Not knowing that Li Bai and Wang Wei, who were followed by a group of "terrorist" "militants", ate their breakfast slowly and stayed under the shelter of the rain, watching the bubbles one after another on the ground being smashed by the heavy rain, feeling it. The dampness and coolness brought by wind and water mist have been silent for a long time.
"It's estimated to be really rushing. The rain for the second half of a month, the sky is catastrophic, the sky is nine feet thunder, and the sky is nine feet of thunder. The East China Sea Dragon King Water, hey!" Li Bai said a few words, and suddenly lost his interest in writing poetry. Long sighed melancholy.
Wang Wei clicked his mouth and felt dull. He suddenly remembered an important thing and said: "It is said that there should be half of the houses in the city. Why is there no standing water?"
As he spoke, his eyes followed the rain that fell on the ground and gathered into a river. When he saw it, he looked relieved and said: "It turns out that there are drains that have been dug out. Look there, the wood has been nailed. Pile, for fear that people will accidentally fall and be washed away."
Li Bai followed, didn't it? The small rivers that converged into the artificially widened drainage ditch, churning away.
"In that case, the local officials are still a group of capable officials. What does the court mean to send me two here?"
For a while, Li Bai felt that the court was a bit silly.
Wang Wei was about to nod his head to agree. There were a lot of figures suddenly appearing in the rain screen, some of them old and young, some of them dressed in clothes, and some of them let the heavy rain fall on them, so that their clothes were wet, and they were glued to them by the wind. Body.
"Father, father, here, right here, Chengdong steamed bun shop, father, hurry up, mother, there are steamed buns." A seven or eight-year-old boy shouted excitedly in the rain, his little finger pointed at the sign of the breakfast shop. Pull a woman's clothes with the other hand.
Seeing the person who appeared suddenly, Wang Wei was stunned. You can tell from the clothes on the body that the living conditions of this group of people should be good at home. The clothes are made of muslin cloth and the shoes are a little dry. The color of vicissitudes brought about by life, but that can only show that people are industrious.
Children are literate, they are normal, they are taught in a school, and they have a fat baby on their faces. At first glance, they know that they can keep up with the nutrition of what they usually eat.
The problem is that a group of people are not staying at home, why are they going out in the rain? There are children, why not go to school
Suspiciously, a crowd of people squeezed in. Someone went to look for the owner of the shop. They were far away. It was raining and thundering outside. Wang Wei and Li Bai did not hear clearly what the person said to the owner of the shop.
After a while, the newcomers looked for places to sit down despite the dampness. Another woman brought them food. There was a big bowl of millet porridge in front of them, but they didn’t see other fried dough sticks, steamed buns, or cakes. .
Only the child had a peeled boiled egg in front of him, and there was also more rice in the porridge.
Without waiting for Li Bai and Wang Wei to ask curiously, the woman first opened her mouth and said to the people who followed: "The county will give 20 yuan a day to be responsible for the relief, or wait for the heavy rain to pass and before the winter. I owe them all on credit, and I really can’t bring out other things. He is the owner of the house, and he will get some fried dough sticks for the baby."
The owner inside came out, pinched a dough stick in his hand and placed it in front of the child. The child stood up very well and bowed, "Thank you, uncle."
The owner was happy and hurried into the house. When he came out, there was a big goose egg in his hand. At first glance, he knew it was salty and placed it in front of the child.
The child thanked again, and quickly peeled the goose egg, used chopsticks to pick out the oily yellow and put it into the mother's bowl, and then tore more than half of the fried dough sticks and put it in the father's bowl. The egg was sent to the old man to prevent others from returning the stuff. When he came back, he said, "I can read at home and listen to me."
As for the other adults, they don't seem to belong to the same family, so he doesn't care.
Li Bai and Wang Wei looked at each other for a moment, and Li Bai said, "Each person adds two steamed buns and counts us."
Seeing that someone paid, the owner of the shop would naturally not stop it, and they took out the steamed buns and gave them one by one. Everyone quickly got up and thanked Li Bai and Wang Wei.
Li Bai didn't rush away, and sat down and asked the owner to serve a cold meat plate with a little wine. They used this as an excuse to sell two bowls of wine and listened to others chatting while eating and drinking.
As they listened, their expressions became serious, and Li Bai, who had previously praised the county officials as competent officials, did not continue to boast.
It turned out that all places in Hongnong County except the county seat were washed away. In order to prevent the county seat of Hongnong County from being washed away, the Hongsheshui river had already been dug and burst its dykes.
This is nothing to Wang Wei and Li Bai. It is normal. Zhang Xiaobao mentioned in the measures on disaster relief that if things cannot be done, they should rush to the countryside to protect the cities.
This is not to say that the countryside is not important. This flush refers to the resettlement of the rural people, only the land and houses in the countryside, not the people, because if the city is flushed, the rebuilding will cost too much money, which is several times that of the countryside. , Or even tens to hundreds of times.
The problem didn't arise here, it was about property when a group of people were talking.
As a place between Chang'an and Luoyang, Hongnong’s breeding industry is very large. It is close to the river, with ponds for raising ducks and geese, herds of pigs, cattle and sheep, and countless chickens, not to mention fish and shrimps. Those who could not sell it happened to take advantage of the convenience of the Yellow River. The salt transported from Jilizhou was put together with fish and shrimps and put into jars to make braised sauce.
From the clothes on these people and the children’s tutoring, one can tell that Hongnong’s people’s lives are not bad.
Since it's not bad, what about the money? What about things? Didn't other animals and family money be taken with you when avoiding floods
The surprised Li Bai and Wang Wei continued to listen, and after another quarter of an hour, they understood.
In addition to the county seat, the people in other places in Hongnong were sent to the county seat by the county officials. When the Nahonglu River and its tributaries did not reach the critical point, they thought they had been dug up in advance because the materials were used for construction. Well, it's all solid stones and cement, so it's quite hard to dig.
The river opened, and the heavy rain kept going underground. The officials in the county made a lot of guarantees and the people followed. As for the various things to be raised, the household items and money, they all created pamphlets, saying that they were waiting for the disaster to pass. Give it later.
People who disagree will either enforce it or throw it in the local area and leave it alone.
Therefore, these people who have gone through several inspections and body searches have no money and can only wait for the help of the county government.
The county did not distribute food. Chang Pingcang said that he would not open anything. He only distributed the people who received them to various restaurants and shops to eat. They did not give cash to the restaurants and owed money on credit.
The combination of several things gives people a very awkward feeling.
Wang Wei was from the Ministry of Industry, but he had done things locally before, and he was in charge of a warehouse. Not far from here, he was also advised by Xu Si. He saw that something was wrong, and asked Li Bai, "Brother Taibai, What do you want to say?"
Li Bai belongs to the Ministry of Households. Even if he is unwilling to take the initiative to learn, he has to do the forms that should be made, and he must listen to the ones that should be listened to. Under the influence of ears and eyes, he has a small understanding of money matters.
Hearing Wang Wei’s question, he felt a bit dry in his mouth. He drank a big sip of wine and took a deep breath, and said, “This shows that someone is in urgent need of money, and just dared to take advantage of natural disasters and be taken advantage of by him or them. He was smart, but didn’t use it to the right place. His heart is deplorable, so we..."
"So we were sent here. The emperor seems to know. He can't trust the local officials. Let us two imperial officials come to clean up the people." Wang Wei was a little angry, with a hint of pride. He thought he was coming with Li Bai. It shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to things and puts the burden on both of them.
Li Bai nodded vigorously, his eyes full of determination, solemn and solemn.
Of course, they never thought that Li Longji sent them to investigate them, one is ability, and the other is clean or not. What Li Longji really trusts is the nine children who are about to get off the train. If they were two When it is done, then the nine children will be treated as if they are coming over to play. If they can't do it well, no matter how difficult the things they encounter, and whether they are in the same foul play, Xiao Bei and the others will make it straight.
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The train stopped at Hongnong Station amid the harsh braking sound. Hundreds of people rushed out of the carriage. As soon as they arrived at the platform, they dispersed in all directions and quickly disappeared into the rain.
The five people who had been on the platform for three days looked around in confusion, one of them said: "There are so many people here today. They are in a hurry. They don’t look like officials. Do you think there will be any? The officials went directly to the city to investigate without any entourage?"
The person next to him also seemed more puzzled. He thought about it and said at ease: "I'm afraid, there are officials who go in alone and don't want to do anything. The city is not allowed to enter and not to leave. Look, what is that?"
This person was talking, and pointed to the carriages hanging on the back of the passenger car that just passed by. The carriage in front was gone, but the carriages in the back were dragged into another track, dragged by a group of horse mules. Very slow, obviously the contents of the carriage are heavy.
"Look at it in the past." The person who spoke before rushed over first, because of the independence of the railway system, they couldn't get the news from inside the railway at all.
Five people leaned over and waited for a while. After all the carriages came in, the canvas covering the top was opened, and tarpaulin appeared inside. The canvas brought something down. Upon closer inspection, it was found that it was rice.
"Food." The person who spoke first uttered two words, looking very nervous, and the other four people also changed their complexions.
The second speaker just looked around and said, "Quickly, go back and report. Grain has arrived. Who is so powerful and knows that the price of food in Hongnong County has risen?"
Right now, one person ran away and got on his horse outside the platform.