In March, Wu Fenggang came back with seven or eight cars of children. When Erya and Xiaohu got the news, they brought some people to the town to help.

"How can there be so many children? Are they all orphans and street children? Erya looked at a lot of children who obviously didn't look like orphans and street children and asked.

Wu Fenggang explained: "No, many of them are children from refugee families, it is difficult to beg for food on the road, and there is no money left to buy food.

I didn't dare to bring the children back directly, I told them our addresses, and I also remembered the names of all the children, where they lived, their father's names, and their families, so that they could find their relatives later. ”

Erya nodded appreciatively, "Well done!" We just want our children to be better, not to buy slaves. If they can be reunited with their families in the future, it will be a good thing for all. ”

Then Erya stood in front of a group of children in the courtyard and said loudly: "Children, you have suffered, and now that you are here, although you can't eat well, it is not as good as being pampered and happy by your parents' side, but here at least everyone can live."

I heard from you Brother Wu that you big children are doing very well, not only taking good care of yourself along the way, but also helping to take care of your little brothers and sisters.

There are also some younger children who are also doing very well, they can take care of themselves, don't have to worry about their sisters and brothers, and the youngest children are also very good, although they need their sisters and brothers to help take care of them along the way, but they don't cry or make trouble, they are quiet, so that you Wu Da brothers save a lot of things.

So. You are all good children, you all have to praise and praise well.

Now that you're home, let your mother-in-law and aunts help you bathe and wash your hair. Because of the drought, in order to save water, cut your hair short first, and the children should cooperate with the mother-in-law and aunt, don't cry, okay? ”

The children below replied unevenly: "Okay! ”

Then the nurses were busy fetching water. The woman was busy boiling water and cutting the children's hair. All of them are cut into inches according to Erya's requirements.

Although Erya had been prepared before, he didn't expect that there would be so many children at once, so he had to send someone to rush to the county seat to buy quilts, fabrics and other necessary items.

After settling down for the kids. began to arrange for people to take care of them. Fortunately, in the past few years, those widowed women have come here to beg for a living, and during this time, several workshops have not been opened, and the yarn is not enough for so many people. The idle manpower is arranged to take care of the children.

After being free. Wu Fenggang began to talk about what he had seen and heard along the way.

"Originally, I hated the rich and the officials, thinking that they were all wicked people who were unkind to the rich. This time it made me change my mind. ”

Everyone listened curiously, after all, during this time, because there were too many displaced people, they didn't dare to go too far. At most, a few people go to the county and provincial towns to buy some necessary household goods.

Wu Fenggang saw that everyone was listening carefully, so he continued: "I saw a lot of wealthy families along the way, and those who were able to take in a lot of refugees. It's just that the grain merchant is really hateful, and the grain has a price a day. Rising every day. I heard that there has been an investigation by the government, if it has gone up. There may be a prison sentence! ”

It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many wealthy and official families in the Central Plains and the south took in more than 90,000 people who fled from the northwest.

At that time, the price of grain was said to have risen consistently, twice, and three times in the bucket of rice. However, at that time, the imperial court had reached a state of out of control, and the government had no ability to suppress grain prices, so it could only let those grain merchants make a disaster fortune, but now the court is still very stable, and these grain merchants dare to make a disaster fortune, and it is estimated that the end will not be good.

Due to the dry weather and the lack of feed, they did not dare to let those sheep breed, so there was no goat's milk. These children don't have the good fortune to drink goat's milk like the previous children. But fortunately, there are still many eggs, at least one child a day, and it can last for many days.

In April and May this year, the river came down from the upstream again, and the people in the village followed Erya to do drip irrigation, but unfortunately in the later stage, there were a lot of insects, and Erya had no way to remove them. At this point, drip irrigation has failed!

At the end of August and the beginning of September, before it rained, mobs revolted in several areas, which were suppressed by the imperial court, and the mob roamed in all directions.

Wangjiazhuang and the mountains and forests in the south, such remote and easy places to hide, have become a blessed place for the mob to escape.

When the news came, several surrounding villages were panicked and about to run out.

Only Wang Zhuangzi is not thinking about running, but actively preparing for war. And sent people to each Zhuangzi to find the leader, and everyone united to fight against the mob.

Each Zhuangzi is in the highest place in the village, building a beacon tower, and building a lookout next to the platform, once you see an unknown crowd coming, you will light a beacon fire, and everyone will warn.

The young adults of each Zhuangzi were recruited to practice archery and chopping knives during the day, and took turns patrolling at night.

Take the nearest three or five Zhuangzi as a small group, and then take the adjacent three or five small groups as a large group.

In early October, thick smoke came out from the village of the Chen family in the west, and Grandpa Tai sent Erya and Xiaohu to bring people over to help, and at the same time arranged for Daman, Dahong, Xiangzi, and Laizi to lead the rest of the people to guard the safety of the village.

When Er Ya and Xiaohu ran to Chenjiazhuang with people, they saw that the two people had been killed together, and most of the injured people were from Chenjiazhuang. Erya's heart tightened, and when she looked at it again, she found that it was not that the people of Chenjiazhuang couldn't beat those mobs, but that they were too soft and didn't dare to be ruthless, so they would be beaten and cut and injured, but fortunately, they all knew how to avoid it, and so far, there have been no dead people.

Seeing this, Erya shouted to everyone who ran with him: "Don't be afraid, don't be soft, just cut it!" Fast! ”

Er Ya immediately entered the middle and found one of the most fierce slashers, broke his leg with an axe, kicked him to the ground, and let several people around him catch him.

She herself stood on a high spot and shouted at the scuffling crowd: "Lay down your weapons, raise your hands, and we will let you go, or shoot you." ”

In the crowd, Xiaohu led a few people and shouted: "Put down your weapons, raise your hands and don't kill!" ”

These mobs are actually gangsters and homeless people who were not good people in the local area, and they were bewitched by some descendants of the failed rebels back then, so they did the chaos.

To say that they have any ability, strategy, and courage, it is too exalting them. There is nothing to praise except to bully the weak and fear the hard.

Originally, they were a little timid when they encountered resistance, but when they saw that those people did not dare to kill them, they became bold and started to kill them. But although these people are soft, they can't be slashed with a few knives, they are anxious, and they are even more ruthless, and now they don't need Xiaohu to shout more, they all threw their knives and raised their hands. The slightly more tenacious ones were also forcibly beaten down by Xiaohu and a few people.

Facing these surrendered mobs, Erya had a headache and didn't know how to deal with it. You can't kill it, you can't let it go!

The people of Chenjiazhuang came over to thank Erya Xiaohu, and Erya hurriedly stopped: "You hurry back to help deal with the injured, you must find a doctor to prescribe medicine, you can't be sloppy, otherwise the wound will also kill you." ”

The leader replied: "That's certain, they are for the sake of the injuries suffered by the people in our village, how can they not treat them well." Thank you for coming over and helping me today, and I would like to invite you to have a coarse meal here. ”

Xiaohu shook his head and said, "Thank you Uncle Chen for your kindness, we will take these people back to my grandfather to deal with it." ”

There were mobs on the road who wanted to run, but they didn't need to do it, they were caught by the descendants of the Wang family, and they couldn't break away.

Grandpa looked at these thirty or forty people, and he was also in trouble. handed them over to the imperial court, and the imperial court said that they could not kill them, and if they did not hand them over to the imperial court, they were afraid that they would make trouble and kill people again when they went elsewhere.

In the end, Erya and Grandpa Tai agreed that it would be handed over to the imperial court, sympathy could not be overflowing, not everyone could sympathize, maybe the imperial court would just exile if they didn't kill them, maybe it wouldn't be.

Hearing that Chen's Zhuangzi entered the mob, injured people, and was saved by Wang's Zhuangzi, the people around Zhuangzi were boiling, and vaguely, they pushed Wang's Zhuangzi to the first place, and everything was subject to Wang's Zhuangzi.

Grandpa Tai was not proud of this, and everyone still discussed everything.

Since the mob was caught by the villagers and sent to the government, the other mobs bypassed here and fled elsewhere. In this regard, Grandpa Tai and all the villagers are happy to see it.

There have been torrential rains and floods elsewhere, but it has not rained here, and everyone's hearts can no longer be calm.

"Grandpa! It's already raining in other places, and even though there is a flood, it's better than not raining all the time! Why don't we have rain here!? ”

Grandpa sighed, "Alas! Don't worry! I can't say that this rain will not stop, and then I will worry about this waterlogging again. ”

"Grandpa, what are you afraid of? Our house is not a place to discharge floods, and no matter how big the flood is, it will only spread to the corners of our house. ”

Grandpa asked worriedly, "Then do you know that after the flood, there is a period of plague and insect plague?" More people will die than the drought or the flood itself! ”

Er Ya heard at home that grandpa Tai was worried about the plague after the disaster, so he went over to persuade him: "Grandpa, you don't have to worry so much, we usually tell you more about how to prevent it, prepare more quicklime, vinegar, garlic or something to put at home, usually don't drink raw water, dirty water, don't eat raw things, don't touch things that have been touched by mice, pay attention to prevent mosquito and fly bites, as long as these are well prevented, the plague can be avoided, you can't worry about those things that haven't happened yet!" ”

Grandpa sighed and said, "Good boy, grandpa is not worried, go back!" But he was saying in his heart, where is it so easy to prevent. God, where can this man escape?! (To be continued)