Xu Huaiyi rode a mule, and went to Fucheng to inquire about the situation alone, this time, he came back at nearly noon, and the villagers were anxious, and when they saw him, they surrounded him in an uproar, and asked gossipingly, "Huaiyi, what's the situation outside now?" ”

"At the gate of the city, are there many refugees?"

"Is there anyone making trouble? The adults in the government don't have a solution at all? ”

"When can I go? Can you still pass through Fucheng? ”

"Take a detour from this side of the mountain, and I don't know if there are still wolves ......"

You said, I said, the scene was chaotic, until Village Chief Xu squeezed over and dispersed everyone, leaving only some weight to speak, so they gathered together to listen to Xu Huaiyi's words.

Xu Huaiyi said, "There are fewer refugees at the gate of Fucheng, especially those young and middle-aged, I can hardly see a few, I asked someone, it is said that I went to a place called Qu County, and those who can drag their families and mouths are taken away, and those who can't be taken away, and there are also those who sell their children to big families in the city for some food, in short, the remaining refugees are mostly old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is no threat to us......"

The crowd breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Huaiyi continued, "But you can't walk from the city, and the city fee has begun to be collected here, not according to the capitation, but according to each household, no matter how many people there are, it is five taels, let's take a detour, it takes a little more effort, and it is better than letting those people scrape a layer of skin." ”

Village Chief Xu nodded without thinking, "Yes, let's take a detour, five taels of silver, it's really fucking black, in a peaceful day, the Zhuang family has to save for more than half a year......"

Uncle Liu echoed, "Even if there is, we can't give it, why give them the hard-earned money?" A group of people who eat meat and don't spit out bones will huo the people, I ......"

Xu Maoyuan asked worriedly, "Let's take a detour, will someone intercept or something?" ”

Xu Huaiyi said, "Probably not, the situation hasn't collapsed to that point now, they are greedy for money, and they still have to put on a fig leaf, and they don't dare to come openly, otherwise it will spread out, and they don't want to wear the black gauze hat on their heads, as for those refugees, they have the heart and power now." ”

Xu Maoyuan smiled a little, "That's good, that's good......"

The second uncle asked inexplicably, "Huaiyi, you just said that many young and middle-aged people have gone to Qu County, and they are still dragging their families with them, what are you doing?" ”

I have to say that among these people, if you want to say that you have a lot of knowledge and are keen, you still have to be the second uncle of Gao, who is worthy of following the dart bureau to the north and south back then, Xu Huaiyi said meaningfully, "I heard that there is a coal mine in Qu County." ”

Second Uncle Gao took a low breath of cold air, "That's not a good place to go." ”

Coal mines are not only tired, but also dangerous, and one can be carried out in three days, and in the past, it was only people who had no way to live to beg for food, or people who had committed crimes, and were sent there to work as coolies to atone for their sins, who would go to ordinary people?

Village Chief Xu asked in surprise, "Were they deceived or ......?"

Xu Huaiyi spread his hands, "Then it's not clear." ”

Village Chief Xu's face changed, and after a while, he sighed with affection, "If you stay, you may not be able to live, maybe, when you get there, you can still fight for a way out." ”

Try to think about the good, otherwise, your heart will be too cold.

After discussing the charter, Village Chief Xu went door-to-door to inform him, rested for another afternoon, and set off tomorrow morning.

Especially if there are injuries in the family, those who hurt their arms do not delay the journey, and those who have injuries in their legs have to take the car, Dr. Jiao has a mule cart, and he took the initiative to undertake two, and there are two, one takes the car of the Gao family, and the other takes the family of the village chief Xu, no one mentions the Gu family.

There seems to be a tacit understanding.

In fact, it is rubbing, and Gu Huanxi will not agree.

It's really that the load capacity of the mule cart is up to the upper limit, and she is still worried about how to arrange so many things, and then set off on the road, there are hundreds of catties of food and drink, and the three brothers and sisters of the Wei family, there are conveniences, and naturally there are troublesome places, and if they are not arranged properly, they will all become a burden.

Fortunately, Xu Huaiyi has a lot of ideas, and he doesn't worry about these things at all, one afternoon, he took Wei Liang to knock and knock, all of them were packing up the small trailer, and in the end, he was also upside down, putting on hundreds of catties of grain, and Wei Liang didn't have to work hard to drag it with a rope.

Seeing this, the other villagers seemed to have seen some savior, and they also hurried to learn, and they could save effort on the road, who was not greedy?

The women were busy making some food that was convenient for eating on the road, and followed Gu Huanxi to make mixed noodles and pot cakes, make walnut cakes, persimmon cakes, fried meat sauce, steamed chestnut cakes, and picked a lot of pears at home, and learned to boil pear paste with her, and dried a large pot of acorn tofu, cut it into small pieces when eating, and add some seasonings to be both a staple food and a vegetable, which is very convenient.

In addition to preparing to eat, I am busy sewing clothes, and the most important thing is to buy shoes, which is the most expensive to walk, and straw sandals are braided to save trouble, but they are not very useful, and they will be worn out after a few days.

Gu Huanxi also found some cloth and handed it to Wei Ci to make shoes.

Wei Ci was grateful and thanked him again and again, because the shoes were made for their three brothers and sisters, and the shoes of the servants had long been torn, and now that the weather is getting colder, if you go to the capital, you will only suffer more.

The villagers were busy until dark, and then they rested one after another.

Xu Huaiyi thought that he could escape, but who wanted to finish eating, he was pressed on the table by his daughter-in-law, holding a thousand-character text, and teaching him to read.

Next to him, there was Gu Xiaoyu to accompany him to study.

Xu Huaiyi was very desperate, facing his daughter-in-law's expressionless face, he didn't dare to plead, so he could only study hard, stuffing it into his brain one by one, which was harder than going to school back then.

I finally remembered it, and I had to practice, he held the brush, more tired than carrying a machete, and barely finished writing, but as a result, the daughter-in-law put the one he wrote with what his son wrote, well, the comparison was so tragic that he didn't even see it himself.

He asked hypocritically, "Why don't I write another one?" ”

Gu Huanxi sighed with a smile, "I can't even bear the paper." ”

Xu Huaiyi said busily, "Yes, yes, thrift is a virtue, hehe, the main thing is to practice calligraphy, you have to do it step by step, you can't pull out the seedlings to help it grow." ”

“……”

It's a shame that he has the face to say, and he pulls out the seedlings to help them grow, what kind of seedlings is he, he is about to become old bark.

As the night deepened, most of the villagers slept, and soon the snoring in the courtyard shook the sky.

The patrol did not dare to let down their vigilance, and walked around the periphery of the courtyard over and over again.

In the second half of the night, Xu Huaiyi avoided people, took out a telescope and swept around, but he didn't find anything abnormal, even the refugees who were staring at them a few days ago were gone.

This is to see that they can even cut wolves, and they are afraid to avoid it?