When the young couple was in love, there was a noise from the bottom of the mountain. It turned out that Steward Zhang and Dong Ping rushed back with a cart of food and supplies, Dong Rong stopped the stupid pillar who wanted to get up, insisted that he sleep under the quilt, and then put on a coat and went down the mountain to help Zhang Luo.

Sister-in-law Liu is a quick-tempered and quick to do things, and she has already arrived with Meihua'er at this moment. The two were cleaning the three chicken houses, and then called for the coachman and two handymen in charge of patrolling to help move things inside.

Steward Zhang pointed to the last carriage and said to Dong Rong, "Owner, I have taken back the old clothes of all the pawnshops in the city, and it is estimated that there is still half of it." When I went out of the city, I saw the two children frozen crookedly on the side of the road, so I really felt uncomfortable, so I gave up two things first, and I still had to go early to recruit workers. ”

Dong Rong nodded, she originally wanted to prepare for a few more days before recruiting the homeless people over. But now it seems that you can't wait any longer, "Well, tomorrow you will hire some chariots and horses, and the old and weak women will take the chariots, and the men will come." After speaking, she called Liu's sister-in-law over again and asked, "How is it in the village, how many families are willing to lend their houses?" ”

Sister-in-law Liu thought for a while and responded, "Before I came over, I asked my mother-in-law to help Zhang Luo with this matter, everyone has heard from the clan elders, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue can get food, where to find such a good thing, almost every family has vacated the room." ”

Although Yimianpo Village is not large, there are dozens of families, and if each family only gives up two empty rooms, it must be enough for the displaced people to resettle.

Dong Rong breathed a sigh of relief and instructed, "Hurry up and build an earthen stove in a while, and when people come tomorrow, they will first pad their stomachs with a bowl of hot porridge." Then I had to ask Dr. Feng to come over to diagnose and treat the wounded, and if I was not sick, I would divide some herbs, and try to soak in a bath to kill lice on my body, so as to save the villagers from disliking. ”

"Don't worry, the owners are all from poor families, and everyone won't care too much."

After a few discussions, everyone went to get busy, and Zhao Qingshan, who was not on duty, heard the news and called Liu Ergou to come together, just to help carry the wood with his hands, and set up a grass shed facing southeast next to the three chicken houses.

Ten earthen stoves were built under the straw hut, and a large iron pot was set up, and wooden stumbling blocks were burned, and soon the water in the pot made a splash. The white mist rose up, and everyone felt that the sky was not so cold in the white world.

Sister-in-law Liu and the others cleaned all the pottery bowls and pots they bought, along with chopsticks and other things, with hot water, and finally put them in a large basin and carried them back to the house. There are three chicken houses, the east room has grain, oil and salt, etc., and the west room has a large pile of old clothes and old quilts, and the rooms that originally looked a little empty because there was no kang were filled with them at this time.

Dong Rong pondered that everyone would have to be busy here often in the future, so he asked Zhao Qingshan to see who had taken off the adobe in autumn when he returned to the village at night. Regardless of whether you buy it with money or exchange it for food, pull a few carts to put the things and things on the big kang in both houses, so that the work that can be done in the house can be moved in in the winter, and no matter how much it burns in the wooden shed, it is not as warm as in the house.

After the chores were done, Steward Zhang and Dong Ping's master and servant had to rush back to the city again. Dong Ping turned over the gifts he brought back from Kyoto, and planned to take them to the academy to give to his husband and close friends. Xizi carefully hugged Hui in her arms, shrunk her neck and complained, "It's windy again when you go back to the city, I'm afraid you will have to walk for a quarter of an hour." ”

Dong Rong touched the cotton robe on her younger brother's body, and she was also a little distressed, so she thought about it and explained to Steward Zhang, "Uncle Zhang, there will be more and more things at home in the future, and it is too inconvenient to travel without a car and horse." If you go into the city again in the next few days, you will go to the Chema Market to have a look, and no matter how much money you have, you can buy one and come back. ”

Steward Zhang has been going back and forth between the city and the orchard every day these days, and he has long disliked walking and delaying his work, but now he heard the words of the owner's family, and naturally responded with a smile, "Don't worry, I'll go to Chema Market in a while." We are the closest to the Beiban, and we can buy a good horse for a lot of silver. ”

Dong Ping was also happy, and Xizi cheered directly, "There will be a carriage in the future!" Ride a big horse, da-da-da, pull the child and laugh haha! ”

Everyone laughed at Kiko's childishness, and at last he carefully tucked his robe and urged them to go on the road. Seeing that it was getting dark, it would be even more difficult to walk if it was delayed any longer.

Sister-in-law Liu took another turn in the three rooms, and finally caught two more posteriors on night patrol and nagged for a long time, and then said goodbye to Dong Rong and hurried home. The families in the village are cleaning up the empty houses, and she plans to walk from house to house, so as not to let any black-hearted person pick up the pigsty barn and other charges, deceive the owner of the grain, not to mention, and lose the face of the whole village when it is passed out.

Dong Rong and Silly Zhu hadn't eaten at noon, and they had been busy all afternoon, so they felt hungry and panicked when they were free. Thinking that she would have to brush the pot and boil water again when she went back to the mountain, Dong Rong directly opened the bag and scooped a scoop of fine noodles, added some water and dialed them into small lumps.

Put the boiling water in the big iron pot into the basin, reheat the oil, stir-fry the green onion and ginger and a plate of bacon slices, and then add hot water to it when the fragrance is diffuse, and throw the gnocchi evenly into the pot little by little. In less than a moment, "pearls" the size of fingernails floated on the surface of the water. When it comes out of the pot, sprinkle some salty salt and green onion flowers, and the simple and delicious gnocchi soup is good.

Dong Rong raised her eyebrows with some regret, if she threw the green pineapple vegetables into the pot, the color and fragrance would definitely be better, but unfortunately in this big winter, it was really a little whimsical.

There were no tables and chairs in the house, so Dong Rong directly called the two patrolling juniors to go to the shed to eat together. The two post-sheng refused at first, after all, their wages had been converted into food and sent to the family, and it would be a little suspicious of taking advantage of the master's food at this time.

Dong Rong didn't allow them to be polite, and the big pottery bowl full of them was stuffed into the hands of the two, and said with a smile, "The weather is so cold, you can eat some hot food and keep vigil." The house is full now, and there is no room for a slight slip-up. ”

When the two juniors heard this, they looked at each other and lowered their heads to eat and drink. Poor farmers can't eat fine noodles a few times a year, not to mention that there are a lot of red bacon slices in this soup. The two descendants ate bowl after bowl until they couldn't hold it anymore, and then they put down the bowl contentedly.

Dong Rong and Silly Zhu had already stopped, and when they saw this, they pointed to the remaining small half-basin gnocchi, and said with a smile, "These are also left for you to pad your stomach in the middle of the night." ”

The two descendants touched the back of their heads, took it with a red face, and finally rushed to finish brushing the stove, urging the owner to go back to the mountain to rest.

Dong Rong accepted their kindness and went up the mountain hand in hand with Silly Zhu. The two descendants looked at each other from afar, their eyes full of envy. No wonder old people often say that fools have foolish blessings. You see that Silly Zhu was laughed at by everyone before, but now he actually married a God of Wealth grandmother as a daughter-in-law, this blessing is so great that it will spread to the sky...

Not to mention how the two descendants were envious, it was only said that early the next morning, Dong Rong and his wife rushed to the bottom of the mountain after a simple meal, waiting for the arrival of the homeless people. Sister-in-law Liu and the others had already taken the silver money and went into the city, leaving Sister-in-law Liu and Meihua'er with a few handymen to boil ten pots of rice porridge, and finally began to sort out those old things. Separate the cotton clothes from men and women according to their size in advance, and it will be more convenient to distribute them when the time comes.

Dong Rong wanted to step forward to help, but Silly Zhu pulled her and didn't let go. She also muttered a little in her heart, after all, this is not a modern place that can sterilize old clothes at high temperatures, and if you take it back in the pawnshop, it will be kind if you use well water to wash it off, and some of the cleaner ones will just go to the side and be done. So, no matter how you think about it, these old clothes are not clean.

She was a little more transparent yesterday, saying that she wanted to make some new clothes and new quilts, but Sister-in-law Liu and Meihua looked at her as if they were seeing a loser. Not to mention the displaced people who fled the famine, that is, the people in the village often go to the pawnshop to buy tattered cotton clothes to wear when the year is not good.

Dong Rong deeply felt that the set she pursued was thankless and thankless here, so she simply threw it to the back of her mind.

The young couple had just turned around in the orchard a few times when they heard the noise of people and horses on the mountain road in the distance, so they hurried to the gate of the orchard. Sister-in-law Liu and the others had been waiting there for a long time, and as soon as they saw them coming, they gave up a sheltered place with a good view.

Although everyone has some understanding of the tragic situation of the displaced people, when they really saw a large number of people arriving, they were still shocked and stammered, and they didn't know how to react for a while.

In the Tao Te Ching, it is said that heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. Lao Tzu's original meaning was that heaven and earth looked at all things no different from the grass dogs that were thrown away, and they did not treat people particularly well, but treated all things very poorly.

In the past, Dong Rong was a little unimpressed with this sentence, thinking that people are the darlings of the world, and the top existence among all living beings. But now that she saw these ragged and unkempt homeless people, she really believed it. Sometimes, human tears may not be as good as dogs.

Sister-in-law Liu and the others obviously didn't expect these people to be so miserable, not to mention how thin their clothes were, how many holes they had, just that stepping on the snow with bare feet was enough to annoy people.

Meihua'er watched a child scratch the snow and swallow it in her stomach while constantly wiping it on her face, and she couldn't help but have red eyes. The first one rushed over and hugged the child and shouted, "You want to freeze to death, it's so cold, what kind of face are you wiping?" ”

It was a little girl of eight or nine years old, with a yellow face and thin muscles, and her eyes were round and large. She was a little frightened, and replied in a trembling voice, "Grandma Xu... Say, "If you don't wipe your face clean, the master's house won't accept me for work." ”

Dong Rong's heart was also indescribably sour, and when she heard the child say this, she hurriedly comforted, "Why don't you accept it?" I'm the owner of the orchard, and I'm in charge! There is a lot of work in the orchard, as long as you don't cause trouble and do a good job, you can stay. ”

"Really?" When the homeless people, who had been numb, heard this, their pupils immediately lit up. They walked more than 1,000 miles from south to north, begging and kowtowing just for a bite to eat, struggling to survive. It has snowed in the past few days, and even if they hide in a broken shed, their internal organs are frozen like ice, and they are really desperate, just waiting for one night to be taken away by the north wind and go to the Lord of Yama to report.

(My handsome son is sleeping, woo, finally let me code this chapter out once.) Strive for another chapter in the afternoon.,Today's double change.。 Friends have two red tickets for the flowering period, and there is a collection, thank you very much! ）