Chapter 342 The hateful Jia Tongpan

Qiao Ran nodded: "Uncle Zhou, just wait! This year, I will definitely be able to grow many delicious fruits and vegetables that are not available in the capital, so that you can eat enough!"

"Okay! Okay! Then Uncle Zhou is waiting! To tell you the truth, the happiest thing about living to Uncle Zhou's age is to be able to eat good food that I have never eaten before. During the time you came to the capital, , thanks to you, Bodu Zhou has tasted many delicious things that he has never tasted before or even heard of."

"Uncle Zhou, take care of yourself. There will be a lot of delicious food waiting for you in the next few decades!"

"Okay! Okay! Hahaha! Then Uncle Zhou will take good care of your body and wait for you to bring me something to eat."

Talking and laughing all the way, the carriage entered the city and arrived at the street of Wanlu Academy.

Qiao Ran still got off the car a few hundred meters away from the academy, thanked Uncle Zhou, and walked to the entrance of the academy with her fourth uncle.

After learning that the entrance exam would be divided into two sessions and take about two hours, Qiao Ran handed a rattan bookcase containing the Four Treasures of the Study to Qiao Sihai: "Fourth Uncle, you go in for the exam first. I'll be at the door in two hours." Pick you up.”

"Ran Ran, you don't have to wait for me for such a long time. Just go back after you finish shopping. Fourth uncle can go back by himself."

"It's okay, Fourth Uncle, I have to do some errands. I'll be back in almost two hours. Let's go back together and save some travel expenses."

When Qiao Sihai heard what she said, he could only follow her, told her to be careful, and carried the book box into the gate of the academy.

Qiao Ran watched her fourth uncle enter, then took a look around the outside of the academy. She really didn't find the carriage of the young man who jumped in line when registering last time, so she left with peace of mind.

Qiao Ran left the entrance of the academy and went to buy some things for the city. She put everything into the space and then arrived at Jia Tongpan's house by a familiar route.

But after searching around, Jia Tongpan's house was nowhere to be seen.

Qiao Ran went to the government office again and asked the gatekeeper, and learned that Jia Tongpan had left the city early in the morning and would probably come back later.

When Qiao Ran heard this, she took it into consideration.

She left the city, found a forest, went in and changed back into her women's clothes, and her tied hair back into a pair of buns, transforming from a teenager back into a little village girl.

Qiao Ran was sitting on a small earthen bun not far from the city gate, basking in the warm sun and eating big meat buns bought in the city while glancing at the road ahead.

It wasn't until she had finished eating five big meat buns, ten red dates, eight oranges, five persimmons, and a piece of sugar cane that a familiar carriage slowly drove up in the distance, with a few more behind it. A yamen servant was trotting closely behind him.

Qiao Ran waited for the carriage to come near, jumped off the small bag of dirt, and landed right in front of the carriage.

The horse pulling the cart stopped hastily and raised its front hooves forward, almost stepping on Qiao Ran in front of the horse.

Qiao Ran ducked slightly and moved only two steps to the side. After the horse fell, its neck was almost next to Qiao Ran.

As for Jia Tongpan, who was sitting in the carriage, he was hit hard on the wall behind his head by a sudden momentum. The pain made him grin and he touched the back of his head with his hand. Got a big bag.

Jia Tongpan was so angry! He immediately opened the curtain and wanted to scold the coachman severely.

However, as soon as he opened the curtain, he saw the familiar dark and ugly little village girl.

At this moment, when the little village girl saw Jia Tongpan leaning half of his body out of the carriage, she immediately hugged the horse's neck and howled loudly:

"Master Tongpan, I finally see you! Please be kind to Master Tongpan and allocate more relief food to us refugees in Devil's Valley? If the little food from a year ago is distributed, dozens of families in the whole village, many families We haven’t even been given a bag of grain yet! We were starving and freezing every day in Devil’s Valley, and we were almost starving to death! It was almost time for spring plowing, but there was nothing in our village, not even food to eat. Where could we find grain? ? Sir, give us some grain and grain seeds! Otherwise, if we are not killed by the miasma, we will starve to death!"

At this time, people and cars were coming and going at the city gate. When everyone heard that Qiao Ran came from Devil's Valley, they couldn't help but stopped curiously, ready to take a look at the excitement.

Suddenly, Qiao Ran, Jia Tongpan and others were surrounded by onlookers in the open space at the city gate. Many people pointed at them and whispered.

"Devil's Valley! In that cannibal valley, are there really people who have lived there for so long without dying? It's incredible!"

"How pitiful! To be assigned to such a terrible place! I heard that the miasma there is terrible! And there are monsters that eat people!"

"Yeah! Stop talking! Just thinking about it makes my hair stand on end. Even if you kill me, I won't go to that damn place! I didn't expect that there are still people assigned to be resettled there. What evil has been done? "

"Isn't this just asking people to die? Isn't it possible that these refugees offended the official and were sent there to die by the official, right?"

"Hush! Keep your voice down! Do you also want to offend Lord Tong San and be demoted to Devil's Valley to die?"

Everyone was talking about it. Anyway, the law does not punish everyone, there are so many people! Hiding in the crowd and talking, how can the officers and soldiers know who is speaking?

Listening to the low-pitched discussions of these untouchables, Judge Jia Tong was so angry that his beard stood on end and his small eyes widened. He wished that the government officials would arrest all these talkative untouchables and put them in prison to reflect and reflect.

However, there were too many people watching, and the people who were talking were all hiding in the crowd. He looked around and didn't know who was talking nonsense. He couldn't arrest everyone, right?

At this time, Jia Tongpan hated this little village girl who repeatedly forced him to compromise. He wished he could have someone hack her to death on the spot!

However, even if he is an official, he cannot kill civilians at will. This is in the imperial city, not in a remote area far away from the emperor.

Whenever there is a bad reputation, there will be countless people who covet this position to make things worse and pull him down.

Therefore, even though he was grinding his teeth with hatred in his heart, Jia Tongpan still wanted to maintain his image as a good official.

After calming down, Jia Tongpan walked to the door of the carriage, stood on the carriage and said condescendingly to the little village girl: "Stop talking nonsense! I have clearly ordered someone to send you two batches of seventy bags a year ago. It’s enough for you not to be grateful for the food. How dare you be greedy?”

"Sir, there are more than 600 people in our village! Seventy bags of grain are only 700 to 800 kilograms, and each person can only get more than ten kilograms. We work hard to open up wasteland every day, so we eat more. This is all in the past It has been many months, and the food has been eaten up! Although spring sowing will be done soon, there are still several months before the food harvest, and we don’t have any food seeds to sow! Sir, is it possible for hundreds of us to just live in Devil’s Valley? Are you going to starve to death?"