Meng Shijie immediately took the children of the two families down.
These two families are really thick-skinned.
After the child got on the ox cart, there was no mention of asking the child to get off.
So the two children rode in a bullock cart all the way.
Fortunately, the two children were skinny and didn't weigh much, otherwise Meng Shijie would have been angry with him long ago.
The woman didn't go forward to pull her child, thinking that these people should at least give them something.
Don’t wealthy people generally like to give rewards?
As a result, they found an open space outside Runing Prefecture and started setting up their tents.
The officers sent two more people to the city to find out what was going on.
The clever Meng Shijie called Meng Shuchun, and asked them to collect the water from their bucket in a basin and put it on the carriage.
Then they each carried an empty bucket and went into the city with the officers to fill it with water.
When the other people saw Meng Shijie's actions, they also became smart.
They all took their own water containers and followed.
Before leaving, Meng Shijie turned back and gave instructions to Meng Shuxia and Meng Shuqiu.
"Your eldest brother and I are going out to fetch water, and I'm leaving the house in the care of you two boys.
Don't let others take advantage of you and bully you, okay?"
These two guys are the thickest-skinned ones left in the family and can speak without any hesitation, so we gave this task to them.
"I understand, uncle!"
[Dad is really a good leader and is good at allocating tasks.]
It would be nice to be a boss in the future.
When they stopped at a place, Meng Shuyan also stopped picking the wild vegetables in the space and looked at the surrounding situation.
[This Ru'ning Prefecture is even poorer than Kaifeng Prefecture, with fewer people and more shabby clothes. No wonder the emperor wants to relocate them.
If these people were allowed to remain here, with no economic mobility and no contact with outsiders, eventually everyone would inevitably flee.
The Meng family thought Fubao was amazing and knew everything.
Meng Shuyan, who had lost interest, was just thinking about continuing to pick wild vegetables when she suddenly thought of something.
[Ah! This is Runing Mansion!
In the book, after the large army moved to Runing Prefecture, they met people who could not make a living in the surrounding areas and came to Runing Prefecture from all directions.
Then one night, due to the water supply problem, a large-scale peasant uprising occurred.
This won’t be encountered, right? 】
Those who heard Fubao's inner thoughts were also shocked.
They were all wondering, if there was a riot, how would they alert their families?
Mr. Meng went to chat with Doctor Zhou.
“Brother, you said that there were more and more people on the way here, but they were all skinny.
The people in our team are pretty good, so we wouldn't have anyone trying to steal something in the middle of the night, right?"
[Luckily, there are two more old babies at home.
They definitely have more experience than young people and may be able to discover something wrong in advance.
Although Doctor Zhou is an imperial physician, he must know a lot.
Talk to grandpa about it, maybe he can guess what bad situation is going on.
I don't ask for anything else, just to be able to protect myself if that ever happens.]
Mr. Meng, who was praised as his old baby, had a good chat with Doctor Zhou.
Meng Shijie and his group were allowed to enter only after each person paid five cents as an entrance fee.
They followed the officers to the yamen, listened to a few words, and then were taken to a courtyard and asked to line up to draw water.
There was also a long queue of local people lining up at the gate of the courtyard.
"Brother, how much is this water per bucket?"
Meng Shijie asked the local people in front.
The man looked back at Meng Shijie and knew at a glance that he was not a local.
"Ten cents a barrel."
As soon as the man finished speaking, someone in the yard started howling.
"Oh, this is not going to let people live—"
Before, a bucket of water cost ten coins, but now it costs one or two ounces of silver. Who can afford to drink this kind of water?..."
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