At this time, the immature voice of soybeans and bean curd came from outside the door: "Mother......!" Mother......! ”

Liang hurriedly went over and opened the door, only to see that the soybeans and bean curd had eaten up the black bread, and even the corners of his mouth were licked cleanly, and his eyes were bone-lint looking at Liang, with an unfinished expression.

Liang touched the heads of the two children distressedly, turned back to fennel and said, "Okay, you can take the children back to cook quickly, I'm afraid the family is hungry." ”

Fennel smiled gratefully, got up and walked out.

Zuo Shaoyang said to Fennel: "You ask your father to prescribe some medicine to eliminate appetite, take it back and fry it for everyone to eat, drain all the indigestible things in the stomach, and then boil porridge to eat first, eat porridge for a day, recover the stomach, and then eat normally." ”

Fennel agreed, suddenly remembered something, turned around again, and said to Zuo Shaoyang: "I heard your brother-in-law say that there are people who steal and rob food these days, and the family must be careful!" ”

"Got it, you have to be careful."

Fennel took her two children to say goodbye and left, and Miao Peilan helped Fennel carry food home.

Zuo Shaoyang called Zuo Gui's father and mother Liang into the house and said, "Listening to what my sister said just now, the situation of the hungry people outside is deteriorating sharply, and there are people stealing and robbing food. What to do? ”

"What else can I do?" Zuo Gui smiled bitterly, "As the saying goes, 'only when you are warm can you know honor and shame'." If a man is very hungry, he can do anything. ”

"I'm talking about putting porridge to help the hungry. While the official army has not yet issued a grain requisition order, hurry up and bring the excess grain to the disaster victims first, otherwise, when the grain requisition order comes down, we will have no choice, but we must think of a perfect way to cover up our identity, and we can't let people know that we are putting porridge, otherwise the officers and soldiers will come to inquire about the source of our disaster relief food, once the grain is dug out, it will be miserable. ”

The two elders shuddered. This is what the Liang family is most afraid of, his face turned white, and he said continuously: "Yes, yes, hurry up, why don't you tell your uncle, let them invite the catchers in the yamen to maintain order, and then give porridge relief?" ”

Zuo Gui's father glared and said, "Are you crazy? Let the yamen catch the porridge to help you put the porridge, isn't this openly telling others that you have food at home? The grain requisition order is not allowed to turn your house over and search it? ”

Liang shivered, not daring to say anything more.

Zuo Gui stroked his beard and thought, his goatee was already sparse, and that night he put porridge for disaster relief and was torn off a handful of beards by the hungry and crowded hungry people, and there were not a few left, every time he touched this beard, he had palpitations, and muttered: "This matter must be thought through, otherwise, the disaster relief will not be successful, but he will put his own family name into it, but it will be troublesome." ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "I put porridge on the wall that night, but it was quite safe, but I still couldn't give the porridge to the dying hungry people who needed it most, so I had to think of a way to deliver the porridge to these hungry people." ”

Zuo Gui said: "I've been thinking about this for the past two days, thinking about it, but I can't think of a good way. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "The best and safest way is indeed to organize through the yamen or the official army, check the hungry people one by one, gather those who are critically hungry in one place to supply food, and send them away when they come back to life after the dangerous period." ”

Zuo Gui said: "Won't this expose us?" ”

"Yes, this is a dilemma, if we can save the victims, we may expose ourselves, and if we don't expose them, it will be difficult to help the victims. - Or, let Perrin go alone at night with her face covered, but worry about what she will do if she is in danger? She actually didn't learn martial arts, she relied on her strength, and those two moves. It's okay to kill people desperately, but if she is facing hungry people, she won't hurt people, then it's dangerous. ”

"It's not going to work!" Zuo Gui stroked his sparse beard and said: "Let's do this, let's make a round of the hungry people, and if we find the dying, we will immediately send them to the pharmacy for treatment, and we can give them food to save their lives, and then send them away after being saved." Although this is a bit troublesome, it is safe and can ensure that one is saved and one is alive. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Well, this method is good. ”

Zuo Gui turned his head and asked Liang, "What do you see?" ”

Liang hurriedly said: "The master is naturally a good idea. However, if the general issues a grain requisition order, I am afraid that he will not be able to provide relief anymore, otherwise, once the officers and soldiers know that we have used the food for the victims of the disaster to help the sick and sick, they may turn over the boxes and cabinets to check our ......."

"Hmm" Zuo Gui nodded, "That's reasonable......"

As soon as he said this, he heard Miao Peilan's anxious voice outside: "Brother Zuo! Pushing open the door and rushing in, he saw that Zuo Gui and his wife were also there, and said urgently: "Master, wife, Brother Zuo!" Incredible! Officers and soldiers are going to forcibly requisition food! ”

Zuo Gui and the others were all shocked, and the most worrying thing finally came. Said urgently: "What's the matter?" Don't worry, catch your breath. ”

Miao Peilan swallowed hard, stabilized her mind, and said: "Just now I sent the grain to Sister Fennel home, and on the way back, a team of officers and soldiers came from afar, knocking on the gong, and said loudly, I listened carefully, saying that the general had ordered to requisition the grain of everyone in the city......

At this moment, the sound of gongs came from far outside the door, and some people were talking loudly, but it was not real to hear it from a distance. Zuo Gui and Liang hurriedly went out to see. Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly said to Miao Peilan: "Help me up and go to the door to take a look!" ”

Miao Peilan helped Zuo Shaoyang get up, leaned on crutches, and slowly walked to the door of the pharmacy.

A room full of people were already standing there watching, Zuo Shaoyang walked to the door to watch, heard the sound of the gong, many people came out to see the excitement, and both sides of the street were full of people.

A few officers and soldiers came in the distance, and one in front of them struck a gong and said loudly: "The general has an order, in order to resist the rebels, protect the people of the city, eradicate the unscrupulous merchants who hoard grain, raise the price of grain, and let the people of the whole city have food to eat. Violators will be killed! In order to carry out the general's orders, the officers and soldiers will set up posts in the streets and alleys, and send patrols to patrol everywhere, and those who buy and sell grain privately or in disguise, as well as those who carry grain out, will be punished with the crime of selling grain privately. ”

Sure enough, as Fan Heimian said, the general finally issued a grain ban, obviously affected by yesterday's defeat.

The leading military academy struck a gong and then said in a loud voice: "The general has ordered to purchase military rations from all the people in the city. From now on, each person can only keep one bucket of rations, and the rest must be sold to the officers and soldiers before noon tomorrow. In the future, the officers and soldiers will give porridge to the people to ensure that everyone has something to eat. Folks, this is for the safety of the people in the city, please obey the order. Sell surplus grain to officers and soldiers. At every street corner, there are official and military acquisition points, which can be sold at any time. Two hundred wen per bucket. The deadline is to sell the surplus grain to the officers and soldiers before noon tomorrow. As soon as noon passed, the officers and soldiers would search from house to house and find those who had secretly hidden surplus grain, and they would be accused of collaborating with the enemy. One more fight, execute one person, start with the parents, cut off the head on the street, and show the public! More than three buckets, no matter how many people in the whole family, all of them will be killed! ”

Hearing this, Zuo Gui and Liang's faces changed color, and the corners of their clothes were trembling.

Many of the onlookers were gloating, and it was obvious that these people did not have any food in their hands, and they wished that everyone did not have it, so their hearts were balanced, and they were even more happy when they heard that the officers and soldiers would put porridge to help the people, and they all applauded and cheered.

The military academy said in a loud voice: "The general advises those who are lucky, don't think that you can get away with hiding the grain on the beams of the house, hiding it in the mezzanine of the wall, or burying it in the ground, this is delusional!" Food is not a needle, and your home is such a large area, which cannot be hidden! The general especially advises those who hide the grain in the ground, thinking that they can't find it deep and dreaming! This time, there are soldiers in the grain search team who used to specialize in tomb robbing, and even the catacombs in the wilderness of Yima Pingchuan can be found and dug out, not to mention the place where you live, even if you bury the grain deeper, we can find it for you! At that time, the whole family was beheaded on the street, and the heads of the people were displayed to the public, but it was just this thought! ”

The Liang family was weak, if it weren't for Zuo Gui's father supporting her, she would have been paralyzed on the ground like a puddle of mud, her face was pale without even a trace of blood, her lips trembled and she whispered: "Master......, what can I do ...... master?" Our underground ......"

"Shut up!" Zuo Gui gritted his teeth and whispered angrily, "Stand still!" Don't talk! ”

"Yes......!" Liang slowly straightened up with his hands on his knees and leaned against the wall.

The officers and men of that group struck the gong and shouted loudly over and over again, and slowly walked over, and behind the officers and soldiers who struck the gong were two officers and soldiers, holding a stack of paper in their hands, and posting notices along the way. When they walked to the door of Guizhitang, the officer and soldier turned over a notice and put it on the wall, and another officer and soldier carrying a paste bucket brushed it twice in the bucket with a row brush, put the notice on it, turned it over, snapped it a few times, and pasted it on the wall. Then he continued to beat the gong and walked away.

The family went up to look at the notice, and the content was the same as that reported by the officer and soldier just now. The family looked at each other and remained silent.

Back in the lobby, Zuo Gui slowly sat down on the chair behind the long case, his hands holding the armrests trembling. Liang was even more panicked, and after a while, he stood up and walked into the concoction room to look at the big iron pot that hid the cellar passage, and then came out and turned around in the lobby at a loss, looking at Zuo Gui, and then at Zuo Shaoyang, and stopped talking.

Zuo Shaoyang saw that his mother was so scared, and his heart was also hanging, and now the officers and soldiers have not come to search, she is already afraid of being like this, the officers and soldiers are really coming, there is no need to search, just look at her face, she guesses that there must be surplus food hidden at home, and she will also look for it when she digs three feet into the ground, and the cellar is a hidden place that everyone can think of, where can it be hidden.

(To be continued)