"Girl, I don't want so much, I know that the girl has not been easy these years, so many people in our family now spend a lot, the girl only brings me those bedding, the girl has given me a hundred taels of silver over the years, my mother gave me all the money, and gave me fifty taels. These are enough for the people to eat and clothe for many years. ”

"If you give it to you, you will take it, and if there is any shortage in the future, come back and tell me. I'm going to marry you off as a sister-in-law, and I can't let people underestimate us. ”

"Girl......" Han Dong raised his tearful face and looked at Qi Ning gratefully.

"Don't cry, I'm going to cry. If your mother-in-law doesn't let you show up after you get married, you can rest assured that you will be at home with your husband and children. If your mother-in-law agrees with you to come out, I still hope that you can do some business, and I can help you open that little shop and sell something, or you can buy some land and sell it. Women still have to have the financial ability to speak before they can be tough. ”

"Well, I listen to the girl, and I'll tell Yan Song when the time comes."

"Don't be too hasty, I'll talk about it later, and if they really don't agree, you can buy some land and sell it. If you want to have a good relationship with your mother-in-law, I think your mother-in-law is also reasonable and should not be difficult to get along with. But if she dares to embarrass you, don't be a ninja, come back and tell me, I'll give you a head, I can't and Jing Suna. Remember? ”

"Remembered." Han Dong wiped his face with a handkerchief and said with a smile: "I knew that the girl would not let people bully me, and I would not embarrass the girl." ”

On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, Qi Ning asked the housekeeper to take someone directly from the carpenter shop to send the full set of furniture made for Handong to Yan Song's house. Wu, Xiao Wu, and Aunt Qi followed to make a bed and spread the tent.

On the tenth day of the first month of June, the Yan family beat gongs and drums to welcome their relatives, and the iron bull stone was embarrassed outside the gate, and Yan Song was so anxious that he shook the door vigorously before opening the door.

In the inner courtyard, Qi Ning did not embarrass Yan Song, the ninja was reluctant to let Tie Niu carry Handong on the sedan chair, Yan Song took the lead on the horse, and the group returned to Yan Song's newly bought house in the alley of East Street.

The mother's family was not allowed to follow, Qi Ning took the dowry sent by the Yan family to Handong as a dowry, and added ten loads of things and those furniture and shops.

Tie Niu and Zhao stood at the door wiping their tears, and did not come back until the greeting team turned a corner and could not be seen. Qi Ning sat in the living room with an empty heart, she had gotten used to getting along with Han Dong for a few years, and suddenly Han Dong left, feeling that nothing was right, and she didn't know what to do for a while, so she went to the bedroom to play with Dabao.

On the morning of June 12 and a half, Yan Song and Han Dong came and went back to the door with gifts, Jing Su personally led Yan Song to talk in the private room, Han Dong went back to the backyard, and knelt down when he saw Qi Ning when he entered the door: "Girl, I miss you and Dabao so much, I want to come back." Tears welled up in his eyes as he spoke.

Qi Ning hurriedly handed Dabao to Han Qiu, helped Han Dong and asked eagerly, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? Did the Yan family bully you? ”

"No, I just don't want to sleep as you think." Han Dong broke the tears and laughed embarrassedly.

"You stinky girl, you scared me to death! Is Yan Song good to you? Qi Ning poked Han Dong's head with his index finger and said angrily.

"He's fine." Handong lowered his head shyly.

"How's your mother-in-law?"

"My mother-in-law is also very good, she doesn't let me make rules, and says that the bride doesn't have to work for three days, and she won't let me do anything."

"That's good, it startled me. Sit down. ”

Han Dong went to the kang and picked up Dabao: "Stinky Dabao, good Dabao, Handong misses you so much." "I kissed it endlessly. Dabao has been close to Han Dong since he was a child, and he hasn't seen him for several days, but now he laughs at Han Dong and keeps a little bit of a jaw. Han Dong didn't dislike it, took out a handkerchief and wiped it lightly for him.

"If you like a child, give birth to one." Qi Ning smiled and handed Han Dong a snack.

Qi Ning and Han Dong talked, called Zhao to come over to accompany her, and left her in the backyard for lunch, before sending the gifts prepared by the housekeeper to the carriage they hired and letting her go back.

This year, the wind and rain around Qing'an are smooth, but the floods and droughts in Lingnan have struck all over the surrounding three prefectures and six states. For thousands of miles, the grass and trees are exhausted, and hunger is everywhere. For a time, Lingnan was empty of ten rooms and nine empty, or fled to the north, to make a living, or fell into the grass as a coward, raging among the people, and the disaster reached Beijing, and the whole dynasty was in an uproar......

However, a large number of refugees poured into the city in a few days, and Qi Ning hurriedly asked the housekeeper to go to Zhujia Village, so that all the villagers only left a few days to eat, and the rest were all hidden in the cave in the back mountain to prevent the homeless people from rioting, smashing and looting. The shops were closed, and the doors were made sturdy with sticks. For a while, few shops in and out of the city were open.

Qi Ning had a bad premonition when he heard Xiao Yunsheng say that the drought in Lingnan was in the spring, so Jing Su took people to the countryside to secretly collect a lot of grain, and he had already hidden thousands of catties of rice and coarse grains in the cave in the back mountain.

Seeing that the city was crowded with disaster victims, in order to prevent the displaced people from making trouble in the city when they were hungry, Qi Ning set up a porridge shed at the south city gate, and the grain was bought from the grain store in the city, and 100 catties of brown rice and 100 catties of cornmeal were cooked every day to help the victims.

Shopkeeper Hu and more than a dozen wealthy families in the city also followed suit and set up porridge sheds outside the south gate. For a while, the victims flocked to the south city gate, relieving the pressure on the city and Zhujia Village. Because the Yan Song brothers were busy outside the city and couldn't come back, Qi Ning took Handong's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law over to live together.

For half a month in a row, some rich households couldn't hold on and withdrew one after another, only Qi Ning, as well as the porridge shacks of the Xiao family and the other two families were still holding on.

There were more and more people in the disaster, and there was not enough food, so there was a scramble and stampede, and Qi Ning had increased to 500 catties of brown rice and cornmeal every day.

Fortunately, the army on the dock sent people to barely maintain order, and there was no big chaos.

Qi Ning stood on the city wall and watched worriedly, and the worry in his heart became more and more serious. The price of grain in several grain stacks in the city is rising day by day, and Qi Ning can't hold on for long if it goes on like this.

The shops on the wharf outside Chengli were all closed and dead. Even the grain stack only opened a small door, and one person put it in one by one.

The housekeeper took the men to Zhushan and Houshan to guard. Only a man and a half the size of the Iron Bull was left in the city to accompany the women.

The porridge shed outside the city has always been Jing Su taking Jing Dao to cook porridge to work, Jing Su and Tie Niu did not agree to Qi Ning going out to help. Qi Ning didn't have an idea for a while, so he could only take the time to talk to the guards on the city wall who were familiar with him, and stood on the city wall and looked at the more and more victims outside the city.

If this continues, if the imperial court does not provide disaster relief, it may really cause even greater chaos, and now there are often people stealing things in the city, but there is no group attack yet. Once the chaos starts, it will be difficult to clean up, and the shops in the city and the docks will also suffer.