Chapter 46: Shen Tang can't sleep well, stealing food at night
Chapter 46: It’s hard to sleep in the hall, stealing food at night
However, just when Shen Tang stepped out of the palace door, Wang Wenqing said slowly: "Shen Tang, please remember this sentence: life is like an ant, you should have the ambition of a swan; life is as thin as paper, but you have the ambition to be a swan. With an unyielding heart; the universe is uncertain, and everything is possible!"
"Also, although you have a good temperament, you are less decisive. You must know that since ancient times, kindness does not lead to military affairs, justice does not conduct business, emotion does not establish things, and laziness does not study! As long as you have a clear conscience, why should you care about what others say?"
Shen Tang stayed for a long time, and then left with his luggage.
And just after Shen Tang left, he saw Wang Wenqing sitting cross-legged on the futon, looking at Shen Tang's back with a smile, murmuring to himself: "The crape myrtle is dim, but a greedy wolf has come to the world. This is unprecedented in ancient and modern times." A strange phenomenon! It’s just that this greedy wolf wants to be on the side of Ziwei, but he still has to go through ups and downs. Now changes have occurred, God bless China, God bless the Song Dynasty..."...
With the thousands of stones and rice from the Taoist temple, Shen Tang finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, the news he received from shopkeeper Yao made Shen Tang even more resentful towards the grain shop in the city.
Early in the morning, shopkeeper Yao went to buy grain and rice. Putting together several grain shops, they only bought one thousand shi of grain and rice, but in money, they spent more than four thousand. In other words, the current price of grain It has reached an appalling four-two-one-stone figure.
Blessings never come in pairs, and misfortunes never come alone.
Just as shopkeeper Yao left, Lu Feng stepped forward and said with a wry smile: "Brother Shen, it's only been half a day and the number of newly arrived victims has already exceeded 10,000. There are still more than 10,000 who will arrive before nightfall."
Shen Tang nodded, "Follow the previous method, separate these victims, and try to disrupt them as much as possible with the previous victims. Select some strong-bodied ones for us to work on, send more people to harvest wood, and build more buildings as soon as possible. Many huts.”
The situation of disaster victims is changing dramatically every day!
On the third day and night, the number of victims reached more than 60,000, and by the fourth day and night, the number directly reached 100,000!
How terrifying is the number of one hundred thousand victims? Even in the entire Shanyin County, there are only more than one hundred thousand people. The sudden increase in the number of victims has brought about a rapid consumption of grain and rice. On the third day and night, Shen Tang had a total of various kinds in his hands. The grain and rice were about 7,000 shi. However, on the fourth day, more than 2,000 shi were consumed in one day. If this continues, without external aid, we can only hold on for two more days at most. On the one hand, Shen Tang ordered shopkeeper Yao to He purchased grain from the grain merchants in the city at all costs. On the other hand, Shen Tang had no choice but to cruelly continue to reduce the supply to the victims.
Not only the victims, but also Shen Tang and others had their own rations greatly reduced. Before, due to the hard work, Shen Tang ordered everyone to eat three meals a day. But now, not only has it been reduced to two meals a day, but these two Food is also scarce. Although their food is richer and more abundant than that of the victims, the most busy and tiring people every day are the government servants, servants and others.
The night is still dark!
Shen Tang was leaning on a piece of hay, but he had no intention of sleeping!
Not far away from him were hundreds of thousands of victims of the disaster, but the grain and rice in his hands were less than two thousand. And this still reduced the food of the victims again in two or three days. But even so , now we can only hold on for seven days. If no more grain or rice arrives tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow, the 100,000 people in front of us will no longer have any grain or rice to survive. What will happen at that time? Shen Tang doesn’t know , don’t even dare to think about it...
"who!"
"What are you doing?"
"asshole!"
Just when Shen Tang was worried, suddenly, a noisy sound came from outside.
Shen Tang's expression changed, because he could hear that it was Cheng Yuhu's voice. Cheng Yuhu and more than ten men were guarding grain and rice.
With a brush, Shen Tang stepped out of the camp as quickly as possible and hurried towards the rear where the grain was stored. After a moment, a bright torch appeared in Shen Tang's sight, and two waves of people were standing on the side of the grain pile facing each other. .
One party was led by Cheng Yuhu and Lu Feng, as well as other government servants and servants who gradually arrived. On the other hand, there were hundreds of victims.
Under a torch, Cheng Yuhu held down a ragged victim, who was holding a small half bag of grain in his hand.
"What's the matter!" Shen Tang's face sank into the water.
"Brother Shen, this scoundrel wanted to steal food, but he was caught by Brother Yuhu..." A boy who was about the same age as Shen Ming, but was thin, said to Shen Tang with a bit of resentment. And this This person is no stranger to Shen Tang. He came with Cheng Yuhu and was named Teng Wu.
"Brother Yuhu, let him go first!" Shen Tang said in a deep voice.
Cheng Yuhu sneered, let go of the victim, and then stood beside Shen Tang. The victim didn't even care, spit out blood-stained saliva, and faced the crowd with the half bag of rice. The victims left.
"stop!"
Following Shen Tang's cold shout, the man stopped and turned to look at Shen Tang.
"Why steal food!"
"Why?" Faced with Shen Tang's question, the man actually sneered, "Our stomachs are empty. There is rice here, why don't you let us eat enough? In the past few days, we have cut down the food time and time again. Do you know how much porridge and water we use? Ke Zhaoren? And what about you? You can actually eat thick porridge and rice noodles every day! How unfair is this? If there is no food, that's it. But, there are mountains of food and rice here, how can you feel at ease when you treat us like this?"
"If this continues, we will starve to death! Since you want us to call you a saint because of your reputation, why don't you give us enough grain and rice to eat? Otherwise, you will be the executioner who killed those fellow villagers who starved to death. !”
This man's question shocked Shen Tang, making him sad and unable to recover! He never wanted the name of a saint, or even a word of thanks. But, had he ever thought that he had become the so-called 'executioner'?
What's even more sad is that when Shen Tang looked at the victims behind the man, their eyes clearly showed approval.
After a long while, Shen Tang sighed in his heart, the people are so stupid, what can he do? Even if he severely punishes the person who steals food, what can be changed?
"Put down the food and disperse!" At this moment, Shen Tang felt powerless all over his body. There was nothing better than feeling sorry for his misfortune and angry at him for not fighting!
However, when the man heard this, he smiled coldly, "He is just a dead ghost. If he doesn't starve to death, he will be executed by you. What else can you do? You live in fine clothes and fine food all day long, but you don't let us have enough to eat. You are The most sanctimonious hypocrite in the world! If you want to live on a bowl of porridge, let us be grateful and just dream!"
Seeing this man carrying grain and rice, he walked towards the crowd again. Shen Tang gritted his teeth and shouted: "Jade Tiger, take the grain and rice!"
Cheng Yuhu sneered, stepped forward, kicked the man over, and casually snatched the half bag of grain.
The man stared at Shen Tang and others coldly, as if they were enemies! Then, he turned to the victims behind him and shouted loudly: "These people don't let us eat, then we will just starve to death in the end. In this case, then this It doesn’t matter if we don’t need grain or rice! It’s worth letting these people accompany us on the journey!”
As he spoke, he grabbed a torch and threw it hard. The torch lit up the dark night and swayed towards the grain pile!