Zuo Shaoyang chuckled in his heart, and immediately remembered the day when all the grain in the city was sold out, passing by the fragrant tea shop, what Sang's mother said to him, asking him to use grain as a dowry and marry Sang Xiaomei. Because he was unwilling to spend money to buy a daughter-in-law, he flatly refused. Could it be that their family has run out of food?

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly said: "Have you finished eating the food?" ”

Huang Qin sighed: "Yes, my mother-in-law wants to raise money to lend to the shopkeeper Qu, so there is not much money left at home, so there is not much money to buy grain, and there is not much to save grain, so I will buy it when I want it." How do we know that the rebels will surround Hezhou and the officers and soldiers will requisition all the food? Alas! On the day of the food shortage in the city, there was a little rice and noodles left at home, and I was supposed to buy it in two days, but the result was ......, alas! At noon the day before yesterday, the last grain of rice in the house was eaten, and there was only tea at home. I can't eat it as a meal, little sister, we haven't eaten for almost two days......"

No wonder Sang Xiaomei looked so haggard, it turned out that she hadn't eaten for two days, and she had to come out to fetch water. Zuo Shaoyang felt sorry in his heart and asked, "Can't you borrow it from relatives and friends?" ”

Huang Qin sighed: "I borrowed it, but they all said that their family didn't have enough to eat, so they refused to borrow it." My father-in-law and mother-in-law have made ten buckets of rice, and no one is willing to sell food! ”

Zuo Shaoyang said to Sang Xiaomei: "Why don't you go to find Old Man Zhu, isn't he the guy who supported the boat with your father back then?" He should be able to help you. ”

Sang Xiaomei said mournfully: "I went, more than once." Zhu Lao Shopkeeper said that although there is still some food in their family, there are too many people to eat, and they can't squeeze food out of their teeth to others, right? So I refused to sell. ”

Huang Qin said: "Zuo Gongzi, where is your family?" Did you buy food? Is there more? ”

Sang Xiaomei wept and said: "Sister-in-law, don't talk about it, Zuo Gongzi's family must not have much food......

Zuo Shaoyang thought to himself, if it was just Sang Xiaomei and Huang Qin, he was willing to take out food for them to tide over the difficulties, even if he added Sang Xiaomei's brother Sang Wazi, he would admit it, but when he thought of the disgusting Sang mother and Sang Daddy, he wanted to take out extremely precious food to feed these two goods, and he was a hundred unwilling in his heart. If they gave the food to Sang Xiaomei and the two of them, they would never eat it privately and not give it to their parents and in-laws. What can I do?

Sang Xiaomei and Huang Qin saw him stunned and stunned, thinking that he couldn't do anything, sighed, and went down the steps listlessly with a bucket to fetch water.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at Sang Xiaomei's somewhat emaciated back, thinking of her affection for herself these days, and she couldn't let her suffer no matter what. I can't say that I can only save it together, so that those two old bastards are wiped out.

But he couldn't let them be in vain, he rolled his eyes and thought of an idea. Put down the bucket, quickly walked down the stone steps, came to the side of Sang Xiaomei and Huang Qin by the well, glanced at the officers and soldiers supervising next to them, put his head to Sang Xiaomei's ear, and said in a low voice: "You wait for me at the entrance of the alley in front of you, I'll go back and get something for you, right away, wait for me!" ”

Sang Xiaomei and Huang Qin's eyes lit up, and they seemed to have guessed what he was going to get, and they both nodded excitedly.

Zuo Shaoyang rushed back to the pharmacy, and Zuo Gui's father was retreating the wounded in the ward. Zuo Shaoyang called his father aside and said in a low voice: "Sang Xiaomei, their family is out of food, there is no place to buy or borrow, I want to give them a little rice, Dad, do you think it's okay?" ”

Zuo Gui pondered for a moment and said: "Last time, our family was forced to pay a debt by a group of creditors, and it was Miss Sang who took out the dowry given by her grandmother and gave us the money to repay the debt. How many meters are you going to give them? ”

"Well, let's take five buckets first."

Zuo Shaoyang has considered this problem, there are a total of five people in the Sang family, and these five buckets of rice are only about sixty catties, if nothing else is added, it can only last for half a month at most, but with the addition of wild vegetables and miscellaneous grains, or boiling into a paste to maintain the minimum needs of life, it should be able to barely last for about a month. The leaders of the rebels are two generals of the Tang Dynasty before, and they are also very powerful in fighting, and they have occupied a dangerous terrain, and now the Turks are harassing the border, and the main forces of the emperor Li Shimin are dealing with the Turks in the north, and they can't draw more troops to deal with the rebels, so this battle will definitely be a protracted battle, and it is estimated that it will take three or four months to defeat the rebels, but he doesn't dare to take too much food out at a time, in case this Sang Mu is short-sighted and greedy for high interest to take it and sell it, it will be miserable. So take out five buckets first, and then see the situation later.

Zuo Gui nodded: "Okay, but Sang Xiaomei's old mother is really hateful, I really don't want her to take advantage of this!" ”

"I have a way to help Miss Sang, and let her hateful old lady not take advantage of her." Zuo Shaoyang whispered his thoughts, Zuo Gui listened, thought about it, and said: "This method works, it not only helps Miss Sang, but also makes her hateful old mother have no capital to do evil in the future." We can also go to the tea shop and drink tea in the future. ”

Hearing his father's approval, Zuo Shaoyang smiled and prepared to go into the concoction room to get rice. Thinking of one thing, he said, "Sister, their rice noodles will also be sent over by the way, right?" ”

Zuo Gui said: "Don't worry, your brother-in-law has rice noodles from the yamen, if they don't have anything to eat, they will come over and say, if they still have enough to eat, forget it, if it's not enough, give it to them." ”

In ancient times, daughters and sons-in-law were outsiders, and in principle, there was no obligation and habit to help each other, so when Zuo Gui was about to be swept away, he was unwilling to take refuge in his son-in-law, and the son-in-law was not too difficult to get by, and he would not reach out to help.

Zuo Shaoyang now knows his father's psychology, and said, "Why don't I take out the two bags of rice first and put them in your house, and I don't have to take them from the cellar when I want to send them to them." ”

"That's fine." Zuo Gui nodded.

Zuo Shaoyang entered the concoction room, closed the door, took three bags of rice noodles weighing five buckets each from the cellar, carried two of them to Daddy Zuo Gui's house, and carried the remaining one bag on his shoulder, for fear that the front door would go out to attract attention, so he went out through the back door.

Miao Peilan didn't know where he was going with the rice, thinking that there were so many hungry people outside, it was too risky, so she stopped after a few steps, Zuo Shaoyang didn't say anything and asked her to follow, and she couldn't follow.

Zuo Shaoyang felt her worried gaze, and knew what she was worried about, in fact, he himself was a little worried, many hungry people were afraid that they would do everything in order to survive. Miao Peilan has a lot of strength, and she can make two tricks, and it will be a lot safer to have her with her, so he stopped when he walked to the back door, turned around and said, "Peilan, I have something to do, can you go with me?" ”

"Okay!" Miao Peilan happily agreed, picked up a backpack from the corner of the kitchen, and said, "I'll carry the things here on my back, so it's inconspicuous." ”

Zuo Shaoyang agreed, Miao Peilan hurriedly helped her unload the rice on her shoulder, put it in the back basket, and took a firewood knife and put it in the back basket, covered it with a blue cloth, and then carried it on her back.

Bai Zhihan followed, bit her lip lightly, and asked in a low voice, "Young Master, will I go too?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang thought to himself, since you are my personal slave, naturally you will follow me wherever I go, unless I don't let you follow. So he glanced at her coldly and asked lightly, "What do you say?" "I went out with my hands behind my back. Miao Peilan followed.

Bai Zhihan turned his head to look at Liang. Liang hurriedly glanced at her and asked her to follow, and Bai Zhihan hurriedly followed.

The three of them came out of the back door, walked through the alley, and went around the Qingfeng Temple to the street, and then came to the alley where Sang Xiaomei and the others were waiting for him.

Sang Xiaomei and Huang Qin were very happy to see him come back, and they saw that he was followed by the handsome village girl with slightly dark skin who helped him carry water in the morning, and she was also carrying a basket, which was a little surprised.

Looking to the side, Zuo Shaoyang was followed by a handsome young man, this man was dressed in a beard, heroic, slender figure, and a pair of starry eyes Although they were extremely cold, they made people want to look but didn't dare to look, and they would feel an inexplicable sense of security when they saw it. It's just that the face is dark and I don't know what to wipe, and I should be more handsome when I wash it.

Sang Xiaomei's heart is on Zuo Shaoyang, and she doesn't feel anything when she sees the handsome guy, but Huang Qin stares at Bai Zhihan up and down like a nymphomaniac, really smiling at the corners of her mouth, confused.

Her expression naturally couldn't escape Zuo Shaoyang's gaze, she looked at Bai Zhihan behind her sideways, and was a little funny in her heart, and said to Sang Xiaomei: "I'm going to do a business with your father." Let's go! After that, Zuo Shaoyang walked to the fragrant tea shop first.

Miao Peilan looked at the second daughter, smiled, revealing a neat row of small white teeth, and against the background of the slightly dark skin, it was as white as broken jade.

Sang Xiaomei followed Zuo Shaoyang in front. Huang Qin deliberately fell behind, and at the same time secretly took his eyes to look at Bai Zhihan, was swept away by Bai Zhi's cold and handsome eyes, hurriedly lowered his eyes again, his pretty face was already blushing, and turned around to catch up with Zuo Shaoyang. asked, "Zuo Gongzi, who is that young man who followed you?" ”

"It's my medicine boy."

"What's your last name?"

"The surname is Bai."

"Oh, what's it called?"

Seeing her like this, Zuo Shaoyang almost laughed, turned his face and said, "Why don't you ask her yourself?" Hehehe"

Huang Qin glanced at him, and then peeked at the extremely handsome Bai Zhihan, her pretty face turned even redder, and she felt that her heart was about to jump to her throat.

When they came to the Qingxiang Tea Shop, they saw that the door was wide open, but there were no tea customers inside. Sang Mu sat on a bamboo chair at the door, her fat cheeks had fallen, a little puffy, her eyes were blank, her eye sockets were deep, and a large copper kettle with a long mouth was placed at her feet.

Sang Wazi leaned on a pillar, clasped her shoulders with both hands, looked down at the ground, and said nothing.

Daddy Sang is grinding his teeth with the medicine cabinet in the backyard at the moment, and there are only two people in the backyard, the medicine cabinet and the Zhu shopkeeper of Jinyu Restaurant. Father Sang knelt on the ground and waved his hands: "I wish the old man, my father, as long as you let me order rice noodles, you will be my father!" Can't I kowtow to you? You say a price, you can do it! ”

(To be continued)