With Tang Lizheng's permission, Meng Ge took out the things specially prepared for Tang Lizheng. After all, a few snacks and a pheasant were given when I entered the door, just a little courtesy.www.biquge.info

Tang Li was looking at the few good skins in front of him, and the big jar of honey, and he was very satisfied.

In these years, all those who come to the door to entrust people to do things are all buying good wine and meat. However, Menggo did not take those things with them, but gave them pheasants that they had hunted with their own hands, which was not bad.

It's not that Meng Ge doesn't want to sell meat to others. However, it is too far from the town, and even if you buy meat, it will not be fresh overnight. As for sugar and wine, she didn't expect it at all.

I thought I could catch some rabbits or something outside the mountain, which was also considered poon choi. Unfortunately, along the way, they also ran into a pheasant.

Because they were anxious to settle down, Meng Ge and the three of them politely declined the invitation to rest at Lizheng's house for one night, and after breakfast, they went out of the village with Tang Lizheng.

The breakfast at Li Zheng's house was relatively simple, just pasted a few cakes, boiled a pot of porridge, and cut a plate of small pickles.

Fortunately, knowing that Tang Li was about to leave the village, their family pasted more than a dozen more cakes, so that Li Zheng and them could take them to eat on the road.

Perhaps because they were used to walking mountain roads in the mountains before, Meng Ge and the three of them did not feel too tired when they went out of the mountain again.

It's Tang Lizheng, although his body is still healthy, but he can't compare to the three of Meng Ge. They rested five or six times along the way before arriving at the Ascension Inn in the evening.

Tang Li was familiar with the shopkeeper Tian of the Flying Ascension Inn, and they greeted each other as soon as they entered the door.

"Brother, why did you come out of the village? Aren't these children going to settle in your village? Shopkeeper Tian personally walked out of the counter and invited Tang Lizheng to sit down at the table.

"Not really. I think these babies are very good, so I will help them more. Tang Li was grinning.

For a while, Tang Lizheng chatted with Shopkeeper Tian. What is the harvest this year, what about the livestock at home, and the children and grandchildren at home are not worried.

Tian Xiaoer made tea and came out, squeezed his eyebrows at Meng Ge's sisters and brothers, and said, "Every time people from Luoshan Village come to the town, they will settle in our shop. ”

Meng Ge guessed when he saw that the father and son of the Tian family were very familiar with Tang Lizheng. The price of the Feisheng Inn is relatively affordable, and it is still very good to settle here.

That night, Meng Ge helped Tang Li ask for a relatively good room for him to rest.

Early the next morning, Tang Lizheng woke up the three Meng Ge who were still asleep, and went to the temporary government office in the town early to wait for the government to open the office.

After all, the town is not a county, and there is only one team leader who leads more than 20 yacha to guard the town. Usually, if there is any urgency in Sili and Eight Townships, they will report to the team leader here first, and the team leader will report to the county seat if he can't do it.

As for such a trivial matter as measuring land, of course, it is up to the team leader to decide. After measuring the land, marking the land boundary, and then the white deed was opened in each village, and the county seat was replaced with a red deed with the seal of the government, and the land sale was completed.

The leader of Xiaoluozhen is a big man in his early thirties. Although he didn't have a beard, the black stubble showed the roughness of the owner.

Unlike the officers and soldiers guarding the gates, the officials are a group of officers who specialize in managing the daily affairs of the town and maintaining order. It is equivalent to the police of a modern police station.

It's just that compared with the police at the police station, the current government officials have a lot more rights than the people's police.

Just like now, after Shi Bantou checked the household registration handed over by Meng Ge and opened his mouth to ask them about some information, he sent five officials to follow Tang Lizheng back to the village to measure the land.

"I'll go again tomorrow. Today they were going to another village to have a look, and someone came to report that there had been a phenomenon of homeless people entering the village to rob. After Shi Bantou finished explaining, he took the big knife and led the people away.

"You take care of these things?" Meng Ge asked with some suspicion.

At the beginning, the thieves who robbed them said that the yamen didn't care about such things.

"How can you not care. The people in the village were overbearing, and they were killed. If we don't do anything, they're afraid they're going to rebel. A little yacha said with a bitter face.

"Hmph, it's not that I don't know who did it, but the county lord always doesn't let us suppress them. I guess, the county lord may wish there would be a lot of trouble down there. Another messenger in his forties knocked on the door with his scabbard and reluctantly walked out.

Coming out of the Ya Walk, Meng Ge felt that this world was too terrifying. Beneath the seemingly calm surface, there is a surging undercurrent that many people cannot change.

Fortunately, the common people do not ask for much. It doesn't matter who you are the official or who the emperor is, as long as they can live a stable life, they are good and can support them.

"Alas, another day of delay in vain." On the way back to the Feisheng Inn, Tang Lizheng sighed.

"Uncle Lizheng, my second brother and I will turn over the ground. When our household registration is completed, I will take my younger brother to help you turn the ground. Meng Ge knew that Tang Li was worried about the family's land.

"It's not that there is a shortage of manpower, it's just that it has snowed early in the past two years. If the land is not turned in time for the first snow, then you will have to wait for the snow to melt in the spring of the next year. These two winters were very frozen, and the snow was deep. "Tang Li is worried that this famine will be transferred to the north.

"Is there any way to say that?" Meng Ge didn't know much about the north, so he asked.

"Yes, the old people say that if there are too many days like this, there will be a drought in the future. The rain has turned to snow and gone, so it will be dry next summer. Tang Li frowned slightly, worried about this world. It's all messed up, and if there is a drought in the north again, there really won't be a way for us people to live. I don't know who has violated any taboo of God. ”

Meng Ge was shocked when he heard this. The drought in the south has not eased for two years, and if there is another drought in the north for another year or two, the people will really not be able to survive.

"Brother, it's a big deal, let's go into the mountain again. I see that now the inside of the mountains is more peaceful than the outside. Yu Yang suddenly remembered what happened when he fled the famine two years ago, so he said to Meng Ge with a solemn face.

Meng Ge was also a little dazed, not knowing whether it was right or wrong to choose to settle down at this time.

"I'm worried, I've heard that the river in Luoshan Village hasn't been cut off. Uncle Lizheng, is it true? Meng Ge asked tentatively.

"Bhoo, the water hasn't been cut off. Since my great-grandfather's generation, it has been more than 100 years, and the water has not been cut off. Tang Lizheng suddenly remembered such a stubble, and his heart was a lot more stable.

"That's it, as long as the village has no water, we don't have to worry about running out of food. I'm afraid, I'm afraid that a large number of displaced people will enter the village, and then we will suffer. Meng Ge analyzed.

No one knows better than the three of Mongo how terrible the starving homeless people are. At this time, Menggo had to reconsider the feasibility of hiding in the mountains.