758 Disaster Relief
Before dawn, nearly a thousand people had gathered outside the gate of the Gao family. Although they all staggered when walking and even needed support to stand upright, without exception, they all carried people on their backs or in their arms.
The huge buckets were neatly lined up in a long queue in the biting cold wind of the morning, waiting quietly.
With a "squeak", the door opened, and out came Fuchun, the manager of the Gao family. Behind him, the servants of the Gao family were carrying bags of corn from the granary in the backyard in a steady stream.
"Each person is limited to one stone, and everyone has a share, so there is no need to compete -" After reading the details in a long tone, Fuchun waved his hand: "Start receiving the food."
As the crowd moved, the number of grain bags piled up in the yard quickly decreased, but the long queue outside the door continued unabated, because many people continued to arrive and queued at the end of the queue.
"Ahem, I don't know what medicine I took wrongly!"
"Yes, yes, I usually regard a penny as being as big as a millstone."
"At the beginning of the month, my wife persuaded the master to sell some grain at a low price to help the victims. He even scolded me, saying that she didn't know how to take care of her family!"
"The sun is coming out in the west..."
The servants of the Gao family were distributing the food with hands and feet, while whispering to each other. Men's long tongues were indeed no worse than those of women. Their chattering finally attracted the attention of Manager Fuchun next to them.
"What are you talking about? Why don't you ask for some work!" After glaring at the talkative servants, Fuchun himself couldn't help but glance outside the door - there was a piece of red paper taped to the left gable with a few lines on it.
The large characters are reflecting the unique luster of ink under the rising sun.
"How can one be hungry after years of poverty? Now we plan to use the millet accumulated over the years to lend it to our neighbors. Each person will be given one stone as an amount and then scatter it all!"
This square script was written by Gao Haosheng, the owner of the Gao family, and clearly expresses Gao Yuan's intention to distribute the food accumulated at home to the victims for free. In the hungry years, the word "food" was
It is undoubtedly the one that attracts the most attention. The notice was put up near dusk, but before nightfall the news had spread throughout the county.
The master who always spends his money and never makes a loss in business actually showed great mercy by distributing food for disaster relief. Not to mention the servants, even Fuchun, who had been following him for twenty years, was very surprised: "Master, what are you doing?"
Is it time to start transitioning? Are you getting softer as you get older?"
Several questions interrupted Fuchun's random thoughts: "Excuse me - can we meet your master?"
Seeing the surprise on Fuchun's face, the hungry people who had received the food quickly explained: "Without this food, we would not be able to survive this famine year, so we want to see Mr. Gao and thank him for his life-saving grace."
After being mentioned by these people, Fuchun remembered that the master had not shown his face today - maybe he was still sleeping - but Fuchun had no intention of waking up Mr. Gao. Who knows, although he didn't know where he was wrong.
According to the tendons, the granary at home was scattered and emptied, but this approach was obviously against the master's stingy nature. There was no guarantee that he would be heartbroken and angry when he woke up and saw the empty granary. Why should he take advantage of this bad luck?
But after receiving the food, more and more hungry people gathered around, clamoring to see Mr. Gao. Some even said this quickly: "We hate those stingy people who take advantage of the famine years to hoard.
We were also planning to recruit a group of people to find an opportunity to rob the Gao family's granary. If we set fire to it then, the government would definitely be unable to do anything to us... I didn't expect that Mr. Gao would be such a bodhisattva-hearted person. Fortunately, he didn't do anything, otherwise he would have harmed a good person.
, so we must invite Mr. Gao to come out and let us kowtow a few times——"
"Hey!" Fuchun was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. It seems that the protagonist was also aware of the coming disaster, so he made the right choice to sacrifice his wealth and save his life? After all, old age is still hotter!
Sighing in his heart, Fuchun called his family: "Go and ask the master to come out."
Only then did the Gao family discover something unusual. Not only was there no sign of the master in the bedroom, but there was also nothing found in the study, front hall, back garden... these places where he often went. When he asked the concubine who was sleeping there, he felt that the situation was even more strange.
Miao: Mr. Gao has not returned to his room since last night!
First, he inexplicably changed his character to do good, and then disappeared from the world. What kind of drama is this? The sudden change made Fuchun very anxious. Finally, after everyone searched all over the place, they finally found him in the old firewood house that had been abandoned for a long time in the backyard.
Mr. Gao was sound asleep, and under him there was a piece of paper covered with dense handwriting.
Taking out the paper and glancing at it hastily, Fuchun suddenly realized that this was the origin of the owner's weird behavior in the past two days! Gao Haosheng, who woke up and found out that the granary was emptied, was about to get angry when he saw Fuchun hand over the
After receiving this note, he suppressed his temper and even said a few words in a pleasant manner when accepting the thanks from the victims: "It should be done!"
"Butler Fu, what is written on it?" The next day, several curious servants grabbed Fuchun and begged him to clear up their doubts: "We are illiterate, so we need to ask Butler Fu to explain.
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Unable to resist everyone's efforts, Fuchun finally spoke: "Actually, it's nothing. The general idea is that the master has accumulated a large amount of grain at home and refused to sell it, which has aroused the resentment of the victims. He is witnessing a disaster.
It is coming soon, when not only food, but also life may be difficult to save, and 'he' is grateful for the old kindness of the master, so he decided to scatter this thousand grains of grain to quell the people's anger."
"Who is this 'him'?" Although they understood the general meaning, the servants did not understand what it meant.
"Oh, have you forgotten? Didn't Wong Tai Sin always live in the woodshed where I found the master yesterday? Later, the house fell into disrepair and leaked, so 'he' moved it away. He can remain unnoticed.
He charmed the old man and moved him into the woodshed, and then
Who else besides Wong Tai Sin can transform into his appearance and give orders to deceive everyone? Although the old man often complained about having a free tenant living in the house without paying, it seems that this time it is really thanks to him
Chapter completed!