After hearing this equally childish voice, the corner of the master's mouth twitched twice, and then he smiled bitterly and said to his chief officer: "This, this must be because the master wants a bowl of water to be balanced, son, daughter You can’t even go hungry…”
"Yes, yes! That's the reason, hahaha..." The county magistrate was speechless at first, but after hearing the master's thoughtful explanation, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, laughed and nodded!
"master!"
Like a magic spell, just as the master and servant were laughing together, a third voice came from behind the door.
"roll!!!"
However, this time, before the visitor could say what he wanted to eat, the county magistrate in the room had already started shouting and shouting.
At this moment, outside Ningcheng.
Looking at the closed city gate in front of him from a distance, as well as the refugees in ragged clothes and with sallow faces and skinny muscles around the city gate, Xiao Han frowned, his eyes flashed, and he didn't know what he was thinking at this time.
Those people near the city gate are real refugees.
Xiao Han could easily tell this from their slow movements and weak figures.
It's just a little strange. At first glance, these people are almost all old, weak, women and children, and there is not a younger man in sight.
"Huh? Where did all the men here die?" Liu Hongji, who was standing beside Xiao Han, also noticed this at this time and asked softly.
"Men?" Xiao Han sneered when he heard this and glanced back at the prisoners in the team: "Aren't all the men here?"
"Them?" After hearing Xiao Han's words, Liu Hongji took a deep breath and stared at the refugee captives lying on the ground randomly: "You mean, they are thieves outside, drinking heavily, and Eat a piece of meat! But my family is starving here, worse than death?"
"certainly not!"
Liu Hongji always had a loud voice, and his voice was naturally heard clearly by everyone, so some prisoners couldn't help but refuted: "Our families have been settled before departure!"
"Placement?"
Xiao Han turned around and followed the voice. When he saw that the speaker was still a childish young man, he sneered and said: "Do you think those thieves who encourage you to kill and set fire will really do what they say?" As you said, treat your parents and relatives as their own? If that's the case, how could they leave you and run for your lives alone? "
"They..." The young man was speechless, but he still cursed in a low voice with an unconvinced look on his face: "They are all good people, they will not be like you dog officials!"
"Dog officer?"
The idiot who was doing nothing suddenly heard that the young man dared to curse Xiao Han, and he was furious! He rushed over in a few steps and kicked him directly in the stomach. The young man was immediately stooped like a prawn and couldn't breathe for a long time!
Not to mention that, the idiot who had suppressed his anger rushed forward again, stepped on the young man's head with his big feet that almost wore out the soles of his shoes, and gritted his teeth and spat:
"Bah! We traveled thousands of miles to come and save you! It's good for you. In the face of a disaster, you don't think about how to survive, but you go around burning, killing, looting and raping! You even called us dog officials, you are the fucking dog thieves! So sad! A conscientious thief!"
"You..." The young man's head was stepped on by the idiot, and most of his face was sunk into the mud! Just as he was about to resist, he felt a heartbreaking pain in his stomach. The pain was so painful that he couldn't move at all. In the end, he rolled his eyes and fainted.
"Dead?" Realizing that the young man at his feet had lost his voice, the idiot moved his feet away and took a closer look. He found that he had just fainted and then spat fiercely: "It would be great if he wasn't dead! What if? It’s really easy for you to die like this!”
"okay!"
Just when Lunzi took action, Xiao Han had been watching the expressions of the prisoners with cold eyes. When he saw the frightened and angry expressions on these people's faces, he took action to stop Lunzi: "A is back. Let’s go to the city first!”
Jiayi was ordered by him to go to the city first to report the news.
After all, having learned from the experience of the previous fortress, Xiao Han was also afraid that he would be treated as a thief by the people of Ningcheng again.
Not being able to enter the city will be a trivial matter, but being smashed by rocks and rolling trees will be a big deal.
"I said Jia Yi, did the people in the city say they opened the door for us?" When Jia Yi came back, Liu Hongji stepped forward to greet him and asked him about the results of his report.
"Back to the general, the people at the city gate have gone to ask the local magistrate. I think the door will be opened soon. How about we go there first?"
Hearing Liu Hongji's voice, Jia Yi, who had just returned, cupped his hands and replied with a smile.
He just went to the city gate, announced Xiao Han's identity, and sent in the waist badge that proved his identity. He thought that this must be foolproof, so he didn't wait at the city gate and turned back directly. Come back and ask Xiao Han to come into the city with you.
"His grandma's! We already know our identities, why don't you open the door quickly and use an eight-carat sedan to carry grandpa in!" Liu Hongji was not interested in the announcement from the Ningcheng guards.
When he thought about it, the people in Ningcheng should have rushed out in a fit of piss after hearing their names and welcomed them into the city. How could there be any reason for him to wait outside for the announcement?
However, Xiao Han didn't think much about it. Instead, he smiled and comforted Liu Hongji: "Forget it, there are so many refugees outside. If we open the city gate rashly, we won't be able to close it when the time comes!"
"The refugees followed them in and kept everyone outside the city. What's the point of thinking it's a good thing? Isn't he, the magistrate of Ningcheng County, also an official of the Tang Dynasty?"
"Hey, when these refugees enter the city, it will not be easy for the people in the city. The magistrate of Ningcheng County is a parent first, so naturally he has to think about his own people first."
Regarding Liu Hongji's complaints, Xiao Han was also a little helpless. As said before, the butt determines the head.
In the eyes of these people, the refugees outside the city were the same subjects of the Tang Dynasty as the people inside the city, and they did not want them to starve and be displaced.
However, the same group of people are very different in the eyes of local officials!
The people in the city are under the rule of the local magistrates, and they have the responsibility to protect them.
As for the refugees outside, they are not within their jurisdiction.
If you have the ability, please help! Give me food to eat!
But if you don’t have the ability, you still have to forcefully provide relief, and even harm the local people for it, then it’s just like your head being caught in the door!
At that time, not only will he not be able to make a good profit in the eyes of his superiors, but he will also lose the support of the people below. In the end, there is no guarantee that he will end up like a pig who looks in the mirror and is not a human being inside and out.
