My country is dying

Chapter 105

"Brother has something to ask you, if you are willing to answer brother truthfully, is this bag of pastries all yours?"

The little girl nodded immediately.

"Is your family not getting enough to eat every day? Does Xiao Qiaoer never have rice porridge?"

The little girl nodded immediately: "Mother borrowed the rice today. The village chief said that if any guests come, we must treat them well! Whoever can't cook well will not be allowed to eat."

"I'll tell you everything!" At this moment, the man suddenly yelled, and the woman went to pull him, crying, but was pushed away by him, "There is nothing you can't say! The left is dead, and the right is dead, anyway, hurry up It’s better than starving to death a little bit! Look at our Qiaoer, how skinny we are! We are three or four years old, but we look like two years old, you can bear it, I can’t bear it!”

As he said that, the man said to Mi Le and the others: "To tell you the truth, it's not just our family that's like this, it's like this in all the towns and villages around here. Everyone has no rice to eat, no clothes to wear, and every family starves to death and freezes." Frozen to death, there are only a dozen or so families left in our village of a hundred people, and they have been embezzled by the government!"

"In the past few years, Linzhou City has never had a flood or drought. Why is it so poor?"

As soon as Hou Junli asked this question, the farm uncle burst into tears.

"It's not that the imperial court has a heavy tax! It's [-]% in other places, but we charge [-]% here! The tax is too heavy, and the gentry and the government directly count the tax on us poor people. No matter how hard we work, we will get it." I can’t even support myself, let alone the whole family!”

Speaking of this, the farm uncle couldn't help wiping away his tears: "I heard that the emperor recently visited Linzhou, and the government sent out notices from door to door. Anyone who came to the house had to entertain outsiders. They must not tell the truth, otherwise, This family will not be hired for a year! You say we are the only ones who can do some hard work, if we don’t even have to do the work, wouldn’t our family starve to death!”

On the side, the aunt also started to cry, and couldn't bear it anymore: "We are not willing to eat, the food you ate today is enough for our family's harvest for a year!"

Seeing her parents crying, the little girl was stunned for a while, then suddenly looked at the mung bean cake in Mi Le's hand.

When Mi Le handed her the paper bag, she immediately came to her parents with the paper bag in her hands, and brought mung bean cakes to their mouths: "Father, mother, there is something to eat, don't cry!"

Seeing this scene, the couple hugged the little girl and wept bitterly, feeling even more sad.

Hou Junli didn't speak, and Mi Le felt sad seeing this scene.

She looked at Hou Junli: "Uncle, let's go!"

Hou Junli nodded, and the group left.

Before leaving, Mi Le took off the golden hairpin from the hair crown, stuffed it into the little girl's hand, and patted her head: "Be nice to your parents from now on!"

The little girl nodded ignorantly, and when the couple saw the golden hairpin, they knelt down to Mi Le.

Mi Le shook his head: "We won't talk about today's matter, don't worry."

The husband and wife were stunned for a moment, and in the next second, they cried and kowtowed to Mi Le.

Mi Le sighed and left.

Back in the carriage, Mi Le didn't speak for a long time. As for Hou Junli, he looked through the memorial as if nothing had happened.

Mi Le tossed and turned, and finally sat up uncontrollably, slapped the wall of the carriage loudly and shouted, "Yungui, how long is it?"

Yun Gui immediately drove forward: "Your Majesty, we will be able to reach the market after passing the hill ahead, it should be an hour later."

Mi Le didn't relax at all: "Hurry up, I'm tired of sitting in this carriage!"

(End of this chapter)