Although this is the reason, Hongmei, the little girl, still can't help but worry, you say that it is useless for her to worry about the sky.

When Xia Jing entered the city, she noticed that there were a lot of homeless people gathered outside the city gate, and there were many porridge shacks outside the city gate.

She called Zeng Yan, "Jiangxia is in the alluvial plain, the land is fertile, and the grain production is good, you send people to go to various grain shops to take a look, this time if it is possible for us to order as much grain as possible here." ”

"Okay, the old slave will send a team of people out to do this."

Zeng Yan didn't dare to delay, taking advantage of the fact that it was still early to enter the city this time, he immediately sent people to disperse, as for how much food he could order, he could only say that he would do his best!

Outside the North City Gate of Jiangxia.

The embankment on the periphery of the moat is now a place for homeless people to wash their clothes and vegetables.

From early morning to late afternoon, there is an endless stream of women washing on the riverbank.

From the river embankment to the foot of the mountain five miles away, all the farmland that had been cultivated was occupied by displaced people, and the trees on the mountain were cut down and turned into straw huts under the mountain.

A grass hut area next to each other is extremely noisy day and night, and the sanitary conditions are extremely worrisome.

Even the merchant from Jiangxia City was reluctant to enter this stinking shantytown, he only stayed by the moat.

If the homeless people want to buy a needle and thread, they have to buy it by the moat.

In a corner of the shantytown, the villagers who fled from Kanjiao Village in Yanzhou, except for the young people who went out to find food, other family members gathered together.

The village chief of Kanjiao Village was the first to speak: "Yesterday, a notice was posted at the gate of the city, and the county keeper has made it clear that Jiangxia will not arrange for displaced people, so we will either return to our hometown by the same route, or cross the river to settle down in the hilly areas further south. If we make a decision, it's better for us to leave this place as soon as possible! ”

"It's been half a month since we fled to Jiangxia, and it hasn't rained even in Jiangxia near the riverside in the past half month, not to mention our Kanjiao Village, there must not even be a drop of well water, and going back is equivalent to a dead end."

"Village chief, just tell me your decision, our village belongs to you who is well-informed, you ask us, how do we know what to do?"

"In my opinion, let's wait in Jiangxia first, so many people in this shantytown haven't left, let's just follow the crowd."

"If you stay here for a short time, there will be wild vegetables to dig up, and after a while, I guess I will only have to eat the soil. Whoever of you wants to stay, I am going to take my family across the river anyway, I heard that the south can plant two crops a year, and we can catch up with the next season to plant after we cross the river. ”

The villagers of Kanjiao Village expressed their opinions and actively expressed their opinions.

Father Xia, who was sitting next to the village chief, knocked on the cigarette stick, and his face was a little bloody, and his complexion was different from that of the villagers who worked in the fields all day.

When he knocked on him, the village chief remembered him, turned his head and asked: "Dunhou, you are also a capable person in our village, you know many people in the town for business, and you have a wide range of knowledge, can you tell me your opinion?" ”

Father Xia's original name was Xia Dunhou, and this name was originally taken by his grandfather.

He pinned the cigarette stick to the waistband of his trousers, glanced at everyone, and finally pursed his lower lip slightly and said: "I don't know what the situation is on the other side of the river, but I have been running a shop in the town for so many years, and I have heard a sentence that impresses me the most, that is: the tree dies, and the person lives!" I know that there is no way to survive when I go home, why don't I go to Jiang to fight? ”

The village chief was stimulated by his sentence that the tree was moved to death and the people were moved, and he choked excitedly: "What Dunhou said is right, one side of the water and soil supports the other side, since the people on the other side can live, those of us who are not afraid of hardships will definitely survive in the past." At least there is a lot of rain on the other side of the river, and we are not afraid of drought in the future. ”

Years later, the village chief knew that he was too ignorant of what he said today.

Although there is a lot of rain on the other side of the river compared to the north, if there is a drought in the year, there will still be a shortage of water in the fields, but the only advantage is that even if there is a drought, there will be water for people and animals.

When the other villagers heard this, many people began to feel anxious, because the croppers attached great importance to the agricultural time, and if they missed the agricultural time in a year, that year would be equivalent to working in vain.

As long as there is no shortage of water on the other side of the river, they will set up a home there to catch up with the second season of planting, and this year they will not be starved to death.

Besides, it has been delayed for half a month outside Jiangxia City, and the county guard has made it clear that they will not accept the displaced people, so if they wait any longer, it will be in vain.

Maybe I'll freeze to death outside the city this winter.

"Village chief, I think we should vote by raising our hands, everyone will obey the majority, and if anyone really doesn't want to leave, they will stay."

"Yes, yes, vote by show of hands, there are fewer people crossing the river in the early morning, or we will go back to clean up now, and cross the river early tomorrow?"

The village chief was very satisfied with the performance of the villagers, and he asked everyone to raise their hands to vote, and the last few villagers who were reluctant to cross the river finally had no choice but to follow along.

The matter was discussed, the village chief announced the dismissal of the meeting, and everyone couldn't wait to go back and share the news with their families.

As soon as Father Xia returned to his straw hut, his wife Chen asked him, "How did you discuss?" Have you come up with a result? If she stays here for a few more days, she will believe that she will be the first person in the world to be killed by the stench! ”

The Xia family originally had a bit of a family background in business in the town, and later the little girl married into the Qianwang Mansion, and the business was even more invincible.

The accumulated wealth can be done by asking for a guard to escort them to the other side of the river.

But Daddy Xia didn't want to be so high-profile.

He took all the materials that he could take away from his family, took the initiative to take care of the lonely and widowed old people in the village, and asked to flee with the village, and the village chief agreed.

Now living in this shantytown, according to Xia Lao Niang Chen's meaning, the family gave some money to live in an inn in the city.

This time, Father Xia disagreed, he felt that he couldn't leave the village, in case something happened to someone who didn't help, and hiding among the villagers, their family would be safer.

Who would have thought that there were rich people in the refugee camps?

"Don't say anything unlucky!" Father Xia's face sank, "You clean up the house, and when they come back from digging wild vegetables, you can make more dry food after we eat, the village chief has decided to cross the river early tomorrow morning." ”

"Finally leaving?!" The second eldest child of the Xia family is called Xia He, and his daughter-in-law Ji is young, and when she heard that her grandfather said that she was going to cross the river tomorrow, she immediately cheered.

Chen's expression was relieved, and a smile appeared on her face, and at this time she did not forget to joke: "It seems that I am not the only one who has stayed here enough!" ”

As the granddaughter-in-law, Ji nodded with a smile, this place is really not a place for people.

Stink is one aspect, and the most important thing is that this shed area is too chaotic, like her young daughter-in-law, how dare she walk around in the shed area.

In case a man has a bad heart and drags her to another shed to deal with her, she can't even find a place to die!

(End of chapter)