These disaster victims are really dog biting Lü Dongbin and don’t know what’s good for them! I think for them, lest they goat into the tiger’s mouth, being eaten by others without knowing what’s going on, but where being bitten back by them.”
Wang Mang kindly persuaded the victims to turn to no avail, and in turn was scolded by the victims, could not help but be exasperated.
“Lord Wang forget it, eyesight is not the same, they are rat-eyed, why bother with them in general. To say that they are also considered to be blessed, we went to Jingnan this time to eradicate Zhu Pingan, the scourge of corrupt officials, they are not on the wrong path to go to Jingnan.”
Peng Cheng gently patted Wang Mang’s shoulder, smiled and flirted, relieved Wang Mang and said.
“Well, in that case it’s also true, meeting us, they are considered to have met a nobleman.”Wang Mang smiled bitterly.
The group continued to travel towards Jingnan, and the closer they got to Jingnan, the more fleeing groups they encountered along the way. Some were local refugees from Tai Ping County, and more were foreign refugees who had borrowed Tai Ping County, bringing along their old and young, dragging their families with them. One by one, the fleeing groups came from three sides and converged on the official road to Jingnan, forming a huge fleeing group, which Xu Hai and the others roughly counted to be as many as thousands.
Not only that, the flow of people were still gathering from three sides, like ants towards Jingnan.
This was not the most shocking thing to Xu Hai and the others, what shocked them the most, what was the most unbelievable thing to them was that these people who were converging to flee towards Jingnan, one by one, they were looking at the direction of Jingnan, their eyes were full of trust and hope, and their faces were overflowing with joy and excitement, one by one, they were just like making a pilgrimage.
“Look at Jingnan, past the foot of this hill, in front is Jingnan!”
“Father, you old man cheer up, we are going to Jingnan, we are saved ……”
“Good, hold on to me, father can still hold on.”
“Child’s mother, great, we are finally almost to Jingnan, we are saved, woo woo ……”
One by one, the yellow-faced, suffering disaster folk, looking at the near Jingnan, couldn’t help but burst into tears of excitement.
Strange things happen every year, but today is especially common!
Xu Hai and the others looked at this scene and couldn’t help but stare in disbelief, how is it that there are so many starving and stupid disaster folk?
Don’t you know that there is a corrupt official Zhu Pingan in Jingnan who has no regard for the people’s lives and colludes with grain merchants to inflate the price of grain?
Don’t they know that Jingnan is not a place of hope, but a hell of water and heat?
Don’t each of them know that once they go to Jingnan on this trip, they will be gnawed by Zhu Pingan with no bones and dregs left?
As Xu Hai and the others looked at these pilgrim-like refugees fleeing to Jingnan, they couldn’t help but moisten the corners of their eyes.
Zhu Pingan, this big corrupt official, didn’t know what method he used to coax these refugees, and today there were so many disaster people, what about yesterday? What about the day before yesterday? How long has this kind of scene lasted? How many refugees has Zhu Pingan tricked into Jingnan? Stepping into Jingnan with hope, and then being robbed by Zhu Pingan first of the gold, silver, and fine linen he was carrying, and then skinned, and then chewed and chewed, with not even a crumb of bone left ……
“Let’s go, let’s quickly enter Jingnan and seek justice for the common people who have already been victimised! Eradicate a major scourge for the people who will be victimised!”Xu Hai instantly fixed his gaze and said to Wang Mang and the others.
“Go!”
The group of people sped up their horses, about the huge refugees, and quickly ran towards Jingnan.
After skirting around a not-so-high ridge, they entered the boundaries of Jingnan, and as soon as they entered the boundaries of Jingnan, Xu Hai and the others were dumbfounded.
Crap!
How did Jingnan ……
The sky is blue, the trees are green, the grass is green, the river is clear, the green vegetables in the paddy fields are swaying in the wind, and the smoke from the cooking fires is rising in the distance. ……Into the eyes are all paintings, full of eyes is poetry, this is the Jiangnan!
It’s just that
Jingnan how ……So Jiangnan?
Xu Hai and others have been prepared to see the bodies of the wild, easy to eat each other this tragic hell scene of mental preparation, but into the eye is not this hell of a miserable scene, but the beautiful water, smoke curling Jiangnan, long-lost Jiangnan, Xu Hai and others couldn’t help but be dumbfounded, one by one, dumbfounded like a wooden chicken.
“All the folks who have come from afar, wash your hands before eating, don’t crowd or grab, everyone has a share. Grandpa, and that big lady, you old slow walk, no need to hurry, we have more porridge, enough it ……The dumplings have just come out of the pot, so be careful of burning your mouth. ……After eating, everyone go forward, there are people in front of you to place everyone, as long as you are down to earth and willing to work, not only will you have food to eat, but you will also have money to take.”
“Your old man quickly please get up, everyone please get up, we can’t afford it, if you want to thank you should thank our magistrate, this is all ordered by our magistrate, we are just running an errand …….”
Further ahead, you can see a wide field, ten large congee pots lined up, a steamer basket smoking hot, three bulging grain carts parked on the ground, the pots of congee finished, at any time to open the bag to take grain, on the ground to take the stream water such as pots of boiling ……In front of the site there are several people dressed in yamen costumes in the site to direct the disaster people line up in the stream to wash their hands and faces, and then get the porridge, divided into nests, the whole site is clean and tidy, well organised.
The whole site is clean and orderly. The site is full of refugees who fled here, holding the bowl of porridge and eating the dumplings, their faces are full of happiness.
Further on, the refugees who had finished their meals, one after another under the direction of the guide, headed to the settlement in front.
The scenery here is picturesque, there is food and drink here, and the people here are full of happiness and hope.
This place is not a miserable hell! Compared to other places in Jiangnan, especially compared to places like Taizhou Prefecture and Taiping County, which are close by, this Jingnan is simply a paradise in the world …….
Seeing this scene in front of them, Xu Hai and the others couldn’t help but have Tao Yuanming’s classic “The Story of Peach Blossom Garden” come to mind: In the middle of Taiyuan in Jin, the people of Wuling fished for a living. He was travelling along the stream, forgetting the distance of the road. Suddenly came across the peach blossom forest, hundreds of paces along the bank, in which there are no mixed trees, beautiful grass, and colourful fallen flowers. The fisherman is very strange ……
This is not scientific!
It must be that I opened it the wrong way!
Xu Hai and the others couldn’t help but shake their heads, closed their eyes, and opened them again, and the entry point was still like a peach blossom garden in Jingnan.
What is this situation? How could it be like this? Is this Jingnan? Are we going the wrong way?
Xu Hai and the others looked at each other in all directions and were instantly confused! One by one, they were shocked like wooden stakes, staggeringly poking in place, foolishly looking at this picturesque, grain and rice-rich, paradise-like Jingnan, with the most serious of them being the Governor of Taiping, whose mouth was open like the mouth of a box.
East Factory Hundred Zhang Gu Yi was also shocked, but compared to Xu Hai, Taiping Magistrate and others, he was relatively much better.
Before he came, although Duke Huang did not say it explicitly, his words were full of hints; coupled with his understanding of Zhu Pingan, he felt that there must be something fishy going on, but he also did not expect that the situation in Jingnan would be good to such an extent.
