"That, Steward Li, I'm sorry to make you laugh."

Pavilion Chief Wu smiled. What happened around the neighborhood last night? ”

Pavilion Chief Wu nodded, "Yes." There was a ground movement 200 miles away from Ganling Village, which was also affected, with houses collapsing and villagers being buried. As soon as the day dawned, someone was sent to Ganling Village for treatment. ”

"I'm about to arrange the things in hand and go to Ganling Village immediately."

Hearing this, Li Quan's face was slightly gloomy, and he hugged his fist towards Pavilion Chief Wu and thanked him: "Thank you Pavilion Chief Wu Li." Wu Tingchang went to Ganling Village, if there is any need, please speak, what Li can do, it will definitely be done. ”

"Thank you, Steward Li."

"Pavilion Chief Wu is polite, and Li is leaving."

"Steward Li walks slowly."

"Pavilion Chief Wu, please stay."

Seeing Li Quan away, Pavilion Chief Wu hurriedly cleaned up with his entourage, and then left quickly...

Li Quan, who came out of Wu Tingchang, did not immediately go back to Wuming Village, but walked around the town for a while, inquired about the price of grain, and found that it had not risen, so he hurriedly bought some millet and flour.

While I was shopping, I had a while with the grocery store shopkeeper, and then I carried it to the nameless village...

Shen Shi.

That is, after three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Quancai walked into Xiao's house with his feet raised.

"Mother, the housekeeper's grandfather is back."

Li Quan had just walked into the courtyard when he heard Xiao Ziqing's voice.

Hearing Xiao Ziqing's voice, Guo Xiaoxiao, who was sitting in the room, turned his head to look at the door, "Are you back?" Just come. ”

Li Quan walked quickly to the stove room, and said as he walked: "Ziyu girl, this is food, you can put it away." ”

"Hey, Steward Li, I'm sorry for you."

"Hey, it's not a good thing. You take it, and I'll go and give it back to Miss. ”

"Hey, okay."

As soon as I walked out of the stove room, I saw Guo Xiaoxiao walking towards me.

"Uncle Li is back, hard work. Let's take a break. ”

"It's not a good thing. Miss, find out clearly, last night, there was a ground movement in Ganling Village, a hundred miles away from here, the houses collapsed, and the villagers were buried. As soon as the day dawned, the pavilion chief arranged for someone to go for treatment. ”

"At this time, the Pavilion Master should have gone to Ganling Village in person."

"Ground moving? Barry? Houses collapsed and villagers were buried. That's not a small matter. Uncle Li, do you know how the villages near Ganling Village are? ”

"It's okay to go to our village, and the rest of the village doesn't know yet."

Hearing this, Guo Xiaoxiao nodded and thought for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Li Quan, "Uncle Li, this situation is unpredictable, if the pavilion chief needs our help, you should do it." ”

"It's the cold season, and in addition to food rations, keeping warm and preventing typhoid fever is key."

"Miss is righteous. The little one has already told Pavilion Chief Wu that you can come to find it if you need it, and we will try our best to do it. ”

"Well, Uncle Li has worked hard, go and rest."

"Yes."

Three days later.

Li Quan went out to investigate again, and this time, Li Quan came back quickly.

I went out at dawn and came back at noon.

Only this time, the news he brought back made Guo Xiaoxiao's mood a little heavy.

"Uncle Li, you mean Avalanche?"

Looking at Guo Xiaoxiao's shocked expression, Li Quan nodded in response: "Yes, miss." I heard that a lot of people were buried. ”

After confirming again, Guo Xiaoxiao clutched his chest with palpitations and muttered, "There is really an avalanche." ”

After taking a few deep breaths, Guo Xiaoxiao looked at Li Quan with a smile and said with a serious face: "Uncle Li, although the place where the avalanche occurred is not in Qingyang Mansion, there are casualties in this ground movement, and my uncle is estimated to be very busy." Xiaoxiao wants to ask Uncle Li to go home as soon as possible and help one or two. ”

"Miss, the little ones also have this intention. This time I found out the news, and I also wanted to resign to the young lady. ”

"Good. Uncle Li wait a minute, now that the food has risen sharply, Xiaoxiao has some stored grain here, please ask Uncle Li to take it back to the house and hand it over to his uncle. ”

"This time, I asked Ziyu and Sister Wang to accompany you. They stopped by to Qin County to see my nurse's family. ”

Hearing Guo Xiaoxiao's words, Li Quan's heart was moved, but thinking of the price of grain he asked today, he still couldn't help but advise: "Miss, you can keep some more grain, there are preparations in the house." ”

"It's ready, Uncle Li, don't worry."

"The little ancestor and the lady have thanked the young lady."

"It's all a family, Uncle Li doesn't have to be like this." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Ziyu, "You go to Sister Wang's house, talk to Sister Wang, and then go to Aunt Wu's house and Qin's house to borrow an oxcart." ”

Hearing that she had gone to the Qin family to borrow an ox cart, Ziyu was suddenly shocked, "Miss? ”

"It doesn't matter. When you go to Qin's house, you say that you want to send food to the Qingyang prefect's mansion, and bother their family to help send it. In the past two days, I have seen that the people of the Qin family have driven ox carts in and out of the village every day, and they are not bad to the people in the village. ”

"If you want to know what they're going to do, you have to get closer to them."

Hearing this, Li Quan suddenly understood, and said: "Miss, I'll go to the Qin family, I'm the housekeeper in the house after all, so it's better." ”

Guo smiled and nodded: "Well, very good." Then there is Uncle Lao Li. ”

When Qin Dahu drove the ox cart into the courtyard of the Xiao family, he saw that the Xiao Ziyang brothers were carrying a sack, and quickly stepped forward to take it, but they were dodged by the brothers.

"Uncle Qin, we can do it. Thank you. ”

Seeing this, Qin Dahu did not say anything, but followed Li Quan into the hall, carrying the sack and walking towards the ox cart in the courtyard.

Looking at the sacks stacked up in most of the room, a trace of doubt flashed in Li Quan's eyes.

The room hadn't been opened since it had been closed last night, and bags of grain had been piled up in it ever since.

It's just that he hasn't found anyone coming, so how did the food come from?

Although he had doubts in his heart, he was smart enough not to ask, and even told himself that he was wrong.

The grain was in the house last night, and they helped pile it up.

Right.

That's it.

With the help of Ziyu and Wang Xiaoju, as well as Wu Wen's family, the two ox carts were quickly loaded.

"Uncle Li, Ziyu, drive the carriage over and load it. When you pass by Qin County, let Sister Wang drive a carriage to the nurse. Ziyu followed Uncle Li back to the house. ”

"Yes, miss."

Soon, two carriages were also loaded.

Seeing Li Quan and his party leaving, Guo Xiaoxiao sighed softly, "Alas, natural disasters and man-made disasters, natural disasters and man-made disasters." I am not afraid of natural disasters, but I am afraid of man-made disasters. ”

"I hope those rich grain merchants don't deliberately raise prices, otherwise this day..."

Xiao Ziyang, who was standing beside Guo Xiaoxiao, asked in a low voice: "Mother, are you worried about food prices?" ”

"Ziyang, in the past, you could buy a pound of brown rice for eight yuan, but now you can buy one pound for eighteen yuan. If it rises again, what will happen? ”

Hearing Guo Xiaoxiao's words, Xiao Ziyang pondered for a moment and replied with some heaviness: "Mother, in that case, there will be many people who will starve to death because they have no money to buy rations." ”

"Starving?"

"Perhaps."