Chapter 242 Whoever wants the person will provide the food!
Half a minute later, Chen Nianhe slammed the door and walked out with a dark face.
Sang Zhixia looked at the contract with Chen Nianhe's private seal, shook her head jokingly, and put it away: "The job is done, we should go back."
"Lin Yun, go to the main camp and find the person General Chen wants to talk to. Also, tell the officials who are still in the main camp that tomorrow someone will be setting up tents at the gates of all the major cities to distribute porridge. You can spread the news first."
Lin Yun took the order and left.
Xue Liu took out an umbrella, opened it, and protected Sang Zhixia as she got into the carriage and sat down. Thinking of the scene not long ago where Sang Zhixia made Chen Nianhe slam his head on the table, he couldn't help but feel relieved.
"Luckily, this guy still had some sense and didn't get even more angry. Otherwise, I don't know how this would end today."
Sang Zhixia curled her lips and said nothing.
Xue Liu was surprised and asked, "But before you came here, didn't you say that you only planned to raise the price by 300 taels based on 10,000 jin? Why did you suddenly change your mind?"
Chen Nianhe, who had just encountered a huge demand from a lion, would never have thought that Sang Zhixia had not intended to kill him so cruelly at the beginning.
Sang Zhixia curled her lips and said, "General Chen has plenty of money, so what's wrong with giving us a little more hard work pay?"
If Chen Nianhe taunts me a few more times, I will never let him take the extra 500 taels.
Xue Liu shook his head and laughed, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Sang Zhixia leaned against the car wall, enduring fatigue and saying, "The Northwest is supporting a living god of wealth like Chen Nianhe. No matter how big the cut, this living god of wealth can afford it. But other places can't do that."
Three cities and six counties sound very serious, but in fact, the official robes of these officials are so patched that they are almost useless. There is not a penny in the city defense office and the county magistrate's office.
If you agree to give out the porridge, it will definitely be like throwing a bun to a dog, and you will never get it back. Not to mention making a penny, you will have to pay for it yourself.
Sang Zhixia felt a faint pain between her eyebrows as she thought about what was going to happen next. She pinched her brows and then said, "I earn money from the Living God of Wealth, but I spend it all when I sell it. In the end, when all is said and done, I don't know how many copper coins I'll have left in my pocket."
Fortunately, we were able to borrow enough manpower from Chen Nianhe, so the risk of distributing porridge and the village encountering bandits could be resolved. Otherwise, it would have been even more troublesome.
I came here in a hurry and didn't have time to rest.
Xue Liu was originally worried that Sang Zhixia would not be able to hold on, so he thought there was no need to be so anxious on the return journey.
But Sang Zhixia was thinking about the things in the village and refused directly: "No need to delay, let's talk about it when we get back."
Xu Yu and Xu Minghui were not at home, and Uncle Xu San had not returned yet.
Now, apart from the woman and the young son, the only one in the family who can handle the situation is the old man.
Faced with internal and external troubles, Sang Zhixia felt inexplicably uneasy when she was outside.
Xue Liu wanted to persuade them, but when he thought about the situation in the village when he left, he couldn't help but frown: "The fact that there is food in the village cannot be concealed. In the past few days, more and more people have heard the news and rushed over."
It’s easy to deal with the villagers, but those who came from other villages after hearing the news are not under the control of the village chief at all.
Mistakes are more likely to happen in crowded places.
Sang Zhixia closed her eyes and sighed, "Yes, so I came to General Chen to borrow someone, didn't I?"
"The remaining grain cannot be sold, no matter how much money is offered."
"When we hurry back, we'll spread the news about the porridge distribution and try to disperse as many people as possible who are heading to the village to the porridge distribution area in the city. The rest will be left to General Chen and the government officials."
She is only responsible for providing food.
During the process of making porridge for charity, people they trust will be arranged to supervise it, but those who need to work hard will naturally be the ones to do it.
Sang Zhixia didn't want to take on too much, and she also knew that the Xu family couldn't stand out and be noticed at this time, so she relied on Chen Nianhe for everything, and even the rice for the porridge was distributed under Chen Nianhe's banner.
Chen Nianhe was initially filled with anger at being charged a higher price, but then he returned to the camp and looked at the officials who thanked him again and again, and the resentment in his heart inexplicably dissipated.
Of course, he knew that Sang Zhixia's action was not so much to help him, nor was it because Sang Zhixia was a noble and kind person. It was simply because the Xu family was not in a position to step forward, which solved his current dilemma.
Thinking of this, Chen Nianhe suddenly no longer felt that the extra 500 taels of silver for 10,000 kilograms of grain was unbearable.
Everyone likes a good reputation, and he is no exception.
If this matter can be handled properly, it will be a good thing for both him and the Xu family.
Chen Nianhe waved his hand to interrupt the officials' thanks. After sending them away, he said solemnly, "Are the people over there here?"
The deputy general lowered his head and said, "Yes."
"The man who came said that the general had promised to lend a thousand soldiers from the camp to accompany him back, and he came to take them back."
"one thousand?"
Chen Nianhe sneered, closed his eyes, and said, "What can a thousand people do? Give him eight thousand."
The deputy general hesitated slightly: "General, if we are only fighting against a hundred bandits and doing some cooking and almsgiving, wouldn't eight thousand men be too many?"
Regardless, eight thousand people are indeed...
"how?"
Chen Nianhe sneered, "I still think it's too little."
If he wasn't afraid that the little girl who could bite people with her mouth would get angry, he would even want to give her 20,000.
The deputy general looked confused.
Chen Nianhe said subtly, "Since they asked to borrow the property, they can't just work without eating, right?"
Sending out 8,000 people solved the food problem for 8,000 people. At least these people didn't have to go out of the camp to eat.
Whoever wants the person will provide the food!
Those who don’t eat must not be allowed to work!
The deputy general suddenly realized and said tentatively, "If that's what you mean, General, then eight thousand men are obviously insufficient and difficult to calculate. How about ten thousand? That way, we can get things done more efficiently and save two thousand more men's rations, right?"
Chen Nianhe thought about it and agreed.
Outside the camp, Lin Yun looked at the hungry wolves and tigers that kept gathering before him. He closed his eyes and opened them again and again, his face darkening. "Deputy General Wu, my master said that only one thousand men would be enough."
What are all these extra old people doing here?!
Deputy General Wu's face was full of sternness as he said seriously, "Since this is a good deed of kindness, how can a thousand men be enough to deploy?"
"The general said that what your master said is a top priority and cannot be delayed at all. For this reason, he has specially mobilized the brothers under him, just waiting to help your master share the worries."
Lin Yun gave him a look that was difficult to describe, pretending not to hear the rumbling of his stomach, and taunted, "Are you going there to eat, or to share your worries?"
Deputy General Wu's ears flushed slightly, and he said firmly, "It's mainly to share my worries."
But sharing the worry doesn’t affect your meals!
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