Chapter 82: News
In this way, by the 10th day of the first lunar month, the number of victims in Anseong had reached more than 20,000. Fortunately, Chen Yuanheng and the others have already made preparations, and now a total of three roads are under construction, and the carpentry workshop and the iron workshop have also absorbed some manpower.
Among the victims was Song Sam-seok, who brought his wife, father, mother, younger brother, and two children to Anseong, and they were the first victims to arrive in Anseong. Their family used to have a shop in the northwest, lived in the county seat, originally lived a very stable life, the family has dozens of acres of thin fields outside the county, all tenants to live in, just collect a rent, the family has ancestral tofu making skills, the tofu made is the most delicious, very famous in the small county, so the income is also good. However, the iron wall was broken, and the barbarians entered the city, and his sister was also snatched away by the barbarians, and the family escaped by night and began to live as a disaster victim.
When they first came out, they still brought food and silver, but slowly, the food was eaten, the silver was used up, and they sold everything they could, and finally came to this warm small town in the south of the Yangtze River. When they arrived, they could no longer walk, because both children were sick, and his father was also sick, and they couldn't support it anymore. Song Sanshi thought that the family would probably have to explain to this place, because there was no place to take them in, and they saw too many towns that didn't take them in along the way. Unexpectedly, this small town took them in, and there was food here and a free doctor to treat them.
He immediately took his children and father to Hu's to see a doctor. Hu's medical skills are very good, plus their illness is very easy, it is caused by hunger, hardship, cold, and exhaustion, and they can be cured after taking a few doses of sweating medicine. In the process of treatment, Song Sanshi and the Hu family, as well as Wen Hui in the Hu family's courtyard. The pearls are all cooked. After the children's illness recovered, Song Sanshi joined the ranks of part-time workers, first building houses, and then building roads, but fortunately, there were many people in their family, him, and his father. His younger brother can work and earn a daily salary. His wife and mother were not idle, his wife was good at needlework, and went to Cuijin Building to do needlework, and she could get paid every day. His mother and two children picked up timber and sold it every day, and the two children, one was eight years old and the other was five years old, and they were already sensible and able to help with the work, so they had no food at home. Soon the family praised a little bit of money, which they used to buy bedding and warm clothes for the family, and there were more than 100 large sums left.
this day. When he came back from work, he consciously went to Hu's yard to help, but in fact, there were many people who came to Hu's yard to help, most of whom were patients who were cured by Hu's. In Hu's courtyard, he chatted with Chen Wenhui again. Chen Wenhui had heard him say that he could make tofu before, and saw him coming. Busy pulling him, tell him that there is a bank in the city, which can give him a loan, and he can make tofu again.
Song Sanshi was so excited when he heard this, he hurriedly asked the direction, and Chen Wenhui also wrote him something, saying that he was willing to guarantee him, so that Song Sanshi went to the bank very smoothly, and then took out a loan. In fact, it is not much, that is, one or two silver. But these two taels of silver were enough, Song Sanshi took out the more than 100 big money he had saved, and used the more than 100 silver to buy tools for making tofu, such as stone mills, sieves, large vats, and gypsum, and of course, bought a few catties of beans, and then made tofu in his own simple small house.
The family all made tofu, and they all came to help, and the tofu was ready the next day. Song Sanshi hurriedly carried it with a burden and went to sell it. It sold out in less than the afternoon. Song Sanshi counted the money and was very happy, but he made more money than being a road repairer.
In this way, it was sold for more than ten days, Song Sanshi accumulated more money, so he bought more beans and made more, he found that tofu was not easy to sell, it turned out that there were many people like him in the city, all of whom were engaged in the tofu business, and there were more people who sold it, so it was naturally difficult to sell. Song Sanshi thought about it and decided not to sell it in the city, but went to the nearby villages and towns with the pick, and it really sold much better. Later, Song Sanshi's business got better and better, so he didn't let his father and younger brother go to build roads, and followed him to make and sell tofu.
There are more than 100 skilled people like this, all of whom took out loans to start a business in this way. For a time, there were more people doing business in Anseong.
On this day, Song Sanshi's tofu sold very quickly, and he suddenly remembered that Wen Hui was here, so he left a few pieces of tofu and sent them to the Hu family's yard. In the Hu family's courtyard, he unexpectedly did not see the scene of Hu Shi's gentle pulse, but saw the scene that made him stunned.
At this moment, Hu Shi was crying at the table where he was being seen.
Song Sanshi was petrified at this time, and he was flustered for a while, and he hurriedly inquired, only to know that this was the case.
On this day, Hu Shi still went to the doctor as before, and there was a disaster victim who was very gentle, so Hu talked to him, and found that this person was a scholar. Hu Shi sighed with emotion and asked what kind of books this person reads, whether he has merit or fame, but this person said that his name is Qu Ming, but in fact, he can't be completely regarded as a scholar. Because he was originally a peasant child, because he followed a good teacher who taught him for free, he learned to read, read books, and was lucky enough to be a showman.
Hu Shi asked in passing, what is the name of such a good teacher? Qu Ming said that his teacher's name was Hu Zhili. Who knows, Hu Shi shed tears when he heard this name, and asked him anxiously about Hu Zhili's situation, how old he was, what he did, and what he looked like.
Qu Ming was strange, but because Hu had a high reputation among the victims and was revered as a living bodhisattva by the victims, he answered Hu's question carefully despite the strangeness. As a result, the more he said, the more Hu cried for a long time, and when he later said that the war disaster came, they all fled for their lives, he and the master were separated, and when the master's whereabouts were unknown, Hu cried like this.
At this time, Mingzhu and Wen Hui also came over and asked the reason, Mingzhu also cried, Wen Hui was busy explaining to Qu Ming that his master Hu Zhili was Hu's biological father. Now everyone understands.
Qu Ming said: "Mrs. Hu, I have heard Master say before that he has a daughter who has been Bingxue and smart since she was a child, not only has she learned fifty percent of his knowledge, but also his miscellaneous studies have been learned by his daughter, but his sons have only inherited his knowledge, and there are not many miscellaneous ones. It's just a pity that my daughter got married later, and now I don't know where to go to be an official with my husband? ”
Wen Hui said: "Yes, the daughter your master said is my Aunt Hu." Aunt Hu's medical skills were learned from Master Hu. ”
Qu Ming was also very excited: "If Master knew that he had finally found Mrs. Hu and had saved so many people by going straight to Mrs. Hu, he would be very happy." ”
Wen Hui also persuaded: "Aunt Hu, what this Mr. Qu said is right, don't be sad, Lord Hu is still thinking about you in the Northland, if you know what you have done for the victims, you will definitely be proud of you." ”
At this time, Song Sanshi suddenly interjected: "Mrs. Hu, it turns out that you are the daughter of Lord Hu, you are all good people." ”
As soon as Hu Shi heard Song Sanshi's words, he hurriedly stopped crying and asked Song Sanshi: "What, you also recognize my father?" ”
Song Sanshi said: "Of course I recognize it, and I also inherit the love of Lord Hu." At that time, when our family was still in the Northland, because we had always sold tofu, Mr. Hu would sometimes go to my place to buy tofu, and we knew each other after coming and going. Once, I accidentally told Master Hu that sometimes tofu is not good to sell, and it will spoil, which is a pity. ”
Hu Shi was fascinated by what he heard, and he forgot to cry. Song Sanshi said: "When Master Hu heard this, he told me, if you invite me to drink a pot of wine, I will teach you a way to avoid your troubles." ”
Hu immediately said, "Yes, my father likes to drink and meddle in things. ”
Song Sanshi continued: "I'll just tell Master Hu, don't talk about a pot of wine in our friendship, I will invite ten pots of wine." After that, I made a pot of wine for Master Hu. Mr. Hu took a sip and said, the wine is very good, asked for the paper and pen in the store, and gave me a recipe to make tofu into tofu, as well as fragrant tofu and stinky tofu. This really solved the problem for me, and since then my family has a new variety, fermented bean curd, so my business is exceptionally better than others, and now it is the same, I am still selling fermented bean curd. ”
Hu Shi listened and said, "My father is like this. Poor, now that I have suffered a military disaster, I don't know what to do? ”
After speaking, he was about to cry again, Song Sanshi hurriedly said: "It's okay, Master Hu is fine, when I ran away, many people were on the run, he was caught by a few students and was also going out, he didn't want to go yet, he had no choice but to be sandwiched by a few students, so he could only go." I also persuaded him a few words, I said, now that the army is in chaos, and the barbarians are unreasonable, it is important to flee quickly. But he said, when the national disaster is at the head, everyone has fled, who will stop the barbarians? Later, he charged the pursuers and dispersed. ”
Hu Shi was about to cry when he heard this, Song Sanshi said: "Mrs. Hu, don't cry, I still have something to say." ”
Hu Shi held his breath and said, "Say it quickly." ”
Song Sanshi hurriedly said: "Later, I fled, and when I escaped, the eldest son of our family became ill and was worried, when I ran into a pair of soldiers from the imperial court, saying that they were rescuing Tiebi Pass. My eyes were sharp, and at a glance I saw a familiar person in the soldiers' pile, and at first glance it was Master Hu, dressed very neatly, riding a tall horse. I hurriedly shouted. When Master Hu saw that it was me, he came over, and asked me something, and saw that I was worried about my eldest son, so he got off the horse, checked the pulse, and gave me a prescription, so that I could use a kind of wild grass for the eldest son to eat, which made my eldest son survive to Ancheng, and later it was Mrs. Hu who rescued me. ”
ps:
It's weekend again, and I actually have less time on the weekend because I have to take the kids. But I will definitely not delay the update, because I have a lot of manuscripts.
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