The daily routine of the mistress of the Hou family training her husband

Chapter 124 Natural Disaster
"Uu——!"

The carriage suddenly stopped in a hurry, and Xu Shuhe staggered forward. Meixiang and Xinyue were both quick to reach out and hold him up. The two maids looked at each other, and Xinyue turned around and asked.

"What happened? Why did the car stop?"

"Please forgive me, Madam. Someone suddenly ran into the middle of the road. The carriage in front stopped suddenly, and I had to stop as well." The coachman answered from outside.

Hearing this, Xinyue frowned, "Can you go around it?"

"No." The driver seemed to be observing the road conditions, "It's a mess ahead."

As they were talking here, suddenly a heart-wrenching cry of a little girl was heard outside.

"Sister! Don't hit my sister, help! Help! I didn't eat the buns, I'll give them back to you, don't hit my sister, wuwuwu. Help, stop hitting her!"

Xu Shuhe vaguely guessed something from the little girl's crying and frowned for a moment.

Xinyue saw through her thoughts and took the initiative to say, "Let me go down and take a look."

"Yes." Xu Shuhe nodded, "Be careful."

Not long after Xinyue got off the car, the noise outside stopped. Not long after, Xinyue turned back and stood outside the car window to report.

"Young Madam, they are a pair of sisters who escaped from war. They were extremely hungry, so they stole a bun from a roadside stall. The stall owner was angry, so he and his son beat them up. I paid for them, and they are fine now."

Xu Shuhe drew aside the curtain and looked out, and saw behind Xinyue, two sisters, one tall and one short, supporting each other and standing there timidly.

The older one looked about twelve or thirteen years old, and the younger one was about six or seven years old. They were all skinny and pale, and their bodies were extremely dirty. Their clothes were tattered. The younger girl was relatively okay, but the older girl's pants were too short, barely covering the middle of her calves. The two sisters were barefoot, and the exposed skin was frozen and ulcerated.

Especially since she had just been beaten, my sister's forehead was cut and now bleeding. Half of her face was covered in blood, and she looked even more pitiful.

The sisters' eyes were the only ones that still had some light in them.

Xinyue must have paid for the buns and bought a few more for them. At this moment, the two sisters were holding the paper bag of buns in their hands, hugging it tightly, as if they were protecting some treasure.

This scene made Xu Shuhe feel very uncomfortable and he couldn't help but wave.

"Come here, how old are you and where are you from?"

"Hello, Madam." The older girl tried to look less timid. "I am fifteen and my sister is ten. Our hometown was hit by a snowstorm, so I fled here from Lingzhou with my grandmother. My grandmother was old and froze to death on the road. Now there are only two of us left."

She deliberately gave an older age, and then spoke tentatively.

"Madam, you are a female bodhisattva and a kind person. My sister and I can work, we eat little, and we don't need to be paid. Please have mercy on us and take us back to work as laborers. As long as we have food to eat and a place to sleep, that's enough!"

After the girl said this, Xinyue felt soft-hearted and started to plead for mercy.

"Madam, when we buy a new house, we will definitely have to buy a group of maids and servants to serve us. I think these two are quite smart."

Even if she didn't say it, Xu Shuhe couldn't bear to ignore it.

So he nodded and said, "Take it with you, go back and make arrangements, and do whatever you can."

She was not a female bodhisattva, and she didn't have the intention to meddle in other people's affairs. However, since it happened right in front of her, she couldn't bear it.

People who grew up in the Red Flag were not so numb after all. The two sisters were overjoyed and quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

This means that there will be a way to make a living in the future, so they are naturally happy.

After returning home, Xu Shuhe told Chen Zhi about this matter.

After hearing this, Chen Zhi also sighed, "Natural disasters and man-made disasters, I'm afraid many people will suffer this year. Lingzhou is adjacent to us, and the terrain is a little higher. In previous years, the winter was colder than here, and the snow fell earlier. Now it's a late spring cold, I'm afraid it will be even colder."

"Yes, I took in that pair of sisters. On the way back, I saw many other refugees. They were all pitiful." Xu Shuhe said in a muffled voice.

Chen Zhi poured her a cup of hot tea and handed it to her. "This is all we can do. Unless the government makes arrangements for the victims, the situation will only get worse."

The influx of a large number of disaster victims into the city will inevitably cause chaos. With more people of all kinds, the crime rate will also increase. If Qizhou is also affected by the disaster, the local government will have to deal with many more victims, which will also be a pressure.

"I just hope it will warm up soon. It's too hard to bear." Xu Shuhe took a sip of hot tea, feeling an indescribable heaviness in his heart.

The two little girls stayed in the mansion. Xinyue asked about them and found out that the older one was called Chunhua and the younger one was called Donghua. The names were simple, they were named after the season in which they were born. In addition, the fact that they had lied about their ages was also discovered. Chunhua was thirteen this year and Donghua was only eight years old.

But of course they were not driven away just because of their young age. They were still assigned work. Because the two of them came from farming families, they were assigned to tend to the flowers and plants.

The two sisters are very hardworking. Chunhua works while Donghua helps. They are well-behaved and sensible.

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For them, entering this mansion and having hot meals every day, being able to wear good clothes and shoes, sleeping in a warm bed, and receiving a little salary every month is like coming to heaven.

However, not everyone is so lucky to be taken in by a wealthy family. In the next three or four days, the temperature suddenly dropped sharply. Although it had not snowed yet, it kept raining.

When the rain fell, it froze into ice when the wind blew, and it was freezing cold everywhere.

Every day we hear news of people freezing to death on the streets.

Xu Shuhe discussed with her mother and Chen Zhi and decided to set up a porridge stall to provide porridge.

With the money they have now, they can still afford to open a porridge stall.

Both of them had no objection, so arrangements were made quickly.

The night before the porridge stall opened, a sudden snowstorm hit, and overnight, the entire Qizhou city was buried in thick white snow.

In the middle of the night, Meixiang came in and covered the bed with another blanket and burned the stove a little more vigorously. Even so, Xu Shuhe was still so cold that she almost stuck to Chen Zhi.

When she woke up in the morning, she snuggled into Chen Zhi's arms.

Fortunately, we have been sleeping together these days, so my skin has become thicker and I am still calm.

After getting up, I saw a vast expanse of white outside. The maids had just cleared a path in the yard.

"It's snowing so heavily, I'm afraid a lot of people will come to the porridge distribution today. I think we should boil a few more pots of hot water, so that they can warm their bodies."

"That's fine. We need firewood to keep the porridge cooking, so let's burn it together." Chen Zhi nodded and looked out the door. "It's been many years since we've had such a heavy snow day."

The porridge stall was set up in the open space at the gate of the mansion. The servants had already prepared it. The victims gathered in several layers inside and outside the mansion, surrounding it tightly, all waiting to have a bite of life-saving hot porridge.

This scene made Xu Shuhe feel even worse. He had originally planned to provide porridge for three days, but now he thought he should give it a few more days. He would only help as many people as he could.