Ning's father and Ning Lao Er were holding an IOU that could be enough for them to eat for half a year, and they felt that they had never been as safe as they had been young. They felt that they had not been so rich since they were young. This kind of down-to-earth was not only enough for them to eat for half a year, but also married Ning Sanmei to Gu Yezhou, a capable and kind person. Even if they had finished eating the food for half a year, they did not believe that Gu Yezhou would watch them starve to death.

Of course, they don’t want to rely solely on other people’s help. Wouldn’t it be better if they could live a good life on their own?

Therefore, after separation from Ning Sanmei, the two began to discuss how to exchange land for half a year of grain. They discussed five bowls of rice for one acre of land. However, they should not carry the grain with them. It is best to let those who exchange land for grain go to the rice merchant to get it, which is the safest.

So, the two of them turned back to the rice merchant Qiu Fuzu's house. They told Qiu Fuzu what they thought of. How they wanted to deal with the other person's food was their business, so Qiu Fuzu naturally followed the advice. He called the accountant and left the food they had stored there for only two months. The rest were all sold as rice tickets, each representing a small bowl of rice. The rice tickets were deducted from the grain they had stored and re-issued the IOU.

They returned to the City God Temple with a stack of rice tickets.

They first found the family of Ziber, who was already hungry in their village. Ziber's family was a self-cultivated farmer, and the whole family had four acres of high-quality paddy fields. They whispered to him: "Zip, don't say I don't take care of you. I have some rice. I want to take it out to help you. Do you want it?"

Ziber, who was lying on the ground, suddenly got up from the ground and said tremblingly: "Yes! Yes! Thank you brothers! Thank you for saving your life."

"But I can't give my food for nothing. Is it okay to exchange your property?"

"Ah?" Ziber looked at him with a complicated expression, "How to change it?"

Seeing that his family was so hungry that he had thought of selling the land, but many people were making this idea and selling their own land, so the land price was greatly reduced. And no one bought it, and it would not be sold for a while. Now Ning's father is willing to replace it with grain, which is of course both surprising and sad. Land is their last property. If the land is sold, I really don't know how to survive the future. However, now only Gu Yinqian is. I will overcome the difficulty before I see it.

Ning's father looked around and said in a low voice: "I have a lot of food in Miqiu Fuzu's house. He opened some rice tickets for me, one rice ticket and one bowl of rice. I will exchange five rice tickets for you for one acre of land. A total of four acres of land yields twenty bowls of rice! It's enough for your family to eat for a while! How about it?"

This price is much lower than the current land production price on the market. When the land cannot be sold, Zibo has no choice. Although these twenty bowls of rice are enough to make porridge for a family of ten days. However, after they were hungry for a few days, Zibo's son was starved to death and had no strength to bury it, so he placed it at the bottom of the wall of the Chenghuang Temple. He was buried by the wind and snow. Now, the remaining family members are no longer able to do it. They are waiting for the food to save their lives. There is no way, so they can only grit their teeth and change it.

Ziber nodded in pain: "Okay! Change it!"

Ning's father stretched out his hand: "Tian Qi!"

Qi Bo trembled and took out a blue cloth package from his arms, opened it, and took out four contracts, which were the land deeds of their family's four acres of land. He handed them to Ning's father.

Ning's father took the Tian Qi, and quietly took out twenty rice tickets and handed them to Qi Bo. Qi Bo took them with trembling hands. He looked carefully and called his family, who was already hungry and staggering. He struggled to come to the rice merchant under the call of food. After replacing twenty bowls of rice, he only had a small bag. He hid in a corner, made a fire and cooked rice porridge. After drinking the whole family, his body finally felt a little warmth.

Ning's father and Ning Laoer continued to look for their targets, and they went separately. They searched almost all the self-cultivated farmers in the village and replaced the land of many self-cultivated farmers. Suddenly, the land they were pregnant had already become thick and thick. Then, they began to exchange it with people from the neighboring village until they exchanged all the rice tickets in their arms for land. Of course, they still had the remaining grain now, so they knew that they had two months of food.

The two were hiding happily in a corner to count the field deeds, and suddenly they saw many victims in the City God Temple running out, braved the heavy snow in the sky and walked outside the City God Temple. They were shocked.

Just as Zhang Huang looked at what was happening, Ning Lao Er saw a familiar figure stumbled towards him, and hurriedly grabbed it, but it was Luo Jiacai's wife and asked, "What are you doing?"

Jiacai's wife looked excited: "I heard that the disaster relief food allocated by the imperial court has arrived, so hurry up and queue up to get the porridge at the yamen!" After that, she broke free from his hand and followed the crowd around and ran to the outside door of the yard.

Ning's father and his wife had food, and they were not very excited when they heard the news. Instead, they were a little lucky. Fortunately, they had already taken it off. If they had waited until now, they were afraid that the relief food would not be able to get such a cheap land so smoothly.

The two sat in the City God Temple without going. After a while, there were no one standing in the main halls of the City God Temple. Only those who were lying on the ground were hungry and could not leave. There were also those dead bodies that were not strong enough to carry them out to bury. The smell of corpses emitting.

At this time, Ning Laoer said, "Otherwise, let's go and have a look, there is nothing to do with the people. If you can get disaster relief food, can you sell it for sale and change the land?"

"Okay!" Ning's father nodded.

The two of them also came to the county government in the heavy snow.

The dam in front of the county government office was already full of victims who came to prepare disaster relief food. However, the gate of the county government office was tightly closed, and rows of yamen police officers stood on the ladder leaning against the wall, holding bows and arrows in their hands, and nervously staring at the crowded victims.

Ruan Dan, the chief of the county government, stood at the gate and shouted loudly: "Friends! Dear villagers! Don't believe the rumors. The court's disaster relief grain has not arrived yet. If it arrives, we will arrange for distribution. But it has not arrived yet. The county magistrate who is in charge of the printing has issued urgent documents repeatedly and urged him. However, the court is suppressing bandits and cannot bring out so much food for a while, because it is not our county that has suffered disasters, and many places across the country have suffered disasters. It has been a blizzard for more than ten days, and many people have no food. Therefore, there are many places that need disaster relief, and it will not be taken care of our county for a while. But please rest assured, the county magistrate loves the people as much as his son and will definitely get food for everyone! The disaster relief grain has not yet arrived, so don't believe the rumors..."

His words made the hope of the victims dim again. He was talking buzzingly. At this time, someone suddenly shouted in the crowd: "Someone saw the disaster relief grains that went into the city last night and into the yamen!"

Another shouted loudly: "That's right! I saw with my own eyes that the carriage was loaded with bags of grain entering the city!"

"Do you want to starve us all to death if the yamen does not distribute disaster relief food?"

At this moment, the victims started to make a fuss like boiling water. Ruan Dan's voice could no longer be heard.

Ruan Dan's face changed when she saw the victims who had gradually lost control. At this time, someone squeezed over, reached his steps, and walked upwards. Ruan Dan pulled out her waist knife in horror and shouted: "Stop! What are you going to do?"

The man stopped and looked up and said, "I am the scholar Gu Yezhou. Don't you recognize the captain?"

Captain Ruan looked closely and found that it was Gu Yezhou. He quickly returned the knife to the sheath, clasped his fists and said, "So it's sir. Is there anything wrong?"

"Well! I'll find the county magistrate and report what I always want. Can I go in?"

"Yes! Of course, I will lead the gentleman. - Open the door! Open the door quickly!"

The yamen opened, Gu Yezhou stepped in, and Captain Ruan followed in immediately and ordered the door to be closed and no one was allowed to come in alone.

Captain Ruan wiped his forehead and said, "These mud legs are really fucked! I don't know who revealed the news."

Gu Yezhou's heart moved and looked at him: "Has the disaster relief grain in the yamen really been allocated?"

Captain Ruan regretted that he had let it go, but thinking that Gu Yezhou was a scholar, a disciple of the county magistrate, and also a member of the yamen, so he didn't have to hide it, so he whispered: "It's been there, it's been several days. However, the county magistrate said, don't rush to post it. - This is an absolute secret. Mr. Wang must not tell anyone! In order to avoid causing civil rebellion!"

Gu Yezhou said: "Of course I won't say it. But since the food has arrived, why not distribute disaster relief?"

"This..., I don't know much..., hehe, these are all the meanings of the county magistrate."

"Well, have I also got my more than 100 bounty?"

"This..., to be honest, has come down long ago, but the county magistrate also said that it will not be distributed for the time being."

"Why?"

"I don't know if I'm a little bit."

While he was speaking, he had already arrived at the signing room. County Magistrate Tan, who was temporarily in charge of printing, was working here. However, at this moment, he was standing nervously at the door, looking at the direction of the door, worried that the victims would rush in.

I saw Captain Ruan coming from afar and saw clearly when I got closer. It turned out to be Gu Yezhou, a scholar from the county. As the second in command of the county government, he certainly knew all the scholars in the county, including Gu Yezhou. However, Gu Yezhou, who possessed his soul, did not know him.

Fortunately, Captain Ruan stepped forward and bowed, "Mr. Gu asked for a visit and said that there was an important report."

County Magistrate Tan glanced at Gu Yezhou and nodded: "Okay, talk in the room!"

The two entered the signing room and sat down. The servant brought tea, then retreated and closed the door. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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