Hou Jingru glared at me, "How to tell me, that's your business. Anyway, I can't slander my benefactor and arrest them as incense-smelling scholars because of this! Didn't you listen to my benefactor? They were also harmed by the incense-smelling scholar."

Mr. Qian nodded quickly, "What the lord said is, the villain dare not have this idea. The villain wanted to say, otherwise, we would send a team of people to search around. If we really can't find it, can we catch some people in the surrounding villages? The fragrance smelling sect is very rampant in this area, and there will be many people in the surrounding villages."

Hou Jingru thought for a while and glared at Mr. Qian, "What do you mean by your kid? I asked me to capture the people and pretend to be bandits, right? I, Hou Jingru, can't do such a thing!"

Mr. Qian looked a little ugly, and he smiled, but whispered, "I know that lord is a good official who loves the people as much as his son. But the emperor is not easy to explain. Eunuch Wei has already said all his words. If we come back empty-handed, the emperor will be angry and we will not be able to afford this crime of deceiving the king!"

Hou Jingru glared at Mr. Qian, "Is it that serious?"

Mr. Qian said quickly, "Hasn't you heard the saying "Accompanying the king is like a tiger"? We should be careful when we do things for the emperor! If you are careless, you may move your head because of a small matter!"

Hou Jingru was a little panicked when he was said by Mr. Qian. After hesitating for a while, he waved his hand to Mr. Qian. "Then, I don't care about this. Just do whatever you like!"

After hearing this, Mr. Qian immediately turned his worries into joy and bowed to Hou Jingru, "My wise, I'm leaving the official." After saying that, he waved his hand and quietly walked away with a team of two or three hundred Jinyiwei.

On this side, Hou Jingru ordered people to make several soft sedans and carried Yu Ren and Liang Ruji into the city. Then he found the best doctor to treat their injuries.

Finally, he was treated in time. In addition, Liang Zongren practiced martial arts since he was a child and had a good foundation, so he saved his life.

But the few people lived in the house arranged by Hou Jingru, and they were always uneasy. Seeing that the injuries of the other people were almost healed, only Liang Zongren's injuries had not yet healed, Liang Ruji found Yu Ren and hoped to leave the capital.

Yu Ren thought about it and felt that what he said made sense, so he said goodbye to Hou Jingru and entrusted Liang Zongren to Liang Ruji, a friend who became a monk in the temple. The others followed Yu Ren to the south.

Of course, Zhao Rui also accompanied them. That day, seeing the situation was critical, Yu Ren asked Ruolan to take Zhao Rui to find a safe place to settle her down. Then he came back to meet them and rescue Liang Ruji and the others together.

When Hou Jingru brought people to him, Ruolan naturally went to pick up Zhao Rui himself.

So, everyone took a merchant ship together to head south along the canal. Originally, the boatman had a boatman. However, Liang Ruji and others thought that the boatman was there, so they sent the boatman away, and their brothers in several gates in Tongzhou were responsible for the boatman. On the boat, Yu Ren planned in detail the matter of Juhe Village with everyone. Zhao Rui was also pulled in by Yu Ren and participated in it.

Yu Ren also specifically told Zhao Rui to invite Yan Peiwei, who knew how to build steam engines, who met at Wang Wenyan's house that day, to the village. He built a special yard for him there so that he could study steam engines with peace of mind. He also provided him with a few helpers.

Zhao Rui agreed one by one and used a notebook to write down Yu Ren's words in time.

When the boat passed Shandong, more beggars began to appear on the shore. At first, everyone didn't care. After all, there were beggars everywhere in this world. But after passing Dongchang Mansion, more and more people were. Often, there were groups of thirty or fifty people when they left. Everyone felt something was wrong.

After walking on the waterway for two days, it was almost out of Shandong, but there were more beggars on this road, sometimes there were more, and hundreds of people even came out together. Although it was September now, it was getting colder sooner or later. Most of these people did not cover their bodies, and some even covered their lower bodies with only a small cloth, and an adult was wrapped in a piece of clothing with two or three children.

Yu Ren has never seen such a miserable scene since he was so old. Although the situation of those fleeing faminers who were in Fujian that time was also very miserable, it seems that they are much better than these people, and the number of people is far less than this time.

"Master Liang. What's going on?"

Liang Ruji hurried over, "Young master, please call me Ruji! I said, now I am no longer the sect leader of Juhe Sect. Whether you want to or not, you are already the sect leader of Juhe Sect."

Yu Ren smiled bitterly. He felt like he was being dependent on him, but sometimes, this feeling is pretty good, at least it means that others value you.

"Okay, Ruzhibrother, do you know what's going on with so many beggars here?"

Liang Ruji sighed. "The scenery of Shandong this year is really bad, and many places have suffered from drought. Although the autumn harvest has been raised, the people have not received anything, so they have to go out to beg for the whole family. This is also impossible. The local government has been plundering over the years and has not had any surplus grain in their homes. When the scenery is good, the grain can barely last until the beginning of spring. After spring, the things in the field will gradually grow. I am not afraid.

But this year, everyone knows that it is impossible to last until the end of the New Year. So many people came out to beg in advance.”

Yu Ren nodded.

"Brother Ruzhi, let's stop here for a day and go ashore to see what you want?"

"As soon as my husband ordered everything."

So, Yu Ren and his group approached the shore in a small town in front. They pretended to be a family, and the Ruolan Ruomei sisters followed Yu Ren and Zhao Rui closely. This was what Liang Ruji secretly ordered in private to protect the safety of the two.

This is a big town with several streets. When a few people got ashore, they first found a nearby noodle restaurant and planned to have lunch.

"Boss, give us six bowls of beef noodles." After the few people sat down, Yu Ren said to the waiter.

The waiter stood aside and listened, but did not move.

"Can all the guests bring rice and flour?"

After hearing this, Yu Ren couldn't help but wonder. "What are you saying? We came to you for dinner. Why did you ask if we brought rice and flour?"

The waiter quickly greeted Yu Ren, and then said bitterly, "I'm not hiding it from my little husband. The price of rice and wheat in this place is really ridiculously expensive. Usually, a pound of wheat is only five or six cents, but this year it has been growing up since summer. Now a pound of wheat has grown to more than fifty cents.

We have no choice. So, in order to save money for the guests, we are afraid that the guests will scold us. The shopkeeper set a rule for us: Whenever a guest comes to the restaurant to order food, first ask the guests if they have their own rice and grain. If the guest doesn't bring it, then explain the situation to the guests. The noodles here are ten times more expensive than usual. If the guests are willing to eat, we will make them. If the guests think it is expensive, we won't blame it."

Yu Ren nodded and then realized. So his tone also eased, "Just give us six bowls of noodles that are ten times more expensive! We can still eat it."

The waiter nodded and then went down.

When Ruolan heard Yu Ren's words, she couldn't help but complain. "Young Master, didn't we bring rice on the boat? Why do we buy noodles that are ten times more expensive here? This bowl is 60 cents! The six of us are 360 ​​cents! This place is not far from the boat, so why do you sit here with everyone and I go to the boat to get rice! "

After saying that, Ruolan was about to get up and go to find the waiter.

Yu Ren smiled, but did not stop him.

"Forget it, Ruolan, why is it so troublesome? We just have this meal. Your Master Yu has money, and this meal is a small amount of money, and he still can't eat enough."

Ruolan was very stubborn, "If you have money, you can't waste it like this! I'll get it, you can wait here." After that, Ruolan went there like a flying one.

After hearing Ruolan's words, Zhao Rui's face suddenly turned red.

"What's wrong?" Yu Ren saw that Zhao Rui suddenly blushed, and asked quietly in her ear.

"No. I just think Miss Ruolan is right. We shouldn't waste this way. No matter whether we have money or not, this waste is not supposed to be. Alas! These Ruolan sisters are really good girls! I just don't know who will be cheaper in the future?" At this point, I couldn't help but sigh.
Chapter completed!