"Are you relieved now?" Wei Yunlan reached out and gathered Miss Bai Si's winter coat, tightening the collar.
"Get in the car, we're going to leave."
Fourth Miss Bai nodded her head like a chick pecking at rice, followed closely behind Wei Yunlan, got on the more rustic carriage in the forest, and sat close to Wei Yunlan.
The meeting place agreed upon in advance with Zou Yun and Sui He was in the pine forest twenty miles outside the Beiguan City.
Just when they were about to arrive, they met Dong Da and Wei Mingxuan who were chasing them on horseback from behind.
After repeating what Old Lady Bai said, Wei Mingxuan handed the two things to Wei Yunlan. Then, after arriving at the pine forest, he drove the carriage that Wei Yunlan had taken and returned to the city.
The things on the carriage had already been transferred to a car that had been parked in the pine forest.
Suihe, Zou Yun and a group of eight other people from the Tianshu Pavilion were also waiting here.
Except for Zou Yun who changed into a dress similar to Sui He, the rest of the people were dressed as escorts. Zou Yun said, "All the way to Xiakou County, we are the escort team to send the young lady to visit her maternal family. Miss Wei, you are the daughter of Lan Yuanwai's family in Linxia County. This trip is to visit your maternal family in Qingzhou to visit your sick grandmother."
The jurisdiction in the north is not as strict as in the south. Normally, there are no officials checking when entering or leaving the city. Even so, they still prepared their passes.
Wei Yunlan took the pass and looked at it. Even Miss Lan's full name was written clearly on it.
"Is there really such a person?"
"It's possible to say yes, but it's also possible to say no." Zou Yun said meaningfully, "In short, these identities can withstand investigation and scrutiny. Miss Wei can rest assured."
Wei Yunlan had nothing to worry about. The people at Tianshu Pavilion were very rigorous in their work. For example, the forged identity and pass were something she had not thought of in advance.
With this layer of false identity protection, the journey is safer. Except for the family members and Mrs. Bai who already know about this trip, no one else will know that the eldest daughter of the Wei family in Beiguan City has changed her identity and quietly left Beiguan.
Four girls were sitting in the car.
One guard drove the carriage, and the remaining six drove horses on both sides.
The team headed westward and soon returned to the territory of Huangzhou.
They were taking the official road. Unlike the last time they left Huangzhou, there were obviously fewer refugees blocking the road and asking for food on both sides of the road.
Until we got close to the Dan River, we didn't encounter refugees in large numbers like we had before.
Wei Yunlan knew from the letter sent by Liu Qingxue that the situation in Huangzhou was better than before, but he did not expect the change to be so great.
"Is the situation in Huangzhou much better now?"
"It's not a great thing. We just gathered the refugees together and found something for them to do," said Zou Yun.
The original chaos in Huangzhou was mainly due to the inaction of local officials, in addition to the bursting of the Dan River and the destruction of a large amount of farmland.
At that time, the people who had lost their farmland had no means of living and nothing to do. Many of them went astray and started robbing people on the roads. As a result, merchant caravans from various states did not dare to set foot in Huangzhou, making Huangzhou a place hated by everyone.
But now in Huangzhou, the daughter of Prince Duan, Princess Daning, is leading the women from prominent families in Huangzhou to provide disaster relief and food, and to help the helpless women and children.
The court also sent a new commander-in-chief, Xue Lian, to suppress the bandits and mobilize young and middle-aged men who had no land to farm to participate in the construction of the dam. Although they would not be paid much, they would be given a day's ration for each day's work, which was better than staying at home and having no food to eat.
In addition, recently in the northwest of Huangzhou, there are still many farms recruiting tenants, giving priority to those who have elderly parents and children in the disaster-stricken families, and only collecting 40% of the rent each year. In the first year, half of it can be reduced due to the disaster. Many families who have been desperate have a way out because of this, and they all say that the head of the village is a living Bodhisattva sent by God to save people from suffering.
When saying the words "living Bodhisattva", Zou Yun glanced at Wei Yunlan's face.
Wei Yunlan's cheeks flushed.
Even if others don't know, how could she not know?
The head of those manors is herself...
…
I can't help but think about everything.
Just as he finished speaking, he saw that there were no refugees in Huangzhou. When he approached the bank of Dan River, he saw hundreds of ragged people gathered there from afar.
There are quite a few sheds nearby. If you look closely, you can see quite a few children peeking out from under the sheds. There are also several old people and women beside them, pulling the children and preventing them from getting close to the crowd outside the sheds.
Wei Yunlan drew aside the curtain and looked into the distance, only to see several large pots set up on the river bank. Under the sun, the women standing next to the large pots had fluorescent lights flowing through them, and Wei Yunlan recognized the light patterns, which looked like the finest flowing cloud brocade shimmering in the sun.
Under several large pots, firewood was burning vigorously, billowing white smoke was rising, and the crowd gathered around became more and more chaotic.
There was a huge crowd of people, and the crowd that gathered around was almost about to push down the women who were guarding the cauldron.
"Are they distributing porridge over there?" Wei Yunlan frowned.
Those who were huddled in the shed and dared not move forward were all the elderly, children, women and children, while the crowd that gathered around were mostly men. It was clear from their posture that they did not intend to queue up obediently to receive the porridge, but rather wanted to grab it!
The crowd blocked Wei Yunlan and his group's route to the dock.
The closer you are, the clearer you can see what's ahead.
There were more than a dozen women surrounded by the crowd, three of them were dressed luxuriously, and the others looked like maids and servants. They tightly protected the three, fearing that the refugees would bump into the nobles they were protecting, but they were helpless to deal with the large number of refugees.
Nowadays, many women from prominent and wealthy families in Huangzhou have responded to the call of Princess Daning and are providing porridge to refugees and providing relief to displaced women, children and young children.
The women surrounded by the crowd were obviously doing this.
Unfortunately, good deeds are never rewarded, and such terrible things happen.
The refugees who gathered around not only scrambled to grab the rice porridge in the pot, but also reached out to the maid who was protecting the nobleman, trying to snatch the purse hanging around the maid's waist.
In the chaos, some people were pushed to the ground.
Exclamations rang out one after another.
On the outskirts of the crowd, a woman couldn't help but run out of the shed, shouting, "Stop, stop now!"
"Our benefactor gave us a way out. How can you treat him like this?"
There were also two or three people dressed as servants and guards, who kept shouting at the chaotic crowd to stop. However, they were too few in number, and even though they had drawn the swords at their waists, it had little effect. They had just managed to control a few dozen people on the periphery when they were drowned in the crowd.
In the carriage, Wei Yunlan and Zou Yun looked at each other.
"Miss Wei?"
Wei Yunlan nodded slightly, his eyes calm, "Do it!"
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