In the afternoon, more worrying news came.

"The Huang Yuanwai family in the town was also robbed last night, and I heard that some family members found out about the thieves and had a vicious fight, and some people were cut and even killed one or two family members." Jiang Cheng said with a scared look on his face.

Jiang Quinoa rubbed his head, took out a packet of candy and handed it to him, which was regarded as suppressing his shock.

Jiang Cheng took the candy stupidly, and after a while, he came to his senses, and asked Hanhan: "Miss, I don't want sugar, can you exchange sugar for food for me?" ”

"Poof" Jiang Chun patted him, and said with a tiger face: "Don't say it's pitiful, but I know that your family didn't sell much grain last year, and now I'm crying poor, your family hasn't been there yet." Besides, we're so poor that we can't even open the pot, and you don't look at how much I drank in that wild vegetable soup. ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Chun felt that his mouth was full of green vegetables, and his head began to dizzy.

"Don't run around these two days, if you are forced to be in a hurry, those people will come during the day, if you see strangers coming to the village, don't go out, do you know?" Jiang Quinoa admonished. A few days ago, she saw from the travelogue sent by Jiang Buzhuo that there was a natural disaster in a place one year, people didn't eat, and they even ate it, she felt cold all over her body when she looked at it, but she had experienced those things in her previous life, and she knew that people's hearts were sinister, and there were some things that only you can't think of, and there are no people who can't do it, so it's better to be careful.

Jiang Cheng didn't care much: "There are people patrolling the village, and there are unfamiliar faces in the village every day recently," Seeing Jiang Qu's eyes widen, he hurriedly explained: "Those are all relatives of our village, it is estimated that the family has no food, and I want to borrow some food to go back." Along the way, I came across several companies that were arguing fiercely. I heard that Kangzi's aunt and father came back with the whole family, saying that their rice had bottomed out. A few cousins of his aunt's family are amazing, they can eat three bowls of rice in one meal, and they came back before, but now they started to quarrel, saying that they eat vegetable soup for a meal, and they all eat vegetables, and they don't know how to pull out the rice bag hidden by Kangzi's family, and ask Kangzi's mother to make rice. ”

How can there be such people? Now is the most difficult time, who is not frugal and waiting to survive this natural disaster, it would be good to be able to take in this big family, they are still picky, and they are really thick-skinned.

Jiang Cheng is smart and active, he likes to inquire about news everywhere the most, and every day when there is something new, he comes to Jiang's house to tell Jiang Qu and Jiang Chun, who can't go out, so that they can also know the news outside, and at the same time know what the family did later.

They took advantage of the darkness that Kangzi's family was asleep and secretly carried a bag of rice back. Who knows who saw it by someone in their village, and that night the rice was stolen, and they came back with a dead face, and this time Kangzi was so angry that he told Kang Zi's father that if they let their family enter the door, they would starve to death. Last time, Kang Zi's father let Aunt Kang's family live in despite his mother's obstruction, but he lured the wolf into the house and lost the food. This time, even Grandpa Kangzi didn't speak, and Aunt Kangzi's family didn't even enter the door, and finally went back in disgrace. Jiang Cheng said happily, and he felt very happy to punish such a superb villain.

The matter of Aunt Kangzi's house also sounded a wake-up call for everyone, no one dared to take in relatives to live in their house anymore, for fear that they would also lead wolves into the house.

But something happened, and it spread farther and farther, and everyone knew that there was a lot of food in any family in Jiangli Village, and they were all ready to move.

The patrols in Jiangli Village became more intense, and in this way, there were three or four cases of head-on clashes with thieves and the theft of two families.

Seeing that the matter was getting more and more serious, and the guards of Jiangli Village were about to be unable to resist, news finally came that the government was going to open a warehouse to release grain.

The amount of grain distributed by the government every day is in quantity, and after the distribution is finished, there will be no more, and after getting the news, many families began to fight in wheels. Today, you go to the grain distribution office, take the food and rush back, I will go to the side and keep guard, and wait until the next day I get the grain and come back, and then I will wait for you.

In this way, there are many times when people will be squeezed out and will not be able to get food.

The people of Jiangli Village are not very wealthy, and they have been able to keep it until now because they have started to prepare very early, and now almost every family's rice bowl has bottomed out, and people go to the city early every day to guard and wait for the rice.

A few years ago, Jiang Quinoa was in a coma, and Qingbo wrote a letter to the capital to tell Jiang Xun that he wanted him to give him an idea, but after waiting for three months, no news came, and the good-tempered Qingbo was also angry. This time, he didn't write to the capital about the drought in Jiangli Village, and the distant water couldn't save the fire, so the capital didn't care about Jiang Quinoa, so they might as well rely on themselves.

Who knew that on this day, Qingbo actually received a letter from the capital, which was sent back by Jiang Xun, and asked about the situation at home and the severity of the drought with great concern, and returned with a silver ticket of one hundred taels of silver.

Jiang Quinoa didn't want to reply to the letter, but Liao Xiucai persuaded her to tell Jiang Xun everything about the situation here, and some officials would hide the matter bitterly in order to avoid accountability, and they would only report it if they couldn't hide it. Thinking that last year was obviously not the time for the autumn harvest, but the county opened a warehouse to sell old grain at a low price, Jiang Quinoa thought so. Only one county must not have the courage to do this, as the so-called officials protect each other, there must be a series of people behind them to share this benefit. If no one breaks out these things, it will be the common people who will suffer in the end.

In the end, Jiang Qu wrote a full ten pages of letters, writing down the response of his family, the village, the nearby villages, and the official uniform, as well as some news he heard last year, and it was up to Jiang Xun what to do in the end.

Two days after the letter was sent, Jiang Tiezhu went to the city to get food and brought someone back.

The county master's attitude was much better this time, and he said to Jiang Qu with a kind look: "It's not right for a virtuous nephew to be like this, it's too much to see outside." I am commensurate with Master Jiang as brothers, and your family's affairs are my business. If there is a problem at home, just say, where do you need to send someone to get food, and I will have the food delivered if you say it. If it weren't for the people below who recognized this little brother as a member of the Jiang family, I wouldn't have known that there was a problem in the house. ”

"Come on, bring things in." The county lord turned around and shouted.

Jiang Quinoa saw two or three errands, one of whom came in with a bag of rice, and his head suddenly became big.

"Thank you for the love of the county commander, it just so happens that every family in the village has run out of food recently, if you know that our Qingtian Lord has sent food, I will definitely come to thank you." Jiang Quinoa gave Qing Bo a look as he spoke.

Qing Bo felt that it was inappropriate for these people to bring in the grain, and when he heard Jiang Qu say this, he hurriedly said: "But it's not, the old slave will go to the patriarch and the village chief to come over, and then go and notify each family to send someone to come and receive rice." After saying that, he hurried out.

The catcher who carried the rice was a little dazed, and he didn't know what to do, the county master waved his hand and motioned for them to put the things down, anyway, he sent the things over, and the favor was there, and the rice was disposed of with her.

"This official came here today, and he also wanted to ask about someone from his nephew?" The county magistrate rubbed his hands and asked.

Jiang Qu's heart moved, but he said with a smile on his face: "I don't know who the adults want to ask?" ”

"The fortune teller."