In the evening, Niu Changgeng brought the news to Niujia Village, led by Lu Qianjin, and the five supply workshops all brought their capable men to Tongzhou City in the starry night.

In the snack shop, Luo Shi assigned all the trivial things, everyone has a division of labor, responsibility subcontracting, if there is something wrong, Luo Shi is only looking for him.

Niu Changgeng and the Liba of the errand team are responsible for following the shed craftsman to put up the tarpaulin canopy first, and it rains a lot in autumn, so they have to use cedar trees, bamboo poles, and thick tarpaulins to put up the shed, so that they can be strong and durable. These are all hard work, and it is right to hand them over.

Lu Qianjin is bright by nature, has a smooth mouth, and can deal with people, so Luo Shi sent him to divide porridge and vegetables. Sanniang gave him a hand on the side, one of them was gentle and the other was cool, and they could dress up with white faces and red faces, so they could deal with all kinds of people who came up to receive porridge.

Grandma Niu led a group of mother-in-law and women to make a fire in the back stove room to cook porridge, while Luo Shi took care of the granary with her pocket, and she had to know the grain and rice in and out, and controlled the situation.

The righteous porridge was opened outside the lady's shop, and it didn't take much time for the entire Tongzhou City to spread.

The first to come were the poor people living in Xicheng, they were poor and poor people who did chores and worked hard to eat, unlike the peasant households who had to rely on thin fields and vegetable fields, and could support themselves for a while, they had to rely on their own food and drink, and the price of grain rose like this, they had been out of food for a long time, and they only relied on some chaff husks to get full, and no matter how bad they were, they went to dig wild vegetables and bark outside the city to eat.

When they heard that there was porridge and rice on Nantou Street, they immediately took the pots and utensils at home and went straight to it.

"Don't squeeze it, don't squeeze it, you can eat it, everyone line up!"

Luo Shi stepped on a high stone pier and shouted at the waves of people.

Tongzhou City is rich, there are few natural disasters and military disasters, and the imperial court has never provided disaster relief, everyone is the first time to see this scene, and they can't help but feel a little sour in their hearts - they originally looked down on the flood refugees who fled from the south last year, and now they have become hungry people who have to rely on soup kitchens for relief.

Sanniang came out with a pot of steaming sweet potato porridge, and with a bang, it rested on the table.

She took out a big spoon, divided Lu Qianjin, and then rolled up her cuffs and scooped porridge for the hungry people in line.

In the porridge shed next door, there is a long square table of eight immortals, and the tables, chairs and stools are all made by Niu Qian's carpenter shop.

When the hungry people received the porridge, they brought it here and sat down to eat it, while the other men took bamboo baskets and dustpans and distributed coarse noodles and steamed buns, and if anyone robbed them, they would throw them out, and they would not even ask him to drink the porridge.

At the beginning, there would be some trouble, speculative people who tried to take advantage of the mentality, and after calling Luo Shi to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, most of them were honest.

The porridge shed was opened smoothly, because there were rules for the astringency, everyone was only allowed to eat it on the spot, and could not take it back, so the hungry people who tasted the sweetness began to drag their families to line up.

No one will starve to death in the alley after all, which makes Luo Shi breathe a sigh of relief.

She flipped through the records of the grain from the warehouse, according to the rising demand, I am afraid that these grains and rice will not last long, I can only hope that Uncle Liang's side will be smoother.

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After a long day's work, after the evening meal, the last hungry people were finally sent away.

Sanniang rubbed her waist and was tired, she took out a rag to wipe the table of porridge, and Lu Qianjin moved the empty pot into the back kitchen, and planned to put it away on the board.

Luo Shi walked out of the shop, and in the corner of the eye, at the mouth of the alley, a few steps away from the street, a young couple with two small dolls, spread a mat on the ground, as if they were planning to sleep on the street.

Luo Shi walked over and asked: "Why are you sleeping here, it's cool autumn now, and the dew and frost are heavy at night, where can the doll eat?" ”

When the young lady saw that it was the proprietor of the porridge shop, she immediately got up and said with a warm smile:

"No way, our village is half a day's foot away from Tongzhou City, I heard that there is a female Bodhisattva in the city to distribute porridge relief, let's bring the doll to come, but the baby can't walk back and forth, so I have to rest here for a night, and it will be more convenient to eat porridge tomorrow."

Luo Shi didn't dare to be the title of this female Bodhisattva, so she hurriedly waved her hand and said:

"Don't say that, which village is the eldest sister from, why is there no surplus grain in the farmer's family now?"

The woman shook her head, her expression was gloomy, and she sighed: "It's all my fault, I didn't succeed, a few days ago I followed my mother's uncle to fry grain stamps, and I ran out of money, so I asked the landlord in the village to borrow silver, who wanted the grain bank not to give the bill, and I couldn't get rid of it for a while, and the family called the landlord to take it away."

Luo Xian was annoyed in his heart, where do people know what the economic market is, and they are rashly bewitched by others, so they go to play with food stamps, and they want to get rich overnight. Tracing back to the source, the initiator is still the Ruifeng grain store that sells food stamps without a bottom line, something really happened, and the grain store did not recognize the food stamps, so he easily picked himself out.

He earns a bulging waist, but the people have to pay for the mess, and this kind of person is not too much to thunder and thunder.

Just when Luo Shi was stunned, the little doll staggered with small broken steps, walked to Luo Shi, and her thin and sharp little hands tugged on her sleeves, he looked up on his dirty little face, and said in a milk voice:

"Hungry, Xiaobao is hungry ......"

Luo Shi's heart softened, and she remembered that when she met the pocket, he had just sneaked out of Niu He's abuse, looking miserable and pitiful, and also pulled the corner of her clothes and shouted hunger......

With a long sigh, Luo Shi bent down to pick up Xiaobao and said to the young lady:

"Come into the shop with me, sleep like this all night, you will definitely suffer from the wind and cold"

The woman and her husband looked at each other, tears welled up in the corners of her eyes for a while, and she nodded busily:

"Eh, okay, Miss Xie Dong! Xie Dongjia girl is merciful! ”

When they arrived at the shop, Luo Shi made out the attic room, and set up the bed boards for the two little dolls, so that they could live first.

Then she went to the stove room to fry a pot of bibimbap, put a bowl of sea soup, she served it on a plate, and sent them to the attic.

Xiaobao smelled the fragrance, salivating and salivating, he struggled out of the woman's arms, threw himself into the astringent place, sucked the bubbles on his mouth, and clapped his hands:

"Rice, rice, rice"

The woman took Xiaobao and wiped her tears and said: "The girl from the east family is young, I have the heart to kowtow to worship you, but I am afraid that you don't like it, but you treat us so kindly, I really don't know how to repay it."

Luo Shi opened the rice bowl on the table, and Wen smiled and said:

"I persuaded myself to treat everyone equally, because my own ability was limited, only enough to ensure that everyone was not hungry or cold, I helped you today, and took him in tomorrow, I was stumbling and couldn't cope with it, so I simply had a hard heart. But today I have a fate with your little treasure, that's all, you don't have to take it to heart."

After saying that, she took out another bag of grain and rice, tied it with a rope, and handed it to the woman:

"You give me the food stamps, go back and only say that this is Ruifeng to you, don't say that I got it here, the dolls are so thin, how can you not eat enough?"

The man kept silent, and when he saw Luo Shi helping like this, he couldn't help but say:

"Don't dare to ask for the girl's grain and rice, this food stamp is now waste paper, it's too rough to rub your buttocks, how can you exchange your food, or not, or not"

Luo Shi had some calculations in her heart, but she couldn't talk to them directly, so she said tactfully:

"Food stamps and silver stamps are the same, today's food prices are soaring, Ruifeng can say that he doesn't admit it, then what to do if he doesn't give silver bills to silver? Isn't the rich and noble family going to make a fuss? To put it bluntly, it's just bullying the poor."

The man's elm head still couldn't figure it out: "There are more big families who speculate on grain stamps, and they are all powerful old men, why don't they behave with Ruifeng Grain?" ”

Luo Shi sighed: "You also said that they are powerful and powerful, and they don't even need to queue up when buying food stamps, so naturally the exchange has also gone through the back door, and they have long asked Ruifeng to secretly redeem the cash grain, but they don't let you know!" ”

The man's eyes were wide with anger, and the green tendons in his fists burst out, and he slammed on the table with a bang, shaking the soup bowl and spilling a lot of sea soup—

The woman was startled by the man's temper, and she hurriedly pulled him up and whispered:

"What are you doing, the cow's temper is going to the bad quack of Ren Ruifeng, what are you doing here?"

Luo Shi was not annoyed, but smiled and said: "Big brother has a big temper, if Ruifeng's guy is smashed with two fists, he must be willing to give food."

The woman seemed to understand the meaning of Luo Shi, and asked tentatively:

"What does the proprietor mean...... Is it telling us to go back to the village and say, as long as we are ruthless and vicious, Ruifeng is willing to give the grain in private? When the villagers heard it, they saw that our family came back with grain and rice, and they would definitely wave their old fists and try it on Ruifeng."

Nodding, Luo Shi smiled and groaned:

"With his iron wall, as long as he opens a hole, he can't block the mouths of the people, and the rich and noble people are just that, you are poor and white, you have no power and no power, if you can exchange food with your fists, you will always go, as for whether this matter is true or not, it is not so important"

The woman knew that this rice was not taken for nothing, but she just went back to the village to tell a lie, and if it was really as the girl said, everyone could go to the grain store to redeem the backlog of food stamps in their hands, and it would also be a great thing for the village.

After devouring the meal, Xiaobao fell asleep with satisfaction, and Luo Shi packed up the dishes and chopsticks, covered the door lightly, and left.

The shadow of the moon outside the shop was swaying, the dead wood branches cast shadows on the ground, and Niu Changgeng carried a wind lantern and stood at the entrance of the alley waiting for her.

Seeing that someone was coming, he stepped forward and said with a smile:

"It's not peaceful in the city these days, and there are more and more thieves and thieves, so don't worry about you going back alone, ask me to send you."

Luo Shi saw that he had lost a lot of weight in the past few days, and the stubble was on his chin, obviously a young man, and he looked like a little old man:

"There are more desperate people, and the security is naturally poor, and the warehouse behind our shop has to be carefully watched - let's go, you haven't had dinner yet, let's go eat a bowl of hot noodle soup"

"The noodle stall is long gone, the price of food has risen like this, and Yiluo's noodles are also very expensive, and his hot soup noodles have to be sold to be enough for the capital. Not only the food stalls, but also the second meat and noodle shops are mostly closed and no longer open."

Niu Changgeng held his breath in his heart, and hated himself for being soft-spoken, he only had one strength, and he couldn't help everyone.

Watching the price of food grow wildly day by day, he couldn't wait to screw off Ruifeng Mo San's head - as the president of the grain association, he used his power for personal gain, and he didn't care about the life and death of the people. When selling food stamps, he smiles, and when he gets to redeem grain, he becomes a soft egg, and he doesn't dare to offend rich businessmen and nobles, but will only bully the common people!

"Brother Chang Gung, tomorrow, you send someone to the door of Ruifeng to watch, if there is a whole village of farmers to redeem the grain, you will go with the brothers, and help coax on the side, even if you want to tear down the door panel of Ruifeng, you must ask them to open a warehouse to redeem the grain!"

Niu Changgeng was very surprised, and he was eager to try, he wanted to clean up those turtle grandsons for a long time: "Don't you care about the yamen?" ”

"Hey, don't worry, I bet Yu Youlong will turn a blind eye! It's better that Mo San is forced to hang himself, and it will be much easier to subdue him to be obedient."

Luo Shi clenched his fists and slapped Niu Changgeng lightly, smiling with crooked eyebrows and full of confidence.