"Give me a bowl of porridge."
The Cui family servant who came over said something to the cook.
Unlike those individual households, the servants of the Cui family are the real members of the family, so the cook reached the bottom of the bucket with a spoon, took a big spoonful from the bottom, poured it into the bowl, and handed it to the servant of the Cui family who had just walked over.
"Is this fucking porridge too?" The servant of the Cui family glanced at the porridge in the bowl. Except for some rice grains and vegetable leaves on the bottom layer, the rest was basically water.
The cook grinned and said, "The eldest young master has told me that the food those households eat does not need to be very good, and they can just cheat their stomachs."
"Tricking your stomach with water? You guys are really good at it." Cui's servant looked at the porridge in the bowl and pouted.
Since it was the matter handed down by the eldest young master, he couldn't say much. Fortunately, he still had a piece of pancake in his arms, so he wouldn't be hungry no matter what.
"Come, come, come, take the porridge bowl." The cook distributed porridge to others again.
One of the more courageous households looked at the vegetable leaves floating in the water in the bowl and couldn't help but said: "This is too thin, you can't even see a grain of rice."
"Yeah, this is too watery, and it's all gone when you pee."
"How can you drink such thin porridge? How can a wealthy family like the Cui family still lack so much food to make porridge?"
"Let the cook keep it secretly!"
Individual households complained one after another.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The cook banged the barrel hard with his spoon, glared and said loudly: "Why are you making a fuss? This is the porridge. You can drink it whether you like it or not. If you don't drink it, just stay there and don't disturb the eyes of others."
The individual households soon became quiet.
Although the porridge is thin, there are still a few grains and vegetable leaves in it, which is better than nothing.
The remaining households soon received their own bowl of porridge.
When the last household left with their porridge bowls, the cook poured all the porridge bottoms from several wooden barrels into one wooden barrel and gave it to several servants who were eating.
The servants of the Cui family and the households had different statuses in Xiaosongji, so the servants gathered together, the households gathered together, and the long-term workers also gathered together.
Several groups of people are clearly distinguishable, with the largest number of individuals belonging to individual households.
"The Cui family is so useless. We are asked to help them guard Xiao Songji, but we don't even care about having enough food to eat." One household complained to other households sitting next to them.
Another household on the side said: "I heard with my own ears that two members of the Cui family and the Wang family said that the grain given to the rebels had to be shared equally by Xiao Songji from house to house."
"The family is almost running out of food, and the food given to the rebels is still on our shoulders. How will our family live in the future?" The householder slapped his thigh with a sad look on his face.
After paying rent and various taxes, there is little left in the households. Famines often occur throughout the year. Even if there is only a few buckets of food missing, people may starve to death.
"Who says it's not true? How will our family live in the future?"
"The Cui family and the Wang family charge so much rent every year, and they can't finish the food at home, so why do they still want to take advantage of us? Isn't this forcing people to die?"
"You can't say that. The Cui family's food belongs to the Cui family. If you ask me, it's the rebels outside. If they hadn't come, the Cui family and the Wang family wouldn't have given them food, and we wouldn't have eaten with them. The melon falls.”
"Yes, blame the rebels. These damn rebels, sooner or later the court will send an army to deal with them."
A group of individual households talked to each other and heard that the food given to the rebels would eventually be divided equally among themselves. Everyone looked very heavy.
Food is a life-saving thing. Life for individual households has been difficult in the past two years. Some households have even hanged themselves. Now they have to spend an extra amount of money out of thin air. Many households are thinking about it but don't know. How many families will be unable to survive?
"I have heard something related to the rebels outside Xiaosongji. Do you want to know?" A thin-faced individual said in a low voice to several individuals around him.
At the same time, don’t forget to raise your head and look left and right.
The surrounding individuals were attracted by his words and looked at him one after another.
"What's going on?" one householder asked curiously.
The thin-faced householder glanced at the servants of the Cui family in the distance, and then whispered: "I heard people talking about the rebels outside. They said that wherever they go, they allocate fields to local households, and they also You don’t have to pay the government’s messy taxes, you just need to pay your rent on time.”
"Is there such a good thing?" one customer asked suspiciously.
Another individual next to him said: "The Cui family said that the rebels outside Xiao Songji did all sorts of bad things, including burning, killing, looting, and so on. You don't really think that the rebels are good people, do you?"
Ordinary people will rarely have the opportunity to leave a place ten or twenty miles away from their home in their lifetime, so a lot of the news that people know is passed down by word of mouth, or what is passed down by the local big family.
Most individual households are more willing to believe the words of large families like the Cui family and the Wang family than if they are an individual household like themselves.
Seeing that no one believed him, the thin-faced householder said, "Believe it or not, these words came from the Cui family, but not many people know about it."
"Why didn't we know what the Cui family said? You couldn't have made it up!" One householder didn't believe it at all.
In order to prove that what he said was true, the thin-faced man defended himself: "I'm not afraid to tell you that this was said by the eldest young master of the Cui family himself. When I said this, I was hiding behind the haystack."
One householder felt a little shaken.
Since what the eldest young master of the Cui family said, it is still very credible to many households.
"I still don't believe it." Still one householder shook his head and said, "The fields around our Xiao Song Ji belong to either the Cui family or the Wang family. Even if those rebels want to divide the fields, what will they use to divide them? Our land is distributed dozens of miles away, so how can we cultivate it? It will take a whole day just to rush there and back, so there is no time to take care of the fields."
These words made some individual households nod in support.
If the land is too far from home, even if they wanted to, they would not have time to plant it.
"If I really had my own farm, I would be willing to plant it even if it was dozens of miles away. The worst I could do would be to move my family there, and a living person would still be able to choke to death." One householder said.
His words made many people’s eyes light up.
There was even a household who was secretly thinking that if he really needed to be given some land, he should abandon his old house in Xiao Songji and move to his own farmland.
"You all have no brains at all. The land here in Xiao Songji belongs to the Cui family and the Wang family. Could it be that the land dozens of miles away is unclaimed land?" A thin-faced householder looked at a group of people. I was thinking nonsense there and couldn't help but grin.
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