Chapter 206: Soup kitchen

In addition to these four big people, Mingyue also asked Liu San to send a lot of food and two text messages to Old Man Ming and Old Man Tao.

As for the remaining six dart masters, she kept two in her own house and two in the newly bought house of the Ming family, and the remaining two were responsible for escorting several boys living in the Ming family and the Yu family to the academy and private school.

Although these boys were around, Ming Xu and Yu Jiayan arranged for them to be followed by a young man who was old and serious, but after all, the little guy was young and had a low force value, so if he really wanted to encounter something, the little guy was small and weak, and he was afraid that he would not be able to use it much.

Mingyue didn't want to let her own brothers, cousins, and cousins be hurt because of her luck psychology.

After this matter was done, Mingyue began to help Yu Jiayan deal with the matter of soup kitchen.

Now there are not many displaced people in the county, and the Ming family and the Yu family have partnered to set up a porridge shed in the eastern suburbs of the county, and three cauldrons are placed in the porridge shed.

Every day, these three cauldrons are basically dried artichoke, dried sweet potatoes and jade wheat ballast, and occasionally Mingyue will let people mix some sorghum rice, soybeans, red beans and other miscellaneous grains into it.

The six women who helped cook the porridge and divide the porridge were neat and capable women with clear eyes who were personally selected by the Ming family's steward Lin among the displaced people, and they helped the Ming family and the Yu family to do things.

In addition, the Ming family and the Yu family also hired some displaced people to build thatched huts in the eastern suburbs of the county with thatched grass and mud, which were simple but could shelter the displaced people from the wind and rain.

Thatched huts are given priority to the elderly, infirm, women and children among the displaced people, and those young and middle-aged homeless people who help build thatched huts can get two catties of coarse grain or 20 copper coins as wages in addition to two full meals a day.

Mingyue, Yu Jiayan, the little couple and all the people of the Ming family did not appear in the porridge shed, and all the masters of the two families were only responsible for the transfer of money and food, and as for the matter of soup kitchen, the two families were all handed over to their subordinates.

The subordinates of the Ming family are headed by the Lin steward of the Ming family, and the subordinates of the Yu family are headed by Yu Jiayan's little servant Changping.

Because the two families are united to do good deeds together, Yu Jiayan has already instructed several subordinates from Zhuangzi in advance to let them work hard and obey the command and dispatch of Steward Lin.

These subordinates carefully selected by Yu Jiayan are all honest, diligent and capable, plus Yu Jiayan's little guy Changping leads by example, these people and the subordinates of the Ming family cooperate quite tacitly.

Following the Ming family and the Yu family, other large families in the county also set up porridge sheds one after another.

As the parents of a county, Gu sent all the servants in the yamen and all the male servants in his own house, on the one hand, to maintain law and order in the county, and on the other hand, he was afraid that some large families would use moldy and spoiled food to relieve the victims.

Although this kind of rich squire who wants to save money and seek fame belongs to the stranger among the different and the strange among the strange, it is undeniable that there will inevitably be one or two or even more of these people in any dynasty and generation.

Master Gu didn't want to bet on something that was not easy to say like "human nature", he would rather work harder and bother more than wait until someone died to clean up the mess.

Fortunately, the number of displaced people is not so large that it makes people panic, and even if each family gives porridge, the amount of food lost every day is far from the point where it makes the main family feel distressed, flesh and liver.

In the two months after the county began to help the displaced people, the fields with water in Fuxing County were watered two or three times, so that the people finally survived until the autumn harvest in fear.

Although due to the drought, the yield of each family's field will inevitably decrease, but compared with those villages where the harvest is only half of the harvest of previous years at most, or even no harvest at all, villages such as Wulitun and Taojia Village have only reduced the yield of the fields by about two or three percent, and the villagers simply miss Amitabha Buddha to express their gratitude and happiness.

Especially after seeing the crowds of miserable homeless people outside the village, the villagers were even more deeply glad that they could live in the same village with the Ming family, the Tao family, the Wang family, and the Zheng family.

People began to talk one-sidedly about the good words of the family and the relatives of the Ming family, but the Ming family, the Tao family and other families who were constantly talked about by them were busy with everyone.

In addition to dealing with the grateful villagers who come to their homes frequently, they also have to be busy organizing people to see that the crops in their fields are not harmed by the displaced people.

In addition, each of them basically has juniors who are studying, and they need to go to Fucheng to take the exam before the autumn harvest begins.

Although the city had already sent a message to the families half a month ago, saying that the Ming family would help these children prepare transportation (mule carts) and places to stay (the Ming family had already bought a small courtyard in Fucheng two months ago).

Mingyue also said that she would let the ten dart masters she had recently hired protect all her cousins who needed to go to Fucheng to take the exam, including Goro.

But even so, each of them inevitably has to prepare clothes, coils, pens, ink, paper and inkstones for their children.

Everyone was in a hurry, first making single clothes, jackets, cotton clothes, shoes and socks, preparing enough silver money and good pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then sending their children to the mule cart.

In addition to the ten dart masters hired by Mingyue, including Jin Shiping, who went to Fucheng with these children, there were also Mingcheng, Mingtang, San Lang and the two mothers-in-law and six little servants they brought with them.

Mingcheng is a steady but shrewd person, although Mingtang and Saburo have a little bit of a temperament, but they all have a good kung fu.

With the three of them following, plus Jin Shiping is Mrs. Zheng's maiden nephew, and the relationship with the Ming family has always been close, and they escorted several young men, including Wulang, to Fucheng, whether it is the Ming family or the relatives of the Ming family, everyone can worry a little less.

As for the subordinates they brought, the six servants were responsible for helping with the errands, tidying up the room, and washing clothes, while the two mothers-in-law were responsible for preparing three meals a day, snacks and soup for this large group of people.

He took the official letter from Gu Zhi County and went to the Shangguan of Gu Zhi County to apply for opening a warehouse to release grain and provide relief to the victims.

Some of the people rode mule carts, some rode mules, and they hurried and hurried, and finally rushed into the city at the end of Shen Shi (half past four in the afternoon) when they were about two quarters of an hour.

Because it was getting late, Mingcheng and the others invited Master Wei sent by Gu Zhixian to the small mansion they bought in Fucheng for a while.

Master Wei has dealt with the Ming family a lot, and Gu Zhixian attaches great importance to Ming Xu, so Master Wei has actually been building a good relationship with the Ming family and the Yu family without a trace.

At present, Mingcheng sincerely invited him to his home as a guest, and Master Wei agreed after a little thought.