Chapter 3025

The two are having dinner. When they see them, Zhou man's first question is, "have you eaten?"

The adults stood a little stiff, but the four children standing in front shook their heads very honestly. Because they were thin, their eyes looked very big. A little girl raised her head and looked at Zhou man with round eyes, which accounted for almost half of her face.

Zhou man stretched out his hand, took her hand, turned and entered the door, "let's eat first."

Bai Shan also sideways let them in and called Zhao Ming, "come in and have some food."

Just because the county government doesn't have medicine soap, Zhao Ming, who wants to come to find some medicine soap for the cake:

He didn't want to disturb the county magistrate and Lord Zhou!

Zhao Ming followed him in silence.

May was stunned to see this group of people who looked dirtier than beggars for a while, and then quickly turned to fetch warm water from the kitchen to wash their faces and hands.

The servants in the yard are busy.

Zhou man stopped her and said, "let the kitchen cook the rice into porridge, put more water and cook it rotten."

May glanced at them, a little tangled, so many people, I'm afraid we have to open everyone's meals?

"What do Lord Lang and his wife eat?"

"We also eat porridge. Go quickly. If you have boiling water, cook it with boiling water. Hurry up."

There was no boiled water, but there was hot water. Sister he dug everyone's rice directly, poured it into a big pot, and boiled it with hot water.

After they wash their faces and hands, Zhou man feels their pulse again, and the porridge is cooked.

Sister-in-law he poured it directly into the bucket and brought it up. Even Zhu Sanlang, who had eaten enough for two days, couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw the hot porridge, let alone others.

He sister-in-law brought the bucket and saw that they were all sitting in the yard. She put it under the porch and turned around and said, "maidservant, go and get dishes and chopsticks."

"No, no, we have a bowl."

More than a dozen people immediately took out their bowls from their arms and baggage, including wooden bowls and porcelain bowls with missing mouths. If it weren't for the county magistrate's house, they would have scattered in a crowd.

But because this is the county magistrate's house, they dare not.

Bai Shan looked at the bowl in their hands and felt that he could not waste the warm water and soap he had just washed, so he insisted, "wait a minute."

Then let sister-in-law he and them go down to get dishes and chopsticks.

Fortunately, there were still many servants in the Bai family. After a while, they brought all kinds of things from the kitchen and set the table outside.

In May, I filled them with porridge. When I saw that they wanted to drink as soon as they got it, I quickly stopped them, "be careful to scald your mouth."

Zhou man's eyelids jumped and hurriedly said, "too hot will burn your mouth and esophagus. If you burn your esophagus, you can't eat anything."

The people who didn't mind being scalded didn't dare to pour it into their mouth. They could only drink it in small bites.

Zhou man breathed a sigh of relief. After they had played, he also took the bowl and lined up to play a bowl.

Looking at Bai Shan, who also received a bowl of porridge and squatted on the steps to drink porridge like them, Zhao Ming was speechless for a long time.

Bai county magistrate is too skilled, isn't he?

A bucket of porridge was finished, and sister-in-law he took another bucket out and put it. The refugees saw a commotion, and then accelerated the action of drinking porridge. Then may and jiulan also carried a bucket up

The refugees slowed down.

In order to make them drink more slowly, Zhou man let them stumble over a small dish. Bai Shan talked to them, "where did you come from?"

There are a group of refugees in the county. Although the number is not many, Bai Shan has long known from the Yamen patrolling the street.

However, he sent yamen servants to persuade them to register in the Yamen. After they failed, he no longer reluctantly. He might be able to guess that they were watching.

He didn't want to encourage others so as not to leave a bad impression on the people who came later. Now that the people finally came, he naturally had a lot to ask.

They said, "we came from Luzhou."

Zhao Ming thought and couldn't figure out where Luzhou was. Bai Shan asked, "why did you come out to wander?"

"There's no land. If the imperial court can't pay the taxes, it comes out."

Bai Shan raised his eyebrows. "Is there no ground?"

Two embarrassed said, "my family still has two mu of land, but the land is not good and there is no harvest. It's better not to plant it."

Bai Shan nodded slightly, "why did you lose land?"

The reason is not unified, but in the final analysis, it is almost the same. Five years ago, Luzhou was dry

"In fact, it was not very dry, but the luck was really bad that year. Later, it was easy to rain. I don't know why, there were so many insects on the ears of rice. They were all black. At a glance, there were not many shells on the ears of rice. Instead, the insects bent the ears of rice and gnawed a lot of leaves."

"I've tried all kinds of methods, driving with fire and rolling with my hands, but after a month of fatigue, the rice husk is still empty and there is no harvest. I have to pay taxes and live. I have to borrow money and grain from others. I thought I could pay it back by tightening my belt in recent years. Who knows that the harvest in the second year is also very general. After paying taxes, the rest will be enough for the family to eat. It's not enough at all."

"Master Zhao doesn't want to borrow on credit. Let's pay back the money immediately. There's no way. We can only sell or mortgage the land to him."

Bai Shanwei Su said, "the imperial court has ordered that you can't sell Yongye field unless there is a funeral or illness."

Yongye field cannot be sold unless there are dead people at home who need mourning, or patients in urgent need of medical treatment. They can only be sold when they get the approved documents from the county government.

After Bai Shan finished, he obviously thought of the key. They want to sell these things. Naturally, someone will do them well for them.

Sure enough, several people said, "it's very easy. Master Zhao and the master bookkeeper in the county yamen can just say it. You can sell as much land as you want."

They all thought master Zhao was a good man, but they were unlucky and had a bad year.

Bai Shan paused and didn't say that master Zhao was bad. He just asked, "didn't the county government provide relief?"

"The drought is not very serious."

Insect disaster also belongs to natural disaster, okay?

But Bai Shan opened his mouth, skipped the topic and asked, "are you going to settle in Beihai county“

Everyone hesitated and couldn't help looking at Zhu Sanlang.

At this time, Zhu Sanlang was very confident in Beihai county and Bai county magistrate. Especially at this time, Bai county magistrate was squatting face to face with them with a bowl. Who county magistrate could do this?

So he nodded fiercely, knelt directly on the ground and said, "as long as adults are willing to take us in, we will die."

Bai Shan put down the bowl, helped the man up and said, "that's not the case. You can also consider it for a period of time. The county will also investigate your work."

He said, "when you settle down, the county will give you enough living land, build houses for you, and give you tax exemption for two years, but the county is not unconditional."

People are relieved when they hear that he has conditions. Otherwise, why do they have such good conditions?

They have been wandering outside for four years, all the way from Luzhou to here. They have long known a truth that pie will not fall from the sky.