The next day, when the genius was dim, Lily prepared a simple and low-key green-capped carriage at the second gate according to Nangong Yue's instructions, and also ordered the accompanying people to travel lightly.
Nangong Yue only brought three maids with her, Baihui Lily and Thrush.
When they arrived at the second gate, Zhu Xing, who was wearing simple blue cotton clothes, had already led a fine horse and was waiting beside the carriage, but what surprised Nangong Yue and the others was another person.
"Zhou Dacheng, why are you here?" Lily blurted out in surprise.
It turned out that the driver sitting in front of the carriage wearing a simple gray bunt and a bamboo hat turned out to be Zhou Dacheng.
"I've seen the concubine." Zhou Dacheng held a whip, clasped his fists roughly to salute Nangong Yue, and then said with a bold smile, "I've been suffocated these days, and I'll go out with you to let the wind go."
The so-called "release" is aimed at the prisoners in prison! Lily's face turned dark all of a sudden, and she thought: You have to release yourself, don't get involved with others!
Of course, Nangong Yue had no objection to Zhou Dacheng's initiative to invite Ying, so a carriage and Zhu Xing's horse set off so lightly.
Liuhezhuang is located in the outskirts of the capital, only a dozen miles away from the capital, the air in the suburbs is indeed much fresher, although it is late autumn, the autumn wind is rustling, many trees and shrubs have turned yellow, and the flowers have withered, But Lily and Thrush were still watching with great interest, and whispered to each other from time to time.
In less than an hour, the speed of the carriage gradually slowed down, and only Zhu Xing's voice came from outside: "Concubine Shizi, the front is that Liuhezhuang."
Anyway, she was traveling in casual clothes, Nangong Yue was not too restrained, and said, "Stop the car, I want to get out of the car and walk."
After the maids helped her get off the carriage, the first thing she did was to warn Zhu Xing: "Next, you are not allowed to call me Shizifei."
Zhu Xing was startled, but before he could react, Lily and Thrush had already responded with a smile: "Yes, Young Madam!"
In fact, Nangong Yue's childish face, if not for the hair style of a woman, would not look like a young lady, but more like a girl from a wealthy family.
Zhu Xing also dismounted, and walked slowly along with Nangong Yue and the three servant girls, while Zhou Dacheng followed behind in the carriage.
Nangong Yue looked around while walking.
According to Zhu Xing, more than ten years ago, after the old king of Zhennan conquered this land with the late emperor, the late emperor rewarded him with a pile of gold and silver treasures, but the old king of Zhennan thought that the gold and silver treasures were dead things, so how could he have land? What is reliable, so I bought some Zhuangzi's property at will, thinking about passing it down from generation to generation.
It's just that the old Zhennan King went to Nanjiang soon, and no one took care of this Zhuangzi, that is, he sent some account books and filial piety to Nanjiang every year.
Although the old Zhennan Wang is casual, the Zhuangzi he bought is indeed in a very good location, surrounded by mountains and rivers. In particular, there is a river next to these fertile fields, and it seems that the water is rippling.
Huamei enthusiastically explained how to lead the river water to irrigate the fields when there is little rain, and how to dredge the stagnant water to avoid flooding the fertile fields during floods... It couldn't be better.
The field in autumn is a scene of a bumper harvest. The endless rice fields are like a floor covered with gold. When a gust of wind blows, there will be waves of golden waves. Some farmers who look like tenants are harvesting crops in the fields.
At first glance, this Zhuangzi is surprisingly prosperous.
Nangong Yue looked at the farmers not far away and said, "Let's go ahead and borrow some water."
When Nangong Yue went out, as her maids, Baihui and the three of them naturally prepared enough water. Obviously, she just wanted to take the opportunity to talk to the tenants here.
Huamei took the initiative to invite Ying and said: "Shi...Young Madam, why don't you let the slaves go to find the way first?"
Nangong Yue nodded, and Huamei trotted away. Seeing that she was petite and thin, she ran quite fast. Lily suddenly said with emotion: "Actually, Thrush's roots and conditions are not bad, but it's a pity that she is a bit older, otherwise I would have taught her martial arts."
Zhou Dacheng, who was driving the carriage, immediately teased from behind: "With your frizzy personality, how dare you be someone's master?"
Lily's hair blew up like a cat whose tail was stepped on by Xiaobai. It was really unreasonable to be called frizzy by someone even more frizzy than herself.
"It's as if you were a master before!" Lily said with contempt for him, Zhou Dacheng was really speechless, he really confiscated his apprentice.
Take an apprentice when I go back tomorrow! He secretly thought.
The few people walked all the way and talked all the way, Nangong Yue smiled when they came to the small village next to Liuhezhuang, Huamei came out in a hurry, and said without blushing and panting: "Shi... Shao Ma'am, please come with your slaves."
The carriage and groom Zhou Dacheng were left outside the village, while the rest entered the village.
Although it was daytime, the village was quiet. The men must have gone to work. At a glance, only old people and children were occasionally seen.
The thrush leading the way at the side whispered: "Young Madam, this village should not be considered rich." After a pause, she explained, "Look, the houses here are all old wooden houses. If this farmer has some spare money, he would have already A big house with blue bricks and black tiles has been built."
When Huamei said this, Nangong Yue took a closer look and found that it was true. At a glance, there is only a big house with blue bricks and black tiles at the farthest place backed by the mountain. The others are wooden houses that have been built for decades. If you look closely, you will find that the wooden boards have appeared due to the corrosion of the years. Lots of holes and gaps.
Huamei led them into a house that was only two or three houses away from the entrance of the village. The owner of the house was an old lady in her seventies, half of her teeth had fallen out, her mouth shrunk because of this, and her face was covered with wrinkles like chrysanthemums. .
Although the house was simple and crude, it was still fairly clean, and there was no man in the house, so the woman spoke in an orderly manner, so Huamei chose this house.
The thrushes should have been prepared in advance. The old lady had already prepared water for them and a plate of jujubes. The red jujubes were plump and looked like little red lanterns. From the appearance of the drop, one can tell that it has just been picked from the jujube tree outside.
After Nangong Yue sat down, she first apologized and said, "Old lady, I'm bothering you."
"Don't bother, don't bother." The old woman said flatteringly and cautiously. She had never seen a girl as white as Nangong Yue, who was as beautiful as the jade girl in the Guanyin painting. "When noble people like Madam come to rest at the old woman's house, the old woman's poor house seems to be shining..."
Lily burst out laughing, and said, "It's flamboyant."
"That's right, fluffy pimples are shining." The old woman nodded repeatedly without caring.
After Nangong Yue ate a jujube, she praised: "Old lady, your jujube is really sweet and crisp."
"This date is planted by the old lady herself. If the lady likes it, the old lady will pick some for you."
"No need." Nangong Yue said with a smile, "Old lady, sit down, let's talk."
The old lady had already benefited from Huamei just now, knowing that Nangong Yue is a noble person, and she must be rewarded for her service, so she sat down with a smile on her face.
Nangong Yue chatted with her seemingly casually: "Grandma, I just saw that your crops outside are growing really well. It seems that you have another bumper harvest this year. Congratulations."
"There's nothing to congratulate." The old woman curled her lips, not paying attention, "It's not my own..." She hesitated to speak.
Huamei and Nangong Yue glanced at each other, feeling that there was some drama in it, so Huamei deliberately said: "Even if you rent the land from the master's house, after paying the rent, the harvest will finally belong to you, which is not bad."
Nangong Yue followed up and said: "It's not like my village in Huaibei. Because Huaibei was flooded, the harvest for the whole year was gone. Hey, I, the master, can't force the tenants to death, so I have to avoid it." Their year's rent."
The old woman sighed, and said with emotion: "We farmers just depend on the sky to eat, and fortunately those tenants of Madam met such kind-hearted masters like Madam, unlike us..." She said halfway, but suddenly Hearing this, Lily and Thrush really itch.
The old woman looked at the gate of the courtyard, and she was sure that there were no outsiders, so she lowered her voice and said: "Madam, the old woman just complained to you, our master here is more ruthless than a leech."
Blood leeches? Both Zhu Xing and Baihui frowned slightly, thinking that the old woman's words were too harsh.
Nangong Yue didn't take it seriously, and asked, "How do you say it?"
"The rent is increasing every year!" The old woman said it with hatred, gnashing her teeth, "this year it has risen to 50%! No matter how good the harvest is, what's the use of it? Why don't we hand it over to the owner and let us all drink the money from Northwest China?" Wind. These days, I dare not get sick. Once I get sick, I will not be able to survive. A few days ago, the family next door to the old woman sold their eldest daughter..." The old woman sighed endlessly, as the saying goes: distant relatives It's not as good as the neighbor, the neighbor's life is like this, it makes people feel sad when the rabbit dies!
Baihui, Baihe, and Thrush widened their eyes in disbelief when they heard that the rent was 50%, under normal circumstances, the rent of 30% was already at the peak, let alone Liuhezhuang The account books sent showed that the rent was only 20%, and the rent had not been raised for 15 years since Lao Zhennan Wang bought the village. Where did the remaining price difference go? One can imagine! The manager of this Zhuangzi is simply daring.
After thinking about it for a while, Huamei said in an exaggerated tone: "Fifty percent? Isn't this too black-hearted? Old woman, could it be that the steward deceives the superior and the inferior?" She looked at Nangong Yue and said, "Our wife used to In a Zhuangzi in the south of the Yangtze River, there was a daring steward who insisted on writing mulberry silk as tussah silk to pay the bill. Fortunately, our chief steward went to Jiangnan to check the accounts last year, so we were caught."
"My wife is also an old tenant of this village. Two years ago, when the rent had just risen to 40%, we also guessed that the steward was cheating, and we wanted to go to the owner's house to argue... Who knew that last year, the owner The family sent a group of veterans..." The old lady sighed, seeming to hesitate.
Lily saw it, and said: "Grandma, there are some of you who have been soldiers here, it seems that your master's family must be a big family."
"That is indeed a big family." The old woman looked outside cautiously again, and said in a low voice, "Our old master's house is the old Zhennan King who has passed away. Now that the old master has gone, it is said that the This place has been passed down to the current Prince of Zhennan. After that, the rent here has risen even more fiercely. Last year, the prince sent a crippled veteran to support them, but the result... This life is simply not as good as pigs and dogs! Compared with them, we are not bad."
The old woman's words were really shocking, and Zhu Xing almost jumped up when she heard it. I don't know whether to say that the old woman has a bad reputation for the world, or whether I should reprimand the lawless person in charge.
The old woman was still afraid that they would not believe her, so she said again: "The old woman is not talking nonsense. This village knows that those veterans were sent to reclaim wasteland in the back mountain area. They can only rest for two hours a day, and their two meals a day are mixed with chaff. Brown rice is like pig food. This person is made of iron rice and steel. If things go on like this, no one can support them. Two days ago, there was a veteran who was missing a leg and fell ill. I went to ask the steward for a doctor, but the steward not only failed to hire a doctor, but also beat his godson severely, and the young man without an arm is still comatose... It depends on his life, whether he can survive up!"
The old woman shook her head and sighed, she just muttered: "It's a crime."
Nangong Yue's face sank like water. Although she knew that there was something wrong with Zhuangzi, she didn't expect that the manager's actions exceeded her expectations. The Zhennan Prince's Mansion is far away in the southern border. This Zhuangzi has been in charge of affairs for fifteen years, so that he has become more and more courageous, and he has the demeanor of a local emperor.
But the most urgent task is not to settle accounts with the steward, but...
Nangong Yue collected herself and asked, "Grandma, do you know where the sick veteran is now?"
The old woman looked at Nangong Yue suspiciously, wondering what her purpose was.
Seeing this, Nangong Yue pointed to Bai Hui and explained: "Old lady, I am a maid who knows some medical skills. It's rare for me to pass by here. It's also a predestined relationship. I just wanted to let her show the sick veteran to accumulate some virtue." .”
At that time, many people believed in Buddhism, and the old woman clasped her palms together and recited the Buddha. Zan Nangongyue was indeed a bodhisattva, so she told her where the veteran lived.
Nangong Yue ordered Huamei to reward the old woman again, and then left.
The old woman kept sending Nangong Yue and others to the door, and then watched them go deep into the village. She was about to retreat home when a familiar figure suddenly flashed in the corner of her eyes. Could it be that...
She vaguely guessed something, wanted to chase after Nangong Yue and the others, but was afraid of getting into trouble, so she hid in her home in the end.
At the same time, Baihui and Zhu Xing exchanged glances, and then whispered in Nangong Yue's ear: "Concubine Shizi, someone is following us."
"Let him follow." Nangong Yue said nonchalantly, and continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened.
Soon, they followed the dry dirt road to the end of the village.
Huamei pointed to a dilapidated house in front of her and said, "Young Madam, this should be the home of that veteran."
Looking at the dilapidated house in front of them, everyone's brows were furrowed. This is not a house at all, it must have been remodeled from a pig shed. This house is probably even bigger than the side room in their mansion. It is surrounded by almost rotten wooden boards. There are huge gaps between the wooden boards, which may not even be able to block the cold wind in winter.
"Let's go in and have a look." Nangong Yue frowned, her face already very ugly.
It was rare for Baihui and the others to see Nangong Yue like this, they were all focused and solemn.
Huamei walked in the front, pushed open the crumbling wooden door, and raised her voice, "Is anyone there?"
As soon as the door was pushed open, a burst of dirty air came in, as if the smell of pig manure accumulated over the years had completely permeated every inch of the room.
Thrush couldn't help covering her nose, and thought: This is where people live! This is really hateful!
The light in the room was dim, and there was not even a window, only the sunlight coming in from the door slightly illuminated the inside. At a glance, they could see a young man lying with his eyes closed on the rudimentary plank, whether it was the door panel or the plank of the plank bed. The sleeve of his right arm was empty, his face was bruised, and his body was bandaged indiscriminately. There were quite a few cloth strips, with blood oozing faintly from under the cloth strips, which was shocking to watch.
And beside the wooden bed, there was an old man with gray hair lying on his stomach. His face was lying on the wooden bed and he couldn't see clearly, but he could see a piece of wood attached to his right leg at a glance, which was obviously used as a prosthetic.
Nangong Yue and the others knew that the young man had been in a coma for a long time, but the movement of them pushing the door did not wake up the old man, which made them feel that the situation was not good.
Nangong Yue's complexion darkened, and she ordered Baihui to check on the young man, while she went to look at the old man, and found that the other's forehead was hot with her tentacles.
not good!
Nangong Yue was about to order Baihe to help her support the old man, but before she could speak, someone grabbed her left wrist. She raised her eyes, only to find that the unconscious young man opened his eyes at some point, and sat up suddenly. His face was bruised and pale, but those eyes were still as bright as lightning, as if they were going to pierce someone. It seemed that his right arm was firmly restraining Nangong Yue's left wrist.
"Let go of Kaishi...Young Madam!" Lily was furious, under her nose, the concubine Shizi was unexpectedly attacked. This is simply a great shame for her!
Baihui hurriedly said: "We are here to help you, let's go..."
Before she had a chance to finish her words, Lily had already slapped his palm on the back of his neck. For a moment, the other party showed wolf-like eyes and stared at Lily fiercely, as if he wanted to tear her apart, but he couldn't reach his body With a heavy blow on the ground, he closed his eyes and fell down. Since he lost consciousness, he naturally let go of Nangong Yue's wrist.
Finally, Lily was not too cruel, and supported him, preventing him from falling on the wooden bed.
"Lily..."
Baihui glared at her, but Lily said confidently: "If you have to explain to a wolf who doesn't trust people until the year of the monkey, why don't we cure them and prove everything with actions." When he wakes up, is he still embarrassed? Seek revenge on your savior
What she said was clearly unreasonable, but there was still some truth to it. The young man's eyes were indeed like a wolf's, not only fierce, but also full of extreme emotions of distrust.
Lily did it and did it, and it would not help to reprimand her.
Nangong Yue hurriedly said: "Let's help this uncle to another bed first."
As soon as she gave an order, Zhu Xing hugged the disabled old man horizontally, and Huamei took out a piece of blue cotton cloth from the bundle, and spread it on the dirty-looking bed.
This cotton cloth was brought by Thrush, in case Nangong Yue was tired from walking, she could rest on the ground.
After Zhu Xing settled the old man, Nangong Yue checked his pulse.
"Concubine Shizi, how is his situation?" Zhu Xing asked with some concern. For these veterans, the people who have the most affection are probably him and Zhou Dacheng. After all, they are all people who have been with the old Zhennan King.
Nangong Yue said in a deep voice: "He became sick from overwork, resulting in a persistent high fever and unconsciousness. First of all, we must help him get rid of the fever, and then he will recover well later." She thought for a while, and told Zhu Xing, "Zhu Xing, there are some medicines in the rightmost drawer in my carriage, as well as some medicine wine and clean cotton cloths, you go and get them."
Zhu Xing hesitated for a moment, thinking that Baihui and Baihe were both here, so there should be nothing serious, so he took his orders and went.
Nangong Yue first ordered Huamei to wet a white towel and apply a cold compress to the old man's forehead, and then took out her silver needle bag, and then gave him needles in Yinqie, Fuliu, Sanyinjiao, Yongquan, etc., and retired for him. hot.
Followed her to see the young man again: "Baihui, how is he doing?"
Baihui removed the cloth strips from the young man one by one, and while directing Lily to clean up the wound, she frowned and said, "Young Madam, his right leg is broken." She paused, then said with some concerns, "Just Let the servants handle it."
Nangong Yue didn't agree immediately, but asked the school first: "Baihui, how should we deal with the fracture?"
Baihui replied without hesitation: "Clean the wound, fix the bone, and fix it with a wooden board."
Nangong Yue nodded in satisfaction, agreeing.
So, Baihui came to deal with it, and Baihe assisted, while she just supervised from the sidelines.
Baihui first tore a piece of cotton cloth into cloth strips, and used the cloth strips to fix the wooden board clamped on the young man's legs in circles. At the same time, Lily also treated other wounds on his body. Lily is a warrior, so He carried the gold sore medicine made by Lin Jingchen with him, and painted his face with yellow and green patches.
At this moment, a muffled sound came from the side, and Huamei hurriedly exclaimed: "Uncle, are you awake? Do you feel all right?"
The old man slowly opened his eyes, but his eyes seemed cloudy and unable to focus.
Nangong Yue returned to his bed, leaned over and said softly: "Can you hear my voice?"
The other party nodded laboriously.
Nangong Yue continued: "I just gave you the needles, don't move around, I'll take out the needles for you first." As she spoke, she skillfully took out all the silver needles.
"Alan! Alan..." the old man said eagerly, wanting to get up.
Nangong Yue motioned for Thrush to help him up, while comforting him: "Don't worry, Young Master Alan is fine, my maidservant is already treating him."
The old man turned around and saw that Baihui was bandaging Ah Lan, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, cupped his fists and said, "Thank you madam for your help. This time, if it wasn't for madam, our father and son might..." He said that his eyes were already wet, "If Ah Lan If there is a chance, I will never forgive myself, if it is not because of me, Alan would not come to the capital..." He choked up a little when he said this.
"Everything will be fine." Nangong Yue comforted him softly.
The old man took a deep breath, trying to stabilize his emotions, but soon he thought of something, and said: "Madam, you should leave here quickly. If Steward Niu sees it, I'm afraid I will trouble you."
Nangong Yue's half-smile was not a smile, she wished that some kind of steward would come to make trouble.
Huamei said from the side: "Uncle, it's all right, our young lady is not afraid of being in charge of things."
The old man's brows were tightly furrowed, and he said in a hateful voice: "Ma'am, don't you know who the owner of this village is? The manager Niu is not scary, what is scary is the people behind him. If you continue to stay here, I am afraid that Manager Niu will bring you down." Someone comes over and is rude to you."
Huamei straightened her chest, smiled nonchalantly and said, "Why don't we know, isn't the master of this Zhuangzi the Prince of Zhennan?"
The old man was startled, looked at Thrush in surprise, and then at Nangong Yue. Although she was not dressed particularly luxuriously, she didn't look like an ordinary wealthy family in terms of appearance or demeanor... Could it be that they met a nobleman? Is this a noble person who can help them decide
The old man pondered for a moment, and said: "That's right, it's the vicious and vicious Zhennan Prince Xiao Yi!" He gritted his teeth, and the intense hatred shot out of his eyes for a moment, as if he wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood !
Huamei frowned slightly, and was about to say something when Nangong Yue stopped her with a look.
"Uncle, can you tell me what's going on?" Nangong Yue asked.
The old man's eyes darkened, he hesitated for a while, but he also felt that he had nothing to worry about, and said simply: "My name is Chu Dawei, and I was originally a soldier of the old Zhennan King who has passed away. , I lost my right calf in a battle, and I have since retired. The old prince took good care of us old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers when he was alive, but after the current Zhennan King inherits the throne, apart from the meager annual There is nothing left for the pension, and everyone's life is very difficult."
"Last year, when Shi Ziye sent people to Nanjiang to pick up us veterans, everyone was very happy. They felt that Shi Ziye had the demeanor of the old Zhennan King, and he was willing to serve us wastes. Originally, my godson A Lan It meets the requirements of the prince, but he is reluctant to let me come to the capital alone, so he follows me, planning to find a job near the capital to support himself... But none of us thought that the prince is a wolf-hearted person. Those of us disabled veterans who have no relatives and no reason to come here just want to treat us as free labor and work hard for him!"
The old man was so angry that his face turned blue, and the veins on his forehead were even more prominent. He looked at the unconscious Ah Lan, and then said: "Originally, I have an old life, and if it is gone, it will be gone. If I believe in the wrong person, anyway, Old Town Nanwang saved my life back then, so I should pay him back, but..." He took a deep breath and said angrily, "Alan is innocent!" His hands clenched into fists, trembling slightly.
At this time, Baihui and Baihe finally tossed Alan who was injured all over.
Lily looked at the empty medicine bottle, and muttered angrily: "It's really cheap for you." When she returned home, she must ask the imperial concubine to pay her two bottles.
She was about to put away the empty bottle, but she didn't want to grab her with a hand. The speed was too fast, and she had other thoughts, so she was actually caught by the other party.
This guy woke up so quickly? Is his strength so weak
Just as Lily was thinking about it, she felt that piercing pain coming from her wrist. She almost doubted that this guy had exerted all his strength.
"Hey! Is this how you treat your savior?" Lily glared at him angrily. The nasty guy made her lose face twice a day.
The old man hurriedly said: "Alan, let go of this girl. They are here to help us..."
Alan hesitated for a moment, wanting to say that they were the ones who knocked him out just now, but after seeing the old man who was in much better spirits, he finally let go of Lily's hand.
Lily rubbed her wrists, feeling bruises on her wrists, she secretly swore that she was incompatible with this annoying guy!
At this moment, there was a sound of messy footsteps and conversations coming from a distance outside the house:
"Boss Niu, it's over there!"
"Follow up, hurry up, don't let them get away!"
Lily's eyes lit up immediately, she moved her knuckles and said, "Who wants to run away!" It finally came! If she settles accounts with this Ah Lan now, she will be accused of bullying the injured. Don't blame her for being rude to this steward Niu who came to the door by himself. Today, she must give a good lesson to this group of guys who have ruined the reputation of the prince!
"Boom!"
Someone kicked the crumbling wooden door heavily, followed by a chunky man in a brocade robe and four tall and strong men swaggering in.
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