Chapter 49: The Human Spirit Plum (Thanks for the extra update)
The next day, just as the sky was getting light, Meng Yi started shouting.
"Get up, get up. Walk faster today and we'll be there after noon."
Following Meng Yi's voice, the entire Ouyang family got up one after another.
Even the youngest, Ouyang Feiluo, sat up, rubbed his sleepy eyes with his hands, and asked softly, "Mom, is it dawn?"
"Yes, it's daybreak. We have to set off after breakfast. It's already December, and the weather is getting colder. The sooner we arrive, the sooner General Meng and the others can return to report."
"Uh-huh."
Today is the last day of their trip. Although each person has a pancake for breakfast, a bowl of wild vegetable porridge is added today to fill people's stomachs with more food.
After breakfast, they set off again, heading towards their destination, the place of exile that everyone talked about.
As they were almost there, everyone felt a little nervous and their pace slowed down a bit.
Along the way, Meng Yi urged several times before arriving at the end of noon.
Seeing that the newcomer was actually dressed in military uniform, Li Zi, who was in charge of the exiled prisoners, hurried out to greet him and said with a bow, "Commendations, thank you for your hard work. Please come in."
Meng Yi waved his hand and said, "Manager Li, Meng Yi was ordered to deliver the prisoner. Please accept the official documents first." Then he handed over the documents in his hand.
Li Zi was slightly stunned. This was the first time he had encountered this in the five or six years since he was in charge of managing exiled prisoners.
It was actually the soldiers in the military camp who escorted the exiled prisoners.
It seems that this exiled person is not simple!
He took the document and looked at it carefully. He immediately raised his head and looked at the Ouyang family. He blinked and turned to look at Meng Yi and asked in a low voice: "General Meng, are there any arrangements for these people?"
"none."
Just one simple word made Li Zi doubt his life.
A third-rank official, a fourth-rank official, was exiled so miserably.
I came here to open up wasteland and farm, but I didn't even buy any farm tools.
This is weird no matter how you look at it.
Although Li Zi understood it in his heart, verification was necessary.
After looking at them one by one, he nodded, looked at the only five backpacks, and let them in without charging the Ouyang family a penny.
Seeing a group of people following a guard inside, Meng Yicai said, "Manager Li, I have been entrusted by an elder to take care of the little kid's family within your ability. The kid had a head injury when he left the capital..."
"The little doll with the big eyes?"
Meng Yi nodded and replied, "Okay, thank you for trouble, Manager Li." Then he stuffed two silver bills into Li Zi's hand, waved his hand and left the place of exile that everyone talked about - Yushan.
Yushan sounds like a mountain, but it is not.
Yushan is actually a county, but it is very desolate. Due to the poor land, no one is willing to live here.
Gradually, this place became known to the rulers of the time, who sent some prisoners here to build Yushan. Over time, it became a place of exile.
Although Yushan is not the poorest place in the northwest, it is one of the poorest places in the northwest. There is also an unnamed wasteland five hundred miles away from Yushan.
Yushan is connected to an unnamed wasteland. The prisoners who came here before have already built a part of Yushan into a decent shape.
Although the land is still barren, there is a harvest after planting seeds, which is much better than when those people first came a few years ago and had nothing.
Li Zi, who was in charge of managing Yushan, looked at Meng Yi and others who were walking away. Thinking of Meng Yi's instructions, he did not feel reluctant at all.
Li Zi, who had also fought on the battlefield in the northwest, could see that the other three people traveling with Meng Yi were not simple characters, so he became curious about the little boy's family.
He looked down at the silver notes stuffed in his hand and found that they were two silver notes of 500 taels each, which added up to 1,000 taels.
Looking at Meng Yi walking away with some doubt, Li Zi realized that those people were a family, but Meng Yi only entrusted the little kid's family with his instructions. It seems that this family must have a story behind it...
After standing there and thinking for a long time, Li Zi turned around, put his hands behind his back, and walked in the direction where the Ouyang family had left.
When they arrived at an open place, Li Zi saw the Ouyang family standing there. He stopped and looked at the family.
At first he didn't think anything of it, but after a closer look, Li Zi discovered a clue.
This family is actually divided into two factions. No matter how you look at it, they don't look like a family. It's quite interesting...
Having made up his mind, Li Zi walked over and said coldly to the Ouyang family, "You're lucky. You have a place to stay as soon as you arrive. But the yard is a little small, so you have to live separately."
As soon as she heard Li Zi's words, Mrs. Ouyang, Chen Yanhua, complained in a low voice: "What a shabby place to live in separately! It's full of potholes and hard to walk around, and even the living space is very small..."
Although Chen Yanhua's voice was very low, Li Zi still heard some of it. He narrowed his eyes and curled the corners of his lips. Li Zi did not speak, but turned and walked to the left.
Seeing this, Ouyang Jin and Ouyang Qin followed, leaving Ouyang Hong and his wife and Ouyang Hui's family there with looks of disgust and complaints.
Seeing that their two uncles' men had caught up with the steward, brothers Ouyang Mingqing and Mingyan also hurried over to see what the residence looked like.
Ouyang Hong looked at his eldest son Ouyang Hui and whispered, "Let's go and see where to live first."
"Yes, father."
When Ouyang Hong and his companions arrived at a courtyard with a half-man-high earthen wall, Mrs. Ouyang, Chen Yanhua, immediately exclaimed, "We'll live in a place like this. Whoever wants to live in this dirt courtyard can go ahead."
Ouyang Jin and Ouyang Qin, whose shackles had been undone, looked at the earthen-walled courtyard in front of them, walked in, and took a closer look.
There are two main rooms, a kitchen and a storage room, and a toilet in a corner. Although the yard does not look very big, there is a backyard of one mu where some vegetables can be grown.
After the two brothers Ouyang Jin discussed it, Ouyang Qin looked at Li Zi and said seriously, "Sir, our family will live here."
Li Zi asked seriously: "Have you thought about it?"
"I've thought about it. Can we build this wall a little higher?"
After listening to Ouyang Qin's words, Li Zi understood and nodded in response: "You can build it up further, but you need to figure out how to make the bricks yourself. You can make them yourself or exchange them with other villagers."
After he finished speaking, Li Zi saw him nod in response, then turned and walked towards a yard not far away.
This courtyard has one more room than Ouyang Qin's, and everything else is similar. Seeing Chen Yanhua's look of disgust, Ouyang Jin decided to stay here.
At this time, Manager Li Zi had almost finished his observation. He looked at Chen Yanhua, who had a gloomy face, turned around, and walked in another direction with a group of people.
When the group came to a courtyard with an earthen wall more than one person high, Manager Li stopped.
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