Traveling through famine years, peasant girls hold space in their hands to store food

She asked Feng softly what the name of this village was?

"Going back to the county head, this is Xiaoshi Village. There is another village not far ahead, which is Dashi Village."

Lu Qingqing smiled and nodded, turned around and said to Feng that they would be leaving soon after breakfast.

Feng didn't expect them to leave in such a hurry. She glanced at the sweet-scented osmanthus next to her and then looked at Lu Qingqing, as if he was hesitant to speak.

Lu Qingqing saw that she had something to say, so he asked softly to let her say whatever she had to say.

"County Chief Guihua discussed it with me last night. She wanted to..."

Feng felt that she couldn't say anything, for fear that the county boss would blame them for being abrupt. At this time, Guihua took two steps forward and knelt in front of Lu Qingqing.

"I beg the county chief to take in a civilian woman. Osmanthus knows that she, a fallen flower, is asking the county master to do this... but the peasant woman really has no other choice. The peasant woman wants to leave here."

Lu Qingqing understood what she was asking for. A hint of understanding flashed in her eyes, and she turned her head and asked, "I don't care about your past, but you have to know that I don't leave useless people around me."

Guihua heard this person slumped to the ground like a deflated rubber ball, and began to cry, feeling as if there was really no hope in life.

Several maids next to Lu Qingqing looked at it and cast sympathetic looks. But if the master was picking people up along the way, then the place would be overcrowded before they even got there!

At this time, several people who had followed the village chief to Guihua Yard early in the morning stood outside the door and listened to the conversation in the yard.

Feng stepped forward to persuade Guihua and suddenly asked: "Guihua, didn't you and your man open a shop in the capital before? You..."

"Master, I want you to ask Miss Osmanthus a few questions?"

Xie Kui stood upright by the courtyard gate, cupping his hands towards Lu Qingqing and saying.

Lu Qingqing didn't know what he was going to say, so she nodded lightly.

After receiving his master's approval, Xie Kui took two steps forward and asked the man who was slumped on the ground crying: "Can Miss Osmanthus know how to settle accounts?"

Guihua didn't know why and was confused when asked, but she still answered his question truthfully, nodded to him and said, "I was the one who settled the accounts when I opened a shop with my husband before."

Xie Kui smiled slightly, then turned around and said respectfully to Lu Qingqing: "Master, I would like to boldly ask for a favor for Sister Guihua, please accept this miserable person and stay with me in the future to help settle accounts." The eyes are also good."

Lu Qingqing looked at Xie Kui playfully, and asked him why he wanted to plead for Osmanthus fragrans with a hint of dignity in his voice.

Xie Kui shook his head helplessly and then explained to his master that he just listened to the village chief's words last night and felt that it was very difficult for this woman. Her fate was as bumpy as his own, but she was equally lucky to be rescued by her master.

That's why he had the courage to plead for mercy.

Lu Qingqing half-curved her lips and glanced at everyone in the yard, seeing the same sympathy for Osmanthus fragrans in their eyes...

I think this Osmanthus's character is quite good in the village.

Feng and the old village chief at the entrance of the courtyard both had prayers and expectations in their eyes. They both knew in their hearts that if they couldn't succeed this time, Osmanthus fragrans would still have to seek death in the future.

"Please County Master..." The old village chief was about to kneel down, but Lu Qingqing interrupted him and motioned to Ling Feng to help him up.

"You don't have to be like this. Since Xie Kui pleads for you, then the county master will accept you, but you should also know that if you stay with the county master, you will be a slave in the future. Are you willing?"

Osmanthus fragrans in the courtyard only reacted at this time. She was supported by Feng and knelt down in front of Lu Qingqing, kowtowing her head and saying in a tearful tone: "She doesn't care about this. She just begs the county master to take her in and give her a way out."

Lu Qingqing also understands Guihua's thoughts. Nowadays, the world is not so tolerant towards women who have lost their innocence. If she stays in the village this time, her saliva will drown her, but where can a weak woman go by herself? ?

Now it seems that staying with him is the best choice.

"Come on, come on, follow Nanny Feng from now on and let her give you guidance."

Lu Qingqing handed the person to Nanny Feng to take care of, and finally reminded Guihua that she was in a hurry to leave, so she might not have much time to pack up.

Osmanthus happily wiped the tears from her eyes and said that she had nothing to pack, so she would simply pack some clothes. As for the house, she would give it to the village chief and use it as a school for the children in the village.

In the future, I could no longer teach those children how to read. I asked the village chief to go outside and ask for a husband to come back to the children. After that, he ran back to the room and took out a hundred taels of silver note and handed it to the village chief.

"Village chief, my aunt has been taken care of by you and the other aunts in the village. With this banknote, you can buy some food and distribute it to everyone. The rest can be hired by a gentleman."

The village chief was not willing to accept her banknotes, and the eyes of the old couple turned slightly red. In fact, they had always taken Osmanthus as their daughter.

Tears welled up in Osmanthus's eyes. She nodded fiercely and said all this. She understood that they must collect this money. She would leave soon. She asked the village chief to help her pay back some favors. This money must be paid. Gotta take it.

She couldn't go and say goodbye to the aunts in the village one by one and thank them for their sincere treatment.

Listening to Osmanthus fragrans's prayers and her true words, the old couple finally nodded and agreed to accept the bank note.

"Osmanthus kowtows to the village chief and aunt here." After saying that, he knelt down and kowtowed three times to the two of them.

This made the old couple cry. They stretched out their hands to pull her up and warned her carefully.

Lu Qingqing also took Nanny Feng and the others back to the room, and by this time the food had been put on the table.

"Master, let us chat first. You can eat first. I have packed everything. You can set off after the meal."

Lu Qingqing asked how long it would take until Ziyao entered Qizhou?

After Ziyao pondered for a moment, she raised her head and responded: "It will take another five or six days for the master to enter the territory of Qizhou."

Lu Qingqing nodded after hearing this, and told them to eat quickly, and then set off early, trying to walk a little longer and reach the next town before evening.

When Ziyue heard her master's words, she knew that the master of Fucheng in front of him planned to pass by and not stop. He was going to the next town to rest.

The sweet-scented osmanthus outside the yard said goodbye to the villagers who came one by one.

They did not tell the villagers about Lu Qingqing's identity to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

"Osmanthus, are you really leaving?"

A younger aunt next to her held her hand and asked reluctantly.

"Auntie, thank you all for taking care of me since Osmanthus returned to the village. This time I really decided to leave."

Gui Huai forced a smile on his face and spoke to his neighbors.

She didn't notice a plump figure leaning against her door, eating melon seeds and glancing at her in a nonchalant manner.