Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 205 Dreaming Back (2)

Song Yunfei led Lu Yange out.

Lu Yuanshan accompanied several heads of Qingfengzhai to drink and eat meat in the middle hall, discussing how to transport the more than 100 dan of grain borrowed by the Lu family to Qingfengzhai in the dark.

The Lu family is not far from Qingfeng Village, only about forty or fifty miles away.

In the past years, the Lu family sent only a thousand catties of grain to Qingfengzhai. No matter whether it was by ox cart or cart, there was always a way to send it to Qingfengzhai.

However, the harvest in the past two years has not been good, life has become more and more difficult, and the government has become more and more strict about money and food.

The aristocratic family in the capital city of the south is rich and full of money and music every night.

The villagers in the northern mountains have no means of living, with little clothing and no food to eat.

The victims first killed poultry, and then ate grass roots and bark.This spring, disaster victims are everywhere, uprisings are everywhere, those who sell their children and daughters are considered benevolent, and it is not uncommon for them to change their children and eat.

Lujiazhuang is stable today because of Lu Yuanshan's benevolence and benevolence. Not to mention rent-free in disaster years, he even used the stored food to help the villagers.

In Dongyang County, anyone who mentions Lu Dashan, the owner of Lu Zhuang, will give a thumbs up and give a good compliment.

Lu Yuanshan took the lead, and the nearby gentry and rich people more or less donated.

In the vicinity of Dongyang County, despite the same disaster, few people fled from home. With these relief grains, they can still barely support this year's spring plowing.

Just wait for this spring day, plant the spring seeds, boil it again, and harvest the grain, and this famine year will pass.

But now Qingfengzhai has borrowed tens of thousands of grains. If so much grain is to be transported back to Qingfengzhai from among the victims, the local garrison in Dongyang County will not allow it. .

Song Yunfei is already sensible, but Lu Yange is still young and doesn't know how hard life is outside.

She only remembered that day, besides Brother Xiaohu, there was another brother named Yunfei who accompanied her.She only remembered that she happily hid behind a bush of flowers behind the rockery, waiting for brother Yunfei to come to her.

Dongyang County has a vast land, with mountains in the south and waterways in the north. It is a transportation hub in the Central Plains. Its official roads and waterways extend in all directions, which is very convenient.

There are many fertile fields, many mountains, many refugees, and many bandits.

During the famine years, rebel armies rose up everywhere.However, the imperial court didn't care about the life and death of the people at all. When sending troops to suppress it, it was the local people who suffered first.

If there are officers and soldiers, there must be food and grass. If there is not enough food and grass, then the support of the local government is needed.

However, with successive years of disasters and conscription every year, even the government cannot make ends meet, so there is no surplus food to feed the officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

Officers and soldiers are like bandits, and bandits also pay attention to brotherhood, robbing the rich and helping the poor, killing people indiscriminately and not easily killing others.

The officers and soldiers can't control those. Since the county government has no food, it will be expropriated.

As for whether the people under the rule have food and whether they can eat enough, no one cares at all.

Such wars occurred frequently, and Qingfengzhai's appetite was getting bigger and bigger. A few years ago, a thousand catties of food was enough.Ever since Yange was five years old, the brothers of the Song family came to borrow tens of thousands of catties of grain in person, and they did so every year.

In the spring of this year, Lu Yange was nine years old and Chen Xiaohu was ten years old.

Because of her elder sister Shen Qinglian's accident, Shen was hurried back to her natal home accompanied by her two sons.

In the evening, Lu Yuanshan entered the east courtyard where his daughter Lu Yange lived.

"The third brother is here."

Lu Xionge's nanny, Lu Xiuniang, put down the soles of her shoes and got up, and turned on the oil lamp in the room: "Yige has already fallen asleep, and this child is still angry about how his third sister-in-law didn't take him to his grandfather's house."

Lu Xiuniang is the younger sister of the Lu Yuanshan clan, and she hasn't released her fifth clothes yet.In the year when Xie Ge was born, Lu Xiuniang's men went hunting in the mountains, trying to catch some wild pheasants for his wife who was about to confine herself, but they didn't expect to meet Xiong Blind in the middle of the hillside and broke an arm. Saved my life.

Lu Xiuniang gave birth to her daughter that night, and the premature and weak daughter died before confinement.

Lu Yuanshan saw that she was a woman who had to raise a young son and take care of a seriously injured man, so he simply let her whole family into Zhuangzi.

Lu Xiuniang became a nanny for the newborn Lu Yange, and Lu Xiuniang's man guarded the back door of the Lu family for the Lu family, and her son, Xiao Huzi, grew up with his mother to accompany his younger sister.

A family of three can be regarded as having a place to live.

Lu Yuanshan walked to his daughter's bed, looked at her little face flushed in sleep, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth slightly.

The Lu family has been single-handed down for several generations, and his generation is considered good. The eldest son was born first, the second son was born later, and Yan Ge was born every few years.When Yan Ge was born, Shen's blood collapsed, and his life was almost lost.

Thanks to Lu Xiuniang, who accompanied Yan Ge day and night, and took good care of her.

No matter how busy or tired Lu Yuanshan was, he had to come and see his daughter's sleeping face so that he could feel at ease.

For Yange, Lu Yuanshan loves him even more than his two sons.

"Third brother."

Lu Yuanshan tucked in the quilt for his daughter, and was about to leave when Lu Xiuniang, who was sitting under the lamp with her shoes on, called to her: "Huzi's father said that when he entered the mountain today, he saw someone looking at Zhuangzi from the back mountain."

Lujiazhuang is built on the mountain, and the backyard wall used to be the slope of Xiaoyun Mountain.

The terrain of Xiaoyun Mountain is steep, and ordinary people cannot easily climb to the top. Standing on the top of Xiaoyun Mountain, one can almost overlook the entire Lujiazhuang, not to mention the surrounding roads.

Lu Yuanshan's expression was slightly condensed: "Who did Erzhu say?"

"It's not the tenants around, it's not the hunters in the mountains, and it's not like the people in the city." Lu Xiuniang frowned: "Tiger's father said, look at the military master who marches and fights."

"Master?"

Lu Yuanshan frowned. If it was a tenant or a householder or someone from the city, it would not be normal to appear in the back mountain, let alone the military master.

This Xiaoyun Mountain seems ordinary, but everyone nearby knows that Xiaoyun Mountain is the property of the Lu family. The mountain is overgrown with miscellaneous trees, ravines and ravines, and many wild beasts are hidden.

Ordinary people would go to the next few mountains to collect firewood, dig wild vegetables or hunt, and no one would go into Xiaoyun Mountain easily.

This military master entered Xiaoyun Mountain, probably for the Lu family.

Besides money and food, what else can the Lu family have for the military master to stare at?
After much deliberation, Lu Yuanshan realized that this was the only possibility, otherwise, he would not be able to explain why these military masters would appear in Xiaoyun Mountain in the back mountain.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Yuanshan said: "Xiu Niang, take Yan Ge to your room to sleep, and let Er Zhu come to the front yard by the way."

Harmfulness is not allowed, and defensiveness is indispensable.

Tomorrow, let Erzhu send Huzi and Yange to Yuezhang's house to stay for a period of time, counting the days, Qingfengzhai will come to borrow food again in these two days.

Regardless of whether the Song family father and son come or not, he doesn't want his daughter to have more contact with the Song family.

"Okay, I'll go right now."

Lu Xiuniang is not a talkative woman, the third brother said to take Yange to the backyard, she immediately put away the soles of her shoes, found a thin quilt, wrapped Lu Xige and went to the backyard.

After Lu Xiuniang and Lu Yange left, the front yard became more and more quiet.

Lu Yuanshan sat in the study, looking at the dark night in the yard and meditating, waiting for Chen Erzhu's arrival.

In the middle of the night, a flame lit up, burning half of the sky red.

(End of this chapter)