Chapter 209
: Life is important
Sang Xiaomei quickly brewed tea, brought a cup of tea with a tea tray, and placed it on the bamboo table in front of Zuo Shaoyang. Female 001
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Bai Zhihan took a chair and sat far away at the door. Huang Qin brought him a cup of tea and placed it on the bamboo table next to her: "Brother Bai, please have tea."
Bai Zhihan just nodded slightly and didn't look at her.
Zuo Shaoyang looked at Zhu Yaogu and said, "Looking at the old man talking and laughing, I thought you were in a good mood."
"Oh, if I had dozens of douches of food in my hand now, I would have laughed out loud."
Zuo Shaoyang continued to ask: "Why, isn't the old man's family food enough?"
Zhu Yaogu Sighed: "Yes, our medicine shop originally had some food, but the price of food was so high at that time, so we couldn't just buy food to save it, right? At that time, I didn't know that the rebels would make a fortune in our remote village. So, there was not much grain in the family. I knew that the price of grain soared to fifteen chunks, and I didn't do anything. I hadn't made any money. I hadn't made any money to stock up on all the food in the rice shop. When I knew it, all the food in the rice shop was bought by the officers and soldiers at a low price. Only a dozen buckets of food were left for the shopkeepers of the rice shop. These old guys cried and robbed the sky and almost hanged a rope. Now, no one in the city was willing to sell food-of-grain-law-of-grain-law-for-grain-law-for-grain-law-for-grain-commercial-for-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain-grain
Zuo Shaoyang was surprised and said, "Why? Are you not allowed to sell rice?"
"If you have rice, of course you can sell it. Now Hezhou is blocked by both sides of the rebels. The mountains around the mountains are full of rebels. The fleeing people are driven back, or they are shot to death. They can conquer Hezhou but do not attack. They are slamming two roads to the outside world and will not let them go out. They are clearly trying to starve us to death. Who doesn't know that this battle is endless in a few months. It may take half a year. Everyone has covered the food tightly. This is life-threatening food. But you are afraid that you can't finish the food, so you can exchange it for tea shops. Can this broken tea shop be worth five dou of rice? You can go to the street to sell it and sell it, and you can change it to big inns and shops."
Zuo Shaoyang smiled embarrassedly, and did not speak out.
Zhu Yaogu said, "Oh, I know, you feel sorry for the little girl Sang Xiaomei, for fear that she will starve to death. Then, wouldn't it be enough to marry her family and support her? She also took rice to support her family, and took it seriously and was so good that she was gone."
The shopkeeper Zhu sneered, "What is the beauty of a beauty? When the young doctor's family starves to death, he will understand."
Zuo Shaoyang smiled coldly and said, "I'm afraid you can't see that day, Manager Zhu."
"What did you say?" Manager Zhu said angrily, but he glanced at the squirrel bag on Zuo Shaoyang's waist and quickly calmed his anger.
Seeing that his nose was bruised and swollen, the blood groove on his hand that the Cao'er girl bit was still there, but she was no longer bleeding, she said lightly: "You are so old and don't know how to maintain it. I won't let go of the little girl who sees her begging for some purple color. It would be strange if you can live to see me and starve to death."
"What are you talking about?" Manager Zhu said with a rough face with a blushing face.
"Are you talking nonsense? You know in your heart. The scar on your hand seems to be bitten by someone else's little girl, right?"
"You..." Manager Zhu was not afraid of being said to be lustful and disgraceful, but was afraid of being told that he even wanted to get on with a beggar girl. He felt a little embarrassed and blushed and glanced at Zhu Yaogu.
Zhu Yaogu looked at him with contempt: "Old Man Zhu, are you a little promising? It's not easy for someone to escape. It's too embarrassing that you bully them, right?"
"I, I changed her steamed bun, can't it?"
Zuo Shaoyang sneered: "You're just afraid there aren't many buns to use to defile the woman who fled, right?"
"What does it mean?" Manager Zhu's face changed color.
"I just passed by your restaurant. It seemed that the door had been closed for several days, and there were beggars and refugees at the door. I guess, the food from your shopkeeper Zhu's house cannot be maintained to defeat the enemy, right?"
Manager Zhu's face changed and he turned to look at Zhu Yaogu.
Zhu Yaogu sighed and said, "Old Man Zhu, don't hide it. Anyway, you have no food at the moment, and the whole family starved to death. Everyone knew that at that time. - His Jinyu Restaurant was closed long ago. Last time, hungry people robbed things, and the officers and soldiers came, and they killed a few more, which scared the lustful old boy. Their restaurant was originally a place for drinking and entertainment. There were not much food reserves, and they were also a family. There were several wives and concubines alone. In addition, there were more than a dozen servants in the restaurant. At first, he didn't care, but later he found that he was extremely empty, so he fired all the servants and drove away the maids and servants at home. Now his wife took turns to cook. His family has stored food in less than half a month."
Manager Zhu sneered: "Old Man Zhu, you are worse than me - Old Man Zhu has fired all the staff in the medicine shop except the curator, because they didn't have enough food. It would be better if they did this earlier, and they were almost eaten before they were fired. It was a bit late. The food in the medicine shop can only last for ten days at most, which is even worse than me." Manager Zhu pointed to the other two old tea shops, "They are even worse, and the food at home is not enough for five days."
Obviously, these old tea shoppers have already talked about these many times when they chatted. They are not gloating, but sympathy.
Zhu Yaoguai smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, everyone is almost the same, but only fifty steps and one hundred steps. - Little Doctor, you just said that you have something to ask me for something, what's the matter? Isn't there any food to sell to me, right?"
When he heard this, the three old tea lovers Zhu and Zhu immediately stared at Zuo Shaoyang with their eyes shining.
Zuo Shaoyang also smiled bitterly: "My family's food is only enough for a few days, and I'm worried."
I just heard that these old tea lovers had no food. Zuo Shaoyang did not dare to talk to Zhu Yaogu about selling grain directly, and he did not dare to sell the grain to unfamiliar people, so he would not be angry. Especially Manager Zhu, although this old pervert is upright, Zuo Shaoyang did not like his character very much, so he was even more unwilling to sell the grain to him.
The four of them looked disappointed. Manager Zhu sneered: "I'll just say that their family is so poor that they don't have money to pay off their debts, and they still have money to buy rice?"
"Don't say that," Zhu Yaogu bought his aconite method for making aconite for 100 taels of silver. He knew that his family was rich now, but he didn't want to say this, and said, "Don't he just exchanged five dou of rice for this teahouse? Five dou of rice, if you exchange for your Jinyu Restaurant, you may not eat anything now. In more than half a month, you will eat all the remaining grains, and the family will be hungry and their eyes will turn green. I think you will do it."
Manager Zhu's face changed and he smiled dryly: "This little doctor is obsessed with lust, and this little girl Sang is indeed a bit beautiful, but she is not as beautiful as she is. To be honest, she is not much better than my wives and concubines. The little doctor wants lust but not life."
Zuo Shaoyang was too lazy to chat with them and said to Zhu Yao Cabinet: "Mr. Zhu, if you have time, wait a while to finish the tea, please sit in my medicine shop for a while. I have a new medicinal material, made with a new method, and maybe you will be interested."
Manager Zhu laughed: "He doesn't have any thoughts about medicinal materials at this time. Let's think about how to survive first."
Zhu Yaogu looked at Zuo Shaoyang and nodded: "Okay, I'll go later. - Life and death are destined, no matter what he does? The business still needs to be done. I have already thought about it. My old woman and I are two old people. From tomorrow on, we will only eat one meal of porridge every day and drink some ginseng soup to save food for our son and grandson. As long as the son is still alive, we will have hope in our family."
Zuo Shaoyang moved and said, "I wish the old man sacrificed himself for others and admired him very much. However, we must know that there is no way out for heaven."
"Okay, everyone in the city is almost starving to death, and I haven't seen any noise from God. Whatever he does, please leave. I'll come over later."
Zuo Shaoyang said goodbye and took Bai Zhihan out of the tea shop.
There were disaster victims on both sides of the road, and many of them were dead. Their bodies were stiff when they were placed on the side of the road, with a layer of straw mat or nothing, except for the snow that God did not grow eyes.
Some family members sat beside each other, crying from time to time, but they didn't have much strength to cry. And some were only a few corpses lying there alone. Perhaps the whole family was starved to death, or perhaps those who survived were unable to bury the corpses and went away to find food.
The corpse transport trucks in the yamen came out to clean up once in the morning and transported the corpses away. The yamen was hungry and fainted. There was no more force to transport the corpses out of the city in time for treatment. Therefore, corpses that died during the day, or corpses that were not found in time in a hidden place, would lie down in the cold wind, allowing the cold wind to storm and erode the rain and snow.
The hungry people lying next to them, looking at the corpses with empty eyes, perhaps calculating in their minds how long they will become such a stiff corpse.
The tragic phenomenon along the way made Zuo Shaoyang unbearable. He lowered his head and thought about his thoughts, and quickly walked towards the pharmacy.
At this moment, I saw a brigade of officers and soldiers coming from afar and heading towards the east of the city. Zuo Shaoyang and Bai Zhihan hurriedly stood by the street and watched, and saw that the street was full of officers and soldiers, walking out neatly.
When they heard the movement, many people came out to watch, and there were people on both sides of the road.
An officer was shouting at the onlookers: "Friends, we are going to attack Shuanghuai County. Don't worry, this time we will definitely be able to retake Shuanghuai County and eliminate the rebels in Shuanghuai County, and the food will be transported in quickly. At that time, everyone will be able to live a peaceful and peaceful life."
The people watching on both sides of the street cheered and applauded constantly. Many people brought warm water from their homes for the officers and soldiers to drink. Of course, they didn't take food. Who knows whether they could defeat the rebels, so they had to keep their hands on it.
The officers and soldiers kept walking, and they didn't know how much they had passed. Zuo Shaoyang and Bai Zhihan returned to the medicine shop, and Zuo Gui and the others stood at the door and looked at it, their faces full of excitement.
The wounded soldiers were very depressed and were too lazy to move on the bed. They also showed a desperate expression on their faces. They had no food and were too lazy to get out of bed and went to the door to send their comrades on a journey. It is more important to save some energy and survive first.
Chapter completed!