Chapter 38: Borrowing

The pulse diagnosis could not be found, and Dr. Feng did not dare to insist that Yu Zizhen was not sick.

Thinking that these days, they have been walking in the drought-stricken states and counties, although the team of the North Wangfu in Tangtang Town will not lack food and drink, but just such an environment, it is enough for their family to stay in it for a child who has just recovered from a serious illness, not to mention that they have also accelerated the speed of their journey, just to be able to get out of this arid area quickly.

He pondered for a moment, "It should be that I'm tired from traveling these days, anyway, we've come out now, so it's better to stop and rest early tonight." ”

Mr. Jiang hesitated for a moment, "I'll send someone to find a place to live." ”

If Yu Zizhen hadn't been unwell, he actually wanted to travel for one more day, after all, although the location where they are now is no longer an arid area, most of the displaced people who came out of the arid area are stranded in several nearby states and counties.

There are many displaced people, and there are naturally many potential dangers, and Mr. Jiang doesn't want to cause trouble, so he can't wait to leave here early.

He sighed secretly and instructed the guards to look for inns, inns, villages, or manors that could accommodate so many of them.

The guards were ordered to leave, and after about half an hour, they hurried back with the news they had heard.

According to them, the county town closest to their team, not to mention the inn, is now overcrowded.

And the nearest post station to them is already full of officials' relatives.

With the status of Zhenbei Palace, if Yu Zizhen and them had to live in it, even if those people had complaints, they would still respectfully make room for them in action, but the guards knew that Mr. Jiang would definitely not allow them to bully.

With this in mind, the guards took a trip to the villages and manors on both sides of the official road.

In order to prevent the homeless people from stealing or robbing, the village has set up checkpoints at the entrance and exit of the village, and their convoy has to organize people to fill in the traps if they want to enter the village, which can be said to be very inconvenient.

Coupled with the poor accommodation conditions in the village, those guards decisively changed the destination of the stay to a manor house only more than ten miles away from the county seat.

They showed the owner of the manor his guard badges, and the owner of the manor immediately agreed to let them spend the night in his manor.

The owner of the manor, Meng Tingru, is a squire in his early thirties, although he is only famous for his talents, but his ancestors have been a third-class master.

Their family has been running here for generations, and more than 40% of the surrounding fields are theirs.

Last year, there was a drought in the neighboring prefecture and county, and a large number of displaced people could not survive and fled to other surrounding prefectures and counties.

Kangping County, where Meng Tingru's family has lived for generations, has also become one of the bases for displaced people because it is adjacent to one of the counties affected by drought.

Meng Tingru, like other squires in the county, took out a lot of food to help the displaced people after they poured in.

He was a kind man, and the porridge was boiled thickly, and the grain used was neither moldy nor mixed with other things such as gravel in advance.

After some local people who had eaten the last meal but did not have the next meal, they came to receive porridge with the homeless people, and Meng Tingru would also let people serve it to them.

He did good deeds all year round, and in the years when there was no influx of displaced people in the county, he would also give porridge for a period of time every winter.

Coupled with him and his relatives and servants, they are all natives, who is really poor in Kangping County, who can live without help, the people of the Meng family know very well in their hearts, so they don't have to worry about someone fishing in troubled waters.

But such a person who really does good deeds and has a lot of prestige in the local area, his fate is particularly tragic in the plot of the original book.

Yu Zizhen pretended to be uncomfortable, in order to be able to stay in the Meng family's Zhuangzi for one night, and borrow the hands of those guards and soldiers in their team to change the tragic fate of Meng Tingru's family.

The guards who found a suitable place to live came back and forth, and Mr. Jiang, who got the news, asked people to go over and inform Yu Zizhen, but he didn't know that Yu Zizhen had actually reported God through the ear of the system, and knew in advance that his plan had been successful.

The mighty group, under the respectful greeting of Meng Tingru's father and son, slowly entered the Meng family Zhuangzi.

The Meng family's Zhuangzi covers a large area, but there are not many houses built in each courtyard, considering the number of their team, the Meng Tingru family vacated the front yard, the second courtyard, and the east and west courtyards for them.

In addition, Meng Tingru also asked his family to kill two pigs, two sheep, and twenty chickens to entertain them.

According to the menu urgently set by Mrs. Meng, the cook did her best to make two tables of the same fine dishes, and then mixed with sauerkraut, radish, and dried mushrooms, and stewed large pieces of pork, mutton, and chicken for the guards and ordinary soldiers.

The enticing smell of meat wafted out of the manor two hours later, over the fields, and toward the homeless people who were sitting or lying.

In Zhuangzi, everyone ate fragrant meat and white rice, and Yu Zizhen got a cup of chicken soup with clean oil and a bowl of soft and digestible gnocchi soup because he was unwell.

Adhering to the principle of resolutely not wasting food, Yu Zizhen left two dishes that she loved to eat, and the remaining eight dishes were awarded to Yaoguang, Yuheng, Zhang Niangzi, Master Bai and Mr. Jiang.

Mr. Jiang got the most, after all, although he was nominally a subordinate of the palace, he was actually the controller of this team, and he was also the enlightenment of Yu Zizhen and the three.

Of the eight dishes that Yu Zizhen divided, Yaoguang, Yuheng, and Zhang Niangzi each kept one, Master Bai got two, and Zhang Niangzi sent the remaining three dishes to Mr. Jiang.

This is not the first time Yu Zizhen has done this kind of thing, Mr. Jiang entrusted Zhang Niangzi to convey his gratitude as usual, and then called the captain of the guard to enjoy it with him.

A group of people had a beautiful meal, unaware that outside Zhuangzi, there were eight or nine hundred homeless people who were tempted by the smell of meat to lose their minds, and they were hating and cursing Meng Tingru's family.

These displaced people have been in Kangping County for a long time, and they are different from ordinary homeless people who only want a bite to eat and just want to keep themselves and their families alive.

Ordinary homeless people flee the famine, and the food and drink are either brought out by themselves, or found by themselves on the way or bought from others, and these people, they have lost their moral and legal constraints on the way to escape the famine, and they have done no less bad things.

It is the norm to rob things, bully men and women, and even kill people and even eat people.

When everyone finally got out of the water-scarce prefecture and county to Kangping County, which was not affected by the drought, these displaced people still refused to be honest.

While continuing their past evil deeds, they also secretly rubbed the ideas of the aborigines of Kangping County.