One hundred and forty-six the rich will help the world and the poor will be alone
We passed the boundary of Woniu Mountain without any danger. The escort was heading towards a smooth road, and most likely we would not encounter any dangerous situations. Therefore, Zhang Bashun, the leader of the escort, breathed a sigh of relief, and several escorts shouted to open the way.
Finally, I was able to have some free time.
The bodyguard's destination for this trip was Heqing County in Suzhou, which was only two days away. Seeing that Heqing County was right in front of them, several of the bodyguard's escorts wanted to have a drink secretly, but they were all beaten by Zhang Bashun, the head guard.
He scolded them, saying that the escorts had not finished protecting him, and they were drinking and causing trouble. He punished those people to keep watch all night, but then he personally stayed with them for half the night. The people who were drunk and causing trouble felt quite embarrassed.
When we arrived at Heqing County and finished the escort, the escort leader asked you to have a drink with open stomachs. With Zhang Bashun's promise in advance, all the escorts cheered up and had enough strength to finish the escort.
I handed over the escort list to the sergeant guarding the city in Heqing County. The sergeant inspected the three carts that were carrying the goods to see if they had brought any goods that were not on the escort list, and then let them go.
Entering the city with the escort and his entourage.
"Boss." Xiao Gu, who was riding with Zhang Bashun, stuck his head out of the cart and looked around, "Why is it that Heqing County in Suzhou is not as prosperous as our place in Jinzhou?"
"People just suffered a great famine last year, and now it is not easy to regain one third of the vitality of previous years."
Zhang Bashun looked at the hurried and showy pedestrians outside the cart, and said with emotion, "Looking at the workmanship of some people's clothes on the street, although they are all worn out, the patches are still brocade, and they look richer at first glance.
He must have also suffered from the famine, and he ended up like this, which is really pitiful."
A natural disaster impoverished the rich, starved the rich, and killed the common people.
There was no harvest in Suzhou last autumn, and this year's summer grain harvest has not yet been harvested. It is the time when there is no harvest. Suzhou is still struggling to support itself by relying on the little grain allocated by the imperial court. I don't know how it is able to survive until today. The people in Suzhou don't know.
How many people died of starvation without reporting it?
There are passers-by in the county town who look disheveled, let alone the county town, villages and towns?
But we are just escorts and can't control a lot of things.
Under the locust tree next to the main street in Heqing City, there were more than a dozen sallow and skinny children enjoying the cool air with broken bowls in their hands. They were of different heights and ages, but they looked exactly the same. When they saw a large car approaching in the distance, they leaned on each other and supported each other.
The cart stumbled away, and he stopped in front of the street and stopped the cart with open arms, holding the broken bowl high in his hand.
The meaning is obvious, give me something to eat and let you go.
The driver driving the carriage waved his riding crop to scare the children, but it had no effect at all. Young Gu Gu Sheng in the carriage couldn't stand it anymore, so he broke some dry biscuits eaten by the bodyguards on the road and gave each child a bowl.
They all put some in the middle, and the latter did not say thank you when they got the broken cakes. Some hurriedly grabbed it with their hands and swallowed it without chewing. Some choked, and when they coughed, the cake crumbs spurted out far away, and still fell from the ground.
They picked them up and ate them, and some silently fetched a bucket of water from the well next to the locust tree, soaked them in dry glutinous rice and ate them, so that they would be even hungrier and perhaps last until the next person who was willing to give them dry pancakes came.
"Xiao Gu." Zhang Bashun, who was watching Gu Sheng's actions with cold eyes, let out a long sigh, and then continued: "There are tens of millions of children like this in Suzhou. You gave them cakes today, but you just let them linger for a few more days. Before the summer grain is confiscated,
, there are so many children in Suzhou, how many people can you give pancakes to?"
Gu Sheng scratched his head and threw the only two pancakes left in the cart outside, causing a bustle. Then he said, "I'll give you as many as you can. Anyway, no one will eat these pancakes."
, it will be bad if you let it go, it is better to do something good than this."
Gu Shengyang, who had seen Gu Sheng throw the two pancakes out before, tried to stop him but was unable to stop him. Now his gray beard was trembling with anger, he pointed at his nose and cursed: "You are not doing good things here, you are clearly doing harm to others. Look back."
look!"
Zhang Bashun shook his head and sighed again.
Gu Sheng, who thought he had done neither good nor bad things, held his breath and poked his head out to look behind the cart. He saw that the group of children who had previously supported each other to stop the cart actually started fighting and hurriedly jumped.
He got out of the car, intending to stop the people who were fighting in one place. Seeing that the people were not moved at all, he gritted his teeth and stepped forward with his fists to clear the way. How could these slender-looking children be the opponents of strong martial artists?
When Sheng's fist landed on a person, it changed from fist to palm and then withdrew its force by three points. Even so, those children whose bodies could not withstand the gust of wind also fell to the ground one after another.
"You are all from the same place, and you were supporting each other in the past. Why did you fight for a small piece of cake?" Gu Sheng said sadly, and then turned to the two children who were relatively strong and strong and grabbed most of the cake, "It's not that fast."
Are you separated from your comrade?"
The two and a half-year-old children reluctantly handed over the cakes in their hands, but their eyes were fixed on Gu Sheng, as if they wanted to see a hole in him, and then they looked down at the bowl, which was much smaller than before.
He gave him a pitiful piece of pancake, glared at him angrily, hurriedly filled his stomach with the pancake, and turned around and yelled a local dialect to Gu Sheng as he ran away.
The five escort cars that had no choice but to stop and wait for him moved forward after he got on. Zhang Bashun said without looking back: "Here, the weight of a piece of pancake is much heavier than what you want. Eat two more bites."
It often only takes a few more days to survive. Even children, how many of them are willing to give up their way of survival to others?"
"But the pancakes are from me." Gu Sheng said unconvinced, "Of course I can divide them however I want. One piece for each person is the most reasonable."
"Do you know what the kid who ran away after eating the pancake said about you?" Gu Shengyang sneered, his gray beard trembling slightly, "that you were a starving ghost and you came to snatch food from beggars."
"Do you think you have done a good deed? Among the people who fought over this cake, the two in front looked seriously injured. If they don't get medical treatment in time, they may not have the strength to stand up and beg tomorrow.
They will starve to death on the roadside in two days. Are you, little Escort Gu, so compassionate that you want to go down to deliver medicine and then take them to the cart?" Gu Shengyang's words were full of ridicule, "Gu
Sheng, if you are still like this when you are going to be a bodyguard in the future, you might as well go home early to farm and do business, which is better than ruining the lives of a group of people while working as a bodyguard!"
"Old Gu, these are serious words." After listening to Gu Shengyang's words, Zhang Bashun turned to Xiao Gu and said, "We are not the peerless people who can help the world, we are just small people. We must take care of ourselves first.
, this kind of thing that the court should worry about, we can interfere as little as possible. Even if we do, we have to tell them the rules, otherwise hungry people will be no different from wild beasts."
Little Gu Gu Sheng responded to Zhang Bashun in a muffled voice, and the latter raised his head and told the groom that the bodyguard's place was in a private house.
The carriage stopped in front of a large mansion with a golden plaque. Zhang Bashun checked that the writing on the plaque matched the address mentioned by the bodyguard. After confirming that it was correct, he got out of the carriage and took out the escort guide to show it to the concierge.
The latter saw Wu He, the head of the escort agency, and did not dare to neglect him. He hurriedly asked the steward of the house to come out to greet him.
"Brothers from Wu He Escort Bureau have worked hard." The side door of the house opened, and a fat steward came out and met Zhang Bashun.
He clasped his hands and asked, "May I ask the guard's last name?"
"In Xiawuhe escort agency, Zhang Bashun."
"It turns out it's the bodyguard Zhang, I'm disrespectful." The fat steward smiled again, and then looked eager, "I dare to ask the bodyguard about the goods..."
"Brothers have been very careful along the way, and nothing has gone wrong. Why don't you take care of it now?"
The fat steward hurriedly shook his fleshy palm with only five fat and short fingers, "Wuhe Escort Agency is a time-honored escort agency in Jinzhou. We, the masters of the government, can trust it, let alone us who are the stewards. We are just entrusted by others."
, it’s not too late to look at things about loyalty.”
According to the old rules, Zhang Bashun, who originally wanted to clear the money and goods in person, listened to the steward's precise words. After pondering for a moment, he agreed. After all, the house was here, so what did they, the escorts, have to worry about?
It was better to let his bodyguards and escorts carry down the six large wooden boxes from the three carts, show them to the steward, and see that the seals were all there. They carried them to the house, opened the wooden boxes, and Wu and the bodyguards from the bodyguard office
When I saw the gold, jade, pearls and agate among them, I was amazed. Among them, a set of red gold phoenix crowns was the most exquisitely crafted. Several escorts thought about sleeping with these things on their pillows at night. They felt quite proud and wanted to go back and talk to other escorts in the escort agency.
The teacher boasts that we are people who have slept on gold and taken naps.
Zhang Bashun, who had been escorting escorts for many years and escorting silver and object escorts many times, but had never seen so many treasures, felt that his throat was a little tight. He swallowed and said to the fat steward next to him: "May I ask?
Is there a young lady in the house who is getting married?"
"Yes." The fat steward looked at the escort list and checked the items in the wooden box one by one. After confirming that they were correct, he breathed a sigh of relief, "When our master marries his daughter, these dowries are given by his brothers in Jinzhou.
Come here, fortunately your escort agency arrived a little early, otherwise the time would be really tight."
"No wonder." When he came in, he saw the lively scene of the house decorated with lights and colorful decorations. Zhang Bashun, who had already been a little suspicious in his heart, felt a little more accurate. He was doing things without revealing anything, so he laughed with the steward, "I wonder if it's the house that's in the house."
I am very happy to have my daughter, so I have prepared some small gifts when I arrive, and also come to my house to congratulate you."
"Xie Wu and the escort chief Zhang cheered." The fat steward said in surprise, and then lowered his voice and said to Zhang Bashun, "The dissatisfied escort Zhang said that a mountain king has recently appeared on Woniu Mountain nearby. He is our Heqing County."
A Dutou from Yanggu County killed his brother because his sister-in-law had an affair with an outsider, so he killed the adulterer and the adulterous couple and went to Woniu Mountain to weed them. I wonder if Zhang Dutou has ever heard of this?"
"To tell you the truth, we actually bumped into each other on the way here." Zhang Bashun said with a wry smile, "That Wu Erlang seems to be a very skilled martial artist. Wu Dalang is probably that brother?"
"That's right." The steward nodded hurriedly, "Then Wu Dalang lost his wife and became stupid again. But his brother loved him very much, so he went down the mountain to snatch his unmarried wife. Our family
The young lady was about to get married, but unexpectedly, the guy got wind of it and sent a letter saying that it was midnight on the night of the wedding, so he came and kidnapped the young lady to become his brother's wife."
I also asked Escort Zhang to lead everyone in the Escort Agency to protect the young lady.