This country compound, although Zhao Fu's family was killed by the killer Gong Shao, has become a murderous mansion that the villagers of Jintian Village talk about, and it has been abandoned for a long time.

The inside and outside of Zhao's house are overgrown with weeds, but fortunately, the house is strong enough, the yard is big enough, and there are enough houses to accommodate more than ten members of the Cen family.

Because it is a famous murderous house in ten miles and eight villages, the price is relatively cheap.

Cen Erniang only spent a hundred taels and bought it. It cost more than a hundred taels of silver, and asked craftsmen who were not afraid of ghosts to clear all the wild grass in the house, repaint and strengthen all the rooms, and rebuild a high and wide wall to enclose the whole house.

It only took more than ten days to turn the murderous Zhao Mansion into a new house for the Cen family, thanks to the hard work of those craftsmen.

After Cen Erniang's family moved in, she spent another eighty taels of silver to buy ten acres of fertile paddy fields and ten acres of barren dry land near Zhao's house. and asked the village chief to go to the yasho with her for the record, and officially opened the Cen family in Jintian Village and became a cultivator.

The Cen family, who became a cultivator, added up to all the cash in the family, but only two hundred and forty-five taels.

The Cen family, who was so impoverished, was soon forgotten by the Gao, Feng, Zhou, and Wei families. For the Cen family, who are as low as dust and dirt, these families are proud of their identities and even have a desire for revenge. There is no hope. Because the Cen family is not worthy now, and there is no benefit to dealing with the Cen family.

Besides, they suppressed the Cen family many times, and successfully made the life of the Cen family more and more miserable, and the revenge was almost avenged, and the anger was exhausted.

In addition, there are many rich families and old men in Anping Town, waiting for them to calculate and extort and loot their family wealth so that they can raise troops for the six princes.

Because the Feng family privately embezzled the military silver allocated by the Holy Lord, they had to rack their brains to "borrow" the silver from other people's families to use.

The 8,000 elite soldiers in the Zhendong military camp need several thousand taels of silver just to eat every day. If there is no mountain of silver taels, how can you raise them?

As a result, the Cen family was able to live a peaceful and peaceful farm life behind closed doors.

Merely. They don't know that the so-called peace and tranquility is just a flash in the pan. Heaven soon played a big joke on them.

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The white horse passes through the gap, and the years are like water.

From the Cen family moved into Jintian Village. It's almost four months. And this year's spring in Jintian Village is embarrassing.

Cen Erniang will be sixteen years old in a flash, and in three or four months, she will be fifteen years old. It's a pity for this spring. is the worst one Cen Erniang has ever had in her life.

Because from the beginning of the spring equinox, the entire Anping Town and the nearby Shiliba Village began to rain continuously, and there is a tendency to get bigger and bigger.

Around Qingming, the water in the paddy fields under the slopes of Cen Erniang's house was about to overflow the high ridges. Half of the newly planted seedlings in the field floated to the surface of the water, and the other half rotted in the mud under the water, and all of them died.

Half of the dry land on the ten and a half acres of hillside on the higher ground was flooded.

Corn seedlings planted by the Cen family. Wheat seedlings, etc., were directly drowned by the water, nearly half of which were drowned. The other half, the roots were soaked in rain.

It is destined to be a no-harvest this year.

In more than a dozen villages in Anping Town, almost all the peasant households are in a similar situation to the Cen family.

Standing on the slope of the Cen house, in the wide yard, the water is almost up to the ankles. Often, the rain in the yard has not been exhausted the previous day, and new water comes in the next day, so that the water in the entire yard dam is maintained at a depth of soaking ankles for a long time.

Yumo went to the rice shop in Anping Town to buy rice noodles. came back to tell Sù Cen Erye and the others, saying that the water in most of the streets of the town was up to his ankles. In some places, it didn't even go above the knees. Many shops are closed. Many wealthy merchants have moved out of Anping Town with their families.

If it weren't for the army in the east of the town, checkpoints would be set up at several major exits leaving Anping Town, and the population out of the town would be strictly controlled, and no one would be allowed to leave at will.

Anping Town, a town where most of the town is made up of foreign residents, is afraid that the number of people will be reduced by at least half. Today's rice, salt, oil and firewood are soaring wildly, but in just 20 days. The price is five or six times higher than before.

Zhao Yue sent a letter to Cen's house not long ago, saying that it was also rainy in Lin'an County, but the situation was much better than that of Anping Town.

Because of the high terrain of Lin'an County, the rainwater basically flows into the moat outside the county, and flows along the big river to other places.

There is no flooding and crazy price increases in the county.

He asked the Cen family to move to Lin'an County and live with them. It is also said that Lin Siye, Lin Wuye and other dart masters are still stranded in Lin'an County. Because the heavy rain accumulated into a flood for many days, which washed away the bridge on the official road from Liman County to Cheongju, they could not go directly from Linan County to Cheongju Prefecture.

Lin Siye and the others originally wanted to change their route to Anping Town, then go to Qing'an County, and finally go back to Zhanzhou through Qingzhou Mansion and Huaizhou Mansion.

It's a pity that the official road from Lin'an County to Anping Town was also flooded, and the water was waist-deep, and the carriages and horses couldn't go at all. They were forced to stay at their home in Jingzhi County, Lin'an County. Fortunately, the family has a big business, and the house is bigger, which can accommodate them.

When Cen Erniang received Zhao Yue's letter, the road between Anping Town and Lin'an County had been blocked by water, and it was impossible to get to Guò. They had no choice but to stay in Jintian Village and live on the little money they had left.

The money was really tight, so Cen Erniang asked Yumo to go to the medicinal herb shop in the town, sold a hundred-year-old mountain ginseng, exchanged it for 1,500 taels of silver, and continued to make a living. Seeing that the rain did not stop, she was afraid that she would not be able to buy rice and noodles with silver in the future, so she asked Yumo to buy more rice, salt, dry firewood and other daily necessities and put them in the granary.

Fortunately, this granary of Cen Mansion is on a higher ground and is built to be large, so it can store a lot of things.

Cen Erniang asked Yumo to keep only two hundred taels of silver for emergency relief, and the remaining one thousand taels were all exchanged for food and put in the granary, and the other three hundred taels were replaced with cloth and cotton, which was enough for the ten members of the Cen family to eat for a year or two.

Do a good job of this, Cen Erniang, Cen Erye and others finally feel a little at ease, and they don't have to worry about starving to death. It's just that they are facing the heavy rain that seems to be pouring endlessly, and their mood is inevitably getting lower and lower day by day. Not only because of everyone's hard work in the spring, almost all the young seedlings planted were drowned, but also because many people in the village and town were infected with wind and cold, and no one in the government came forward to rescue the disaster.

As a doctor, Cen Erniang often treated people for free in the area of Jintian Village, and found that a small half of those patients infected with typhoid fever were sick, which was very similar to the epidemic recorded in medical books.

In particular, more than a dozen families in the east of Jintian Village were infected with several elderly and children who were infected with wind and cold, and they used ordinary herbs to drive away typhoid fever, but it was almost ineffective.

This further corroborates the terrible speculation in Cen Erniang's heart.

In order to prevent more villagers from being infected with wind cold and epidemics, Cen Erniang locked herself in her room and asked Yang Peng and Cen Sanlang to help her, while looking through medical books and prescriptions left by the master of fortune operators, she began to develop a prescription for treating the epidemic.

At the same time, she also asked Cen Dalang, Yumo, Ning Laoqi and Chang Yan to go to the nearby mountains and fields, and the town's medicinal herb shop to find and buy herbs for her. As for Second Master Cen and the Lin family, they are responsible for staying at home to feed them and fill their stomachs, so that they can be more energetic to do things. (To be continued.) )

PS: The natural disaster is coming, and An Sanshao, Libai and the Six Princes are also coming soon.