"Does the aunt buy rice?"

The bearded man walked to the back of the line and said to the old lady who was holding the rice bag on her head with both hands and the water was up to her chest.

The old lady stood beside Luo Youning with her body bent, like an adult leading a half-grown child, but the child's face was covered with vicissitudes and the numbness of oppression.

The flood seemed to have been calculated, the water depth was level with the steps of the county office, and the ripples caused by Mu Chenmo's movement hit the steps in a circle.

sneered, these people are really enough chicken thieves, they actually built the county government office in the highest position in the town, and added a foundation more than one meter high to build a gentle slope around the water in order to maintain stability.

Luo Youning was still lobbying: "Auntie, my rice is really not expensive, you give me two copper plates, put a pocket for you, and send you home for free." ”

"Hey, I really have two copper plates in a pocket, and I'll give them away for free." The person in front of him was hee-hee.

The other beard guarding the cart was obviously displeased and retorted: "My brother said this because he saw the old man's house, you have to buy twenty wen a pocket and carry it home by yourself." ”

"Seeing that you are a good one, hurry up and pull the cart away, if the county government opens the door and the officials come out, your food confiscation will not be counted, and people will have to be arrested and taken to the prison, so listen to the persuasion and leave quickly."

For a while, the people in line began to persuade one after another, Mu Chenmo had already walked to the steps, and the water on the hem of his clothes was dripping down.

Qi Yu's brows furrowed and furrowed, and his pursed lips showed the master's displeasure, Luo Youning saw everyone speak, and hurriedly began to inquire.

Reaching out and twisting the water at the hem of his robe, Mu Chenmo stood on the steps and looked at the blistered town below, yellow mud soup filled the streets and alleys, and sacks were stacked at the door of every house.

The woman squeezed her skirt around her waist and tied her infant child to her back, and the half-grown child next to her was holding a wooden tray in her hand and scooping out the water that seeped into the yard.

The people queuing up to receive rice urged Luo Youning's voice to become more and more urgent, and from time to time they looked at the gate of the county government and saw Mu Chenmo standing on the steps.

The person at the head of the front row hurriedly beckoned to Mu Chenmo, signaling her to hurry down, and Mu Chenmo walked over curiously.

The middle-aged man lowered his voice: "Only the official master in the county government can stand on the steps, and we ordinary people will be beaten when they come forward." ”

"Oh, are there many people who get beaten?" Mu Chenmo raised his eyebrows and asked.

The middle-aged man glanced at the gate of the county government: "There are many starts, after two lives, we don't dare, you brothers are outsiders at first glance, you don't know the situation in our Luxi Town, let's go." ”

Luo Youning, who was at the back of the team, couldn't say that the old lady couldn't move, and finally couldn't help but carry the old lady behind him, and nodded at Qi Yu and Mu Chenmo.

Qi Yu pushed onto the cart, and Mu Chenmo hugged his fists at the middle-aged man next to him and followed them.

The old lady was finally moved: "I want to receive rice, or my family will starve to death." ”

"Don't worry, we won't starve to death if we meet us, and the rice on the cart will be given to you, how can it be blistered and can't be sold." Qi Yu smiled at the old lady: "But you have to tell us where your home is." ”

The old lady commanded a few people to walk towards the side of the town, and Mu Chenmo observed all the way and found that the farther away from the county office, the deeper the water became.

In order to keep the grain on the cart, Qi Yu carried the rice to his shoulders, and Mu Chenmo took the empty cart.

When they arrived at the old lady's house, the three of them frowned, half of the adobe soaked in the water had collapsed, and the other half had a chair on the table, on which sat a yellow-faced and thin-skinned child.

"Grandma." The child shouted in a milky voice, and looked at Mu Chenmo and the three of them with curious eyes: "Grandma, are there any guests in our house?" ”

Mu Chenmo frowned and looked at the house with four walls, Qi Yu also had a hard time finding where to put the rice, and Luo Youning put the old lady off his back.

The old lady walked up to the child with water, touched his head and said that Xiaobao is really good.

Luo Youning put the cart up and leaned against the wall, took the two bags of rice on Qi Yu's shoulders, put them on the two legs of the cart facing up, and Qi Yu, who freed his hands, took out a piece of candy and handed it to the child like a trick.

"Mother-in-law, how are you going to make a fire and cook at home?" Mu Chenmo glanced at the courtyard soaked in the water.

The old lady's cloudy eyes began to tear: "Zhuangshi, take Xiaobao away, follow my wife and son to starve to death sooner or later." ”

"What about the child's parents." Qi Yu asked.

With a long sigh, the old lady wiped her tears: "It's dead, the child's mother was swept away by the flood, and the child's father didn't come up to save it, strong man, you take Xiaobao and find a big family to sell it." ”

Leaving Qi Yu to chat with the old lady, Mu Chenmo took Luo Youning to buy a sack, and when he heard the price of the sack, Luo Youning thought it was a jumper, and the shopkeeper didn't quarrel with him and looked at him like an idiot.

Mu Chenmo took out ten taels of silver and bought twenty sacks, returned to the old lady's yard, filled the collapsed half of the house into sacks and stacked them at the gate, strengthened the half-collapsed walls, and scooped up half of the yard's water.

When the sun was setting in the west, the old lady's yard was cleaned up with only a layer of mud on the soles of her feet.

Mu Chenmo was also not polite and spoke directly: "Mother-in-law, our three brothers went south with the heart of making a fortune, but I didn't expect to lose all the way, I have to wait for a few days before you leave, and I hope you will take it in, and we will pay for the accommodation to the food." ”

The old lady didn't agree, so she ran to the door and picked up some flood water to prepare to brush the pot.

"Mother-in-law, you can't eat this water." Mu Chenmo frowned to stop.

"It's okay, it's clarified, boil it and eat it." The old lady said with a smile.

If you don't go to the people and live with them, you won't know how hard their lives are.

Mu Chenmo's fists clenched tightly, and Qi Yu and Luo Youning's faces also changed, I really don't know how the high-ranking county government disregards the survival of the people.

The old lady was busy with her body, and Xiaobao followed behind her and said that the sugar was really sweet, and climbed on the old lady's legs with her long arms.

The old lady picked him up, and the little man stuffed the remaining half of the sugar in the palm of his hand into the old woman's mouth.

Her eyes flickered and she looked at the old lady: "Grandma, Xiaobao didn't lie to you, it's really sweet." ”

The old lady nodded, her eyes flashed with tears, but the hearts of Mu Chenmo and the others seemed to be burned on a fire.

When night fell, Mu Chenmo and Luo Youning came back with firewood and a bucket of clean water, and cooked a pot of thick porridge for dinner.

Looking at the grandparents and grandchildren curled up on the wet bed, Mu Chenmo flew out of the roof, and fell silently into the backyard of the county government like a big bird with wings.

The dry land, the lush flower beds, the bluestone piled up of bluestone, the laughter of the women at the mouth of the well, this is simply the paradise of Luxi Town.

A pair of hands rested on Mu Chenmo's shoulders: "Mo'er, if you can't give the people a Lang Lang Tiankun, I, Qi Yu, will ......"

Mu Chenmo blocked Qi Yu's mouth with his hand and shook his head at him, what is wrong with Qi Yu, even the emperor can't do anything in the face of the current situation.

She is willing to be a knife and a god, and she can't just want to bring a stable and stable life to the people, but the idea of agriculture and industry is deep-rooted, and it cannot be reversed without the accumulation and elimination of time.

I really don't know what these people are doing with so much silver, they don't bring anything with them in life and death, the family has nothing more than three meals a day, and there are hundreds of rooms in the house that are nothing more than a bed.

Mu Chenmo really wanted to go down and grab the county order and pinch his neck to ask him well, but she couldn't, she could only lie here and sulk.

If we can't wipe out all these people, I am afraid that as soon as they leave the spring breeze and blow again, the people will have to suffer again.

But if you don't have good people to manage the constraints, I'm afraid you will lose all your efforts.

Mu Chenmo's eyes looked at Qi Yu, did he really want to push him onto that chair?

"Your Excellency."

Mu Chenmo looked down, and a man wearing a cloth scarf and a green robe who looked like a master hurriedly ran to the main house, quietly followed him, dodged and hid under the window to eavesdrop.

"My lord, let's hurry up and plug the mouth, saying that the Seventh Prince and General Mu will be here in the next two days."

"What." After a sound, there was a sound of footsteps inside: "What are you doing in a daze, quickly find someone to block it." ”

The sound of running, the sound of pushing the door, Mu Chenmo and Qi Yu glanced at each other, Mu Chenmo followed behind the master, and Qi Yu stayed behind to continue to monitor every move of the county order.