Chapter 63: The Suffering of the People
Just when the two of them were eating well, there was a shouting and scolding from the shopkeeper outside the door.
"Let's go, this is not the place for you to come, get out of here."
Mo Qing's vision was blocked by the shopkeeper, so she didn't know what was going on outside.
An Shuangchi had been sandwiching food for her, and the focus was on her, so when Mo gently asked him what was going on outside, he didn't know.
"Little Er, what's going on?" The shopkeeper heard Mo Qingrou calling him, and hurriedly ran in, and at this time, Mo Qingrou also saw the situation outside, a ragged old woman with a little girl about six or seven years old was standing at the door to ask for money from passers-by.
"Yo, I'm sorry, but spare you, madame." The shopkeeper walked over and apologized to Mo Qingrou and An Shuangchi.
But Mo Qing's eyes kept staring at the grandfather and grandson outside.
"What's going on with them?"
"They're just called Hanako, and the little ones will send them away, so as not to stain the eyes of the lady."
Without waiting for Mo to gently stop him, Xiao Er walked quickly to the grandfather and grandson and pushed them away.
"Little second brother, you can do it, my granddaughter hasn't eaten for three days, and she won't be able to hold on to it when she's still so young."
The little two pushed her regardless of it, and the old woman was unsteady under her feet and actually fell.
Mo Qingrou couldn't stand it anymore, so she asked Xiao Er to bring their grandparents and grandchildren in.
"Old woman, you see what your granddaughter likes to eat, let her eat here, we order so much and don't eat it, it's a waste, if you don't dislike it, even if you do us a favor, okay?"
"It's ......." The old woman was still a little hesitant before, but when she saw Mo's gentle and sincere appearance, she nodded with tears in her eyes.
"You're such a nice guy, thank you."
When the child saw the food, he did not devour it, but put some food in the bowl with chopsticks, and began to eat it slowly and methodically after getting permission from the old woman next to him.
Mo gently saw that they didn't seem to be poor people, why did they fall to such a state.
"Old woman, I see that you are well-read, not like a poor family but a big family, why did you become like this?"
The old woman wiped her tears and said: "We are from the town next door, because of the war will the family fled here, my lord was a merchant in the town, since General An lost the battle, Jungar occupied the town, and drove us out, my son and daughter-in-law did not agree with them to occupy our family property, so they quarreled with them, who knew that the beasts actually killed my son and daughter-in-law in public, poor my granddaughter just lost her parents when she was just six years old, After the death of my son and daughter-in-law, my lord and I took my granddaughter all the way to get here, but after arriving here, my lord was seriously ill and is now struggling in a temple. ”
An Shuangchi was deeply sorry when he heard that they had all fallen here because of him, and gave them some silver to use to grab medicine and find an inn to live in.
The old woman took the silver and gratefully took her granddaughter to Kneel down for An Shuangchi: "Thank you Son, thank you Childe." ”
An Shuangchi picked them up and said to them guiltily: "Old woman, I am General An's subordinate, General An knows that he has lost the battle, and he is ashamed of the people of Li on this side, you can rest assured that General An will definitely seek justice for you." ”
The old woman nodded: "We believe in General An, General An is our god, and he will definitely do it." ”
Mo Qingrou learned from the old woman that all the people in their town had fled here and were now taking refuge in the temple.
Mo Qingrou discussed with An Shuangchi, and asked the old women to take them to see the people, and An Shuangchi naturally agreed.
Mo gently asked the shopkeeper to pack the meals she hadn't eaten, and she took them to the temple.
As soon as they entered the temple, they found that there were still many people hiding here, not to mention hundreds of people, so many people were crowded into this temple.
She quietly pulled An Shuangchi's sleeve and said to him, "Isn't there a county order here?" Why don't these refugees have a place to live? ”
"The county here is not as good as the pig and dog." One of the refugees next to them cursed angrily.
"Big brother, what the hell is going on? Why don't you live or die here, and your prefectural order? ”
The eldest brother looked disdainful when he mentioned the county order, "Our county order there?" Hmph, I have long been in collusion with the people of Zungar, that is, they drove us out, we finally asked for food to get here, who knows that the county order here is not a thing, he actually asked us to give him some benefits, otherwise he would not give us a place to live, you said that our family property has been occupied by the county order and the people of Zungar, who still has silver on him? ”
Mo Qingrou silently cursed a dirty word in her heart, she didn't expect that the officials of the Lingwu Dynasty would collude with the people of Zhungeer to bully their own Li people, which was the most hateful.
"Big brother, I have some food here, you can take it and divide it, there are some small things, let's give it to the elderly, women and children first! If you're young and strong, just wait, and I'll send someone to send it later, okay? ”
When the people heard that there was something to eat, they all gathered around, and they gave the things to the weak people first according to Mo's gentle instructions.
When she was young, the old woman came back with her granddaughter and grabbed the medicine, and thanked Mo Qingrou and An Shuang Chi.
"Madam, thank you, childe." Mo gently supported the old woman who was about to kneel.
"The old woman's immediate urgency should be to save your master first, instead of thanking me all the time here."
An Shuangchi asked Dark Night and the Fifteenth Gang of Old Women to find an inn, and asked Sixteen to take his token to the government to mobilize all available resources.
Mo gently asked Seventeen to take her token and mobilize the funds of the nearest fat fan zhai, and they had to do everything they could to help these Li people.
It didn't take long for a middle-aged man in an official uniform to come over and salute An Shuangchi.
"The villain didn't know that General An was coming, and he hoped that the general would forgive his sins."
"You're the prefectural magistrate here?" An Shuangchi looked at this fat county magistrate indifferently: "It seems that you have made a lot of fat water over the years!" ”
When the people heard General An arrive, they knelt down and saluted, "General An." ”
An Shuangchi hurriedly asked them to get up and said apologetically to the people: "It's all my fault, causing you to lose your home, but I promise that I will definitely seek justice for you." ”
The eldest brother before said: "General An, we don't blame you, if you want to blame, blame this Lingwu Dynasty official for colluding with Jungar, you are our God of War general, it's too late for us to love you!" ”
Soon someone coaxed: "God of War, God of War, God of War...... ”
Hearing the eldest brother's words, the county magistrate wiped the sweat from his forehead, An Shuangchi naturally understood the meaning of his words, so he ordered the dark night to let him arrest this corrupt official who did not consider the people and put him in prison.
"The general spares his life, the general spares his life!"
Fifteen told An Shuangchi that he had let several large restaurants in the town vacate empty rooms for the people of Li to live in.
The people cheered and followed Fifteen to the restaurant, Mo looked at An Shuangchi gently, but he didn't expect him to be a good general for the sake of the people.
After dealing with this matter, An Shuangchi sent Mo Qingrou back to the inn, and he was going back to deal with the matter of the officials' collusion with the Jungar people.
Mo Qingrou asked Dark Night to find a shop for her in the next town, and she decided to open a fat powder fast in the local area to earn the black money of the officials and Junggers to help the people.
In the middle of the afternoon, word came that there was a fat powder shop run by a Zungar man, and that he had killed the Zungar and then impersonated him.
Mo Qingrou disguised herself as Zhungar and blended into the next town, she made some fat powder and sold it on the street.
"Don't miss it when you pass by, this is a new product launched by our store - aloe vera cream, after applying it, you will become young and beautiful."
Mo's soft shout attracted many wives of dignitaries and nobles for a while.
"Madam, look at our cream, it tastes fresh and is not greasy after application, you can try it."
Mo gently applied some to a lady's face, and then the lady praised: "It's really good, I feel like there are a lot of little hands massaging my face, bring me three bottles." ”
When the ladies on the side saw her say this, they also bought it.
In the afternoon, Mo Qingrou's first aloe vera cream sold for a good price, and she priced it ten times more expensive than the fat powder in other places.
Even so, the ladies were scrambling to buy it.
Mo gently asked Dark Night to send the money to An Shuangchi so that he could see how it should be distributed, so that the people would have less complaints about him and less guilt.
She took advantage of the fact that the store was now closed to make some fat powder and put it on her face.
On the second day, if Mo gently guessed that those noble ladies had used good fat powder, they all ran to her to choose fat powder.
Soon, the fat powder was swept away again, and the noble ladies who had not bought it hurriedly asked her if she still had it.
Mo gently and unhurriedly took out some fat powder from the back: "Ladies, ladies and ladies choose slowly, we have a lot of fat powder styles in our fat powder Zhai, everything you need." ”
After those noble ladies finished choosing, Mo Qingrou told them a good news, that is, there will be new products on the shelves tomorrow, and they will be invited to cheer them on at that time.
Mo Qingrou couldn't be busy alone, so she picked two of the four secret guards to honestly help her make fat powder together.
"Sixteen, seventeen, you two will watch me make it first, and then do it yourself."
Sixteen and Seventeen didn't like to talk, so they nodded at Mo Qingrou, and Mo Qingrou saw them nod and began to do it.
The two secret guards are worthy of being selected by An Shuangchi from many people, and the two of them are quick to watch and learn quickly.
It didn't take long for some bottles and cans of fat powder to come out, and Dark Night and Fifteen were responsible for placing them outside, and the three of them were making it inside, and the five of them had a clear division of labor.