"Okay, then I'll go boil the paste first, and Mei Niang will go to the kitchen if she has something to do." Yufeng said goodbye to Mei Niang, Mei Niang just wanted to find someone to talk to, so it was not good to delay others to do business.

After Yufeng left, Mei Niang hurriedly washed her face, and saw that the sky outside was almost equivalent to nine or ten o'clock in her previous life, and she slept until this hour, which was too unusual.

When I arrived in the front hall, I didn't see anyone, and there was a bowl of corn paste, two steamed buns, and a plate of pickled radish strips on the table.

Mei Niang sat at the table and ate, although it was a little cold, she also ate it.

After eating, Mei Niang took the empty bowl and prepared to take it to the kitchen to wash, but she didn't see anyone along the way, and it took a long time to find the kitchen by following the sound.

said it was the kitchen, but in fact, it was a dozen cauldrons set up in the yard, and the water in the pot was steaming, and Yufeng and a middle-aged woman were staring at it.

When the pot of water boiled, they would take a pot of bud rice noodles soaked in water and pour it in, stirring it with a flat wooden stick.

After the bubbling bubbles and boiled for a while, he called someone to come and pour the boiled corn paste into a large wooden barrel and bring it to the front.

Mei Niang took a closer look, and there was still meat foam in it, it seemed that they sent it yesterday, which shows that Shi Hai is really a good official, and he can still think about the people in the town with just a little meat.

After watching it for a while, Mei Niang also went over to help, and she naturally knew how to boil it.

Yufeng was also very happy to see her helping, and introduced her to the middle-aged woman who was her mother, surnamed Zheng, and everyone in the school captain's mansion called her Aunt Zheng.

Mei Niang also followed and shouted that Yufeng Niang was called Aunt Zheng, and then chatted with Yufeng while looking at the pot, Mei Niang knew that Lu Dao Shihai went to Linxian County to ask for food, where there are still a few rice shops struggling to support, but the price of food is called a high, compared to Longji is not profitable at all.

Jiang Chuye and Yun Xuan took a dozen people to the mountain to hunt early in the morning, and they could come back at night.

And judging by the meaning, it seems that they may be hunting for a few days in a row.

As for Shi Hai's request for food, Yufeng is not optimistic, "If you want to give it a long time ago, Brother Shi will not send someone to go once or twice, and each time you can ask for back at most ten or twenty catties, how can it be enough?" I hope that this time Brother Shi will go in person and ask for more. ”

Yufeng frowned as if worried, and from the sighs, it could be heard that this request for food might not be smooth.

Mei Niang wished he could stay in the town for a few more days, so that she could often go to Huangfu to exchange some silver taels, and it was best to see if other families had collected vegetables and grain, and she could earn more, wouldn't she?

always sent to the Huangfu family, it is inevitable that people will be targeted.

But what can they catch when they go up to the mountains to hunt? And how much prey are there in the mountains for them to hunt?

Mei Niang's heart was entangled again, originally she just wanted to live well, what does the life and death of others have to do with her?

After her father remarried in her previous life, she lost the warmth from her family, and her heart gradually became indifferent.

After her father's death, the experience of being killed and dying made her even more unable to open her heart, even if she wanted to live as Mei Niang, she was a little less close to Yun Laosan and his wife.

But during this time, getting along with the Yun family and the Jiang family made her feel warm, and her heart, which was not cold and hard enough, was melted more and more soft.

Although she can't let everyone have enough to eat, she still wants to do her best to help the people in the town, if nothing else, just for Shi Hai, a good official.

Mei Niang's heart is firm, as long as there is a chance, she will take out the food in the space for disaster relief, anyway, except for some things that need to be exchanged for money, the rest can only become inventory in the warehouse.

It's just that you have to think carefully about how to take it out, and don't expose yourself.

However, in this way, her workload will have to increase considerably.

Eh, in order not to choke on her weak heart when eating, the old lady fights!

He was busy until nearly noon to boil the porridge, and the day's work was completed, even if Shi Hai had the heart to provide disaster relief, but the current situation did not allow him to provide three meals a day, and this thin porridge every day was about to make him anxious.

And water is even more scarce, and the pot doesn't need to be brushed, just add water tomorrow and continue to boil the paste.

After a short rest, Yufeng came to find Mei Niang, she wanted to take someone to a farther place to fetch water, and asked Mei Niang if she would go.

Mei Niang had nothing to do, so she went out with Yufeng and them to fetch water, accompanied by a team of more than a dozen guards, and drove two carriages.

Each car had an oversized wooden barrel on it, the kind with a lid on it.

Naturally, Yufeng and Meiniang are not needed to catch up with the car, and the two of them just follow along.

The place where the water was fetched is a bit far away, and the well they had made a big fuss about last time had dried up two days ago, and now they can only go further to fetch water.

After leaving the town and walking all the way, I walked for nearly two hours before I saw a long queue waiting for water in front of a well, of course, it still costs money to fetch water.

After learning about Shi Hai's behavior of taking people to give porridge, Mei Niang understood his behavior of selling water, the court had no money for disaster relief, and Shi Hai had to solve both the silver for disaster relief, and he was not a corrupt official, so he didn't need money to buy food or something? The money from the sale of water is just a subsidy to buy grain.

But nowadays, the water output of the well is not large, and the supply is not in short supply at all.

Therefore, it was stipulated that the water supply should be started from the time of Shen, and the time should be ended, and the rest of the time should be allowed for the well to slowly rise back to the water level.

At this time, there is still more than an hour before the water supply in Shenshi, and the long queue here is already far away, and people are rushing over here one after another.

Yufeng explained: "I was afraid that I would be too late to catch up with the water, so I came early to line up." ”

After speaking, he sighed again and continued: "This is also no way, Brother Shi tried his best." ”

Mei Niang can't say anything, she has a lot of water, a lot, a whole river, if she can contribute, I don't know how much of a problem she can solve, but she can't do anything.

Officers and soldiers come to fetch water naturally without money, and there is no need to queue, Mei Niang and Yufeng watched from the side, and it didn't take long for two carts of large wooden barrels to be filled with water, and then pushed back.

Those long queues are still waiting for the time to fetch water, and the life of the people in disaster years is always very hard.

Back at the school captain's mansion, Shi Hai had already returned, and he was stuffed in the house and worried.

The food in the town has been concentrated in the school captain's mansion by him, and according to the current consumption, it is enough to eat for three days, and if it is not solved, the people in the town will starve to death, is it really hungry to the point of cannibalism like before he came?

This time, he cheekily went to Linxian to ask for food, but people gave him some rice for the sake of his face, but ...... What did a stone of white rice top? Compared with the tens of thousands of victims in the town, it is not enough for one person to drink half a bowl of gruel.

At the moment, I can only see the situation of Jiang Chuye and Yun Xuan taking people up the mountain.

Even if there is a small amount of food, some problems can be solved, but hunting for two days a day can be subsidized, and the prey on the mountain is limited after a long time.