However, the city gate of Huaiyang County is full of vicious guards. Everyone who enters the city will have to charge one or two taels of silver for entry.

Even if it is not a disaster year, one tael of silver will not be low. Moreover, for those refugees, one tael of silver is almost astronomical. Compared with the strong city guards, they cannot break through this barrier.

They had no money to enter the city, so they could only find a place to live outside the city gate.

Refugees gathered in the northern suburbs outside the city, lacking food and clothing, and no one cared about it. Some people became sick, some people starved to death, and they even fed their children to live, and their situation was terrible.

When Shangguan Qianyu arrived at Huaiyang County, it was a state of sorrow.

After Shangguan Qianyu first saw it in the northern suburbs outside the city, he felt angry. Natural disasters had already arisen, but the people were living in poverty, but no officials from the court were seen.

Is it something that happened in the city that they couldn't take care of, or is it another reason?

However, when the bad attitudes of the city guards were revealed in front of them, many refugees were scolded by them, and even drew their swords to intimidate them to retreat, Shangguan Qianyu was furious.

Where are the mere city guards so bold? That's because there is something wrong with the officials. Punishing a few city guards will not make any mistakes, and will also alert the enemy and cannot fundamentally solve the problem.

Shangguan Qianyu took a tael of silver and threw it to the defending army and entered the city.

Everything in the city may not be much better than outside. Huaiyang County has three counties under its jurisdiction, and the state yamen in Fengzhou is also located in Huaiyang County, which is the hub of the entire Fengzhou.

The officials were rich in land, and they were originally a prosperous place, but now they were in a slump. The people in the city had a good reputation. Every family closed their doors and saw someone coming, and they didn't even dare to say anything, so they immediately took refuge.

Shangguan Qianyu went to the prefect's yamen first. As the parent official of Fengzhou, the prefect also had a high position and a senior official.

However, the prefect's yamen should have been a solemn and dignified official office, but when they stood outside, they saw a desolate and withering, and it was obvious that there were no officials there.

The door was also covered in vain. Looking at the dust at the door, it had not been promoted to the office for at least half a month.

This situation was only caused by the situation in which one of the counties and government offices under Huaiyang County was captured by refugees and the magistrate was killed. However, this was in Huaiyang City, which was a dignified prefect, and there were obviously not so many refugees in the city. Why didn’t even see the prefect of a state?

Shangguan Qianyu frowned and was about to push the door in, but suddenly he felt a pair of eyes staring at him. He immediately turned his head to look at him. He saw an old man in his sixties poking his head out of the corner of the wall at the entrance of the alley and quietly looking at him. When he saw him looking over, he immediately shrank and walked into the alley.

Shangguan Qianyu looked at the quiet official office. There must be no one inside, so he was not in a hurry to go in. However, this old man seemed to know something.

Even if he appeared here, it shouldn't be a coincidence, maybe he had been staying here all the time?

Shangguan Qianyu hurriedly shouted: "Old man, please stay!"

Unexpectedly, it would be fine if he didn't call him. When he called, the old man's feet became faster and he ran away as if he was fleeing in panic.

Shangguan Qianyu said, "Old man, hurry up!" and said, "and took a step to chase after him.

The old man has a pale face and thin skin. He is so old that he has to fall even if he falls.

The old man's feet were faster, but, after all, he was older and his legs were not smooth. No matter how fast he was in front of Shangguan Qianyu, he couldn't run much farther.
Chapter completed!