Nongmenfu girl's daily life

Chapter 678
The old village chief trusted Goutou. The kid was clever since he was a child. In order to learn how to read, he went to the ethnology school in the next village to steal lessons every day.

In fact, many children in the village were curious about what the school was like, so they sneaked to the next village to learn more about it.

But so many children have been there, but they have not been able to recognize a few, and most of them have given up halfway.

If a child does not have the supervision of his master, and cannot sit in the school, he has to lie at the window to learn secretly. After a long time, he loses patience and would rather go down to the river to fish when he has this time.

Including his old son, he also went to the next village with Goutou to learn secretly when he was a child, but he didn't want to go after a few days.

Only this dog head, the little man persisted.

He knows more characters than the servants in the town.

If it weren't for the poor family, he might have been a scholar.

"Forget it, do you come back every month?"

"Of course I have to come back. I don't feel relieved when others send money back."

The old village head is satisfied if he can come back once a month to report his safety.

During the time when Tie Dan went back to deliver the money, Cheng Feng asked Goutou and the others about the surrounding situation.

The price of food here has been driven up, and the price of expensive food is the same as that of tea.

For good tea, one tael of silver can buy three taels to four taels.

And polished rice has reached an outrageous price of one tael, three taels to four taels.

You know, even in the fertile land of Yangzhou, the most expensive bamboo rice is not so expensive.

People in the countryside have fertile fields, so it is reasonable to not go hungry, even if they eat sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, they will still be full.

But at the beginning of the famine, a large number of townspeople went to the countryside to collect rice, and sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes were not spared.

At the beginning, the villagers were very excited when they saw the white money. Not only did they exchange their annual harvest for silver, but they also took out the food stored at home.

But not long after, famine broke out everywhere, and no one in the government cared about it, let alone allocated relief money.

The money in my hand could no longer buy the food at that time. Before the money was warm, I had to take it out to buy food again, and it was a big loss.

As a result, more and more people beg on the street, or leave their hometowns, become refugees, or become bandits like them.

Seeing Tie Dan running back from a distance, Qin Lu said to Gou Tou before getting into the carriage, "Take us to meet someone as fierce as you."

The dog head knew that the master must have come prepared, otherwise he wouldn't just take out the contract.

"The black bear in the village next door to us was also forced to come out to rob, but he would leave some money for the robbed. It's not really dark and cold."

In Qin Lu's previous survey, this black bear was considered one of the people who had a conscience.

"Go and meet him." After speaking, Qin Lu put down the curtain of the carriage.

Qin Lu did not intervene in the follow-up details, how to persuade the black bear to become the guard.

The carriage driver has been replaced by Cheng Feng and the middle-aged coachman, and fifteen strong men trot behind the carriage.

Hei Xiong didn't believe there was such a good thing at first, but he and Goutou knew each other, so they were relieved.

Hei Xiong brought twenty young men from the same village, a total of 21, and joined the team, trotting behind the carriage.

Hei Xiong had been a bandit for some time, and he knew quite a few gangsters who were forced to do it out of life. Seeing that the master wanted to recruit many guards, he recommended a few of them.

Basically, they were the people that Qin Lu was optimistic about last time, Qin Lu agreed, and asked Hei Xiong to persuade them. If it was done well, then as a reward, the people Hei Xiong persuaded would become Hei Xiong's subordinates.

Hei Xiong worked extremely hard, and more than [-] people have become his subordinates.

(End of this chapter)