Chapter Ninety-One: The Plague of Locusts
Zhao Yuanbao was finally beaten with 20 boards and put in a prison cell, and his family secretly paid a lot of silver, but it is estimated that it will be closed for a few months.
However, in private, he still sent someone to Yujia Village and forcibly collected the dowry he had given at the beginning. The Yu family didn't catch anything in the end, and Yunqing also took the eldest girl away, losing his wife and breaking his army.
Mrs. Yu felt a few years older in an instant, and she didn't know what the Yu family had done, and now there was only a second room and an old woman left, and the family's reputation in the village was also a mess.
Fortunately, Rong Cheng left a sum of money when he left, and the Yu family lived quite well, and now Mrs. Yu is waiting for a good harvest of grain this autumn.
But who would have thought that after about half a month, when autumn was about to begin, the county town suddenly began to have a locust plague, and it was extremely serious, almost all the villages within a radius of dozens of miles of Yujia Village were affected, and Yujia Village was especially serious, and the grain that the villagers had worked so hard to grow was eaten clean by the locusts.
For the crops who depend on the land for food, this time is tantamount to a natural disaster, and this year it has not been completed, and I don't know how many people will drink the northwest wind.
In previous years, this situation had to be reported to Beijing and allocated funds for disaster relief, but from here to the capital, it was a round trip. In addition, through the hands of officials from all walks of life, the goods and food for disaster relief will not take long to arrive, and it is estimated that they will starve to death.
The county order did not delay in this regard, and as soon as there was a locust plague, people were sent to Beijing to convey the news, but it was not known when it would be approved.
Yujia Village is now the richest with the Zhang family and Mrs. Yu's family, but none of them are willing to contribute money to help the villagers.
Mrs. Yu thinks that she has poured blood mold in the past two years, and it is a dream to let her give money to help others!!
In this way, after more than a month, many villagers could not eat and began to go hungry, Yu's family was fine, but Mrs. Yu's body was getting worse and worse, and she still held on to the silver left by Rong Cheng and refused to let go.
When I saw the second room, I inevitably had other thoughts.
Nowadays, having enough to eat is a problem, who still has the heart to serve a grumpy old lady every day and it is useless? As the saying goes, there is no filial son in front of the bed after a long illness, and the couple in the second room discussed it and are ready to leave the Yu family.
But before leaving, you still have to snatch the silver from the old lady's hand!
This night, after Mrs. Yu had dinner, she was lying on the bed crookedly, and the second aunt walked in with the tonic and said, "Mother, drink the medicine." ”
There was enough sweat medicine in the tonic, and Mrs. Yu fell asleep after drinking it.
After getting up the next day, Mrs. Yu found that the second room was empty, and the silver left by Rong Cheng was gone, and she was the only old lady left in the entire Yu family.
Mrs. Yu was too stimulated, her eyes were dark, and she fainted.
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When I woke up again, Yu Sanya was sitting next to the bed.
Mrs. Yu said weakly: "Three girls, why are you here?"
After marrying Li Dazhuang, Yu Sanya has changed into a person, a girl who is obviously only a teenager, like a weathered woman, with sallow skin, blank eyes, and some bruises on her face. Yu Sanya said truthfully: "There has been a locust plague recently, and there is no food at home, so I was going to come to grandma to ask if there is anything to eat, and it looks like it is not much better than our family." ”
The ancestors and grandchildren stopped talking, and after a long time, Mrs. Yu sighed heavily and said: "Sanya, you say, did our family offend anyone in the last life?
"You're foolish. Yu Sanya didn't get the food, and she didn't have the patience to deal with this old lady. Get up and leave.
Behind her, Mrs. Yu sighed heavily and said, "That's it, this is fate, let's starve to death here together!!"
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Because the relief funds from above have been delayed, the county order is worried about the local disaster victims and orders the wealthy people in the county to raise money for disaster relief.
Naturally, few people are willing to do this kind of thing, and Shen Tingfeng, a well-known good old man, was the first to stand up as usual, paid a lot of money for him, and offered to build a soup kitchen. Yun Qing followed and stood up, she didn't have Shen Tingfeng's kindness, but she owed Shen Tingfeng a favor, and she had been thinking about how to repay it, besides, doing good deeds would also help her leave a good reputation in the county.
These two people actively provided disaster relief, and the other rich people were somewhat unable to get by, and they also took out their money. Nothing is better than nothing.
The county commander sent people to tell the villages about the soup soup in the county seat, and personally sent people to pick up the victims to come to the county seat.
The people of Yujia Village never thought that this time the soup soup was actually Yu Daya and Yu Erya. Quite a few years old, the eldest girl is very unpopular in the village, and it is really feng shui in turn.
Naturally, this time there is an old lady, I haven't seen her for a few months, Yun Qing didn't expect this old lady to be so old, didn't she have the silver left by Rong Cheng in her hand? How could she end up in such a field......
"Grandma?"
Mrs. Yu glanced at Yun Qing viciously and said, "Are you embarrassed to call me grandma?"
"How did you become like this, don't you still have money at home?"
"Heh, hehe......" Mrs. Yu suddenly sneered and said: "It's not your white-eyed wolf, your second aunt and they ran away with my money!
Yun Qing was speechless, seeing Mrs. Yu like this, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.
She has already taken revenge, and it is enough for Mrs. Yu to reach this point. If Er Ya sees it, he will definitely feel distressed. How can I say that this person is also Erya's grandmother, and he should do a good deed for Erya.
Yun Qing didn't want to admit that she was soft-hearted towards this old lady, she was treated like a pig and a dog in her previous life, how could she still be soft-hearted?
Yun Qing said: "You can live with me and the second girl during this time, no matter how bad we are, we still have the money to give you a pension." ”
After that, he ignored Mrs. Yu and continued to give porridge.
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Mrs. Yu temporarily settled down here in Yunqing, and Yunqing didn't treat her very well, but she just had enough food and clothing.
Yun Qing didn't expect that Mrs. Yu, who was bent on killing her, would take her in in the end.
The soup porridge is about half a month small, and the money raised is not enough, and there are many victims in ten miles and eight villages, and there are more monks and less porridge.
Fortunately, at this time, the county order came with the news that the disaster relief had been allocated from above, and in order to prevent the intermediate officials from being delicious, this time it was sent by the nobles in the palace in person!!