"Then has the prefect dealt with this matter? Isn't that county Cheng the prefect's brother-in-law? "It was Imperial Doctor Mei on the side who asked this.

Old man Ding sighed, "At the beginning, some people were worried that the prefect would ignore this matter, but then I thought about it, more than 100 people from our more than a dozen families were almost starved to death, and the prefect had to give an explanation." Who knew that the prefect took the case and put the complainant in prison but there was no movement. After two months, someone sent us a message that the arrested person was dying, and we, the villagers who had been waiting for news, came. ”

Fuxi grinned on the side, "More than 100 people surrounded the yamen, and the crime of directly giving you an intention to rebel is light." ”

"I've lived for such a long time, I still understand this matter, most people are waiting in the big car shop, only me and a few people who went to the government to pick up the government, and those people are really sick."

Seeing that Old Man Ding no longer spoke, Mo An couldn't help asking, "What about later?" ”

"Later, in order to raise money to treat those people, we moved out of the cart shop and lived in a land temple outside the city. It's just that the sick people have never been well, two days ago a few people gambled to sue the county Cheng in one breath, this time the prefect quickly summoned the county Cheng to come, but it was picked up in a carriage, when the county Cheng met us outside the city and said to clean us up! That's why when I saw the old man's chariot and horse, I thought it was ......"

"Don't worry, we have nothing to do with the prefect and county." Knowing that these people were not here for their own money, Fuxi was a lot more relaxed.

"We're the ones who disturbed you!" Old man Ding apologized to everyone again with some embarrassment, then raised his head and stopped talking, looked at his thin body, thinking about the big family with blue eyes from hunger, he still opened his mouth cheekily.

"Well, may I ask, can you give some food? We have been out for many days, and we haven't saved much food after the house was flooded, and the adults have eaten some grass roots and wild fruits, but the children can't help but be hungry, and please have pity on these children! As he spoke, Old Man Ding knelt down with his grandson in his arms.

"Old man, get up quickly." Hua Ronghua said while pondering what he could give them.

Fuxi next to him frowned, if he wanted to say that he didn't care about these two money, but once in Jiangnan, there was a beggar who pretended to beg but was to grab money, although he chased it back in the end, but Fuxi had no good impression of this kind of person who took the initiative to beg. At this time, I was also thinking in my heart, are these people pretending to beg, and in the end they are trying to determine whether we really have money and then rob us?

At this moment, a crisp child's voice suddenly sounded, "Ask for food, give it to you!" Before he finished speaking, he saw a whitish thing fly over and smash to the ground, and it rolled a few times and was stained with a lot of dust, it was a cloud cake chip.

Hua Ronghua subconsciously raised his eyes to look to the side, but it was Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba who were lying on the car window, the two of them almost leaned out of the car with half of their bodies, Xiao Ba was holding the cloud cake in his hand and throwing it here, and said while throwing it back, "I don't want these things, I want food, take them and eat them." ”

When Old Man Ding's grandson saw it, he didn't care about the dust on the cloud cake slices, so he grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth.

Hua Ronghua and Old Man Ding's faces were red, Hua Ronghua was angry, and Old Man Ding was dry.

"Hua Xiaoba, what are you doing?" Hua Ronghua glared at him, "How can you waste food so much?" ”

Old man Ding also knocked off his grandson's hand, pulled out the cloud cake slice he stuffed into his mouth, and scolded in his mouth: "Why don't you even know how to bury it cleanly?" Can you eat if you give it? ”

Fuxi pouted on the side, aren't you begging for the child? Why did you give you something to eat, but you looked so high, and I was about to ridicule him, but I was stunned when I heard Hua Ronghua's words.

The two children were pouted, Xiao Qi got out of the car window directly, hid behind, and looked out with half of his little face, but Xiao Ba was dissatisfied and defended: "I didn't waste it, it was my mother who said that you can't eat what fell to the ground." ”

"Why do you throw them away to others when you know you can't eat them?" Hua Ronghua was angry and angry, who did Xiao Po learn from this high-minded attitude of charity?

Xiaoba said: "But they are asking for food, and Uncle Mo'an does the same!" ”

At this time, the boy was crying because he was forced to take out the food in his mouth by his grandfather, and the old man Ding knocked him twice in anger, and scolded in his mouth: "Little dog, if you dare to be disobedient again, I will throw you to the mountain to feed the wolves!" ”

Mo An was a little unhappy, who is this old man beating and scolding here? Just as he was about to speak, he was stunned by Hua Ronghua's words.

"Uncle, don't beat him, it's me who is not good, I didn't teach the child well!" Hua Ronghua didn't care about teaching the two children, and hurriedly stopped Old Man Ding's movements.

Not only Mo An was stunned, but Old Man Ding and Fuxi and Imperial Doctor Mei next to him were all surprised, no one expected Hua Ronghua to apologize to a begging farmer.

"Young lady, how can you ......" Mo An opened his mouth to say something, but finally closed his mouth under Hua Ronghua's warning and deterrent gaze, this kind of gaze was the first time he had seen it on the young lady, and at that moment, it was as if the master was standing in front of him. Mo An's heart was a little panicked, and he was even more puzzled, did he do something wrong?

Old man Ding was surprised and forgot to slap his grandson's dog egg again, and said to Hua Ronghua a little timidly: "Don't worry about this lady, the little master in the house is not wrong, if there is no more explanation, we will really have to ask for food to live." My grandson is not a weapon, let you see the joke, I will take him back to teach him a lesson! "Who knows what these officials think? What if you get annoyed and take out your anger with dog eggs?

Old man Ding wanted to leave, but was stopped by Hua Ronghua.

"Mo An, I remember that there is red bean crisp in the car behind, you go and get a pack." Hua Ronghua wanted to call Niu Ya to go, but now she was watching the child in the car and could only ask Mo An to go.

"Young lady, isn't that red bean cake for the two young masters?" Mo An was a little reluctant to take it.

Although the two children in the car were yelled at by their mothers just now, they suddenly stopped doing it when they heard that their red bean cakes were about to fly.

Hachi shouted angrily, "Mother, that's mine." ”

Xiao Qi also kept screaming from her mother.

Old Man Ding's face was blue and red, and he said loudly: "This lady, we are really not beggars!" "I think the hardest time when he was a child was when he was hungry for three days without eating and didn't go to a relative's house to beg for food, and this time in front of the powerful would rather drag a family to starve and be punished than bow his head, but now he is treated as a beggar by a child and a woman!

"I ......" Hua Ronghua held the hand of the red bean cake in the air, and wanted to persuade him, but he didn't know how to say it at this time.

"Hey, don't you know what's wrong!" Mo An was really anxious, because the two little masters of this red bean crisp were crying so sadly, but this old man was here to make corrections, it was really too much!

"Moan!" Hua Ronghua is really annoyed with him now, usually he always tells the two children something about Gongxi Chu and Bofu, after all, it is the father and grandfather of the two children, and he has the right to turn a blind eye and not look at it, but now he is an arrogant and domineering example in front of the two children, and if this continues, won't the two children also get infected with bad diseases! "If you talk so much, go back to Bofu!"

Mo An shrunk his neck, although he was still unconvinced in his heart, but he didn't dare to talk back.

Old man Ding was a little embarrassed, he didn't want to be really regarded as a beggar, but in the face of these nobles who could crush him to death with one finger, he didn't dare to offend too much, what if he was really annoyed with himself?

Imperial Doctor Mei watched from the side for a long time, and then Youyou opened her mouth and said, "Doesn't Mrs. Hua still have two carts of broken rice?" Totally can lend it to them! ”

Hua Ronghua's eyes lit up, "Yes, why didn't I expect it." "Before returning to Beijing, Hua Ronghua bought two truckloads of Bi Terrier rice from a rice merchant in Jiangnan, and planned to return to the capital for a trial planting. The other cart was used to feed the two children. At that time, Hua Ronghua, who saw that rice was fed to pigs with commercial aged rice, called it a luxury, and said that as long as it was not too long and kept properly, these rice people could also eat it.

At that time, the rice merchant said that his family's rice could not be eaten after a bumper harvest year after year, let alone these old broken rice? It's better to feed the pigs, such pork is delicious and can be sold for more money! If Hua Ronghua wanted to, he could give her two carts, and said that the pork fed with rice had a different flavor.

Hua Ronghua adhered to the principle of being cheap and not taking advantage of nothing, and also wanted to taste this unique flavor of pork, so he cheekily begged for two carts, and was reminded by Imperial Doctor Mei at this time to remember. It doesn't hurt to give away these rice without spending money, and it is exactly what Old Man Ding needs, it is better than them taking the silver to buy rice.

Old man Ding waved his hand, bent down and saluted at Imperial Doctor Mei: "This master, there is really no need, many of us have already lived and thought about going to our relatives!" We also ...... "He really didn't want the rice, although his heart jumped violently a few times when he first heard it, but if he really took the rice, wouldn't it be true that he was a beggar?"

He also knew that the best thing to do now was to accept the rice and sincerely thank these noble men for saving their lives, but he was just holding a breath in his heart, just like he led the whole family to ask for the law, always thinking about sticking to his bottom line!

"That's it, old man, I won't give you this rice." Hua Ronghua suddenly interrupted his words, and as soon as she said this, the people around her were stunned, thinking that it was because the price of rice was higher than that of red bean crisp, so Mrs. Waffle was reluctant? Another thought is wrong, the aged broken rice didn't cost money, but the red bean crisp was bought from a pastry chef who was said to have been a royal chef in the palace, and it cost a high price, it stands to reason that the red bean crisp is more valuable than broken rice!

Just when everyone was puzzled, they only heard Hua Ronghua continue: "I will lend them to you, when you have it, you will pay me back, I don't want your interest, what I lent you is Chen rice, and you can pay me back Chen rice at that time!" ”

"Huh?" Old man Ding was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief: "This lady really wants to lend us rice?" As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Imperial Doctor Mei, in his opinion, only Imperial Doctor Mei had a beard and a steady demeanor, much like the head of this group. At this time, Old Man Ding's heart beat a little fast, if he can really borrow rice without interest, then his family and the villagers who have been following him will be saved?