Chapter 42 Relief for the Victims
The businessman surnamed Wang couldn't tell his backstage, and his fat oil face was slapped. A dozen large teeth flew out with a grunt, crackling against the walls of the shop. Wang Shanbao withdrew his palm, as if nothing happened, and stood behind Baoyu.
The housekeeper in the grain store sneaked into the store and called someone from inside. The man poked out his pointed head, glanced at Wang Shanbao with slender eyes, and then shrank back.
Baoyu saw it and didn't take it seriously, but just asked, "Are you selling, or not?"
"We ...... behind the Wang Ji Grain Store"
Syllable!
This time it was a little ruthless, and half of the face of the merchant surnamed Wang was forked, and his face was covered with butter, and he fell on the floor and snorted.
Baoyu is a little annoyed, he doesn't want to kill, but some people really don't want to be skinny.
If you want to talk about Wang Shanbao's family, he will spare it, after all, it is Wang Shanbao's wife, and she is a little person like a chess piece, which is harmless. And Mrs. Xing behind it is Jia Yu's house-filler, his eldest aunt.
Between women, jealousy and competition for favor, even if they use maids as chess pieces, it is also a habit developed in feudal society. He didn't like it, and even disgusted it, but it didn't reach the point where he could make it difficult for him to move an inch in this Confucian Great Zhou. But outside, in front of this profiteer who wants to make a fortune and doesn't take human life seriously, he doesn't mind killing people.
The law of the Great Zhou: Those who engage in business are despised.
Even if he kills the merchant surnamed Wang, he will eradicate the profiteer for the people, and at most he will be exiled for a thousand miles. Toto relationship, please a favor, exile to Jinling City, maybe even more comfortable.
Besides, in his capacity, you need to do it yourself?
Thinking of this, Baoyu picked up the small pot of red and purple sand, simmered it mouth-to-mouth, and knocked on the small table that Wang Shanbao brought to support his elbow.
Dada, Dada, his voice was crisp, and his jade-like face was also cold.
can save up so much money, and the businessman surnamed Wang is also a clever one. He failed to speak twice, and immediately came back to his senses - people didn't want him to say it, so they didn't let him speak.
If he continues to be stubborn, he doesn't think that his face is harder than a slate.
The merchant surnamed Wang touched his numb face, raised his hand to look, and saw that it was a hand of red blood sandwiched with yellow-white fat and fat. I also felt the beaten face, and the wood was so painful that it didn't hurt.
He touched his face again, and he could touch the stripes of cheek muscles and hard cheekbones, his eyes immediately changed, and he shouted in his throat: "Master, I don't know which family's son you are! Don't fight, the villain is sold, and eighty percent of the food will be paid! I just want to know which family you are, the villain has an explanation, and it is good to write it on the paper!"
Baoyu got up and left, saying as he walked: "You don't need paperwork, just an IOU for how much food you have." ”
How to open a paperwork?
He had no money.
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The store in Xicheng is a two-story building, sitting north and facing south, covering an area of three. Baoyu asked Qingwen to bet on Wang Ji's merchants' families, all of them were cleaned up, and they were changed into clothes in their own stores, which was famous: borrowed.
The three rooms, the upper and lower floors were cleaned quickly, and Baoyu asked the family, I heard that they were all incompetent, and they would only help Wang Shangshang bluff people, and they were cleaned again, and they were all thrown back. The two handymen left by Jia Zheng in the store were asking Bao Er Ye to be safe, and someone stood behind them, waiting for the handymen to go back from their errands, and then they came up.
He took a step forward, with a smile on his face, and opened his mouth to say, "Please Second Uncle Bao." ”
Baoyu saw that this person had a long face, a tall figure, and looked sixteen or seventeen years old, and the smile on his face was a pleasing one at first glance. This man arched his hands, and was dressed in a pale gray robe, not the fine cloth of the raw people, but brocade, which was better in quality, but far worse in identity.
Next to him, Musk Yue had an order to wake up Baoyu, and said with a smile: "Master, this is the son of the fifth sister-in-law who lives on the back porch, and he is called Jia Yun." Sister Raider said that you are tired of studying, and you don't remember much on weekdays, so I want me to remind you. ”
Baoyu secretly wanted to attack people intimately, and after the incident of the Red Mansion here, Jia Yun was a little kind.
If you want to say that Jia Yun is smart and clever, she can speak well, she is a descendant of the cursive generation who can do things and can do things, and the branch is a generation younger than him.
When Jia Yun first met Baoyu in "Dream of Red Mansions", she wanted to recognize her godfather because of Baoyu's joke, and no matter how many years younger Baoyu was than him, she was really shameless. But he is such a shameless person, after the defeat of Jiafu, he still remembered Baoyu, and tried his best to help Baoyu, he is a person who values love and righteousness.
Baoyu remembered that Cao Da wrote Jia Yun very well, and as for the last 40 retrospectives, Jia Yun's image was distorted and she became a traitorous brother who participated in the premeditated trafficking of Sister Qiao.
He greeted Jia Yun and asked him to go by himself. It stands to reason that Jia Yun was ordered by Jia Zheng here, and like the two handymen, he left after handing over the store, but Jia Yun wandered around, wiped the windows, moved the tables and chairs, and just didn't leave.
Baoyu knew his thoughts, and wanted to cling to the high branches. This is human nature, and it doesn't bother him, but he has enough manpower for the time being, and he doesn't know much about the Great Zhou Jia Mansion, so he is not in a hurry to recruit people.
Qingwen came in from the outside, and at the same time brought in dozens of ragged victims. This was Baoyu's order, let her bring some people in to warm up. Nothing else is ready, and you can't see that the house is empty and the victims are cold.
The victims did not mention it, and found a corner to hide, for fear of being driven out. Baoyu asked Qingwen to boil some hot water, and let the victims drink it by themselves, and listened to Qingwen's chatter.
Qingwen's eyes were a little deformed, and she wanted to prick up her eyes, but her attitude softened again, and she said angrily: "Master, I know you have a good heart. Seeing these people suffering from the cold and hunger, I also felt panicked in my heart. But you know, we don't have any money.
That fat face (Wang Shangshang) was waiting outside, and when he heard your name, he only said that he had a lot of grain, and he wanted you to make an IOU. I know that he is holding back, let him squat at the door, and freeze him to death, but let's do good deeds and help the victims, it is not only a matter of food, you want porridge on credit, just a firewood artificial, but it is not a decimal. ”
She said that Baoyu understands everything, and it is a difficult thing to do, but she can't look at starvation everywhere.
Just like Li Gui said, they have seen a lot, they are used to seeing it, and they are numb, but he Baoyu comes from a very good era, where has he seen this? Not to mention that he can see it when he goes out, even if he thinks about it in his own room, it is also panicked.
Heart congestion!
He Baoyu thinks that he is not a good person who sacrifices himself for others, but he is not a wood after all.
Thinking of this, Baoyu was a little worried.
Over there, Jia Yun observed the words, her eyes purred a few times, and said with a smile: "Second Uncle Bao, if you want to talk about food, you can pick up the most difficult one, and I will be the next generation, and I have to solve some small things for you." ”
What he said, listening to it, especially the content in it, really made Baoyu like it. Baoyu looked at him, pointed to the stool for people to sit on, sat down opposite him, and spoke with a warm face.
He smiled and said, "Don't be modest, I have a lot of difficult things to do here, but don't flash your tongue." ”
Jia Yun said with a smile: "Second Uncle Bao, just say it, see if Yun'er can handle it properly." ”
Baoyu heard it and squinted in thought. It is said that a good literati can sweep a house inside and the world outside, he thought he could be a good literati, but he didn't expect it...... It's so hard.
Sweeping a house inside, he did it, the huge Jia Mansion, he also had the confidence to pick it up, but it was just a little thing outside, but it was just a disaster relief porridge, which really made him sad.
Disaster relief is more than just talk.
He didn't want the victims to be fed, but to keep them alive. In the past few days, he has seen a lot of people who have starved to death and frozen to death, and he is also wondering if it is to open a shed to make porridge on credit, so that the stomachs of the victims will be warmer, and then they will suffer from the cold wind, will it make it worse?
If you are exposed to the cold and cold, you may be able to survive for a while, but if you eat hot porridge and then suffer from that kind of cold, the strong contrast will make people's bodies collapse even if they don't go crazy.
This is the most difficult thing to solve, what Qingwen said is just a matter of silver.
He told Jia Yun about his concerns, and Jia Yun thought for a while, and her eyebrows and eyes relaxed.
"Second Uncle Bao, you are really thoughtful, but you don't go out too often, and you don't know much about Zhongdu City, this terrain and personnel are still familiar to me. ”
Jia Yun pointed to the north side of the house and said: "The six-horse avenue in Xicheng is not pinching the middle of Xicheng, but it is far from the north, very biased." There is a stone mountain outside the city wall on the north side, and the name of this stone mountain is like this, but it is not all stones, it is not a barren mountain, and there are many trees in it that can burn firewood, and it can also dig holes to make kilns. ”
Baoyu tapped his fingers on the table and listened to him.
Originally, two or three miles to the north is the north city wall, and then less than half a mile away, it is a barren mountain that has not been developed, you can dig holes to make kilns, you can chop wood and burn fires, the barren mountain is not big, and it can also carry 30,000 or 20,000 victims.
Thirty twenty thousand? Baoyu's pupils suddenly dilated.
Jia Yun said proudly: "Let's let the victims help, that is, it saves labor, and the victims can live." Those who came to drink porridge could let them break firewood with stones in exchange for the next meal, and they only burned the fire inside and out, and did not need too good firewood. Don't worry about the city wall, some ropes, one hundred and ten hanging baskets, our house will say hello to the North City Guard, and they will definitely let them go. ”
As soon as the voice fell, Baoyu took the case.
"Immediately, immediately, do it!"
drove Jia Yun, attacked people, and Qingwen hurried to do things, leaving only Wang Shanbao to protect him. Baoyu paced back and forth for a long time, looking up to the sky and laughing.
He thought he was just doing a good deed to others, but he didn't expect to help himself.
There are now more than one million victims in the central capital, and it is really nothing to say that opening a shed to make porridge on credit is really nothing for those dignitaries, especially those literati who want to be famous. Ning Yue'er calculated for him that five taels of silver mixed with chaff could make 10,000 disaster victims eat a full meal.
In this way, helping 32,000 disaster victims is only a matter of a few dozen taels of silver a day. What are a few dozen taels of silver? The 100 silver pens used by Xiucai were all 100 taels of silver, but they were worried about the dignitaries behind the offending grain merchants, and they were afraid that stealing chickens would not lead to the loss of rice, so no one would help the victims.
If you ask for food, you will offend the nobles, and if you have hot porridge without clothes and a place to keep warm, you will even make the victims die of a full ghost, in this case, not only will you not have merit, but you will be guilty.
The Great Zhou State has literati, there are monsters, there are ghosts and elves, the land harvest has always been rich, and the price of grain is low, but few people can afford to give warm clothes and shelter to the disaster victims.
Those literati who have a good heart, it is precisely because of this that they can only suppress their good hearts, and they will be numb if they are pressed and pressed.
And once this numbness is awakened, it will be a red fire and out of control!
In other words, as long as the second master of his treasure solves the housing problem of some of the victims, the literary name will skyrocket, and this literary name is a good name, which is obtained from disaster relief, and no one dares to break his mouth and say nonsense!