Chapter 82 Potian’s wealth is life-threatening
Xiong Jiushan’s reaction corroborated the news that Gao Shanhe brought back to the village.
Gao Shusheng had a little more confidence in the Xie family, and secretly made a plan in his heart. Later, Gao Shanhe would bring a few young men from the village to Xishan to invite Sister-in-law Sophora Hua. Go down the mountain.
The village and market are not big, and the things are ordinary things that are not valuable on weekdays. However, the prisoners are in a difficult situation and are worried about the hardships of the journey ahead, so they exchange them when they are needed to avoid suffering.
However, there are also prisoners who do not participate at all. They look like they have no money. They eat whatever the escorts give them and never do anything provocative. Although they look over there with envy, In a wise and self-protective manner, he hid himself among the crowd.
Not everyone is as crowded as the Xie family, and not everyone has the pressure of having a ghost on their head.
Pang Jiming is one of them.
An unreasonable disaster caused him to be exiled with his family, which made him deeply realize that sometimes disasters are unreasonable and unfair.
People are born different, let alone equal.
The world is no longer clear and clear. It is dirty and chaotic. This is not an era for people with lofty ideals to make achievements. Ordinary people are like ants, living cautiously under the feet of the rich and powerful in order to have a breather. There is no peace in relying on others.
He studied hard when he was young and spent ten years of fame just to control floods and benefit future generations. But what's the use?
The prime of life is the age to do things for the people. Working conscientiously by the river is not as good as a false accusation from the nobles in the capital.
Where can there be justice in the world? No!
People from the imperial court come here to gain fame. As a small waterway official, he doesn't care at all. It's just a little chaotic for the nobles to instruct the insiders to do things. As long as they don't hurt their muscles and bones, he can wait for the nobles to leave. Finally, local water officials like them tried to do more remedial work, and they were able to recover some losses.
But what I fear the most is the kind of incompetent person who comes down and walks around without seeking fame, but who insists on pursuing a big career.
Crossing the river is like a mountain, not to mention water control, which relies heavily on the practical experience accumulated by generations of water officials. He studied under the famous water control officials, and went south to control water for ten years, and is slowly exploring feasible methods. Aspiring colleagues around them are studying new methods of water control day and night, and they are determined to control the waters that flood every year in South Road into a project that can prevent decades, or even a century.
They also know that this method is difficult to work in the short term. It can be seen that the merits are nothing compared to the achievements of the water control officials, but ten or decades later, it can benefit future generations from generation to generation.
This is the dream of flood control officers like them. Fortunately, the adults in charge of the southern region are also people with lofty ideals. They are working together to advance the work bit by bit. However, a sudden flood disrupted the rhythm.
Your Excellency led his subordinates to save water on the embankment and evacuate the affected people. At this time, they were working together to unite and cooperate, but the right prime minister led people south to control the flood.
They fought hard on the river embankment for many days. When they heard that the imperial court was coming, they were overjoyed, thinking that the imperial court's backup had finally arrived!
But...
In their view, floods are the wrath of God and a disaster that destroys families. But for some people, this is just a huge fortune. Treating disasters is getting rich, and merit is fame.
The mentor single-handedly saved the lives of their subordinates, but one of them was killed by a knife.
Pang Jiming was lying in the damp and dark prison, looking at the dark ceiling, despairing of all thoughts.
What kind of world is this?
Those who do things will be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts, and those who use their skills and embroidered legs will rise to the top of the clouds.
He set out with his wife and children with the exile team in a daze, warning his family members all the way that safety was the most important thing, and that the family should arrive in Liaozhou safely, leaving others alone and not to conflict with the detainees.
You say this, but in your heart you feel that your fate is ridiculous.
On the night when Xie Zhen, the married daughter of the Xie family, chased the deportation team, he did not know about it. The next day, he learned the news about Xie Zhen from other prisoners around him.
I heard that the other party was divorced by Zhuang Tanhua and went out to look for her mother's family.
Pang Jiming saw Zhuang Xu's wife, Xie Zhen, among the crowd of Xie's family.
He ended up in this situation because he collided with Zhuang Xu by the waterway, but in the exile team, he saw Zhuang Xu's divorced first wife.
At that moment, he really felt the impermanence and ridicule of fate.
At this moment, the Xie family has been famous for a century. Even if they end up in exile, the Xie family daughter can still get money to exchange supplies with the villagers on the road.
And he looked at the other incompetent refugees, all with haggard faces, lingering in numbness and gasping for air.
What exactly went wrong?
Pang Jiming couldn’t understand for a moment.
The wife looked after her children who were still awake, and sighed inwardly when she saw her husband silently looking at the people trading in front.
Pang Jiming withdrew his gaze, took out the remaining half of the cake from his arms, and handed it to his wife.
“Why haven’t you finished eating yet?” The wife frowned. "If you're not hungry, you eat."
“Nonsense!”
“You can eat it.” Pang Jiming couldn’t speak, so he should put half of the pancake into his wife’s arms.
Tears overflowed from the wife's eyes. She was afraid that her husband would think too much, so she blinked a few times and put them back.
After being married for more than 20 years, no one knows what the husband is thinking better than his wife.
She also felt wronged for her husband.
At the beginning of the new year, she still remembers her husband lying on the table, drawing lanterns with his daughter and son, and expressing his beautiful wishes for the new year.
Who doesn’t know his wish?
When it comes to water control, her taciturn husband always beams with joy, and every word talks about a bright future.
Later, he didn’t go home for a long time.
Every time I come back, I stand on the porch and look at the sky, with a sad look on my face.
She brought hot tea to warm herself up, and she could always hear him talking about why the court was so slow to transfer the money. That day was going to change.
Later...
She was afraid that he would not be able to think straight in exile.
When the lady from the Xie family came after him, it was the first time she noticed a change in her husband's face.
If it weren’t for the many years of understanding that kept her from thinking too much, she almost thought her husband had something to do with their Miss Xie family.
Pang Jiming: "That Miss Xie is the wife of Zhuang Tanhua."
She was also stunned.
She also saw Xie Zhen's appearance, and even looked at it for a long time.
She said to her husband: "The Xie family is in trouble. Zhuang Tanhua divorced his wife just because he wanted to. He is too careless."
Pang Jiming was silent for a while and said: "The prince and the right minister are willing to introduce other noble ladies to him."
"It's no wonder."
"A villain does things like a fly and a dog." Like a human being."
When Pang Jiming heard his wife scolding, he rarely looked at his gentle and polite wife again.
"That traitor did this to my husband. Even if I were buried in the earth, I would have to crawl out and scold him a few more times to relieve my hatred."
Pang Jiming smiled for the first time that day.
With a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?
After Pang Jiming, he only cared about his wife and children. He had nothing to do with the interests of the court or his fame.
Ping An An An insists on arriving in Liaozhou. He will work hard to save an acre or two of land, work at sunrise and rest at sundown, and take good care of his wife and children.
Life is just about living, what difference does it make if you live well or live well?
The crowds gathered in the village and market gradually dispersed.
The guards watched over the prisoners as they returned to the team one after another and packed their bags.
Pang Jim knew that the team was about to set off, so he whispered to his wife: "Wake up the children, it's time for us to leave."
February passed, and March~ is coming. Chapter writing is a bit slow, everyone go to bed early!
(End of this chapter)