There was such a scene outside the city, and the rich families were in no mood to give food, thinking that these poor people were too terrible, and that rich people like them were like big fat meat in this place, and they would be bitten a few times if they were not careful.

But now the rest of the food is not distributed, lest it will cause public anger, so the rich family will leave only the steward and his subordinates, and the others will hurry back to the city in a carriage.

"If you don't come tomorrow, you will be able to pay back this hurt your family!" Everyone muttered and decided not to come out to give food again, regardless of the lives of the victims. Anyway, if it has evolved like this today, even if you say that you want to donate heaven, you can't do it.

Speaking of the people, it can also be said that there is too much chaos outside the city, and even their own masters were almost beaten by the victims, so they can block everyone's mouths.

They had a good idea here, but Zhuang Rou instructed Ma Dezheng on the way back to the city: "Ma Zhutou, you send someone to inquire about it, and transcribe all the things that each rich family wants to donate before and how many days they want to donate." Tomorrow, if they don't go, they will come to collect the goods and money, and the officials will not easily forget what they have said. ”

"Okay, I'll tell someone to do it right away. Adults are really clever and they would never have imagined it. Ma De responded that those rich people who boasted about Haikou would not have expected the government to be able to manage this matter.

Zhuang Rou waved her hand, "This matter is important, you send someone to inquire first, and then come to Li's house to find me." ”

This Wu family is Ma Dezheng rescued and brought back to prison, he naturally knows where the Li family is, and after he should get down, he will ride back to Yamen first.

In handling the matter of silver, Ma Dezheng will find a reliable person, and he will accompany Zhuang Rou to handle the case, and leave this matter to Diao and his people. It just so happens that Diao Yi is tight now, and this good thing is sent to the door, and he must be working very hard.

After Ma Dezheng went back, Zhuang Rou went to Fangzheng Street where Li's family was located first, she was not like Ma Dezheng who had been staying in Hongzhou and walked around. finally asked for directions to find here, and scared passers-by so much that they thought they were going to be arrested by her and put in prison.

The name of Fangzheng Street sounded righteous, Zhuang Rou thought it was a clean and refreshing street, but when she arrived, she found that it was not at all the same as she thought, this was a street full of poor people, even poorer than the place where her disaster relief house for orphans and widows was located.

The bluestone slab ground has long been stepped out of a lot of pits, muddy water seeps into it, and it is dirty and there is no clean place to be stepped on.

The houses on both sides are dilapidated, and in addition to bricks, a lot of bamboo sticks and branches have been added to the courtyard wall to make up some shelter.

But it didn't work much at all, standing outside the wall you could look into the yard, and some of the houses were still decent even though there were a lot of clutter and the clothes they were drying were all patches.

There are a lot more, the house is already dilapidated and better than the red woman's house, there is a hole as big as a pot leaking in the roof, the window paper is broken into pieces, and when the wind blows, it snaps.

The people on this street are too poor!

Zhuang Rou was a little shocked, how could there be such a poor street in Hongzhou City, could it be that it was all begging for a living?

She saw a dirty girl sitting under the wall on the side of the road playing with mud, so she walked over and took out two copper coins, shook them, and asked, "Do you know where the Li family where the daughter-in-law killed her husband not long ago is?" Take me over and I'll give you these two coins. ”

"Yes!" The seven or eight-year-old girl stood up at once, led her to a dilapidated courtyard with a quick step, pointed to it and said, "This is the Li family." ”

Zhuang Rou forgave her for not daring to lie to herself, so she gave her the copper coin, and the little girl took the money and ran back with her baby.

At this time, he walked out of the dilapidated courtyard

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The child's woman looked at Zhuang Rou and said, "Big sister, why do you give that girl two big money, if you look for the Li family, this money should be given to our Li family!" ”

"You said it so confidently, it really left me speechless." Zhuang Rou looked at the woman's face full of vegetables, and the child in her arms was also yellow and thin, the life of the Li family was really not good.

She didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Wu is your daughter-in-law?" ”

"Huh?" The woman was stunned for a moment, then she reacted and looked Zhuang Rou up and down, thinking of the rumors in the neighborhood, she immediately shouted in the courtyard with her throat: "Mother! The yamen is here again! ”

The yard became noisy with a bang, and a sharp voice shouted, "Give me a broom!" See if I don't kick them out! ”

I saw a group of people rushing out of the courtyard, all of them looking like they couldn't eat, and the leader was a thin old lady. Although he is not tall and hungry like the victims outside, he is very energetic.

Zhuang Rou took out an object from her arms, threw it directly into the air, and fell into the old lady's arms brightly, "Ask you something, take it to buy food." ”

The old lady stopped, looked into her arms, and suddenly shouted excitedly: "The third child! Quickly exchange it for copper coins, one tael of silver can be exchanged for 120 copper coins, and add two more bowls of rice to the porridge at night! ”

"Mother! I'll go right away! A man squeezed in front of the old lady, and looked down at the bright thing, which was a piece of broken silver, and looked at the head, which was afraid that there were more than three taels.

He took the money, hid it in his bosom, and ran out. The others looked at Zhuang Rou with shining eyes, as if they were looking at a bodhisattva.

The old lady was full of smiles at this time, and hurriedly said, "This official is invited in, I will tell you whatever you want." ”

Zhuang Rou likes this kind of clever person, she walked into the yard and found that the courtyard of the Li family was as big as ten other families, and it should have been a rich family before.

And......

She swept her gaze over the people of the Li family, and asked with some shame: "Old lady, there are a lot of people in your family." ”

The old lady asked Zhuang Rou to sit down on the broken bamboo chair in the courtyard, and she picked up a small square stool to sit on, the room was dirty and messy, and she didn't want to call others in, anyway, there was no place to sit inside.

"Official, my family has more than 30 people, and when I was young, I was in good health, and I gave birth to nine boys and four girls to the Li family. This married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a baby, the dead died, the married married, and now there are only so many people left. She pursed her mouth, which had only a few teeth left, and said.

Zhuang Rou was surprised and said, "It's amazing, you can give birth to so much!" ”

There are a lot of nine sons left after they die, just looking at the half-grown children in this yard, almost half of them, I'm afraid they are great-grandchildren!

The old lady said proudly: "When I married into the Li family, the whole family was the only seedling of my old man, and it was all up to me to grow the Li family." No one in this neighborhood dares to mess with my Li family, we have so many sons! ”

"Look at this courtyard, it should have been a good time before." Zhuang Rou couldn't help but ask.

At the mention of this, there seemed to be a proud look on the faces of the Li family, and the old lady raised her head and said: "My Li family is a scholarly disciple, my old man has passed the Xiucai examination, and there are still more than 30 acres of land outside the city at that time. ”

Zhuang Rou asked curiously: "Then why is it a bit difficult to look at this situation now?" ”

The old lady laughed a few times, and said embarrassedly: "I have too many births, and I am poor in eating." ”

"......" Zhuang Rou looked at her in a smug voice, what was the smugness just now!