Chapter 54 Bring in the dress
Jiacai’s wife and daughter returned to Chenghuang Temple. At first glance, she saw her husband Luo Jiacai eating a piece of cake. It seemed to be made of black brown rice, mixed with rice bran. She was very surprised because the family had already lost food, and there was only shepherd’s purse and bracken at home, and there was no such food. Looking at the parents and children, they were also holding a piece of cake and chewing hard. She was so hungry that she swallowed her saliva and reached out: "Children’s father, give me a piece of food!"
Luo Jiacai glanced at her, fumbled through a pocket next to her for a long time before he took out a piece of black brown rice cake and threw it to her. He threw another basket for his daughter. The two hurriedly sat on the ground and chewed together with all their efforts.
Luo Jiacai muttered, "Save some food, just this one a day! After eating, there will be nothing!"
"One a day?" The wife of Jiacai was surprised and happy, "Who gave it to me? Have we met a noble person?"
"Just eat yours! What are you doing if you say so much nonsense!"
"Okay!" The wife of the family fortune buried her head and ate. Suddenly, she found that her daughter was holding the cake and didn't eat it. She looked around and looked around, and was a little strange. She said, "What are you looking for? Eat quickly..."
As soon as she said this, she realized something was wrong. She hurriedly looked around and asked Luo Jiacai nervously: "Where is the child's father, where is the youngest son?"
The youngest son is their youngest son. The one who had suffered from the pain of intestinal intestinal aches and stomach was cured by Gu Yezhou. He was originally lying at Luo Jiacai's feet, but now he is gone.
Luo Jiacai ignored her and just continued to chew the poop in his mouth with great effort.
"Young son! Youthful son..." The wife of Jiacai panicked, stood up and shouted loudly.
Luo Jiacai's cousin, Aunt Li, who was sitting not far away, said loudly: "Stop calling, it's useless to scream through your throat. I can't come back!"
Jiacai's wife trembled: "What? The youngest son can't come back? What's wrong with him? What's wrong with you?"
"Your man sold your son to someone's teeth and changed to a bag of black brown rice bran cakes!" After Aunt Li finished speaking, she added resentfully: "If you don't give me a piece, I'm still your cousin! You can't get shit after eating one by one, so you can't suffocate you to death!"
Jiacai's wife collapsed on the ground weakly, and the bastard in her hand fell. She stared at Luo Jiacai blankly: "His father, you..., how could you sell your youngest son..."
"What should I do if I don't sell it? The wild vegetables that are ten miles away outside the city have been dug up. You and Luocao go out to dig wild vegetables all day every day! After digging them back, it's enough to eat at most. What should I do if I eat? Moreover, I don't have money to treat my illness, so what should I do if I don't sell my son? How can I sell the broken bedding be enough for me to treat my illness? If I don't get better quickly, you will all starve to death!"
Jiacai's wife just shook her head, and turbid tears rolled down her skinny cheeks.
However, this bag of black brown rice cakes exchanged for her son was only one per day, which was only enough for their family to eat for half a month. Later, Luo Jiacai even gave his parents only two one cake every day.
Half a month later, they finally broke down again.
These days, Luo Jiacai spent all the ten cents of money on the prescription prescribed by Gu Yezhou, and took out more than a dozen brown rice bran cakes before he caught the medicine. Gu Yezhou's prescription was very proof. In just half a month, the wound on Luo Jiacai's leg no longer became purulent and began to close his mouth. The hot pain basically disappeared.
The wife of Jiacai took her children to the mountains outside the city to dig wild vegetables every day. In order to prevent her husband from selling the children, she would take her three children with her every time she went out. She also helped dig wild vegetables by the way.
However, there were too many victims who fled here. In addition to the several large households in the city who opened porridge factories to donate porridge, the county government finally decided to provide relief. However, what they took out was just a bag of rice to make porridge every day. Because there were too many victims in the city, these reliefs were just a drop in the bucket. Many victims could not even get a bowl of porridge that could be seen. They could only dig wild vegetables outside the city to eat. The Luo family was one of the families who couldn't squeeze in and could not get a porridge, and they could only dig wild vegetables to live.
However, the wild vegetables that can be eaten in the mountains and rivers ten miles outside the city have been dug up all the food. The wealthy and daughter-in-law have to climb up the mountains and walk far away to find the wild vegetables. When they dug it back, it was dark. Fortunately, the county town did not close the city gate at night. There was no need to worry about not being able to enter.
The wife of the family fortune is too weak. She has eaten wild vegetables for a long time and has no staple food. She has seriously damaged her body. She is thinner than before, and she has become a piece of clothing hanging on a bamboo pole. Only those eyes are still big, but they are gray and white.
She could no longer walk and could not go far away. Luo Jiacai's legs were not healed yet and could not walk. Therefore, although there were disaster victims in the city who continued to escape famine every day, at least they could find wild vegetables to eat along the way, Luo Jiacai was unable to leave because his legs were broken, so he could only stay and wait for Luo Jiacai's legs to get better. So for the family, she had to take her children to dig wild vegetables.
It was already very cold, and the storm of cold wind could penetrate into the bones of people's bodies. The already thin dress of their family could not withstand the severe cold. So they moved to the main hall of the City God Temple and squeezed with other people who fled the famine. Although people left the city to continue famine every day, drought and locust plagues were encountered in the area of thousands of miles, and the crops were all unharvestable. If they stayed, they had to wait for death, and there was only one way to escape. Therefore, more victims flocked into the city, hoping to get a bowl of porridge for life, and hope that the people in the city could generously donate to help them survive. As a result, more and more victims in the City God Temple were.
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These days, whenever Ning Sanmei saw Zeng Duanqing, she would ask him if there was any news about the strange thing Gu Yezhou asked for. Zeng Duanqing did ask friends on the road to inquire, but there was no news. She felt ashamed and entrusted relatives and friends to inquire everywhere, but there was no news, and she was very helpless.
Gu Yezhou guarded the house at Hu Wanghai's house, and only went with Zeng Lingmei at night shift, so he could rest during the day. However, for more than ten days, he was peaceful and lived a free and comfortable life.
It was already late that night, and Gu Yezhou was sitting in the granary room reading a book. At this time, a servant who was responsible for patrolling outside walked in nervously and bowed, "Sir! There seems to be something wrong!"
"What's the situation?" Gu Yezhou put down his book and stood up.
The clerk stretched out his hand and flipped it, and a stone was placed in his palm: "This was something that someone threw in from the outside of the high wall when the young men were just patrolling outside!"
Throwing a stone to ask for directions?
Gu Yezhou had heard Zeng Lingmei introduce that in ancient times, thieves would throw a stone before entering the house to hear if there was any movement inside. If there was a dog, they would bark, and someone would ask, and they would know what was going on inside. In the wealthy family who had guards and guards, they would steal stones and ask for directions. There is another function of exploring the escort inside, which is to test the escort inside. The jargon is called "promotion point".
Gu Yezhou quickly took the stone and followed the fake servant to the place where he threw the stone. Looking at the wall, it was dark and there were no stars. He used the slander that Zeng Lingmei had taught him before and said loudly: "Friends who climbed the clouds and changed their shadows on the cage, don't have to whine. There are support rods hanging in the kiln, so you can only seek far away and not get close to them. (The thieves on the wall should not come in and steal. There is a guard here, so go to another place.)"
I listened to it and there was no reply. Suddenly, a small stone was thrown into it from outside and fell to the ground with a thud.
Gu Yezhou was a little nervous. This was the first time he had faced a thief. He had never experienced it before. He was sweating in his palms. He said loudly: "Friend! If it's okay, I'll chew a sub-pressure teeth in the cage, touch the plate, and pass the spring (come in and have a tea chat). If I don't have time, please go with the wind. I won't see the sky. I see the blue sky. I will chew the kiln wolf. I will chew the kiln, and touch the plate again! (Please have dinner and tea in the future)"
At this moment, a sound came from outside the wall, very hoarse, as if he was deliberately holding his throat and talking: "What rod did you put on (from that escort agency)?"
Gu Yezhou hurriedly replied: "The pole of the escort bureau is based on the loyalty of friends on the road. Friends who climb the clouds and change shadows are loyal to each other, and go to seek wealth from afar. Otherwise, there will be a blue dragon in Yuedao, a tiger in Qidao, a mountain in Yangdao, and a big water in secretdao, and a cold piece in Feilongzi, and a flying film. Let the greenzi green and the flower strips slide up, which will hurt the harmony! (You should go, otherwise you will really start to take action, and the sword will not have eyes, and it will be bad if you hurt it."
After saying these words, I listened to them again, but there was no sound outside.
Gu Yezhou was a little puzzled, feeling that he seemed to be singing a one-man show. However, the servants looked at him with admiration, thinking that he was so powerful, and sent the thief away in a few words.
Gu Yezhou waited for a while, but there was no movement. Then he said to the servants: "Stay carefully and don't relax. If you have any questions, call me immediately!"
The servant quickly agreed.
Gu Yezhou returned to the class room and sat for a while, but still felt uneasy. He felt that it would be better to say something to Zeng Lingmei. Seeing whether he could deal with it like this, he got up and went out, said to the servants, and came straight to the backyard.
The house in the Hu family's backyard is connected to the granary, with a door guarding it. Gu Yezhou opened the door and asked Zeng Lingmei where he was. The doorman said that he was in the room and didn't know if he had a rest. After pointing to the location, Gu Yezhou went straight to her residence.
Zeng Lingmei's residence was also a small courtyard, and she was the only one living there, without a gatekeeper. When he entered the courtyard, he saw the main house with three rooms on the front. When he walked over, he saw a beautiful silhouette on the window lattice in the left room. He knew that Zeng Lingmei was inside, and stepped up the steps and entered the main door. He was about to ask, Zeng Lingmei's voice had already come from the inner room: "Pick my dress in!"
Chapter completed!