My whole family traveled through time with the golden finger

Chapter 8 Chapter : Make up your mind

Mrs. Ma poured rice into the pot, and some ate it, but she couldn't help sighing, and said to Mrs. Zhou: "We only have half a bucket of water left, and we can cook for two days."

In the past two days, I only had one meal a day. If I ate two meals a day, this little water would be enough for tomorrow.

If it is cooking dry rice, it uses less water than cooking porridge, but it uses more grain!It takes a lot of food to feed even half a bowl for the whole family.

In short, it is really embarrassing.

"Yesterday, beating the third child and the others was a light meal!" Mrs. Ma couldn't help being angry.

It was cooked yesterday, but it used almost half a bucket of water!They are really three mischievous men, who just hide at home and slack off when they don't work, and they can't save their mouths.

Just because they were hiding at home and being lazy, everyone else went out, so they took advantage of the loophole and made all the food!
I never thought about it!Who knew they could do such a thing!
Mrs. Ma was very angry, so when she came back yesterday and saw the third child's family being beaten, she didn't try to persuade her mother like Mrs. Zhou did. She even wished her mother would beat them to death. Once they were killed, it would be a hundred and save the food rations of the three of them.

Zhou is also angry, but the mother-in-law is her own aunt, she knows what she is thinking, no matter how angry the mother is, the third child is also her son, and for Liu Lang's sake, she will not really do anything to them.

Therefore, she persuaded her to give mother the steps, otherwise, if she was really beaten to death, mother would also suffer a serious illness.

Seeing that the sister-in-law was still complaining, she quickly looked outside, and hurriedly persuaded: "Okay, sister-in-law, don't talk about this, the third child will earn five catties of this food!" It is still rice, which is enough to pay That bit of corn.

"You said that the third child has really changed his gender after being beaten? He dared to go up in this fight, so he didn't shrink back. It's better to rely on him than to count on Si Ya, and there are many people scolding. "Mr. Ma muttered, and didn't complain about it anymore. While stirring the pot with a spoon, smelling the rice fragrance coming out, she hurriedly backed away. She was afraid that her saliva would fall into the pot.

So he just sat down, leaned against the stove, and while smelling the fragrance, chatted with Mrs. Zhou, "What do you think we should do this day! Father Dalang and I went back to my mother's house to borrow food, but I My natal family was confiscated for food two days ago, and the village was full of cries. My natal family couldn’t come up with much food. I heard that it will be our county’s turn to collect food next time. !"

Mrs. Zhou opened her mouth wide, and after a long while, said bitterly: "How come one of these wools can be picked up! It's been so hard for us in Yunzhou this year, and our food has been collected over and over again. This is no way for people to survive. ah!"

At this time, the old lady Xu in the upper room was also scolding, "We people in Yunzhou have no harvest this year, and they are going to starve to death. These officials, let's not talk about giving us disaster relief and food to make us survive." That's all for this year, and we are still asked to pay the grain, how can there be any reason for this! This inhumane court, tell me, it's better to ask the backer king to beat him to the palace!"

Old man Xu glanced at her. In the past, he would definitely stop her and tell her not to say that she was going to beheaded.

But now, he didn't stop him at all, the world is going to be chaotic, who is afraid of it.

To be honest, it would be better to ask the backer king to rebel successfully.

At least, the backer king is a hero in the hearts of the people all over the world. When he becomes the emperor, he will definitely not care about the life and death of the people.

And the current emperor...

Hey, don't mention it!

Old man Xu only needs to think of the flood in Yuzhou next door a few years ago, and the refugees flocking to their state capital in groups, it is really miserable to see.

As for Wang Landlord’s family’s several long-term maids, aren’t those victims who escaped from the disaster forced to sell themselves as slaves?
There was a flood in May, and in July, refugees flocked to the surrounding towns to rely on the porridge sheds of big households. Many people died, including those who died of disease, heat, starvation, and cold.

But the imperial court insisted that it was winter, so they sent relief food as an afterthought.

It was said that the emperor was busy escaping the summer heat in the palace at that time, and then he was busy going hunting in autumn.

Just looking at it this way, they had a severe drought in Yunzhou last year and this year, and it hasn't reached the point where everyone has nothing to eat. How can the court care about their life and death?
Those who have no food are only poor people like them.

At least they had to wait until they had nothing to eat, were so hungry that they had to flee with their families and went to other state capitals, and tens of thousands of people starved to death, then the relief food would be distributed slowly.

All that can wait is fate.

So, who can you rely on?
They can only rely on themselves!
Old man Xu felt bitter in his heart, his mouth was full of cannonballs, even after drinking the fragrant rice porridge, his heart was still bitter.

As the head of the family, what he shoulders is the lives of his children and grandchildren!

After finishing half a bowl of porridge slowly, old man Xu finally made up his mind.

The fire is imminent, and I don't care about going to sleep or going back to the cage right now, and I am not in a hurry to put away the bowls and chopsticks, taking advantage of the whole family at the table, talking about important things.

Old man Xu looked at the whole family, and slowly said: "This world is going to be chaotic.

Backer King rebelled in Anzhou at the beginning of the year, and now he has captured Ningzhou. Seeing that Jiangzhou is taken down, he will attack our Yunzhou.

And this year there is no grain harvest in the field, but the grain tax will be paid soon. If there is no grain, how can we pay it?Pay in silver?
But our family’s money has already been taken out to buy water, and now the water is useless, and there is money to buy it, but we can’t buy it anymore.

Another point, the next time we collect grain, it will be our county's turn again, and all these things will be on our shoulders, so we really won't be able to breathe a single breath!
In addition, people in our area have already started robbing food and killing people, seeing that chaos is about to break out, and we can't wait for the higher-ups to collect food and recruit soldiers.

I reckon that in half a month at the most, many people will start fleeing famine, both left and right are going to flee famine, why not take advantage of the fact that the food collection has not come, the troubles have not come, and the tax has not been collected, let's take the lead. Run away! "

The old man Xu said, paused, and gave everyone a time to accept the buffer. After a while, he continued: "I want to be the first, let's go now, our land can be sold, and the house can be sold." It doesn’t matter if you can’t, the money from selling the land is enough for us to survive halfway and escape to Qingzhou to find your sister-in-law.”

That's right, old man Xu has a cousin who is ten years younger than him, who is the only child of his uncle. She married to Qingzhou. Although she hasn't been back for so many years, she has always been in touch. That aunt often gives old man Xu When she brought something back, she was married well.

The old man Xu was able to make this determination because they had relatives to turn to after leaving here, not because they were far away in a foreign land, unfamiliar with the place, and had dark eyes.

And old man Xu came here with his family fleeing famine when he was a child, so compared to some people who may be reluctant to leave his homeland, this is just the place where he has lived for decades, not his homeland. He may be reluctant, but he must leave. , he is also inseparable.

Qingzhou is even closer to his real homeland.

(End of this chapter)