After such a quarrel outside the city, the rich people were in a state of disgrace. They only thought that these poor people were too scary. Rich people like them were like big fat meat that would be bitten by accident.

But if the leftover food is not released now, it will probably arouse public anger. The rich family will only leave the housekeeper and servants, and the others will quickly return to the city in a carriage.

"I won't come tomorrow, it will hurt my family!" Everyone muttered, deciding not to come out to provide food, regardless of the life or death of the victims. Anyway, it has become like this today, even if they have to donate for three or five days, they can't handle it.

When the people talked about it, it could be said that the outside of the city was too chaotic, and even their masters were almost beaten by the victims, which could block everyone's mouths.

They had a good idea here, but Zhuang Rou ordered Ma Dezheng on the way back to the city: "Captain Ma, please send someone to inquire and copy all the items each rich family wants to donate and how many days each day. If they don't go tomorrow, they will come to collect goods and money. The officials will not forget what they have said easily."

"Okay, I'll tell someone to do it right away. The lord is really a clever plan, they would never have thought of it." Ma De responded. Those rich families who boasted about Haikou would not have expected that the government would still be able to take care of this matter.

Zhuang Rou waved her hand, "This matter is important. You can send someone to inquire first, and then come to Li's house to find me."

This Wu family was rescued by Ma Dezheng and brought back to prison. He naturally knew where the Li family was. After he was about to go, he rode back to the yamen first.

When dealing with money, Ma Dezheng would find reliable people. He also had to accompany Zhuang Rou to handle the case. Just leave this matter to Diao Yi and his side to handle it. Diao Yi is now in a tight position, and if this good thing comes to his door, he will definitely work hard.

After Ma Dezheng returned, Zhuang Rou went to Fangzheng Street where the Li family was alone. Unlike Ma Dezheng, she had been staying in Hongzhou and had been wandering around. She finally asked for directions to find this place, but she scared the passers-by and thought she was going to be arrested in prison.

The name of Fangzheng Street sounds righteous, and Zhuang Rou thought it was a clean and refreshing street. When she arrived, she realized that it was completely different from what she thought. This was a street full of poor people, even poorer than the place where her disaster relief house with orphans and widows was located.

There have been many pits on the bluestone floor, and mud and water seeped into it, and people trampled it and there was no clean area.

The houses on both sides are so dilapidated. In addition to bricks, the courtyard walls also add a lot of debris such as bamboo branches to make do with some condoms.

But this is not very useful at all. You can look into the yard by standing outside the wall. Although some people have a lot of miscellaneous items and their clothes are all patches, the house is still like that.

There are also many, the house was broken, which was better than the one that Hong Laozi lived in. There was a hole as big as a pot on the roof, and the window paper was broken into pieces, and when the wind blew, it flickered.

The people on this street are too poor!

Zhuang Rou was a little shocked. Why are there such poor streets in Hongzhou? Could it be that they all rely on begging to make a living?

She saw a dirty girl sitting under the wall playing with mud on the side of the road, so she walked over and took out two copper coins and shook them, and asked, "Do you know where the Li family, where the wife killed her husband not long ago? Take me over and give them to you."

"I know!" The seven or eight-year-old girl stood up and quickly led her to a dilapidated yard, pointed inside and said, "This is the Li family."

Zhuang Rou thanked her that she didn't dare to lie to her, so she gave her the copper coins. The little girl took the money and ran back with a baby.

At this time, a woman holding a child walked out of the dilapidated yard, looked at Zhuang Rou and said, "Big girl, why do you give that girl two big money? If you look for the Li family, you should give this money to our Li family!"

"You said so righteously, it really makes me speechless." Zhuang Rou looked at the woman's face full of delicacies, and the child in her arms was also pale and thin. Life in the Li family was really hard.

She didn't say nonsense and asked directly: "Is Wu your wife?"

"Ah?" The woman was stunned, then she realized that she looked at Zhuang Rou up and down. Thinking of the circulating among the neighbors, she immediately shouted to the yard with her throat: "Mom! Someone is coming to the yamen again!"

The yard suddenly became noisy, and a sharp voice shouted in a hurry: "Give me the broom! Let me see if I won't drive them out!"

I saw a group of people rushing out of the yard, all of whom were not covered in food, leading by a thin old lady. Although she was not tall and hungry, she looked like a victim outside, but she was very energetic.

Zhuang Rou took out something from her arms and threw it directly into the air. She fell into the old lady's arms brightly, "Ask you something and take it to buy food."

The old lady stopped and looked in her arms, and shouted excitedly: "Three, Laozi! Use it quickly and exchange it for copper coins. One tael of silver can be exchanged for 120 copper coins. Add two more bowls of rice to the evening porridge!"

"Mom! I'll go right now!" A man squeezed into the old lady, looked down at the shaky thing, it was a piece of silver. Look, the head was afraid it was more than three taels.

He took the silver with his precious eyes, hid it in his arms and ran out. The others looked at Zhuang Rou with all their eyes, as if they were looking at a Bodhisattva.

The old lady smiled at this moment and quickly said, "I'll ask this official to come in quickly. I'll say whatever I want to ask."

Zhuang Rou likes such clever people. When she walked into the yard, she found that the Li family's yard was as big as ten other families. She should have been a wealthy family in the past.

and……

She glanced at the people from the Li family and asked with shame: "Old lady, there are a lot of people in your family."

The old lady asked Zhuang Rou to sit down on a broken-shoe chair in the yard, and she picked up a small square stool to sit on. The room was dirty and messy, and she didn't want to call others in. Anyway, there was no place to sit inside.

"Official, my family has more than 30 people. When I was young, I gave birth to nine men and four women for the Li family. I married my wife and had children, and died, and now I have only had such a few people left." She said, pursing her mouth with only a few teeth.

Zhuang Rou said in surprise: "So amazing, you can give birth to so many!"

No matter how many of the nine sons die, there are still many left. Just looking at the half-old children in this yard, almost half of them are occupied. I’m afraid there are all great-grandsons!

The old lady said proudly: "When I married into the Li family, my old man was the only one in the family. It was all my fault that I had grown up the Li family. No one around here dared to mess with my Li family. We have many sons!"

"Looking at this yard, life should have been very good in the past." Zhuang Rou couldn't help asking.

Speaking of this, the Li family seemed to have a look of pride on their faces. The old lady raised her head and said, "My Li family is a scholar. My old man passed the exam and had more than 30 acres of land outside the city at that time."

Zhuang Rou asked curiously: "Why is it a bit difficult to look at now?"

The old lady laughed a few times and said embarrassedly: "I'll eat too much, so I'll eat poorly."

"..." Zhuang Rou looked at her in a verbally, and what was so proud of her just now!

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Chapter completed!