Chapter 205 Dream Return (2)

Song Yunfei took Lu Shege out.

Lu Yuanshan accompanied several heads of Qingfeng Village to drink and eat meat in the middle hall, discussing how to transport more than 100 loads of grain borrowed by the Lu family to Qingfeng Village in the dark of night.

The Lu family is not far from Qingfeng Village, only about forty or fifty miles.

In previous years, the Lu family only sent thousands of kilograms of grain to Qingfeng Village. Whether it was by oxcart or pushcart, there was always a way to deliver it to Qingfeng Village.

However, the harvest in the past two years has not been good, life has become more difficult, and the government has become more and more strict about money and food.

The wealthy families in the southern capital are intoxicated with music and entertainment every night.

The villagers in the northern mountains have no means of living, they have no clothes to cover their bodies and no food to eat.

The victims first killed poultry, and then ate grass roots and bark. This spring, disaster victims were everywhere, and uprisings were everywhere. Those who sold their children and daughters were still kind, and they exchanged their children for food.

Lujiazhuang is able to enjoy today's stability because of Lu Yuanshan's kindness and kindness. Not only did he waive rent during the disaster years, but he also used the stored grain to help the villagers.

In Dongyang County, anyone who mentions Mr. Lu Dashan, the owner of Lu Village, will give him a thumbs up and praise him.

Lu Yuanshan took the lead, and the nearby gentry and wealthy people all donated more or less.

Near Dongyang County, although they were also affected by the disaster, few people left their homes to escape famine. With these relief grains, they could barely sustain themselves until this year's spring farming.

Just wait for this spring day, plant the spring seeds, wait a little longer, harvest the food, and this time of famine will be over.

But now Qingfeng Village has borrowed tens of thousands of grains. If this much grain wants to be transported back to Qingfeng Village from the victims, not only the local garrison in Dongyang County will not allow it, but even the victims who have fled here will not let the food that can survive easily pass by.

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Song Yunfei is already sensible, while Lu Xiangge is still young and doesn't know how hard life is outside.

She only remembered that day, in addition to Brother Xiaohu, there was also a man named Brother Yunfei who accompanied her. She only remembered that she happily hid behind a flower bush behind the rockery, waiting for Brother Yunfei to come to her.

Dongyang County has a vast land, with mountains in the south and waterways in the north. It is a transportation hub in the Central Plains. Its official roads and waterways extend in all directions, making it very convenient.

There are many fertile fields, many high mountains, many refugees, and many bandits.

In the famine years, rebel armies were everywhere. However, the imperial court did not care about the life and death of the people. When it sent troops to suppress the situation, the first people to suffer were the local people.

If there are officers and soldiers, there must be food and grass. If the food and grass are not enough, then local government support is needed.

However, in the years of continuous disasters and conscription every year, even the government could not make ends meet, and there was no surplus food to feed the officers and soldiers of the court.

Officers and soldiers are like gangsters, and gangsters also pay attention to brotherhood, robbing the rich and giving to the poor, not killing people indiscriminately, and not taking the lives of others in vain.

The officers and soldiers can't take care of that. Since the county government has no food, they must collect it.

As for whether the people under his rule have food and whether they can eat enough, no one cares at all.

Such wars occur frequently, and the appetite of Qingfeng Village is getting bigger and bigger. In the past few years, a thousand catties of grain was enough. Since the time when Xiang Ge was five years old, the Song brothers personally came to borrow ten thousand catties of grain. This has happened every year, and they have not repaid the borrowed money.

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In the spring of this year, Lu Xiangge was nine years old and Chen Xiaohu was ten years old.

Because her sister Shen Qinglian had an accident, Mrs. Shen hurried back to her parents' home accompanied by her two sons.

In the evening, Lu Yuanshan entered the east courtyard where his daughter Lu Sheige lived.

"Third brother is here."

Lu Xiuge, Lu Xiuge's wet nurse, put down the soles in her hands and stood up, lighting up the oil lamp in the room: "Sheige has already fallen asleep, and the child keeps complaining that the third sister-in-law didn't take him to his grandfather's house, and he is angry."

Lu Xiuniang is a clan sister of the Lu Yuanshan clan who has not yet released the fifth server. The year Xi Ge was born, Lu Xiuniang's man went hunting in the mountains and wanted to catch some wild pheasants for his wife who was about to be confinement, but he did not expect that in the middle of the month, Lu Xiuniang's husband would go hunting.

On the hillside, I encountered a blind bear and broke an arm, so I could barely save my life.

Lu Xiuniang gave birth to her daughter that night, but before she was out of confinement, her premature and frail daughter died.

Lu Yuanshan saw that she was from a womanly family who had to raise a young son and take care of a seriously injured man, so he simply sent her family into Zhuangzi.

Lu Xiuniang became a nurse for the newborn Lu Xiuge, and Lu Xiuniang's man guarded the back door of the Lu family. Her son, Xiao Huzi, grew up with her and his sister.

A family of three has a place to live.

Lu Yuanshan walked to his daughter's bed and looked at his daughter's little face that was flushed with sleep, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

Several generations of the Lu family had been passed down alone, and his generation was considered good. First they had their eldest son, then their second son, and a few years later they had Shen Ge. When Shen Ge was born, Shen had a hemorrhage and almost lost his life.

Fortunately, Lu Xiuniang stayed with Xiange day and night and took good care of her.

No matter how busy or tired Lu Yuanshan is, he must come and see his daughter's sleeping face to feel at ease.

Lu Yuanshan doted on Xiang Ge more than his two sons.

"Third brother."

Lu Yuanshan tucked his daughter in, and just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by Lu Xiuniang, who was sitting under the lamp and picking up the soles of her shoes: "Huzi's father said that when he went into the mountain today, he saw someone looking at Zhuangzi from the back mountain."

Lujiazhuang is built on the mountain, and past the backyard wall is the slope of Xiaoyun Mountain.

The terrain of Xiaoyun Mountain is so steep that ordinary people cannot easily climb to the top. Standing on the top of Xiaoyun Mountain, you can almost overlook the entire Lujiazhuang, not to mention the surrounding roads.

Lu Yuanshan's expression condensed slightly: "Who did Er Zhu say he didn't have?"

"Not the tenants around, nor the hunters in the mountains, nor the people in the city." Lu Xiuniang frowned: "Huzi's father said, look at the figure of the military master who is marching and fighting."

"Master Jun?"

Lu Yuanshan frowned. If he was a tenant hunter or a city dweller, it would not be normal for him to appear in the back mountain, let alone the military master.

This Xiaoyun Mountain seems ordinary, but everyone nearby knows that Xiaoyun Mountain is the property of the Lu family. The mountains are thickly covered with trees and crisscrossed with ravines, hiding many wild animals.

Most people go to the mountains next door to collect firewood, dig wild vegetables, or hunt. It is easy for no one to enter Xiaoyun Mountain.

When this military commander entered Xiaoyun Mountain, he was probably heading for the Lu family.

Apart from money and food, what else can the Lu family want the military master to keep an eye on?

Lu Yuanshan thought about it and concluded that this was the only possibility. Otherwise, he would not be able to explain why these military masters appeared in Xiaoyun Mountain in the back mountain.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Yuanshan said: "Xiu Niang, please take Xiang Ge to sleep in your room, and let Er Zhu come to the front yard by the way."

You must not have the intention of harming others, and you must have the intention of guarding against others.

Tomorrow I will ask Erzhu to send Huzi and Sheige to his father-in-law's house to stay for a while. Counting the days, Qingfeng Village will come to borrow food again in the next two days.

No matter whether the Song family father and son come or not, he doesn't want his daughter to have more contact with the Song family.

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Lu Xiuniang was not a talkative woman. The third brother asked her to carry Xiangge to the backyard. She immediately put away the soles of her shoes neatly, found a thin quilt and wrapped Lu Xiuge into the backyard.

As soon as Lu Xiuniang and Lu Sheige left, the front yard became quieter and quieter.

Lu Yuanshan sat in the study, looking at the dark night in the yard and thinking deeply, waiting for Chen Erzhu's arrival.

In the middle of the night, a fire light came on, burning half of the sky red.
Chapter completed!