Chapter 33
With the continuous influx of displaced people, the security of the city began to gradually become chaotic. At first, it was just a few people who wanted to find a job to find a job to explore around, and then the competition became more and more fierce, and they were still paid according to normal people, but in less than a month's work, some people were willing to work as long as they took care of the food.
There are only more than 10,000 households in the entire county and a few villages outside, although it is not full of plastering, but it is also a good life. However, hundreds of displaced people arrived, and everyone finally began to resent and wary of these poorly clothed and hungry guys.
"Have pity on me, I've been here all the way from Hanoi and haven't eaten for a few days......" Looking at the people who came to beg at the door of the shop one after another, the auspicious day couldn't bear it, as long as the steamed buns in the pot were enough to earn back the capital, almost everyone else would give it out.
After coming and going, the displaced people in Huoze City also knew that this small steamed bun shop was easier to eat than those big teahouses and restaurants, and more and more people came to the shop. Until a few homeless people almost stayed on the edge of the shop, Ji Ri finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"I know that you are homeless people, and it is not easy to be flooded, but there is no reason to have a shop to eat! You have hands and feet, you must be stronger than those women and children, and you can't find a way to live in Houze County, why don't you go to Changping and Shangdang? ”
These words persuaded a few guys who were not so thick-skinned, but there was still one person who stayed. Ji Ri looked at him and said coldly: "Didn't I say what I said about you?" Why are you still here? ”
The man was lean, his skin was like bronze casting, and he said: "I can go anywhere, but you are really good, others give you half a piece of cold pancakes, and you can eat hot steamed buns here, who will eat if you don't eat it?" ”
Ji Ri laughed angrily when he heard this, and said: "Should I let you eat steamed buns for nothing if I am good, what is the reason?" ”
The man scratched his head and said, "That's the same reason, you are good, I shouldn't eat you for nothing, but if I still have a penny on me, the money will only come to your shop." ”
Ji Ri sighed and said, "Okay, don't compliment me, everyone will say cheap words, what's your name?" ”
The man stood up, clenched his fists, and said, "If you don't change your name, if you don't change your surname, I am Wang Xiaohu from Pingyang County!" ”
Ji Ri snorted and laughed, but Wang Xiaohu was a little annoyed and said, "What's so funny about this? ”
"Do you have an enemy named Li Goudan?"
Wang Xiaohu wondered: "No, although I have practiced a copper skin and iron bones, I rarely have disputes with others, if I have to be regarded as an enemy, there is only one named Li Mastiff." ”
Ji Ri nodded, feeling that it was more reasonable, Xiaohu faced the big mastiff, and it was strange not to be bullied. He said: "Don't blame me for a momentary gaffe, it's just that I heard that the storyteller said that the tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, so I laughed out loud." ”
Wang Xiaohu smiled and said: "The tiger falling in Pingyang is also a tiger, and the dog is really a dog!" ”
When Ji Ri heard this, he felt that this Wang Xiaohu was a wonderful person, so he asked: "Since you have some ability, and now it is in our place, I naturally don't want to do that dog thing." If you come to my store to help one or two, it's still okay for you to have a meal. ”
Wang Xiaohu was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that he would be cheeky and get a stable errand. He was about to thank him for the auspicious day when he heard the following in his ears.
"It's just that I don't need a helper for a while, since you claim to be a tiger, you should eat according to your own ability. In this way, as long as you don't come to my shop for food for ten days, I will care when the disaster is over. ”
Wang Xiaohu gritted his teeth and said: "A good man speaks with a mouth and a nail, ten days will be ten days, if I can't hold on, naturally I won't have to see you, if I can hold on, don't be that kind of person who goes back on his word!" ”
After saying that, without waiting for the auspicious day to respond, he left on his own. Liu Xi on the side came out to take a look when he drank the homeless people on the auspicious day, and saw that the auspicious day made a gambling contract with Wang Xiaohu, so he ran over and said: "Brother, what kind of bet are you making!" You know that this steamed bun shop is going to be eaten! ”
"Shopkeeper Liu, where are you talking about this, such a lean person, eating four steamed buns at a time, and only eight for two meals a day, in your eyes, I can't help eating this shop?"
Liu Xi smiled bitterly: "In the end, it's still short-sighted, just look at that person's leanness, do you know how capable that copper skin is?" ”
"The sun is shining, I can also get it out if I give me a few days."
Liu Xi said: "You only saw the color, but you didn't see his tendon flesh." When we live in Liubiju to transport valuables, we will ask the dart master to be a bodyguard all the way, and there are people like him in the dart master, I have only seen two, and a dart costs fifty taels of silver! ”
Ji Ri didn't care much and asked, "Then are you invited?" ”
Liu Xi said distressedly: "That trip is said to be valuable, but the total is only six hundred taels of silver, such a dart master does not have two thousand taels of goods, who can afford to invite them?" ”
Ji Ri let out a long "oh" and asked, "Then according to you, a person like him, how many steamed buns a meal?" ”
Liu Xi said: "If you don't talk about it, you need twenty steamed buns for one meal!" ”
"Shopkeeper, do you want to hear what you're talking about? A meal of twenty steamed buns, is he a human belly, or a Qiankun sleeve? Did you see the dart master eat twenty steamed buns? ”
Liu Xi thought for a while and said, "That's not true, that's what I estimated." ”
Ji Ri couldn't help but quip: "I don't think the Chunlai Teahouse should invite Mr. Zhou to talk about Guan Yunchang, but you should be invited to talk about it." ”
"Brother, what do you mean?"
Ji Ri smiled: "Please go and say Guan Yunchang, it's not Cao Cao who said to surrender him, but he captured Cao Cao alive!" ”
Liu Xi was a little angry and shouted: "I was kind enough to remind you, but you teased me, when I saw it, how happy this Wang Xiaohu was eating, how ugly you cried!" ”
"Eat, I promised others, even if I eat fifty steamed buns at a time, then I will bear it." The auspicious day still didn't take it seriously, and after saying that, he went back to the shop and continued to work.
Compared with the troubles of the homeless people in the city, it is even more difficult in the countryside outside the city, at least there are no less than ten people outside Zhu Tianqi's courtyard who want to beg him to take him in, so that he can't even do his work.
"Let's go, I'm not a big family, I can't control your many mouths, no matter how many things you do, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
Seeing that everyone still refused to leave, Zhu Tianqi was ruthless, picked up a wooden stick and slammed it out of the door, and slammed it more than a dozen times in a row, so that the homeless people knew that this family was not easy to mess with, and they had to leave one after another.
Zhu Tianqi put the wooden stick behind his back and sighed: "What is this called, it has only been more than ten years since An's birthday, and he has made such a big mess......
"The county magistrate has an order, because of the flooding in Shanyang County, there are many displaced people in the city. The homeless people are lonely and cannot be ignored, and the homeless people are chaotic and cannot be left untreated. From now on, the grain tax will be increased, and the strength of Ze will be collected to overcome the difficulties with Shanyang County, and those who have paid more will be reduced by two percent of the grain tax in the following year according to this amount. If there is a small payment, the soldiers should urge them to do it, and the overall situation should not be delayed. ”
The notice was posted, and soon the news was heard about Ze County, and the displaced people on the street praised that the order of Huze County was really a rain from heaven and solved the urgent needs of the people. However, for others, this notice is completely stuffing coptis into their mouths, not allowing them to speak, not to swallow, but to chew.
After Ji Ri learned the news, he first prepared enough food and waited for the official uniform to come to collect taxes, and then began to worry about the consequences of this notice. There is no doubt that what is written in black and white is beyond reproach, and there is also a subsidy for those who pay more food taxes, but the question is whether this food money will actually work in the end.
In the Chen Mansion, after Chen Tingjing learned the news, he said to the housekeeper Chen Nian: "Go and send two stones of grain to the government, this homeless person is indeed a bit too much, Gan Lin is busy tracking down the Shoujin case, and at the same time, he has to clean up this stall, which is really not easy." ”
Chen Nian asked: "Master, the last time Ah Ri came to say that he was going to do a good deed, at this time he opened a porridge shed and gave out a little porridge every day, isn't it just right?" ”
Chen Tingjing said: "Let's wait for Gan Lin to make a move, the government will not move, we will go to open a porridge shed first, this is not appropriate." ”
Chen Nian didn't say anything more, but just sent the grain to the government according to Chen Tingjing's instructions. With the Chen Mansion as an example, the wealthy families in Huze City took the initiative to send food to the government, and many displaced people followed along the way.
"The county master's notice is true, he won't leave us alone!"
"Go to the official mansion, we have something to eat!"
After shouting one after another, the number of people at the gate of the official mansion increased one after another, all of them were in tattered clothes, and their faces were yellow and thin, and they watched the grain being transported to the government one stone after another, but no one dared to go up and grab a grain of grain.
When there was really no place to stay in front of the official mansion, Gan Lin came out of the mansion, cleared his throat, and shouted: "Folks, you have been wronged!" The whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's minister, although you have no industry, but you are also the people of my Great Jin Dynasty, Gan is already raising relief, please be calm and patient! ”
The anxious homeless man asked, "County Master, how long do you have to wait?" ”
Gan Lin was going to go back to his house after speaking, but when he heard this question, his face was slightly stunned, his embarrassed expression flashed, and he smiled again: "Don't panic, everyone will have the food that should be eaten, just don't delay the county's official business, the time will drag on for a long time, and everyone will eat a little slower!" ”
No longer waiting for everyone to ask, Gan Lin withdrew and returned to the mansion, looked at the master on the side, and said: "Sun Heng, the door is full of people, all waiting for this relief food, my words have already been put out, don't let these people smash the mansion when the time comes, that person will be a big loss!" ”
Sun Heng smiled sadly: "Master, don't worry, I have ordered all the food and money in the warehouse, we can last another month after we run Shoujin, as long as we exercise well, I don't know where to be the prefect at that time, and the stalls here will naturally be cleaned." ”
Gan Lin thought that he was about to be promoted, smiled and said: "I hope so, if I am expected to be promoted, I will inevitably take you to office with me!" ”