When the scribe heard this, his face turned a little colder, and after registering the information on the household register, he gave him a sign made of bamboo with numbers, and waved his hand: "Go to the side to get something, next!" ”

Gu Dashan hurriedly took the sign, took back his family's household registration paper, family severance papers, and Qi Mansion posts, and after receiving these things into the inner pocket of his clothes, he took Gu Jinan to the side to get the things.

The official at the table next to them looked at their bamboo signs and gave them half a catty of grain and an old quilt: "The clothes are finished, only the quilt is left, if you want to take it, if you don't want it, you can put it down, and you can get half a catty of food every day." ”

"Eh, I know, thank you big brother." Gu Dashan said, took the food to Gu Jin'an, hugged the old quilt by himself, squeezed through the crowd, and waited for the third grandfather and them in the distance.

Although half a catty of food is small, he can receive half a catty of food every day, and Gu Dashan is already very satisfied.

But many victims were very angry, and took the half catty of grain and questioned the distributed officials: "Our family of twenty-three people, you will give half a catty of food, how can we live?!" ”

In ancient times, parents were not separated, many of them were three generations in the same house, and a family of dozens of people ate half a catty of food a day, which was not enough at all.

The officials didn't care about them, and when they saw them shouting, they called the patrolling guards, dragged the unobeyed people away, and beat them violently.

After beating dozens of unconvinced victims, the others quieted down and did not dare to complain again.

A quarter of an hour later, the third grandfather and the others also received food and old quilts, and squeezed out of the queue.

Gu Dashan took Gu Jin'an to greet him: "Third Uncle, Second Brother Luo, everyone has received something." ”

The people in Gujia Village all call Luo's father Uncle Luo or Brother Luo, only Gu Dashan knows that Luo's father still has an elder brother in his hometown, but Luo's father has a bad relationship with the people in his hometown, he has not returned to his hometown for so many years, and he doesn't say that he has a brother.

The third grandfather nodded to Father Luo: "I got it, let's go back." ”

Several women are still waiting in the grass huts in the suburbs, and now the suburbs are full of disaster victims, and there are people from all major dental shops scurrying around in the suburbs, and there are many people with bad intentions, they have been out for a few hours, and they are very worried about their families.

Qin Sanlang did not go back with them, but stayed behind to continue to inquire about the news.

Qin Sanlang has kung fu, and he went to inquire about the news all the way to the famine, and several families were no longer worried that something would happen to him, so they did not stop him from going, but helped Qin Lao take the things back to the grass shed in the suburbs.

Half an hour later, they returned to the outskirts.

Today's suburbs are full of this kind of low grass huts tied with long thatched bunds with tree branches, and the grass huts are only more than half a person high, and you need to bend down to enter the grass huts.

After the large grass sheds, they walked around the grass sheds and returned to the grass huts of several families.

Qin Erlang took a machete and led a few children to surround their grass hut, preventing other victims from approaching, and when they saw them coming back, the children of several families all rushed up happily.

"Dad, what did you get to eat?"

"And the quilt, then we won't be woken up by freezing when we sleep at night."

It's the middle of December, it's very cold, and they wake up every night when they go to bed, and they need to get up and run a few laps to warm up before they can continue to fall asleep.

Several adults handed over the things they had received to the children, which made them happy for a long time.

The women of several families were a little disappointed when they saw that they did not bring back the warm clothes, but they were able to receive old quilts and half a catty of food every day, which was already good.

The third grandmother opened the bag containing the grain, and when she saw the grain inside, she laughed: "It's beans and old rice." ”

Chen was not satisfied: "The official master of He'an Mansion is also stingy, so he gave us this bit of food, mixed with beans, and the beans weighed, a few handfuls of beans are half a catty, why don't you give us all rice?" ”

Chu said: "Rice is expensive, there are so many victims, how can the government send us rice for disaster relief?" If you can give beans and old rice, you can steal the fun. ”

Gu Jinli handed over the grain brought back by Gu Dashan to Cui's family, and said to the third grandmother: "Third grandmother, let's pick out the beans, wash the old rice with salt, and boil rice porridge to drink." Let's run away from the famine all the way, starve our stomachs and intestines, drink more rice porridge to nourish our stomachs. ”

Chen shouted: "Salt is more expensive, can we use it to wash rice?" Chen felt that Gu Jinli was too loser, and felt sorry for her future in-laws, if anyone married Gu Xiaoyu, no matter how thick the family background was, it would be ruined.

Gu Jinli looked at her and said, "These old rice are a little moldy, and they will be poisoned if they don't need to be washed with salt." ”

Chen was most afraid of death, and when he heard this, he immediately shut up.

That night, several families drank a meal of boiled and rotten old rice porridge.

After drinking the porridge, Qin Sanlang told everyone the news he had heard: "The government will soon find a place to settle us, and when we received the grain and quilts today, the scribe spent a lot of time registering, just to count the number of victims and make arrangements." ”

"Some officials said that the county commanders of the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Ha'an Prefecture will come to Fucheng tonight, and when the time comes, the prefect will divide the victims into eight counties and let the county commanders resettle them."

When everyone heard this, they were all happy and panicked. The joy is that they have fled the famine for so long, and they are finally going to settle down; Panicked, I don't know where I will be assigned?

Chen couldn't hold back, and immediately asked, "Little Brother Qin, have you heard where will we be divided?" Can it be assigned to a wealthy county? If we get to the backwoods, what can we do? ”

Gu Dagui said: "If there is a place to settle us, it has been calculated, you can be content." ”

How many state capitals closed their gates along the way and sent officers and soldiers to drive them away? Now that I can settle down and pick and choose, is it not enough to live a hard life?

What's more, it is impossible for the prefect to let them choose, if every disaster victim picks a place, it will not be messy.

Qin Sanlang shook his head: "I don't know, the official said." It is only said that the prefect is afraid that so many victims will gather outside the city and there will be an accident, so they will leave in batches before the New Year. ”

So as early as before the Chinese New Year, they will be able to settle down.

When the third grandmother and Lao Yan heard this, they immediately bowed to the outside of the straw shed: "God bless, if you can settle down before the New Year, everything will be fine." ”

Elder Qin was also very happy to hear the news, if they could be placed before the New Year, then the yamen would be in a hurry to seal the New Year, and they would not be too much scrutiny, and they would be safe.

As soon as the prefectural orders for the eight prefectures under his rule arrived, he spent the night discussing and distributing a group of the victims who had registered during the day, and ordering them to take away the victims assigned to them for a maximum of three days.

This can take away a batch of batches, otherwise he will not even dare to sleep when he is surrounded by tens of thousands of disaster victims.

Therefore, at noon the next day, a large number of officials came to the grass huts in the suburbs, and the grass huts were informed of the victims one by one.

When they came to the grass hut of Qin Gu Luotian's family, it was already dark.

The men of several families hurriedly greeted him and asked with a smile: "How many poor brothers, what is this?" ”

The leading officials did not talk nonsense with them, but only asked them to ask for the bamboo cards given to them by the scribes, and after reading the numbers on the bamboo cards, they told them: "Five zero forty-three, five zero forty-four, five zero four-five, five zero forty-six, five zero forty-seven, five zero forty-eight, five zero forty-nine, you families have been assigned to Tianfu County under the jurisdiction of He'an Prefecture, and the people of Tianfu County will come to take you away in the next two days. ”