The chief and the village chief looked at Xiangping Niang with the wrong eyes, you can torture your daughter-in-law, or you can abuse your granddaughter, but starving them to death is intentional killing.

"Xiangyuan is a concubine you bought, she has a deed of sale, and if she dies, she will die, but the two children are your own granddaughters, how can you ......," said the village chief.

"Village chief, since last year, the crops in the field have not been able to harvest any grain, my orphans and widows, there is little land in the family, there are many people, and I have to pay taxes, where can I support so many people." Xiang Pingniang said in a weird way.

"But you can't starve your children to death, how old are the two children, how much food can they eat from you, you and Xiangping will each eat two less bites, won't you be able to feed them." The village chief was a little angry.

"I knew that the village chief was so kind, I should have sent the two children to your house, and I couldn't eat a few bites anyway, but now it's too late to say anything, and everyone has thrown me into the mountains."

Xiangping Niang was angry, Ya, your family married Perfume Miao, and how much benefit you got from the Xianghanlin family, why are you embarrassed to talk about yourself.

Seeing Xiang Pingniang's thin face, which had already revealed the skeleton, the chief couldn't help but feel sour, the fields had cracked, the fruit trees that had been transplanted with great difficulty were also half dead, and the edible food in the mountains was almost dug up, what to do in the next days.

"Let's go, now in this situation, it is estimated that more people will starve to death in the future, we have to go to the county government to ask the county magistrate, can we be exempted from this year's taxes." The lieutenant said.

The village chief nodded, this is the real big thing, this year the land can not be ploughed in the spring, and when the autumn comes, there will be no harvest, and the only few taels of silver in the family will have to buy rice, and people will definitely starve to death if they pay taxes.

The village chief's family bought the little calves of the Fubao family back then, and now they are growing up, they have no ox carts, so they can only sit on the cows and walk slowly to the county seat.

The county lord has not had a good time during this time, and Xiangqian won the examination, which made his performance look a lot better, but the bad thing is that the tax is not paid, and it is two layers less than the previous two years.

Looking at the situation, this year's tax can't be counted on, but the above doesn't care, just a few words, if he can't pay it this year, he should also return to his hometown.

When the village chief and the lieutenant chief rushed to the county office, they saw more than a dozen people standing at the entrance of the ya, waiting for the county magistrate to receive them.

The lieutenant chiefs and village chiefs of several villages are all sad, God doesn't rain, and they don't give them food to eat, and they can only turn to the county magistrate for help, otherwise they will really starve to death this year.

The county man hid inside and didn't come out at all, and in the end, the master and the head catcher pretended to be white and black-faced and drove them away, what are you kidding, the county master himself is difficult to protect, and he will take care of you.

The village chief and the lieutenant chief could only go to the rice shop in the county seat, but when they saw the price of rice, they were shocked, they originally thought that one hundred and fifty wen per pound of fine grain had reached the sky, but after only a few days, the price had risen to two hundred wen.

Coarse grains have risen a lot, and the original sorghum with a few copper plates and a large bowl of sorghum was sold to fifty copper plates, although a large bowl is about two catties, but this is too ......

The village chief took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve pocket, and the village chief's daughter-in-law gave him five taels, and another five taels were given to him by Xiangyang, and asked him to bring some food back when he came back, even if it was expensive, he had to buy it back.

There was greed in the chief's eyes, but he disappeared in an instant, and he reminded himself that he couldn't make the same old mistakes again, otherwise he would be targeted by wolves again.

"Why do you bring so much silver?"

"My mother-in-law gave me five taels, and the other five taels are the dowry silver of Shui Miao, and now the price of grain is higher every day, I have to buy some more." After the village chief finished speaking, he entered the rice shop.

The chief glanced at the silver enviously, the water seedlings embroidered well, and it was known to the whole village that they could earn silver, and it was really not difficult to take out five taels.

The brain is turning quickly, and the food at home is enough to eat until the autumn, but this year's grain is not harvested, what to eat after the autumn, it is estimated that even the bark and grass roots will be pulled out, or buy a little.

The village chief brought a bag of rice, and he didn't know how many bags of rice he could hold for ten taels of silver, but now six bags of coarse grain are five taels of silver, and twenty catties of fine grain are two taels of silver.

The remaining three taels of silver had to go to the cloth village to buy some cotton cloth and cotton for the grandchildren of the family, and the little girl was about to make a new dress for her.

The black ox was full of bags, and the chief also spent five taels of silver to buy coarse grain, and one tael of silver to buy fine grain, which was for the little tree to eat, and the little tree had a day off for ten days, and he had to eat something good when he went home.

When they returned to the village, the rice bags on the cow attracted the villagers, and Aunt Zhou knelt directly in front of the chief and the village chief, and asked them to take a little food out for relief.

The village chief was hesitating how much to take, after all, he couldn't afford to give more, Li Chang's eyes widened, and he scolded, this scolding made the villagers stupid, even coarse grain costs fifty yuan for a big bowl, what else do they have to hope for.

Thinking about it, who is willing to save the life-saving food relief people, most of the villagers have left, but Aunt Zhou just stared at the village chief, and she already noticed that the village chief wanted to relax.

The village chief's daughter-in-law also ran out, and when she saw Aunt Zhou's appearance, she couldn't help but be angry, although your son is not tall, but he is also an adult, why can't he find some work to earn money.

went home and called out Xiangyang and Xianghan, and asked them to directly move the things of the chief of the village, and drove the black cow to the house, the chief shook his head helplessly, the village chief's heart was too soft.

The village chief's daughter-in-law had just hidden the grain, cloth and cotton, and Fugui came over, and saw that the village chief hurriedly told him that he had found a small stream in the mountain, although it was very shallow, but fortunately, the water quality was very clear, which could solve the problem of drinking water for the villagers.

The village chief's eyes lit up, the water source, what are you waiting for, took two buckets and a flat pole from home, and pulled Fugui up the mountain.

Fugui smiled, in fact, the stream had long since dried up, and it was Fu Bao and him who blocked both sides of the stream with stones, and then got water from the magic weapon to get it in.

Don't look at the creek is very narrow, but it is long, in order to block the entrance and exit, the father and daughter have not walked less, but looking at the clear water in the sun, Fugui has a sense of pride that he can save people for the first time.

The village chief followed Fugui to the stream, and his eyes moistened when he looked at the water about the knee of an adult, which may not be enough to water the fields, but it was enough for each family to drink, bathe, and wash their clothes.

When the villagers saw the village chief carrying two buckets of water, they couldn't help but be surprised, and the village chief told them that the water was found by Fugui, and they had to thank Fugui.

More than a dozen strong men lifted Fugui up and threw it up, and then cautiously followed, some strong men were worried about falling Fugui, and voluntarily lay on the ground as the bottom.