Chapter 292 Adding New Members 1
Li Haoran and Zhang Yuling returned ten days later. Those who returned together included brothers Ma Youcai and Wang Feng, as well as the refugees they had taken in.
Why are they called refugees? Because the description of these people as pale, thin, unkempt and dirty is even more extreme. The clothes he wore had holes of all sizes, and even if they had patches, there was a hole on top of the patch.
The pants are one section longer on the left side, or one section longer on the right side. It is difficult to find a pair that is symmetrical.
There are all kinds of people, men and women, young and old, healthy, disabled...
Yike was stunned, and Ziyi was frowning as well.
"Brother, this, this is really something we can't do. They are all so pitiful. As soon as I said that we provide food and accommodation here, before I even talked about paying their salaries, they all came here all at once." Ma Youcai quickly explained.
"Come if you want, but you have to change their clothes before bringing them in. Look, they look like they came out of a refugee camp." Yike complained.
"What is a refugee camp? They are all beggars. I only took in five men at the beginning, those five, the five who had changed their clothes." Ma Youcai pointed at the men. He continued:
"I originally wanted to ask them to find a place to wait, but on the day of departure, these five people showed up in front of me with so many people, afraid that I would reject them, saying that they would work for free as long as they were provided with food and lodging. We were leaving soon, and we couldn't find so many clothes to change into, so we thought of bringing them in first. Brother, we won't reject them, right? Anyway, they don't want wages, and they are so pitiful, so just accept them."
"Yes, yes, comrade, we don't want wages, just give us a meal, and we can live in a straw hut anywhere. We can build the hut ourselves." A middle-aged man nodded and bowed to Ziyi, and then added, "We are all from the same place. Our hometown suffered a flood, and the relief food was not enough, so we came out to find a solution. We are really not the kind of people who are lazy and like to eat."
The middle-aged man took out the certificate and showed it to Ziyi. He knew at a glance that the man in front of him had the final say here.
Ziyi looked at his certificate and asked him, "Are all these people from your village?"
“No, but they are all from the village near us.”
"Du Jiankang, take the men to the vacant warehouse to stay temporarily. Then take them to take a bath in the pond outside."
Ziyi said to Han Guihua again: "Sister Guihua, please take the girl to the bathhouse to wash her, and use old clothes as clothes. We will look for them first and then send them over."
Ziyi also had a headache, mainly because he had not prepared any clothes. From the beginning, it was planned to give the warehouse to the men for temporary residence, and the women would be arranged to live in the houses of Liu Bing, Wang Feng and Dong Guoqing.
Wang Feng, Liu Bing and Dong Guoqing lived in his own home, which happened to have two guest rooms. At that time, we took into consideration that there would be male and female guests, so we reserved two guest rooms, which are just right for these three people. As a result, three people lived in one room, with just one extra bed.
There were fifteen people coming in this time. Three middle-aged men in their forties, three men in their sixties, two little boys of twelve or thirteen, three little girls of ten, and four women in their forties or fifties. The little girl and boy here are the children of these women. Two of the women's legs seemed to be broken and they were limping.
Yi Ke didn't even watch how Zi Yi arranged these people. She hugged her mother Zhang Yuling's arm and whispered to her, acting coquettishly and expressing her longing for her mother.
Zhang Yuling also missed Yike very much. The two women were whispering to each other. Li Haoran was pleased to see Ziyi making the arrangements. He said silently in his heart, "Brother, your son has become as charming as you were back then." After Ziyi made the arrangements, he interrupted Yike and Zhang Yuling's whispering, "Mom, go back and find your father's and your old clothes and give them to them. Yike and I will go back and check if we can find any. You can also ask godmother to look for some. If others have any, we will buy them from them with money."
The situation was still very good. Hu Haohan and Li Youcai were very sympathetic to these people and actively gave their old clothes to them. Even a selfish person like Chen Shengli donated a set of old clothes.
When Ziyi said he wanted to give everyone money, Hu Haohan scolded him severely. Ziyi had no choice but to listen obediently. Finally, these refugee-like people finally found enough clothes to wear.
After arranging the people who were coming, Ziyi asked them to rest first, and he and Li Haoran took all the men in the mountains to cut down trees. These trees were cut down to make bed boards for these people. Zhang Yuling and Da Niu were cooking in the kitchen.
Yike and her godmother Wang Cuihua, Sun Meili and other women from the mountains went to get hay. The hay was used to weave straw mats for making beds, so everyone worked together to weave the mats.
Dinner was eaten outdoors. A table that was used for banquets in the warehouse was brought out. A dozen people gathered around the table, holding fragrant vegetable and lean meat porridge and biting white steamed buns. Ziyi explained in their ears: "Because your stomachs haven't eaten a lot for a long time, you can't eat too much at once. You should pay attention to it. Eating too much will cause stomachache. After you get used to it, I will cook meat for you in two days."
More than a dozen people were eating porridge while crying, swallowing the tears and steamed buns into their stomachs. One of the women with a lame leg was eating when she suddenly put down her bowl and chopsticks and kowtowed to the table where Ziyi and the others were sitting.
Li Haoran quickly asked his wife to help, and Yi Ke had already gone over and helped the woman up. The woman sobbed and kept saying "Thank you!" Her child also knelt down and kowtowed with her. When the other women saw this woman kowtow, they also knelt down and kowtowed.
But one person could not support so many people, so all the men stood up. Although they did not kneel down, they looked very excited.
Zhang Yuling and Wang Cuihua hurried over to help lift the women and children up, and sent them back to the table to sit down, and also signaled the men to sit down and eat.
Yike saw that Ziyi had arranged everything very well and didn't want to get involved in these things. She was just lazy and only wanted to live a lazy life. But now she sees that these people are good, kind, and grateful. She was also moved, so she said to these people: "Come in and work hard, and when you go home for the New Year, you will definitely bring back enough money for your family to use for a year. So, you can live here with peace of mind and work with peace of mind. We will definitely not treat you unfairly. Of course, if you don't work hard, then we will send you away."
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