Chapter 125

Frozen for a quarter of the branches out of new buds, and grow out of the flowers, trembling to bloom in the branches.

People on the street have also changed into spring clothes. After the excitement on both sides of the Xue family's Zhu family, Miss Xue married the Zhu family and lived in the number one scholar's mansion with Zhu Hanshan and old lady Zhu. Mrs. Xue loves her and sends many servants. Maybe it's because she won the first prize. Maybe she is worried about Miss Xue. Zhu Hanshan has no objection.

Zhu Hanshan went to the Imperial Academy to write. Ning Lang knew that he would be the number one scholar, so he had a good day to send things. The first scholar's gift was from the beginning to the end, and there was not much difference between them. Previously, Huiyuan's gift was a broken fox skin. This time, the first scholar's gift was different from before. He specially consulted the scholars in Qingzhou and picked up some rare books in Qingzhou.

After returning to Qingzhou with Yang Zhen, he began to prepare for the enlightenment school. Yang Zhen also attached great importance to this, and Qingzhou's progress was faster than that of Beijing. The capital still needed to build houses, but Qingzhou didn't use it. Yang Zhen directly took the general mansion as the site of the enlightenment school.

The general's office is big enough to be a school. Yang Zhen and Ning Lang don't mind. After finding a good place, they went to find a scholar in Qingzhou, and specially invited Zhang Fu Zi, who had a great reputation in his body, to come and sit down. Yang Zhen's reputation in Qingzhou is not low, she called, and soon many people sent the children over.

The first students of the enlightenment school were the bandits in Qinglong village.

Because he left all his own affairs to Yang Zhen, Ning Lang was completely free. Seeing that these mountain bandits came to the enlightenment school every day, he volunteered to supervise the mountain bandits, relying on his previous examination of a scholar. There was nothing else about him, so Yang Zhen let him go.

Because of this reason, Ning Lang on the contrary and those scholars in the school to make friends. When he was worried about the gift to Zhu Hanshan, it was the scholars who put forward their opinions. Even those rare books were all the scholars who took great pains to find them for him.

Zhu Hanshan got this gift and liked it very much. I heard that he was busy with school affairs. He specially sorted out his former reading methods and sent them to him.

On the other side of the capital, Chu Fei paid more money, and the craftsmen worked hard to build the enlightenment school even earlier than expected.

Chu Fei had already found a good teacher early on. As soon as everyone was looking forward to it, the enlightenment school finally began to recruit students!

The people in the capital waited for a long time, but at last, when they saw a notice posted outside the school, they immediately brought their children to sign up.

This school is not registered can be on, by the registration of name information, in addition, will send people to investigate the origin of these students, if really meet the standards, can enter the school. On the day of registration, all the teachers recruited by the school came, and all the people looked at them with admiration and awe.

But Chu Fei also took Ning Nuan to walk around. Because of his daily publicity, many people recognized him. When people saw him, they were excited. Although they didn't know whether they could join in, their faces were full of gratitude. They were more excited than those teachers.

Ning warm around him, more can feel the sight of these people to him. She turned her head and looked at chufei's complacent face with a smile.

Soon, people's attention fell on the man who came with an Wang.

The third prince was a little uneasy to avoid the eyes of these people. He dodged to avoid a person who passed by. He frowned and said to Chu Fei, "Uncle Huang, what are we doing here?"

"Today's school registration, but the most people time, if not this time to come, how can you meet so many people on weekdays?" Chufei said with a smile: "look better, let them all see you clearly."

The third prince frowned: "Uncle Huang, there are so many people here. What should we do if there are assassins?"

"Didn't you bring someone?"

The third prince said anxiously, "but if something happens..."

No matter how many Chu Fei is, his people can hide in the dark. Even if there are assassins, he will say: "it is my king who has touched your light. If it is not for you, this enlightenment school will not be able to run."

"Uncle Huang can never say like this. If it was not for uncle Huang, my nephew would not have come up with such an idea." The third prince was ashamed: "it is the emperor's uncle who cares about the people all over the world and whether they can read the book. My nephew is not as good as Uncle Huang."

Chufei took a deep look at him: "what are you talking about? I'm doing all this for you? Don't let me down. "

The third prince was moved again.

Only the two of them could understand the calculation in their hearts. However, they pretended to be very good on the surface, and no one could choose where to go wrong. After a visit to the school, when the school finished signing up, the story of king an and the third prince spread all over the capital, and everyone was praising them.

The third prince used to be very low-key. This time, it was rare to get to the surface. The first Prince and the prince also put their eyes on him. Listening to the rumors in the capital, it can be said that when king an's reputation in the capital became better, they were more afraid of him than they were about the third prince.But no matter how unwilling the eldest prince and the crown prince are, the third prince is gaining momentum. Especially after the emperor has told him several things, and he has completed them perfectly, even many ministers in the court have paid attention to him, and many people have begun to observe the third prince.

For a time, the eldest prince, the crown prince and the third prince were in the same boat.

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Qingzhou.

Ning Lang stepped out of Qingzhou's Enlightenment school and listened to the sound of reading. He was immediately satisfied.

But most of the voices of these books were the thick and thick voices of mountain bandits, which suppressed the childish voices of the children sent by the people of Qingzhou. Qingzhou is a vast and sparsely populated city. It is not as complicated as the capital city to run the enlightenment school. Some people even prefer to ask their teachers to teach at home rather than send their children here because of suspicion. Naturally, they are not reluctant, so most of the students in this school are still bandits in the Shanzhai.

Although Ning Lang is a poor scholar, he was also tested as a scholar under the pressure of Ning Yanting. Up to now, although he has forgotten most of his knowledge, he has already been able to make other people admire him with the name of a scholar.

Not to mention that he has a friend who has just won the first place in the exam, or the Sanyuan that has not appeared for many years!

These days, Ning Lang is very beautiful. Not only are the bandits on Qinglong mountain treat him with courtesy, but even the teachers in this school are also Ning Xiucai, which makes Ning Lang proud.

He looked up at the plaque at the gate of the general's mansion. Now it has become Qinglu school.

Ning Lang touched the purse in his arms and went out in a hurry.

He helped in this school, but he didn't need to read or teach. Finally, he helped to do some chores. He couldn't do sweeping and sweeping, but he was able to take charge of purchasing. People in Qingzhou City recognized him. For Yang Zhen's face, no one dared to kill him.

Although Gua Lang is satisfied with the food in the yard, he will be responsible for all the vegetables that the bandits will be responsible for.

He drove his donkey cart, went to a rice shop, as usual to 100 stone rice. Although the number is large, all the bandits in the school have big stomachs. They can eat five or six bowls of rice at a meal. Ning Lang has to buy a lot of rice at a time.

Ning Lang took out the silver, just heard the rice shop owner embarrassed way: "Ning Xiucai, this rice price rise."

"Has the price gone up?" Ning Lang eyebrows a frown, take out silver's action also to pause: "this rice is not the beginning of the month just rose once? Why did the price rise again? Are you not deliberately blackmailing me

"Where dare you, but the small one is also with Ning Xiucai. To be honest, the price of this rice has indeed increased, and it rose two days ago." The owner of the rice shop said, "Ning Xiu Cai doesn't know. Now the rice is priced at a price a day. Fortunately, you are here today. If tomorrow, you may have to raise it again."

Ning Lang frowned and looked at the wooden card beside the rice noodles. The price written on it was indeed the one the boss said. When he looked at the others, all the people who entered the shop were sad, but they did not oppose it as much as he did.

Is it really a price increase?

Ning Lang took an extra Ding of silver into the purse and handed it to the boss of the rice shop.

He watched the rice shop workers carry the rice onto the donkey cart, and then drive the donkey cart to the street. He wrapped all the vegetables in the small stalls he frequented on weekdays.

When he wanted to pay for it, he heard the stall owner say, "Ning Xiucai, the price of this dish has increased."

Ning Lang action a meal, can't help but be surprised: "how do you also raise the price?"

The stall owner said, "it's not just me. The prices of all the things on the street have gone up."

Ning Lang didn't believe in evil. He looked at him suspiciously and ran to the distant stall to ask. He was really like the price that the small stall owner said was even more expensive.

He ran back with a blank face and hesitated to pay for the money. He could not help asking, "what's the matter? How is it that the price of rice has gone up, even your dishes have gone up? " Fortunately, all the meat he ate in the school was the prey on the mountain. Otherwise, he could not take out the extra money.

"Ning Xiucai, the price of all the things in the whole city of Qingzhou has gone up, not just my family." The stall owner said, "you don't know. It's getting hotter and hotter recently. Even the water level of the river has been lowered by a section. It's said that the price of rice in Yaocheng is three times that of Qingzhou."

Three times!

Ning Lang can't help but smack his tongue.

Today's rice price has been much higher than before, what is the concept of three times? That's a sky high price!

Ning Lan was very worried and drove the donkey cart back to school.

Recently, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. He wanted to buy some watermelons and give them to the students in the school. Now he has spent all the money he has taken out, but he has not bought any watermelon. Ning Lang originally wanted to buy a sweet scented osmanthus cake for Yang Zhen, but it turned out to be good. Even the price of Osmanthus cake has gone up!

This is really strange!

In the evening, he went back to the Shanzhai and told Yang Zhen about it.Yang Zhen smell speech, nodded, also way: "I also feel."

"What?" Ning Lang is at a loss: "what did you find?"

"There was a spring on the mountain. You know, I took you there last time. The water of that spring flowed into the mountain and flowed into the river. In recent days, the spring was much thinner than before. Maybe it will be dry soon."

"Yes?" Ning Lang was stunned and suddenly thought of a terrible possibility. He immediately retorted: "impossible..."

"What is impossible?"

In his last life, he had never heard of any drought in Qingzhou. If there was such a big event, he could not forget it.

Ning Lang hesitated to shake his head: "is it really that I remember wrong?"

"What do you remember wrong?" Yang is really curious.

"Nothing."

"But king an reminded us earlier that we should prepare earlier. This is what we want to talk about." Yang Zhen said: "according to an Wang, in the next few days, we should pay attention to it earlier, and be aware of whether there are any more people in Qingzhou recently."

Ning Lang nodded his head and wondered, "did an Wang still tell you this?"

If even Wang an remembers it, is he really wrong?

"An Wang did not say this, but told me that there might be riots in Qingzhou next time."

"Is the riot serious?"

"It doesn't seem serious to hear what he means." In the past, the water level in Yangzhou has been reduced, but the weather has not changed so well

Ning Lang put down his heart.

Although king an asked them to prepare earlier, he didn't say that it was about preparing rice and so on. I think the drought did not happen. As for the riots in Qingzhou, people from other places should have come here.

He knew that he didn't remember it at all, and it wouldn't be too serious.

Just be reminded by Yang Zhen, the next day, Ning Lang down the mountain will be on guard.

Although he bought rice that could support several days at a time, Ning Lang still ran to the rice shop every day. Seeing the price of rice and noodles rising slowly, he also went to the small stall where he usually patronized. The price of vegetables also increased day by day. Over time, even the time when he came to the stall owner was irregular.

Ning Lang inquired with him.

"It's not that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and even the water level is falling. But people live, and the crops in the field have to be taken care of. If the ground is dry, you have to water more. You have to run more times than before, but the vegetable is not as good as it used to be." "If the weather is reheating, I'm afraid this dish will be dried in the ground."

Ning Lang is worried.

At this time, Chu Fei also sent a letter to him, saying that he had stored a lot of rice grain and handed it to Yang Zhen for disposal. He also mentioned Yao Cheng in the letter, which was used to support Yao City.

Yaocheng is the worst hit area. According to the stall owner, the rice price there is already three times that of Qingzhou City.

At the same time, many new faces came to Qingzhou.

Because Yang Zhen was deliberately paying attention to them, when they appeared in the head of Qingzhou City, they immediately found out.

It's just that these fresh faces are not the thugs in their original imagination, but some businessmen. Hearing that rice was cheap here, the merchants of Yaocheng came here to buy rice from here and then transport it to Yaocheng to sell it. Although it was a long way to go, it would be twice as profitable to change hands. Therefore, many people came here.

More and more people come to Qingzhou to visit their relatives.

When Ning Lang was idle, he ran to Qinglong mountain every day to observe the spring water on the mountain. Yang Zhen was right. The spring water was really much thinner than before, but the spring water was very thick. If it was not for Yang Zhen, a person with excellent eyesight, he would not have seen any difference. Ning Lang ran twice. Then he took a tape measure and measured the length every day. After a month, he finally measured the difference.

It was one-third smaller than the first measurement!

The soaring rice price in Qingzhou finally attracted the control of local officials and kept the rice price at a suitable price. However, more and more people came to Qingzhou. They were businessmen, then relatives, and then beggars in rags.

There were more beggars in Qingzhou street.

At the beginning, when he saw the children begging, Ning Lang couldn't bear to buy steamed bread for them. But later, more and more people came. Even if he bought a whole bag of steamed bread, Ning Lang had a headache.

He asked Yang Zhen and found a ruined temple at the head of Qingzhou City to take in the beggars. The mountain bandits who went to study in the school often came here and wandered around, worried that some people would attack the beggars.

And Ning Lang also got a lot of news from these beggars.

"Yao City is in chaos now. Rice is too expensive. Everything is expensive. Everyone can't afford rice." A beggar said, "my parents sold me for rice. There are several people in our family. The rice can last for a long time. But I escaped. I don't know what happened to my parents. ""My family is poor. They starved to death on the way to Qingzhou."

"Qingzhou City is big. I heard that rice is cheap, so we came here."

Ning Lang is in a heavy mood.

Of course, the story of Yao City did not reach the capital. The emperor ordered people to take rice to relieve the disaster. However, Yaocheng was farther away than Qingzhou, and the road had to be delayed for a long time.

Chu Fei had been prepared early, but it was a natural disaster. Even if he knew it in advance, he could not make any changes. He could only store more rice and transferred grain from some rich areas in the south of the Yangtze River. But Yao City is short of water, rice is good luck, but water is not.

Gradually, there were many ragged adults in the head of Qingzhou City. There were people blocking every well in Qingzhou City. The people in Qingzhou were all nervous and did not dare to waste any water.

Ning Lang is more and more worried.

Yang Zhen comforted him: "we have been prepared for this, and his highness anwang has given us a lot of things. If you think about it, if there is nothing, it will be even worse than now. Now that the rice price in Yaocheng is under control, you can rest assured that as long as it rains in the sky."

"But these days, it hasn't rained." Ning Lang said anxiously: "it has rained several times before, but it hasn't lasted long. The last rain has been many days ago, and I don't know when the next rain will be. It seems that it will not rain these days. Not to mention that, more and more people have come to Qingzhou. "

"I know, I'll watch. If someone really wants to take the opportunity to make a bad idea, I won't let them go."

These days, all the mountain bandits have come down the mountain. They are tall and tall. They also fight wild animals on the mountain. They are fierce. They patrol the head of Qingzhou with the officers and soldiers of Qingzhou. Before, some victims from Yaocheng wanted to occupy a well, but they found out first and stopped the riot.

The gate of the city could not be closed, nor could it stop people from coming in. Therefore, the mountain bandits wandered around the city, and as soon as they saw something wrong, they rushed to stop them. Even in the school, now there are only children left. The mountain bandits who learn and enlighten all come out to protect Qingzhou City together.

In Ning Lang's worry, Yang Zhen was ready. They sent people to watch the gate every day, until one day, a large group of ragged people went from Yaocheng to Qingzhou.