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Chapter 41 No.40 Chapter [-]: Porridge and Steamed Buns
On the Double Ninth Festival, the wealthy households in the city hold a Double Ninth Banquet every year, inviting all the old people in the city to drink chrysanthemum wine and eat Double Ninth Cake.

Knowing that there were refugees outside the city, the wealthy family showed kindness, and specially ordered people to prepare porridge and steamed buns, and sent them out as gifts to the elderly refugees.

So this porridge and steamed buns are not given to all refugees.

Knowing this, many young refugees cried out unwillingly, wanting to make a fuss and grab it, but they didn't dare to mess around with the long white guns in the hands of the soldiers.

There were soldiers maintaining order, and soon, a long queue formed in front of the carts.

As soon as the old man Xu heard that only the elderly could take it, he hurriedly asked the sons of each family to guard their parents and line up with bowls.

Except for the Zhang family, there are elderly people in the other families.

In addition, regardless of whether you can get it or not, the old man Xu not only let the boss Shi, the second son Shi, Zhou Dachuan and their three wives who are over [-] all line up, but also let Xu Chunhe and other people who are about to forty also stand up. Come to the queue, anyway, it is not troublesome to queue up, in case people look at them and they are old, just give them?

It is said that this rich man in the city has a kind heart, and he only cares about giving gifts to the elderly. How many of the refugees outside the city are old people?
Let's say he has no kindness. An old man can get two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge.

From the old man Xu to the old man Zheng, the old people of several families received food. When it was Boss Shi's turn, the housekeeper saw that his temples were gray and his back was hunched, so he called him without asking too much. Porridge.

Four out of four this year, Boss Shi shakes his hands to receive the steamed buns. Forty is an old man, so let's get old. He is willing to grow old if he can get food.

Not full, thin, rough, and sloppy looking, I really can't tell how old they are, so in these places arranged by old man Xu, Boss Shi and others received porridge and steamed buns, and the rest were less than four years old. The ten ones, those who looked old through the vicissitudes of life, also led several.

This is really something to be happy about. Everyone praised Old Man Xu for his good arrangement. He hurried back with his bowl and steamed buns in his hands. Passing by the crowd of refugees, the refugees who failed to get them all stared at him eagerly. It popped out and was eager to grab it.

But Mr. Xu and his group were escorted away by the strong laborers of several families. Just that mighty group of people made the refugees dare not rush to snatch them.

There are too many people who don't dare to be bullied, and there are those lonely old people or those who look easy to be bullied, and they are robbed before they can eat the food.

The soldiers didn't care about this kind of thing, and as soon as the porridge and steamed buns were distributed, the people retreated into the city, and the city gate was closed again.

For a while, there were crying outside the city gate.

And human beings' sorrows and joys are never interlinked. Although old man Xu also pities those who have been robbed and finally received food, but it's just a sigh, let him meddle in other people's business or show kindness or something?That won't work.

There are seven NO.80 people in their family, and I can't arrange it myself.

Old man Xu, old lady Xu, old man Zhou, old man Deng, old lady Shi, old man Zheng, old lady Zheng, these seven serious old men and old ladies have all received them.

In addition to them, a total of thirteen people including Boss Shi to Uncle Zhang also received them.

It adds up to twenty bowls of porridge and forty steamed buns.

Because old man Xu made good arrangements, everyone handed over the porridge and steamed buns they received to him for arrangement.

It’s not easy to get so much after eating the last meal, and I’ll be hungry again tomorrow after the meal is finished.

Therefore, the old man Xu asked to divide the [-] bowls of porridge and [-] steamed buns, leaving [-] steamed buns to share tomorrow.

With seventy or eighty mouths, one person can barely get a mouthful of porridge and a small mouthful of steamed buns.

"If there is water, one bowl of such dry porridge can make a pot of thin porridge. There are twenty pots of these twenty bowls. We can all have a good meal." Old man Xu looked at the thick porridge. Porridge, unfortunately said.

Old man Zhou looked at Xu Dajun eagerly, "It would be great if Liu Lang could hear where there is water again."

Xu Dajun: ...

"Then let me listen."

"Hey! Okay, listen to Liu Lang." Old man Zheng also said, and hurriedly called to old man Xu: "Brother Xu, let's not be too busy to share the food, and wait for Liu Lang to talk about it."

Xu Dajun gave Xu Yinyin a wink, got up and walked over there.

Xu Yinyin followed Xu Dajun step by step. The siblings walked a little further away, um, mainly because they were farther away from Guanshan, so Xu Dajun turned his head and said to Xu Yinyin: "There is no water source near the city. I'm starving to death. How do you think of a way to get the water out of the space?"

That's white porridge, does he want to drink even one more sip?

"How do you get it out? Think about it." Xu Yinyin licked her lips.

Dig a hole and say there is water?Pour those bamboo tubes together to see if there is half a bucket of water, it is not enough to wet the mud in the pit.

Come on.

Xu Dajun turned back and shook his head at old man Xu, "I only heard that there is a water source in the city."

Old man Xu sighed, "Okay, we can't expect too much, let's divide it like this."

Twenty bowls of porridge, six families, the average family is about three bowls, the Zhou family and the Shi family have the most, and the other family will share half a bowl.

The same goes for steamed buns.

For such a point, Mrs. Xu got three bowls of porridge and three and a half steamed buns, and made another point.

Each family member drank two mouthfuls of porridge and ate a small piece of steamed bun.

In the end, every bowl was licked clean, and there was no need to wash it at all, just like the ones that had been washed.

It's just such a little food, and I have been tossing for a long time, feeling tired.

Everyone licked their mouths, hugged themselves tightly, one by one, curled up into a ball, let's sleep.

……

On the second day, the refugees under the city gate moved one after another.

Old man Xu asked the old man yesterday to inquire about the situation.

The old man said: "The gates of these cities are not open, and we are not allowed to enter at all. I heard that the prefect of Qingyang Mansion is a good official. Maybe he will let us enter the city and give us a way to survive, so we plan to go to Qingyang Mansion Take your chances."

The old man left after speaking, and not long after, all the refugees under the city gate also left.

Old man Zhou looked at old man Xu and said, "Where are we going?"

Qingyang Mansion goes to the left, and Yiyang Mansion goes to the right, not in the same direction.

Old man Xu looked at the backs of the refugees leaving, thought for a while, and decided to continue to Yiyang Mansion. No matter what, he went to Yiyang Mansion to see the situation first.

"What do you think?"

Old man Zhou hurriedly said: "We came out together, no matter what happens, we have to go together."

Several other families also nodded in agreement, expressing that they should be together wherever they go.

Only then did old man Xu look at Guan Shan, "Xiao Guan, do you have a place to go? What are your plans?"

Guan Shan didn't walk with them from the beginning, because they led the way along the path, so they knew each other by fate, and they walked such a long distance together.

The current situation in Qingzhou is like this, and the way forward is unclear. If Guan Shan wants to continue walking with them, old man Xu also welcomes it.

Obviously Guan Shan has his own way to go, he said: "I'm going to Qingyang Mansion, I have a distant relative over there, I plan to go and join him."

"Then we are going to part ways. Be careful on the road alone. If you have a chance in the future, see you again." Old man Xu waved his hand, and he was very optimistic about this young man who came all the way.

At the moment, the two sides parted ways, and Guan Shan caught up with the refugees in front.

Several families also turned onto the main road on the right, heading for Yiyang Mansion.

(End of this chapter)