Immortal wind and deceit: the secret scriptures of the seven chapters of Xuanjun at the beginning Chapter 141 There is no right to speak without investigation
Chapter 141 There is no right to speak without investigation
Since the altar had not yet been built, Prefect Wang did not need the protection of Jianghu people for the time being. It was getting late, so the few people went to the hotel to deal with it and get some sleep.
Early the next morning, Wu Qiudao took a few people to visit Ba County City in the name of exploring the terrain to make preparations.
What we see most in this county are workers carrying building materials and pulling wheelbarrows. They are all tanned by the sun, and they are all bare-chested, skinny, with sunken abdomens, and two rows of ribs on their chests clearly visible.
It can be said that apart from the black and white of their beards, Wu Qiudao could not tell the age of these workers at all. Their faces were all covered with wrinkles. Their faces were more numb due to the heavy burden than sorrow.
Anyone who has done heavy physical work will know that if you think randomly while working, you will easily get distracted and make mistakes; if you focus all your energy on the work at hand, you will be very tired; on the contrary, if you don’t think about anything, you will be very tired.
, my mind went blank, and the heavy work was done before I knew it.
When the head is empty, a person's face will show a numb expression. It is neither happy nor sad, but in a meaningless trance. They cannot see the world in their eyes.
and own.
Of course, this way of working is more likely to cause accidents. Throughout the ages, accidents on construction sites have mostly occurred this way. People are in a state of numbness and cannot feel the pain, so they also have no time to respond to emergencies. Accidents
It just happened.
The team of four dishes and one soup stood outside the altar construction site, looking up at the huge platform that had not yet been built.
A high platform with four sides of earth is called a platform. In ancient times, there has always been the custom of building high platforms for sacrifices, such as the Xuanyuan Platform, the Yao Platform where Yao Zen was located in Shun, the Lu Platform of Shang Zhou, the Ling Platform of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, and the Xing Platform of Marquis Xing of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
, Yanwang Xiantai, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Tongtian Tower, Dengfeng Star Observatory, etc., are mostly related to ceremonies such as observing the sky, inviting immortals, and offering sacrifices.
They stood and watched for a long time, when a thin black man happened to be distracted. When he was lifting the stone, he twisted his foot and fell. The three people carrying the stone with him also fell down, so the whole stone fell to the ground.
On the person's feet, it was broken into gravel.
The man who was hit on the ground was so painful that his face was twisted and hideous, but he did not dare to cry out. Instead, he knelt on the ground and repeatedly knelt down to the supervisor to beg for mercy. The supervisor raised his stick and wanted to hit him, but he saw the boy sent by the prefect to supervise him.
, we can only let him go back to rest and recover from his injuries before coming back.
Several fellow villagers of the thin black man ran over, knelt down and thanked the supervisor profusely, and then they worked together to lift the beaten man up and prepare to send him home to recuperate.
Zhuxiong couldn't bear to see it, and was about to go over to help, but Wu Qiudao saw the opportunity and grabbed his hand to stop him: "Why are you going?"
The kind-hearted Pixiu said: "They are too weak, and it is too difficult to lift those stone slabs. If you are not careful, you will be injured. I think I am strong, so I can help them lift the stones."
Wu Qiudao shook his head: "There has been a drought in Yuzhou for three years. Now the people can't even maintain their livelihood. They rely on the money and food from the projects initiated by the government. If you go over and lift those stones, what will you do to those young people?"
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Zhuxiong said angrily: "Then we just watch helplessly? Isn't this too cold-blooded?"
Wu Qiudao said: "Of course it's good if you want to help, but it also depends on how you help people. If you do all the heavy work, they will have nothing to do. This is not helping, but robbing others of their livelihood. Helping
That’s not how it works!”
Zhuxiong asked: "What should we do? Captain, I don't have the brainpower as you do. Just tell me and I will do it!"
Wu Qiudao said: "You first stop the laborers who are carrying people. Although the man's leg was broken, the half-day wages must be paid first. Then we will go and see how the man is doing. He can't do it these days.
If you don't live, your family will have no food, and people may die."
With Zhu Xiong, a tall and tall man, talking, the supervisor had no choice but to give the wages to the thin black man first, and then Wu Qiudao and others helped send the thin black man home. After learning that he
He has the same surname as the prefect, also named Wang, and his given name is Black Dog.
In fact, it is said that it is a home, but it is just a shack set up casually. There are many such shacks outside the city of Ba County. Farmers in the countryside have no food to eat and come to the capital to beg for a living. There is no room for them in the city, so the prefect lets them live together outside the city.
There was an old man, a woman, and a young man in the shack. The old one was Wang Heigou's old mother, the woman was his wife, and the younger one was his son, who was only three or four years old. He said that he had an eldest daughter who couldn't get enough food on the way to escape.
Rich families bought them to be slaves.
During this period, Wang Heigou's family had been relying on him to work outside to buy food. The money and food were not even enough for the family's snacks, so Mrs. Wang and her daughter-in-law often took their children to the mountains to dig bamboo shoots and pick mushrooms, barely surviving.
Wu Qiudao asked: "Your slum area is full of refugees fleeing famine. Isn't there no porridge in the city?"
Wang Heigou's wife replied: "I dare not hide it from the officials. When the drought started three years ago, there were still porridge shacks. It was Wang Taishou who mobilized the wealthy households to provide money and food to help the poor people and refugees. But the drought has
It was still unresolved, so the porridge shed was closed last year.”
Wu Qiudao asked again: "Are there many injured and sick people like your husband in this slum area?"
Everyone replied in unison: "Of course there are more!"
Wu Qiudao nodded, gave Wang Heigou and his family several dozen copper coins, and then walked out of the smelly cramped shack.
Zhu Xiong asked: "Captain, how many copper coins did you give me? He has to take care of himself for a hundred days, and he has not worked for several months. His family has both young and old, how can he continue to live? Captain, you can advance the money."
I'll give you a tael of silver and I'll give it to them."
Wu Qiudao shook his head: "Don't worry, we are new here. Even if we want to help people, we have to understand the local situation and find the right method. Without investigation, we have no right to speak. Besides, if you really give a couple of silver to a place like this, we will be able to do it tomorrow.
Saw their bodies."
A few people walked around this shack area again. Even the two Qiang people outside the Great Wall, One-Eyed Dragon and Feitianhu, felt pity for them. Wu Qiudao felt that they had seen enough and the situations were similar, so he turned around and walked towards the governor's house.
Along the way, Wu Qiudao saw that there were very few people on the street. With so few customers, there were not even a few stalls selling food along the street. The businesses facing the street were closed, and few were open.
The food stores and the non-staple food shops that sell oil, salt, sauce and vinegar only had their doors open a crack, and there was a long queue at the door. Those people looked at the situation inside the shop eagerly, for fear that someone would come out and say that the goods were no longer for sale.
As a result, a few muscular guys actually walked out of the grain store and said to the customers in line: "I'm sorry, everyone, the grain in the store has been sold out today. Please go to other stores to try your luck.
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The people in the queue couldn't accept this situation and immediately started making noises.