Wei Ming remembered the past.

It was the twenty-seventh year of Yongping, and he was awarded the post of county magistrate after being promoted to the second year of his post in Pingnan County, Guangxi.

It rains in Pingnan even in January, which is not seen in a hundred years. Finally, it was only sunny for one day, and then there was a sudden rainstorm, the water level rose sharply, the levee collapsed, and the whole county was damaged. This disaster is not limited to Pingnan County, but also the surrounding counties and even prefectures are all flooded.

Guangxi is located in a remote area, not as close to the capital as Shandong, and the news spreads quickly, and the imperial court can also allocate granaries from neighboring provinces for relief. There was no relief in Pingnan County, which he presided over, and officials and local people had to save themselves.

Floods, epidemics, and famine followed, a bucket of rice was worth a thousand yuan, a pig was worth 20 taels of silver, and men and women planted straw into the market to buy and sell, but only dozens of yuan. You must know that in the rich land of Jiangnan, a bucket of rice is only worth two dollars of silver, and twenty taels is enough for ten people to live for a year!

Money and the price of food are completely chaotic, and people who have no money to buy food can dig up the corpses buried in the ground, and even worse, fathers and sons and wives kill each other in the streets.

He saw a girl run past him, and in a few breaths he was gone, and he heard the screams and rushed over, but the girl had been torn into the pile, and he shouted for someone to pull all the people in front of him, and the girl was still gone, and one leg fell to the ground alone......

Therefore, Cui Zhi fainted in front of his house, and he didn't even hesitate, he pulled her in and blocked the people outside the door with a stick all the time, so as to save her life.

It can be regarded as untying the knot in the heart of the year.

Later, he couldn't wait for the relief grain from the imperial court, and the grain donations he received from the rich families were only a drop in the bucket, so he forcibly used the incense money from a large local temple to sell grain in other places for relief, and the disaster was slightly alleviated.

It's just that this year's famine caused Pingnan to not recover the vitality of previous years until he left at the end of his three-year term.

People and land are not kind......

"What do you think?" A small hand suddenly shook in front of Wei Ming's eyes.

Wei Ming was dizzy, and Fang Cai's thoughts instantly dispersed, "It's nothing." ”

"But I see that your eyes are very deep! You're only 10 years old, what deep things can you think? She tilted her head to look at him, and suddenly leaned her foot into his ear, "Hey, you're not more than ten years old, are you?!" ”

Wei Ming paused, could she see that he was a person who had relived his life?

He hasn't figured out her origin yet, and if she takes the lead, it's not the best policy.

He remained silent, only listening to her again: "Prosperity, democracy, civilization, and harmony...... Do you pick it up? ”

When she said this, it was like some kind of statecraft, why had he never heard of it?

"What are you talking about?"

He asked, but she stared at him, then sighed, "Forget it, you're just a fool." ”

She watched as she sat down back under the old elm tree in the village, and on the bare branches, only a few new leaves remained on the tips of the treetops, and the wind blew and shook gently.

The mother-in-law of the Guo family and the mother-in-law of the Bai family were talking about her, "A little girl of such an age, I haven't seen anyone better than her!" It's really painful! ”

She smirked, "Hey, hey, hey! ”

Granny Bai pointed at her and said, "At her age, I can only play in the field!" The Wei family is a good family, and it is also her blessing to be able to take her in. ”

Granny Guo touched the twitch on Cui Zhi's head again and asked her, "What about your father and brother?" ”

"It's gone."

The two old women sighed when they heard this, and they didn't speak for a while, but after a while, they eased up and said, "You just live a good life in the Wei family, Muzi is a good one." ”

Wei Ming raised his eyebrows when he heard this, looked at her, and saw that she didn't seem to understand, so he still smirked, "Hey, hey, hey!" ”

The two mothers-in-law were annoyed by her smirk and laughed along.

Not long after, the people of Jiuxizhuang rushed over, borrowed the road from Luting Village, and went to Zhaotang Village to grab grain.

Cui Zhi slipped out of the arms of the two mothers-in-law and pulled his arm, "Let's go, let's take a look!" ”

*

There was a mess in the courtyard of the Zhao family.

Zhao Gong's daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, youngest daughter, and grandchildren were all locked in the house, and someone guarded the door to prevent them from coming out. Zhao Baojian's daughter-in-law has a loud voice, and she will be screaming.

Only the embankment in the north is not ordinarily far, Zhao Baojian's daughter-in-law shouted hoarsely, and none of the Zhao family came back.

Guo Tianda stood on the grinding plate of his house and spoke.

"Don't cry about the Zhao family's aunts and younger siblings. Let's just take the food we deserve, we don't want your things, and when we leave, you go and count yourself, you can't be wrong! ”

He spoke righteously, and there were people below who had long been unaccustomed to Zhao Gong: "If you want me to say, we should rob the Zhao family's grain!" Seeing that the sky made some thin soup and thin water to fool people, now there is only this bit of food left, and it is not taken away by the Zhao family! ”

As soon as this man said this, many people responded with him.

But this is an unclear account, the top priority is to move the emergency food out of Zhao's house first, pull the grain back to the villages, and Zhao Gong can only stomp his feet when he comes back.

It's a pity that a lot of people in the village have gone because of the famine, and it is impossible to calculate how much food each village should receive.

The yard was full of people, waiting for a young man who had been an apprentice in the county for a few days to plan the plate, and the young man was so anxious that he was sweating, and he always made mistakes and started again.

Wei Ming was pulled by Cui Zhi and squeezed in from the crowd, and saw at a glance that the food had been moved to the yard, but the amount could not be counted, and everyone could only wait.

Wei Ming hadn't encountered this kind of situation for a long time, and someone would always do this for him. In this situation, it is not easy to restrain the people of the Zhao family, do you want him to do it himself?

Wei Ming pondered how to instruct the young man, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse that Cui Zhi had already walked behind the man.

The young man's name was Wu Dong, a native of Zhaotang Village, who had worked as a man in a liquor shop in the county before the famine, and when the famine came, the shop could not afford to support the man, so he was sent back.

He muttered about how many households in each village, how many mouthfuls each household has, how much emergency food the government has distributed, how much grain each household should receive, how much each village should take from the Zhao family, how much grain is left now, and how to divide it.

"Oh my God, I'm afraid it's the level of the first grade of elementary school......"

Wei Ming saw Cui Zhi with a surprised and questioning face, although he couldn't understand what she was saying, he understood what she meant.

Could it be that she still plans to plate?

Wei Ming was slightly shocked and asked her, "Will you plan to plate?" ”

Cui Zhi: "No. ”

I don't plan to dislike Wu Dong?

Wei Ming looked at her with doubts to see how she acted, and saw her squatting down and pinching a branch under his feet, "Lift your feet, I'll quickly count the counts, take the food and leave." ”

Wei Ming hurriedly raised his feet, only to see that she had smoothed out a piece of soil with a branch, and asked about Wu Donglai.

She didn't ask about the household, nor did she press Ding, but she asked Ding, who was a man from sixteen to sixty, but counted everyone in his mouth. It seems that they are in the Wei family, only the missing uncle is considered a ding.

When she asked the population of each village, she drew a few twisted talismans on the ground with a twig and asked how much food was left to divide.

The emergency grain has wheat and rice, and Guo Tianda has already led someone to weigh it. She wrote it down again with the talisman, turned her head and asked him, "I remember that one stone is ten buckets, one bucket is ten liters, and one liter is ten he, right?" ”

Wei Ming bowed.

I saw that she began to draw with those few talismans, and this painting also drew a lot, with circles and a little horizontal and crossed, and after drawing, she seemed to mutter and nucleated again.

"That's it!" When Wei Ming saw her turn around, he smiled at himself, and then kicked the circle that had been drawn for a long time into ashes.

She put her head behind Wu Dong, who was still crackling and planning to dish, and said loudly: "Didn't you calculate it?" ”

"Yes, yes?" Wu Dong was stunned.

Cui Zhi looked at the number that he didn't have on his abacus at all, and read it out, "Eight buckets of wheat and nine buckets of rice in Luting Village, five buckets of wheat and six buckets of rice in Jiuxi Village, six buckets of wheat and six buckets of rice in Dixi Village, and seven liters of five buckets in Dixi Village, let's start weighing!" ”

When the people who were crowded in the courtyard heard this, they immediately began to act, regardless of who it came from.

"Huh? Yes? Am I the one who counts? Wu Dong looked at the abacus, and then looked at the villagers who moved, scratching his head.

Cui Zhi patted him on the shoulder, "That's what you count, that's right!" ”

Wu Dong was still a little confused. Wei Ming's gaze swept over Cui Zhi's body, and then fell on the circle talisman she hadn't kicked out, and his heart sank slightly.

She'll do too much.