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Lin Xiao quickly walked into the inner hall and saw Gu Huaiyu leaning beside the desk, crying so hard that his shoulders were shrugging.

He put the baggage and the wine jar on the ground, walked to her side, and said softly: "Sir, are you okay?"

Gu Huaiyu raised his head when he heard the sound.

Her eyes were red, and there were tears on her face. The most conspicuous thing was her forehead, which had a big swelling with bloodshot eyes, which looked particularly dazzling on her fair skin.

Lin Xiao squatted down and frowned: "How did you get this injury?"

Gu Huaiyu wiped her tears with her sleeves and choked up: "The villagers don't understand why the price of food has increased. I can't clearly say it is to attract grain merchants from other places... I can only comfort them. In the chaos just now, a villager threw a stone and it hit it."

When Lin Xiao heard this, he slammed the table and said angrily: "It's so outrageous, these gangsters! I'm going to settle the score with them right now!"

He said as he rushed out.

Gu Huaiyu hurriedly reached out and grabbed his arm: "Don't go! Brother Lin, they also have their own reasons. In the famine years, the price of food has increased, and every family is starving to death. They are also crazy..."

Lin Xiao stopped and felt inexplicably weak when he looked at her expression of caring about the people even though the flowers were blooming.

He sighed softly and softened his tone: "Sir, seeing you being wronged makes me feel uncomfortable."

This is said sincerely.

Gu Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, feeling aggrieved and moved in his heart, and couldn't help but shed tears.

She wiped the corners of her eyes and whispered: "It doesn't matter. Once the grain merchants from other places arrive and there is more grain, it will be fine."

"My lord is really kind-hearted." Lin Xiao looked at her and suddenly said, "I can't help but want to write a few words for you."

"You can also write inscriptions?" Gu Huaiyu was a little surprised.

"I understand a little, I understand a little." Lin Xiao smiled and called the yamen servant to get the scroll and pen and ink.

He spread out the rice paper, dipped his pen in thick ink, pondered for a moment, and then wrote fourteen big characters eloquently.

Worry when the world is worried first, and rejoice when the world is happy later.

Gu Huaiyu stared at the fourteen words, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

These two short sentences pierced her heart like a needle, writing out all the grievances and ambitions she had accumulated.

Her lips trembled with excitement, and she immediately ordered someone to hang the scroll in the most conspicuous place on both sides of the hall.

"Brother Lin is really talented in literature, even better than my father." She looked at Lin Xiao with admiration in her eyes.

Lin Xiao smiled: "Thank you, sir."

"It's just that I don't know how to appease the villagers outside?"

"I have a way." Lin Xiao led her out of the inner hall and to the Yamen Gate.

At this time, there were many excited villagers surrounding the door. Some even shouted: "If the price of food is not reduced, I will hit my head on this pillar and die!"

Seeing this, Lin Xiao strode forward and shouted sternly: "Everyone, be quiet!"

This voice was so powerful that everyone present fell silent.

"Why are you making such a fuss!" Lin Xiao pointed to the audience, "The increase in food prices is a wise decision made by adults. What do you idiots know?"

A strong man shouted unconvinced: "I don't understand, but I know that if the price continues to rise like this, my whole family will starve to death!"

"What's the rush!" Lin Xiao sneered and dropped the bombshell news, "Your Excellency has decided that in order to resist the barbarian invasion from foreign enemies, Taoyuan County's city wall will be rebuilt from now on. Anyone who is willing to work will be paid thirty cents per person per day. Sign up now!"

The audience was in an uproar.

"Thirty cents a day? Nearly one tael a month?"

"Really? Would the government be so kind?"

"This is much better than farming!"

Gu Huaiyu also looked at Lin Xiao in shock.

She never thought about building the city wall.

Lin Xiao leaned close to her ear and whispered: "Sir, this is called work-for-relief. Let them exchange labor for money, which can not only appease the people, but also repair the city wall."

Gu Huaiyu suddenly realized it, and immediately straightened his back and said loudly: "Yes, the Taoyuan County city wall has been in disrepair for a long time. If the barbarians invade, they will be defeated in one blow. From now on, we will recruit civilians to build the city wall!"

"I'll go!"

"I'll go too!"

"Count me in!"

The complaints in the audience instantly turned into calls for registration.

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