The hail disaster, Pei Baoer naturally knows.

There was no disaster here in Taixing County, but several large cities and villages to the south are said to have suffered numerous casualties. Perhaps due to the lack of relief efforts by local officials, many displaced people have gone north or south in search of livelihoods, and in recent days there have been more displaced people in the city. Pei Baoer was a little worried about public security, so she took advantage of the fact that He Fu was talking about skim milk to Mrs. He.

It's a pity that Mrs. He is not very interested in the matter of the displaced people, so she waved her hand casually: "Don't worry, hail disasters are no better than floods, droughts or the turning of the earth dragon, although the people are a little difficult at the moment, but the fields can always be cultivated again." The displaced people you see are not necessarily all disaster victims. ”

Pei Baoer had to hold back her mood and "Amway" the benefits of cow's milk with the mother and daughter of the He family.

"First of all, drinking milk helps to stop diarrhea, and the eldest girl has a weak spleen and stomach; Secondly, there is a substance in cow's milk that can suppress appetite, drink some every day, and you will not be hungry for meat; In addition, milk can also promote the body to speed up the consumption of energy, drinking a bowl of sea every day, which is equivalent to dancing a group of exercises while sitting still~ Oh yes, there is also a benefit, although the big girl is now in time, but if the nutrition can be guaranteed, when the time comes, she will lose weight, and she can be a little taller. ”

The last two points are full of temptation for Miss He, after all, the atmosphere of this dynasty is more open, and women are not as slender and plump as the previous dynasty, and the beauty of the delicate body is not as popular as the previous dynasty, and the female dependents of many large families in the capital will also play polo by themselves.

She thought that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't be as weak and moving as A-Niang, so she might as well work in another direction. So he immediately nodded, and looked at Mrs. He earnestly and waited for her to agree.

Mrs. He is really in trouble, she has never heard of people drinking cow's milk, isn't that thing very fishy? However, I heard that there are motherless young sons who survive by feeding sheep's milk. Now the question is, where is she going to get the first cow that produces milk?

Although Mrs. Pei described to her in detail the characteristics of cows that specialize in milking, Mrs. He has never been far away since she was a child, and she has only seen the big cattle in her own field, where do you know what black and white spotted cows. She couldn't pull the yellow milk from the Zhuangzi over, and when she asked the servant woman, she said that although the ox gave birth to a calf, the amount of milk was very small, and it was only enough to feed its own cubs, and it was impossible to give more to people to drink.

So, on this day, He County ordered the Ya, and when he returned home, he saw his sad old wife.

"Ma'am, what's the matter? But Rou'er's condition has recurred? Or are the big families in the city unwilling to pay for the construction of porridge sheds? He Xianling hesitated before saying the second half of the sentence. Could it be that Aunt Qian made Mrs. unhappy? Madame, don't worry, I will teach her a good lesson......"

Mrs. He glanced at him, and said angrily: "Come on, if you want to go to see her, go directly, why pretend to be here with me." ”

"Wronged, ma'am!"

The two of you exchanged a few words with me, and Mrs. He expressed the pain in her heart.

I didn't want He Xianling to laugh when he heard this, touched his beard and said: "This is really a coincidence, Mrs. wants a cow, but her husband took a cow case today that no one wants." ”

The law of this dynasty protects the oxen, because the ox is an important tool for farming, and without the ox can only rely on manpower, it is simply impossible to farm happily. Coupled with the war in the past two years, now is the time to recuperate and restore the strength of the field.

Not only the imperial court forbade the killing of cattle, but most of the small people also attached great importance to their own cattle, sometimes the cattle of the Zhang family did not come back after running to the Li family, or the Wang family took away the ownerless cattle on the side of the road, such trivial matters often asked for a solution in front of the county order.

Mrs. He has also heard of this, and she has heard a lot about the two families fighting for cattle, but it is really rare to fight for it.

She asked curiously, "What's going on?" ”

It turned out that because the imperial court had a very comprehensive protection system for cattle, it was even so strict that the birth, old age, sickness and death of each cow and the sale of each cow had to be specially recorded.

For example, there is a rule that a family can have one cow for every acre of land. If the cow dies of illness, it must be reported to the cattle and sheep envoy or the chief, and someone will go to your house to inspect it, and then register it in the register, so that you can buy another cow and come back.

If you have a cow and give birth to a calf, you can't hide it and not report it, because someone will regularly come to check whether the cow is pregnant or sick. In this case, if the law does not allow you to own two or more cows, what should you do, and the cattle and sheep will buy your calves back at the market price and sell them to other people who are short of cattle.

The strength of the bull is better than that of the cow, and the price is more expensive, but the cow can give birth to the calf for money, and the price of the calf is not low. So there were people who kept cows and gave birth to young, and if they didn't have bulls, most of them had to borrow seeds from their neighbors.

The case encountered by He Xianling Jin'er can also be regarded as a dispute caused by "borrowing seeds".

The Yang family and the Ma family are neighbors, and they don't have much land at home, barely enough for a cow.

Last year, the eldest son of the Ma family, Xueren, went out to do business, and actually made a lot of money, and went home to buy a lot of fields. As a result, the Ma family suddenly reluctantly upgraded from "the bottom who is only worthy of owning one cow" to "a small rich peasant who can own two cows".

The Ma family thought that if they went to the market to buy a cow cub, they would have to be slaughtered, so it was better to buy it directly from the neighbor Yang family. Originally, the Ma family still thought that the Yang family would let their bulls go to the Yang family to breed, and then give birth to the calf Yang family would definitely be able to give themselves a discount. Unfortunately, it just so happened that the cow of the Yang family had borrowed seeds from other families a few years ago, and they had cubs in their stomachs and were about to give birth. The Ma family didn't want to wait another year, so the two families signed the paperwork for the calf under the witness of the chief.

As a result, after the cow cub was transferred to the Ma family, the Ma family repented and shouted that they had been deceived.

He Xianling had a headache when he heard it in the public court at that time, and he was shocked: "Let's talk about the point!" Is the cub dead or alive? Are you sick or disabled? The two families agreed in advance that if the calves were not dead and there was no problem, the deal would be made.

The Yang family said: "Back to my lord, the cow cubs are alive, alive and healthy. ”

He Xian Ling shook his beard dissatisfied, "In that case, what does the Ma family have to say?" ”

The Ma family shouted injustice: "Master Qingtian, although his cow is not sick or painful, it looks black and does not slip away, just like our ordinary cows!" I was thinking about the neighbors in the township, and seeing that the cow cub was also healthy, I was embarrassed to retire immediately. Who knew that when I took it home, I found that the cow would grow meat and refuse to plow the field, so I didn't buy it for nothing! ”

The Yang family said: "The cow has little strength, so you can keep the cubs." The next child will return to the basics, why bite my family! ”

The Ma family said: "You fart! Ordinary cows can do some work when they sit firmly in the womb after three months, and this self-conceived cub you sold me is sick all day long, and eats more than usual! ”

The Yang family changed their words: "My cows have been sold to your family for more than a year, and you are only now regretting it." Maybe it's because your family doesn't take care of you and you get sick! Adults and children have heard that there seems to be a provision in the law that it is a crime to deliberately abuse the family's cattle! ”

The Ma family was taken aback, so anxious that they even choked out the idiom: "Nonsense!" You're a bloody squirt! ”

The two families quarreled endlessly in the court, and He Xianling was used to being a peacemaker, and planned to persuade both sides to take a step back, but as a result, the Yang family had already heard that the cow could not work, and refused to buy the cow back if it was killed. The Ma family had found a cow and sheep envoy, but the latter disliked the poor quality of the cow cub, and the price given was lower than that of buying a calf at that time.

For a moment, the case reached an impasse.

He Xianling told his wife about this: "This Ma family is also full of food and support, and when they give birth to cubs, they will sell it again, so don't ......worry about it."

"Master, what did you just say the heifer looked like?"

He Xianling recalled, listening to what they said, it seemed to be a strange black bull.

"Aren't all our cattle yellow? Could it be that the Yang family found a buffalo to breed? ”

"I haven't heard them talk about it, it's just that the breeding cattle selected by the Ma family and the Yang family are not good, and the quality of the birth is not good. Hey, Madame asks what this is for? ”

Mrs. He was a little careful, what Pei Baoer said about cows that specialize in milk production are black and white, which has never been seen. However, this black cow is also rare, and it is not possible to say that it is a relative of the black and white cow and can produce milk?

Although her novel statements are a bit deviant, they also have some truth in listening. Rou'er now trusts her very much, and she has to ask me to find her a cow back, and complains that I gave her a short life, hey~" She sighed a few words, and said with a smile: "Master, when Ming'er opens the court, it is better to buy the cow in your name. ”

He Xianling pondered for a moment, a heifer is not a big expense, and it is not bad to have a good name, but if the heifer is not a so-called cow at all, wouldn't it be an empty joy?

"If not, we will raise the cubs up and down our grange. Master, you come forward to buy it, then the Ma family can still give you face, and you don't dare to sit on the ground and raise the price! ”

The next day, He Xianling adopted his wife's opinion, sent a letter to the Yang and Ma families, asked them to bring the cow over to confront them face-to-face, and quietly invited Pei Baoer to come over to check.

Pei Baoer was a big surprise at a glance, this black cow's mammary glands are particularly developed, even if it is not obvious against the backdrop of the bulging belly, it is not much the same as the milk commercials she watched on TV, but compared with the cows she has seen in this world, it is already a very big Mimi.

In this way, He Xianling took the initiative to express his willingness to buy the cow from the Ma family in his personal capacity, according to the market price of healthy adult cows and calves.

In this way, everyone rejoices.

It's just that when Pei Baoer squeezed out of the crowd, she saw a slightly familiar face. Hmm, it seems to be the woman I saw when I was dressing up for Mrs. Su last time. Why is she here?

However, the woman did not seem to recognize her, and first looked at her with envy, then her eyes fell on her left cheek, and there was a hint of mockery in her eyes, and she muttered a few words of unknown words, and then turned her gaze back to the black bull.

"Dad, why did you sell the cow? Wouldn't it be better to wait until the cubs were born and then sell them separately? Ma was a little dissatisfied with today's results, the old cow in her family was sick, so she was trying to coax her father to keep the cow's cubs for his family, but she didn't expect the county magistrate to suddenly intervene, which disrupted her plan.

Father Ma carefully put away the money, and then explained to his eldest daughter with a smile: "The price of selling separately will not be higher than this, if you don't understand this, don't mix it blindly." He said that the sun was high, and urged her to go back to laundry and cooking.

Ma had no choice but to leave in a huff, and when he walked around the corner and saw Pei Baoer's back, he felt a little familiar inexplicably.

She suddenly remembered that the county magistrate had just glanced at her several times, and the woman was standing beside her, and she made a strange gesture. Could it be that the county magistrate bought this cow with what's weird?

Pei Baoer naturally didn't know what Ma was thinking, and after she left the yamen, she rushed to work in the silk shop.

On the road, I saw several people in ragged clothes, squatting or sitting or lying on the street corner, with sallow faces and listlessness, as if they had been hungry for a long time. There was also a little girl of seven or eight years old, whose eyes were particularly bright, and although she looked hungry, she still managed to wipe an old man beside her with a wet handkerchief.

Pei Bao'er felt a little sour in her heart, turned back, bought a dozen of the cheapest nests on the street, walked over and divided them equally, and stuffed two each into the hands of the little girl and the old man.

Unlike other people who gobble up, this pair of young and old eat very slowly, the little girl seems to have a good tutor, even if she is hungry, she is trying to chew slowly, and the old man is about sick and weak, and has no strength, so he can only chew slowly. The little girl ate half of it, and then secretly stuffed the remaining half of her hand into her arms, and lied to the old man that she had eaten it all and was full.

Pei Bao'er knew that she should hurry to the shop, but she kept watching them from a distance, and looked at them for a long time before walking away quickly.

She knew that this hailstorm was certainly not as simple as Mrs. He's understatement, and after this natural disaster passed, she didn't know how many more displaced orphans would be left.

She herself has such a background experience, so she naturally empathizes more with these children. If she could, she would love to help them. But now that she is a little ordinary person who can only take care of her own food and clothing, what can she do for them?