Chapter 103 Jiuli Town (Additional update on Goddess’ Day)
Author: foraging swallows
Chapter 103 Jiuli Town (Additional update on Goddess’ Day)
Xia Qiyue was frightened and quickly reached out to touch An Qingling's forehead, fearing that the child would be burned and confused.
But with this touch, it felt like the fever had subsided. How could this child still forget people?
"Ling'er, I'm your fourth aunt, why don't you recognize me?" Xia Qiyue asked tentatively.
"I know you and know that you are my fourth aunt!" An Qingling lowered her head, "But fourth aunt, you feel like a mother! I have never been held to sleep by my mother like that. It's so warm and comfortable.
,I...can I call you mother?"
Although she is only five years old, An Qingling speaks clearly and clearly, and her words are sad and distressing.
"Mom...Sister Ling'er is so pitiful..." The first person who couldn't help but cry was Xiao Ke'er. "Mom, just let Sister Ling'er call you mom, okay?"
Xia Qiyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and touched Ke'er's head, "Sister Ling'er has her own mother. If sister Ling'er calls her mother her mother, her mother will be unhappy!"
"But her mother doesn't want her anymore!" Xuan'er added.
Xia Qiyue was left speechless, what could she do? She could only take Ling'er with her first.
"Ling'er, please go with Ke'er's sister, Xuan'er, and brother first, okay?"
An Qingling raised her head with sparkling eyes and agreed readily, "Okay!"
For convenience, they ate dry food in the morning, which were steamed buns bought on the way.
After An Zihao finished eating, he angrily went to find Ge Mingyu and his wife.
He came back after a long time and asked Xia Qiyue to go out and talk.
But I stood there for a long time, hesitating and not knowing how to speak.
Xia Qiyue couldn't wait any longer and was the first to speak, "Does the second brother and second sister-in-law no longer want Ling'er?"
An Zihao nodded, shook his head, and then said hesitantly, "Fourth sister-in-law, second sister-in-law means... to let you buy Ling'er..."
An Zihao didn't know how to say these words, and felt his face burning with pain.
What is this? You don’t care about your own daughter, but you have to force others to buy her girl. Not only do you have to support her, you also have to give them money.
There were not many surprises in Xia Qiyue. It was not the first time that Ge Mingyu had the idea of selling his daughter.
"Okay! Eight taels, let her write the deed of sale and have Li Zheng sign it and send it to me. Ling'er will be my daughter when the household registration is applied for!"
An Zihao's eyes were filled with various emotions. After a while, he suppressed the turbulence in his heart, nodded, agreed and left.
Over there, when Ge Mingyu heard that Xia Qiyue agreed to buy her daughter, she was so excited that she felt as if she had won a lottery.
But the next second, Liu Mei's voice came to mind, "Second brother and sister, when we sold Yan'er, I only kept one tael, and the rest was given to my mother!"
Old lady An was also waiting. Liu Mei finished speaking for her and looked directly at Ge Mingyu.
Ge Mingyu gritted his teeth, but faced the old lady, he still had no choice but to nod, "Sister-in-law, you don't need to remind me, I know!"
The old woman An was too stiff to speak, and she snorted coldly, waiting excitedly for her granddaughter's money.
Li Zheng wrote the deed of betrayal to Ge Mingyu without hesitation, signed it and pressed his fingerprints.
Since it was Xia Qiyue who wanted to buy An Qingling, no one who heard it gossiped. Instead, they were all happy for An Qingling. She would no longer have to endure hardships in the future.
I don’t know how many people want to sell their daughters to Xia Qiyue.
The official came over before noon and said that they had been settled in Jiuli Town, which is nine miles away from the capital. However, it was not in the town, but in a village not far from the town.
I heard from the official that this village was not a village at first, it was just a wilderness. There were too many refugees, so there was no place to resettle them. They could only settle the Cypriots in a radius of a hundred miles. However, they arrived a step too late. The people in other places were already saturated and they could not be accommodated at all.
Go in.
So I gathered the next few groups of people together and built a village in the wilderness not far from Jiuli Town.
"Everyone, hurry up and go. We can help the officials to decorate the temporary porridge shed before dark!"
This is what Li Zheng said in his last sentence.
Xia Qiyue made a guess based on what he said. Is the court going to build a porridge shed to temporarily house the refugees, and then let them build their own houses?
But her thoughts were a little too good, and when she finally arrived at the so-called new village, she discovered that it was not a village at all. It was clearly a wilderness, with no houses at all, and only a few newly built porridge shacks.
The people who came here before had spread their own bedding on the ground. There were so many people in one shed, which drove Dang Xue crazy.
But their Shanbei Village was a later one, and they didn’t even have a porridge shed. Everyone stood in the wilderness, messy in the wind.
This was not as good as the temporary resting spot they found on the road. The wind was blowing everywhere and there was no place to block it.
Just as Xia Qiyue was complaining, Li Zheng was called over by the official and after talking for a while, he came over in a hurry and took the men away to work.
To be precise, they need to build several porridge sheds that can accommodate about 300 people in their Shanbei village.
After the men left, not long after, carriages came one after another bringing goods, which meant there was porridge for them to drink in the evening.
This emperor is quite caring for the people, and he can arrange the victims so well, including settling them, returning porridge sheds, and giving porridge.
"Hey? Girl Qiyue, I told you that this porridge shed will not be evacuated until we build our own yard!" Wang Dazuizi saw Xia Qiyue get off the carriage, and hurried over to her and said, "This is
I finally have some protection!”
Xia Qiyue originally thought that when the officials said the relief grain was given, the grain would be given to them, but it was given in this way.
"Aunt Big Mouth, it seems that a big pot has been set up over there to start cooking?" Xia Qiyue pointed to the three carriages that had just been pulled over. They contained iron pots and firewood, and there should be a few bags of grain.
Followed by many people dressed as maids and women, and asked.
In fact, she never got off the carriage, and her carriage was also afraid of being abrupt, so An Youde and the others stopped the carriage farther away.
"Yes, it seems that the one who is giving out porridge today is some high-ranking official in the capital. I don't know, but it looks like he brought a lot of food!"
"High official? Giving porridge? Isn't it relief food given by the imperial court?" Xia Qiyue asked ignorantly.
"You haven't heard about this, have you? The imperial court only provides one meal of relief food a day, and the second meal is porridge from a wealthy family in the capital. We can eat two meals a day!"
I have to say that even though he is known as a loudmouth, he is quite well-informed.
Only then did Xia Qiyue figure out that wherever the victims were relocated, officials there would be responsible for collecting donations.
And they belong to the capital city. Jiuli Town is only nine miles away from the capital city, so it is normal for high-ranking officials from the capital city to come here.
However, it is said that it is only Jiuli from the capital, but the land boundary is Jiuli. The population and houses are far away from the capital. According to the distance they traveled, it is at least thirty miles. They did not pass through Jiuli Town and went directly here. They didn’t know Jiuli yet.
What is the mayor like? Xia Qiyue is not interested in porridge, but he is very interested in a town so close to the capital.