Chapter Twenty-Three: Wholehearted Help
"I see." Su Shi nodded lightly.
Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.
In all dynasties, there will always be poor and rich people, some who eat meat every day, and some who can't eat. This is why Emperor Jin Hui said "why not eat minced meat".
This was originally a product of the feudal dynasty and could not be avoided.
Once a disaster strikes a bad luck and encounters a parent official who has no sense of responsibility, the quality of life of the people will be greatly reduced.
Then there is the begging who left his homeland, and finally became a rootless tree and became a homeless. If you push it any further, you will become a member of the rebel army.
The underdevelopment of communications, the emperor was far away, and there were people who could not eat and starved to death in the so-called prosperous era in history, which was not a big deal at that time.
Even if Su Shi has a point of faith in his hand, he is also a little helpless.
He might be able to satisfy everyone's food problems, as long as those people trust him. But if he takes in too many displaced people and the momentum grows, what do you make the court think? What do you make the emperor think?
This will shake the country, so wait for the imperial army to come and conquer.
Su Shi doesn't have any thoughts of rebellion now, he just wants his family to live safely now, and he won't be threatened. All that can be done is to give some people a certain amount of help within the scope of their power.
"It's not easy for them. It's just that they ran into us right away, and of course they had to take care of a full meal. In this way, everyone got busy, first distributed a hot porridge to everyone, and when there was something in the stomach, the Dragon and Tiger brothers came back after buying rice and meat, and they were getting a good meal for them. Su Shi greeted Lou Yang and a few people.
"Yes." At that moment, Louyang and the others began to get busy, due to the limited manpower, Yue Siling stood in front of a pot and distributed porridge to everyone with a wooden spoon. You can see that her little face is filled with a genuinely happy smile.
Maybe she was thinking in her heart that if she could meet such a kind person as the young master back then, then her father and mother would not starve to death on the road.
With the milk and hot porridge in their stomachs, the faces of many homeless people have become a little better, at least not so pale. At this time, the Dragon and Tiger brothers returned, and with them came back a full five full donkey carts.
It is full of rice, meat, vegetables, and other things. It took a hundred dollars to get it.
Of course, this amount of money can only be regarded as a drizzle for Su Shi. A few days ago, the money earned from perfume was a full 500,000 yuan.
With the system in his body, Su Shi never thought that money would be a constraint on him. The important thing is whether the money can be used in the right place.
When the new rice was put into the pot, the aroma of meat began to waft in, and all the homeless people became very honest at this moment. Only some naughty children, because they had eaten something and had strength, began to circle around the cauldron, and they got carried away with joy one by one.
Su Shi, who was sitting on the wooden chair, couldn't help, but some spices that everyone had never seen were taken out of his hands one by one and put into the iron pot.
For example, iodized salt as white as snow, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, white vinegar, aged vinegar, star anise, Sichuan pepper, cinnamon, tangerine peel, chili, ginger, green onion, garlic, fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, cooking wine, sugar, rock sugar, cumin, fennel, five-spice powder, thirteen spices, pepper, bay leaves, etc.
There are so many types of them that people are not sure to catch them.
Su Shi, who just got more than 400 faith points, only spent a dozen points to take out these things, no matter how you look at it, it is a big profit.
With the emergence of these seasonings of the collapse of the era, the iron pot is even more fragrant, and it has not yet been completely done, and its strong fragrance has not yet aroused how many greedy insects in the human body.
After another quarter of an hour, lunch was finally ready, and then it was time for everyone to get it. Su Shi had already given everyone an aluminum lunch box before, and now each lunch box was full, so that everyone was dazzled, and when Su Shi passed by Su Shi, who was sitting on a wooden chair, he would bow involuntarily and say words of thanks.
"Eat it while it's hot, and only when you're full will you have the strength to survive." Saying the same thing to everyone as much as possible, Su Shi noticed that many of the top of his head that had originally turned purple had turned red again.
Eating is something that can be enjoyable.
When people who have been hungry for a long time finally have a chance to eat a full meal, they all open their stomachs and put on a picture of preferring to die rather than starve to death.
"Okay, one person can only eat one box, and if you have more, you're hurting you. Don't worry, we won't leave today, and we will cook you a delicious meal in the evening. And tomorrow morning, we will be made breakfast. Wait until your body recovers a little before you can eat more. ”
Su Shi is only allowed to have one bowl of rice per person, but this is really for the good of everyone. Zhang Miaoshou is also popularizing relevant knowledge on the side, so that the displaced people know that this is really for their own good. There were originally some dissatisfied people, but after learning the truth, they turned into a face of gratitude.
Su Shi wants to stay here for one more day, of course, there is a reason why he wants everyone to eat more and live better. But there are also reasons to want to harvest a wave of faith points.
Zuo is just delaying a day's trip, but he can get more than 400 faith points, no matter how you look at it, he makes a lot of money.
At noon, some women hurried over to help clean up. After eating, they finally have the strength to do some work.
When everyone was done, Su Shi suggested that everyone get out of the way and wait on the path not far away, while they could consider finding branches to build a temporary house. In early spring, at night, the weather is still very cold.
This is preparing for camping, and everyone is naturally unsure. Now everyone started to get busy.
In this busyness, the old fritter saw some ways, and he came to Su Shi's side, "Young master, are there still some good hands among these homeless people?" ”
"Good hands?" Su Shi asked stunned.
"Yes, the kung fu should be pretty good. Look, that and that, and that, all have a kung fu foundation. Maybe they didn't have enough to eat and couldn't show it before, but now that their bodies are starting to recover, their abilities are exposed. ”
With the continuous guidance of the old fritters, Su Shi also saw that the young men among these homeless people really knew kung fu. This is evident from the speed and sharpness with which they climbed the tree and pulled the branches.
In fact, this is also a very normal thing. It has only been a few decades since the founding of the Song Dynasty, and it was only after five dynasties and ten kingdoms that the Great Song Dynasty was born.
There is still a background of folk martial arts, but because of the emphasis on literature and martial arts in recent years, there are fewer and fewer people who learn martial arts.
And even if they came from a village, it is normal for them to have a few good players. Otherwise, once you encounter danger, you are afraid that you will be eaten by wild beasts before starving to death.
And looking at those people who climbed trees and were as nimble as raccoon cats, Su Shi not only sighed in his heart. "There are so many people available in the people, but Song doesn't know how to use them, so that they have to pay Liao New Year's coins every year, which is really guarding Jinshan and crying poor.
Just as Su Shi was still watching everyone chop wood and build a house, the lone wolf in charge of the scout task suddenly appeared, "Young master, there is an official errand." ”
"Official? Is it coming for us? Su Shi asked a little puzzled.
"They came to us, and they went first to the official road, and then they came to us." The lone wolf replied in the affirmative.
"Oh, that's fine, we didn't do anything wrong, let's see what they mean first." Su Shi said indifferently.
Although Song is weak, he is not unreasonable. Especially under the rule of Song Renzong, the rule of officials was still clear, and the ministers of those dynasties were also capable people, unlike later, there were some traitorous people, which made the government system also corrupt.
The calmness on Su Shi's face infected everyone. One by one, they stood by Su Shi's side, waiting for the arrival of the official mission.
In less than half an hour, four people wearing cross-legged heads, round-necked shirts, lower body calves, and bast shoes rushed over.
They just swept their eyes and fell on Su Shi and the others, after all, among these people, only these people were dressed normally, and they should be the main ones they were looking for.
"Four headsmen, I don't know what happened?" Su Shi clenched his fists and said with a salute. (The people of the Song Dynasty called the head catcher the head Weng)
The four who came did not answer immediately, but glanced at the wooden chair first, as if they were a little puzzled because Su Shi did not get up to answer.
"I'm really sorry, I was disabled when I was a child, and I couldn't stand up." Su Shi said with a smile, but there was no sense of humility on his face because he was disabled.
"I see." Hearing such an explanation, the four head catchers were relieved. "That's right, these homeless people are not from our Tongxu County, and naturally they are not under our control, you can pass by here, but you can't stay here for a long time, understand?"
The dare is that the Longhu brothers bought a lot of food and hired a lot of donkey carts before, so such a thing naturally could not be hidden, and the news spread to the county government. Fearing that it would cause trouble, the county commander sent a catcher to explain the situation.
"Understand, don't worry, it's getting late, we'll stay here all night, and we'll leave tomorrow." After knowing his intention, Su Shi hugged his fists back without hurrying.
"Okay, you know." The four headhunters didn't mean to embarrass people, they were just doing what they were told. Even if Su Shi and the others agreed, they were so interested, of course they didn't mean to find trouble.
Officials come and go faster. But all this was seen by the homeless people not far away.