"How can you divide the grain?" Xingni shouted in pain.

Yesterday was Zhao Liang's grandfather's death day, even if he gambled money in the dark in previous years, he would not forget this day, and made a special trip back to give his grandfather a pillar of incense. This year, he settled on a family relationship with Xingni, which can be regarded as fulfilling one of his grandfather's wishes, so he took Xingni to incense his grandfather. Because there were too many things he had experienced in the past six months, it took a lot of time to narrate, and he wanted to clean up his grandfather's grave, so the two of them rested in a thatched hut at the foot of the mountain yesterday, and only rushed back today. As soon as I came back, I heard that Jiang Quinoa had distributed the three bags of grain sent by the county lord to the villagers yesterday, and the two didn't even drink saliva, so they rushed over in a hurry.

Jiang Quinoa didn't expect Xingni's reaction to be so big, and reassured: "Don't worry, I have also thought about the matter of distributing food." As he spoke, he was about to explain to Xingni, but he heard her say: "My brother came back from the city today, and he said that the grain they moved last year was the old grain that was moved from the granary of the government. He met the man who paid them last year, and he heard that the granary of the government was not completely full, but it was sold last year, and now the grain in it cannot be sustained for long. ”

"What are we going to do? Without food, we will starve to death? Xingni's big eyes lost their luster, and she muttered in her mouth.

Everyone is afraid of death, even if Jiang Quinoa died once, she would not let herself die so easily until she fulfilled her wish.

Glaring at Zhao Liang, Jiang Quinoa leaned into Xingni's ear and whispered a word, seeing her eyes widening wider and wider, her eyes were full of disbelief, and she suddenly laughed.

"Why didn't you tell me about this sooner?" Xingni sat for a long time and came back to her senses, and patted Zhao Liang with a complaint, although it didn't hurt, but it also made Zhao Liang busy and carefully comforted him.

Xingni is really angry at this time, they haven't told themselves about such an important thing, and they have been worried for so long, where is it so easy to get angry.

Zhao Liang couldn't, so he had to look at Jiang Qu and Jiang Chun for help, one of them looked at the sky and the other at the ground, the corners of their mouths were upturned, and they obviously looked like they were going to stand by and watch.

After a while, Zhao Liang cursed and swore that he would be fine in the future, and he would talk to Xingni about everything and discuss it with her, and Xingni's face warmed up.

"Don't blame Zhao Liang for this. I didn't know if I could do it, so I didn't let too many people know. Then there was a series of things, and these are the things that can cause trouble now, of course, the fewer people who know, the better. Zhao Liang doesn't tell you that it's her fault, but he also thinks about you, the less you know at this time, the safer. Jiang Quinoa still explained to Xingni.

Xingni was not unreasonable, just because Zhao Liang had something to hide from herself, but everyone knew about it, she felt like everyone was squeezing her, and that feeling was not good, which made her petty. After a while, I have already calmed down, and I understand that I can't help if I know, and if I behave strangely, my father or others will see it, and I will get into trouble.

"I know, I was wrong just now, I shouldn't have been petty." Xingni said with a blushing face.

The matter is opened, and the estrangement between Zhao Liang and Xingni has also been eliminated, which is of course a great joy, and the next thing is to verify whether the news that Xingni and her brother heard is true.

The situation outside is getting worse day by day, and the news of the theft or robbery of the rich family's house often comes, and the listeners are terrified. Fortunately, after the distribution of grain by Jiang Quinoa, the already united Jiangli Village was even more united, everyone twisted into a rope, no matter how chaotic it was, Jiangli Village was very calm, but this peace was quickly broken, first the Huang Yuanwai family in the town was a thief, and then a family in the next village was looted, seeing the danger approaching day by day, the people of Jiangli Village were also somewhat chaotic. The more difficult the times, the more the weaknesses of human nature will be magnified.

Zhao Liang has been in the gambling house for a few years, and there are people from all walks of life in it, and he can talk to them to some extent, so he went to the city for two days and soon brought accurate news.

"There is really not much rice in the granary, and according to the current level of rice, it is estimated that it will not survive for five days." Zhao Liang poured three bowls of water, which made his throat, which was about to smoke, feel better.

The room was quiet, and everyone was silent and didn't know what to say. This kind of silence is like a big mountain pressing on everyone's hearts, heavy, and breathless.

"Don't be like this, we still have a follow-up move, it'll be fine in October, stay up for another month, and this matter will be over in a month." Xingni said with a relaxed face, since she knew that Jiang Quinoa and they had actually bought a sum of grain to save it, and this grain saving could allow the people in the village to survive until the drought ended, she was no longer as worried as before.

Zhao Liang sighed, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not that easy." Because we prepared relatively early here, and the food released in the official uniform was quite timely, not too many people starved to death. However, I heard that in several nearby counties, people began to starve to death more than a month ago, and the county government has only opened a warehouse for half a month. And because there is too little grain, in order to prolong the time of grain release, the amount of grain released every day is less than two-thirds of the people in our county, and the number of people who die of starvation has been rising. Some people even preached that the catastrophe from heaven was a holy mediocrity, so the punishment given by God raised the banner of doing the right thing for heaven, and a group of people began to rebel. There are some families in many nearby counties, and they sold their families early and fled. ”

Women like to talk about the family or the old things together. These days, Jiang Quinoa and Aunt Rong sleep together, and Aunt Rong and Jiang Chun's mother like to talk about where disasters happened when they were children, and how difficult and difficult women are. Where have Jiang Quinoa and Jiang Chun heard these things, they were already frightened. At this time, although Zhao Liang didn't elaborate on the evil deeds of those people, he still couldn't help but speculate in his heart, and he was frightened by this thought.

"Under the nest, there are no eggs, it was as simple as I thought before." Jiang Qu said with a white face.

The room was quiet for a while, and Jiang Quinoa said as if he had made up his mind: "It will rain in October at the latest, instead of sneaking around and hiding, we might as well take out this grain and distribute it to everyone openly." I thought about it at the time, thinking only about my small family and the people close to me, and I thought it was great that I could protect these people. But if I knew when this calamity would end, but kept silent for fear of getting into trouble, my conscience would be troubled. If there is a slight chance to save more people, but let it pass because of my hesitation, then I will hate me for being such a coward. I want to save more people, and I want everyone to know that this disaster is not anyone's fault, but just a test of God. The sages and sages said that the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically. We should see this catastrophe as a test from above. ”