Chapter 18: If you have food, you must give it to the big guy
More than ten days have passed since the locust plague. With the comfort of the county magistrate, the mood of the people has gradually stabilized from the initial panic.
However, there was still no news that the warehouse would be opened to release grain. Instead, another major event happened.
There was an earthquake in the north of King Changding's fiefdom, which affected two counties and caused heavy casualties.
The successive disasters made the people more panicked, and they rushed to the county seat again to ask the county magistrate to open warehouses to release grain. In the end, the government officials killed several people who took the lead in making trouble and finally suppressed the incident.
But the resentment in the hearts of the people has escalated to a higher level, taking root and sprouting in their hearts.
After such a long wait, many people realized that the court might not open warehouses to release grain at all, and began to go to grain stores to buy grain.
But now the price of food is also increasing every day. Brown rice that used to only cost more than ten yuan per catty now costs thirty yuan to buy.
In order to survive, many people bought grain no matter how high the price was, but some people struggled to support themselves and felt that the court would definitely not ignore them.
News of the soaring food prices spread throughout the surrounding villages and towns, and everyone in Shenjia Village naturally knew about it.
Food in the town has become more expensive, and there are still people who have collected food in advance!
They targeted those families who collected grain in advance.
The Li Zheng family didn't dare to make a decision, and their family only collected half of the grain. After much deliberation, they finally made their decision to Shen Yu'an's family.
"Shen Xiucai's family didn't have to pay taxes in previous years. This year they harvested grain from these acres of land. How can his family eat so much grain? If you ask me, we are all fellow villagers, so he should help.
Let's order." Lin Erdan said, standing under the big tree at the head of the village.
There are two major households in Shenjia Village: Shen and Lin. However, the households with the surname Lin moved here later, and there are a few residents with other surnames who moved here later.
When people around him heard what he said, they knew that he probably hadn't heard about what happened at the Shen family yesterday, otherwise how would he dare to make such an idea.
Someone immediately said to him: "The boys from Shen Xiucai's family are not easy to mess with. Yesterday, the Zhao family's family came to ask for some food, but they were beaten away. That girl from the Shen family is also very powerful. She kicked everyone.
Kicked away."
"Who in our village doesn't know that Mrs. Zhao has broken off her relationship with her natal family long ago, but we have been with them for decades, so we can't afford not to give him this face." Lin Erdan didn't put his words aside.
In my heart, and there are so many people there, how dare his family not take out the food?
Some people think that Lin Erdan's words are reasonable. Shen Xiucai's family can't finish the food anyway, so why don't they give it to them?
They hit it off immediately and decided to go to Shen's house to force them to hand over the food.
A large group of people walked towards Shen's house, attracting many people along the way to follow.
It's been a few days, and every household has run out of food. If Shen Xiucai's family gives them food, then they should be given points for meeting people no matter what.
So more and more people gathered together, and when they arrived in front of Shen's house, the number of people reached nearly a hundred.
When they just passed by Lizheng's house, Shen Lizheng's mother-in-law inquired about the situation. She told Shen Lizheng about it and said: "Let them only care about their own lives and not let everyone else collect the food. They deserve to rob his family of food."
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When she said this, she had already forgotten that they had confiscated the food because they didn't want to believe it.
Shen Li was crossing his legs and glanced outside, but said nothing.
There were several loud bangs, and the door of Shen's house trembled with knocks. Shen Yue stood up and opened the door, only to see a huge crowd blocking the door.
In the past two days, Shen Yuyu and several members of the Shen family went to the mountains to catch a lot of prey and came back, intending to smoke it and store it.
When she opened the door, she held the kitchen knife she had just used to cut meat.
"What's the matter?" Shen Yuyu glanced coldly at the crowd outside, but she already guessed what they were here for.
The person who knocked on the door saw the shiny kitchen knife in Shen Yuyu's hand, and thought of the incident where she kicked someone away yesterday. He was so frightened that he took two steps back and said hesitantly: "Lin... Lin Erdan said he wanted to see you for something." ."
After saying that, he stepped aside, revealing Lin Erdan behind him.
"What's the matter with you?" Shen Yuyu asked, looking at the man with triangular eyes in front of her who looked shorter than her.
Lin Erdan raised his head and said with an arrogant look: "Where is your man? He asked a woman to come out and speak. I'll discuss the food issue with your father."
As he spoke, he held his head high and tried to enter from Shen Yuyu's side.
Shen Yuyu's face darkened, and she raised the kitchen knife in her hand and placed it on his neck.
Feeling the cold touch on his neck, Lin Erdan was so frightened that he stopped and swallowed carefully.
He took half a step back, and Shen Yuyu stretched his hand forward. The sharp blade scratched his skin, and small blood drops rolled down his neck.
Lin Erdan was too scared to move anymore, but his body kept shaking like a sieve.
"If you have something to say, if you have something to say, take off the knife first." Lin Erdan cried with regret, regretting standing in the front and taking the lead. He should be fanning the flames in the crowd. I bet they won't be able to fight with so many people.
Shen Yuyu glanced at the blade attached to Lin Erdan's skin with disdain. She would have to wash the knife carefully later, otherwise it would no longer be usable.
She took the knife back and saw Lin Erdan trying to run back into the crowd, so she helped him and kicked him out.
"Why, you all came to us with the same problems as him?" Shen Yue glanced at the crowd one by one.
The person who was targeted by her felt a chill on his neck and quickly shook his head and took a few steps back from the crowd.
There are still many people left standing there. Although they are scared, they also wonder what the Shen family really wants to do with so many of them.
A middle-aged man in the crowd with a flattering smile on his face said: "It's been so long since the locust plague, and everyone's family is also a little helpless. See if you can help me."
He didn't dare to treat Shen Yuyu as the master of the other women in the family. This girl was pampered by the Shen family, and he was also very powerful.
"It seems that everyone has forgotten what I once said." Shen Yue said casually.
Her reminder made many people think of what she said at the beginning: If you can't borrow food then, don't say that our family doesn't respect the hometown.
Some people looked confused, who knew what kind of locust plague would really happen at that time.
But some people felt that this was done unethically by the Shen family. A stern woman in the crowd said: "We are all people digging in the soil, how can we understand those words? If Shen Xiucai had said a few more words, We will definitely listen to him."
"That's right, I think you just don't like the good of the villagers, so you said half to hide and half to half. Now that everyone is going to be hungry, your family has to take out the food and share it with us." The person who spoke was someone who didn't deal with the Shen family. Ma's family.
Shen Yuyu sneered, and other people who came out of the yard were surprised when they heard this. What a big face!