The high-end and classy sky scene has nothing to do with the earth.
On the Baijiyuan River Beach, the ground is filled with refugees.
Put together a few shelves and put some thatch on them, and you'll have a house.
Spread some hay on the ground to make a bed.
If you can still have some food, this can be paradise.
However, how many people can have food all year round?
On the river beach, mosquitoes are bigger than flies in summer. In winter, the cold wind blows through your body and your body feels chilly. Where is the place for people to stay? The local people would rather live in the deep mountains and old forests than live here. Most of the people living here are refugees.
When their hometown was hit by a disaster, they borrowed land to live temporarily. This is a common calling card for almost all Baiji original residents.
But some people have lived here temporarily for several generations.
Why? In which year does your hometown not suffer disaster?
If there is no natural disaster, there will be military disaster. If there is no military disaster, there will be locust disaster. If there is no locust disaster, there will be human disaster...
In comparison, Baijiyuan is better.
Even if there is nothing to eat, even if a flood comes and more or less people will die, there are still benefits after all. The benefit is that this tidal flat has no owner, no one comes to them to collect high taxes, and this is Haining There are not many wild beasts in the suburbs. Of course, it is good to have wild beasts. Young and strong men can go out and maybe hunt a few for the Tooth Festival...
At a corner near the river, Xiaoxue looked at the Changliu water quietly. She was originally a maid in the Dingnan Hou Mansion. To the country people, she was rich in clothes and food. But more than half a month ago, she came back. Because her father is ill.
She invited doctors and bought medicines, but in the end she could not save her father's life.
Her father passed away, and the Immortal Sect did not allow the body to be buried here. She could only use a few bamboos to build a bamboo raft, cover it with hay, and burn a fire in the middle of the river. Her father turned into ashes under her eyes, and her mother fainted from crying. In her arms.
"Xue'er, Xue'er..." the mother in the room called softly.
Xiaoxue suddenly woke up from her deep thoughts and pushed open the thatched door outside: "Mom, are you hungry... I just picked the freshest wild vegetables, and I'll cook them for you."
The old woman on the bed looked disheveled and extremely weak, but she still stretched out her hand and held her daughter's hand: "Xue'er, it's time for you to go back. It's not good to be away for a long time when you are working in someone else's house. The host will dislike you. "
"Mom, you can't even get up..."
"Who said Mom can't get up? Mom is fine, just a little tired..." The old woman struggled to sit up: "Don't worry, okay?"
Tears welled up in Xiaoxue's eyes. She didn't dare to tell her mother that she couldn't go back.
When the master's family suffered a disaster, she became a shameful traitor. Not only did she not share the suffering with the master's family, but she also stole the madam's hairpin. Madam, I'm sorry, Xiaoxue will definitely return your hairpin as long as she doesn't die. return!
"Why don't you speak? Xue'er, look into your mother's eyes and tell her whether...she was kicked out by the master's family? You said..."
Suddenly, a voice came from outside: "Xiaoxue!"
Xueer's face suddenly turned as pale as paper. She recognized whose voice it was. It was Lin Jialiang, the second young master! The most amazing person in the entire Dingnanhou Mansion.
He came in person, he must have come to arrest her and bring her to justice.
She has done something wrong and can accept any punishment, but this punishment cannot be in front of her mother. Her mother cannot bear this kind of blow...
"Xiaoxue, are you there?"
Another voice came, and Xiaoxue's whole body was shaken. The third young master is here too?
"Xue'er, who is it?"
"Yes... they are the two young masters of the Hou Mansion..."
ah? The mother got out of bed: "Xue'er, hurry up, please bring the two young masters in..."
As soon as the door was opened, Lin Su and Lin Jialiang appeared at the door carrying a bag.
"Xiaoxue!" Lin Su said: "There is some rice and noodles in here. My mother asked us to deliver them..."
Xiaoxue's whole body was shaken, and she completely lost her ability to think.
He wasn't the one who caught her, he even brought her rice and noodles.
"Madam... Madam, are you okay?" Xiaoxue's lips trembled slightly. Others didn't know the situation in the Hou Mansion. How could she not know that when she left, Madam was also in a desperate situation...
Lin Su smiled: "My mother is very good. She often worships her ancestors at home and thanks her for their blessings. I said Xiaoxue, after you go back, you have to persuade her to stop worshiping ancestors. It's the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. As long as the ground is dry, who can bear the thought of worshiping all the time?"
The words were lighthearted and playful, but conveyed several key messages.
First, everything is fine with the Lin family and they have overcome the difficulties.
Secondly, Madam allowed Xiaoxue to return to the Lin family.
Xiaoxue's heart was filled with waves, as if she was in a dream.
"Go and cook some porridge for your mother. The old man is not in good health."
The porridge is tumbling in the pot.
Tears rolled in Xiaoxue's eyes.
Someone approaches from behind.
Xiaoxue turned around and saw Lin Su, and she suddenly knelt down.
Kneel in front of Lin Su.
"Xiaoxue, what are you doing?"
"Young Master is kind-hearted and can't bear to expose my Taotian crime in front of my mother, but I...my crime will exist after all. I stole Madam's hairpin and was shameless to enter the Lin family again, but I...but I have sworn , In this life, as long as I don’t die, I will definitely pay it back!”
"You've already paid it back!"
What? Xiaoxue raised her head, not understanding.
Lin Sudao: "A month ago, when you put the three bags of flour at the door of Lin's house, you had already returned them."
"But..." She wanted to say that she sold the hairpin for four taels of silver, and the three bags of flour were only worth one and a half. She used the remaining two and a half to hire a doctor and buy medicine...
"A hairpin is valuable, but life is priceless. Sometimes you can see a person's true nature clearly even if you are distracted. Don't worry about minor issues. Xiaoxue, you don't have to carry anything anymore. You are not guilty. My mother has forgiven you. Well, we brothers don’t blame you.”
Xiaoxue burst into tears.
"I came here today. In addition to giving you something, I also wanted to ask you for something."
"Young master, Xiaoxue will agree to anything..."
Xiaoxue's heart was pounding wildly. Did the young master mean to... her?
Otherwise, what else here could catch his eye?
Even if I ask her, she will give it!
"This!" Lin Su lifted up a bag of sweet rice placed in the corner with his hands.
The worry in Xiaoxue's heart disappeared instantly, replaced by surprise: "Sir, this... this is sweet rice, you must not eat it!"
"I know you can't eat it!" Lin Su blinked and said, "But I'm thinking about another question. Can it be...drinked? Let's go, bye!"
Tami threw her shoulders and Lin Su strode away.
There was nothing unusual all the way back, and Lin Jialiang was just puzzled.
"Third brother, what are you doing carrying this sweet potato? You can't eat it, even feed it to pigs and dogs. It's destined to be used as fertilizer, and it's not as good as pig and cow dung as fertilizer."
Lin Su said bluntly: I plan to make an experiment to see if this sweet potato can be used to make wine.
Making wine in a feudal society was not as easy as imagined.
Raw materials are a big problem.
If the common people eat wild vegetables, how can you have so much food for you to make wine? If you drink a glass of wine, it may mean that an ordinary person will starve to death. Are you feeling guilty? All dynasties after the Song Dynasty controlled wineries, and they also realized that making wine had the disadvantage of competing with the people for food.
Therefore, Lin Su was not willing to use staple foods such as rice to make wine.
But Tami is completely different.
Sweet rice has no edible value. He uses it to make wine, so there is no need to compete with the people for food.
On the one hand, make good wine and get rich.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to find a way to make money for the people on the riverbank? Maybe the saints were impressed by his great deeds and directly gave him the literary world, literary mountain, literary heart and so on. Wouldn't that be hahahaha?
He said it easily, but Lin Jialiang's heart was trembling.
Is it really possible?
This road is not a literary road, but a life path for the people.
The people are helpless and miserable. How many literati describe it with emotional tones, but how many of them really care about people's livelihood?
The third brother is really paying attention!
And he did it himself!
"Third brother, reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles! Brother, I really understand!" Lin Jialiang said: "One day, if I become an official, I will definitely live up to the people of all directions!"
Lin Su's hand pressed on his shoulder: "Okay, one day, I will make you a high official."
Lin Jialiang's eyes shone brightly: "Then you must first become a bigger official. Third brother, it's good if you have this understanding. After you go back, study behind closed doors and concentrate on the imperial examination..."
Lin Su slapped himself in the mouth: "I didn't say anything!"
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