The three of the Shi family, father and son, wandered around the mountains for more than four or five hours, but found nothing, only to find a large patch of white and bright chrysanthemums under a deep valley, and a little wild vegetables. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Shi Youliang and Shi Youbu happily dug up the wild vegetables by the roots, and picked some chrysanthemums.

The three of them returned to Shijiazhai for most of the afternoon. When I first entered the village, I found that the village was much more lively than usual.

After inquiring with the clansmen of the same village, I learned that this morning, the senior officials of the state government brought a large amount of grain from the state to the town, and in the afternoon, the town transported the grain to the village below. Now it is Shijiazhai's turn, and wait, the town's mayor and officials such as the account office, the pawn store, and the police division will send relief food to all the families in Shijiazhai.

"What? Will the new government still take care of this? Shi Fugui opened his mouth wide, thinking of the previous "Holy Country Tianmu System", could it be that this new official mansion called the Holy Country is really for the sake of our small people?

Next, the whole Shijiazhai was jubilant. A few mules pulled several carts, carrying several carts full of grain, into Shijiazhai.

Shi Youbu knew the new mayor of the town, named Huang Jiadi, who was a talent in the state city, and I heard that he went to Guangzhou to participate in the imperial examination, and he went to Zuozhou for two or three months, and only recently returned to Zuozhou, but he did not expect to become the mayor of the town.

Huang Jiadi lost a little bit of the cowardice of Xiucai, jumped on a grain truck, stood on the sacks full of grain piled high, and shouted: "Fellow villagers of Shijiazhai, I am Huang Jiadi, the day before yesterday, I became the mayor of Huolu Town, Zuozhou, Taiping Prefecture, Guangxi Province, Shengguo, and the first mayor of Huolu Town. Entrusted by the Holy King, the Liang Governor of Taiping Prefecture, and the Governor of Zuozhou Huang, I came to Shijiazhai today to release grain for disaster relief. ”

"When the Holy King heard the news of our locust plague, he was so concerned that he couldn't sleep all night. His old man hurriedly spent money to buy a large amount of grain from foreigners and transported it all the way to Zuozhou. First of all, on behalf of the Holy King, I would like to express my sincere condolences to the people of Shijiazhai who were affected by the disaster. Seeing that the people below were staring at the food, Huang Jiadi didn't talk much nonsense, and shouted directly: "Below, the town's account office and treasury are responsible for distributing disaster relief food, each family has it, and the town has a list of the population of each of your families, so you don't have to worry, you have it." ”

The crowd waited patiently and anxiously.

"Shi Laosan, a family of five, suffered a disaster this time, and distributed 100 catties of free relief rice and 50 catties of paid relief rice. Shi Laosan, who is Shi Laosan? Come and claim it by pressing your handprints. A middle-aged man with an abacus and a ledger shouted. When everyone saw it, it was Huang Yuanliang, who was originally the shopkeeper of a grocery store in the town, but now he closed the grocery store and became the bookkeeper in the town.

A family named Shi Laosan at the head of the village stepped forward, and the town's pawn warehouse had already prepared two bags of rice, one large and one small, and Shi Laosan first carried the two bags of grain, hugged them in his arms, and then asked, "What is paid relief grain?" When it is returned, how much is the valley interest? ”

Huang Yuanliang patted his head and said to himself: "Look, I forgot that I have changed the village, and I have to explain it again." ”

At that moment, he said loudly: "Folks, the standard set above, generally suffers from disasters, and each person will be given 20 catties of free relief rice, which is given to everyone by the Holy King's Mansion for nothing, life-saving food." The family has starved to death, even if it is a serious disaster, and each person will be given 25 catties of free relief grain and rice. In addition, there is also a paid relief grain, according to the standard of 10 catties per person working a month, this is received, but it requires every strong laborer to work for the village, town or state. Of course, if the year after next year is good, everyone can pay more of the grain tax handed over to the Holy King's Mansion to repay the Saint King's kindness. ”

"The kindness of the Holy King is as great as the sky, and the third child will definitely return it! Is this old man, who works, a hired laborer? Shi Laosan continued to ask. Everyone also stared at Huang Yuanliang with concern.

Huang Yuanliang shook his head with a smile and explained: "It's not what you think, in fact, this work is also for your own good." The main thing is to organize you in a centralized manner to exterminate locusts, alleviate locust plagues, replant seedlings, restore crops, and build water conservancy facilities according to the arrangements of the prefecture and town. ”

So that's it! Shi Laosan happily pressed his thumb print on the grain collector column in Huang Yuanliang's account book.

Then several more families happily received the grain and pressed their handprints.

"Shi Fugui!"

Shi Laohan was still thinking about how much food he could receive, and he didn't hear Huang Yuanliang's voice at all, until someone else pushed him, and he came back to his senses: it turned out to be himself!

He hurriedly trotted to the grain cart.

"Shi Fugui, your family originally had a family of nine, your wife starved to death, this disaster is considered serious, and 25 catties of free relief rice will be distributed per person, a total of 200 catties. As for the paid relief rice, your family has a lot of labor, and as long as you can afford to work, up to 200 catties, you can set it yourself. Huang Yuanliang said.

"Then I'll ask for 200 pounds!" What Shi Fugui thought about was that as long as he had food to eat, what he had was strength. He pressed his handprint on the ledger and took two bags of 200 catties of rice each.

"Remember to listen to the notice from the village, tomorrow as early as possible, and the day after tomorrow later, everyone will be asked to work!" But it was the voice of the mayor of the town, Huang Jiadi, beckoning everyone to be on standby at any time.

Shi Fugui moved the rice aside and asked his two sons to come over and carry the rice home together. Along the way, Shi Fugui was happy and sad.

Happily, the family doesn't have to worry, digging up some grass roots and tree roots, plus these rice, it is enough for a family of eight to survive.

Sadly, he remembered his mother-in-law, Shi Huang, again!

It's a pity that her mother-in-law was just a few days away from starving to death. If you survive these two more days, you won't have to starve to death!

blame myself for being reluctant to buy food earlier, and later, after buying food, I was reluctant to put more rice. and her own carelessness, she went out to dig grass roots and look for wild vegetables every day, and she didn't care about Shi Huang's family, so she just drank some wild vegetable soup for a few days, and the rice was not sticky, and she starved to death.

Thinking of this, Shi Fugui gave himself a mouthful, hugged the bag of rice, squatted on the side of the road and cried bitterly.

The Shi brothers also unconsciously shed tears.

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At dawn the next day, the village chief woke up the villagers of Shijiazhai from house to house, gathered together, introduced a few people behind him, and said: "This Master Li was sent by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Shengwang Palace, and came to our Shijiazhai to supervise the extermination of locusts; This Mr. Chen is the deputy director of the state police bureau, and he accompanied Mr. Li to our Huolu Town; In addition, the town's police officer Zhang and teacher Wang, as well as Mayor Huang, you all know each other. ”

Huang Jiadi stood up and said, "I'll first write down the number of workers and their names." Then he went out with Police Officer Zhang and Teacher Wang, and the task of these days was to eradicate locusts and eliminate future troubles. (To be continued.) )