There is Room For the Poor Daughter

Zhongzhou Fufucheng.

Countless refugees crowded outside the city gate, sitting together in twos and threes. These people were either numb, or looked at the closed city gate with hope or despair.

At this moment, Daohua and several others were also among the refugees, and their faces were not very good-looking.

"I finally came to Fucheng, but I didn't expect that I couldn't even enter the city gate." Daohua looked sullen.

Xiao Yeyang said: "This situation is normal. The refugee riot broke out not long ago. Now that the city gate is opened and the refugees pour into the city, who knows if there will be any trouble?"

Daohua: "But with so many refugees gathered here, the government can't say no to it?"

"Who said it didn't matter?"

Someone next to me interjected.

Daohua looked over immediately: "Old man, do you know any news?"

Seeing that everyone around looked over, the talking old man straightened his body, coughed a few times, and said, "Yesterday I was wandering at the gate of the city, and I heard the guards say that a high-ranking official from Beijing came a few days ago."

"A high-ranking official in Beijing?"

"Isn't it? I heard that they brought a lot of soldiers here. There is a drought in the north, so the high officials from Beijing are not here to relieve the disaster."

Hearing this, everyone else looked excited, but Xiao Yeyang's eyes flashed and he lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking.

At noon, officers and soldiers from the city came out, carrying buckets of steaming rice buckets.

As soon as they appeared, in an instant, refugees rushed over.

But for a moment, there was a long queue outside the city gate.

Daohua asked Sun Ma to guard Mrs. Yan, while she took Yan Wentao and went to line up with Sun Bo, Xiao Yeyang, and Zhao Ergou.

No way, they threw away all their baggage, and although they still had silver tickets on them, they couldn't enter the city and couldn't exchange them, so they could only queue up to get porridge.

While waiting in line, Xiao Yeyang didn't know what he saw, and suddenly ran out of the line. After Zhao Ergou saw it, he rolled his eyes and glanced at Daohua who was queuing for porridge, gritted his teeth, and quickly followed.

When Yan Wentao told Daohua, she turned around and saw the backs of the two hurriedly disappearing into the crowd of refugees.

Daohua frowned: "What are the two of them doing?"

Yan Wentao shook his head: "I don't know, Ye Yang seems to have seen something."

Daohua's expression changed: "I don't care about them, let's get the porridge, grandma has been hungry all night."

Yan Wentao has nothing to do with it.

In his eyes, Xiao Yeyang and Zhao Ergou were just two passers-by, not comparable to his grandmother and sister.

After waiting in line for more than half an hour, Daohua, Yan Wentao, and Uncle Sun received three bowls of porridge, brought them back, and shared it with Mrs. Yan and Mother Sun.

Mrs. Yan looked at her grandchildren distressedly: "It's good to have this experience, let you taste the difficulties of this life in advance." After speaking, she sighed and looked around.

"Why haven't Yang Xiaozi and Ergouzi come back? Could something have happened?"

Daohua didn't have a clue in her heart: "Probably not. That guy Xiao Yeyang looks quite smart."

Mrs. Yan shook her head: "No matter how smart he is, he is only a half-year-old child. When he meets an adult, he will only suffer."

Yan Wentao: "How about I and Uncle Sun go find it?"

Mrs. Yan pondered for a while: "Don't go far, just take a look at the annex. If people are really lost, it should be their life."

Yan Wentao and Uncle Sun left, Daohua sat back next to Mrs. Yan and muttered, "It's not that bad luck."

However, thinking of Xiao Yeyang's unfortunate nature that he can encounter human traffickers wherever he goes, he is not sure.

After a while, Yan Wentao and Sun Bo returned with their heads down.

The two shook their heads at Madam Yan and Daohua.

Daohua reluctantly smiled and said, "Didn't Xiao Yeyang see someone? Maybe it's his family. He may have gone home now, and Zhao Ergou will follow him and it will be fine."

Madam Yan sighed, "I hope so."

Having said that, several people are still looking forward to the two of them coming back.

In any case, after getting along for so long, they are not at ease if they don't see whether the two are safe or not.

Unfortunately, Xiao Yeyang and Zhao Ergou didn't come back that night.

The next day, the two were still invisible.

Daohua looked at the still closed city gate, and then looked at the thinner old lady Yan: "Grandmother, I don't know how long it will take for this city gate to open, and Xiao Yeyang and Zhao Ergou probably won't come back. Well, why don't we go?"

Mrs. Yan was silent for a while, and finally nodded: "Go, go slowly, we are begging along the road, and we have to go to Linyi County."

Daohua smiled and said in a low voice, "Of course, you forgot that your granddaughter still has a silver note." If you can't enter the palace, it's impossible to enter any other cities on the road.

Step back 10,000 steps and say, even if you can't enter these cities, you can always meet one or two rich households. At that time, if you suffer a bit of a loss, you will definitely be able to exchange for money.

Even if she takes a step back and can't get money, Daohua can ensure that they can reach Linyi County safely. Don't forget, she still has space, how can she secretly take out some food so that everyone will not starve to death.

On the third day, when the sky was slightly bright, Daohua and the others left the city and walked towards Linyi County.

Shortly after they left, a group of armored soldiers suddenly came outside the city gate. These soldiers searched the refugees for a while, and finally returned without success.

——

half a month later.

The five Daohua people who were shaped like beggars looked at the stone tablet engraved with the three characters "Linyi County" with tears in their eyes.

"Grandmother, after this stele, we will enter Linyi County."

"Good, good, good!"

Madam Yan choked up and said three good words in a row.

Daohua breathed a sigh of relief.

In ancient times, as long as she took a carriage, she would complain that the carriage was bumpy and unstable, but after walking on foot for more than half a month, she no longer complained that the carriage was bad.

No matter how bumpy the carriage was, it was better than walking on two legs.

"Let's go, I'll see your parents soon."

Daohua looked at the clothes they were wearing and asked, "Grandma, if we go to see father like this, will they?"

Mrs. Yan's eyes widened immediately: "What would it be? Could it be that he dares to dislike my old wife?"

Daohua smiled wryly.

He wouldn't despise the old lady, but he would despise her.

She has not been by her parents' side since she was a child, and people need to get along with each other. She would not believe how much her parents loved her.

"Go, what are you afraid of, no one can bully you when your grandmother is here."

Linyi County, the gate of the county government office.

The yamen guarding the gate was discussing where to go after get off work. He was talking vigorously when he suddenly asked a pungent smell. When he raised his head, he realized that there were five more beggars in front of the county gate.

"Master, may I ask, is this the Linyi County Government Office?" Sun Bo asked with a smile.

"Go and go, where did the beggars come from, and where did they come from?" The yamen in front of the gate all chased Sun Bo out with disgust.

Uncle Sun wanted to ask, but one of the yamen was a little impatient. He raised his saber at his waist and was about to hit Uncle Sun.

"what are you doing?"

Yan Wentao was startled when he saw it. He took two steps and three steps, ran over quickly, grabbed the yamen's arm, and rescued Sun Bo.

"You dare to make trouble for the people, you dare to go to the county yamen and run wild, are you impatient?" The other yamen stepped forward.

Seeing them treat Yan Wentao like this, Mrs. Yan became angry.

"You stop me!"

Daohua was also angry and anxious, she handed Mrs. Yan over to Sun's mother, ran up quickly, pointed at the yamen, and said sternly, "My father is Yan Zhigao, the magistrate of Linyi County, if you dare to touch me three Brother, I want you to look good."

As soon as these words came out, the yamen, who were still smiling and smug, were stunned on the spot.