Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 58 Establishing an almshouse: I like to see children eating cakes

Lin Cheng froze on the spot and looked at the bearded man in front of him with a look of shock.

But the bearded man just smiled coldly, and took the initiative to knock Lin Cheng to the ground, captured him in his hands, and pressed his knee against his neck.

Shu Anguo looked confused.

"Yes!"

At this time, two rebel cavalry troops had already rolled their saddles and dismounted, and walked towards Lin Cheng.

Snapped!
  "You dare to slander our rebel army because you think your life is too long?!"

When a horse army came over, they gave Lin Cheng a whip on the face.

A bloodstain suddenly appeared on Lin Cheng's face, and he begged hurriedly: "Soldiers of the rebel army, please have mercy on me. I'm just trying to earn a living. This is what I was told by an old man who gave me money."

"Who is the uncle and where does he live?"

Qi Xiang asked.

Lin Cheng said aggrievedly: "I don't know either. He only wants to slander you. I have always been a loyal person. I do things as long as I get money, so he believes in me."

"In that case, take him back first!"

Qi Xiang gave an order.

As a result, Lin Chengcheng was kidnapped back.

Shu Anguo was even more confused when he saw this, and thought to himself: "Is what that person said just now a rumor?"

to this end.

Shu Anguo couldn't help but glance at the bearded man.

At this time, when Qi Xiang saw this, he first said: "Hey, scholar, don't believe what that person said just now. No matter what we do, we will never kill a poor scholar like you."

Shu Anguo nodded and watched Qi Xiang leave.

Soon.

The sound of horse hoofbeats was heard again.

At the same time, someone was shouting: "The thieves are here, coming to kill the scribes."

Shu Anguo's eyes were drawn in front of him again.

Then, he saw several rebels pushing carts filled with food.
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  Zhu Wenzheng threw three bags of rice on Shu Anguo's calligraphy stall, and handed him a notice: "Copy fifty copies of this, and these three buckets of rice will be yours. Are you willing to write it?"

Shu Anguo, who had not had a full meal, looked at the bag of rice with longing eyes. How could he refuse, he nodded hurriedly.

"Then you write it now and I will come to you later to ask for it."

Zhu Wenzheng said and went to another place where Hanshi set up a stall.

Shu Anguo started copying it seriously.

Because after all, this is three buckets of rice.

And he didn't dare to just sneak away without writing the rice.

You know, Chuzhou City is now in the hands of the rebels, so he doesn't dare to have such thoughts.

After Shu Anguo copied fifty copies of the notice, he really got three measures of rice. He shed tears and agreed to find other scribes to read the announcement for the rebels in order to earn another three measures of rice.

"Looking at today's world, where barbarians are everywhere and the scholar-bureaucrats are dishonest and shameless, it is the time to rebuild etiquette and justice, restore China, protect civilization from retrogressing, and the people who work and study can once again become public ministers due to great competitions..."

While Shu Anguo was reading the notice to his friends who were in the same financial situation, he heard the clatter of horse hooves coming from the street again.

At the same time, there were also voices shouting, "The thieves are coming, and the thieves are here to kill the scribes."

However, Shu Anguo and other Hanshi no longer believed it, and naturally they were not too panicked. They just followed the sound curiously and looked over.

"I was ordered to pick up a baby!"

"If there are any abandoned infants, please let them be raised by our rebel army, the Guards Division, as a successor to our brothers who were killed in the battle and have no heirs. If you hand over an abandoned infant or infant, give him a bucket of grain!"

Suddenly.

Shu Anguo saw several horses coming with big flags.

The big banner reads "Baby Pickup Team", "Ordered to Save Babies", as well as the purpose of saving babies and the incentives for mobilization.

Behind these cavalry, many people and children holding babies appeared, as well as carts filled with rice and water.

These common people were all numbered and followed the cavalry in a hurry.

Shu Anguo was shocked when he saw this, and followed these people.

soon.

Shu Anguo followed him outside the city and saw a fierce-looking man with a black face in the baby-picking team. After taking out a bamboo tube and looking around, he went to the bamboo forest by the water in front.

This black-faced man is Hua Yun.

When Huayun came to the water, he saw an old man digging a hole. Not long after, the old man put a crying baby into the newly dug hole.

When Shu Anguo saw this scene, his heart ached like a knife.

"Old guy!"

"He is still alive, why did you bury him?"

"Believe it or not, I buried you alive first!"

Hua Yun's thick eyebrows stood up, his eyes widened, and he kicked the old man who was burying the baby away.

Hua Yun immediately took off his armor and weapons, then knelt in front of the baby and carefully held the baby in his arms, not daring to move.

The baby was still crying. "Don't cry!"

"Don't cry! My little ancestor."

"Are you hungry?"

Hua Yun put on a smile and coaxed her seriously. She turned around and urged the rest of the Guards Department: "Rice soup! He must be hungry."

Soon.

Hua Yun took the small spoon filled with rice soup from the hands of others in the Gongwei Department and gently poured it into the baby's little lips.

The baby puckered his lips and swallowed the rice soup quickly, and then swallowed a few more spoonfuls.

But later, because the baby was still not full, he felt that the rice soup was fed too slowly, and started crying again.

Hua Yun had to continue to coax softly: "Don't worry! Don't worry! There is more, there is more."

After saying that, Hua Yun turned around and shouted: "Hurry up, don't make people hungry!"

"Yes!"

I don't know how long it took, but the baby finally stopped crying or continued to eat rice soup, and just fell into a deep sleep.

Hua Yun then stood up with the baby in his arms.

As soon as he got up, the baby peed on Hua Yun's face, making his thick eyebrows and black beard covered with beads.

"Damn! This little spout is so fierce!"

Hua Yun winked and smiled as he spoke, and then handed the baby to an old woman who had been recruited: "Change a diaper for him first."

"Hey!"

Seeing this, Shu Anguo whispered: "My son, I didn't expect that the person who would adopt you would be a bandit."

original.

Shu Anguo, because the government had imposed too much land tax this year, so even if he wrote letters for others to increase his income, he could only feed himself and his father half full, and he could no longer feed his children, so he persuaded his father to give up his children. Bury it in a place where it is not easily found by others, so as not to starve to death and be eaten by others.

Drowning and burying babies is a common thing in this era.

Because for many people who are hungry, when they cannot feed their children, they are already adhering to the last ethics and morals by not giving up their children.

Therefore, drowning and burying infants is not a complete loss of conscience due to hunger. It means that the people are still clinging to the last bit of humanity when they are still extremely hungry.

just.

Shu Anguo did not expect that the rebels would be willing to take in his children.

Shu Anguo's eyes were blurred by tears.

After a while, Shu Anguo came back to his senses and hurriedly helped his father, Shu Xun, who was still lying on the ground: "Father!"

Shu Xun touched his belly, twisted his face, and asked with worry: "Son, where are they holding my grandson, but they want to eat him?"

"Probably not. It's written on their flag that they want to raise him as a successor to their rebel army if they die in battle, so as to continue their legacy."

Shu Anguo asked his father, "Are you okay?"

"My stomach hurts so bad!"

"But I don't blame the military master. Even if he kills me, I still deserve it!"

"After all, I am not a human being, yet I want to bury my grandson alive."

Old Man Shu shed tears as he spoke, and then said to Shu Anguo: "Son, please help me go and see if they really want to feed my grandson, instead of making rations like the army." use."

"Ok!"

Shu Anguo agreed, and then squatted in front of Old Shu: "Dad, I will carry you!"

In order to have the strength to copy the notice, Shu Anguo had exchanged rice for some food.

In addition, old man Shu was also as skinny as a stick, and his whole body was as rickety and shriveled as that of a half-grown boy.

Therefore, although Shu Anguo was thin, he was still able to carry his father on his back, and he could still keep up with the baby-picking team with ease.

After about one stick of incense.

Shu Anguo saw that a plaque with the words "Yangjiyuan" written on it was re-hung on the Chuzhou Bieyuan residence of Jia Zhili, the magistrate.

The baby-picking team that stopped here also handed over the babies they picked up to the old woman here.

original.

Zhang Cheng set up a nursing home to raise orphans, and invited Zhu Yuanzhang's sister-in-law Wang to be the director of the nursing home. She was responsible for bringing a group of old women with the army to take care of these babies and provide them with food and salary.

Because these old women can receive food and have the opportunity to realize their own value, they no longer feel like they are wasting food in vain. In addition, they have all experienced the pain of losing their children and grandchildren in these troubled times, so when they see these babies and young children Later, motherly love was even more inspired, and she cared for these babies with great devotion, as if they were her own children and grandchildren.

Shu Anguo saw through the gate that in the main hall, there were many babies lying on a large gilded red sandalwood couch covered with a large silk and gold snake mattress. His own son was also being picked up by an old woman and held in his arms. Above, an old woman was gently scrubbing her body with mugwort liquid.

The courtyard on the side was also filled with orphans.

These orphans all had newly changed into clean cloth clothes. Although they were thin, they were all clean. They were all sitting in the yard, wolfing down cakes and drinking pickle soup from bowls.

Mrs. Wang personally distributed cakes and pickle soup to these orphans. While doing so, she kindly advised: "Eat slowly, don't choke, my children."

Shu Anguo and his father on his back both laughed when they saw this.

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