The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 150

With a "snap", a bamboo with the thickness of the mouth of a bowl was split in half.

Picking up a wooden stick as thick as the wrist, Gao Yongfa knocked off the knots inside the bamboo one by one, the technique can be said to be done in one go.

After removing the bamboo joints, the next step is to divide the bamboo into strips that can be used to make armor.

Facing a mountain of bamboo in the yard, Gao Yongfa has been busy all morning, and a large bundle of bamboo strips has been made beside it.

At this moment, a shirtless middle-aged man came over and said slowly, "Father, take a break, my second child and I will do this!"

"Leave me alone, your father and I are not so hypocritical, hurry up and work... If we can't finish today's ration, our family will have to get less food!" Gao Yongfa didn't lift his head when he spoke.

Gao Chengan scratched his head, and then said: "Father... my son really doesn't understand why we have to work so hard, doing more than ordinary people every day!"

From Gao Cheng'an's point of view, how could such a wealthy family like himself be reduced to the same level as ordinary people, competing to do these strenuous jobs all day long.

Hearing the eldest son's words, Gao Yongfa stopped what he was doing, and stared at Gao Cheng'an like a torch.

"How much food does our family have?" Gao Yongfa asked.

"There are still more than 100 catties!" Gao Chengan replied.

"How long is enough to eat?" Gao Yongfa asked immediately.

"Our family of thirteen people should have enough food for half a month!"

"No... save some, you can eat for a month!" Gao Yong said coldly.

Gao Cheng'an was surprised. Doesn't that mean that the ration will be halved, and what a hard life it must be.

But what does this have to do with work?As long as you work every day, the food supply will not be cut off, so why work so hard every day.

"The old man knows what you are thinking, do you think there will be food supply every day?" Gao Yongfa asked back.

"Let me tell you, the bamboo in the city is almost finished, and there will be no chance to chop bamboo in the future!"

"Now that we can earn more food by chopping bamboo, don't we dare to rest?"

Hearing this, Gao Chengan was a little stunned, has the bamboo been cut down?He didn't know about it.

"Don't be dazed, work quickly!" Gao Yongfa urged.

Everyone in the Gao family was busy again, when there was a knock on the door outside.

"Second brother, go out and see what's going on!" Gao Yongfa ordered behind him.

His second son, Gao Chengyu, was a young man in his twenties. He was a playboy, and when he heard that he could stop working, he immediately ran out.

The Gao family's house is very large, and now that the slaves have been dismissed, they have to do everything by themselves.

Gao Chengyu opened the gate of the house, only to see a few old men standing outside, they were the uncles who used to visit the door.

"Second Young Master, is Master Gao here?" One of the old men asked.

"Inside, my lords, please come in!" Gao Chengyu moved out of the way.

"Nephew, don't dare to talk nonsense... We are not adults now, but ordinary people!"

After talking, a group of people entered the gate, passed through the vertical flower gate and drove to the front yard of the mansion.

After entering the mansion, seeing Gao Yongfa working, everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Master Gao, why did you do this yourself?" said an old man in blue.

Gao Yongfa in front of him was dressed in bunts, but his usual demeanor was quite different, so everyone couldn't accept it for a while.

"Why don't you eat? You feed me?" Gao Yongfa said angrily.

Everyone is having a hard time these days, so everyone can only support themselves, and it is basically impossible to support others.

At this moment Gao Yongfa was really tired, I saw him put down the tools in his hand, came to the steps under the eaves and sat down casually.

"What are you doing here? There are spies from Prince Yong's Mansion outside, are you trying to harm me?" Gao Yongfa said in a deep voice.

"My lord, the spies from the palace didn't come yesterday morning, and we came here only after we had made inquiries!" The old man in blue said with a smile.

"Then how do you know, didn't the spies of the palace change their surveillance?"

Gao Yongfa spoke slowly, but it made several people feel uneasy, and secretly scolded himself for being too careless.

"Okay, if you have anything to say, hurry up, I still have work to do here, so I don't have time to entertain you!"

Everyone was uneasy at the moment, but they did not forget the reason why they came.

Only a few old men surrounded Gao Yongfa, and someone lowered his voice and said, "My lord, can we still fight?"

After the military power was seized, Gao Yongfa was unwilling to lose everything, so he called his subordinates and said that he would start an uprising.

"Are you confused? How can you start an incident in this situation?"

Seeing everyone's resentment, Gao Yongfa went on to say: "You don't even think about it, now that King Yong is in charge of the city, with soldiers, food and people's hearts, what should we use to start a fight?"

These words are irrefutable, but in the end, some people were unwilling to lose, and said, "Master, do you mean that we will accept our fate?"

The scene fell silent, and the old men all looked at Gao Yongfa, hoping that he could give everyone some hope.

"Everyone, it depends on the waiting time. The most important thing right now is to survive!"

Although they didn't say it clearly, everyone already understood at this moment that it was basically impossible to start an incident.

"My lord is right, survival is the most important thing right now, go back to work... otherwise the family will run out of food!" said the old man in blue.

They were just surprised that Gao Yongfa was working, but they were actually working too.

"That's right...we didn't have a good life like the Hou family, we gave birth to a good daughter, and now we don't have to worry about food and clothing!"

Hearing this, Gao Yongfa muttered: "The Hou family? The Hou family?"

"There is still that one, Yuanyang magistrate Hou Yunhe's family!" The gray-clothed old man who spoke just now replied.

"The big households in Yuanyang have all their food looted, why does the Hou family not worry about food and clothing?" Gao Yongfa asked puzzled.

"Hou Yunhe's youngest daughter somehow got involved with Prince Yong's Mansion, and the Palace has rewards sent to her from time to time, so naturally she doesn't have to worry about food and drink!"

Gao Yongfa was very angry, but Hou Yunhe, a sick man, was lucky. During this period of time, he avoided all troublesome things, but such a good thing happened to him.

"Hou Yunhe is dying of illness, maybe it's the end of two days!"

"Because the Hou family has a relationship with the palace, I don't know how many people are looking forward to Hou Yunhe's death, so they can go to his house to pay homage!"

Because of being under surveillance by the palace, Gao Yongfa has been keeping his ears to the outside world these days, and he doesn't know about these situations.

"What's the benefit of going to Hou's house to pay homage?" Gao Yongfa asked.

"Have a relationship with the Hou family!"

That's right, it's such a simple reason, because having a relationship with the Hou family is equivalent to having a chance to have a relationship with the Wangfu.

It's too tiring to earn food by yourself. If you can use the Hou family to build a relationship with the palace, it will be a shortcut to survive.

After thinking about this, Gao Yongfa couldn't help showing a wry smile, secretly thinking that this group of people's brains are really brilliant.

Before, they thought of forming a party to fight against the palace, but after Tian, ​​Zhang and Xie's three families were killed, the nobles in Yuanyang became the licking dogs of Yongwang's palace, and they only wanted to cater to the palace to survive.

"Are you also looking forward to going to the Hou Mansion to pay homage?" Gao Yongfa asked with a smile.

(End of this chapter)