The Little Dumb Wife of the Mountain People

Chapter 121
Songjia Village has Wen Bao’s reminder and Zhang Lian’s medicine powder, from storing ice during the drought at the beginning to not drinking the rainwater directly when it rained heavily, to the medicine powder used after the rain stopped.

Songjia Village has done very well step by step. With Song Wei, the village head, no one dares not to do it.

But other villages are not like this.

As soon as the rain stopped a few days ago, a large number of victims flooded into the county. The people who fled to the Qinglong River during the drought were too many to count and were left behind by the heavy rain.

When the heavy rain was still falling, some people began to feel uncomfortable. When the heavy rain stopped, the epidemic broke out completely.

After Wen Chengshuang brought back the news, Madam Liu fainted as soon as her eyes went dark.

"mother!"

"grandmother!"

Mrs. Liu's second son and granddaughter were the most panicked. Seeing Mrs. Liu fall, Wen Bao immediately walked over and pulled out her silver hairpin and poked her on the nose.

"Don't be surrounded by so many people, spread out."

Just as Wen Bao finished speaking, Mrs. Liu woke up leisurely.

Seeing that Mrs. Liu was awakened by Wen Bao's poking, everyone was naturally surprised, but this was not the best time to ask why.

It wasn't until Zhang Lian arrived that everyone knew that Mrs. Liu's body needed a good rest due to overthinking.

"Rest well, don't think so much."

Because of the current situation in the county and Mrs. Liu's health, it is impossible for her to go back now.

The second daughter-in-law and grandchildren had to wait for illness, but in the end only Mr. Liu's second son was worried about Mr. Liu who stayed in the county and insisted on returning to the county.

"Fourth, go get some medicine from Zhang Lian, and go together."

Master Liu's eldest son is not in Nanning County, and Wen Chengquan is Master Liu's son-in-law, so he naturally wants to go at this time.

As soon as Wen Youcai finished speaking, the whole family got ready.

In addition to medicinal materials and clean food and water, the situation in the county is not optimistic now, and they don't know what is going on. Only when they enter the county will they know the specific situation in the county.

Wen Bao went home and sorted out the food at home, and took out half of the stored food for Wen Chengquan to take to the county.

"Fourth brother, there must be a lack of medicine and food in the county right now. This belongs to my family. See if you can raise a little more and take it to the county together. It will definitely help."

As soon as Wen Bao said, Wen Chengquan nodded, "Father, mother, uncle, and the others also let the family share some of the food. I thought that when we go to the county, there are so many big families in the county. If anyone's family doesn't have food for a few years, it's best to let them go. They take some out."

It’s best to donate if you can, but if you don’t want to, you have to borrow part of it.

As soon as Wen Bao heard Wen Chengquan's words, he understood what he meant. Like her and Song Dalang, both saved so much food, those century-old households must have more food.

"Fourth brother, I have a few tricks here, you can listen to it."

As soon as Wen Bao finished speaking, Wen Chengquan immediately looked at her and nodded at her.

"First, if you bring something like this to the county, you must make a big fanfare and let as many people know the better. When you arrive in the county, ask Uncle Liu to write a commendation announcement and praise our family. It is best to reward us Some nice names in his purview.

Second, after the county knows the good things the Wu family, the Chen family, and our Wen family have done, they will send people to secretly encourage those big families to donate some.They gave it, and let Uncle Liu praise them, so that the people of Nanning County will remember their kindness.

Thirdly, if such food and other things are not enough, the government will come forward to help the common people borrow money for those big households.Each of their households must have old grain, borrow a bucket of old grain this year, and return a bucket of new grain next year.

However, it should be noted that for the third method, the government must come forward as an intermediary, and they cannot be allowed to borrow money privately. It is best to form an inspection team. "

Wen Bao talked eloquently, and after finishing these three tricks, he looked at Wen Chengquan beside him.

"Fourth brother, why are you looking at me like this?"

Wen Bao was so frightened by Wen Chengquan's eyes that he involuntarily backed away, but there were people standing behind him.

"My Bao'er, if you are Erlang, you will definitely be a first-class official!"

When Wen Youcai concluded, everyone nodded in agreement.

But Wen Bao was very ashamed.

This is not an idea she thought of, it's all in her opinion.

No matter what, with Wen Bao's three tricks, Wen Chengquan instantly had a bottom line in his mind.

After Zhang Lian left some regular medicines, she prepared a lot of medicines that would be used in the county for Wen Chengquan, and also sent a prescription for curing the disease.

The prescription is a family heirloom, and she slowly researched it after Wen Bao mentioned it to her before, but Zhang Lian did not keep it private.

Not to mention the relationship between my family and Mr. Liu, but their Song family village is in Nanning County, and they can live a good life only if Nanning County is preserved.

Every family in Songjia Village learned that Wen Chengquan and the others were going to the county, and the strong young man who had previously delivered goods with Wen Chengshuang also proposed to go.

Although each family in Songjia Village did not have as many things as Wen Bao and the others, the Liu family was moved by a piece of dried meat and a handful of dried goods in that family.

Mr. Liu just came to work in Nanning County, and something like this happened. If he didn't do well, he might lose his head. Now everyone is helping Mr. Liu by helping him.

After a whole day of tidying up the entire Songjia Village, the top ten carts were sorted out.

Because of the drought, Wen Chengshuang had sold a lot of cattle to pull the cart, but now that there are not enough cattle, the strong young men asked them to pull them one after another.

It was still early in the morning before dawn, two brothers, Wen Chengshuang and Wen Chengquan, and Mrs. Liu's second son, three people pressed the cart, and a group of twenty or so people pulled ten wooden carts and rushed towards the county town.

From Songjia Village to the county, the weather was fine, it took half a day for a horse-drawn carriage, more than half a day for a donkey cart and an ox cart, and the cart was pulled by manpower, day and night. The group finally arrived at the county seat in the early morning of the next day.

Looking at the groups of disaster victims sitting outside the county seat, the whole group was in a bad mood.

Those victims were naturally moved when they saw the things they pulled in their carts, but Wen Chengshuang and the others were not only strong men, but half of them were holding swords.

Wen Chengquan has the fame and reputation to be at the forefront, but it is not known that Master Liu sent his family out of the county early in the morning, so Master Liu's second son can only be mixed with a group of cart pullers.

Wen Chengquan turned around and nodded towards Wen Chengshuang after walking to the gate of the city and looking at the closed gate.

After receiving Wen Chengquan's signal, Wen Chengshuang shouted into the city gate, "Where is the gatekeeper? The Wen family of Songjia Village is here! Where is the gatekeeper? The Wen family of Songjia Village is here! Where is the gatekeeper?" ? The Wen family of Song Family Village is here!"

Wen Chengshuang yelled three times in a row, and the locked city gate was slowly opened from inside.

Two government servants with sallow faces slowly opened the city gate, and they were still debating whether the voice they heard just now was real or not.

"See if I'm real or fake!"

Wen Chengshuang and these yamen servants naturally knew each other. After seeing that it was Wen Chengshuang, the two yamen servants immediately became happy.

"Master Wen, are you going to the city again?"

Wen Chengshuang came to inquire about the news two days ago, and it was these two people guarding the gate, and today they are still these two people, that's why he asked this question.

"Not only me, but also the people and things behind."

As soon as Wen Chengshuang finished speaking, Wen Chengquan walked out.

Seeing Wen Chengquan, the two yamen servants became even more respectful, "Master Juren, you want to go in too?"

"Naturally, have you seen those things? Our whole village made them up. Take me to see my father-in-law!"

Some victims who were near the gate of the city became even more fearful when they heard that Wen Chengquan was Juren or the son-in-law of Mr. Liu.

"Little one, open the door!"

The two yamen servants opened the door joyfully after seeing the things on the cart behind Wen Cheng's whole body. Although there were not many of these things, they were still better than nothing.

They Mr. Liu have been going to the big families in the county these days, trying to borrow some food, but they can't borrow any.

On the way to the county government, a government servant who followed Wen Chengquan out of the city gate told Wen Chengquan about the situation in the county.

Hearing that his father-in-law had been asking the big households in the county to borrow food these days but hadn't gotten any, Wen Chengquan was thankful that Wen Bao had made some moves before he came.

When Wen Chengquan and the others arrived at the county government office, Master Liu was worrying about food and medicine.

He has used up all the official food in the county government, and he will be questioned, but he can't just watch the people under his jurisdiction starve to death.

They survived a year of drought and heavy rain. It would be a shame if they starved to death.

"My lord, my lord, my uncle is here, and my uncle is here with a lot of food!"

"what!"

Mr. Liu was discussing what to do today with a few people under his command. They ran out of food the day before yesterday. If they couldn't raise food again today, not only the people of Nanning County, but they would all starve to death.

Master Liu exclaimed, he knew that Wen Chengshuang had been to the county seat two days ago, but he didn't come in at all, that's what he meant.

Now that the situation in the county is unstable, he can't let the Wen family come in and cause trouble.

Master Zhou stood beside Master Liu to support him, and said, "My lord, it's the Wen family."

As soon as Director Zhou finished speaking, two brothers Wen Chengquan and Wen Chengshuang walked in.

"Father, we have brought food."

This was the first sentence Wen Chengquan saw Master Liu said. As soon as he finished speaking, Master Liu kept saying 'yes' with trembling hands.

"Hahahaha, the sky will not kill me, the sky will not kill me!"

What Master Liu said after laughing up to the sky made the two brothers of the Wen family feel bitter.

This is a good official who seeks profit for the people. He is willing to go hungry with the people and take out all the food in the family.

"Father, more than [-] of us escorted ten carts of things into the county, including grain, dried meat, dried vegetables, and medicinal materials.

Just now I have heard about the current situation in the county, and I have three tricks here, which will definitely help you out of your current predicament. "

As soon as Wen Chengquan said this, not only Master Liu, but also a group of people under him immediately stared at Wen Chengquan with wide eyes, afraid that they might have missed what he said.

After Wen Chengquan explained Wen Bao's three moves, bursts of laughter suddenly resounded in the lobby of the county government office.

But Master Liu looked at Wen Chengquan after he finished laughing. He understood the talent of his son-in-law, and such a delicate and compact plan was not like what he came up with.

"Tell Dad, who is the idea of ​​these three tricks?"

As soon as Mr. Liu said this, the lobby suddenly fell silent, and everyone behind Mr. Liu looked at him in surprise. Could it be that Wen Juren didn't come up with this?

Wen Chengquan is also very embarrassed now, he promised his sister not to tell her.

(End of this chapter)