After a long time, the door of the official mansion finally opened, and the late officials walked out one after another with buckets of wooden barrels, and then there was an official who had just had a full meal with his hands on his hips and a toothpick in his mouth, as if he had just had a full meal, and announced loudly: "Okay, everyone is limited to one time, hurry up and get it, don't delay time!" ”

When the people, who had been looking forward to it for a long time, looked up, they were shocked to find that the wooden barrel containing the porridge was only three barrels today, two barrels less than in the past!

"My lord, why is there less food today, so many of us are not enough to divide at all!" When even someone hesitated to raise their hand and whispered.

"Huh?" The official glared at the man, picked at the gap between his teeth with a toothpick, took a sip, and said impatiently, "That's all, do you think that the food in our government is falling from the sky?" In order to support you Diao people, even our official chef's food is a little less than usual, do you dare to be dissatisfied? ”

"Eat or not, don't eat and fuck off, don't waste our time here!" He waved his hand, not even bothering to look at it, but instead sat down on a chair beside him, humming a little tune with a relaxed appearance.

Although those people hated it so much, they didn't dare to contradict it, so they could only lower their voices and secretly discuss below: "The disaster relief grain of the imperial court must have been sold to the Wang family's rice shop!" Just to make these black money, we don't even care about our lives! What a bunch of ......."

"Well, what can we do...... This collusion between officials and businessmen, we have no power or power, and we can only endure it......" someone sighed.

In fact, these people also have some understanding of the affairs of the Wang family, especially this kind of corruption and perversion of the law has long been rumored. It's just that no one dares to expose this crime, because they all know that if they really dare to do this, I'm afraid that the Wang family will be fine, and they will evaporate from the world.

However, what is worse is that when they took the bowl to hold today's relief food, they found that it was getting lighter and lighter, almost a bowl of clear soup, and only a few grains of rice fell at the bottom of the bowl, which seemed to indicate that it should be a bowl of porridge......

"This ......" Someone wanted to protest, but when he saw the official's eyes staring at him with extremely vicious eyes, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and he lowered his head and turned to leave, not daring to say more.

"Alas...... What should we do if this continues? I'm afraid I really can't survive! ”

Holding the bowl of porridge and drinking it was no different from drinking water, there was no feeling of fullness at all, a young man couldn't help but complain after staying away from the official mansion, touched his empty stomach, and sighed.

"Speaking of which, the dragon king temple in the city seems to have been renovated again, and there should be people there to worship together, so we might as well go and worship the dragon king, so that the gods can end this drought and famine as soon as possible and resume our normal life. Maybe it's quicker than expecting the corrupt officials to repent......"

"That's right. Even if there is any crime, is it not enough to offset the fact that we have suffered so much now? ”

And just when the two people who were talking were about to meet to go to the Dragon King Temple, they suddenly found that the people not far away seemed to have heard some news and began to hurry in a certain direction, as if they were worried that they would not be able to share the money if they were one step too late.

"What's going on?" The two of them were a little confused when they saw this scene, and the sharp-eyed one saw that one of the people running was an acquaintance, and they hurriedly followed with curiosity to ask.

The person who was stopped was a little impatient, and when he looked back and saw that it was a familiar friend, he suppressed his anger a little, but he was still a little anxious and said, "I wonder if there is something important for the two of you to stop me?" If it's okay, I'm in a hurry......"

"I wonder what the people here are going to do in a hurry?" The two asked curiously.

"Oh? Don't you know? The man who stopped him looked stunned and replied, "Just now, someone sent out a rumor that I heard that the food for disaster relief was being distributed free of charge like the school government at the door of the house, although I don't know if it's true or not, but it stands to reason that there is always some basis, and we want to go over and take a look!" ”

"The Wen family is also distributing food?!"

The two of them were even more shocked when they heard this, and felt a little unbelievable.

"Isn't the Wen family a businessman? Why did you start to give kindness to disaster relief? ”

"Is it a lie?"

"It's probably not enough to deceive people, maybe you just want to make a good reputation with some food......," one of them thought about and analyzed, "but even if it's thinner than the government's distribution, at least you can fill your stomach a little without starving, which is a good thing!" ”

The other person nodded and said: "This is also true, not to mention that this Wen family does not have the same background as the government, and the food for disaster relief this time may be distributed soon, otherwise we should hurry over, lest it be bad if it falls short!" ”

As soon as the two discussed it, they planned to go with everyone to the Wen family to have a look.

And when they arrived near the gate of Wen's house, the two of them actually saw an amazing scene!

I saw that there was already a queue in front of the door, and a long queue was even more exaggerated than in front of the government before, almost from the streets to the end of the alley, there were ordinary people rubbing shoulders with a small cloth bag in their hands, all of them were waiting for their turn eagerly, as if the relief food of the Wen family of this small trader was even more attractive than that of the government.

"What's going on?" The two froze in place, vaguely realizing that things didn't seem to be quite what they had expected before they arrived.

"Looking at this, it seems that this Wen family is going to spend a lot of money to win people's hearts this time?"

They watched the ordinary people who had already received the food come out with a small cloth bag and a somewhat strange wood carving in their hands, and they were quite surprised in their hearts.

But no matter what, it's a good thing for them, get it early and enjoy it early, so as not to be late and the Wen family finds that this loss-making transaction is not cost-effective and cancels it.

At the front of the line, a servant looked at the gray-haired old woman in front of her, and patiently scooped a spoonful of freshly shucked rice from the rice bag and poured it into the cloth bag she was holding in the palm of her hand.

The portion is absolutely full, and if you go home and cook it and save some food, an adult can live a more comfortable day without worrying about going hungry again. Compared with the clear water porridge in the government's mansion, it is simply the difference between heaven and earth.

"This kind man, I still have two young grandchildren at home, I wonder if I can give more?" The old woman hesitated with the bag and asked with some trepidation, after all, if such a request was made before the official gate, it would be viciously driven away.

If there is really no way, she can only go hungry and give the food to the children.