suffer any misfortune on his way down the mountain." Huo Qubing glanced at the frail Lu Zhong, his eyes full of displeasure.
Lu Zhong had no choice but to stay in the academy with a few bookboys and attendants.
After Huo Qubing left, the attendants found that they were the only ones in the academy, so they suggested that Lu Zhong take this opportunity to take away the people and the books directly.
"This is not a gentleman's move. It is not feasible or feasible." Lu Zhong shook his head quickly.
Attendant: "..."
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It was snowing in the Central Plains, the roads were muddy, and the horses were slipping while walking.
The group of people inquired about the place where the disaster occurred and provided aid along the way. In less than half a month, Wanshi grain and coal were exhausted.
As the New Year was approaching, everyone was walking around and came to Chen County unknowingly.
On New Year's Eve, Huo Qubing came to meet him with the newly purchased tens of thousands of stones of grain and coal.
Several people helped the hungry and cold people in Chen County and planned to stay here to celebrate the New Year.
"My lord's surname is Xie, but does he come from the Xie family in Chen County?" In the inn, Huo Qubing asked while rubbing his sore shoulders.
"Hmm." Xie Yuan thought of something, "You're going to stay here today, and I'm going to go into the mountains."
"Going into the mountains in the middle of the night, my lord, aren't you afraid of attracting jackals?" Huo Qubing raised his eyebrows.
"I grew up in the mountains and wilds, with jackals and wolves as my companions."
Xie Yuan left with a smile, leaving Huo Qubing alone in a daze.
…
At night.
The barren mountains outside Chen County.
A young man wearing a bamboo hat held a weak lamp and walked slowly on the snow-covered path.
Xie Yuan stopped for a moment in front of a small courtyard with a collapsed fence, walked toward the back of the courtyard for a moment, and entered an old tomb covered with snow.
Lying here is his mother.
On New Year's Eve of that year, she left the last piece of white-faced steamed bun to herself, went out to the mountains to look for food, and did not return for a long time. He noticed something unusual and went out to look for Xie Qi, but he only found his body bitten to pieces by jackals, with only one left to eat.
A pair of mangled corpses.
From that day on, he completely gave up on Mr. Xie.
Xie Yuan glanced at the tombstone and was about to brush off the snowflakes on it. Suddenly his eyes sharpened and he quickly hid in the woods nearby.
Not long after he hid, a sneaky figure trotted up to Xie Qi's tomb.
As soon as the man reached out towards the tombstone, he felt a cold feeling on his neck.
"Who are you, and why do you come to worship this lonely grave in the wild mountains?"
The warm voice came from the man's back, and the murderous intent in it sent chills down the man's spine.
He trembled and said, "The little one...the little one is a servant of the Xie family in Chen County, and has come to pay homage to the late queen."
"Worship?"
Xie Yuan raised his eyebrows, took back the dagger in his hand, and looked at the basket with the lamp.
There are really some sacrifices, including a roast chicken.
"She is just a concubine, not a female queen of the Xie family." Xie Yuan retracted his gaze, wiped the dagger on the body, and wiped off the dagger with a trace of blood.
The man's mouth twitched and he whispered: "Even so, she was once welcomed into the main room by the head of the family with eight sedans. It was only later that the Qi family became a poor family, so he reduced his wife to a concubine."
Xie Yuan was stunned.
When his mother was alive, she never told him about the past. He only knew that his mother's family was the down-and-out Qi family.
"Speaking of it, the Qi family is also pitiful. There is a talented person in the family, but they were suppressed by the major families in Youzhou and fell into this state. If it hadn't been for that incident, the Qi family would have become a high-class family. The Qi family
My children will not live in hiding like now."
The guy sighed.
Xie Yuan narrowed his eyes.
Wasn't it true that the Qi family was suppressed to the point where the entire family fell into disrepair, and their descendants migrated away from the Central Plains?
Could it be that there are secrets in this that he doesn't know about?
"What do you mean by this? Didn't the Qi family fall into decline because of the oppression of the aristocratic family?" Xie Yuan asked lightly.
"The young man is young and doesn't know what happened back then." The guy thought for a moment and recounted what happened back then.
Fifteen years ago, the Qi family produced two talented men, one in literature and one in martial arts.
The writer was praised by famous Confucians and became famous in the Central Plains;
The Thirteen Weak Champions of Warriors followed Emperor Tianwu on his expeditions to the south and north without ever being defeated, so he made the merit of following the dragon.
It can be said that it was because of him that the Jin Dynasty was founded.
As a result, the Qi family became a high-class family, and because of this, the marriage between the Xie family and the Qi family came about.
At the founding of the Jin Dynasty, Na Langjun was named a general, which coincided with the barbarians going south and invading Liangzhou.
He then led his army to rush for reinforcements, but he did not want to suffer the first defeat in his life - so the army was destroyed and Liangzhou was massacred.
By the time the reinforcements arrived, Liangzhou City was empty.