Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Shen Yuan looked at these people and shook his fist.

This group of refugees are all old and weak, women and children, without a single capable man, it is pitiful to look at.

After glancing at everyone, Shen Yuan asked the woman, "Auntie, where are your sons? Where did they go? Why don't you let you wander around?
"Oh, it's not that they don't care about us~~" The woman sighed heavily and wiped her tears sadly, "The imperial court conscripts, but all adult men have been conscripted away~~'
"I still went to the freezing north, who knows if I will come back in such a cold place~~" The old man choked up before he finished speaking.

After sheltering from the rain in the cave for a while, the group of refugees went to Kang'an City.

Not long after the group of people left, the stream gradually subsided, and Shen Yuan and Ji Xun got on the carriage and entered the city.

"Your clothes are all wet, and you will not listen when I tell you not to get out of the carriage." Ji Xun touched Shen Yuan's wet back with distress.

"Ham, how can I be so delicate? It's not too cold." Shen Yuan raised her pretty face and smiled disapprovingly at Ji Xun, but she couldn't help shivering after saying this.

"Come here, my husband will warm you up." Ji Xun held Shen Yuan in his arms, leaning on his broad chest, Shen Yuan felt that it was not so cold anymore.

Soon the carriage came to the gate of the city and found a long queue of refugees entering the city.

"This? Where are there so many refugees?" Shen Yu'an was astonished. "There were not so many refugees when there was a locust plague."

Ji Xun also frowned.

"These refugees are all women, old people and children. Even if they are recruited, there must be some hard work left? It is impossible to leave only the old people and children."

"Besides, even if the garrison invaded their houses and fields, it is impossible to cause so many people to be homeless. This matter~~ I am afraid it is not as simple as we imagined."

"Yeah." Shen Yuan nodded vigorously, "Do you think it's a conspiracy by the crown prince Wei Yuande? Deliberately implementing tyrannical policies so that people in nearby states have nowhere to go, so they flock to Lingzhou to find a way out?"

"It's possible." Ji Xun pondered, "In short, this must not be a normal situation."

After finishing speaking, she squeezed Shen Yuan's hand worriedly, "Go home first, Yoyo's clothes are soaked, this matter has to be investigated slowly."

"Okay." Shen Yuan replied, looking at the refugees who lined up to enter the city. Their clothes were wet and they were shivering from the cold, and they didn't know what happened to them.

After entering the city, I found that many refugees had poured into the city. They were sitting or lying on the street, and some of them were hungry and even grabbed food directly, causing the originally orderly city to fall into chaos.

"Oh, the weather in spring is always changing. It started to rain when the sun was still bright in the morning. If I knew it, I should have asked you to bring an umbrella." Aunt Bai sneezed when she saw that Shen Yuan and Ji Xun were drenched in the rain , Distressed terribly.

Hurriedly looking for clothes for Shen Yuan, after Shen Yuan changed her clothes, she took a dry towel into the room and twisted her wet hair.

"Let me come." Ji Xun changed his clothes and came in, took over the work from Aunt Bai, and wiped Shen Yuan's wet hair with a towel with a doting expression.

"Ah Xun, the poison on your body will be cured in the next two days, right?" Shen Yuan looked at the man's face in the mirror, and his pretty face blushed involuntarily.

"Yeah." Ji Xun's mouth curled up with a charming vixen, and he leaned over and kissed her tenderly on her neck, "So let's make it ten days later, and Shili Hongzhuang will marry you.'
"Uh~~ listen to Ah Xun."

Before the hair was wrung out, He Mang came in to report, "Your Highness, Mr. Sun is asking to see you."
"Ask him to come in." Ji Xun handed the towel to Shen Yuan and left the room.

"Your Highness, there is a letter from Yening City, saying that a large number of refugees have come from Tongzhou and Luozhou, and I don't know how to resettle them." Before he had time to sit down, Sun Deming hurriedly said, "Even Kang'an City has come today. Refugees, the lower officials have inquired, and said that the imperial court has increased taxes by [-]%, and they have no way to survive, so they come here.'
Ji Xun pondered for a moment and said, "Even if taxes are raised three times, it is still not a desperate situation. It is impossible to leave the country and come here. Besides, there is no spring plowing yet. Who will be responsible for the plowing when they leave their fields?"
"Yeah, the lower officials also think this matter is tricky." Mr. Sun said humanely.

"It's nothing, the king will investigate clearly." Ji Xundao, "Master Sun only needs to settle the refugees who flooded into the city, maintain the order, and don't cause chaos."

"Yes, Your Highness." Sun Deming took orders and left in a hurry.

After Sun Deming left, Ji Xun was about to go into the house, when Shen Yuan came out in patched clothes, and his face changed, with a black mole the size of a fly at the corner of his mouth, pretending to be an old woman with pockmarked face.

"Ah Xun, let's go, let's investigate." Shen Yuyan smiled at Ji Xun indecently. Isn't her attire the authentic attire of a refugee?
"This girl~~ can think of any way." Ji Xun lovingly squeezed Shen Yuan's pink cheeks.

"How can we find out the truth without joining their team? Hee hee." Shen Yuyan raised his eyebrows at Ji Xun playfully, and dragged Ji Xun's hand into the room, "Come on, let me make you a pretty one." Old man' makeup~~"

Ji Xun shrugged helplessly.

As far as his appearance is concerned, it is true that he turned into an old man and is also a handsome old man.

After putting on their makeup, Shen Yuan and Ji Xun left the mansion through the corner gate and came to the street.

Tables were set up in the open area of ​​the street, and officials were in charge of registering the information of the refugees, and there was a long queue. Shen Yuan and Ji Xun hunched their backs, supported each other and went to line up.

"When we grow old one day in the future, we will also support each other and be as loving as we are today." When queuing up for registration, Ji Xun did not forget to whisper in Shen Yuan's ear.

"You bastard, you're old and unscrupulous." Shen Yuan rebuked the generous chest that was embracing her from behind.

After the registration, Shen Yuan and Ji Xun, an 'old couple' without children, followed other refugees to the east of the city. The foundation of the palace in the east of the city had been sorted out, and the rest had not yet had time to start construction.

Master Sun set up a tent here and settled these refugees from Tongzhou here.

After the rain, the sky cleared, and there was a big sun in the afternoon, and the sun was warm everywhere, but it didn't feel too cold.

As the sky gradually darkened, the officials brought pots, pans, pans, rice, food, etc., settled everyone down, and then left.

As soon as the officials left, these refugees started making noises. They built a bonfire outside the tent, cooking, chatting, laughing and joking.

Shen Yuan even saw that the old woman and old man he and Ji Xun had rescued had changed from their previous miserable appearance, and they were alive and well, as if they were not here to escape, but to travel.

Really long time to see.