The streets and alleys are full of people, picking or taking, with things on their backs and hands, and there are also leaders who do the things that are coordinated.

I saw that there were old people on the street who divided the people around them into groups of five or six, seven or eight, and more than ten people.

The old man pointed to five or six of them and said, "If you can see the courtyard come out, as long as you go up and shout, you don't have to do anything, you remember everything you shout clearly?" ”

The five or six are all children, both men and women have shrill voices, either the elder brother with the younger sister, or the elder sister with the younger brother, the male is at most eight or nine years old, and has never become a male duck, and the oldest female is only in her early tens. ”

One of the small-looking boys stepped forward and said: "If I can see Gouyuan come out, I will rush up with my brother and surround him, hug his legs and cry, shouting, 'Don't go away, my father and mother are all sick with the epidemic, only me and my brother are left, if Gouyuan leaves, whoever lives in our house will have no food, so I have to go to the street to ask for food to live!" ’”

As he spoke, he tugged at a very small boy in his hand.

The little boy in his hand couldn't see how big he was, maybe he was only two or three years old, at this time he only put his right index finger in his mouth, and when he heard his brother speak loudly, he thought he was going to join in the fun, so he pouted his mouth "uh-uh-oh" and kicked his feet on the ground, looking like he was shouting hard, looking very simple and innocent.

Another seven- or eight-year-old boy said: "I just stood in front of him and shouted, 'Don't go to Gouyuan, I haven't grown up yet, and I will go after I have earned fame with Gouyuan!'" ’”

He didn't even need to think about it, as soon as he shouted these words, his eyes turned red.

But he is a child in the Salesian Bureau, he goes to school every morning to enlighten, and in the afternoon he goes to work according to the assignment of the state.

This person's father is a soldier, he was shot in the leg and foot by an arrow while defending the city, and both legs were amputated, and now he is still living in the wounded barracks, and his mother is working in the wounded barracks, one relies on the state to help, and the other relies on the money and rice distributed by Gu Yanzhang from the wounded barracks in front of him, and the Salesian Bureau helps the children to live.

These two camps also existed in the former state, but the state officials never took care of them seriously, especially the Salesian Bureau, which only made up a number of people to report every year, but after Gu Yanzhang took over, he gathered up the unsupervised children and put them in the Salesian Bureau, and invited many women and old people to take care of them, and also invited the outstanding students from the state school to come over every day to be the initiators.

The children went to school in the morning, and in the afternoon they were taken to do some light work in the house, or grinding wood, or sticking tail feathers, and also arranged to run and jump, and only symbolically collected a little money and goods from their families every month.

In this way, the labor of many people's families was freed up, and not only men, but also many women in their prime were able to come out and earn money.

Compared with the strength of labor, women are naturally more capable in the wounded barracks, the Salesian Bureau, the Elderly Fang, Futian Yuan, etc., and are more able to take care of the orphans, widows, sick and weak, and are also good at doing some meticulous affairs.

Seven or eight-year-old children of poor families are already sensible, this Sven child has suffered when defending the city, and knows that if his mother does not have the errand in the wounded barracks, if his family does not have a place to go to the Salesian Bureau, and in the future, he will only rely on a father with disabled legs, I am afraid that the family will never have a bright future.

Now he is in the Salesian Bureau, although he is just an enlightenment, he can read faster than the rest of the children, as long as Gu Gouyuan is there, the Salesian Bureau will continue to do it every year, and when he is admitted to the state school, as long as he studies seriously, he can receive the state school money and rice every month to support his family, that is, he will not be able to read and read in the future, and he will be more literate in a few years, and he will find an errand in the city, and he is also a big family willing to be literate and employed, compared to being a long-term worker who sells coolies and short-term employment, it is not a way out.

But once Gu Gouyuan is gone, who dares to bet on how the newly appointed officials will behave?

The children didn't know what it meant to be a new official taking office, and they hadn't learned the sentence that a son of heaven and a courtier, but they knew that since the new official came, the three meals of brown rice a day in the Salesian Bureau had also been changed to two meals of brown rice porridge a day, and the students in the state school who came to teach were also much more sluggish, and the money and rice that his mother got from the wounded barracks that month was even less than before.

The pain of the skin was particularly profound, although he did not see the main master at the moment, his shouting was sincere, and many people in the audience couldn't help but sigh.

Everyone was silent for a moment, and then another girl stepped forward and said, "If there is a woman, let's go and kneel in front of the woman and call her to eat the tofu ground by my father and aunt!" ”

As he spoke, he straightened out a wooden basin with words hanging on his chest, and sure enough, there were seven or eight pieces of white tender tofu soaked in water.

Another little girl on the side said: "I grabbed the candy in my hand, held it up to her, and let her eat the candy." ”

The old man saw that Xiao'er's place was very proper, and his heart was a little relieved, but he turned his head to another group of seven or eight people: "Do you know what to do?" ”

When the head came out of a sixty-year-old woman, holding a bamboo basket in her hand, said: "Second brother and rest assured, we all know the Gou Yuan and the lady in his family, if you see the lady come out, you will be able to surround her, cry with her, if the lady does not come out, then cry with the Gou Yuan, see me and other people in their seventies and eighties, and women, his heart is so soft, most of them can't bear it, then send these eggs away, say a few more pitiful words......"

As soon as she said it, many old sisters and sisters on the side stepped forward and interjected, all of which were powerful tricks that everyone came up with together, showing the cunning of the villagers and the cunning of the people.

The old man nodded again and again, praised several words, and then asked another wave of people to ask.

There are people in this group who are in charge of shouting, some who kneel, some crying, and some who deliver food, just waiting for the head of the household to come out, once there is an echo, they will guard and stop the people of the Gu Mansion, for fear that Gu Yanzhang will secretly take people away.

There are people on the street taking the lead, and the end of the street is naturally average, everyone walks through the field in advance, everything is ready for a while, only the east wind is owed, and they all look forward to the gate of the Gu house, just waiting for someone to come out, so as to play a life-and-death drama.

They waited for a while, but none of them dared to speak loudly, for fear that the loud voice would disturb the inside and make people take precautions.

Half an hour later, I could only hear the squeaks of the doors on both sides of the Gu Mansion, pushing them open from the inside, followed by a leg, half a body, and a head full of cold sweat.

The expression on his face was dejected, but it was not the head of the household who went in to collect the house.