At the turn of spring and summer, a rain that was not small lasted for several days, filling the riverbed that was about to dry up endlessly, and the grain and vegetables in the field also drank enough water in these days, and grew wildly, and the dust covered with willow branches was washed green and green, compared with all kinds of elm trees that survived tenaciously but were stripped of their leaves by the people as food, the grace was not a little bit.

"We've finally had enough rain here, and I don't know if there's anything else like that."

The old people in the tea shop took turns to come to the shop to get tea and food, chatting and talking, and the folds on their foreheads were much shallower: "We here, I heard that it is the best situation in the entire state capital, and other places have been dragging their families to relatives and friends since last year, and some have come to our county. ”

"What are we trembling about?" An old man with a simple cane on a branch came over, and with his big wizened hands trembling and full of age spots, he tore the steamed buns and fed them into his mouth: "Although it is a family with four walls, you can come to the Li family tea shop to eat a meal every day, and you can't starve to death for us old immortals; As the eldest girl said, as long as she is in our village and the shop is still open, we can eat until the day we breathe. ”

Uncle Sun added some tea to the wooden bowl in front of the oldest old man in the village, and sat down and handed his share to the hands of two sloppy little beggars.

It's not that these ragged people are here that make the guests of the Li family's shops feel unsightly, but that everyone is human, and many of them were originally poor families with food and shelter, but as soon as this drought continued, there were more people who left their hometowns, which made people's hearts sour.

Seeing this, the old man of the Li family was able to give some food to those old and young at first, but within a few days, he let people go away from afar; And all the beggars who had gathered every day were dying of starvation outside his house.

Fortunately, at this time, Mengfan, the eldest girl of the Li family, finally learned about the situation after completing the matter of raising spring silkworms, and went to find the old man Helian together, so that Li Zheng came forward and turned the announcement under the mountain wall of her house into a ready-made soup kitchen, and boiled a pot of porridge for people to eat every day.

She did not exactly follow the methods of the former soup givers, but she produced food, such as coarse rice, bud rice, pumpkin, red weed, and other edible things, and the beggars themselves did their best to pick up some firewood in the distant woods and dig up some wild vegetables to use for their food.

But this time, the beggars who were originally outside the Qingfeng Temple also came in a swarm of news, after all, this place is very close.

Within two days, some of the people who were begging outside the temple also turned around and ran here.

From their mouths, they heard that these two places where good deeds were carried out almost made the masters inside so hungry that they went out to make their fortunes.

Meng Fan secretly blamed herself, if there was no one in the temple, she could also think that she didn't know anything, but in the Qingfeng View, after all, there was her eldest brother's mentor and a group of senior brothers.

Therefore, she asked Ling Yaoxuan and Hai Lao Liu to carry two bags each and send them to the real person; I didn't even go to see him; Originally, her father almost didn't let her go out of the door, saying that he wanted her to learn to be a real lady.

The question is, does she need to learn? Does she really have that fate to care about anything?

No, Han Xiaozhen came in to find Fang'er, saying that her father saw two young monks outside who came to make a relationship, and he didn't give to others at all, and asked the subordinates of the family to go and let people go, saying that they would let these two monks also go to the soup kitchen to eat, this is ......

She didn't dare to say that her own idea was right, nor did she dare to say that her father's approach was wrong, and the son did not say anything about his father's fault!

Simply, after the two monk masters left with a look of shame, she asked Lan Bao'er to carry a basket and ran secretly, the basket was filled with some food made by the space servants themselves, nothing more than steamed buns and the like, as well as a few pickled radish strips.

Li Mingjie didn't look at anyone at all, everyone was secretly looking at him, he was not a believer or anything, he believed in himself, a good person with hands and feet, how could he get something for nothing? Is he at fault?

He is still uncomfortable in his heart, no matter how tightly he holds his money bag, he has to settle the wages for those daughters-in-law and girls, because others point fingers too often, and he is also very annoyed, he also wants to save face, he is still a decent showman.

It's just that why don't you pay your salary on the day you agreed to and ask others to come to your door again and again to beg him, so that he is happy? I don't know if this is something that damages my reputation?

However, he also has his reason, he has to pay wages early and late, don't you say that these people have seen him as a talented man with a head and a face in their eyes, and they have come to the door again and again to urge, annoying!

Not to mention the wages paid to short-term workers, even if it is the wages of long-term workers, don't they just change it to one month for him? I also deducted some again and again to press, saying that it was settled together at the end of the year, everyone discussed, and they all agreed, and he didn't force anyone to agree, right?

In the past few days, he has already ordered to go down, saying that he is going home to pick up his wife and son, no, Mengfan took Fang'er to prepare some steamed buns and dim sum eggs for him and his fourth uncle on the way home, and asked people to contact a carriage, rented it, but not bought it.

Moreover, it doesn't matter if he leaves, he is not afraid that who will dare to question his decision and want to complain to his daughter? It was useless, he brought all the money in the house, and on the first day of the fourth month, the accounts of several shops were settled once.

And tomorrow, he is planning to leave, the carriage is rented, leave early tomorrow morning, and go back on his birthday to set up a few tables at home.

"Please, let Miss come out for a while!" A big man knelt down in front of Uncle Zhou, who was guarding the door, and kept kowtowing: "Our child is sick and has no money to take medicine, please be kind to the eldest lady and pay us a salary, please!" ”

The eldest master and the fourth master are ready to go home, and each of the small accounts below has no copper in his hand, and he has no way to think about it, he doesn't dare to break into the yard, but he is helpless.

"Get up quickly, you have something to say." Zhou Bo was in a hurry to pull people, if this was seen by the master, this Zhang San's work would be gone, fortunately, he had already seen Liang Wucheng wipe his hands on the big apron and walked over.

"Third Brother Zhang, you get up first, what do you kneel here like? Noisy master, how can you still get on this job? ”

He Liang Wucheng has money on him, but he can't take it out because it is an order from the owner.

"Brother Liang, help, please go in and tell Miss, the master won't pay us this time, our son...... Son......"

"I'll let you get up first." Liang Wucheng turned his face and stepped forward to pull up the third brother Zhang who was running in tears.

"Miss used to count when she spoke, but after the master came, what Miss said didn't count, Brother Liang, are you right?" This Zhang San came alone, but the craftsmen who rushed to hear the news behind him, the pedestrians along the way, the customers in the shops, and the peasants in the fields opposite all surrounded him.

One by one, they were gossiping: "When our young lady was in charge, she always settled her wages once every ten days, and now the lord said that it was settled once a month, and every time he deducted two percent, he said that it was only issued during the New Year, what is the matter, who is not waiting for the money?" ”

"That is, how can you overturn all of them when you say that you were good at the beginning?"

"Hey, who said it at the beginning, a little girl's family is unreliable, and there has to be an old lady or something above to make us feel at ease, who said it?"

Most of them have said this, but who knew that this would be the case? Who knew that the master of the Li family had such a temperament? ”

"Come on, I used to think that this family could give a full meal and settle wages in a timely manner, but now it seems that it is all virtual, we all rely on strength to eat, where is not a worker, I heard that Phoenix Ridge is also recruiting, let's simply quit here, go there to find something to do, there is also a ten-day salary, but also eat and live."

The battle outside the courtyard was so great that the masters inside heard the sound and hurried out.

Li Mingjie was the first one, and when he came out, he scolded angrily: "You are one or two, do you still want to be paid?" Is this time your time to rest? And who gave you the courage to come around my door, ah? What do you want to do? "Is this a robbery or a robbery? Infiltrate!

Li Mingquan came back from the town, couldn't enter the door, and was blocked outside the crowd, someone turned his head and saw him, hung his head in resignation, and drilled into the crowd again.

Mengfan came out of the kitchen, she still had a floral cloth apron tied to her small body, untying her belt as she walked, what happened outside, why was she so noisy?

"Miss, Miss is out, I see Miss, quick, let's stand back, stand back, split into two rows......"

"Say, what the hell is going on?" Li Mingjie saw that the crowd blocking the gate in front of him was suddenly lined up on both sides, leaving a blank line for him to walk, and he didn't know what was going on, but he was the only one who didn't have the strength to see the old man Zhang San, who was walking over and kneeling there and looking behind him, and the others who were pushed to the outer edge by his workers.

However, no one cared whether his saliva was splashed on his face, and they all looked at the little woman behind him with a hopeful face, and suddenly, twenty or thirty people lined up in two rows in front of him burst into a shout: "Miss, please pay us all on time!" ”

"Miss, Third Brother Zhang's child needs life-saving money......"

It's all Mu You who sees their master in his eyes, so it's okay!