Chapter 62 The polite cattle dealer
Wang He was afraid of causing trouble for the people, but he didn't know that the matter had been exposed.
After Ye's butcher and his daughter escaped, they wanted to hide, but the flood came. Not only did they have nowhere to hide, but they also faced the situation of starvation. Later, he saw that the father and son of Liu were only concerned about Wang He's master and servant, and did not care much about his father and daughter. After the news of the wind passed, he stopped hiding and mingled among the victims to make a living.
The government has opened warehouses and released grain, but the water truck has dropped to the drop in the bucket, and disaster relief measures are not perfect, and it is common for disaster victims to starve to death and die of illness.
Butcher Ye was anxious when he saw his daughter Xiaoya being pitiful and thin.
The cow dealer Hu Qingfeng also felt sorry for his son Hu Qiya. After discussing with the butcher, he decided to steal some food. They called a few helpers and secretly lurked near Guancang, waiting for the convoy to transport grain to come out and act according to the opportunity.
One of them was a pig-killing butcher, and the other was a livestock seller. Both had a good way of survival. At that time, one created chaos to attract the attention of officers and soldiers, and the other stole grain. They really stole two packs. After succeeding, they quickly evacuated and carried the food to a ruined temple where a beggar lived, and then they smiled excitedly.
Butcher Ye was busy opening the marinade and asked someone to take a stone mortar to pound the rice; Hu Qingfeng asked someone to set up an iron pot and set the fire to have a good meal.
They dare not go back to the places where the victims gather. If they go back, the amount of food will not be enough for each person to share, and it is easy to leak news. So they cook here secretly and then take it back to their relatives with some.
Golden rice is like gold. After being pounded into white rice, it looks like pearls, which makes people pleasing to the eye.
Everyone was talking and laughing, busy, but Hu Qingfeng grabbed a handful of rice mixed with unshelled rice, with a serious expression and silent thought.
Seeing him strange, Butcher Ye asked, "What's wrong?"
Hu Qingfeng said: "This rice is different from what we eat."
Butcher Ye said: "It's different..."
He was suddenly stunned and couldn't continue talking.
Everyone stopped joking and were stunned - what they ate was also the food they had placed in the official warehouse, so why was it different from what they stolen?
Hu Qingfeng said: "They resold the official grain!"
Where to sell, do you still need to think about it?
These days, Fengsheng Grain Business has been so prosperous! If they have money, they can go there to buy rice, so they don’t have to do theft of official grain.
Everyone seemed to have been poured with cold water, and they could no longer be excited. They were all filled with heavy anger - they dared not speak out!
It was easy, they endured this tone.
Since ancient times, the people have not fought with officials.
Not to mention real officials, even the clerks and yamen runners in the eyes of the common people, they nodded and bowed and tried their best to make a fuss. Those who can make some connections will give gifts during the holidays and weddings, just to be convenient at critical moments and handed over something, otherwise everyone wants to be an official.
After dinner, they returned to the place where the victims gathered, but found chaos and panic everywhere. Many people were poisoned because they ate moldy dried sweet potatoes. The children were weak and could not resist and died of more than a dozen.
Butcher Ye's daughter Xiaoya was also unconscious, and Hu Qingfeng's wife and son Hu Qiya were taking care of her, but they were fed some water.
Butcher Ye snatched forward and picked up his daughter with a blue face. His tentacles were light and flirted with no weight, and he couldn't help but shed tears. He had a bag of pearl-like rice in his arms. Before he could cook it for his daughter, he didn't know if she had the chance to eat it.
"What to do? What to do?"
I don't have money, so I can't afford to hire a doctor.
Hu Qingfeng handed the rice to his wife and said, "Go and cook it quickly and feed it to Xiaoya."
Sister Hu hurriedly took the rice and cooked it.
Butcher Ye couldn't wake up Xiao Ya, so he raised his head suddenly. The fox's eyes were filled with tears, and he shouted angrily to Hu Qingfeng: "They are not humans!!"
Hu Qingfeng looked around with a calm face.
Around them, there were victims full of slutty faces.
Yesterday, the prefect Liu came to Anmin and said passionately, saying how he submitted a memorial to the court and requested disaster relief, and how he stayed up all night and mobilized officials from the government and county government offices to resettle the victims. Everyone was moved and knelt down like a Bodhisattva. However, what the victims didn't know was that the court issued an order to provide disaster relief, and the food was resold by dog officials, but they used these inferior and moldy grains to fool them!
When survival becomes a luxury, there is no scruple.
Butcher Ye could no longer help but handed over his daughter to Hu Qiya for care, stood up and shouted at all the victims: "Dog official resells official grain!"
He took out the rice from his arms and told the inside story.
In an instant, a craze started in the refugee camp!
A disaster victim riot is right in front of you!
The victims shouted that they would rush to the Successful Grain Store to grab the food, regain their food, and kill the dog officials.
Hu Qingfeng is a cow dealer, but a cow dealer who drinks ink. He has been smart since childhood and is praised by his master for studying. However, his father died early and his mother dragged him over, and his life was still difficult, let alone for him to study. In order to make a living, he mingled in various villages, towns and markets. While making money to support his family, he fished for three days and two days to dry the net with his master. He likes to dress up as a scholar, dressed in white, and is gentle, which has changed people's perception of peddlers. Although he is not ruthless in making money, people just like him and think he is a fresh and refined cattle dealer.
At the moment, he stood up with excitement. When Butcher Ye shouted for the truth, he asked two cow dealers who were traveling with him to guard the intersection to prevent the news from leaking. If someone comes to the government, go back and forth in time.
He asked everyone: "What if I have robbed the food?"
The victims were asked by him and looked at each other - they were just concerned about robbing the food, and they were not concerned about what happened after robbing the food. They robbed it and cooked it!
Hu Qingfeng said: "We cannot ignore the head and the tail. If we steal the food, the dog official will definitely not be willing to give up. We are afraid that they will push things clean and say that they have not reselled the official grain. We are going to rebel, arrest us all and go to jail and beheaded."
When everyone heard this, it was indeed serious and asked him, "What should I do?"
Hu Qingfeng calmly said, "Capture the king first! If we want to share the food, we must first take the dog official and force him to write a confession of reselling the official grain, and then open the warehouse to release the grain. In this way, we can ensure that we are safe afterwards. Otherwise, even if we rob the grain and come back, we will cook and have a full meal, it will be a dead end - we will go to see the King of Hell after eating."
He also knew that this matter was not simple, and he acted too recklessly, but the excitement of the crowd was not something he could suppress; even if he suppressed it, there were too many people and talked, the news might be leaked, so he asked the prefect Liu to take action first, and he and the brothers Ye were the brunt of being killed to warn the monkey, so he could only take the lead.
Everyone said, "Listen to Mr. Hu."
At this moment, Hu Qingfeng made arrangements: It is daytime now, and it is time to wait until dark before taking action. He caught them off guard. He planned to go to the government office to get the dog official first and force him to submit; he grabbed the dog official in his hand, and then went to the Successful Grain Store to get the food.
He divided all the young and strong into three groups: one group went to the government office with him and Ye Butcher Ye to get the dog officials; one group brought various tools, and when they succeeded, they rushed into the abundant grain store to grab the food; one group stayed here to take care of the elderly, weak, women and children.
The assignment has been decided, and everyone obeys the order.
Hu Qingfeng took out the last little money on his body and went to buy medicine to treat the poisoned victims. While sending people to the government office and the grain shop to inquire about the news.
When it got dark, Hu Qingfeng and Butcher Ye took more than a dozen strong men to cover up and touch the government office. The main reason is that it is useless to come too much and you have to be smart. However, before you even arrived at the government office, you were stopped by your own people halfway. The person who came said that Liu Gongfu and his son had gone out, and Liu Gongfu went to the sumptuous grain store.
This shows Hu Qingfeng's role.
If there is no head, the snake cannot do it. If there is no arrangement in advance, everyone will riots and will eventually not end up, but it is orderly at the moment.
Everyone said angrily: "It's true that there is collusion!"
Hu Qingfeng said in a deep voice: "This is better. Go there and we will be with us."
So, everyone went to the Successful Grain Tour.
Hu Qingfeng urgently ordered the team that grabbed the grain and asked them to come and meet. This was the best way to take the dog official and the profiteering businessman in one fell swoop, so that they could not run away, and they were not concentrated in manpower and could easily be defeated by the government.
Before the abundant food service was available, they met Wang He’s master and servant.
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