Chapter 51: Disaster Relief Grain Robbed
"Mom, isn't your purse in the basket?"
Li also noticed that the purse in her basket was missing. She searched frantically but found nothing.
"Where did it go? Did you take it?"
Xu Xiaoju was so scared that she quickly waved her hands: "Mom, I didn't take it, I really didn't take it"
Upon hearing this, Li sat down on the ground and burst into tears: "Who the hell stole my silver? Woohoo, my silver! Who is it?"
Xu Xiaoju felt the gazes of passers-by and felt ashamed. She quickly pulled Li and said, "Mom, get up. Did you forget about home?"
When Li heard this, she cried even harder: "Oh, I wish I had forgotten my home! But I looked at it again when I was riding in the ox cart, and it was still there."
Xu Xiaoju: "Mom, who was sitting next to you at the time? Maybe the person next to you stole it!"
Upon hearing this, Li became furious: "Okay! Yang was sitting next to me at that time. Let's go find her."
Xu Zhiyi also sold his paintings! Five paintings, all of which were of cartoon characters, although the bookstore owner thought they were very novel.
But after all, he had never resold such a novel painting, so he could only gamble. He might make money or lose money. He gave 600 coins for the last painting, and the five paintings only sold for 3 taels of silver in total.
After the two came out of the bookstore, they planned to go to the grain store to buy more food for preparation. They bought 200 kilograms of white flour, 300 kilograms of black flour, and 100 kilograms of rice. She and Shen Wuyou first carried the food to a deserted place, and then put it all into the space.
Shen Wuyou looked at the disappearing food, his pupils shrank, but he quickly calmed down, Oh my God! ! His wife was actually a fairy! !
That's right, he could be reborn! So there must be fairies in this world, but I didn't expect that my wife is a fairy! !
It turns out that God also felt that he had a miserable life in his previous life! So he sent a fairy to save the two brothers, woo woo! God, I will never scold you for being unfair again!
Xu Zhiyi then thought about explaining to Shen Wuyou, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Shen Wuyou covered her mouth.
"My dear, you don't have to say anything. If you do, and God is unhappy and asks you to go back to heaven, what should I do?"
Xu Zhijian saw this and let him go!
Then I went to the blacksmith shop and bought a ready-made machete. I could only buy two knives, and the extra ones had to be reported to the government office. I bought two, and I had one at home, so there were three knives in total. I had to take them with me when I fled the famine and keep them for self-defense.
Bring one of the iron pots from Chen Wuyou, so you can continue to use it and don’t have to buy a new one!
Then I went to the grocery store and bought three oilcloths, about two meters wide, which I could use as sleeping mats when fleeing famine.
The two of them walked around the town and bought almost everything they needed to escape the famine!
Shen Wuyou had been following by the side. He saw that Xu Zhiyi seemed to be preparing things that were almost all needed for escaping famine. He couldn't help but wonder, did his wife know that they were going to flee famine?
The two were strolling around when suddenly there was a commotion. The people gathered around the town's notice office. When they learned that the notice said the relief grain they were waiting for had been robbed, they burst into tears.
"Woo woo! How can we live like this? We finally saw the life-saving grain from the imperial court was about to arrive! But it was robbed! Isn't that forcing us ordinary people to die?"
"Could it be that the county magistrate just posted a notice saying that the grain had been robbed? That was a robbery, right? He should at least give an explanation, right?"
"That's right, let's go to the government office to ask for an explanation."
"Yes, let's all go together. We can't survive without food anyway!"
Xu Zhiyi watched a large group of people marching toward the yamen in a threatening manner, then he walked over and saw that the notice only stated that the grain was robbed before entering the county town, and there was no explanation for anything else.
Xu Zhiyi: "Let's go back! Let's go back and tell the head of the village. In this situation, I'm afraid we'll have to flee to another place to have hope!"
Shen Wuyou was excited when he heard this. Could it be that the lady knew what happened in her previous life? Otherwise, how could she know to flee to another place?
After Xu Zhiyi and Shen Wuyou returned, they went straight to the village headman's house. As a result, they saw that the village headman's son and daughter-in-law, who were working in the county town, had returned. They were afraid that the situation in the county town was not good!
Xu Zhiyi directly told the village head about the robbery of the disaster relief grain today.
After hearing this, the village head burst into tears, sighed heavily, and said helplessly: "Alas, God wants to kill us ordinary people! Most of the villagers are almost out of food! I heard that relief food is on the way! We just feel hope, now, what can we do!"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi tried to persuade him, "Uncle Lizheng, the relief grain has been robbed! I'm afraid the court won't be able to send more grain in a short time. The water level in the village is getting lower and lower!"
"In this situation, we may not even have the relief food by then. If it doesn't rain, and the water in the village runs out, I'm afraid we will have no way to survive!"
"So, Uncle Lizheng, we might as well flee now while we still have some food and water!"
Lin Yu, the son of the village head, heard what Xu Zhiyi said and agreed with him. The reason why he and his wife suddenly came back was because the employer dismissed all the workers and planned to leave with the whole family!
"Dad, I think what Miss Xu said is right. Qingniang and I came back from the county town and found that there were many wealthy families on the road, all of whom had moved away."
"We are just ordinary people, and we may not be able to get any information. But the wealthy families have extensive connections. Will they move away first because they heard some news?"
When the head of the village heard what his son Lin Yu said, he fell into deep thought and sighed, "How about this! I'll gather the villagers and explain the situation to see what everyone thinks first!"
After seeing this, Xu Zhijian had no choice but to go back first.
Shen Wuyou turned his head to look at Xu Zhiyi and asked tentatively: "Madam, do you think the relief grain can be traced back? It would be great if it can be traced back, then we don't have to flee from the famine!"
Xu Zhiyi shook his head: "Even if the food can be traced back, what about the water? The water in the village can only last for a month at most! Who can guarantee that it will rain in a month? What if it doesn't rain? By then, there will be food but no water, and people will still not be able to hold on."
“So, I still agree to flee the famine now.”
Shen Wuyou saw that there was nothing wrong with the questions Xu Zhiyi answered. These were all things that should be considered now, so he stopped thinking about it.
When Su saw Xu Zhiyi and Shen Wuyou coming back, she quickly went into the kitchen and brought out lunch for them.
Xu Zhiyi was already hungry because he had heard the news that the relief grain had been robbed. He had no intention of eating in the town before returning. He had to hurry back to tell the head of the village so that he would have some time to think and make a decision early.
"Mom, we saw a notice posted by the government office in town saying that the relief grain had been robbed! Given this situation, it's very likely that our entire village will have to flee the famine!"
Su was sewing clothes. When she heard Xu Zhiyi's words, she was so shocked that her finger was pricked by a needle: "Hiss...what?"
Xu Zhiyi: "Mom, be careful, is your hand okay?"
"Zhiyi, if we really have to flee the famine, what can we do? Our ancestors grew up here, who would be willing to leave the hometown where they were born and raised?"
"Mom, there is nothing we can do. If we don't escape, will we all just have to wait here to die? At least if we escape, we still have a future."
Hearing this, Su Shi began to sob, "Woo woo, but your father is still here! We have fled the famine, and there is a high possibility that we will never come back in this lifetime!"
And her Daya, I wonder if she is with her father at this moment, if she is gone! What if her Daya can't find her mother?
Xu Zhiyi was just about to comfort her when he heard the gong being struck in the village!
Whenever the gong sounded in the village, all the villagers were summoned to the grain drying ground to discuss matters.
Su put down her sewing and asked in a panic, "Why is the village chief gathering the villagers at this time? What's the matter?"
"Mom, I'll go over first. If there's anything, we'll come back and discuss it."
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