When Li Yuan heard these chattering words, she looked at her father and Li Qinghua.
The former said bluntly: "They can leave as long as they want. It's not good for us to take such discordant people with us on the road."
The latter expressed his position: "Mother Yuan, they said they want to go back, but they will live in this cave first. How much food rations do you have? If you take people to Liufeng County now, can you get it? We will go to Dankou Village to wait for you, wait for you After we get the supplies, we give them to them.”
As he said that, he changed the subject: "If it's not enough, let's do this first. We will convert the money directly to them. When we helped deliver food before, we confiscated any money from them. Why should we follow them just because they want to? , and go to the trouble of leaving just when you want to? Who will pay for the round trip expenses and so on? "
Li Yuan heard the words and replied directly: "Uncle Hua, the grain I have is only enough to compensate two families after excluding Bai Yan and the others. It's definitely not enough to compensate just sweet potatoes. I mainly eat rice. The ones they asked me to help transport away at the beginning should be Mainly coarse grain, we will convert it back to them according to the price on the market before the disaster."
Li Qinghua and Old Man Li didn't want her to be involved in this unnecessary disaster, so they said, "Okay, then you go back and sort it out first, and I'll have someone carry it over."
Li Qinghua finished speaking and looked at those people: "If you are sure you want to separate, then you have to deal with it in our way. Now you have two choices. One, according to the previous records, you can ask Yuan Niang to help transport them away. We will convert the grain into silver and give it to you."
"Two, your rations will be converted into rice and returned to you. If there is any difference, as you said, we can borrow it from the tribe, and we can pay it back. But I want sweet potatoes, sorry, it's impossible!"
Wang Erzhu and others pursed their lips and remained silent when they heard this.
They have so much rations that they can eat for the coming year.
At this moment, what's the point of asking for money? There's nowhere to buy it if you have money.
Besides, what's the point of switching to rice? If you buy one kilogram of rice, you can buy two kilograms of whole grains.
This is equivalent to cutting their rations by half.
"No! We don't want money, we just want food. We want to go with them."
Wang Erzhu's mother-in-law was the first to make a fuss: "His father, if you want to go back, you can go back by yourself. Then we will separate our families now. I will go with my two sons and you will be alone. The total amount of food in our family will be counted as three portions. You can just take it." Just take one share. My two sons and I will follow the arrangement of the chief."
"Yes, Mom is right! Dad, if you want to go back, just go back by yourself. Anyway, we won't go back. Let's just live a good life, why are you messing around?"
When the two families of the Li family heard about the situation at Wang Erzhu's side, they also started to cause trouble with the head of the family.
In short, they don't want to go back.
Why don't you leave Luyang Mansion, which has a bright future, to stay and suffer.
Furthermore, if you really want to leave, you will be exterminated.
They were born as Li family members and died as Li family ghosts.
Wherever the Li family is, they will be there.
How unthinkable it is to break away from the clan and become a rootless person in the future!
Those people were arguing and talking about leaving because of the unfairness in the Li clan.
There are so many extra horses in Li Yuan's side. Why should they be used by others? They don't have any and can only walk on their own feet. This is unfair.
Li Qinghua didn't care how noisy they were. He returned to his carriage, took out the account books, household registers and money, and then asked people to go to Li Yuan's carriage to carry food.
When they really got everything to the big cave, Zhang Cong and others came over.
"Shut up, everyone! You're still in a noisy mood in this weather. I think you just have enough to hold on!"
Zhang Cong's words are extremely shocking.
After scolding those noisy people, he looked at Li Qinghua.
"Clan Leader Li, what's going on?"
"Zhang Captou, these people saw that the county town was flooded and wanted to stay and go back with the county town. No, they asked Yuan Niang to help transport the food to Luyang Mansion before, but now they are calling Yuan Niang to come here pay."
When Zhang Cong heard what happened, he immediately scolded with a sullen face: "Nonsense! What's the scene outside? Are you so blind? Just you, what can you do when you go back? Come on, let me go. If you don't want to leave, Then stay in this cave, and when the water recedes, you can go back if you want."
When Wang Erzhu heard that Zhang Cong had no intention of taking them, he said: "It's not our intention to catch Zhang Tou. First, it's a long way to Luyang. We have to walk on two feet. How long will it take?"
As he spoke, he paused for a moment and said with emphasis: "Secondly, there are so many carriages from scholar ladies, why don't we people with foreign surnames deserve to get them? It's so unfair, how can we be better off in Luyang by then? What if we had it before? They are willing to give our family a horse so that our cart will not be washed away."
When others heard this, they immediately agreed.
"Yes, Er Zhu is right! Zhang Captou, it's raining so hard now and it's flooded outside. Even if you want to go back, you can't do anything. You might as well stay here with us. Among the people we left behind, there are high-yielding sweet potatoes. , if you grow it and sell it later, it will be money. This place that suffered disasters should have been tax-free in the past few years, right?"
"Yes, Zhang Tou. After the clan members leave, the caves here will be empty. Then we can live however we want. Lying down horizontally or vertically will be better than being crowded everywhere now!"
"What's good, you really want to eat shit!"
After Zhang Cong scolded them angrily, he turned to Li Qinghua and said, "Clan Chief Li, the same rice can support hundreds of people. Among the more than 800 people you have, you have everyone. Since they want to leave, you should be more decisive. If you have to break it, break it off, otherwise you will only cause trouble for yourself if you turn back."
As he said that, he looked at those people: "I don't care what your specific intentions are for staying. It's impossible to leave with me. We can't go back ourselves, let alone take you."
Li Qinghua was also very fast. He immediately calculated according to the types and prices of grains in the record book, and then began to return them to the people who were clamoring to go back.
When there was not enough rice, he borrowed it from the clan members and also made up for it with some money.
After the accounts that these people asked Li Yuan to help transport were settled, he looked at the family members who were unwilling to stay and sighed in his heart.
"We will leave early tomorrow morning, and you will settle your family matters on your own. Today you are making a fuss about staying, but now that we have settled things with your family, even if you want to leave with us then you will not be able to. As Zhang Captou said, The same rice feeds all kinds of people, and I'm afraid something will happen to me on the way back. I have to be responsible for my Li family, the people with other surnames in the Li family'ao, and the in-laws who trust us."
Regardless of whether these people regret it or not, when they made trouble, the cause had already been sown, and only they could taste the fruit.
