Chapter 45: The Victims
The weather is cold, and in a flash it is late in the blink of an eye, and there are still a few days before the New Year.
Because there were many relatives who defected, the four families discussed and decided to celebrate the festival together, and they could also see and taste the special New Year meals of Yizhou and Quzhou.
There were as many as thirty masters, and even more with servants.
The specific food is discussed by several housekeepers and servants in the inner courtyard, and it is enough to be able to eat a hot meal and make people feel the New Year's atmosphere.
Zhao Jiao thinks it's really good to be the master of a rich family in this era, just eat whatever you want.
At noon on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was held on time in the academy.
The special Quzhou balls, soup dumplings..., Yizhou's rice cakes, roast chicken..., Qingzhou's characteristic stews, etc., in the firecrackers and children's cheers, adults also drank and ate happily.
At the end of the banquet, the servants were cleaning up the cups and bowls, and the old man Song walked in quickly.
"Master, something happened to Zhuangzi!"
Cai Dacheng was taken aback, and immediately sat upright, "Say!" ”
Others also looked up and listened.
Old man Song said: "According to the pre-arrangement, the Zhang Datou family first had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and then the father and son were guarded five miles away from Zhuangzi, and the Chen family and the more than ten subordinates left by the Bian family took turns to eat.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, a large number of displaced people came from the direction of the town, and it seemed that there were hundreds of people. Zhang Datou arranged for his younger son to deliver a letter to Zhuangzi, and he and his eldest son retreated two miles away to continue waiting.
According to prior training, the materials that are not urgently needed were hidden before yesterday, and now the remaining personnel are evacuated. Chen Zhu, the son of Chen's housekeeper, first flew a pigeon to send a message to Pan Village, and then led the rest of the people to take all the poultry and livestock, and sprayed the drug around Zhuangzi before retreating to Pan Village.
As soon as he received Zhang Datou's letter, he and his eldest son Zhang Hammer also retreated to Pan Village, while those homeless people surrounded our entire Zhuangzi, kept banging on the door, and some of them were even climbing over the wall. ”
After the old man Song finished speaking, he handed Cai Dacheng a few notes from the carrier pigeon, and then stood and waited for him to give orders.
Cai Dacheng read it quickly, and instructed the third child of the Song family to inform the fifth uncle, so that they could organize the young and strong men who had been organized before to patrol in shifts.
Here he asked Old Man Song to arrange for a few subordinates to also set up a patrol team to patrol the neighborhood, especially around the mountain, while he himself rushed to Pan Village.
Cai Dacheng didn't come back for five days.
Home security and scheduling are managed by 20%.
Old man Song was worried that there would be homeless people going up the mountain, after all, a gap could be found anywhere in the thousands of miles of mountains, so he paid special attention to the mountain trails that were commonly used at ordinary times, and asked special people to patrol them from time to time.
And Mrs. Song and others kept making food, such as steamed buns and other convenience foods, which had been prepared a lot, and now they have added them, and each of the inspectors in the village has been given two on time every day as snacks or supper.
In addition, I have prepared a lot of hot soup and porridge, which are warmed by the stove, and a lot of side dishes are prepared for the inspection to eat at any time.
The weather was very cold, mostly more than ten degrees below zero, and the water dripping outside turned into ice.
Zhao Jiao also arranged for idle women to weave earmuffs, gloves, knee pads, etc., and she distributed cotton here, and distributed them to the strong men from door to door after they were ready.
On the evening of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Cai Dacheng came back, didn't care about freshening up, drank a few bowls of hot porridge first, and then slowly ate a few steamed buns with side dishes, and only after the meal did he take off his dirty clothes and take a hot bath.
Zhao Jiao followed him to the bathroom, and was relieved to check that he didn't see any wounds all over his body. Let Sister-in-law Song burn the blood-stained clothes, and she feels bad luck if she doesn't burn them.
Cai Dacheng came out of the bathhouse, she asked him to sit on the stool in front of the dresser, and took a cloth towel to wipe his hair.
"Brother Dacheng, have the homeless people retreated?" Asked while wiping.
Cai Dacheng enjoyed the service of his mother, closed his eyes and replied: "I didn't leave all, I guess they also know that it is going to snow, the weather is cold, and there is nothing to eat, and many people drag their families to flee."
Because the road is difficult, they want to find a cave nearby to live in, and they can also find something to eat by leaning on the mountain, but the place they are looking for is the mountain behind the villagers, how can they let them go up? It is possible to enter the village in the middle of the night, so there is a stalemate.
There are a few people who like to provoke troubles and are not honest, and it will be easy to solve it. ”
Zhao Jiao didn't make a sound when she listened, her hands kept moving, and she was about to dry.
Ercheng said: "Brother, how many people are there now?" ”
Cai Dacheng: "There should be more than 100, and most of them are gone." ”
Ercheng: "Will there be more in the future?" There are a lot of people affected by this disaster, a few states. ”
Cai Dacheng grabbed Zhao Jiao's hand and asked her to stop, and then he carried her to bed.
"Although it is a diameter to go to the capital from our Qingzhou, you can avoid a lot of detours, but those who often run outside know it.
At first, the victims panicked and had no way out, and in a short period of time they had no relatives to join, and they might follow them in a swarm. But the disaster victims behind are not necessarily, after all, most of them don't have that vision, and they don't have much knowledge to think about going to the capital, and the vast majority of them are illiterate and don't know the way.
I estimate that it would be good to have a maximum of 10,000 or 20,000 people in Qingzhou, and even fewer who can go to Qingshan Town and find us here.
In addition, the imperial court will not ignore it.
There are three prefectures that have really been affected by the disaster, but there are five or six prefectures around Quzhou that are not affected by the flooding of the Qu River, so the prefectures, prefectures, and counties that the victims pass along the way can leave a lot behind.
The number of people who can come to us this time should be the largest, and even if there are more than 100 people in the future. ”
Zhao Jiao was held in her arms by Cai Dacheng, she felt that she was not miserable when she first came, and after comparing in her dreams, her life could be regarded as heaven. But I still feel like I have to do something, it's a living human life!
"Ercheng, are we very well stocked with coarse grains? I know that some of the reasons you have prepared so much are probably for the sake of the victims. ”
Ercheng nodded, "I will arrange it on the first day of junior high school, just wait for my brother to arrange it." We can't run everybody, we have to have a charter. ”
Cai Dacheng said: "Yes, let Old Man Song deal with it tomorrow." "He was also tired in the past two days, and Pan Village, Tang Village, etc. went to check separately and found loopholes to help them solve them immediately, so it was delayed for so many days.
"Brother, I want Uncle Song to take a look by the way, if there is a suitable one, take the opportunity to buy a few people, our family business is not small, and when we assign personnel to inspect, we find that there are too few guards, which is very dangerous."
Cai Dacheng: "Okay! You look at it. Then he remembered something, "Jiaojiao, weaned in the past two days?" ”
Zhao Jiao pinched his waist with his hand, and said angrily: "What kind of milk is weaned on such a cold day!" My son had to make him eat until he was one and a half years old. ”
Cai Dacheng touched his nose and kept silent, otherwise he would offend the child's mother.
And Ercheng laughed out loud unceremoniously! What kind of Dexing can he not know? If it wasn't for a reason, even if he thought about his wife again, even if he was single for a lifetime, he wouldn't want to touch his mother! His son has enjoyed it for a year, and he is so naked jealous!
Although I was a little tired, I didn't want to sleep for a while, and the jade body in my arms exuded the temptation of leading people to commit crimes, and the two of them were tightly glued together...
Zhao Jiao passively endured Cai Dacheng's collision, and could no longer think, only he was in her heart at this time.
Before the Lantern Festival, due to the effective organization of each village and the immediate notification of subsidies to the victims by the county government, most of the displaced people were finally dispersed, leaving less than 30 people.
And most of these people who stayed knew that the Cai family wanted to buy people, so they stayed and waited for the Cai family to pick someone before deciding whether to leave.
Cai Dacheng was afraid that they would carry the epidemic, and even if they bought it, they didn't dare to keep it at home, so he first asked people to build a temporary resettlement house in the col near the mountains outside Pan Village, temporarily isolated, and provided food, cotton clothes and other things, so that they could live without worry.
As the old saying goes, great disasters are often accompanied by great disasters, and epidemics often occur. Those who have soaked in this water, especially the clothes and food left behind, may carry germs, so it is better to isolate them for a period of time.
Zhang Datou's family, the Chen family, and the Bian family returned to Caijiazhuang together to help deal with the drugs left behind. If it weren't for this medicine, this house would definitely not be saved, and what would hundreds of people look like if they were ruined?
At that time, a victim didn't know whether he touched his mouth or what, and he fell from the window at that time, silently, and everyone was shocked!
The ancients often pushed the unknown things to the ghosts and gods, and no one touched the house after a few fell in succession, for fear of offending the great immortals.
Cai Dacheng made the drug strong in a short period of time, and the poisoned person would wake up weak after a day. And sprinkled on the doors and windows of Cai's house, walls and other places, as long as it encounters water, it can be diluted and decomposed, and there is no aftermath, so let them pick up water to wash the doors and windows and other things, but it is not so easy to clean up in the cold and snow.
At the end of the first month, among those people, the Cai family left seventeen people, all looking for a family to take the small, so that the people who sold themselves can rest assured, and the remaining twelve people take care of them to do long-term work, and they will talk about whether to buy or sell their bodies in the future.