This heavy snowfall is menacing.

When Xiao Rui left Xie's house, there were only snow beads floating in the sky, and in the middle of the night, it turned into goose feather snow. As the night passed, a thick layer of snow had accumulated in the yard. The servant who got up early to clean the house walked out of the door sleepily, and just as she yawned, her feet slipped and she fell on her buttocks.

Xie Pu got up as soon as dawn, hurriedly ate breakfast, put on a full set of cold equipment, ordered someone to set up a car, and prepared to go out.

He instructed his wife Wen: "Go back and let the kitchen cook a few more pots of mutton soup, put more ginger, and send it to the yamen to warm everyone's body." Just ask someone to bring some dry food for lunch. I don't know when I'll be back. Look at the posture of the heavy snow, this time has not stopped, the snow at home is still very strong, and I don't know what it will look like outside. In the large area where the poor people live in the outer city, and where the displaced people from other places live, most of the houses are old and in disrepair, or wooden and grass houses built at will, and I don't know how many people have collapsed and how many people have been crushed to death after this night. I'm going to have to make rounds and send people to help the aftermath as soon as possible. If you can't come back tonight, I'll send someone to tell you that you have my bunk sent to the yamen. ”

Wen Shi responded while worryingly persuading: "If the master has something to tell the people below to do it, you don't have to experience everything." Your body and bones are not necessarily healthy, and the weather is so cold, if you are infected with the wind cold, it will be terrible. It looks like the New Year is approaching, the two old ladies are here, don't let the second old man worry, it's not going to be good for the year. ”

Xie Pu shook his head and sighed: "The prefect of Beiping fell ill a few days ago due to the wind and cold, otherwise I could still count on him to give me a hand." Now I have to bite the bullet. This is my first year as a political envoy, and everyone is staring at it, so how can I back down at this time? ”

Speaking of this, Xie Pu couldn't help but feel sorry. In fact, two years earlier, he proposed to renovate the areas inhabited by the poor in the outer city, private houses are not easy to move, but the streets and pavements should have been repaired a long time ago, the low-lying stagnant places should also be filled, and the drainage ditches should be excavated earlier.

However, Mr. Zhou's health was not very good at that time, thinking that more things were better than less, so let him stop tossing and concentrate on dredging the canal. He originally wanted to meet Boss Zhou and explain the importance of this matter in person, but since Huang Yan resigned and went home to prepare for the exam, he had one less person in Zhou's house who could help spread the word, and Master Tuesday and Master Thursday always stopped him from talking to Boss Zhou for too long. He didn't want to have a conflict with the Zhou family, so he had to wait patiently for the time being, and he never thought that he would wait for that day.

Now that he has been promoted to political envoy, there is no one to control him, and he can finally put the long-considered affairs on the agenda. But time was too short. Since he took office, he has only had time to have some severely damaged roads in the slum areas urgently repaired with cement, and only two low-lying areas have been filled, and nothing else has been done, before the heavy snow came. I hope there aren't too many homeless poor people, or he really doesn't know where to put people.

Xie Pu frowned, took the long entourage and went out in the car with the three masters. Wen stayed at home, remembering what her husband said, and was also a little worried about the people in the outer city, so she called Ma Lu Yao's family and asked her how much rice and grain had accumulated at home, and whether there was still stock in the shop that had been cleared in the future. If so, on the premise of not affecting their daily use and normal business operations, send a batch to a few familiar temples to prepare for the next two days of soup kitchen. She also plans to write letters to several familiar officials and discuss with them about doing this together. After all, it's almost the New Year, and you can't let the people of this city suffer because of a heavy snowfall, and you will starve for the New Year, right? I love Chinese.com

After her daughter Xie Mulin and Xie Yinghui had breakfast, they went to the upper room of the main courtyard to help Wen deal with related affairs. Xie Mulin also thought of one thing: "Did the Zhou family next door say that the will left by Mrs. Zhou did not ask the family to let her stop her spirit for too long, and asked Mrs. Zhou to transport her coffin out of the city when she went out of the funeral after July 7, and the husband and wife stopped together in the temple they found?" If their family really plans to do what Mrs. Zhou instructs, it is estimated that it will be a matter of the next few days. The people in the outer city may be affected by the disaster, but the Zhou family's usual style must make enough of the funeral pomp. When the family endures hunger and cold, it is easy to attract hatred when he sees his family spend a lot of money on funerals. It is better to persuade the wives of the Zhou family to take the opportunity to give porridge and rice, as long as the poor people are willing to recite the prayer scriptures to the two old people who have died, they will give a bowl of rice to others. If you can help a few more people, it can be regarded as praying for blessings and accumulating virtue for your ancestors. ”

Wen Shi listened deeply: "What you say is reasonable, I will go over to discuss this matter with Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Wednesday in the next morning." Mrs. Zhou had already prepared enough silver for her funeral, but instead of spending it on the virtual pomp, it was better to accumulate more yin virtues for her, so as to bless her with a good birth in the next life, and a lifetime of peace and joy, filial piety and grandchildren, and no worries. ”

Xie Mulin tugged at the corners of his mouth and nodded and said yes.

Xie Yinghui was a little disapproving, and said to Xie Mulin behind her back in private: "I don't believe it, the Zhou family has never accumulated virtue in their actions, even if they come back and forth temporarily, what use can it be?!" ”

Xie Mulin smiled: "Who cares if what they do is effective?" It would be nice to be able to help the poor people outside. Could it be true that we officials and their dependents could pool together some money and give some porridge, water, and medicinal soup to solve the disaster relief problem? What's more, so many of us have contributed, so why should the Zhou family escape? Just because there is a funeral in his family, he has to keep filial piety behind closed doors and not get involved in outside affairs? ”

Xie Yinghui pursed her lips and smiled, and said no more.

When the sun was on the third pole, Xie Yingfen also arrived. She said goodbye to the Wen family with a ashamed face, and apologized: "I should have come earlier, but because my daughter was worried about the fourth brother's health, I went to visit him first, and then I heard the girls in his yard that my aunt was sick, and I was worried for a while, so I went to my aunt first, and delayed asking my wife for peace." Please forgive your wife. ”

How could Wen blame her? Busy said: "It's all a trivial matter, I know your filial piety." How is your fourth brother? What's wrong with your aunt? But it snowed heavily last night, and she was cold? ”

Xie Yingfen replied: "The fourth brother is fine, but he has a little cold and occasionally coughs twice. I told him to stay in the house for two days, and not to go out to blow the wind for a while, and to see how it went. My aunt was indeed infected with the wind and cold, and her spirit was not very good. I would like to ask my wife for a favor to ask a doctor to come and check my aunt's pulse, so that she will not get worse and give her illness to others. ”

Wen agreed. Mr. Liu followed Xie Pu to the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, and she asked people to invite a doctor who opened a business nearby.