Crowned with Pearls

   Chapter 1184 One Hundred Eighty-Three · Benevolence

   When Mr. Cui returned to the city, it was already evening, and entering the city went smoothly. He looked at the old people with small stalls everywhere, let out a sigh of relief, and lowered the curtain.

Xiao Hengzhen can always be better than he imagined. Not long after he laid down Yongchang Mansion, he had already kept the security of Yongchang Mansion in good order. They were all tenants who didn’t have any fields in those places before. Xiao Heng brought people here and promised them to divide the fields. They didn’t have to pay taxes for the first three years, and the government issued seeds. Originally, those people couldn’t find anything to do in the local area. Those who couldn't make it through, when I heard about this condition, even though many people signed up, immediately after one batch came, there was the second batch and the third batch.

  Nowadays, many people in the city have started to build houses. After all, in a new place, there must be a place to live.

   There are thriving scenes everywhere, and it seems that it is not the same place as what Mr. Cui saw when he first came to Yongchang Mansion.

Mr. Cui was greatly comforted. When he arrived at the prefect yamen before Yongchang Mansion, he was going to see Xiao Heng, but the servants smiled and said to him: "His Royal Highness is going to deal with the children's affairs first, I'm afraid I won't come back until evening. ."

   Speaking of these children, Mr. Cui also knows.

   The old man from Jiangzhai used these children to maintain his own lifespan. It is also because of this that people from Yongchang House went everywhere to abduct children to complete their tasks. Over the years, I don’t know how many children died.

But now Su Rong and the others have rescued many children, and there are still many who have not had time to give them to the old man, and some are too small to be raised by them in the homes of the Miao people. There are actually one or two thousand such children in total. child.

   Among them, a very small part remembers where their relatives are, and most of them do not know their whereabouts.

   Then what to do with these children becomes a difficult problem.

For girls, it is simpler. The weaving farms that Su invited in Dali and Kunming can also be set up in Yongchang. Yongchang has been ordered by the Miao people for so many years, and there are no Han people who are rich, but the merchants always Will not despise here.

   Both the Ji family and the Yang family's Bai family had already sent people over in advance, and they were the first to agree when they heard that a weaving yard was going to be built.

  The girls have a place to go, and the rest of the boys are a little embarrassed.

   Mr. Cui heard this and said after a moment of silence: "I also want to go and see, where is Your Highness now?"

   He asked Fourth Master Cui to take the luggage in, and he took a few guards and went straight to the west of the city.

Li Jiangzhai is brutal and does not know how to govern. Yongchang Mansion has always been barren, as can be seen from the earthen houses everywhere. As for the west of the city, it is even more desolate. All the way, Mr. Cui, who is well-informed, has to shake his head and sigh. How difficult was the life of the people last time.

   When he arrived at Yong'an Temple in the west of the city, he stood in front of the mountain gate and watched for a while before stepping up to the top.

  These children were temporarily placed in this Yongan Temple.

   Mr. Cui walked along the mountain gate all the way up the mountain. He saw many children gathered together, or playing or playing. Although he looked thinner, he was in good spirits. He stroked his beard for a little comfort, and when he arrived at the main hall, he saw Xiao Hengzheng in the square of the main hall, not knowing what to say to the abbot there.

   He quickened his pace. At this time, Sanjiu, who was in front of Xiao Heng, had recognized him and called out Mr. Cui.

Mr. Cui nodded, walked over and saw a child who was only about seven or eight years old, holding a pancake in his hand, and at this time, Xiao Heng was talking about this child: "The rest of the children are relieved. No matter how bad they are, at least they'll tell when they're hungry and thirsty, but this kid... I won't stay here."

The abbot    also glanced at the child and sighed: "Amitabha, Your Highness is kind."

  Mr. Cui was a little strange at first, but when he saw the child's naive smile, he immediately understood that this was a child with intellectual disabilities.

   The child was in a hurry to eat, Xiao Heng patted his head and said softly to him, "You eat more slowly, there will be more later."

   He was really obedient and ate it in small bites, very obedient.

   Xiao Heng nodded to the abbot: "Everything will bother the master. When we are done, we will pick them up. During this period, the court will convert their expenses into silver and send them over."

   The abbot clasped his hands together in compassion and recited the Buddha: "Amitabha."

   Xiao Heng now has the opportunity to turn his head to look at Mr. Cui: "Sir is back, why don't you take more rest?"

   Mr. Cui smiled naturally: "I can't sit still, I heard that you are here, so I want to come over to see the situation, these children."

Xiao Heng explained the situation of these children to Mr. Cui: "Except for a small number of people who remember their parents, I basically don't remember the rest. Even if I want to find them, there are so many people, and I don't know where to start. We discussed it for a while and decided to put the children in foster care here for a while, and after a while, when the shantang here is repaired, we will move the children to the shantang."

   Mr. Cui also took pity on these children. Thinking about the relatives of these children who were separated, he felt even more pitiful. His eyes fell on the child next to Xiao Heng, and he asked softly, "This child."

Mr. Cui could see what was wrong at a glance, and Xiao Heng said bluntly: "Yes, he didn't know there was a problem until he was abducted, presumably those Miao people didn't want him, so they abandoned him, he was alone. I don't know how such a small child survived."

   When Xiao Heng met him, he was fainting on the side of the road because of hunger, like a poor puppy, lying on the ground, curled up in a ball.

   He touched the child. For some reason, he always felt that he had a relationship with this child.

Mr. Cui couldn't help but be moved and sighed: "Shantang's ability is limited after all. This is not one or two children, but nearly two thousand children. I'm afraid Shantang can't do anything about it. Do you have any idea? Any other plans?"

Xiao Heng had thought about it a lot before, and now when he heard Mr. Cui ask this question, he coughed: "I was thinking of discussing with Mr., but I was thinking that if you are over fifteen years old, choose a suitable one to join the army. "

   Let them be soldiers, anyway, they will be paid.

  Mr. Cui pondered for a moment: "That's true. After all, they originally needed to be stationed in Yongchang. If they could find their relatives, it would be better, but if they can't find it, joining the army is always a way to survive."

   is not only a way to survive, but also a way out.

   Xiao Heng exhaled.

   He is about to return to Beijing, and he has to arrange things for these children as soon as possible.

   (end of this chapter)