Chapter 275 The Past of the Sheriff
Xie Fengyue ordered a dozen soldiers from the government, led by Li Xiaobao on horseback, and rushed to Yonghe County.
After detouring around Shangguan Road, after walking for about half an hour, a vast farmland appeared in front of everyone.
The soldiers who followed him had seen many dry and cracked fields in the past few days, and there was no harvest in the fields. Seeing this golden crop of rice, they were almost stunned.
Xie Fengyue explained softly: "This is a farm owned by a wealthy family. There are many wells in the rich family. Every day, the tenant slaves are required to carry water and irrigate the farm fields."
Li Xiaobao's face showed a trace of pain: "The weather is so hot, and we rely on manpower to carry buckets of water for irrigation. I don't know how many people have died from exhaustion and heat."
Xie Fengyue just sighed after hearing this, but she didn't want to explain too much. She was from a noble family and naturally had more considerations.
If a big clan loses its food reserves, more people will starve to death. No big clan will really watch the people under their jurisdiction die, so who do they rule? Exploiting whom?
They will reveal something from their fingertips to prevent the people at the bottom from dying, but most of them will not survive well.
This is the method used by the superior to rule, and it is also the benchmark that can ensure the longevity of a family.
In a situation like Qian'an where there are many aristocratic families and the imperial power is declining, if any family becomes the outlier who is willing to do good and charity, the other aristocratic families will definitely attack together.
Even Wang, Xie, and the other two families dare not act openly in this kind of thing. They will use the small families under them to do things that can maintain people's livelihood. These families often have a good reputation, but they don't end well.
Xie Fengyue thought about this and looked at You Heng aside. His kind-heartedness must have been influenced by his father: "Is You attached to me?"
The topic changed so quickly that You Heng didn't respond and asked in confusion: "What?"
"It's nothing." Xie Fengyue asked a unnecessary question, but when she saw that he didn't hear clearly, she stopped asking. If You Shi was used as a weapon, then she would naturally help within the scope of her ability, but not if she couldn't. It's also what they deserve.
You Heng leaned over reluctantly: "Madam, I was looking out the car window just now. I really didn't mean not to hear clearly. Can you say it again~"
With a dark face, Xie Fengyue pushed away another Heng who was about to touch her face: "I said I'm hungry, hurry up and go to the city."
You Heng is now as thick-skinned as the walls of Shengjing City. He clutches his chest and leans weakly against the wall of the car: "Hey~, madam, my heart hurts a little."
Xie Fengyue threw the medicine bottle directly to him: "You might as well take the medicine as a candy pill."
As soon as Xie Fengyue finished speaking, she turned around and stopped looking at him.
The smile on You Heng's lips was awkward for a moment.
The pills in these pill bottles are really sugar pills.
Several people entered the city slowly. One second, the officers and soldiers guarding the city were beating and kicking the people in shabby clothes who wanted to enter the city. The next moment they saw Xie Fengyue with carriages and soldiers, he immediately said servilely: "Your Majesty." People came to attend the Lord Sheriff’s wedding banquet.”
Li Xiaobao said expressionlessly: "Clear the way, how can there be so much nonsense."
"Yes~ I'm just ignorant, nobles, please forgive me." The officers and soldiers were very discerning. Seeing Li Xiaobao's bad attitude, they immediately called for people to remove the roadblock.
Xie Fengyue sneered and said: "The people at the city gate are starving to death, but he is so cool and he even holds a flowing banquet."
Although the difference between "wedding banquet" and "flowing water wedding banquet" is only two words, the specifications are very different. One is held on one day, and the other is held according to the standard of the first day, from the fifteenth day of the previous month to the fifteenth day of the next month. The flowing water banquet for a whole month is the auspicious meaning of a full moon.
Xie Fengyue randomly found a restaurant and was about to inquire about the county guard. She had already drank two cups of tea. There was everything in the restaurant, but no one said anything bad about the county guard.
It's all clichéd words of praise.
Xie Fengyue was angry when You Heng patted her back and whispered: "Look at me."
After a while, the two people's seats were changed from the lobby to the private room upstairs. Even the tea was served by a waiter from the shopkeeper.
"Your Majesty, do you want to hear about literature or martial arts?"
Xie Fengyue didn't understand the code, so You Heng knocked a piece of gold on the table: "What do you think."
The shopkeeper suddenly narrowed his eyes with a smile, and the mole on the corner of his mouth trembled as he smiled.
"Our Lord Sheriff," he winked, pointed at the genius and continued, "is a member of the tribe above."
Xie Fengyue directly interrupted his emotional explanation: "Speak carefully, who is the county governor's name, what family he comes from, and what past events are criticized. Please tell them clearly one by one."
When the shopkeeper was told this, he really listened. He honestly told the past events of the county governor Yu Zhi.
"Yu Zhi is a member of the clan of the current crown prince's mother's family. He was originally ranked ten pages away from the family tree, so at first he was a poor relative who relied on the family's financial support. However, Yu Zhi has been extremely smart since he was a child. Yu Zhi When his father saw that his son had talent, he specially recommended him to his family
So the young Yu Zhi began to study away from home. No matter whether he was from a wealthy family or a common man, he could not escape being flattered and flattered no matter where he was.
In the small clan school, Yu Zhi was often praised by his teachers for his intelligence, but others couldn't stand this poor relative who had no parents around, and they teased and bullied him over and over again.
It was the later Yu De, who is now the patriarch of the Yu family, and Emperor Zhou's biological grandfather who took him with him and asked him to learn from his teacher. Yu Zhi lived up to expectations and was reused by the family.
But the problem lies with Yu Zhi's mother. Yu Zhi's mother can only be regarded as a down-and-out noble family. Several generations ago, the family was prosperous, and her son is so promising. He forcibly broke up an ordinary young lady who had a crush on Yu Zhi in the capital.
It didn't matter if they broke up, she also forced Yu Zhi to marry the current lady, the second daughter of a wealthy family in Yonghe County. As the old saying goes, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake.
When Yu Zhi was in Shengjing, he had his back against a big tree, but when he arrived at other people's territory, he could only lie low and low. He couldn't resist his mother who was looking for death all day long, so she could only hold her nose and admit it.
It wasn't until he got through and became the county guard that he brought in his first love, who had become a widow, as a concubine. This caused a lot of trouble for the powerful Mrs. Yu Zhi of his mother's family.
After so many years, Mrs. Yu still returns to her parents' home whenever she feels unsatisfied.
He is also used to his two daughters and two sons, and he looks down upon his father and the children of his father's first love.
After Xie Fengyue heard about the family story, she asked: "According to you, County Sheriff Yu became the Yonghe County Sheriff by relying on his true talents and serious learning. How could he be so extravagant and wasteful as to hold such a wedding banquet? ?”