Chapter 98 Going to the Village to Settle Down
After the government checked the number of people and handed over the task, You Chatou looked at everyone.
"From now on, you are ordinary people, no longer the nobles of the Imperial City. The Emperor's grace is so great that he has given you the opportunity to start a new life. I hope you will cherish it."
After several months of exile, experiencing hunger and cold, separation from loved ones, and separation from their loved ones, many people had brushed shoulders with death many times, and most of them had lost the arrogance they had in the imperial city.
Everyone spoke up.
"Yes, we will definitely start a new life. Thank you for your hard work on this journey, captains and escorts."
Jun Moye bowed to You Cha's first few men.
"Thank you for your hard work, You Chatou. If you are able to meet my royal grandfather one day, please tell him that I, your unfilial grandson, Jun Moye, have not taken good care of my parents. Now I have been lucky enough to make it to the northwest. I will lead the Jun family to live an ordinary life in the northwest. I am afraid that I will rarely see my royal grandfather again in this lifetime. I hope that my royal grandfather takes care of his health and lives a long life."
Upon hearing this, You Chatou nodded slightly.
"I am only a messenger, and I don't know if I will have the honor of meeting the Emperor. But if I do, I will naturally convey these words from Master Jun."
Soon the prefect in the northwest divided the families into three different county offices.
The Jun and Su families have small populations.
The two families were naturally divided into the same county government office.
Because they had experienced the fickleness of human nature during the exile, and human nature is selfish, when they came here they had to buy land and build houses. The big families that were proud of in the imperial city have now become a group of scattered sand.
Many people separated and went to live in different villages, and even in the same village they set up their own households.
For the exiled families, the officials and their families were happy to see them split up into smaller families, so it was much simpler to split up the families in the place of exile. They only needed to register clearly and then go to the village head to find the village head to divide the land and build the foundation of the house.
Because it was getting late, Su Hanchu took everyone to settle down in the inn and opened two large rooms.
There were escorts watching in the dark, so Su Hanchu didn't dare to spend money too obviously.
But we bought some more quilts, so basically everyone had a quilt.
Su Hanchu looked at everyone wrapped in quilts, and they spontaneously formed groups of two, with one person using the quilt to cover themselves and the other using the quilt as a cushion. The two people could keep warm by huddling together. They had finally arrived in the northwest, and everyone was so excited that they could not sleep and were still sitting.
Su Hanchu took advantage of everyone being gathered and slowly asked.
"Chun Tao Qiu Kui, Jiang Like, Fang Zhiyi, Lu Zhan, Tao Zhiwen, have you thought about your future path?"
Sisters Chuntao and Qiukui held their children with frightened looks on their faces.
Chuntao was the first to calm down and looked at Su Hanchu cautiously.
"Madam, we don't know what to do. We don't want to go back to our family anymore, so now's the chance to break off. Madam, we want to follow you. If you're willing to take us in, we two sisters are willing to be your slaves. If you find it difficult, could you please let us follow you to one of your villages, where we can divide the land and live on our own?"
The Jun family will indeed need a lot of people to work in the future, but both of them have children, which makes Su Hanchu a little embarrassed. However, they have no money. According to the Tianyuan law system, each person is only allowed one acre of land. How can the two of them survive with their children?
Not knowing how to make a decision, he could only look at Jun Moye.
Jun Moye held her hand and spoke.
"You are the one who makes the decision about the Jun family. It's up to you to decide whether to keep them or not. No matter what decision you make, I will support you."
After thinking for a long time, Su Hanchu looked at the two sisters and spoke.
"My Jun family does need people to work, but after all, you are used to a life of luxury in the imperial city. From now on, you will have to work in the fields and chop firewood..."
Upon hearing this, the two of them spoke hurriedly.
"We can do it, Madam. No matter how hard it is, can it be harder than being exiled and risking your life at any time? We will work and will not be lazy."
Su Hanchu looked at the two children.
"Anyone who wants to work in my Jun family needs to be diligent and loyal. Tao Yong can follow Mo Yan, Fang Mengling and Wan'er can follow Mo Hua, and you two sisters will have to do the rough labor. However, this requires signing a contract to sell yourselves, so you must think carefully."
Upon hearing this, Qiu Kui looked at Chun Tao.
Chuntao hurriedly pulled Qiukui and the child to kneel down and speak.
"Madam, we are willing. Thank you for taking us in."
When Su Hanchu saw this, he quickly spoke up to stop it.
"Everyone, stand up. Don't kneel so easily from now on. Signing the indenture is just in case. After all, you should know something about the situation of my Jun family."
The two of them then got up with their children, and their originally panicked hearts calmed down. Being able to follow the Jun family, at least they would not starve to death. The two sisters had no money on them. Even if they divided the land, they would need to buy seeds. Even if they grew crops, they would have to wait until next autumn to harvest. Without food, how could they survive until they could grow crops?
Jiang Like looked at Jun Moye and Su Hanchu.
"Master, Madam, my brother and I have long decided to follow the Jun family. We have completely cut off all ties with our family."
Fang Zhiyi and others also began to express their opinions.
In the end, Su Hanchu kept everyone here and after a night's rest, they went to the county government office the next day to register the village they were going to. Su Hanchu also bought a carriage, put the luggage on the carriage, and the elderly and children sat among the luggage. They first arrived at Beifeng Town in a grand manner. After finding the head of the pavilion, Su Hanchu stuffed some silver into the carriage and asked the head of the pavilion to separate the Su family and the Jun family into neighboring villages.
Then Su Hanchu took the two sisters Jun Jia and Chuntao, Jiang Like and others to Guanping Village. In order to make the children happy, Su Hanchu bought melon seeds and cakes for them to eat along the way.
Soon after entering Guanping Village, I met a woman on the road.
Su Hanchu got off the carriage and spoke with a smile.
"Auntie, we're going to the village head's house. Could you please show us the way?"
As he spoke, he grabbed a handful of melon seeds and put them in the aunt's hand.
The aunt looked at the melon seeds in her hand and picked up one.
"Convenient, convenient, let's go, I'll lead the way for you."
Then put the melon seeds in your mouth and eat them.
Su Hanchu walked beside her and spoke with a smile.
"Then I'll trouble you, Auntie."
Then he took two more cakes and handed them over.
People in the mountain village usually don’t afford to buy melon seeds and cakes. The aunt smiled so hard that she couldn’t close her mouth.
"You're too polite. My husband's last name is Zhou, and I'm Qian Guifang. Everyone in the village calls me Aunt Zhou. There's nothing in Guanping Village that I'm not familiar with. If you need anything in the future, just come to my house and let me know. Oh, and with so many people and luggage, why are you going to see the head of the village?"
Su Hanchu spoke with a smile.
"We have come to Guanping Village to settle down. We would like to trouble Aunt Zhou to take good care of us in the future."
Aunt Zhou laughed out loud when she heard this.
"So we're from the same village now. It's easy to talk about it. We're all from the same village, so we should help each other. My home is next to the big tree in the east of the village. You should come visit me often."
Since others were so enthusiastic, Su Hanchu naturally would not refuse their kindness. He grabbed another handful of melon seeds for Aunt Zhou.
"Of course I do. I felt a sense of familiarity with Aunt Zhou the moment I saw her."
The two of them then chatted about some trivial matters in the village, but Aunt Zhou was the one talking most of the time, while Su Hanchu waited and listened, asking a few questions from time to time.
Finally arrived at the village head’s house.
Aunt Zhou put the cakes and melon seeds in her arms.
"This is it. I still have to go back and cook for the kids, so I'll go back first."
Su Hanchu thanked her. Seeing that she said she wanted to take the melon seeds and pastries back home for her children, he grabbed a handful of melon seeds and gave them to her.
Seeing a middle-aged man from the village head's house open the door and come out, Jun Moye stepped forward and spoke.
"Hello, are you the village head?"
The middle-aged man nodded.
"I am the head of Guanping Village. Who are you?"
Jun Moye took out the document stamped by the provincial and county governments.
"We have been separated from Guanping Village to settle down. Please ask the village head to find a place for us."
The village head took the list and looked at it, and the smile on his face faded. No wonder there were so many people with so much luggage, they turned out to be exiles...
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