Farmer’s Blessed Girl

The two were eating. Seeing them, Zhou Man's first question was, "Have you eaten yet?"

The adults stood a little cautiously, but the four children standing at the front shook their heads very honestly. Because they were thin, their eyes were particularly large. A little girl raised her head and looked at Zhou with round eyes. Full, the eyes almost took up half of the face.

Zhou Man reached out and took her hand, turned around and entered the door, "Let's have dinner first."

Bai Shan also turned sideways to let them in, and called Zhao Ming by the way, "Come in and have some food."

Just because the county government did not have medicated soap, Zhao Ming, who wanted to come over and ask for a few pieces of medicated soap:...

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

Zhao Ming followed silently into the door.

Seeing this group of people who looked dirtier than beggars, May was stunned for a while, and then hurriedly turned around and went to the kitchen to draw warm water to wash their faces and hands.

The people in the yard were busy.

Zhou Man stopped her and said, "Let the kitchen cook the rice into porridge, add a little more water, and boil it a little bit."

May glanced at them, a little tangled, so many people, I am afraid they have to eat everyone's meals, right?

"What do the master and the lady eat?"

"Let's eat porridge too, let's go, and boil it with boiling water. Hurry up."

There was no boiling water, but there was hot water. Mrs. He dug up everyone's rice and poured it into a large pot, and boiled it with hot water.

After they washed their faces and hands, Zhou Man felt their pulse again, and the porridge was cooked.

Sister He directly poured it into the wooden bucket and brought it up. Even Zhu Saburo, who had eaten his full meal for two days, couldn't help swallowing when he saw this hot porridge, let alone other people.

Mrs. He brought the wooden barrel over, and seeing that they were all sitting in the yard, she put it under the porch, and turned around and said, "My servant, go get the bowls, chopsticks and side dishes."

"No, no, we have bowls."

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

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

Bai Shan glanced at the bowls in their hands and felt that the warm water and medicated soap they had just washed couldn't be wasted, so he insisted: "You guys wait a bit."

Then let Sister He and the others go down to get the tableware and side dishes.

Fortunately, there are still quite a lot of servants in the Bai family. After a while, everyone brought various things from the kitchen and set the dining table outside.

May gave them porridge, and seeing that they were about to drink it as soon as they got it, he hurriedly stopped him, "Be careful of burning your mouth."

Zhou Man's eyelids jumped, and he quickly said: "Too hot will burn your mouth and esophagus. If you burn your esophagus, you won't be able to eat anything you want."

The few people who didn't mind being scalded didn't dare to pour it into their mouths when they heard it, and could only drink it in small sips.

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

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

Magistrate Bai is too skilled, right?

The bucket of porridge was just finished, and Sister He carried another bucket and put it there. The refugees saw a commotion, and then they quickened their actions to drink the porridge, and then May and Jiulan also carried a bucket up...

The refugees slowed down.

In order to make them drink slower, Zhou Man let them stumble over the side dishes, and Bai Shan asked them, "Where did you come from?"

There was a new group of refugees in the county seat. Although the number was not large, Bai Shan had already known about it from the yamen who patrolled the streets.

However, he sent the yamen to persuade them to register at the yamen and stopped reluctantly. He could probably guess that they were watching.

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

They said, "We came from Luzhou."

Zhao Ming thought for a while, but couldn't figure out where Luzhou was. Bai Shan asked, "Why did you come out to wander?"

"There is no land, and the taxes to be paid by the court cannot be paid, so they came out."

Bai Shan raised his eyebrows, "Is there no land?"

There were two embarrassed words: "My family still has two acres of land, but the land is not good and there is no harvest. It is better not to plant it."

Bai Shan nodded slightly, "Why did you lose ground?"

The reasons are not uniform, but in the final analysis they are similar. Five years ago, Luzhou was dry...

"Actually, it wasn't very dry, but the luck was really bad that year, and it rained very easily. I don't know why, but there were a lot of insects on the rice ears. They were all black. The field is full of those black worms, and the husks on the rice ears are not much, but the worms bent the rice ears, and the leaves were gnawed a lot."

"I have tried all kinds of methods, using fire to drive, and rubbing with hands, but after a month of exhaustion, the rice husks are still empty, there is no harvest, and I have to pay taxes and live, so I have to borrow money from people to borrow food. , I thought that I would be able to pay it back by tightening my belt in the past few years, but the harvest in the second year was also very mediocre. After paying the tax, the rest will be enough for the family to eat, and it is not enough at all."

"Master Zhao doesn't want to borrow on credit anymore, let us repay the money immediately, there is no other way, we can only sell or mortgage the fields to him."

Bai Shan was slightly solemn, "The court has ordered that unless there is a mourning or illness, the Yongye Field cannot be sold."

Yongyetian cannot be bought or sold, unless there is a dead person in the family who needs to be mourned, or the patient is in urgent need of medical treatment, and can only sell it after obtaining the approved documents from the county government.

After Bai Shan finished speaking, he clearly thought of the key point. If they want to sell these things, someone will naturally handle them for them.

Sure enough, several people said: "This is very easy, Master Zhao and the head clerk of the county government can just talk to him. You can sell as much land as you want."

They all think that Master Zhao is a good person, but they are not very lucky and have encountered a disaster year.

Bai Shan paused, and didn't say that Mr. Zhao was bad, but just asked, "Did the county government not provide relief back then?"

"The drought was not very severe."

Insect plagues are also natural disasters, right?

However, Bai Shan opened his mouth and ignored the topic and asked, "Are you going to settle in Beihai County?"

Everyone hesitated, and couldn't help but look at Zhu Saburo.

At this time, Zhu Sanlang was very confident in Beihai County and Bai County magistrates. Especially at this time, Bai County magistrate was still holding a bowl and squatting face to face with them to eat porridge. How can any county magistrate can do this?

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

Bai Shan put down the bowl, helped the person up and said, "It's not like this. You can also consider it for a while, and the county will also investigate you."

He said: "If you settle down, the county will give you enough land to live on, build houses for you, and give you tax exemptions for two years, but the county is not unconditional."

When you hear that he has the conditions, you will feel at ease. Otherwise, why do you have such good conditions?

They have been wandering abroad for four years, all the way from Luzhou to here, and they have long known a truth that no pie will fall from the sky.

There was a power outage for a day today, and the laptop's power is about to run out, so good night, hahahaha