Chapter 732: Soup Kitchen Outside the City
The girl inevitably cares about the clothes, but the sun is only suspicious, so she quickly dresses up, then takes a towel to dry her hair, and then ties her hair in a bun and pins it with a copper hairpin. Then I washed my underwear with the water from the wooden barrel next to the tub, dried it with a drying trick, and then put my hand inside the garment and wrapped myself in the same way, and tied the straps of the outer garment. Dressed neatly, she picked up the folding fan and strode out the door.
Chunmei and Dongxue were stunned when they saw her radiant face: they waited for the masters to take a bath, and it would take half an hour at the earliest, and this son actually washed himself so quickly, not only after taking the bath, but also dressed neatly.
If the masters are like this, then what is the use of these subordinates?
"The slave maid sees that the young man is also the son of a rich and noble family, but why does the son not let people serve everywhere?" Chunmei asked boldly.
Sunshine smiled slightly: "I've always been used to what I can do without pretending to others, just get used to it." ”
Looking at the surprised eyes of the two people, she didn't explain much, but smiled in a good mood: "I'll go for a walk in the garden!" ”
The garden is not far away, and from here you can walk through a cloister to see the pavilions and water pavilions in the garden. Chunmei and Dongxue saw that she was going to walk in the garden, so they hurriedly followed behind her.
Sunshine originally wanted to go to the garden to look at the flowers, tease the fish, and explore the terrain by the way, but before she could take a few steps, she saw Gao Hong and his servants walking towards her.
"Brother Gao, it's morning!" She stepped forward first. Say hello to him.
"Brother Yang, morning!" Gao Hong walked up to her and said with a smile. "The virtuous brother really has a good amount of alcohol, and the foolish brother is ashamed of himself."
"Where, I just woke up, and I'm still dizzy." Sunshine was in a good mood and polite to him, while looking at his outfit today, only to see that he had also changed into a cloth dress today, looking very simple.
It's quite a match for her.
"Senior brother. Where are we going today? She asked him curiously.
"Brother Xian will go to the hall with me for dinner first, and we will leave after breakfast." Gao Hong said with a smile.
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There were still no outsiders at breakfast, only Sunshine and him were eating. Sunshine had heard that the rule of the ancients was that family members should not see outsiders, and even if they ate, they would eat in the inner room. But she always felt weird: did she only stay here for one day, and Gao Hong had to leave her family to eat with her for a day?
But she was embarrassed to ask, after all, her sister-in-law was a sensitive topic. And she's already had a lesson. In the case of confusion. It's better not to make mistakes.
The breakfast is very simple, with porridge and side dishes, which has a unique flavor.
After a simple breakfast, Gao Hong walked to the gate with sunshine, which was also the first time to see the gate of Gao's house, and the gatehouse was very tall and magnificent.
Then she saw the groom leading two horses, and she was dumbfounded at the sight of them! I'm really secret. Thinking of all the possibilities of coming here, the only thing that overlooked the important means of transportation here was the horse. She also didn't learn to ride a horse. I can't ride a horse!
And over there, Gao Hong was still enthusiastically introducing her to the big dark horse beside her: "Chasing the wind is the best horse here, travels thousands of miles a day, and has a docile personality, and will not recognize life." ”
Sunshine silently stroked the mane of the big black horse, thinking that you don't recognize life, but I recognize life! I've never ridden a horse!
Seeing her trembling appearance, the big black horse glanced at her disdainfully, and the sun almost wanted to cry without tears.
Seeing her embarrassed look, Gao Hong suddenly thought of something, so he asked her, "Brother Xian, you don't know how to ride a horse?" ”
Sunshine looked at him without tears, nodded, and made up nonsense half-truths: "I know it's a shame like this." But I don't want to harm your horse. I know everything else, but I don't know how to ride a horse. ”
"It's okay, then we'll take the carriage." Gao Hong didn't ask much, but ordered his subordinates to prepare the carriage.
Sunshine looked at him with some embarrassment, "Do you think I'm useless?" ”
Gao Hong smiled, "It was my negligence, I didn't expect that the virtuous brother had never learned to ride a horse." It's the same with a horse-drawn carriage. ”
Sunshine was so moved to tears by his thoughtfulness!
The subordinate prepared the carriage, Gao Hong got into the car in front, and Sunshine then got into the car behind.
Sunshine sat inside the carriage and looked out curiously through the small window of the carriage. She thought that the street would be like on TV, with people selling things, buying things, and people in a hurry. In fact, there are very few people on the street, except for the occasional passing by the signboard of two restaurants, which are a little bustling inside, and the rest of the place looks depressed.
But the farther you go outside the city, the more pedestrians on the road become, most of them in ragged clothes, gray and yellow-skinned, and hungry like African refugees.
The carriage went all the way out of the city and stopped at the city gate. It was summer, and it was supposed to be the season of lush vegetation, but the scene outside the city was gray, the trees were listless, and even the grass on the ground was bald into pieces, revealing the brown ground.
Sunshine got out of the car and saw a lot of refugees-looking people gathered outside the city, one holding a broken bowl in line.
She walked up to Gao Hong and looked at these refugees with some surprise, and as soon as these refugees saw Gao Hong, they all knelt down and kowtowed, shouting tall and kind people in their mouths.
Sunshine found out that a porridge shed had been built here, and these people with bowls came to receive porridge.
"It turns out that Brother Gao is here to give porridge outside the city today." She suddenly realized, "But it's summer, how can there be so many victims?" ”
"Last year, there was a great drought in the whole country, and the people did not have a harvest for a year. The grain and grass for the imperial court's disaster relief are also a drop in the bucket here. In the spring and summer of this year, the common people even ate all the wild vegetables and had to come out to escape the famine. Qingzhou Mansion is blessed with a unique location and has not been harvested, so the nearby disaster victims have gathered outside Qingzhou Mansion. Fortunately, the Gao family's thousands of acres of fertile land still have grain output, so since the beginning of the year, the Gao family has opened a warehouse to release grain to help the victims, but now, there is not much grain in the granary. Gao Hong said softly, "I am preparing to contact a few wealthy families in the city and ask them to give up a little bit of their food, as long as they survive this summer and harvest in the fall." ”
Sunshine followed him into the porridge shed, only to see two large cauldrons in the porridge shed, gruel boiling in the cauldron, and two large buckets next to the porridge pot. Two big men, one standing guard next to the porridge bucket, holding a long spoon to fill the bowl of porridge into the victims; The other took a small nest from a large basin and put it in the porridge bowl. (To be continued.) )