Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 308 Begging

  Suiping County is not far from Xiping County, so many news from Xiping can reach Suiping, especially those villages not far from Xiping.

   They all know that the next-door Xiping was invaded by the rebel army last year, killed a lot of people, and then replaced a female county ruler.

   It is said that the female county magistrate is very kind, not only giving them food aid, but also giving them food for work after the winter, allowing them to make money by repairing roads and water conservancy, and she has suppressed the price of food in their county.

   I heard that some people in the next village were married from Xiping, so they smuggled people over to work, and they made a lot of money and bought a lot of food. They had a better life this spring.

   They received the news a little later, and there was no way out, so they could only watch with envy, but then they also went to Xiping County together.

  They went to buy food.

   I heard that the price of food in Xiping is much lower than outside.

Once    goes, it is really much lower.

  Everyone is having a hard time. Although they envy the people of Xiping County, they also lost a lot last year and many people died. This envy is discounted.

   But this kind of envy gradually escalated to jealousy after paying the Xia tax. They are all from Runan County. Why do they have to pay the full amount of tax, while Xiping next door only needs to pay half?

   Originally, they were very resentful to the magistrate Gao, and they felt that the magistrate of Xiping next door was still a girl. She had the courage to pay only half of the tax, but he, a big man, would only force them to pay the full amount of tax;

   But soon, news came from Xianyang County, which was also next door to them and bordered more. He heard that their county chief had increased their taxes a little more, and then the county magistrate Sun also forced them to increase their taxes.

Then the people of Suiping County calmed down and began to lie down and pretend to be dead. Forget it, forget it, anyway, the magistrate will not increase the tax. In fact, they really can’t pay the tax, and magistrate Gao will not really put them in jail.

   It is this kind of mentality that makes them lie flat, but lying flat can’t fill their stomachs. People will still be hungry when they should be hungry, so some people leave their hometowns and wander far away.

   They don't know if they can live outside, but they have to give it a try, and they will die if they stay;

  Some people endured heartache to cut young plants, barely filling their stomachs with immature beans and rice;

  More people are waiting, waiting for the arrival of August, waiting for the rice and beans to mature.

   They thought that this was how the day went, and that it would be good to wait until the autumn harvest. Who knew that Li Zheng came back after a trip to the county seat and said to them, "Call the young man in the village and follow me to the county government to get food for relief."

  The villagers were stunned and asked, "Can the county government provide food for relief?"

  Li Zheng said with a deep face: "Yang Yang is reversed..."

   "We know, I heard that the fight was so bad that the county magistrate was killed."

  Lizheng: "...The county magistrate was not killed, it was the county magistrate who was killed."

   "Kill just kill, what are we doing?"

"So we changed a new county chief," Li Zheng said, "The new county chief is the female county prince of Xiping County. She is kind-hearted. Seeing that our Suiping people are living a hard life, she spends a lot of money to buy food. , we'll go get the food relief now."

  The villagers were stunned, and it took a while for them to react, and they immediately praised: "The Lady County Lord is a good person!"

   "The county lord, the county lord, he is now the county chief!"

   They immediately changed their words, "The female county chief is really a good person!"

   Li Zheng said: "Our county chief is surnamed Zhao."

  The villagers made a note, and if they plan to go to the county seat, they should pay homage to this Zhao Juncheng.

This is one mile, and there is another mile. When Li was rushing back from the county office, he happened to meet several families in the village who were dragging their families out to beg for work. He quickly stopped people and said, "Where are you going? ?"

   "Go out begging for work."

   "You all have fields in your family..."

"So my parents didn't leave. They were old and couldn't walk. I cut a handful of young plants and ate them slowly. I could boil them for a few days until the beans or rice were cooked in August." He said: " We are young, we can still walk, go out and beg for work, we cannot survive as a family.”

   After saying that, I will leave.

  Li was busy stopping them and said, "Don't, the county government has some relief food, you stay."

   They looked suspicious, "Lizheng, don't lie just to keep us, we really can't survive, you keep us, do you support us?"

  Li just said angrily, "I don't support you, I have someone to support you. Our Runan County has a new county magistrate. She is the female magistrate of Xiping County next door. She has sent food relief to our county."

  When the villagers heard this, they turned around and left.

  Li was wide-eyed, "Why are you going?"

   "Go home!" The leading man shouted to the sky, "We can live!"

The person on the side of    explained: "We originally planned to go to Xiping County. I heard that the queen of the county in Xiping County is very kind, and the refugees used to accept it."

   So they are very envious of the people of Xiping County. Now, the female county prince is also their county chief, and they are all children of the female county chief!

  Thinking, the eyes of the villagers were red, and their hearts were extremely sour and happy.

  The young men from all villages and villages are all rushing to the county seat under the leadership of Lizheng. On the way, the li and the li meet, the village and the village meet, and everyone gathers together to exchange all kinds of specious news.

"...I heard that Xianyang County was particularly miserable. People in the county town died. The county magistrate arrived with reinforcements. Seeing the tragic situation, she couldn't help crying, so she rushed to the crown and became angry for the people After killing the magistrate Sun, he directly wrote to the emperor to be the prefect, and the emperor agreed."

   "Did he kill the magistrate Sun? How did I hear that the female magistrate killed the prefect?"

   "The county chief was killed by a villager in Xianyang, right?"

   "Oh, don't care who you kill, anyway, our county chief has changed now."

   "We knew that rebels could change the county seat, and we rebelled too."

   "Don't, what if I get a worse one? The old blind man in our village said that it depends on the fortune. It's not good to be one step earlier or one step later, and it will only work if the people in Yangyang rebel."

   "Why?"

   "No reason, God arranged it like this."

  Because they knew that Zhao Hanzhang had become the county chief and wanted to distribute relief food, the villagers who rushed to the county town were relieved a lot, and unknowingly they were full of vitality.

   Keen Li Zheng sensed the changes in the villagers, and couldn't help sighing with the village elder who followed him: "After so many years, everyone finally has some vitality."

  The village elder had tears in his eyes, "This is a good thing."

  Li Zheng also nodded, "It's a good thing."

   The people of Suiping County easily accepted a girl as the county magistrate, and even cheered and went straight to the county office after entering the county seat.

   Jiyuan has sent someone to send a batch of money, as well as the paper, books and various glazed products she wants.

   Zhao Hanzhang was carrying private goods, and there were only two books, "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", but each one had a thousand copies printed.

   Her price is not high, at least much cheaper than other books, but the books of this era are not cheap.

   With just these two books, she can get a lot of food.

   (end of this chapter)