Chapter 198
Since beating Sun Baozhu and following Zhang Xing, Zhang Xing has saved a lot. Although Sun Baozhu can't speak, she is diligent and hardworking, and she has a lot of energy, and she has done everything like moving firewood in a wok. Zhang Xing only helped to see how the porridge in the pot was cooking, and occasionally added a few sticks of firewood to the stove.
Uncle Fu has another kind of work to do, several of them are a few old women to wash rice and put it in the pot, a pot of rice are according to the amount, the first is a full bowl of rice to cook a pot of porridge, now there is only a small half bowl, so the porridge soup boiled out is less water.
For such a bowl of gruel that can illuminate the shadow of people, Zhang Xing was not clear six years ago, but now he is doing it himself, and he knows the reason - there are fewer and fewer rice, but there are more and more people who want porridge to drink, and if they want to come again, then a large number of people will be hungry. No one knows when the imperial court will come to provide disaster relief, and if it is time to survive, the grain squeezed out by several large families in Zhanghe Town will need to be used for a long time.
It's better to drink in one sip than nothing.
was busy in full swing, and Liu Sanjin, a servant in Liu Dahu's house, ran in and shouted, "Li Zheng is here." ”
The women who were working were all beaten in their hands, and one of them said, "It's really strange, why did Liu Lizheng come over today?"
After Liu Sanjin finished shouting, he ran out to see the excitement, and the women who liked the excitement also went to the door to see it. Uncle Fu put the rice into the pot and said to Zhang Xing in front of the stove: "Don't stand at the stove, be careful not to smoke all the ashes, just have a fire in the stove." ”
Zhang Xingying responded and helped take a spatula to pull the rice from the dustpan into the pot. Uncle Fu has always wanted to find an opportunity to explore Zhang Xing's mouth, but today she has been busy from morning to now, and now there are many women in the shed to the door to watch the excitement. The rest are not nosy. Far away. So Aunt Fu pretended to be casual and said, "Xing'er." What's wrong with your sister?"
Zhang Xing was busy and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”
Uncle Fu also smiled and said, "That's right, what's there to worry about in the palace? It's you, you and your mother are hungry and full in Weijiazhuang, and there is no fixed number." It's only been better in recent days. ”
Zhang Xing didn't know that the Fu family was thinking about herself, but she never put her thoughts on her face, and said with a smile: "I think I'm better than Tao'er." Although there is no shortage of food and clothing on her side, where is we so comfortable. Besides, now that my brother is getting more and more angry, I don't envy her at all. ”
The smile on Aunt Fu's face became more and more kind, "You think clearly......" She was only halfway through her words, when she heard the woman watching the excitement at the door shouting, and shouted: "Hello Lord Lizheng." ”
"Liu Lizheng, you're here. ”
Uncle Fu and Zhang Xing both turned their heads, the woman at the door made her debut, and Liu Li was leading a few people in. Zhang Xing couldn't help but stand up. Coming in with Liu Lizheng were Gu Xichao and a few people.
Liu Lizheng looks humble and has the heart to show the hearts of the people under his rule in front of the prince of Huaiyang. nodded and smiled with the woman, and invited Gu Xi to move forward. Xu was Gu Xichao confessed, he instructed the woman to go to work by herself, and looked at the porridge shed steward. The steward of the porridge shed is also a human spirit, so he took a look and immediately poured a bowl of rice into the big pot next to him with his back on his back.
Gu Xichao came to inspect the soup kitchen? Glancing at what Liu Lizheng had led him to, he threw it away, went straight to Zhang Xing's side, stretched out his head to look at the pot a few times, and asked, "Is this the porridge to be divided today?"
Liu Yi and Mu Yu looked at each other, and at the same time came to Liu Lizheng's side, and found a head half-clamp and half-push to get Liu Lizheng out.
Liu Lizheng went out, and the others only regarded Liu Yi and Mu Yu as one of them, and most of them followed, leaving only one to accompany Gu Xichao, Ying He smiled and said, "Yes, yes, this is the porridge that will be served in a while." ”
Aunt Fu knew that Gu Xichao was detailed, but she selfishly didn't want Gu Xichao to get close to Zhang Xing, so she shouted: "Ah, I'm going to copy it, don't boil the pot." As he spoke, he inserted Zhang Xing Gu Xi into the middle of the two of them, and waved the spatula directly.
Gu Xichao had to stay away, looked at the gap between Uncle Fu's busy work and said hello to her, and slowly moved to the other side of Zhang Xing, and asked her in a low voice, "Are you here to help all these days?"
Zhang Xing felt both funny and a little heavy in her heart, "Yes, there are not enough people here." ”
When the pot was boiled, the person in charge of the spoon beckoned people to help carry it, and the strong women all went to help, and some women knew that Gu Xichao was accompanying her, and shouted: "Hu Chongba, come and do me a favor." ”
Calling people to be close to Hu Chongba, they are considered elders, Hu Chongba hesitated for a while, nodded and smiled at Gu Xichao and said, "Look at it slowly, I, I'll help the handle." ”
The fire in the stove dimmed, Zhang Xing hurriedly added a few sticks of firewood into it, and when she turned over, the fire lit up, and her beautiful eyebrows and eyes seemed to be plated with a layer of gold. Gu Xichao's heart beat a few times faster.
In the porridge shed, except for Gu Xichao, he was busy working, and he became more and more prominent, and the women's eyes were swirling around him, and some were interrogated in low voices.
"What kind of brother is this? ”
"I don't know, I followed Liu Li to come in. ”
"I don't know if I kissed it?"
"What's the matter? You want to be a matchmaker again? This brother is not an ordinary person, haven't you seen Liu Lizheng's appearance......
Gu Xichao was focused on Zhang Xing, ignoring everything next to him.
Zhang Xing handed the tongs in his hand to Sun Baozhu and said to Gu Xichao: "It's gray here, let's go out." ”
Uncle Fu saw Zhang Xing leading Gu Xichao out, and she didn't have time to shout for a while, so she couldn't help but stomp her feet, snatched Sun Baozhu's tongs, and said anxiously: "Your young lady is gone, why don't you go over and have a look?"
Sun Baozhu hurriedly ran out, there were all people outside, where could I find her young lady?
In fact, Zhang Xing didn't go far, at this time it was time for the soup kitchen, the three layers around the porridge shed and the outer three layers were full of people, Liu Lizheng didn't know where she was fooled by Liu Yi Muyu, she and Gu Xichao were squeezing out of the crowd. No one took it, and no one knew the prince of Huaiyang Palace, and the people who rushed up only had porridge in the bucket not far away.
Zhang Xingren was thin and weak, and was almost pushed to the ground. Gu Xichao rushed forward and stopped beside her. The two of them finally squeezed out, and Zhang Xing was already sweating.
"Is this the case every day here?" asked Gu Xichao, wiping the sweat from his head.
Zhang Xing nodded, "It's like this every day, sometimes it's even more than this." ”
The steward of the porridge shed brought the patrol camp to shout, and the crowd was even more chaotic. The strong and strong gangs rushed forward with all their brains, and the women and children were weak and the enemy was weak, some cried, shouted and begged. Gu Xichao protected Zhang Xing and retreated farther away, and Zhang Xing was silent in front of the hundred phases. Gu Xichao obviously saw such a rare situation, seeing a woman with a child being pushed to the ground, the child cried and screamed. His mind was hot, and he was about to go over with his fists clenched.
Zhang Xing hurriedly grabbed him, "Don't go over, don't do anything." "At this time, a bite of food is a life, that is, to clean up the strong man who is pushed in front of him, and there will be the next one who will continue to rush forward regardless of it. In this world, only the strong can survive.
Sure enough, the woman lifted the child up and forced her into the line.
With the patrol battalion manpower next to them, two long queues quickly formed in front of the porridge shed, with the strong and strong mostly in the front, and the women and children in the back. Gu Xichao seemed to be stunned. A man who received the porridge passed happily with a bowl of gruel that could be seen as a human figure. Gu Xichao's brows furrowed.
Zhang Xing said: "Don't look at this porridge like this, but it is the life of many people here, it is such a thing, and not everyone can get it." In fact, being able to enter Zhanghe Town can be regarded as good luck for the people affected by the disaster this time. "Six years ago, they wandered to Huaiyang, and those days were many times more bitter than this.
"Let's go to Yuxian. Zhang Xing, you can go to Yuxian County with us. Gu Xichao said abruptly.
Zhang Xing was startled, turned her head to look at Gu Xichao's slightly impulsive face, smiled, and said, "What am I going to do in Yuxian? ”
Gu Xichao said it in one go, and when Zhang Xing replied like this, he was a little lacking, "You, aren't your mother and your brother both in Yu County?"
The smile on Zhang Xing's face did not disappear, "They are just going to live temporarily, and they will come back in a few days." At present, the water of the Huai River is receding, although slowly, but I heard that it will only take a few months at most, and the water can recede almost as much. The water has receded, what am I going to do in Yuxian?"
Gu Xichao endured it for a while, blushed, and said, "Isn't your sister in Huaiyang?" ”
"What am I going to Huaiyang for?" Zhang Xing said with a smile, "My sister is a girl in your palace, and I am not." I couldn't get used to her days. ”
Gu Xichao's face turned white for a while, and Zhang Xing intensified and said: "Although the life here is a little poorer and harder, it is comfortable. People say that the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own poor nest, I, I don't want to go anywhere, I like my own poor nest, at ease, how good. As he spoke, he looked at Gu Xichao with a smile, "Gu Shizi, I'm not saying that your palace is bad, your palace is naturally very good, but not everyone likes it." ”
Gu Xichao's face turned a little pale, Zhang Xing saw that the purpose was reached, and then pulled the topic elsewhere, and asked, "Gu Shizi, is Miss Yao okay?" Stone's senior sister Yao Mingzhu entered the Huaiyang Palace's palace after the Jinshakou incident, and before Shi left, he asked her to take care of her more.
Gu Xichao was still in frustration, Zhang Xinglian asked both sides, and he said blankly: "Miss Yao, which Miss Yao?"
"It's the Yao Mingzhu we met in Qingmeng Mountain, Miss Yao. Isn't she in your palace?"
Gu Xichao shook his head, "I don't know." "What happened after Jinshakou was arranged by his father and Shen Huaijin, where did he remember what Miss Yao and Miss Qing were.
Zhang Xing saw that his face was not perfunctory, and he probably didn't know it, so he didn't ask anymore. It just so happened that Sun Baozhu, Liu Lizheng, Liu Yi, Mu Yu and others squeezed over from the crowd one after another. Gu Xichao looked lost and depressed, and Zhang Xing didn't want to add more trouble. looked for an excuse and took Sun Baozhu back to the porridge shed. (To be continued......)