A severe drought fell from the sky, affecting the entire Youzhou Mansion, and the county seat of Jixian County, Guangyang County, where Qing Wangye is located, was not spared. www.biquge.info After entering the winter, I saw that more and more victims were pouring in from outside the city, and the sky-high price of food made the ordinary people in the city also take turns to buy food.

In order to settle these victims, Prince Qing had no choice but to collect grain from the wealthy officials and businessmen in the city, and wanted to build a few more porridge sheds to give porridge to reassure the people.

Because the shogunate was short of money, it could barely make up for the winter's grain stockpile, but the eldest lady took Prince Qing's grain requisition order as a guide and wanted to send all the aunts and concubines out of the city and place them in her own Zhuangzi, leaving them to fend for themselves. Fortunately, the eldest master still cared about some affection, and did not allow it immediately.

But when it snowed for the first time, the second grain requisition order of King Qing followed, and the eldest lady brought up the old matter again, this time even the eldest lord was a little shaken, but the food in the house is getting more and more tight, if everyone is left, I am afraid that there will be two more grain requisition orders, and the grain in the house will be unsustainable, and the people in the last house will be starved to death. I had to call everyone in the house to the upper room to discuss.

There are only three members of the second master's family, and they are the younger brother of the eldest master, so even the eldest lady is not easy to drive the three out of the house. It's the Fang family, life is difficult in the house right now, since even the aunts and concubines are going to be sent away, she, an outsider, naturally has to leave.

"Fang, I shouldn't have said this, but you know what the situation is now. Fuzhong doesn't say that it is like a year, but the days are also hard, and now I really can't take care of you and Ming'er! Fang's worries finally came true. When the shogunate reported that they were going to send their aunts and concubines to Zhuangzi outside the city, she had a premonition, but she contacted her mother's family, and this natural disaster, her mother's life was not easy, and she was unwilling to take them in.

"Big lady, there are disaster victims everywhere outside the house right now, we orphans and widows, how can we live!" She only saved a total of one hundred and fifty taels of silver in her hand, and this one hundred taels was awarded to her son by her mother's family after her son was admitted to Xiucai. If it is changed to weekdays, these 150 taels are enough for two people to rent a small courtyard and spend the day in peace.

But now there is no silver in the city to buy food, and even if she can buy it, with the silver in her hand, I am afraid that she will not even be able to last this winter. Moreover, the victims were tyrannical, and from time to time they would hear that someone's home was robbed, and there were even more people who killed people and sold goods every day. She was afraid, afraid that if she left the protection of the shogunate, she would not have a day of stability.

"Don't worry about this, I have already inquired with Yaxing for you, there are just two houses in the city that are suitable for your mother and son to live in, one is in Dongfang, although the price is higher, it costs ten taels of rent a month, but it is better to be close to the shogunate, and it is safer to live. The other is in the west square near the east square, it is a small courtyard to enter, the price is cheap, only 500 yuan a month! "The eldest lady has long wanted to get these two out, so she even inquired about this kind of thing for them.

Fang knew that she had to leave if she didn't leave, rather than being swept out of the house, it was better to be tougher herself, even for the sake of her son's face, she couldn't let the people of the shogunate look down on her. But she couldn't afford to rent the courtyard in Dongfang, so she could only live in Xifang.

Next, they had to discuss the shogunate's own affairs, and there was no need for the Fang clan to be present, so the Fang clan took his son back to pack up first, and the shogunate's carriage would take them to the west with the tooth in a while.

The next thing is naturally to take care of the aunts, Mu Chenxue glanced at her mother, saw that her nervous hands were a little shaky, knew that she was afraid, gently stroked her hand on her mother's hand, and smiled at her. Before coming to the inner courtyard, she had already told her mother that everything was with her, and even if they left the shogunate, they could live a comfortable life. But the mother was still frightened by the momentum of the eldest lady.

This time, I didn't wait for the eldest lady to speak, the eldest lord opened her mouth first, "The second sister is married, and Aunt Xu has no worries in the house, so she is ready to prepare, and she will go to Zhuangzi to live in Zhuangzi for a while when she goes out of the city tomorrow." "The first one to be driven away turned out to be Xu.

She opened her mouth, tears came out of her eyes, the last time the old man didn't want to see her, but she also had no choice, she really didn't have any cash in her hands.

The eldest lord turned his head sideways and looked at Ma and the third sister, so frightened that the two of them quickly bowed their heads, and silently prayed for themselves in their hearts, "Due to natural disasters for two consecutive years, the marriage of the third sister has been delayed, just take advantage of this time to go to Zhuangzi to learn how to take care of housework, and learn how to manage the house from your aunt." Ma is the biological mother of the third sister, so let's go with me! How far-fetched this reason is, Mu Chenxue looked at the third sister, and saw that her father's voice had just fallen, and she was about to faint. If it weren't for the quick reaction of the slaves and maids around them, I am afraid that the person would have been sitting on the ground by this time.

Ma Shi cried even more, kneeling forward to ask the eldest lord for mercy. "Ma, you have to know that it is safer outside the city than inside the city, and if you go out of the city, I will take care of it for you, so why do you bother like this!" After so many years of getting along, and Ma has always been very favored, so he still has some feelings. Seeing that her crying hair was a little scattered, she was still a little unbearable.

But for the sake of himself and his son, he had to be ruthless, and glanced at Aunt Cheng again, "Brother Jiu'er is still young and needs someone to take care of him, so Cheng will stay!" "Now the eldest lady is unwilling, what she wants to send away most is the three people in the backyard, but now the lord wants to leave them behind, which is not good.

"Master, as the head of the concubines, the Cheng family should be an example, if they are left behind, the Xu family and the Ma family will inevitably have mustard in their hearts, for the sake of harmony in the house, Aunt Cheng must also leave!"

The eldest master just wants to leave Aunt Cheng behind, firstly, because of these days, he has regained the days when he had a warm relationship with Aunt Cheng, and secondly, for the sake of Brother Jiu'er's face, he can't kick his biological mother out of the house. Therefore, I was very dissatisfied with the eldest lady's insistence on sending Aunt Cheng and the three away.

"Brother Jiu'er is so young, how can he be without the care of his biological mother? Madame has to be busy with government affairs, and she has to take care of Starling, where is the energy to take care of Ninth Brother! "The eldest lord said that the son is the most important thing, and Aunt Cheng must be left for the sake of the son.

The eldest lord and the eldest lady were arguing, and they saw Tongfang Ding kneeling and crying on the ground, she was in the lowest position, and even Xu and Ma, the two aunts who gave birth to daughters, were driven out, how could she stay. But the sixth sister has been in poor health since she entered the winter, and when she is out of the city, where can she still see a doctor, so for the sake of her daughter, she also asked the master to leave her.

"Master, the sixth sister is still sick, there is not even a medical hall and pharmacy outside the city, what can the sixth sister do?" Thinking of the little daughter who was sick in bed all day long, Mu Qian's face showed a trace of impatience. Even if this daughter can't survive this death, he won't be sad. What he wants to take care of is his son, even if the ninth brother is just a concubine. (To be continued.) )