Wearing the cannon fodder little koi in the imperial examination essay

A big flood hit, except for Song Sande, who didn't know the news until later, left the family's farm work, and brought Wulang to Lijiazhai to inquire about Yusu and the three, everyone else was like a normal person, treating them No one cares about their life and death, whether they know it or not, some people are afraid that they wish they could die in the great flood to be happy.

That being the case, Yu Su and Song Xinglin didn't go back to Lao Song's house at all, and lived in Li's village for more than half a month. After the flood subsided, they sent Li Xianwen and his brother back to the city.

This year's Dayue Dynasty can be said to be precarious, with drought in the north and flood in the south. For foreigners who wanted to take a bite out of Dayue, the emperor and his elders couldn't get a full night's sleep. Naturally, the autumn exam that was supposed to be held this year was suspended.

That is to say, two months after Yusu and the others returned home to rebuild their homeland, and just before the autumn, when Song Xingzu, who was studying in Manshan Village, packed his bags and prepared to take the exam in Fucheng, the official document of the imperial court was finally issued to all parts of the country. , and the county magistrate Wang, who had finally recovered from his illness, also received official documents and residence reports from the imperial court.

The common people who are busy rebuilding after the disaster don't have much doubt about this, but it is hard for students like Song Xingzu who are just waiting to shine this autumn.

When the decree comes out, some people are happy while others are sad.

But what to do?No matter how annoyed and complained they were, they had no other choice. On the day when the news came out, there were countless scholars in Tongyang City who passed out drunk in restaurants, restaurants, and teahouses...

In the same year, the emperor was furious, Dayue went up and down, and there were countless officials whose heads fell to the ground. What Yu Su didn't know was that when the county magistrate was reading the mansion newspapers in his hand, he counted the ones on the top. When the head landed on the ground, he was so thankful in his heart, and so grateful to Su.

After all, if it wasn't for the little girl's reminder back then, I wouldn't have gone down to make inspections in person at that time, wouldn't have prevented the tragedy that shouldn't have happened, and thus wouldn't have successfully completed the corvee service on schedule, in accordance with the quantity, and with guaranteed quality. These foundations allowed the embankment that I was responsible for to stand firm under the torrential flood, and only then did I share the pressure to keep the city when the embankment broke and the flood came down upstream.

The only pity is that the crops in the field were not kept.

Even though they stepped up to replant some crops later, hoping to get some harvest in autumn, God still didn't open their eyes. Just after the flood, the drought came again.

If it weren't for the integrity of the water storage dams and reservoirs in their county, the precious water resources were intercepted when the water receded, and when the drought hit in late autumn, the county magistrate Wang immediately opened the gate to release the water, and successfully kept the autumn grain;

If it weren't for the imperial court's decree, the year's tax of the disaster-stricken counties would be exempted;

If it weren't for the county magistrate Wang who was sympathetic to the people and tried everything possible to get relief food;

I'm afraid Tongyang County will be the same as other places, with ten rooms and nine empty rooms, starving and dying everywhere...

Even so, the life of most people in the city is not easy. People unconsciously become frugal, and they do everything they do. Abundant, the autumn grain has been kept without reducing production, and the days are not as ample and affluent as in previous years.

Under such circumstances, food is barely enough for everyone to eat, so Yu Su's baked cake business can't go on. One is the shortage of raw materials, and the other is that people don't have much money left in their pockets to buy snacks. eat.

For various reasons, this year's business ended earlier than before, and Yu Su stopped the baked cake business just before winter.

When there is no business, people are idle. Seeing that Song Xiahe has nothing to do, he is a little anxious.

Right now, there are a lot of families out there who live on thin soup and water every day. They stay here with their brother and sister-in-law, but they still have enough to eat every day. , and Angkor and the others helped store up a lot of food, and she felt guilty when she ate it.

"Second brother, second sister-in-law, why don't I go home, anyway, the family is not doing business and is not busy right now, I still live here for free, second brother and second sister-in-law, you still have to pay me my wages every month If I go to work at home, then I might as well stay at home, not only saving food, but also saving wages, and giving grandparents no excuse to trouble you, second brother and second sister-in-law, you can let me go home."

Yu Su disagreed with the little girl's words.

"You idiot, when life is good at home on weekdays, what kind of life do you live at home? Now that the times are bad and you go back, do you think the people in that family can feed you? Stupid!"

That group of people, heh!
Naturally, he couldn't give her enough to eat. Not only would he not give it, but he probably wanted to beat him to the bone. Even if his father protected her, he might not be able to save her. After all, his own father still had to make a living under that cruel grandma. So Song Xiahe knew this very well.

She is not stupid, it is precisely because she knows in her heart that she is unwilling to burden the only person who treats her well.

In Song Xiahe's heart, he clearly understood the distance between close and distant.

"Second sister-in-law, I know, but I still want to go back. If I don't go back, they will definitely arrive. No, I'm afraid they will come to ask you for money before the date. Second brother, second sister-in-law, what do you think of the family? I know that they don't care if you do business or not, whether you have income, whether your life is good, whether you can live, they only care about whether they have money! Now I don't work, so I don't have the face to ask you for money No, I have to go back!"

But I can't eat for free, and my brother and sister-in-law don't owe me anything.

The dwarf Yu Su became even more anxious when he heard the words. Why can't this man make sense?

Yu Su put her hands on her hips, raised her head, looked up at the taller girl in front of her, and said angrily, "No, you are not allowed to go back. If I say no, I will not. Isn't it just a few dollars? Your sister-in-law is not short of money!"

"Second sister-in-law!"

Song Xinglin, who took the food slowly, looked at the two sisters-in-law who were as unwilling to give up as a cockfight at the dinner table, especially when he saw the "vicious" appearance of his guest, the Hedong lion, he couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, it was rare to be a peacemaker .

"Okay, okay, stop arguing, sit down and have a good meal, we all know that food is very expensive these days, why don't you eat it well..."

"Second brother!"

"Little brother!"

The two aunts and sisters-in-law rolled their eyes at the same time, thinking how this person persuaded the fight!
Two angry gazes stared deathly at someone, Song Xinglin, who was the lowest at home, touched his nose in embarrassment, and finally had no choice but to say: "Hey, it's okay, please stop arguing, Yuyu is good, second sister You are also obedient, we will all go back tomorrow, so you don't have to quarrel."

"Go back?" Yu Su wondered, "Little brother, you don't study anymore?"

Song Xinglin shrugged and nodded, "Ang, classes are suspended for the time being. Everyone's life is difficult. Many of my classmates can't afford the money. In addition to the recent chaos in the city, the master will leave early. He just said that he will return to school in the spring of next year."

Yu Su nodded, "Oh, that's it." But... "Then we can't all go back. We went back to Manshan Village to make a living under your grandma's hands. How can we be at home? And bring food back, I'm afraid No matter what they drop, they will have to take advantage of it; if we don’t bring food back, we will probably starve to death..."

Speaking of this, Yu Su was quite resentful. In short, she didn't want to go back, but she didn't know what the brothers and sisters were thinking. They were actually going to go back and suffer at such a critical moment.

Seeing the little expression on his guest's lip curled secretly, Song Xinglin knew that the little girl was thinking wrong, and couldn't help itching his hands, raised his hand and snorted someone's little head, and sent Yu Su's rubbed hair straight into the air. When the angry stare came, Song Xinglin decisively raised his hand in surrender, hurriedly retreated a little, teased someone with a cheap mouth, and changed the subject leisurely.

"Who said it was back to Manshan Village, we will not go back to Manshan Village."

Yu Su: "Aren't you going back to Manshan Village?"

Let alone Yu Su, even Song Xiahe felt strange.

"Where shall we go if we don't go back to Manshan Village, Second Brother?"

"Where else can I go back!", Seeing the sight of the death of his houseguest coming again, Song Xinglin stopped playing tricks and said in a hurry: "Of course we are going back to Li's Village! We are not going out of the stall to do business. Well, the person who helped godfather and the others brought the news to the school. Godfather said that this year is not good, it is flooded and droughty, even though there is some water in the mountains, there is less grass on the mountains , the pigs eat even less, and they are afraid that they will eat less in the future when the weather is cold, so they say that they can kill all the pigs. Anyway, the pigs that passed through at the beginning of the year are about the same size. The godfather said that he was afraid that he would lose fat if he continued to raise them, so he would not save them for the New Year's slaughter, so he sent a message saying, let us go home in a few days, and the pigs will be slaughtered in a unified way in the village, and I am calling you to eat the pork in soup."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Yu Su understood, thought for a while, and thought that it would be better to go back to Lijiazhai, and she was also curious about how the godfather organized the pig breeding and pig raising business, so she waved her hand decisively. "Success, then go back, to Lijiazhai, let's go eat meat, and bring the second sister along."

Hearing that he was going to bring his oil bottle with him, Song Xiahe became anxious and waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, I won't go, I won't go."

Just kidding, those are the second sister-in-law's godparents, not my own, so what is she going to do!

But Yu Su didn't listen to her. He crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows to look at her, "No? Didn't you just say that you want to go back? Why can't you say now?"

Song Xiahe looked at the second sister-in-law who was deliberately messing around, and begged for mercy with a wry smile, "Second sister-in-law, when I said go home, it was the one in Manshan Village, not you..."

But Yu Su didn't listen at all, and didn't give Song Xiahe a chance to continue explaining, so he interrupted immediately, which was rare to mess around.

"It's not you? Anyway, I don't care. If you say you want to go back, I will take you back. As for where to go? Heh, second sister, then you have to listen to me. I am your sister-in-law and the parent, do you know that?"

Song Xiahe...a parent younger than her?
Song Xiahe looked at her sister-in-law who deliberately pretended to be an adult, she sighed, knowing her second sister-in-law's temper, there was nothing she could do, she decided to take a step back first, and weakly discussed with Yu Suda.

"Hey! Second sister-in-law! I mean I can't stand you, I admit defeat, can't I not come back? I won't come back! I will stay at home and take care of the house. You and my second brother can go back to Li's village in peace tomorrow. I stayed."

Yu Su shouldn't say this to my stupid sister. Now the butchers in the city can't get any meat. A lot of pigs drowned after a flood. They haven't eaten meat for a long time. Now they finally have meat to eat. , Of course, the whole family is going to eat meat neatly, stupid sister!
So Yu Su couldn't listen to Song Xiahe's insistence. It was still the same thing, she was the parent and she made the decision, and the reasoning was still the same.

"That won't work. Men and women are equal. If we women don't talk about promises and promises, we have to keep promises. Anyway, I don't care, I will take you with me! After all, it was you who first proposed to go home, so second sister, now you have to listen to me." After dinner, you hurry to pack up your clothes, and we will set off to go back to Lijiazhai together tomorrow morning."

"No, second sister-in-law, listen to me, I won't go, there is so much food in the house, if we are not at home, in case a thief comes to the door..."

Seeing that Song Xiahe wanted to refute, but Yu Su quit, he waved his little hand neatly, and said with pride, "Nothing happens!" As for worrying about the food at home... "Second sister, don't worry, those are trivial things, and I will give you Guaranteed, the food at home, what it was like when we left, must be what it is when we come back, keeping it will not starve you!"

After all, she wanted to shrink the food to carry with her, who could steal it?

"Besides, Uncle Zhao and the others live so close together. When we leave later, it will be good to leave the key to Aunt Zhao. Please ask them to have nothing to do on weekdays. Just come and visit when you have time. I will arrange it, second sister, you Just let go of one hundred and twenty hearts."

Well, everything was finished by her second sister-in-law, and everything was arranged, and the second brother next to him was still only watching the show, with a look on her second sister-in-law, as if even if her second sister-in-law said to kill someone, he I have to help pass the knife, and then I still care about killing and burying. I don’t have the viciousness that I usually treat the so-called relatives at home.

What else could Song Xiahe do?I can only listen to this 'big patriarch'.

Early the next morning, the three brothers and sisters rented a mule cart from a big cart shop, bought some things in the city, such as candy, salt and other gifts, and hurriedly set off for Lijiazhai.