Two days later, in the early morning, several carriages finally arrived outside the south gate of Xuzhou City.
At the city gate, two rows of soldiers stood guard, carefully questioning and checking the passers-by.
Song Kui handed over the pass in his hand. The gatekeeper first looked at the pass and checked the number of people before letting the carriages pass.
When Gu Anxu came to the back, the man seemed to recognize him and could not help but mock him:
"Oh, isn't this Doctor Gu? What brought you to Xuzhou?
Could it be that your daughter's animal was sick and has been cured?
Come on, Miss Gu, take off your veil quickly and let us see what this beastly face looks like when it turns into a human face.
As he shouted, four or five soldiers guarding the city came over and started shouting:
"Come on, open our eyes!"
Upon hearing this, Cao's face in the carriage turned pale. She pointed at those people with trembling hands and shouted:
"You shameless people! What does my daughter's appearance have to do with you?"
Miss Gu was only eight years old. She listened to the mockery from the people outside and sobbed, "Why do you have to take me out of the village? I want to go back!"
Gu Anxu's face turned pale as he said, "Please give me some convenience!"
The gatekeepers found the Gu family's reaction very interesting and were unwilling to give way.
"Doctor Gu is too stingy! How can you let him go without even letting me take a look?
Who knows, the man under the veiled hat is the thief the court is looking to catch! How can we let him go so easily?
Please cooperate, Doctor Gu, and don't make things difficult for us!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Anxu clenched his fists, making a crisp clattering sound. These people were clearly looking for trouble!
He gently twisted a few silver needles between his fingers and was about to shoot them at those people!
But at this moment, the captain of the city gate who was standing aside waiting to watch the excitement suddenly fell to the ground with a bang!
The gatekeepers no longer cared about the Gu family's carriage and ran towards the captain.
Gu Anxu looked up at the carriage in front of him. Just now, something seemed to shoot out from the young lady's carriage at an extremely fast speed...
He raised his whip and slowly followed!
What is the identity of that lady?
Soon, several carriages drove into a mansion with five courtyards.
Now, we are just waiting for Lord He Wenqin to arrive.
Mo Qiu told Si Jinxing all the information he had collected, saying:
"Jia Wensheng, a man from a poor family, passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi through his own efforts.
Back then, in the Emperor's Palace of Diligent Administration, he showed the courage to devote his entire life to the people of the world!
But who would have thought that after just twenty years of ups and downs in his official career, he would reach a point where he would disregard the lives of the common people!
Tongcheng County suffered the most severe disaster. Now tens of thousands of people are displaced and scattered all over the place. There are also many victims inside and outside Xuzhou City.
Jia Wensheng only started distributing porridge and cakes five days ago, three months after the flood.
However, the Tongzhi, Fu Tong, after arguing with Jia Wensheng for many times without success, sold his property and started setting up a soup kitchen, alleviating the urgent needs of tens of thousands of disaster victims!
Si Jinxing frowned. Seeing that the weather was getting colder, the people would not only face the problem of food, but also the problem of resisting the cold!
Xue Yong was allowed to listen to the case in the room. As a native of Tongcheng County, he knew much more about it.
"County Lady, more than three months ago, the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers rained for several days, and the water level was rising and the dam was about to collapse!
The magistrate of Tongcheng County submitted countless memorials to that incompetent official Jia Wensheng, but they were all rejected!
Countless villagers' houses were washed away, and the people had no choice but to flee everywhere...
But Jia Wensheng refused to open the granary to release the grain. I guess he embezzled some public funds and can't give them out right now!"
This sentence coincides with Si Jinxing's!
Generally, when a disaster strikes, families have to bear the burden first and then wait for the capital to allocate food and money for disaster relief.
When He Wenqin arrived, the first thing she wanted to do was to meet Jia Wensheng and see who he was!
What is he relying on?
Li and Zheng Kui were ordinary people. Even though they had some foundation in Tongcheng County before, they were now penniless refugees.
Not wanting to take advantage of their benefactor for nothing, the two of them took the initiative to take on the task of cooking.
It’s better for everyone not to be picky, as it’s much better than chewing hard, dry biscuits on the road!
After lunch, Si Jinxing specifically asked Song Xiner to tell Gu Anxu to let his daughter fast for three hours.
The first step of treatment can be carried out tonight.
This greatly encouraged the Gu family, who were being ridiculed and provoked at the city gate!
Especially the eight-year-old daughter of the Gu family, who nodded while crying and said, "I will cooperate with my sister. I don't want this dark skin!"
Far away in Jianzhou City, Lan Mansion.
Si Junshan knelt on the ground, bowed his head towards the old lady sitting at the head, and said:
"Mother-in-law, it was all my fault before. I wrongly blamed Xing'er.
Now that I've realized my mistake, I just want to ask, is Xing'er doing well these days? "
Old Madam Lan closed her eyes slightly, not wanting to even look at Si Junshan.
She was so blind that she actually agreed to let Xiaoshui marry such a bastard!
Seeing this, Lin also changed her usual dignified manner, snorted coldly, and said:
"General Si, what's going on with your own daughter? Do you have to come to our courtyard to ask about it?
You are not young anymore, how do you become someone's father?"
Si Junshan looked at his second uncle's wife and said, "Sister-in-law, what you said is that I failed in my duty as a father, but the Lan family is definitely not an outsider. Sister-in-law, please don't say that."
Han listened from the side, his eyes narrowed, and he said:
"Ten years ago, my father went to your Si family in person to take Xing'er back.
I don’t know who it was, but he said something like, how can your own child be raised by someone else?
What? Are you completely clear of it now? "
When Si Junshan heard this, he felt ashamed. Back then, he was blinded by hatred and let his mother say whatever she wanted.
Even when his father-in-law, General Lan, risked his reputation to ask him for the child, he still refused.
It was Shen who said:
"Okay, let's not embarrass General Si."
Si Junshan was about to thank his uncle's wife, but he heard her politely say:
"A kind-hearted person like General Si is the most foolish. We in the Lan Mansion dare not get involved with him. You should go back to where you came from!"
Hearing this, Si Junshan felt the pain of being hit on the face.
Back then, his first wife had married down, and after only a few years, she died at a young age...
Later, because of his stupidity, he caused his own daughter to suffer for ten years!
Now, what does it matter if the Lan family scolds him a few times?
He bowed towards his three uncles and aunts and said:
"Yes, my three sisters-in-law are right. I have been blind and deaf all these years and have done the wrong things."
At this moment, the messenger girl outside the door came in and reported:
"Someone from the Si family came and said that the old lady of the Si family is arranging the funeral and asked you to go back quickly!"
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