Chapter 49: The Wanderers
As soon as I entered the door, I found thirty or forty people standing in their yard, some old and some young with three or four children, and a dozen men carrying three young people with door panels, three young people were seriously injured, and one of his arms was broken. Two others were slashed several times, but fortunately it was not fatal. An old man's face was torn off a few pieces of skin, some of the remaining men also had blood on their faces, and it seemed that they had fought with people, and some old people and women carried burdens with sad and angry faces.
Hurriedly washed his hands, took out the medicine bag, first cleaned the wounds of the three seriously injured youths and bandaged them, and then connected the bones of the broken arms and applied them with a medicinal splint to fix them. Then I checked the injuries of the others, and I was busy for nearly an hour, but fortunately, everyone was fine.
After finishing his busy work, he asked the old man who hurt his face why these individuals were injured, and the old man burst into tears after hearing Xiao Zheng's question, crying and saying: "Mr. Xiao, I can't hide it, the village where we live is not far from here, that is, Tangjiazhuang, which is separated by three villages from you, and our twenty or thirty families have also been deceived by animals."
Xiao Zheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Old man, why were you deceived by others?" The old man let out a long sigh and tears fell. It turned out that the old man's name was Zhang Shun, and he used to recognize only a master, and he also saw a doctor here, and received the favor of Mr. Li. Speaking of this, it turned out to be more or less related to Mr. Li, Zhang Shun these individuals have lived in Tangjiazhuang for generations, the Tang family is a big family in the Zhuangzi, Tang Yaozong, the only son of the Tang family, is now the housekeeper of the Qi Wangfu of the dynasty, the Tang family did not have a relationship with the village before the beginning, not only did the whole Zhuangzi not stain his family light, but also suffered from his family, the family once became rich and did not recognize people like a dog that turned its face.
A few days ago, Zhang Shun has more than a dozen households with 300 acres of good land, the Tang family looked greedy, so they let out the words to buy at a high price, Zhang Shun, a dozen small households, look at the price of his family, think that there is still a lot .......of wasteland next to it, the big deal is to sell more money and then make some efforts to reopen the wasteland, but I didn't want to wait for the signing and marking of the charge, I didn't see him out of the penny, and came to find the Tang family theory, and was injured by his house slave Zhang Shun and the other three offspring, if it wasn't for the fast run, it was estimated that he was killed by his family.
After listening to this, Xiao Zheng asked: "Old man, are you saying that his family cheated away the 300 acres of land without paying a penny"? I saw the old man snort and said, "Fart! Not only did we not give a penny to the dozens of people, but the Tang family brazenly said that the wasteland in Zhuangzi was also his Tang family, and drove us out of the village directly, it seems that this will force us to death! His Tang family is really done, our ancestors have lived together for generations, at that time, I and his Tang Li were still playing together since childhood, I didn't expect his Tang family to be so vicious, this is a family of beasts."
"Then old man, did you go to see the official?" I saw the old man smile bitterly and said: "Go to the county master, when the county master heard that it was the case of the Qi Palace, he didn't even dare to take the paper, and the officials also knew that we were in trouble, but they didn't do anything to us, but just politely sent us out." In this world, whether it is the Sui Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, there is no place for the poor to speak, wow." After the old man finished speaking, he choked up, causing the women and children behind him to cry non-stop.
Seeing that these dozens of people were ragged and had vegetables, many of them were still scarred, they were beaten at a glance, and several children were also disgraced, Xiao Zheng couldn't help but feel desolate in his heart, and said with a long sigh: "Old man, if you believe me, you dozens of people will live with me first." I see that you are also lonely and helpless, and if you don't get it right, you will stay with me for a few days, and let me help you think of a way to see if I can settle you down."
After hearing this, the old man suddenly trembled with excitement and said with tears in his eyes: "Mr. Xiao, we dozens of people should thank you for your great kindness, when Mr. Li was alive at that time. We are also grateful for the kindness of his old man, but I didn't expect Mr. Xiao to still be kind, and we, dozens of people, knelt down for you." After finishing speaking, he led a group of people behind him to kneel down in the courtyard.
After a long time of pulling people up, Xiao Zheng looked at the crowd and said, "The villagers haven't eaten yet, I'll ask someone to cook something for you to eat first, you will live here for a few days, and everyone will ....... first."
Jin'er came back with the children after hearing the letter, and his face became ugly after hearing these villagers tell him what happened, and the old man probably knew about Jin'er's marriage contract before, and said to Jin'er: "Girl, it's right that you didn't marry the Tang family, this family's livestock will be retributed sooner or later." Xiao Zheng patted Jin'er on the back and didn't say anything, Jin'er talked to these people in the courtyard for a while and then helped cook.
The next morning, Xiao Zheng found Xiao Hai and told him about the collection of these gangs, Xiao Hai was also angry enough, but this matter involved the king of Qi in the current dynasty, and the county was helpless, not to mention Xiao Hai, except for being angry and staring at the street, there was no way.
Xiao Zheng said to Xiao Hai with a smile: "Brother Xiao, we will definitely make the business bigger in the future, it is inevitable that we need more manpower, we can't pull all the tenants who have land and other people's families to work for us, these dozens of people who came yesterday have no land and have suffered and become homeless, we will try to stay as much as possible." You see this is good, let's take out some of the money we make and settle these people in Li Zhuang first, Li Zhuang has wasteland, and there are not many people. In the future, your stall will be bigger, and it will be convenient to need manpower. Let's put him here. It's not hard to feed and drink dozens of them these days. If you go and Mr. Zhou to find the county lord, it is best to let the government recognize these individuals, and say that we will help resettle these people, and the government will definitely be willing."
Xiao Hai heard Xiao Zheng say this, and he agreed, Xiao Hai was also neat, and came back in the afternoon after finishing in the morning, and when he saw Xiao Zheng, he told Xiao Zheng with a happy face, he and Boss Zhou went to find the county magistrate, it turned out that Zhou Bingrui was also familiar with the county master, and the cloth and winter stove of the county government in recent years were also provided by Boss Zhou. The county lord is also worried about the affairs of Tangjiazhuang, fortunately, this county official is not a corrupt official, but because the king of Qi has no choice, he is unwilling to cause more trouble, so he did not report to the court. As soon as the county magistrate heard that we were going to arrange dozens of people in Tangjiazhuang, he couldn't wait to throw away this burden. After speaking, he showed Xiao Zheng the approval documents of the government, and after reading the approval documents, Xiao Hai told Xiao Zheng with a smile that the county lord saw that he was so knowledgeable and had made meritorious contributions in the army.
After listening to this, Xiao Zheng smiled and said that it may be more convenient for us to do things in the future, Xiao Hai said that this is exactly the case. Xiao Zheng joked that when he saw you in the future, Brother Xiao would be called Master Xiao, which made the honest Xiao Hai look embarrassed.
After returning to Shenhe Bay with Xiao Hai, Xiao Zheng showed the approval of the government to dozens of people, although Zhang Shun and these people were illiterate, they still recognized the red seal of the government. Suddenly, he knelt down again, and Lao Zhang Shun lay on the ground and cried and said that if there is no help from the two, once these people have no land and become homeless, I am afraid that there will be no place to bury them in the future. After pacifying everyone, Xiao Hai led dozens of people to Li Zhuang.
As soon as he arrived at Xiao Hai's house the next day, Xiao Zheng saw Zhang Shun chatting with Xiao Hai's father, and when he saw Xiao Zheng coming, Zhang Shun greeted him from afar, and led Xiao Zheng to the open space outside the village.
Looking into the distance, more than a dozen strong laborers are clearing the wasteland, Xiao Hai is also the same as his master, after making money, he bought three cows for the people of Li Zhuang to use for free, as soon as the plough was put into the soil, Zhang Shun's dozens of people became stable in their hearts, and they were motivated to work, and checked the injured people, but fortunately, the injured people were all young people, and they recovered quickly.
Seeing Xiao Hai said: "Brother Xiao, we have to regulate their house well, and in the future, we will also move the iron-making workshop over, just take advantage of this opportunity for you to make the land circle bigger, anyway, it is wasteland, plus there is an approval from the government, we will not break the law if we get more, it is easy to lead everyone to eat now, but it is necessary to lead everyone to live together, which requires a little effort." In a few days, the two of us will go to Boss Zhou first to see if Boss Zhou has anything to do with it next week, and the three of us will go to Daxing City together, and we are going to make the business bigger."
Hearing Xiao Zheng say this, Xiao Hai suddenly smiled and said: "Brother Xiao, your medical skills are not only amazing, I found that your ability to make money is not worse than your medical skills at all, brother, I have come back with this money since I followed you, I Xiao Hai never thought that I could make so much money in my life, everything is up to you."
After going home to the babies, I often grind some things in the pharmacy at night, bring the medicine pot into the room to boil the medicine by myself, sometimes write while dispensing the medicine, Jin'er asked him curiously what he was doing, Xiao Zheng smiled and said that the secret recipe left by the previous master, I was trying to make some medicine, I couldn't hold back my curiosity, and sometimes I wanted to go inside to see what he was doing but was pulled back by Xiao's mother and said: "There are some things you don't want to see, these are the secrets that their masters and apprentices have passed down, what do you always look at him as a woman", When Jin'er heard this, she went back to sleep.