"You will send someone now... Actually, you have someone in Huai'an Mansion, right?"

“…”

They glanced at each other and didn't say anything.

I knew at a glance that they were the default.

So I said, "Then please pay attention to a person's movements in Huai'an Prefecture."

"who?"

"Han Ruoshi."

"Han Ruoshi? It's that Pei--"

"Yes, it's Mrs. Pei."

They all quieted for a moment, as if some people had realized something, Xiao Zhongxin said it quickly: "Did you say that the medicine was bought by Mrs. Pei?"

I said calmly: "If I guess correctly, it should be."

He immediately said, "That's easy. Let's just ask someone to go to the mansion to help you steal medicine."

I couldn't help laughing and said, "She has collected all these medicines that can be used to protect the baby in Huai'an City. It may be piled up to fill the room. How could she take it back to Huai'an Mansion? Isn't it obvious that someone can see it?"

"You mean, she did this secretly, why?"

“…”

If I really want to explain it to him clearly, then the words will be long. I simply said: "She doesn't want the fetus in my womb to be safe, but this matter must be hidden from her husband. Of course, this matter must be carried out in secret."

“So that’s how it is.”

I nodded and continued, "It was last night to collect medicinal materials. The medicinal materials should not have been destroyed at this time, because there is also a movement to destroy such a large number of medicinal materials, and she will not act rashly. So I want to ask your people to pay attention to her movements, especially her subordinates. If someone leaves the government office through the back door, please follow us."

"You mean, her people sneak out, and it's very likely that they're dealing with that batch of medicinal materials?"

"That's right."

"What if we follow?"

“…”

"Do you want to kill those people and seize the medicinal materials?"

“…”

I thought about it and said, "If those people have not yet done anything to destroy the medicinal materials, they don't have to do it, just monitor them. But if they want to destroy the medicinal materials, try to stop it. If they can't avoid it, they must not kill everyone."

Brother Chen nodded: "I understand."

I didn't say anything, just looked at them calmly.

Brother Chen immediately said, "I understand."

He turned around, named a name to several people, and said, "You go to do this, be careful, do not expose our people, and do not let people discover you."

"yes!"

Seeing that they were about to go out, I said again: "You must remember that no matter what, try not to kill all those people. Remember!"

They looked at me and nodded, "Okay."

After saying that, he left.

Brother Chen said to the little clock again: "Hurry up and find pens and ink and paper."

Xiao Zhong agreed to go out.

When only Brother Chen and I were left in the room, he looked back at me, especially when he saw my hand always on his stomach, he frowned slightly and asked carefully: "Are you... okay?"

I also looked down at me, but I didn't have any confidence in my heart, so I just said reluctantly: "I should be able to hold on."

He was silent for a while and said, "We...we didn't think so much at that time."

“…”

"Sorry, I've implicated you."

“…”

I looked up at him in surprise. Although I knew that this person was not bad-hearted, I apologized to a hostage he had kidnapped, which is not something that ordinary people could do. I felt more favorable to him and felt more at ease. I said calmly: "You are also trying to save your family."

The moment I said this, I regretted it.

His eyes turned red immediately, and I remembered that they had said before that at noon that day, Zhou Chengyin and others were beating drums outside, which were his parents, wife and children.

Now his family is destroyed, and he is the only one left.

Seeing his eyes turned red and his fists were pinching his bones and slapping, my heart also felt a little painful. After a while, I asked softly: "Brother Chen, I want to ask you something."

He looked at me: "What's the matter?"

"Why do you guys do this?"

“…”

"Zhou Chengyin and the others rebelled, all the officials in the city were killed, those who resisted them in the military camp were killed, and others were entangled with them. Now that things have come to this, why... want to rise up and resist him?"

Brother Chen said: "You want to say that all officials are dead, why do we ordinary people medd nostalgic?"

"... Of course, I'm not saying you guys are meddling in other people's business."

He waved his hand: "I understand what you mean."

“…”

"To be honest, we used to think that as long as we have a bite of food, whoever becomes an official or an emperor will have little impact on us ordinary people."

I nodded.

"But the question is whether we can eat this bite of rice!"

I was shocked and looked up at him.

Brother Chen said, "You know that people in our Jiangnan provinces are all untouchables, and the taxes that are pressed on us have always been the heaviest. Not only that, those who are officials have even imposed heavy taxes and exploited them. It can be said that even our bones are being squeezed out by them!"

My throat choked and I said, "I understand."

I understand so much.

Once upon a time, it was also the resistance brought by this oppression that made Liu Qinghan resolutely embark on the official career.

Brother Chen said again: "But a few years ago, the court's policies suddenly began to change."

“…”

"They changed the tax method. At first we didn't understand, but then we understood that this method could make us pay less taxes. Like Zhou Chengyin, people with thousands of hectares of fertile land in the family used to collect less taxes than us, but later they had to pay taxes according to the land they had!"

When he said this, there seemed to be light on his dark face, and he said, "That's great!"

“…”

"At that time, we were all so happy!"

“…”

"The thousands of people in Jiangnan have never been straight in their lives. At that time, we finally felt that we had hope for life!"

“…”

"Even if those officials think of any way to exploit us, as long as the tax collection method is changed, we are really relieved. During that period, the family began to have surplus grain."

There was a faint smile on the corner of my mouth.

I can almost imagine that their ecstasy at that time - as ordinary people, they really didn't want much, just a little bit of food in the rice jar was enough to make them full of confidence in the future.

Thinking of this, my eyes became hot.

Qinghan, Qinghan... If you know, your dream has actually been realized; if you know, you have made so many people feel the joy of life; if you know, it is your way to make so many people have the confidence to live well, can the pain you have experienced be relieved?

Will you know?

I was slightly distracted, and the next moment, I heard Brother Chen’s deep voice saying: “But, when Zhou Chengyin and the others rebelled, everything changed!”

I sternly sternly.

He frowned and said, "Their Zhou family was originally domineering in Huai'an. They had colluded with the dog officials of the court and occupied so much of our land and forced us to be slaves and servants. Even if the bad things he did were engraved on the city wall, there would be no end to the city wall in Huai'an!"

My brows also frowned.

Although I have not experienced it personally, I have some experience of so many evil deeds caused by the officials in Jixiang Village. The powerful and powerful gentry like Zhou Chengyin is a domineering place. I am afraid that what he can do is worse than what I have seen before.

And he is also the "victim" of Pei Yuanhao's new policy.

As Wei Ningyuan had worried before, there was not only the Jiangxia Wang family in Jinling on the Central Plains. The powerful and powerful gentry in other places would be affected by the new policy. The Han sisters rebelled with Pei Yuanxiu, and people from other places would respond in groups, which caused the current situation!

At this time, I had no time to think about whether the current situation was what Wei Ningyuan said at the beginning - the situation of putting the cart before the horse, but now it is indeed very difficult.

This is just Huai'an and Zhou's family.

Brother Chen continued, "What you don't know is that as soon as he captured the government office, he closed the city gates, and the Huai'an Mansion became him alone! He sent his own servants and the soldiers in the military camp to search for food from house to house. No, it's not about searching for food, but about robbing food!"

“…”

"It's not just the food, but also the iron tools from all the people in the city and melted them into weapons."

“…”

"And, we were forced to enlist in the army and said we were going to promote what we wanted to promote, what kind of kingly troops."

“…”

"We can't even survive. There is no grain left in the family. If I am conscripted by them, there will be only the parents, wives and children left in the family, and there will be no food. In just a few days, I will starve to death!"

“…”

"so--"

My voice shivered slightly: "So, have you escaped from the barracks with these people around you?"

"yes."

“…”

"Who knew that as soon as we ran away, they caught all our families, and—"

Speaking of this, he was sobbing that he couldn't speak. His head was buried deep, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

I felt very uncomfortable.

I could feel the regret in his heart at this moment, but if it were me, I would have done this, because if I didn't escape, the people in my family would starve to death. But he didn't expect that Zhou Chengyin and his family would kill him on the first day of the murder and demonstration.

I didn't say anything anymore, just looked at him, because I knew that this kind of pain could not be healed no matter who comforted me.
Chapter completed!