Chapter 150 149 A few guys suddenly realized

Then, in front of each of Yuchi Yi, Kong Xun and Jiang Chenxi, there was a bowl of watery rice porridge with brown rice bran floating on it.

The bland and astringent taste made several people want to spit it out after tasting it.

Under the pressure of An Xin's eyes, he swallowed it back.

Looking at An Xin aggrievedly, "..." Female sir, are you a devil?

An Xin ate half a pancake and a bowl of porridge without changing his expression.

The porridge is made of brown rice that irritates the throat and vegetables without any oil or salt.

Only those who have eaten it know how it tastes.

An Xin felt very miserable.

Doesn’t she want to eat white flour pancakes with fried, shiny, golden country eggs?

But I am an adult after all, and I really can't bear to see those young children who may not even get a piece of white bread.

However, they took the eggs that the family was going to exchange for money and ate them as if it was their own fault.

Although she is not a good person, An Xin really can't do such a thing.

When Kong Xun, Yuchi Yi and others learned that the women and children of the Zheng family did not even get the cakes and vegetables that they disliked, and were eating the vegetable porridge that they despised.

They all drank the porridge in their bowls silently.

Only then did they realize that this was the kind of life ordinary people lived.

Perhaps we can only have a few full meals during the New Year holidays and the period after the grain harvest.

Most of the time, even if there is food at home, people will still save it for the sake of long-term living.

After dinner, An Xin and Village Chief Zheng sat under a big tree in the yard to enjoy the cool air.

He asked casually, "Old village chief, I heard a leader among those people say earlier, what's going on with the Qingyun Mountain bandits?"

The old village chief took a puff of his hookah, tapped the pipe, and then answered her question.

“Qingyun Mountain is not very far from here, less than a hundred miles away, and there are rolling hills and vast forests.

In the mountains and forests, there is a group of bandits living there all year round. They kill people, rob, fight, and do all kinds of evil.

When the former County Magistrate Tang was in office, he was an upright official. If the bandits became too rampant, he would join forces with the county's Inspector Qin to attack them.

Even if the attack fails, it can still serve as a warning.

Every time this happened, the bandits would become much more restrained and would not dare to come down the mountain to harass us civilians.

But ever since County Magistrate Tang was promoted to the position of Tongzhi in the prefectural capital a few years ago and County Magistrate Fan was transferred here, it was heard that the bandits in Qingyun Mountain were becoming more and more arrogant.

Now they not only blatantly rob passing merchants and travelers, but sometimes also harass people in nearby villages.

There have been several cases of people kidnapping decent girls who went up the mountain to chop firewood or pick wild vegetables in the past few years."

"This is too arrogant," Yuchi Yi and his companions, accompanied by the Zheng brothers, came out of the house and heard what the old village chief said, and said angrily: "Doesn't this County Magistrate Fan care?"

"Alas!" Boss Zheng shook his head and sighed, "If he were an honest and upright official, the people here would have been oppressed by the landlord Qian like this.

How could he turn a deaf ear to it and even arrest the person who filed the complaint and put him in jail?"

Yuchi Yi was silent.

This made a lot of sense, and he couldn't refute it. How could he expect a county magistrate who didn't care about the people's fields being forcibly occupied to be smart and wise, and lead people to suppress bandits in a swift and resolute manner? It seemed that he was still too naive.

The children who were originally playing in the yard were also taken back by their mothers to take a bath and sleep.

No one spoke for a while.

Kong Xun looked up at the bright moon hanging in the sky, its silver light filling the courtyard.

On this day, people had to work in the fields to earn money for the journey. They stepped into the muddy fields and bent over to plant rice under the scorching sun.

Occasionally, a kind of soft-bodied insect called leeches would attach themselves to Bai Jie's calves and suck their blood, making them miserable.

After working for half a day, I not only didn't get paid, but I also had to pay for food.

I have seen with my own eyes that the local gentry and landlords who dominate a certain area can actually collude with local government officials and buy up the land that originally belonged to the people into their own hands.

They recruited people to work for them at extremely low prices, making them their tenants in disguise, and truly became local tyrants who dominated a certain area.

This refreshed the three views of Kong Xun, who was brought up to be a good guy since childhood.

There are also the Qingyun Mountain bandits mentioned by the old village chief, who not only kill people and rob goods, but also forcibly abduct decent women and bring them up the mountain to rape them.

This made him, who had always been kind, truly realize the evil in human nature.

Kong Xun's eyes looking towards the sky became more and more fierce, and the aura on his body became colder and colder.

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What happened in these few days made him realize that not all kindness and warmth can be treated gently.

The 17 or 18-year-old boy stood tall and straight, looking up at the moon, which made people feel that he looked down on the world. He had the natural dignity and elegance of a royal family, which was a kind of majesty that other noble sons of aristocratic families did not have.

An Xin smiled slightly, feeling the change in Kong Xun's aura, and thought that this boy was very intelligent.

As he went through this kind of life experience, his spirit changed from his original gentle and jade-like temperament to a stern, wise, elegant and calm person.

It’s true what I said, he is a person with royal blood.

It would be fine if I was always bound and unable to break free.

But the dragon is never a creature that stays in a pond. When it encounters wind and cloud, it transforms into a dragon.

Now Kong Xun has broken free from the shackles of the Taifu Mansion, and there is someone who has sent her to travel and see the world.

This boy is not stupid, otherwise how could he, with his extraordinary talent, get the second place in the college entrance examination when no one is sincere to him, and rank second only to Li Ziyu, whom he taught.

Li Ziyu has a teacher who is as good as a great scholar, so it is not surprising that he has such profound and broad knowledge.

This person just studied with a teacher that Master Kong casually invited into the mansion, but he still scored so high in the exam, which shows how smart he is.

It was understandable that he realized it so quickly.

An Xin turned to look at his four young disciples, and was pleased to see Jiang Chenxi and Yuchi Yi also looking down in deep thought.

At least two out of the four have some insights into what they encountered during this period.

This would help their originally young minds grow, and it would also be worth it for her to indulge that girl named Mei, Xiaoling, who stole all the money and belongings from them.

Including accessories on the body and good clothes worth some silver money.

Fortunately, apart from An Xin who was disgusted by Xiao Ling and displeased with Yuchi Yi for not notifying him, the other people still trusted her.

He handed over most of the silver bills he had on him to himself, thus saving the money of Kong Xun, Jiang Chenxi, Gao Tai and Chen Qibao from being stolen.

Looking at Gao Tai and Chen Qibao chatting excitedly with the Zheng brothers, An Xin sighed. He wanted to teach these guys well. But the road ahead was long and arduous!

Finally, before everyone left to wash up and go to bed, Village Chief Zheng stopped An Xin and whispered to her about the past of the landlord Qian's family.

This surprised An Xin and also indirectly confirmed his previous thoughts.

(End of this chapter)