A few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the steamed buns on auspicious days were sold as usual, and the first cage was still given away for free, but there were more people who came to take advantage of it. To say that twelve steamed buns are nothing, after all, they are steamed at two o'clock, and they come out of the pot at three o'clock, and they usually take half an hour to finish, but now the kung fu of a cup of tea is gone, and almost all the people who come are in tattered clothes.

Ji Ri vaguely felt that this was a homeless person from somewhere, but he didn't hear any news. After he steamed the second basket, he ran to Liubiju next door and asked Liu Xi, "Shopkeeper Liu, has there been a disaster recently?" ”

Liu Xi looked at Ji Ri in a daze and asked, "How do you know?" ”

"Really?" Ji Ri was a little surprised.

Liu Xi nodded and said, "Over there in Shanyang County, the Yellow River flooded and flooded. But don't worry, there are Aobei Mountain and Yunmeng Mountain in the way, and the water can't be flooded. ”

Ji Ri was a little uncertain and said, "Is the price of food going to rise?" ”

Liu Xi looked at Ji Ri in surprise and said, "How do you know?" More than half of my warehouse is full of grain now, and I'm just waiting for the price to rise! ”

"Shopkeeper Liu, it's not difficult for you to make a refugee fortune, don't grab food from the mouths of the victims for a little profit." Ji Ri said solemnly.

Liu Xi was a little embarrassed, lowered his voice, and said: "It's not that I have to wait for the price increase, the entire Liubiju in Zezhou Mansion will follow the price increase, how can my family do this uplift?" ”

Ji Ri thought for a while and said: "I'll think of this way, but you can't raise the price, otherwise this time it won't be unpleasant for people to look at you, and it's difficult to stay in Huze City!" ”

Liu Xi was a little stunned, he never thought that one day he would not be able to get along in Huze City, his own industrial family is here, and it would be like picking his skin to develop elsewhere.

Liu Xi gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I'll listen to you, as long as I don't lose money, no, as long as my six must-live can still be opened, you can do what you say!" ”

After leaving Liubiju, he turned to Chen's Mansion on an auspicious day, and he knocked on the door and called people.

"It's early in the morning, who is so annoying? If you don't knock, don't knock! ”

The housekeeper Chen Nian was just about to open the door when he heard the voice, scolded and opened the door, and when he saw that it was an auspicious day, most of his anger suddenly disappeared, but he still said with a slight complaint: "In the past six months, there have been two knocks on the door in such a hurry, this time it was you, it was you last time, why are you always it?" What about steamed buns? ”

The auspicious day is also a little ashamed, usually it is true that it is early in the morning to send steamed buns to the Chen Mansion, but this time there are other things, so it will be delayed.

"Uncle Nian, I'll go back later, I have something to find Chen Yuanwai."

Chen Nian said curiously: "What's the matter, you opened a steamed bun shop last time you looked for Chen Yuanwai, is it going to open a teahouse this time?" ”

Ji Ri waved his hand and said: "I have a steamed bun shop for myself to steam steamed buns to eat, and I am content to eat them. ”

Chen Nian nodded and said, "You kid can hide things, come on, the master is now worshiping Guan Gong, you go to the living room and wait, I'll go to Tongyu." ”

Ji Ri nodded and went to the living room by himself. After a while, Chen Yuanwai walked in, with a smug face. Since his secret injury was healed, the whole person has become much more energetic, and he has become more and more pious towards Guan Gong, and even let people create a glaive knife, and he usually plays twice when he has nothing to do.

"Ah Ri, how is your mother's health?"

Ji Ri hurriedly stood up and said, "Thank you Chen Yuanwai, my mother's health is much better, Mr. Lu's wonderful hand has rejuvenated, and even the dark disease left by the lack of qi and blood has been removed." ”

Chen Tingjing nodded and said, "That's fine, what are you doing when you come to me this time?" ”

"Outside of Chen Yuan, Shanyang County was flooded by the Yellow River, do you know?"

Chen Tingjing stroked his beard behind his back with one hand and the other, and said, "I've heard a little." ”

Ji Ri continued: "There are a few more homeless people in the city of Houze, do you know? ”

Chen Tingjing looked at the auspicious day, hesitated, and said: "I haven't heard of this, but Huze has not suffered a disaster, and it is not difficult to understand how many homeless people there are." ”

Ji Ri said solemnly: "Chen Yuanwai, that's not what I said, Shanyang County will get Ze after crossing the Yellow River, even if only 12 out of 10 people come, everyone's life will be difficult." ”

Chen Yuanwai smiled: "What's there to worry about, my Chen family is also a good family, and life can always go on." ”

Ji Ri shook his head and said: "Chen Yuanwai, he hated to die outside Maicheng, and the book was full of cold grievances. Do you remember the poems left by Guan Erye's appearance? ”

Chen Tingjing was stunned for a moment and asked, "Ah Ri, what do you mean by this?" ”

Ji Ri said: "I don't mean anything else, that is, if there are still more displaced people, it is also a righteous act to trouble Chen Yuanwai to open a wide range of good doors and starve to death a few fewer lives." ”

Chen Tingjing pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, it's a trivial matter. It's just that most of my house are women, and there are few men, since you have opened this mouth, why don't you preside over this matter at that time, what do you think? ”

Ji Ri was also stunned, he just wanted to live a stable life, but he didn't think about how to do it. But since he made a request to Chen Tingjing, he naturally had to consider the difficulties of others, so he nodded and agreed.

returned to the steamed bun shop, sent the steamed buns from the Chen Mansion over, and when he came back, he lowered his head all the way, thinking about what to do about this matter. It stands to reason that if there are really more displaced people, the government will naturally come forward to manage it, but Ji Ri somehow doesn't believe that Gan Lin will do such a thankless job.

"Ji Ri, why don't you look at people when you walk?"

Hearing someone call him, Ji Rifang raised his head. In front of him was none other than Gan Lin's concubine Liu Yan. Ji Ri hurriedly made a gesture and said, "Mrs. Gan forgives me, the villain was just thinking about things, and he was distracted for a while, and he didn't want to collide with you." ”

Liu Yan smiled: "That's not necessary, I just want to ask you for the jujube cake method, the master of Hyunshui City wrote to me, but I praised your craftsmanship." ”

Only then did the auspicious day come to his senses. Although after the steamed bun shop was opened, she also had a slight relationship with Liu Yan, but she dealt with her more as a storyteller Zhou Cang, and knew that although this lady was from the dust, she had a warm heart.

"The villain can just talk to the cook in the house another day, how can this bother the lady?"

Liu Yan said: "That's the same. I have also heard that you have dealt with Mr. Zhou, the storyteller, and the first statue of Guan Gong was made by you when you asked Carpenter Zhu to build it, do you know where Mr. Zhou has gone and where he is now? ”

"The villain did meet Mr. Zhou a few times when he was herding cattle, but he was uncertain and wandering, and he would not tell the villain where he was going, and asked his wife for forgiveness." Ji Ri knew that these things could not stand up to investigation, so he had already prepared an excuse, as long as he was a storyteller, everything would be easy to do.

When Liu Yan heard this, she looked a little disappointed, and said, "Okay, since you and Mr. Zhou are also old acquaintances, if you meet, come to Ganfu to say hello." ”

Ji Ri nodded and agreed, and only returned to the shop after Liu Yan left. When he arrived at the door of the shop, Ji Ri thought about it again and again, and entered Liubiju again, and said to Liu Xi: "Shopkeeper, do you know how to help the victims?" ”

Liu Xi said: "It's okay to stutter, why is it so troublesome?" ”

Ji Ri sighed and said, "The victims of the disaster are also people! ”

After saying that, Ji Ri still returned to the steamed bun shop and continued to work on today's business. It was busy until the afternoon, when suddenly soldiers in the city passed through the streets, looking hurried, and rushed out of the city. Ji Ri was a little worried, but he didn't know what was going on, he said to his mother: "Mother, you look at the shop, I'll go back as soon as I go." ”

Following the direction of the soldiers, Ji Ri walked behind, and there were many people following behind to see the excitement along the way. They followed them all the way to the gate of the city, and the soldiers guarding the city had already stopped everyone, and the notice on the side had just been pasted, and the hastily applied paste was soaked through the paper in some places.

Ji Ri also gathered next to the notice, only to see that it was written: "The birthday gift of the Empress Dowager was attacked by gangsters on the way to Shangdang County, and two horses of Shoujin and four stones of yellow millet in Qinzhou were robbed." In order to thoroughly investigate the robbers, they will be allowed to enter and leave Zecheng from now on. ”

"Shoujin was robbed? What's the use of the robbers asking for that thing, outwitting the Birth Gang? Ji Ri was a little puzzled, and Xuan even thought about it, "I'm afraid that for those few stones of millet, Shoujin was just robbed by the way!" ”

After thinking about it, Ji Ri ran to Liubiju in a panic and said to Liu Xi: "Look after your warehouse these days, don't go out of the water!" ”

Liu Xi wondered: "The grain of dozens of stones in my warehouse naturally has fire prevention skills, which one are you singing?" ”

Ji Ri said: "Shoujin has been robbed, the city has been sealed, and there are displaced people outside to come in, and the county master will inevitably scrape another layer of ground if he can't find Shoujin, and your treasury is now a treasure!" ”

When Liu Xi heard this, he was shocked, and immediately called the man to lock up the warehouse, stared at it over there, and asked, "Then what should I do with this grain?" ”

"Wait a few days, if Shoujin can be recovered, everything will be easy, in case we can't find it, let's prepare to open a warehouse to help grain, and it's better to put it on the bright side than to be secretly remembered!"

On the auspicious day, I returned to the shop and sealed the fire early, and the steamed buns were no longer steamed. Ji's mother looked at her son in a hurry, and asked, "What are you doing with the fire, I still plan to make peace, and I won't do the deal?" ”

After explaining the matter to his mother in a few words, the two of them packed up their things, hung up the closing sign, and rested early.

As expected on an auspicious day, Gan Lin thundered in the house, with broken tea bowl lids all over the ground, shouting: "Check it out for me, it's almost a matter of water, and the birthday gift must not go wrong!" ”

The master on the side saw that Gan Lin's temper had improved slightly, and said: "Master, we can't hang ourselves on a tree, in case we don't catch it, or if Shoujin is damaged, it's all troublesome, it's better to ......."

Gan Lin's face was gloomy, and he said, "What's not as good as it, Sun Heng, what are you still doing at this time?" ”

Master Sun Heng said: "It's better for us to ask Yu Chunfeng of Hyunshui to hurry up and make two Shou Jin, which can be regarded as a precaution." ”

Gan Lin frowned and said, "That Shoujin consumes a lot of silver, how can you still do it?" ”

"Do it, of course you can do it. Let's do what to do with the last birthday brocade, and how to do this one! ”