I'm back

Dayan, the county of Shanxi.

The young man in a coarse cloth bunt concentrates on pasting the brick wall, occasionally raising his elbows, and using his rolled up sleeves to wipe away the sweat from his forehead to prevent the sweat from falling into his eyes.

A steed was galloping on the road piled with various bricks and stones. After seeing the face of the young man, the messenger on the steed pulled the reins and stopped the horse's hooves in front of the half-built brick wall. The messenger Turned over and got off the horse, shouting: "Lord Dugu."

The young man put down the tool for plastering the wall in his hand, and when he saw the bright yellow scroll in the sleeve of the messenger, he subconsciously knelt down to salute and receive the order. The famous man in front of the emperor helped him up: "Your Majesty Dugu, please forgive me. Your Majesty has ordered that I have a secret decree for you."

Since it is a secret decree, it must not be accepted in such a large crowd.

"Oh yes, please come here with me, sir."

Dugu Liu wiped her hands, and guided the messenger to the official's place.The earthquake lasted for about a day and a half before it subsided completely. Although there were still aftershocks, it was the kind of shaking that could not even knock down trees.

After the earthquake, the government organized manpower relief. In the past half a month, most of the victims have had temporary resettlement places.

Of course, dozens of people are crowded together, which can only be said to be a temporary shelter. To restore the capital to its original state, a lot of human, financial and material resources are needed.

It's midsummer now, and it's definitely too late for this year's autumn harvest.These days, he and the local government have organized all the people who can do labor to repair the houses that have not completely collapsed, and built many new houses.

But because the government's treasury of silver and food is limited, although they have many people now, they don't have the money to buy so many materials. Both the government and the people are eagerly waiting for the government's relief food and disaster relief money.

Dugu Liu had also been looking forward to it for a long time, looking forward and looking forward, he finally got the relief food and the emperor's secret letter.The food was enough for the time being, but the money was still not enough, so he replied immediately and asked the messenger to send it to the capital for him.

Counting the time, it would be quite a while before he sent the letter to the emperor, and it should be the time when he got the second reply letter. He was looking forward to it, but it could be regarded as this messenger.

After he was alone with the messenger, the messenger said, "Dugu Liu accepts the order."

When the emperor wrote the letter, of course he would not specifically ask Dugu Liu not to salute when receiving the order, so the young man knelt in front of the messenger and raised his hands, intending to receive the secret order from the messenger.

Since it was a secret decree, the courier could not read the content. The courier took out the bright yellow scroll from his sleeve, but instead took out a very sharp dagger. Into Dugu Liu's chest.

Fortunately, Dugu Liu realized that something was wrong, and shouted for help while scurrying around the house to avoid it.

His first reaction was to open the door, but he had already locked the door just now, so as to avoid someone breaking in suddenly when receiving the order.

The messenger's dagger stabbed at him so fast that he didn't even have time to open the door. Before he could pull out the latch, the sharp dagger pierced his neck, but fortunately it was crooked.

Fortunately, these days, he has been working with the people every day, and his strength and speed have been tempered. He tried his best to dodge, but he didn't let this person succeed.

The man also said loudly: "This is His Majesty's secret decree, Dugu Liu, the guilty minister, you will be arrested without letting go!"

Dugu Liu was stunned for a moment, and was almost missed by the opponent. Fortunately, his body reacted faster than his head, picked up the stool at hand, and blocked the stabbing dagger, and the stool was instantly split in half by the dagger.

As he fled in a panic, he gasped and shouted: "What nonsense are you talking about!" Yan Qin trusted himself so much, how could he suddenly make a secret decree to let him die, and he did nothing wrong, so how could he become the so-called criminals.

"I still don't understand. The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. Who let you make great achievements these days, so that the people in the capital only know Dugu Liu, but not your majesty. You take all the credit for yourself, and naturally Damn it! Since you call yourself a loyal minister, you should obediently stay still."

The gleaming silver dagger pierced a few holes in the paper doors and windows, startling the people outside.

Hearing Dugu Liu's voice, someone shouted Mr. Dugu and rushed in.Seeing that something was wrong, the messenger threw the dagger forward, pierced it straight into Dugu Liu's lower abdomen, and then broke through the window and rushed out.

When the villagers broke in, they saw Dugu Liu, who was clutching his stomach and bleeding.They called out to Lord Dugu in panic, and saw a big hole in the window of the room, and a bright yellow scroll fell beside the window.

"Master Dugu, are you okay?" The person who broke in hurriedly knelt down to check the situation of Dugu Liu.

Just as Dugu Liu was about to say something, his vision went dark, and he passed out immediately.Only then did the villager realize that the blood that flowed from the place where the young man held his lower abdomen had changed from bright red to black.

He immediately yelled, "Come on, come on, Lord Dugu was stabbed with a poisonous dagger!"

The dagger that stabbed Dugu Liu was not inserted in a critical position, and the wound was not serious. What was serious was that the dagger was smeared with poison.

When the doctor came, Dugu Liu had been poisoned into a coma. There was no doctor in Shanxidu County, and the imperial doctors who were arranged by the emperor to rescue the disaster were still on their way and hadn't arrived at all.

Under the pressure, the doctor came up with a stupid way to let go of a lot of poisonous blood, applied a lot of detoxifying herbs, and finally saw the color of the bleeding, which gradually changed from black to bright red.

The toxicity is resolved, but the sequelae are still there.It might be because of poisoning, or it might be because of excessive blood loss, Dugu Liu didn't wake up at all, on the contrary, her breathing became very weak.

No one dared to touch Dugu Liu, but someone heard what the person who had previously assassinated Dugu Liu said.A commoner picked up a bright yellow rag and handed it to a scholar in the town.

"It's something dropped by the thief. It seems to have writing on it. I can't read. Can someone help me see it?"

A thin young man stepped forward: "I have studied, let me read."

The crumpled cloth was stuffed into this man's hand, and the young man spread it out, and said in a voice that everyone present could hear: "When you see Dugu Liu, you must kill it."

"I know. I heard it before, saying that the little emperor wanted to kill Lord Dugu because he was jealous of Lord Dugu's status in the hearts of the people."

The young man said with a serious face: "That's right, this thing is bright yellow, and it's something the emperor uses."

Someone else said: "I saw it. Just now, when Lord Dugu was plastering the wall, a messenger came on a tall horse to let Lord Dugu receive the imperial edict. Then he ran away when he saw someone breaking in."

Dugu Liu was lying on the hospital bed with a pale complexion, expressing that she didn't know anything.But the people were outraged. You must know that it was night when the earthquake happened.

Some people may have fallen asleep inside the house if they hadn't prepared ahead of time.After Dugu Liu came, he insisted that the officials of the government take turns to watch the night, because he was afraid that the earthquake would happen in the dead of night, and everyone would not be on guard.

At that time, some relatives of the official envoy were still resentful that the new imperial envoy was talking nonsense and torturing people. As a result, the real earthquake happened in the middle of the night.

If it weren't for Dugu Liu, most of them would have died in their sleep in the collapsed house shaken by the earthquake.

Dugu Liu not only saved their lives, but also worked hard to provide food and shelter for the victims after the disaster.He even let go of his airs as an official, and did the same hard work as ordinary people like them.

Such a good official, in the eyes of the common people, no matter how many rewards he receives, he should be too big an official.

But the emperor, Dugu Liu hasn't done anything yet, he is going to kill such a good person.The common people were angry with the little emperor, and some people were secretly instigating it. When the second batch of rescuers arranged by the emperor arrived, they took the money and locked them up.

The first batch of official rations were the twelve guards arranged by the regent. Because of the burden on them, and the regent did not arrange for them to rescue the disaster, they left after helping those who could be saved. mountain stream.

After all, in the end, disaster relief mainly depends on people with high martial arts skills. It would be a waste for them to stay.

There are three batches of disaster relief, the first batch is grain, the second batch is a small amount of silver, some grain and medicinal materials, and most of the people who came to the disaster relief.

Many here are from the Ministry of Industry, proficient in agriculture and water conservancy, etc., and some are from the Tai Hospital, because they are afraid of some epidemic disasters among the people, and there is no doctor available in the county.

The imperial physicians usually stay in the imperial hospital in the capital, and they can be regarded as being pampered. They hurried along the way, and they didn't complain about anything. After all, doctors are benevolent and should put the overall situation first.

But what they never expected was that when they arrived in Shanxidu County, what greeted them was not the joyous people of the county, but a group of daring mobs.