His Majesty is a sick beauty

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Three days later.

Wang Wu had a handful of grass roots in his mouth. The stems and leaves of this grass were too rough to eat, but the roots could taste a little sweet after chewing carefully.

There is a 40-year-old mother in his family, a wife and three children, who all rely on the several acres of Susukida passed down by his family. In previous years, although life was difficult, he could barely survive. When I went to the mountains to cut some firewood, my wife would also sell the fabrics spun in the past year. With the help of the family, I was able to survive.

But this year, there was a sudden drought. Even though His Majesty sent people to dig wells in various places, the water in those wells was only enough for a few villages to drink water. As early as the water level dropped, it was forbidden to take water to irrigate the fields.Wang Wu and his wife, Mrs. Lu, had to walk hundreds of kilometers every day, and went back and forth several times to fetch water from the distant river to irrigate the fields. Days of drought and cracking, the plants withered and turned yellow a little bit.

Even if His Majesty took pity on them and prayed for rain outside the city, Suiyang City did rain for two consecutive days, but it was just a drop in the bucket.

Most of the crops in the field were dead, and his mother and wife had already started to drink the rice soup that could not be filtered out with sackcloth. One night, his mother even called him into the room and quietly told him that she was going to "Try your luck" in the mountains.

The so-called "trying for luck" means that the old man takes a day or two of rations to the mountains to see if he can survive by relying on mountain goods.Just a euphemism for suicide.The reason why you don't hang yourself at home is that according to folklore, if the elderly die at home, it will affect the luck of future generations.

So even if poor people like them have no luck at all, and whether they will have offspring in the future is still a matter of opinion, when a catastrophe strikes, the old people in the family will still walk into the mountains together, waiting to starve to death or be killed by wild animals.

At that time, the mother was persuaded to go back by herself and the daughter-in-law crying and kneeling, but as more and more dead crops in the field, the daughter-in-law and the child became thinner and weaker, the mother often sat on the rock and looked at the distant woods in a daze, Wang Wu I know, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, soon, my mother will quietly leave one night and never come back.

Thinking of this, Wang Wu's eyes became moist. He lost his father when he was young, and it was his mother who brought him up with difficulty. She hadn't enjoyed a single day of happiness. Why did she die in the mountains like this, and she didn't even have the right to let her descendants collect the body?

He wanted to give it a try, in case there was a kind person giving porridge in the city today, in case he could get some food, in case... He clenched his fists tightly, and the eyes embedded in the sunken eye sockets turned left and right, thinking To see if the people around you have any purses or the like.

He was very nervous, Wang Wu was cowardly by nature, and his mother taught him not to get into trouble with others. He had never stolen anything, and he hadn't even quarreled with other people in the village, but for his mother...

He gritted his teeth, I'll just do this once, trade the stolen things for some food, I just want my family to live.

But stealing things is not so easy. Everyone in Gaomen goes out in sedan chairs, and all the people walking on the road are poor commoners like Wang Wu. How can they carry a purse? He has been walking on the street for more than an hour. But nothing.

Eh?

Suddenly, he saw a man wearing blue satin clothes passing by. He wore a sachet jade pendant around his waist, and the golden fabric twined around his waist was shining brightly.

Wang Wuqian swallowed and spit, and hurriedly followed.

Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up...

He followed behind the young man, stretching and retracting his arms several times, but he didn't have the courage to tear off the seemingly incomparably loose sachet from the beginning to the end.

Grab it and pull it hard, and then run back. As long as you run fast enough, nothing will happen. Yes, he can still swallow that sachet. Even if he is caught by the government, he can't find it. When it comes to the sachet, he will be beaten at most, and he can still spit it out, and he can sell it after washing it!

Wang Wu took a deep breath, summoned up the courage to reach out again...

When Wang Wu touched the sachet, the sachet was tied looser than he had imagined, and it fell into his palm after a slight tug, but at this moment, the man stopped suddenly.

"Eh?"

He made a suspicious sound, Wang Wu knew that he should turn around and run now, but this was his first time stealing something, his brain was completely occupied by panic, his limbs were so stiff that he couldn't even move.

The young master still didn't seem to notice the thief behind him. He looked curiously at the circle after circle of people around the city wall, and didn't feel disgusted. He asked the people around him: "What is this?"

"Good thing!" Unexpectedly, the man's face was full of joy, and even the obedience of ordinary people when they saw their aristocratic families disappeared. He looked at the young man and said excitedly, "Your Majesty is going to recruit workers."

"Recruitment?"

"Yes, His Majesty wants to recruit people to build factories and roads. He needs middle-aged men to take care of two dry meals a day. The daily salary is ten copper coins or a bucket of miscellaneous grains." He put his hands together, and he didn't know which god he was thanking. Kindhearted, if I can go in and bring back a bucket of miscellaneous grains every day, plus the grains at home, at least I can feed my family!"

The food for the strong laborers who eat the most is provided by the factory. How much can some old and weak women and children in the family eat?

When the person next to him heard his words, his eyes widened: "Really?"

"Of course it's true, Nuo, look, there's a notice on the wall!"

The man couldn't read a single word, but he also stood on tiptoe after hearing this, staring at the paper pasted on the wall with wide eyes, black and white writing, and a red seal on it!

The young master is surprised, in the past, the corvee workers who built roads and walls, these people had no time to hide, why are they rushing this time?

He looked at the man and asked deliberately: "Aren't you afraid that this is recruiting corvee?"

"How is that possible!" The man glared at him viciously, as if his father had been scolded, "Can your majesty be the same as those stupid emperors in the script? people."

Didn't expect that in just a few days, the miracles of that day's sacrifices would have developed to this extent?

"That, that, how many people will be recruited, can I go?"

Just when the other person couldn't help asking curiously, the two officials standing next to the notice read the words on the notice again.

"Today, we are building factories in the outskirts of Suiyang, one paper mill, two garment factories... 2000 workers will be recruited, and we will provide two dry meals per day, ten copper plates or one bucket of rice per day!"

"Applicants come here to sign and draw a pledge, while the recruitment is exhausted!"

"I, I, I, Guan Ye, look at me, I am strong and quick at work, recruit me, recruit me!"

"Guan Ye, look at me, I have built houses for others, I have experience!"

"..."

Wang Wu looked at this scene in shock, blinked his eyes, and felt as if he was dreaming.

Two dry meals, one bucket of rice, is this true, my home is saved, mother, the youngest son will not die?

"This one, why don't you go?"

Everyone excitedly rushed towards the drawer, and Wang Wu, who was standing there blankly, was very conspicuous.

"I, I, I, I'm going!" Wang Wu had never talked to such a young man before, and he felt that his ears were numb when he heard the voice. He subconsciously took two steps towards the drawer, and then Suddenly thought of something, turned to look at the young man, "I'm sorry, is this your thing... I, I saw him fall to the ground just now."

In Wang Wu's withered and cracked palm lay an exquisite purse.

Seeing the beauty of the purse and the ugliness of his palm, Wang Wu shrank his neck in embarrassment, but the young man did not dislike him, took the sachet and hung it on his waist again: "It's mine, thank you You, this is a sachet that my grandmother sewed for me, if I lose her, the old man will be sad."

The young man took out two pieces of silver from his waist and threw it into his palm: "This is my thank you, you go to register quickly, maybe the number of people will be enough if it is late."

"No no no, I don't want this!"

Looking at the two pieces of snow-white broken silver, Wang Wu seemed to have been scalded, and hurriedly returned the silver to the young master: "You don't need this, you take it, I can support my family by working."

The young master was stunned for a moment, and said with emotion: "I don't want to be eaten by you, I didn't expect the common people to have such a character."

Wang Wu watched the man turn and leave. He knew that those few grains of silver could buy more food, but he no longer needed it.

He can support himself by his own efforts, without begging or stealing, just working.

so good.