After returning to his room, Zhao Yu lay on the edge of the bed with his hands on his back, thinking about the refugee problem mentioned by his mother Zhou.

Since he came to this house a few days ago, all he saw was the situation in the Luyang Township Marquis' Mansion, but he never thought that outside this mansion, the world was not so peaceful.

I don’t know how long it took, Zhao Yu asked softly: “Jing Nv, is the refugee my mother mentioned serious?”

Next to him, the quiet girl sat quietly on a stool. Since Zhou had allowed Zhao Yu to rest for a few days before going to Mr. Gongyang's house, she no longer urged or persuaded him.

Until he heard Zhao Yu's inquiry, Jingnu shook her head and explained: "Young master, I haven't left the mansion for a long time. I don't know what's going on outside the mansion... Why don't I ask someone on duty at the mansion to ask about this?"

Hearing this, Zhao Yu showed a little surprise: "You mean, there are refugees outside the mansion?"

"There are some." Jingnv nodded and said, "A few days ago, before the wife sent me to serve me, I happened to hear the great manager in the mansion report to my wife, saying that some refugees gathered outside the Marquis' Mansion in our town and prayed for the Marquis' Mansion in our town to give alms to some food..."

"oh."

Zhao Yu nodded thoughtfully, then turned over and got out of the bed: "Go and go to the front door to take a look."

"This... Young Master, wait for slave..."

After a while, Zhao Yu brought Jing Nu to the front yard.

During this period, they met the servants and guards in the mansion. These people watched curiously as the second young master in the mansion walked towards the main entrance, but they did not come forward to talk.

When he came straight to the main entrance of the mansion, Zhao Yu saw that the main entrance was closed, and four guards wearing leather armor were chatting about something from the side.

"Is it so serious? Even the door of the mansion is closed?"

Zhao Yu was surprised to think that in his impression, there was probably a saying that ordinary wealthy families would not close the front door during the day.

When they noticed that Zhao Yu and Jingnu were walking towards him, the four guards who were originally chatting stopped talking immediately and looked at Zhao Yu and the others with confusion.

One of them, who was obviously a thirty or forty, took a few steps towards Zhao Yu, then bowed his hand and bowed first: "Second Young Master."

Following this person, the other three guards also bowed: "Second Young Master."

Zhao Yu was also surprised that these guards recognized him, but this was easy to deal with. He nodded at the four guards and also responded by clasping their fists.

"Thank you guys for your hard work."

"..." The four guards were obviously surprised when they saw this.

At this time, the guard, who was thirty or forty, asked in confusion: "Second Young Master, are you... What's wrong with the second young master here?"

Zhao Yu did not immediately explain his purpose, but bowed and asked, "What do you call this uncle?"

Hearing Zhao Yu's words, the thirty-forty-year-old guard was slightly stunned, and then a little frightened appeared on his face. He quickly bowed and said, "I can't afford to call the second young master like this. I'll be Zhang Ying, and the second young master just calls the second Zhang Ying."

Immediately, at Deng Ying's instructions, the other three guards also clasped their fists to Zhao Yu and reported their names.

Niu Ji, Zheng Luo, Shi Jue, these are the names of the other three guards.

After communicating the names, the atmosphere was much more harmonious. At this time, Zhao Yu pointed to the closed main door and asked Zhang Ying: "Uncle Zhang, I want to know why the main door was closed during the day?"

"The second young master just needs to call him Zhang Ying."

As he said that, Zhang Ying looked back at the closed main door, and then explained to Zhao Yu: "Report to the second young master, this is the order of Chief Zhang Wei."

『Chief Zhang?』

Zhao Yu whispered to Jingnu: "Who is that?"

The warm breathing made the Jingniao's ears itch. She held back her shyness and explained to Zhao Yu: "Young Master, the guard in the mansion is named Zhang Mingchun. This person is highly valued by the village marquis and ruled the many guards in the mansion..."

"oh."

Zhao Yu nodded in understanding, and then asked the guards again: "It turned out to be the order of Chief Zhang Wei... But why should we close the main door?"

"this……"

Zhang Ying showed a little hesitation on his face, as if he was hesitating whether he needed to reveal it to the second young master in front of him.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu added a few more words: "Is it because of the refugee?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ying's tense face relaxed a little, and he asked in surprise: "The Second Young Master knows this?"

Zhao Yu nodded: "I heard from my mother today... so I came to the front door to ask about the situation."

"oh."

As soon as he heard the Zhou family, Zhang Ying no longer concealed it and told Zhao Yu truthfully: "As the second young master said, Chief Zhang ordered the door of the mansion to be closed, for fear that the refugees would attack the mansion..."

"Impact the mansion?" Zhao Yu opened his eyes slightly, showing a look of surprise on his face.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Luo, the youngest guard next to him, whispered: "What can't be done if you can't survive?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ying turned around and glared at Zheng Luo, and the young guard stopped talking.

However, at this time, Zhao Yu had heard this and asked in surprise: "Will those refugees actually hit the mansion?"

Zhang Yinghui was wrong and thought it was Zhao Yu who was afraid, so he quickly comforted: "Second Young Master, don't be shocked, this is just Zhang Weichang's caution. How could those refugees have the courage to rush into our town's marquis' mansion? Please rest assured, even if someone dares to do so, we will immediately..."

He raised his hand and subconsciously wanted to make a slashing move, but after a glance at Zhao Yu, he took his hand back halfway and changed his mouth: "Acatch him."

『…』

After looking at Zhang Ying for two seconds, Zhao Yu did not look at it carefully, and asked: "Are there any refugees outside the mansion now?"

Zhang Ying replied: "70% of them went towards the county town, but some people were still gathered outside the mansion."

"Can you open the door and let me see it?" Zhao Yu asked.

"this……"

Zhang Ying hesitated for a moment and persuaded: "Second Master, I'm sorry to say that these refugees are nothing good, just some people who escaped from a foreign land..." As he said that, he glanced at Zhao Yu and added: "Most of these people are dirty and smelly, and some of them are not even clean..."

"Uncle Zhang, please." Zhao Yu bowed.

“…”

A hint of embarrassment flashed in Zhang Ying's eyes. After hesitating for two breaths, he nodded and said, "Since the second young master insisted... well, but please don't get close to those people."

As he said that, he nodded to the other three guards. The next moment, the other three guards worked together to lift the door bolt and opened the door to the front line.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu took a few steps forward and looked out from the main door that opened the front line.

At this time, he saw that about twenty steps away from the main entrance of the Marquis' Mansion in a foreign country, there were many ragged refugees. Some of them built a shed with clothes and branches in the open space outside the mansion, while others sat on the ground wearing clothes, and some were simply lying on the ground for a long time, but Zhao Yu didn't see him moving, and he didn't know if he was still alive.

Given the angle issue, Zhao Yu could not see all the refugees. He could only roughly estimate that there were probably two or three hundred refugees outside the mansion, most of whom were the elderly, weak, women and children, and they could not see how many strong ones were.

But looking at the appearance of these refugees from afar, or the atmosphere of these refugees, Zhao Yu felt dead, as if he was a dying person who was about to die, almost lifeless.

Wait, from this point of view, it seems that the problem of refugees is not serious either?

He thought for a while and asked Zhang Ying: "Uncle Zhang, as I said, there are about two or three hundred refugees outside the mansion. If the number of refugees is only these, it shouldn't matter if the mansion gives some food and relief, right?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ying, who was beside him, looked at Zhao Yu for a few more times, then smiled bitterly and said, "The Second Young Master, but these refugees are only one out of a hundred.... On the side of the Housing House, the mansion has only given food once, just a few days. It was ordered by the wife. Like the Second Young Master, the wife also pitied these refugees and ordered the mansion to take out some food for the refugees. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, the refugees flocked to the next few days, and the number increased to more than a thousand people. Zhang Weichang was afraid that something would happen, so he asked the Housing House to dissuade the wife and stop distributing food, which prevented more refugees from rushing to this side..."

After a pause, he added: "As Chief Zhang said, after the food was stopped, the refugees outside the mansion looked angry, or some people shouted to attack the mansion, and even took the lead in instigating the rest of the refugees. Seeing this, Chief Zhang led the guards in the mansion to kill... Uh, he arrested several of them, and then suppressed the arrogance of the refugees at that time."

『…』

Zhao Yu turned his head thoughtfully and looked at the young guard named Zheng Luo, and finally understood why the young guard said that just now. It turned out that there was a precedent.

Perhaps because he noticed Zhao Yu's actions, Zhang Ying lowered his voice to persuade Zhao Yu: "The second young master does not need to pity these refugees. My grand Jin originally explicitly prohibited the villagers from escaping without authorization. These refugees have committed natural disasters in their respective villages and have not followed the bans of the government and fled to another country. This has violated the national law, not to mention that some of them will do whatever they want to get food... Just like the wife, she was obviously kind-hearted at first, but when our township marquis's house stopped distributing food, these people regarded us as enemies and even shouted to go into the township marquis's house to grab food. They were simply a bastard!... I have no choice but to die!"

"Super Mien, fight for Mien..."

Zhao Yu sighed slightly in his heart.

"The marquis' mansion in our town is pretty good."

From the side, the guard named Niu Ji added: "The surrounding fields of our town's marquis' mansion, including several barns in the field, have been frequently stolen or even looted by refugees these days. A large number of refugees gathered there, forcing us to send a lot of people to guard... Sometimes the behavior of these refugees is no different from the evil bandits!"

Zhao Yuyue frowned even more and more: "County town... I mean the county magistrate of our Luyang County, don't he care?"

"I can't control so many people."

Zhang Ying shook his head and said, "Two days ago, Zhang Weichang escorted the village marquis back from the county town to the mansion. I said a few words to him at that time. According to Zhang Weichang, there are four or five thousand refugees gathered outside the county town at this moment. The second young master didn't know that there were only three thousand households in the county town in recent years. There were nearly one thousand households, and there were still people who were waiting for food with their mouths open. How could the county town afford it? Not to mention that there were a steady stream of refugees flocking to our Luyang County..."

After breathing a long sigh, Zhang Ying shook his head and said, "So, the county town can only stop this group of refugees outside the city, regardless of their life or death."

Zhao Yu was stunned when he heard this and asked in surprise: "Don't the county town release food?"

Zhang Ying breathed slowly.

"Don't let it go!"

“…”

Zhao Yu opened his mouth and looked outside the mansion with a complicated expression. At this time, he saw a woman holding a baby in her arms and holding a child of several years old in her hand. She stumbled towards the mansion gate with a pleading look on her face.

"Please...please..."

"close the door."
Chapter completed!