"Aren't you going?" Sister Cui's eyebrows were raised in surprise. Mother Sun let go of her clothes, then stepped on Wei Changpan's feet under the table, but what she didn't step on was Father Yan, who was sitting slumped with his arms stretched out.
It hurt so much that he almost threw away the half bowl of rice wine in his hand.
Mother Sun has no family, but she has saved some money in the past few years. Not only can she buy a house, she can easily find a hundred taels of silver in the small wooden box where she hides her money. Sister Cui had solemnly said to Wei Changpan before, "Coffin"
"Ben", in fact, it can only be regarded as a small amount of money for both her and Mama Sun.
However, rice is expensive in Wuhang, and it is not easy to live in peace. There is absolutely no reason to throw money away casually. However, when Mama Sun, who had given birth to a child in her early years, saw Wei Changpan, she felt that Wei Changpan was somewhat similar to her own dog.
I felt a little moved in my heart, so I spent money and effort to save him without expecting any reward.
Mother Sun, who had been trying various tricks to make Wei Changpan some nourishing food for the past few days, used her feet harder and harder, causing Father Yan to grimace. Seeing that Wei Changpan was still unmoved, she did not dare to exert any more force, for fear that
Any broken bones in his body were injured.
At the moment, Qihu is still under the control of Jiangzhou government officials and soldiers. Even if they go back, they can't find the people from Yanyulou. Presumably, the situation of Zhangjiaqiang in Qishan County will not be much better.
You must know that these two Jianghu sects are still known as gangsters. Wei Changpan, who is also a member of Zhangjiaqiang and Yanyulou, is probably one of the comrades in the pictures on the notice at the city gate. If
He rushed out of Wuhang City. With his ability to recover from serious injuries, it would not be easy for him to escape from the hands of three or two policemen, let alone those tigers and wolves in Songfeng Mountain and Gelutai.
In the past two years, Qian Erye and Zhang Wu have paid more and more attention to Wei Changpan, and they have vaguely become the leader among the Zhang family's generation. Logically speaking, such young people are the most taboo to leave behind.
His life came only because the cavalryman had the intention of killing him, so he survived by chance.
Wei Changpan, who has gradually sorted out these things these days, knows very well how much he weighs. Not to mention going to Songfeng Mountain and Kaolu Terrace to seek revenge, he is afraid that he has just left.
If you enter the gate of Songfeng Mountain, you will lose your life.
He is very afraid of death.
There is no hero's passion for his son or daughter to die, nor is there the courage of a drunken thief who shouts that he will be a hero again in twenty years.
Wei Changpan had only lived two years without going hungry, and he didn't want to die like this.
When Mr. Qian's ethereal soul appeared in front of him, apart from grief, there was also boundless fear that rose from the bottom of his heart. He was afraid that he would become a visible and intangible thing, and that he would never see him again.
Regardless of the living person, this fear is so great that it overwhelms the anger he may have towards the person who killed his master. The fear is like a basin of ice water, just poured down on his head, extinguishing his anger in an instant.
In the eyes of others, this may be called ungrateful.
His head lowered little by little, not daring to meet Sister Cui's eyes.
The wicks of the vegetable oil lamps in Table Mountain were crackling. Father Yan started to mutter again, "If you don't do anything else, just light two wicks and waste more oil." After that, he picked up a chopstick and picked out one of the wicks.
come out.
Seeing that Wei Changpan was silent, Sister Cui also had a headache. She raised her hand and played with the abacus in front of her for a while. Her fingers, which were accustomed to playing the pipa, were still strong when playing the abacus.
The sound of the collision echoed in the huge hall, and was blocked by the closed door. After repeating this, it became quieter.
After a moment, Sister Cui finally pulled out the result on the abacus:
"One or two cents of silver per month, including food and accommodation, deduct two cents of silver, and calculate one or two cents of silver as wages for the full amount. Seven cents of silver will be used to pay off the debt, and three cents of silver will be given to yourself. It will take more than four years to pay off.
"
"Think clearly, how old are you?" After Sister Cui said this, Mother Sun hurriedly said, "Even if you go to any restaurant in Rouge Lane, the wages will be higher than here. No wonder Xiao Cui is stingy.
, it’s true that this place is small and manpower is tight, but no matter how much money I get, I can’t pay it. If it really doesn’t work, just leave. I don’t care if you don’t want this little money, old lady. When did you remember that?
It’s okay to bring it back when the time comes.”
The implication was that Mother Sun was actually planning to give up the money. She just wanted to leave the Rouge Alley, where she had wasted so many men's time, early on.
"Mother Sun." Sister Cui wanted to stop Mother Sun from talking, but it was too late: "It depends on whether you want to go or stay."
She thought, it would be fine if this kid left, and his bad character was revealed, even if he was forced to stay, it would not be a good thing, and it would leave a disaster for this place.
I just feel sorry for Mother Sun, giving away so much money for nothing...
"Okay." Wei Changpan raised his head and agreed.
"You want to leave?" As soon as she said this, Sister Cui became more rude and pointed to the door, "Easy, otherwise no one will pay for the night's rent for you."
Wei Changpan was frightened by her, and hurriedly waved his hands and said: "No, no, I said I stayed and worked to earn money to pay back the money. If I owe money, there is no reason to leave without paying off other people's debts."
Sister Cui, Yan, her father, and her mother were all stunned.
So there was a boy in an old building in Rouge Lane, Wuhang City.
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【history】
In the winter of the fourth year of Emperor Yao's reign, for the hungry people from neighboring prefectures and counties who poured into Jiangzhou like migratory locusts crossing the border, God didn't care whether the people below lived or died. While the snow fell down desperately, hundreds of thousands of people from Huizhou and Suzhou were killed.
Half of the hungry people died. After eating all the snakes, rats and beasts they could find, these people without warm clothes gnawed all the grass roots and bark outside the county town. Then they could only drag their swollen limbs to crawl to those tight places.
In front of the closed city gate, he waited to die in the vast expanse of snow.
The rice grains given out by the porridge shacks and wealthy households are only a drop in the bucket for the growing number of hungry people. Each mouthful of the porridge shacks cooks thick porridge for hundreds of people, and only half of the long queues of hungry people can be served.
Some people have no choice but to add water to the pot of porridge when there is still half of it, and stir the thick porridge into a pot of porridge. Even so, 80% of people can only go back with empty bowls.
When the officials in Jiangzhou wanted to increase their relief efforts, the officials in charge of the granary issued a warning to them. Among the Dayao granaries, the Jiahe Granary, located in Jiangzhou, had the largest grain storage. It originally contained at least five million shi of rice grains.
, but now there are only 1.8 million shi left. It is difficult to provide food for Dayao Jiangzhou officials and troops at the same time.
Buying grain from neighboring state capitals? This is true for Jiangzhou, which is known as Yao's granary. The neighboring states have too much to take care of themselves, so where can they get grain?
The governor's office in Jiangzhou is close to the New Year's Eve.
There is still a considerable amount of money that can be allocated in hand, but it cannot be exchanged for food. I can only watch outside the closed city gate. The hungry people and the hungry people who are still breathing are lying on the snow. It is so dark, especially in this situation.
The governor of Jiangzhou, who pays attention to political achievements, seems to be particularly eye-catching, but he has nothing to do.
The imperial edict of Dayao was sent to the two governors of Suzhou, Huizhou, exempting and exempting the two states from taxes for three years each. Along with the edict, there were also distributions from the treasury. Jiangzhou's new rice payment this year solved the problem for these two states.
The state is in urgent need, and the disaster will no longer fester. Farmers in the past dynasties, as long as they still have a mouthful of food to hang on to, are unwilling to leave their homes and become wandering ghosts after death. The severity of the famine in Suzhou, Huizhou, is also
You can catch a glimpse of the leopard.
However, when the disaster in Suzhou, Huizhou was reduced, Emperor Yao, who was sitting on the dragon throne in the capital, issued the most severe edict to the governor of Jiangzhou, blaming the governor of Jiangzhou for his incompetence.
If the relief efforts for the hungry are further intensified, it is very likely that many people in Jiangzhou will not be able to survive this winter.
The memorial written by Jiangzhou governor Shu Shu in defense of himself explained why the number of hungry people in Jiangzhou far exceeded that of Huizhou and Suzhou, and the fact that Jiahecang in Jiangzhou could no longer bring out more food, made Dayao's capital emperor.
The emperor Long Yan was furious and ordered the feudal official to reduce the number of hungry people in Jiangzhou to a very low number within one month. Jiahecang must also provide him with no less than 100,000 yuan for his northern expedition next spring
Two million stones of grain and grass support.
This amount of food and grass, which was rare even in good years in Jiangzhou, dropped to 1.8 million dan after several rounds of thinning, then to 1.5 million dan, and finally to 1.2 million dan.
There was room for negotiation, and the governor of Jiangzhou was able to get enough by emptying out the last grain of rice in the Jiahe warehouse.
As for the outcome of Emperor Yao's Northern Expedition, "Yishu·Posthumous Law" says: Failure to succeed with force is said to be fierce.
The emperor wanted to imitate the martial arts of his ancestors, and spent his whole life trying to plant his flag in the cold grasslands of the north. For this reason, he ignored the disasters in the southeast of Dayao and went through three northern expeditions.
The emperor who was eager to prove himself after taking the throne finally died on the way back from the third Northern Expedition. In the mud-splashed chariot, his life's ambitions disappeared like the sound of carriages and horses.
When later generations of historians evaluated the Emperor of Yao, they lamented that if the emperor who died young had not gone through the three Northern Expeditions, but had been a conservative leader like the previous emperors, with the amazing feats he showed in the Northern Expeditions,
With his brilliant talents, Yao is expected to add another fifty or even hundred years to his country's prosperity in the writings of historians.
Mobilizing troops and using the whole country to seize the barren lands in the north was the ambition of emperors throughout the ages to expand their territories. However, the eagles that also appeared on the grasslands in the north made those emperors with great talents and strategies have no choice but to
He brought the army back home after losing both sides, took with him the cattle and horses on the grassland, the beautiful foreign princess, and countless people who were buried in other places.
Every emperor who wanted to open up a territory was just a child who wanted to prove himself very early on.