Returning to the Pastoral: Mrs. Yipin

Chapter 324
His expression is tense and his behavior is abnormal, there must be something strange in it!
Lu Shi frowned slightly, and said, "Why is the old man so flustered?"

"No, no, son, you'd better go!"

Seeing Lu Shi's question, the old man seemed to be getting more and more anxious. He didn't care about etiquette and chased people away again and again.

"Don't panic, old man."

Su Yun said from the side: "My husband trusts the governor of Youzhou, Lu Shi, Earl Lu..."

As soon as Su Yun said this, he could only hear the sound of gasping around.

"No, can't you? This, this young man is Lord Inspector?"

"He, why is he so young?"

Lu Shi chuckled, took a jade tablet from his waist, and said: "Here is the jade tablet bestowed by the Son of Heaven to show my identity."

The old man thought he had some knowledge, he knew a few words, when he saw Lu Shi take out the jade tablet, and then fixed his eyes on the words on it, his legs trembled in fright, and he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed: "King Caomin By the way, see Lord Inspector!"

Seeing that the patriarch had kneeled down, the people of Wangjia Village also knew that the real god had come this time, and they also knelt down to pay respects.

Lu Shi helped Wang Shun up and said, "Old man, don't panic..."

After finishing speaking, he looked around and said, "My fellow countrymen, please get up too..."

After a pause, he continued: "I am ordered by the emperor to take the position of governor of Youzhou, govern the territory of a state, and unify the people of the state. I must do my best to guard one side for the emperor. I am sympathetic to the people, and now I am visiting the precious land for the first time, and I am visiting in a low-clothes, just to learn about the folk customs and livelihood of the people in Youzhou, so that I can serve as an official and benefit one side."

"Fellow folks, don't panic, just treat me as your nephew. Along the way, my wife and I saw that everyone in your village is not fully clothed, and no one is plowing the fields. Now is the time for spring sowing. If you miss the farming , isn’t there going to be a famine in the coming year? I just asked about this, old man, you are so panicked, but there are other inside stories?”

Lu Shi spoke sincerely and with a kind attitude, which calmed down a group of ordinary people who were afraid of officials and gradually calmed down.

With a "plop", Wang Shun, who had just been lifted up by Lu Shi, knelt down again, kowtowed and cried, "Master, it's a lesson! It's not because the villagers are lazy, but because they have no seeds to cultivate!"

"what?!"

Erlang on the side exclaimed, "Although Youzhou has experienced wars for many years, last year it was reconciled with the Qing Kingdom. The war is over, and farming has started again since last year. Why are there no rice seeds left?!"

Hearing Erlang's question, it wasn't just Wang Shun, everyone else covered their faces and started crying, "This young man doesn't know something... Then, the new Youzhou prefect Qiu Yan is a smiling tiger, On the surface, he is diligent for the people, but in reality he is as cunning as a fox. In order to flatter him, he harvested all the rice seeds from our ten miles and eight villages and used them as government food!"

"what?!!"

When Han Jiang heard this, her face turned red with anger, and she slapped the table and said, "What a loyal and treacherous dog thief! My lord, isn't this Qiu Yan acting like this to force the people to rebel!? Dao Take away all the seeds, isn’t this going to starve the people to death?!”

Chang Fugui also said angrily: "Master, that Zhifu Qiu is not kind, such a person is the most cunning, we must guard against it!"

Su Yun was silent at the side, he knew that coming to Youzhou to be an official would not go smoothly, but he didn't expect to be presented with such a difficult problem, the rice seeds have all been harvested, and the people have no seeds to cultivate this year, wouldn't they be starving die?
Once he was forced into a desperate situation and rebelled, Lu Shi would lose his head!
No, this matter must not be done like this, not only for the people but also for yourself.

Su Yun narrowed his eyes, and after a while, he suddenly asked: "Old man, do you resist?"

"Have……"

When Su Yun asked about this, the old man's tears flowed even more, "Many good young people in our clan wanted to go to Beijing to sue, but as a result, as a result... woo woo woo..."

The old man suddenly covered his face in pain, and said intermittently: "Just, just, never came back..."

Lu Shi's heart trembled, he stood up suddenly, and said, "Do they dare to pay for murder?!"

"Why don't you dare?!"

Han Jiang said angrily: "These civil servants are all smiling faces, they are nothing!"

As soon as the words came out, Han Jiang realized immediately that she seemed to belong to the scope of civil servants, but she had more power to command the army than ordinary civil servants. She looked awkward for a while, touched her head and said: "My lord, sir , Your Majesty..."

Lu Shi waved his hand and said: "General Han, you don't need to say too much, I understand."

Lu Shi's slender fingers tapped on the table again and again, and everyone didn't dare to say more, for fear of disturbing Lu Shi's thinking.

After a long time, Lu Shi got up slowly and said: "Old man, don't tell anyone about my visit today. After I return to the yamen, I will send someone to deliver rice and rice seeds!"

"Master Qingtian!"

As soon as Lu Shi's words came out, the villagers all knelt down, kowtowed repeatedly, and called "Master Qingtian".
The simple feelings of ordinary people infected Lu Shi, making him even more determined to manage Youzhou well, but right now, the first thing to do is to find out about the storage of rice seeds.

No matter how capable Qiu Yan is, it is impossible to deceive his superiors and subordinates to do such absurd things in Youzhou.He has such courage, there must be someone above him.

And in Youzhou, there must be some officials who are colluding with him. Lu Shi asked Wang Shun again, and this is the case in all the ten miles and eight towns. Lu Shi secretly thought, if it is true, then the water in Youzhou too deep!
Perhaps the news of my private visit on Weibo has already reached Qiu Yan's ears...

Lu Shi who got into the car suddenly shouted: "General Han."

"The mark is here!"

"Ride your horse back to the mansion now, and instigate a hundred imperial guards to lurk secretly in this Wang Family Village. If there is any trouble, report it immediately!"

"Yes, take the lead!"

Han Jiang looked very excited, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, as if he was finally happy to find something to do. After receiving Lu Shi's order, he immediately got on his horse, took his two sons back to the city, and dispatched troops. .

Lu Shi put down the car curtain, thought for a while, and said, "The water in Youzhou looks very deep, Sanniang, what do you think about this matter?"

"Brother Shi, what do you think?"

Su Yun avoided answering, but instead asked: "The money and food allocated to us by His Majesty is not much. If it is true as what Old Man Wang said, even if it is used to buy rice seeds, one hundred thousand guan is probably not enough!"

"Who said no?"

Lu Shi sighed slightly, "It's just that there is no better way for a while, I can't watch the people starve to death, I can help a little..."

"It is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. Brother Shi, you are not advisable to use up the water to catch fish..."

(End of this chapter)