Shelter in the pastoral

Mr. Hu said: "Why are you here in such heavy snow?" When I heard the knock on the door just now, I thought I was a servant.

"Chinese New Year is coming soon, let's come and see you." Fang Shujing said.

Mr. Hu was a little moved: "That's right." He had taught many students, but Fang Shujing was his favorite, and said, "Which class are you assigned to at Shanlin Academy?"

"Class A."

The smile on Mr. Hu's face became more and more satisfied: "Okay...that's great." Being able to enter Class A is basically a steady road to the imperial examination.Said: "Those things in the past are the tempering God gave you. You have to keep working hard, and you will go further in the future."

"Thank you for your teaching, sir."

Mr. Hu said: "In the future, we don't need to come and visit often...you should spend more time on your homework, don't take it lightly."

"Understood." Fang Shujing said: "Next time I will come with the news of the announcement, by the way, I'm going to be a father."

Mr. Hu was immediately happy when he heard it, and said: "You were a child when you came here to study, and you have children in a short while. It really is that time makes people grow old and is not forgiving." After speaking, he laughed heartily. up.

Mistress came over and said, "Your master hasn't been this happy for a long time. You are the happiest when you come to your master."

Mr. Hu has a lover by his side, and he spoke with a bit of joy. Mr. Hu said to Fang Shujing: "The weather is not very good recently, so you should go home early. I won't let you drink now." The heavy snow was delayed on the road, and it was no joke that the weather was cold.

Fang Shujing was also very emotional. When he came here to study, Mr. Hu was still very young, and now he has gray hair on his temples.Said: "Sir, you must take good care of your body on weekdays."

Mr. Hu said: "Let's go." After speaking, he waved his hand.But he was very reluctant and personally sent him out the door.Mr. Hu, who has always been unsmiling, showed a little smile and sent him out.

Mistress looked at her husband and said with a smile: "This will make me happy."

Mr. Hu lifted his chin and said, "Go fry some peanuts. I want to drink the wine brought by Jinger today." His voice was much louder than usual, and some students were very proud of him when they came to see him.

Seeing him happy, the teacher smiled and said, "Okay, I'll do it for you."

……

Fang Shujing went to Yaxing.

As soon as he was about to go in, he was stopped by Lu Butou in normal clothes, and said: "Oh, brother Fang, why don't you come to drink with brother when you come to the county?" He got the New Year's gift from Fang Shujing today, and hurried out Look for.

Fang Shujing was someone who even the magistrate valued three points.

What's more, Fang Shujing is generous in his actions and knows how to advance and retreat. Now that he has regained his fame, it is beneficial and harmless to make friends with him.

Fortunately, his subordinates found the carriage he hired and followed him.

Fang Shujing said: "It's the New Year, I don't want to trouble Brother Lu."

Lu Butou smiled and said: "Why are you so polite. We are all our own people, how can our own affairs be called trouble?" Then he said: "The boss of this house is my best buddy, let's go in and have a look together Look, if you have a match, I'll ask him to give you a cheaper price!"

"This……"

"Hey," Lu Butou said in a long voice, "This old man must criticize you, he is usually too polite. Let's go."

Everything on this street is under the control of Lu Butou and his younger brothers. As soon as the workers in the shop saw Lu Butou coming, they hurried in and invited the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper said from a long distance: "Lu Tuotou is a rare visitor, it was the gust of wind that brought you here to see, please come in quickly."

Lu Butou said to the shopkeeper: "This is my own younger brother. I'm here to do something with you. You should treat me nicely."

The shopkeeper's smiling face was like a flower, he had watched Lu Tutou and Fang Shujing walking side by side, and said, "Even if you said, we have to treat you well, and you are a distinguished guest here." Yao Gong It's like dried shrimp.

Fang Shujing said: "I just want to buy some people."

When the shopkeeper heard it, he said, "Oh, that's great! To be honest, many people couldn't survive the snowstorm this year and sold it to themselves. The price of food has risen again and again this year, and we can't stand it here." .My lord, if you buy someone, I won't make you a penny." This is the truth.These people are not expensive to buy, but they cannot afford to support them.

Selling oneself into slavery is for food, but when times are bad, there are not so many people who come to buy them.Now that the price of food keeps rising, it is impossible for them to spend high prices to buy food for these people.Most of them can only wait to die.

It would be great if someone took over now.Otherwise, if you die in your own hands, you will have nothing.

Lu Butou also said with emotion: "This winter is really too cold." There are always people who freeze to death on the road.These yamen servants have another job, which is to roll up the rags of the people who died on the road and throw them into the back mountain.But seeing that so many people died after the new year, and they were all within his jurisdiction, he couldn't bear it.

Fang Shujing said: "Then let's go pick one."

The shopkeeper of Yahang led the team, more than 100 people were squeezed into a row of small rooms, each of them was thin and messy, and they didn't look much better than beggars on the roadside!

The shopkeeper was also a little embarrassed, because he didn't order it in advance because he didn't buy people during the Chinese New Year. These "goods" really didn't look good.Said: "A person only needs one hundred Wen." At the end of the year, pork is still thirty Wen a catty, and there is nowhere to find someone to justify this matter.

These people listened to their quotations, and each of them had no expression on their faces, as if they were not talking about them.

He went in to choose, and said: "Those who have done carpentry work come out."

Some people stood up.Fang Shujing picked some strong and young ones.He wants to be a furniture factory in the future, and he needs to be able to work.

Pick out fifty people.

The shopkeeper was happy, he saved fifty people's rations, and saved a lot of money.

Taking him to the front hall to pass the contract, Fang Shujing settled five taels of silver on the spot.

Fang Shujing said to the shopkeeper: "The house I built for them is not finished yet, can I keep it with you for a while. I will pay for their food expenses."

Wei Wei, the shopkeeper, was a little dumbfounded: "This..." Looking at Lu Butou, he said, "There's nothing wrong with our relationship. But now you can't buy food even if you have money."

Lu Butou said: "Hey, I will solve the grain problem." Those grain shops are also under his management, and if he buys them, no one dares to raise the price for him.

The head of the deer hunt Fang Shujing said: "I mentioned this when I was drinking with a grain merchant before. Now there are two kinds, one is brown rice glutinous wheat husk, although it is not delicious, but it can fill the stomach. A catty of money.” This used to be fed to livestock.But now there is no food, as long as you can survive, who cares what you eat.

Lu Butou said: "There is also a kind of miscellaneous coarse grains, four fen a catty." These are the real prices quoted by the grain merchants, if strangers come to buy them, at least double the price.

Overheard by the shopkeeper, he said: "Eat the first kind. I heard that when they were hit by disasters in the early years, they couldn't even eat the bark. What's the bark? What's more, it's mixed with grain. These fifty people, You can eat ten catties of food in one meal." They have two meals a day for 40 renminbi, and a person sells 100 renminbi... How else can I say that I don't want to raise them anymore!

Fang Shujing said: "The second kind." Although coarse grains are unpalatable, they are still eaten by humans, and he has not lost his temper to the point where he does not treat humans as humans.

Fang Shujing gave Lu Butou three taels of silver to help him buy food.

Lu Butou returned him another tael of silver and said, "That's enough." These grain sellers did not lose money, so let them spit out a little more.

Fang Shujing said: "Then thank you Brother Lu."

Lu Baotou said: "Don't worry." Then he said with emotion: "These people have a good place to go to you." He warned the shopkeeper: "These people must be taken care of. Take the medicine for the sick, and if one dies later, I will settle the score with you!"

Beads of sweat were about to remain on the shopkeeper's forehead, and he said, "Don't worry about that."

Fang Shujing felt relieved when he got this sentence, and said to Lu Butou: "Brother Lu, thank you very much today, I will drink with brother some other day."

"Okay." Lu Butou said.

Fang Shujing wants to go home quickly, and needs to prepare a lot of things to open a wood furniture factory. Besides, the weather will change in a while, if he doesn't leave now, it will snow again later.