mtlumby2d Chapter 1271
Chapter 1271
The screen continued to display images. Liang Chongyue had two screens in front of her, one showing Fei He and the other showing Ming Lang.
Both sides were busy with their own things. Fei He left the house that couldn't keep out the wind and rain and continued to wander around the chaotic village.
The old man and the child were indeed pitiful, but he also had his own mission. He needed to see the whole village before he could go back and report to His Majesty.
Logically speaking, Jiangnan is close to the capital. The villages were the places His Majesty first began to develop.
People should never have lived like this, but things have turned out differently than we wished. How many people in this world are imprisoned?
His Majesty has worked hard for many years, not caring about fame or fortune, but he is the one who can least bear to see the people suffer. If he were to see it with his own eyes, it would be an easy thing for him to kill the village chief and the head of the village.
The images on the panel changed slowly as Fei He moved around. Liang Chongyue hadn't seen such a backward village in a long time.
Everywhere you look, there are drafty walls, and in some households, even the doors are just broken wooden planks with the holes stuffed with straw.
The door was movable; even a mouse crossing the threshold could make the wooden door shake violently.
When the system saw this, it turned to look at the host's expression.
When the host's expression returned to normal, the anxiety that had been building up completely subsided.
If the host had seen this before, he would have been angry, but now he has come to terms with the construction and development of Qiyang.
There's no worst, only worse.
The fact that the host didn't massacre Qiyang is a testament to the fact that those officials died quickly.
The main reason for the trip was that the people who visited Jiangjia Village first went to Qiyang. I imagine the officials in Qiyang would have been hung up and chopped into human sticks.
Even the last piece of flesh must not fall to the ground; they must be kept alive with medication to prevent them from dying easily.
Jiangjia Village is not large, and there are not many households. The young and strong men had already been taken away by the guards on the way.
When Fei He wandered around the village, he saw mostly people who were too weak to even lift a chicken, and many of them couldn't even get out of bed, paralyzed and unable to move.
The closer they got to the village chief's house, the louder the noise became. Those houses were all empty, and they looked much better than what Fei He had initially seen.
Several windows still had carvings, though not very intricate, but they were worlds apart from what I had seen before.
Fei He slowly approached the liveliest place in the entire village, a two-courtyard house with red cloth hanging inside, where people were playing music and singing.
Just as Fei He was about to get closer to get a better look, she heard a noise behind her. Fei He quickly moved aside and saw the little girl from before.
He ran back, his clothes soaked with sweat and clinging to his body. His malnourished, sallow face was flushed red from running. As soon as he entered the yard, he was chased out by the village chief's dog.
"This dog is more useful than a person, look at that."
The busy people in the yard watched helplessly as the child, who had been chased out by the big, burly black dog, stood outside.
Everyone was laughing with their heads thrown back, no one caring how ferocious the dog looked when it bared its teeth at the child, emboldened by the laughter.
The child was malnourished and was less than two heads taller than the dog.
Terrified by the dog, I stood rooted to the spot, too afraid to move or even cry.
Fei He raised his hand and shot an arrow with a poisoned crossbow at the dog's hind leg. The dog, which had been arrogant just moments before, suddenly felt pain and began to howl.
Hearing the commotion, the people in the courtyard rushed out: "You're bullying my dog, aren't you? Give me back that bowl of meat you just took, a full bowl! If you don't give it back, I'll sell you to some dark alley in the county town, so you can eat meat every day, okay?"
The person who came out of the courtyard looked vicious and cruel. He picked up the child with one hand and spun him around in front of him.
His expression shifted repeatedly, as if he were examining a piece of livestock.
The child was so frightened that he dared not cry, he just shrank his neck and didn't dare to make a sound even when he was in pain.
"Useless thing, hurry up and come in to wash the vegetables. Remember you owe my family a bowl of meat. If you can't pay it back, we'll sell you off in two years."
The man casually tossed the child into the yard, not even glancing at the dog that could no longer stand.
The child squatted on the ground, washing vegetables while wiping away tears.
Her face turned bright red, but she dared not cry out.
The system was furious.
"What kind of place is this? Has the underworld moved to the human world? I haven't even washed yet, and I'm already seeing evil spirits."
The system was so angry that its mouth trembled.
"Don't worry, Feihe will handle these things."
Such incidents occurred frequently when Liang Chongyue first introduced the new policies.
Liang Chongyue had a bad reputation, but he was highly respected among the people precisely because of this.
She didn't protect the interests of landlords and rich people; she only wanted to do things for the common people.
Her unconventional ways were the most criticized aspect by those in power who lost their authority.
She will pull out all the rotten weeds from this land, and no one will be able to sow rotten seeds on the land she has worked so hard to cultivate.
Fei He stared at these people. He had already explored almost the entire village, and there should only be a small area left to explore.
That small area should be where Jiang Yubai's family lives.
His secret guards were stationed in that area, and if they discovered anything amiss, the guards from Qingyu Pavilion wouldn't wait long.
They'll just take it directly.
As for whether the wrong person was arrested, it seems almost impossible in this village now.
"Why haven't the village chief and the others returned yet? It's almost auspicious time."
A plump old woman in the courtyard stood on tiptoe to look outside, and what she said attracted the attention of everyone in the courtyard.
"Someone go check where the bride is."
The woman who had come out earlier casually pointed to a group of children squatting by the door washing vegetables.
A girl who looked a little older than the previous child stood up, glanced shakily at the woman, and then ran out.
After she left, the courtyard became lively again.
"Speaking of which, was that Da Shan's daughter just now? She's grown up so much, and no one in Da Shan's family has arranged anything for her. I think she's old enough to get married."
There are many unmarried men in my hometown village who don't mind that we live in the mountains and our families are poor. They all own land, so marrying into their village would be a blessing. I'll help arrange things for them tomorrow.
The speaker was laughing, but to the children washing and serving the vegetables, the voice sounded like a death knell from the underworld.
“I remember your family village was wealthy, and many of the young men and women there had received an education.”
"She was arrogant because she had read books, and refused to marry into the family. She insisted on taking the imperial examinations, which made people laugh."
Our emperor, who murdered his father and brother, still wants all the girls in the world to learn from her unfilial behavior.
It's a pity that so many princes couldn't defeat her. I heard she seized control of the palace early on. The late emperor's dislike of her and his banishment to Guanzhong were all his schemes to force her to abdicate and seize power.