When the Meiqu family carried a heavy wooden basin and a wooden barrel, they were too tired to complete the ritual for a circle, and when they returned home, they found that the old monk was gone.

"It must be that the old immortal is gone!" Mei Qu sighed, "I haven't come to thank the old immortal yet!" ”

Yang Xiaohong felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly went back to the house. Almost as soon as she entered the room, she let out a scream.

"What's going on!" Mei Qu impatiently opened the curtain and entered the room to ask.

Yang Xiaohong was so frightened that she couldn't cry, pointed to an empty box on the kang, and said: "Master, those things are gone!" ”

The box recognized by Mei Qu was given to them by the Mao family at first, and it contained a few pieces of gold and silver jewelry, which were left by Qiao Xian, and it was worth 10 taels of silver.

By the time Meiqu gasped and chased out, there was no trace of the "old immortal" inside and outside Xiaohe Town.

After Sister Qiu heard about this, she was speechless for a long time, and heard that Mei Qu took his wife and children to Aunt Mei's house to find Aunt Mei for food, Mei Qu said that Sister Qiu would give Aunt Mei 100 catties of fine noodles every month, and the old couple couldn't eat so much at all, and the rest of the iron must be all called Aunt Mei's taste, Mei Laosu and Mao's can't finish eating the rest of the fine noodles belong to the old couple, and it should be that everyone who is allowed to be a child has a share.

Aunt Mei let Mei Qu and Yang Xiaohong scold by the door, but they didn't come out, and then the tall and strong, tower-like pillar came out with a burning stick, scared Mei Qu away, and warned Mei Laosu and Mao's that if they wanted to send food to Mei Qu secretly, then they would rather not have the three acres of land and 100 catties of noodles per month, and they would no longer support them, and they would not care about anything in the future. Mao tossed for two days, and finally stopped.

"What the hell! It's not a personal thing! After returning from the workshop, Lin Cheng said, "Don't you see the sky and say that you are a scholar?" Why did the scholar call a fake monk to deceive? I've only heard about those grandmothers who Xu Siliu doesn't understand, so I asked those who pretend to be gods and ghosts to deceive! ”

Sister Qiu smiled and persuaded: "Father extinguishes the fire, this money should be his others who can't take it, and he can't keep it if it shouldn't be his." Let's pretend that we don't know, no matter who he calls, it's none of our business. Even if Mei Qu cried to her door, Sister Qiu would not give him a piece of food. Meiqu still has three acres of land, but if you can live, you can't go hungry. Since this happened, Yang Xiaohong cried everywhere because the Jiang family next door stole her man's luck, and everyone in the village saw it as a joke, and in private they all said that Mei Qu didn't have that ability, and she wanted to go crazy again if she wanted to take the name of the subject, otherwise how could she call a fake monk to be blinded, such an unfilial and unrighteous person should have touched this matter. God is long-eyed, and he can't look down on Meiqu's many evils, and the only money he has is stolen.

Dawei and Fleur haven't discussed it in private, but they all feel that it is not cost-effective to leave alone. Qiu Ji's honorary brand has been pushed to all parts of the country, and now there is no one selling tofu and soybean sprouts outside, all of them are petty fights, where are they in the country

The style of the first workshop when the big boss comes? And if they don't go like this, they will not be today, and if they go like this, they will set up another door, and the whole village will point at their backs and scold them for being ungrateful.

Since the employees are loyal, Sister Qiu naturally welcomes them to stay.

Xiaoxu was led into Beijing by Lin Zhun the year before last to catch the exam, but unfortunately he did not get the top prize in the gold department as the big guy wanted, but he was also the eighth place in the first class, and was assigned to Dali Temple to make a general judgment.

"It's not a bad position." Mr. Long stroked his beard and said with a smile, "It's a good job, and there will be a day when you will emerge in the future." ”

Whether it is Xiao Xu's side or Sister Qiu's side, life is all going smoothly, but Zhang Ruoxu's side has a problem. Originally, Zhang Ruoxu's performance evaluations over the years were all excellent, and the internal news from Huang Yushi to him was that he was transferred to Sipin Taichangqing, and he changed from a local official to a Beijing official. However, when he returned to Beijing to report on his work, he made a mistake, and Zhang Ruoxu sinned the servant of the ministry.

There are two servants on the left and right in the ministry, Zhang Ruoxu's crime is Zhu Huai, the left waiter, in fact, it is not a big deal, every year the local officials go to Beijing to report on their work, they have to give all kinds of "carbon respect" and "ice respect" to the bosses of the imperial capital, although Zhang Ruoxu is not used to it, but he still follows the trend. Zhu Huai had heard about the name of Qiu Ji, and because of fate, the Qian family had an indelible relationship with Qiu Ji, so he also revealed that Zhang Ruo was false and asked for a high bribe, otherwise he would have to be an arm and leg in the appointment.

Zhang Ruoxu has been an official for many years, although he has been very smooth in life, in essence, he is still an upright young man, how can he tolerate Zhu Huai's repeated blackmail, and a post was reported to the secretary of the ministry. Zhu Huai is Shangqing's left and right palms, and he reprimanded a few words. But Zhang Ruoxu is a seven-pin magistrate who has changed from a four-grade Beijing official to a poor land.

Dayin and Xiaoxu interceded with people everywhere in Beijing to help them, and only then did they change the place where Zhang Ruoxu served to Jianzhou.

Bang Wan 15 years old to be married in the year, Zhang Ruoxu as the prefect of Jianzhou, the beginning of spring, Jianzhou and the side of Zhuzhou, Lianzhou has not rained, Zhang Ruoxu is worried day and night, trying all kinds of ways to water the ground to protect moisture, relative to the thirsty and cracked earth, these manpower measures are nothing more than a drop in the bucket, just when Zhang Ruoxu is preparing to apply for famine tax reduction, the summer Jianzhou ushered in an unprecedented locust plague in history.

Zhang Ruoxu's fold was handed over, and there was no news, but I was afraid that it was suppressed by others, and it was not handed to the emperor, and the taxes still had to be collected as usual, and it could not be less.

It's just a big drought, it's good to say that the grain production is reduced, and if you want to be hungry and hungry, you will get through this season, but the locusts pass the border, and even the crops and weeds will be eaten cleanly, completely cutting off people's way of living, plus the taxes are not reduced, if you don't handle it well, the displaced people will scatter and flee, it will cause a civil uprising, and the people will suffer, not to mention, Zhang Ruoxu, the official, I am afraid that he will also do it.

Sister Qiu had only watched the terrible locust plague on TV in her previous life, and most of the people in this year were superstitious, "locust" was the same as "emperor", and the people did not dare to exterminate the locusts, for fear of retribution.

Zhang Ruoxu's eldest son Zhang Gu is already 11 years old, and he took his four younger brothers and sisters to drive away in a car for more than ten years

Ri Lu walked to Xiaohe Town and brought a letter from Qian to Lin Zhun.

Lin Zhun read it to the people of the letter, in the letter, Zhang Ruoxu asked Lin Zhun to help take care of the five children, he wanted Hu to bring the children back, but Hu was not willing to go, so the children went back to Xiaohe Town and stayed in Jianzhou with Zhang Ruoxu. Everyone heard the sadness and despair in Qianxin's letter, and if there was no news of disaster relief by the time of the summer harvest, he would risk his life to open the official warehouse of Jianzhou and release grain for disaster relief.

Without the imperial seal of the saint, the local official opened the official warehouse privately, and he should be punished for the crime.

Everyone was silent for a long time, Zhang Ruoxu was the most villain, the two children had a daughter 3 years old, and a child had just been weaned, and even the road was not good, and it was difficult for Zhang Gu A 10-year-old child with four younger siblings to run so far to his relatives.

Zhang Yuxiu, Li Ailian, and the children hugged each other and cried together.

Sister Qiu opened her mouth first, "It's not a big deal, let's all think about it, so we won't stumble here!" ”

Although Jianzhou is remote, the area is not small, and the number of people is not small.

"I think so." Lin Zhun smiled and comforted Li Ailian, "Auntie, don't cry yet, so as not to scare the children, things haven't come to that point yet, all of us want to think of something, no matter what, it is to go bankrupt, and we also want to save Brother Qian." ”

Zhang Ruoxu anxiously waited for the news of the imperial capital in Jianzhou, the situation in Jianzhou was already precarious, although he forced the rich merchants in the city to donate rice porridge, but with the increasing number of displaced people, it was really a critical situation.

At this time, Zhang Ruoxu received a letter from Lin Zhun, who introduced in detail the method they could come up with to exterminate locusts, which was to use the phototaxis of insects and ants to light a fire in the field, dig a big pit, and burn while culling and killing.

Three days after the letter arrived, Jianzhou ushered in a team of food and grain that could not be seen at a glance, and each car was full of the banner of Qiuji, half of which was filled with food and half of it was soybeans.

The team leader is Lin Zhun, Anzi and Darong, Sister Qiu They received the letter from Huyang Qingzhou around to buy food, the team traveled day and night, rushed to Jianzhou, to the future, Lin Zhun led people to build a rice stove by the city gate, boil miscellaneous grains, rice porridge and bean juice, not to ensure that the homeless people can eat, can only ensure that the starvation does not die. But as long as everyone has a bowl of hot rice porridge and bean juice, no one is willing to rebel at the risk of losing their heads.

The big seal and the small preface in the imperial capital, as well as Zhang Ruoxu's former friends in the same department, also asked people everywhere to find relationships, after all, after a month, the capital came to Qincha, not only brought the will to open the warehouse and release grain, but also brought 200,000 stone food, as well as a reward for the Autumn Record.

Hu Shi took someone to pick up the children home, and after arriving at Sister Qiu's house, he pulled the five children and gave Sister Qiu's family a snort.

"Bah, all of you!" Hu wiped his tears and said, "If it weren't for your cousin and father, our family would have been ruined long ago!" ”

Sister Qiu hurriedly picked up Hu and the children and invited them into the house, "What is my sister-in-law doing here, say."

In the end, we are all a family, and we will see the outside world when we do this. Over the years, Zhang Ruoxu has also helped them a lot, but if he and the Qiuji shops in his friend's territory, why are they all doing all the way.

Zhang Ruoxu and Xiaoxu were officials in the court, and the caravan of the Great Seal was much smoother than before, and even the Water Tofu Fang still sent a dividend of a few hundred taels of silver every month. If no one in Sister Qiu's family was an official, all of them had passed like this, and Sister Qiu Jue's Wang Ming would definitely not give her money so kindly and sincerely, and she also brought her eldest son over to show her the princess.

(End of chapter)