Now there is no need to pawn jewelry and jade jewelry to buy grain, the price of grain is high, and the price of jewelry and jade is pawned again, and the price is discounted, which is really distressing. and he shall give them all back to the people. The coffin money is all broken silver that the old people have worked hard to accumulate for half a lifetime, it is not easy, Zhuang Xiaochu wants to return it to the old people. The old people didn't accept it, saying, "It's useless for us to take it, the owner of the village has it, and there are still more places on the village that need money." We don't need it for the time being, so we'll ask you when we need it later. "There is only this batch of grain, and if you miss it, there will be no more, so the owner of the farm hurriedly took the brothers to the grain store, and used a horse-drawn cart to pull back a lot of grain. There is grain in the village, looking at the white rice and the fine flour noodles, everyone's hearts are steady.

The county magistrate's wife and Xiao Qi were gossiping, and the county magistrate's wife said while feeding Xiao Qi the nourishing soup she brought: "Sister, now that you have food, don't be anxious, take care of your body, and take care of your body as soon as possible." When Wen Ling saw Huaying, he couldn't walk anymore, and screamed around Huaying one by one, liking it very much. One will touch the little face of Little Flower Shadow, and one will touch Little Flower Shadow's little hands. In his eyes, his sister Huaying is so cute, so beautiful, like a large rag doll, no, even cuter than a rag doll.

He said to the county magistrate's wife: "Mother, I want my sister, take my sister home." ”

The county magistrate's wife smiled: "My sister is from your godmother's godfather's family, you want to take it home, your godfather and godmother are not willing to do it." ”

Xiao Qi said: "Okay, Wen Lan, Huaying will take you to your house." The godfather and godmother are willing, but this iron bull at my door, he is definitely not willing. ”

Tie Niu heard at the door that he was going to take Xiaohuaying away, and he took it seriously, and he kept guarding the door, not even going to the toilet, and he didn't dare to blink his eyes, until the county magistrate's wife and his entourage left Huazizhuang with the little boy who was crying and refusing to leave, and he was relieved.

The grain is back, and everyone can eat porridge without putting so much scum, and they can eat fragrant rice. The owner asked the kitchen to cook a dry meal in the morning and drink porridge in the evening. Everyone's stomach is very weak, and I am afraid that my stomach will not be able to accept it at first. Coupled with the length of the day, eat something dry to endure hunger, and eat some porridge at night and it won't be long before you should go to bed. This will also save a bit.

The shops on the street are slowly opening up again, and although they are not as lively as they used to be, they are more lively than they used to be. So a small number of brothers were arranged to go to the streets to beg. Although I didn't have any income, I started to have something to do.

The farm is planting season, and this year the brothers are fine, and it is necessary to pay for food to hire someone outside. So Zhuang Xiaochu discussed it with Banjin Batael, and only hired some veterans this year, and brought the brothers of Huazizhuang to the Wugong team, and let the veterans take the brothers to do the work of the farm (including the farm of Banjin Baliang) together. After half a month of farm work, the brothers came back and Zhuang Xiaochu took a look, hey, they all looked like a second-generation African mixed-race, but one by one they looked stronger than before. The brothers thought they were working for the Banjin Eight Families, and when they came back, they said that when the autumn harvest came, they would go to help the Ban Jin Eight Families.

Now that there is grain in the farm, and the brothers are able to eat, their faces gradually ease one by one, and the fields are sown, and they only wait for the harvest after autumn. The silver owed was slowly earned after the economy recovered, and then repaid. Now there are a lot fewer people fleeing the famine, and slowly, the people who were stranded in Yancheng are gone. After there is food, people are willing to go back to their hometowns, even if the seller sells the house, they can get through the current difficulties first. It's a pity that some people didn't wait for the arrival of life-saving food in the end, and lost their most precious lives in this natural and man-made disaster.

In this locust plague, Huazizhuang did not have a single casualty except for the death of Tie Niu's daughter-in-law in childbirth. However, there are 3 more orphans in the village, a pair of brothers and sisters, the elder brother is 7 years old, the younger sister is 4 years old, the family is starving to death on the way to escape, the elder brother and the younger sister followed the crowd to Huazizhuang. There was also a 3-year-old girl, her mother was sick, and hunger, and stayed in the village for two days, but she couldn't survive and left. Zhuang Xiaochu named the three children and handed them over to Ju's mother to manage.

The brothers all said that they were grateful to the owner, if it weren't for him, everyone would still be beggars as before, and it is estimated that many people would not be able to survive this locust plague. The owner said that it was through everyone's sincere unity, and everyone was like a family, so that they could get through the difficulties.

The small temple also slowly began to burn incense and worship. and sent the little brother to guard it. The old gentleman didn't go to the divination, he was sick. I had a cold and a fever, and someone asked for a hexagram, and he had a fever and wanted to go to the hexagram, he said: "If you can earn one, we still owe so much money in the village." Zhuang Xiaochu said: "Old man, you take care of your illness, you don't have to worry about the account in the village, I will find a way to pay it off." You trust me. He personally boiled medicine for the old gentleman, waited for the old gentleman to take it, he stayed in front of the old gentleman's bed, wiped the old gentleman's body with hot water with a towel over and over again to cool down physically, and waited for the old gentleman's fever to subside little by little.

The old gentleman was getting better, and Zhuang Xiaochu didn't let him go to the temple. He said that he would be completely cured of his illness before letting him go to the temple. Every morning after dinner, he put a reclining chair in the courtyard, played chess with the old gentleman, and sometimes brought Xiaohuaying over to play for a while. The little flower shadow rolled around the old gentleman, and it was cute and cute, which made the old gentleman laugh sometimes.

The old gentleman said Zhuang Xiaochu: "Owner, I have no children and no daughters in my life, you treat me like this, I feel like my own son." ”

Zhuang Xiaochu said: "Then you will treat me as your own son in the future." I serve you. ”

Zhuang Xiaochu said: "Old man, you sit in the temple every day to tell hexagrams, I'm afraid you are too hard." Simply, you train an apprentice, let him learn, and you will be much easier. ”

The old gentleman said, "I'll pass it on to you." Aren't you my own son?"

"No, I can't learn that. Besides, you know, I don't have time for divination. What about this mess on the farm. Zhuang Xiaochu said. "The people in our village are all your sons and grandsons, you can choose two and pass them on. ”

Also, everything in the village is waiting for Zhuang Xiaochu to arrange, and he can't learn to tell hexagrams. Even if he learned, he didn't have time to sit in the temple every day to tell fortunes. The old gentleman is not difficult for him.

So the two discussed, and selected Dalong and Yuan Ming, who were clever and a little wise, to follow the old gentleman, and take care of the old gentleman while learning divination. Zhuang Xiaochu specially instructed them to take care of them carefully, the old gentleman is the Dinghai Divine Needle on the village.