When the autumn grain harvest fails, tenants and small farmers also save themselves, pulling edible things outdoors into their homes.

The eldest girl of the Zhang family and the three young masters of the Zhou family are all helping in the account room, and almost everyone in the county has shared the subsidy, and this year's Ping'an County is still maintaining peace and tranquility normally.

When the incandescent lights in the Zhang family's compound were lit one by one, Xiao Tao put a big furry cloak on Zhang Meixi, and the third young master of the Zhou family was naïve and went to help her open the door curtain first.

A cold wind blew in, interspersed with small cool particles.

The third young master of the Zhou family was naïve, and immediately cheered:

"It's snowing, it's snowing, big sister, you see it's snowing."

"It's snowing, big girl." Xiao Tao's voice was also filled with joy.

"In the year of the snow and the drought, the drought has passed." The handsome and heroic young master of the Zhou family added that he seemed to be very happy.

At this time, everyone was already standing in the courtyard.

The snow fell from the sky, and some of it gathered in a clump and fell straight down, and soon it was a layer. Some of them are in patches, fluttering like feathers.

The air is cold, but moist.

Everyone had a smile on their faces.

Then the smart second young master of the Zhou family said coldly something very disappointing:

"The drought is over, and the cold is coming. It's not going to be a good winter. ”

Zhang Meixi returned to her room and took out the jewelry box left by her grandmother. opened it, took out three pairs of jade bracelets, and told the apricots to put them away. Closed the box and asked someone to carry it to Mrs. Zhang's main room.

Mrs. Zhang laughed:

"That's where your jewelry comes in."

The housekeepers and ladies at the bottom are having fun:

"The wife and the eldest girl are both bodhisattva-like hearts, people with great blessings and great creations."

Mrs. Zhang asked the eldest girl to carry back the jewelry box.

"Wear it again after filial piety."

The ladies in charge at the bottom praised one after another:

"The eldest girl is filial."

Otherwise, how can you keep your head for a year?

Zhang Meixi knew that praising the lord's family was one of the jobs of the servants, so she didn't care.

After the first ship of grain in Qingdao had an accident, the Zhang family bought another boat, and the second time was the escort team directly invited at the Qingdao wharf, and the road was also smooth, and there were no soldiers and bandits scurrying around the place.

The people of Ping'an County barely got enough food and clothing.

In winter, after a few days of heavy snowfall, a new big problem occurred.

In this drought, more than a dozen counties and townships have lost their harvests, and Ping'an County has been pacified. People in several places in other counties were not very lucky, and they went out to find food.

Disaster victims wander around every year, called desertion. It's just that there are a lot of people who have come out to escape the famine this year.

Outside Zhangjia Town and outside the county gate, two porridge sheds were set up.

At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people, then thousands, and slowly more than 10,000.

As soon as the number of victims increases, it is really difficult to raise them.

Even if a person only gives four taels of rice porridge, he will need 10,000 catties of grain at the end of the day.

Mrs. Zhou, the security captain, has been in good health, she goes out to patrol every day, and the rules of the security team under her command are getting bigger and bigger, and these victims are not allowed to enter the villages, towns and county seats, which is a habit for many years, and it is a matter of an instant for the victims to become robbers.

The victims of the disaster were all guarding the sheds where the porridge and rice were given, and they lined up every day to receive food.

It snowed for several days in a row, and the snow was cold, and the snow melted even colder.

The weak people could not stand it, and they died every day.

The three young masters of the Zhou family went out every day and followed Mrs. Zhou.

But Mrs. Zhang didn't let Zhang Meixi go out.

On Wednesday, the young master came to find Zhang Meixi every day and told her about the outside affairs, and he talked about it vividly:

"The second brother thought of a way to let them dig the ground, most of them lived in semi-underground, and sure enough, fewer people died, but the ground was frozen, and it was very hard, and it was not easy to dig."

Zhang Meixi asked people to carry her jewelry box again and went to the old lady's nursing home.

The old lady showed her a box,

A box of flowers and flowers, it is US dollars.

Mrs. Zhang smiled and said:

"You don't know this, this is American money, deposited in Citibank, they sent a telegram remittance voucher, your uncle directly used it in Shanghai, and your uncle also sent remittances, and the grain was directly shipped to Qingdao from foreign origins."

Zhang Meixi was very interested in the dollar during the Republic of China and looked at it over and over again.

Mrs. Zhang asked her to carry the jewelry box back:

"There's a lot to be paid for."

Seeing that she was interested in dollars, he told her to take some back.

Zhang Meixi really took two tickets, two hundred dollars, took her grandmother's jewelry box, and immediately sealed the dollars into an envelope and spent them when she returned to her room.

Zhang Meixi has already thought clearly, her most valuable thing is not the jewelry box left by the old lady, but the pharmaceutical knowledge in her mind a hundred years later.

Immediately, he wrote two letters of entrustment to his lawyer to apply for pharmaceutical patents in Europe and the United States.

At the end of the letter, Zhang Meixi marked Shandong Ping'an, which was the address, and she hesitated again and did not write her name.

This later produced a small misunderstanding, and the place name of Shandong Ping'an became her alias.

The days of the disaster year were difficult, but after staying up, it passed.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, this day is also an important festival in Shandong customs.

Mrs. Zhang said:

"The food of the Laba victims should be good, and there will be dinner with the Zhou family at night."

In the evening, Mrs. Zhou and her three young masters came very late.

The eldest young master of the Zhou family is still wearing a military coat, and he is heroic.

Xiao Tao whispered to Zhang Meixi:

"There's a lot of blood on Master Zhou's trouser legs."

Zhang Meixi looked at it, and it was indeed bloodstained.

Old lady Zhang didn't mind the late arrival of the Zhou family, and greeted him with a smile.

Mrs. Zhou explained:

"There were people who made trouble, and more than a dozen people were killed."

The young master on Wednesday was naïve, looking excited and proud:

"My eldest brother is very good at kung fu, he can fight more than a dozen of them alone."

Mrs. Zhou struck her third son on the head and taught him:

"It's useless to fight a dozen, you can't be brave and strategic."

On Wednesday, the young master gave everyone a general idea of how his eldest brother was brave.

"They all lined up honestly to get food, and when they finished receiving it, someone grabbed it from the hands of those old and weak. My eldest brother saw that those people were not pleasing to the eye, and they were all over the ground looking for teeth. ”

"After being beaten, they will definitely not be convinced, and it is easy to find trouble, so I will kill them all." Young Master Zhou concluded, his expression faint.

It's time to go to bed at night.

Mrs. Zhang smashed Uncle Zhang with a pillow:

"In the future, don't mention the family affairs with the Zhou family, the eldest and the second and third, all of them can't, their family, big and small, are all bandits who kill people without blinking."

Uncle Zhang smiled bitterly:

"They are bandits, you didn't know it on the first day, tell you the truth, the ancestor of the Zhang family is also a bandit, in this world, can you live without killing?"

Uncle Zhang is particularly right.

The world of the Republic of China is really very chaotic, originally Zhang Meixi thought that although there was no harvest this year and there were many refugees, but after buying a few boatloads of grain, plus the Zhang family's inventory, it should be regarded as coping with the past.

But on the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the Zhang family's compound was surrounded by bandits again.

The leader's surname is Duan, Mr. Duan, and his nickname is Guillotine Duan. In the autumn, it was the soldiers he led who robbed Mrs. Zhou's grain cart.