Chapter 3123 Luo Fengtang’s family letter (second update)
“I just thought that you are a big family in our village and you are kind-hearted. Many families in the village have benefited from you and have not starved to death.”
"They showed me and Huo Yingsheng a way to survive. No, we came here shamelessly, thinking Let me borrow some rice from you guys to get through this difficulty..."
Huoying's wife also nodded quickly and whispered: "Yes, yes, I really can't open the pot anymore. The children are so hungry. Crying, so pitiful..."
Yang Ruoqing listened carefully, then sympathy appeared on her face.
“Hey, in the face of this great famine, every family is pitiful, not just the two aunts’ family.” The grain is specially supplied to my restaurant every year."
"This year's insect infestation has hit my parents' family the hardest, with dozens of acres of land without any harvest."
" The restaurant is almost running out of rice. I've been worrying about rice these days. Look, my family's three meals a day has now been reduced to two. Life is hard. The restaurant is about to close down..."
When the Watsons and Huoyingying heard what Yang Ruoqing said, they secretly exchanged glances, feeling that the rice was not easy to borrow.
Yang Ruoqing said: "If you don't have rice to cook with today, I can split two kilograms of rice from my family's rations and give you two meals back home without you having to pay it back. You can't borrow rice. I don't have rice at home." Too much. Borrow from the east but not from the west. If the family offends someone, no one will borrow it from now on."
The Watson family and the Huo Yingying family still took two kilograms of rice and left. Later, Yang Ruoqing released it directly in the village. He said: We don’t have enough rice and grain, so we won’t borrow any.
“Once these words were spread, most of the people in our village were offended!”
When Yang Ruoqing brought her two children to her parents’ house for dinner, Mrs. Sun was there He said with a sad face at the dinner table.
Yang Ruoqing smiled: "It's okay to offend if you offend me. We are not money, and we can't make everyone satisfied."
"Even if we borrow it today, we will borrow it from anyone who comes tomorrow. We will wait until the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow when they have finished eating. By then our rice supply will really be at the bottom and we will have no choice but to borrow it. If I tell them, will they believe it?" ? Do you understand? You still have to complain!”
“Rather than for him? We emptied our rice and grain warehouses and were criticized, so we might as well keep our own now. Whoever wants to complain can complain. If you have the ability, don’t be shameless and come to me for help later!”
After listening, Yang Ruoqing! After saying this, Mrs. Sun nodded, but her expression was still a little reluctant.
Yang Huazhong also put down his chopsticks and said to Sun: "Qing'er is right, the human heart is the most unpredictable."
"Let's do our duty. "We won't do anything beyond our own ability. Besides, we have helped everyone enough. If you can understand, you will understand. If you don't understand, you can't say more!" he said.
Xiaohua also reached out and gently held Sun's hand.
"Mom, don't be afraid. Anyway, I'm engaged to brother Da'an. From now on, you can just blame it on me for all the things that make things difficult for you in this family. I'll do the bad things. I'm not afraid. Someone said. "Xiao Huadao."
Sun looked at Xiaohua with a complicated expression.
Here, Yang Ruoqing said: "Mom, did you see it? Our whole family has reached a consensus, so don't be depressed anymore. Don't worry about this."
Hearing the whole family say this, Sun’s heart no longer wavered.
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Yang Ruoqing personally led the team and escorted the family's food to restaurants in the town with Yang Huazhong.
In addition to the father and daughter, there was also a team of people from the transportation team escorting the food.
In normal times, this kind of thing would only require Yang Huazhong to take a few long-term workers to the restaurant, or ask the restaurant to send a few guys over and drive a few bullock carts to take away the food.
But these are extraordinary times. The most indispensable thing on the road are the victims who don’t have enough to eat, and some refugees from places like Helanzhou. The number of beggars in Qingshui Town has increased instantly. Lots and lots.
In order to prevent the grain from being robbed on the way, Yang Ruoqing mobilized almost the entire transport team, and everyone escorted the rice grain to the restaurant in the town. This wave of rice grains was transported out of the village in front of the whole village, and everyone's eyes were gleaming.
But so what? Who dares to rob? The transport team carries knives.
Of course, after this wave of rice grains was shipped out of Yang Huazhong’s house, almost no one came to Yang Huazhong’s house to borrow rice.
"Qing'er, you delivered the rice on time. If you don't deliver it, I will go to the village to chase you."
Chef Zhou came over and told Yang Ruoqing.
"In the past few days, half of the rice and grain shops in the town have been unable to buy rice. The price of rice in the only two remaining rice and grain shops is so high that it costs almost one tael of silver per bucket of rice."
“Other supplies, not to mention fish, meat, chicken and duck, even those vegetarian dishes have increased in price greatly.”
“Such a handful of cabbage is too much. A bowl of stir-fry costs forty or fifty cents, and we don’t have anywhere to buy it. We can’t make many dishes in the restaurant, so there is nothing we can do.”
Hearing what Chef Zhou said. Yang Ruoqing said: "It's normal. When we came from the south gate earlier, we saw that several food stalls and restaurants were closed, and even Zhang Ji's steamed bun shop was closed."
Chef Zhou nodded, "Our Tianxiang Restaurant is the only restaurant left in Qingshui Town now, and the others have not been able to survive."
Yang Ruoqing said: "Isn't this a gift of rice? Let's continue to support it. As for the I’ll figure out a way to get the other dishes and supplies.”
…
Da’an and Mu Zichuan didn’t write again, and I don’t know if they received the letter they sent last time. arrive.
However, Yang Ruoqing received a letter from Luo Fengtang from the south.
After reading Luo Fengtang's letter, Yang Ruoqing's expression finally changed.
"Qing'er, why do you look like this? What did Tangyazi say in his heart?" Yang Huazhong asked nervously. Sun and Xiaoan Xiaohua also looked at her nervously and worriedly.
Yang Ruoqing frowned and said, "Tang Yaozi has received the imperial edict and is going to lead troops to the capital to escort the emperor out of the capital."
"The emperor wants to leave the capital?" Yang Huazhong was surprised.
Yang Ruoqing nodded, "Tang Yazi said in the letter that rebels appeared in Helanzhou and changed their banners under the banner of opposing the imperial court."
“They brought the local victims into the houses of wealthy local families and opened warehouses to stockpile grain.” The team was getting bigger and bigger like a snowball. It had started to press from Yingkou County to the south. It passed through various places. The local government officers and soldiers could not resist it at all, and the momentum became more and more fierce. "
"The continuous drought in the north a few years ago, coupled with insect plagues, and the floods in the south..."
"Someone dug out a one-eyed stone man in the Yellow River, and the stone man was engraved with " words,"
"Coupled with the instigation of those who are interested, now the whole world is accusing Emperor Qi of being immoral, and God has punished him."
"Coupled with the ineffective disaster relief, there are now many voices of dissatisfaction in the court. There are all kinds of remonstrances, most of which are condemning the emperor's misconduct and inaction."
"Some people even proposed "I want Emperor Qi to abdicate and give way to King Su who rebelled in Helanzhou," Yang Ruoqing said.
"King Su? Who is that?" Yang Huazhong asked.
(End of this chapter)