Chapter 19 The Wanderers of the River and the Beach
The high-end atmosphere and high-grade sky scene has nothing to do with the earth.
On the beach of Baijiyuan, there are people all over the place.
A few shelves are put up, and some thatch is laid on them, and it is a house.
Spread some hay on the ground, and you will make a bed.
If you can still have a little food, this can be a paradise too.
But how many people can eat all year round?
On the river beach, mosquitoes are bigger than flies in summer, and in winter, the cold wind irrigates the body, which is the place where people stay? The locals would rather live in the deep mountains and old forests than live here, and most of the people who live here are homeless.
The disaster in their hometown and the temporary residence of borrowing land are the common business cards of almost all the original residents of Baiji.
But some of them have lived there for generations.
Why? When will my hometown not be hit by disasters?
There are no natural disasters and military disasters, no military disasters and locust plagues, and no locust plagues and man-made disasters......
Comparatively speaking, it is better to have Baijiyuan.
Even if there is nothing to eat, even if the flood comes, it will more or less always take some people's lives, after all, there is a benefit, the advantage is that this tidal flat has no owner, no one is looking for them to collect high taxes, and this is the suburbs of Haining, there are no wild beasts, of course, it is good to have wild beasts, young and strong men go out, maybe they can fight a few tooth sacrifices......
Near a corner by the river, Xiaoxue quietly looked at Chang Liushui, she was originally a maid of the Dingnan Hou Mansion, in the eyes of the countrymen, it was brocade clothes and jade food, but more than half a month ago, she came back because her father was sick.
She called in a doctor, she bought medicine, but in the end she could not save her father's life.
Her father died, and the Immortal Dao Sect did not allow the bones to be buried here, so she could only use a few bamboos to build a bamboo raft, cover it with hay, and a fire burned in the heart of the river, and her father turned into ashes under her nose, and her mother cried and fainted in her arms.
"Cher, Cher......" the mother in the room called softly.
Xiaoxue suddenly woke up from her contemplation and pushed open the thatched door outside: "Mother, are you hungry...... I've just picked the freshest mountain vegetables, and I'll cook them for you. ”
The old woman on the bed was full of vegetables and was extremely weak, but she still stretched out her hand and held her daughter's hand: "Xue'er, you should go back, you should go back to work in other people's homes, it's not good to be absent for a long time, the main family will hate you." ”
"Mother, you can't get out of bed......"
"Who said my mother can't get up? Mother is fine, just a little tired......" The old woman struggled to sit up: "Don't worry, huh?" ”
Xiaoxue's tears rolled in her eyes, and she didn't dare to tell her mother that she couldn't go back.
The main family suffered a disaster, she became a shameful traitor, not only did she not share the hardships with the main family, but stole Mrs. Hairpin, Mrs., I'm sorry, Xiaoxue in this life, as long as she doesn't die, she must return your hairpin, she must pay it back!
"Why don't you speak? Xue'er, you look into your mother's eyes and tell your mother, isn't it...... Was he kicked out by the master's house? You say......"
Suddenly, a voice came from outside: "Xiaoxue! ”
Xue'er's face suddenly turned pale as paper, and she could hear whose voice it was, it was Lin Jialiang, the second son! The most amazing person in the entire Dingnan Hou Mansion.
He came in person, he must have come to arrest her.
She has done something wrong and can accept any punishment, but this punishment cannot be in front of her mother, who cannot stand this blow......
"Xiaoxue, are you there?"
Another voice came, Xiaoxue's whole body was shaken, and the third son also came?
"Cher, who?"
"Yes...... It's the two sons of the Hou Mansion......"
Yes? The mother got out of bed: "Xue'er, hurry, quickly invite the two sons to come in......"
As soon as the door opened, Lin Su and Lin Jialiang appeared at the door with a bag.
"Xiaoxue!" Lin Su said: "Here are some rice and noodles, my mother asked us to send them over......"
Xiaoxue's whole body shook violently, and she completely lost her thinking ability for a while.
didn't arrest her, and even sent her rice and noodles.
"Madame...... Is Madame okay? Xiaoxue's lips trembled slightly, others didn't know the situation in the Hou Mansion, how could she not know, when she left, Madame was already in a desperate situation......
Lin Su smiled: "My mother is very good, she worships her ancestors at home at every turn, thanks to her ancestors for their blessings, I said Xiaoxue, after you go back, you have to persuade her to do this, worship the ancestors, you can do it on the fifteenth day of the first month, always worship, who can stand it?" ”
A remark, lighthearted and playful, but conveying a few key messages.
First, everything is fine with the Lin family and they have already gotten through it.
Second, Mrs. allowed her Xiaoxue to return to the Lin family.
Xiaoxue's heart is full of big waves, like in a dream.
"Go cook some porridge for your mother, the old man doesn't look good."
The porridge is tumbling in the pot.
Xiaoxue's tears rolled in her eyes.
Someone approached behind him.
As soon as Xiaoxue turned around, she saw Lin Su, and she suddenly knelt down.
Kneel in front of Lin Su.
"Xiaoxue, what are you?"
"Childe is kind-hearted and can't bear to expose my crimes in front of my mother, but I ...... My crime is there after all. I stole my wife's hairpin and entered the Lin family again without shame, but I ...... But I have sworn that in this life, as long as I don't die, I will definitely pay back! ”
"You've already paid it back!"
What? Xiaoxue raised her head, not understanding.
Lin Su said: "Before January, when you put three bags of flour at the gate of the Lin family, it had already been returned. ”
"But ......," she wanted to say, she sold the hairpin for four taels of silver, and three bags of flour were only worth one or two halves, and she brought the other two halves to the doctor and bought medicine......
"Hairpin has a price, life is priceless, sometimes a little bit of heart can also see a person's nature clearly, trivial problems, don't worry about it. Xiaoxue, you don't have to bear anything, you are not guilty, my mother has forgiven you, and our brothers don't blame you. ”
Xiaoxue burst into tears.
"I'm here today, in addition to sending you something, I actually want to ask you something."
"Childe, you say, Xiaoxue will promise everything......"
Xiaoxue's heart was pounding, did Childe mean to ...... She?
Otherwise, what else could be found in his eyes?
Even if she wants her, she will give it!
"This!" Lin Su picked up a bag of rice in the corner of the wall.
Xiao Xue's heart instantly dissipated, and was replaced by surprise: "Childe, this is ...... This is rice, but don't eat it! ”
"I know I can't eat it!" Lin Su blinked and said, "But I'm thinking about another question, can it ...... What about drinking? Goodbye! ”
Yao Mi shook his shoulders, and Lin Su strode away.
All the way back, there was no abnormality, and there was only one Lin Jialiang, full of puzzlement.
"Third brother, what are you doing with this rice on your back? This thing can't be eaten, and it can't be fed to pigs and dogs, that is, it is the life of fertilizer, and when fertilizer is not as good as pig and cow dung. ”
Lin Su said bluntly: I plan to make a trial to see if this rice can be made into wine.
In feudal society, making wine is not as easy as imagined.
Raw materials are a big problem.
If the common people eat bran and wild vegetables, how can there be so much food for you to make wine? If you go down with a glass of wine, it may mean that an ordinary person will starve to death, are you sorry? After the Great Song Dynasty, all dynasties controlled the winery, and they also realized that there was a defect in making wine and competing with the people for food.
Therefore, Lin Su was reluctant to use rice as a staple food to make wine.
But it's a different story.
The rice has no edible value, he uses this thing to make wine, and there is no competition with the people for food.
On the one hand, make good wine and get rich.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to find a way to make money for the people of the river beach? Maybe the saints were inspired by his great good deeds, and directly gave him all the literary world, Wenshan, and Wenxin, isn't that hahahaha?
He said it easily, but Lin Jialiang's heart trembled.
Does it really work?
This road is not a literary road, but a way for the people to live.
The people are helpless, the people are miserable, how many literati use an emotional tone to depict it, but how many people really care about the people's livelihood?
The third brother, but he really paid attention to it!
And do it yourself!
"Third brother, it's better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books! For my brother I really understand! Lin Jialiang said: "One day, if I am an official, I will definitely live up to the people of the ten directions!" ”
Lin Su's hand pressed on his shoulder: "Okay, one day, I'll make you a big official." ”
Lin Jialiang's eyes lit up: "Then you have to be a bigger official first, third brother, it's good that you have this understanding, after you go back, study behind closed doors and concentrate on the imperial examination......"
Lin Su slapped himself on the mouth: "I didn't say it!" ”
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