Chapter 207 Retreat

The two despised him together, "Did you not listen to what the husband just said? Yizhou, where the rule of Jiannan Taoism is located, is generally governed by the governor of the prefecture. The commander of Jiannandao's military and political affairs is the Jiedu Envoy, but Yizhou is still the king of Yizhou. Feudi, these gentlemen have talked about it in class."

  White Erlang flushed his face and exclaimed: "Impossible, I have never heard from my husband."

  Bai Shanbao: "It must be because you are sleeping."

  Man Bao hesitated, "Or are you talking trivial?"

  Shirajiro also hesitated, "Mr. Did you really talk about it?"

  Bai Shanbao and Man Bao nodded fiercely together.

  Shiajiro collapsed his shoulders and stopped talking.

  The three children are not at ease, and look at their Mrs. Bai as usual:...

  She hesitated for a moment, did not go in, turned around and left.

  Mr. Zhuang will come to Qili Village to teach. Of course, all his previous ambitions have disappeared, but this time the bank burst is too great, even if he is in a corner, he can't help but worry.

  Furthermore, Qili Village is just below Yizhou. It is impossible for people here to stay out of the land here.

  But what can he do with white clothes?

  Master Bai was talking to him, “I closed the shops in the county and Brazil, and people sent them to Zhuangzi. Now I don’t know how the situation in Yizhou is.”

  He said: "When the refugees arrive here, the magistrate should invite us into the city."

  You will definitely have to donate money and food at that time. This is what Mr. Bai can do.

  The rain in Qili Village is still falling, but it is slowly getting smaller. The small river in the village rises rapidly, and the water flooded into the school. Some houses in the village near the river or low in the village were flooded by water.

  Fortunately, the water is not very deep. Although life is greatly affected, there is no danger of being flooded.

  Because of this, the school is closed indefinitely, and no one knows when classes can be reopened.

  Manbao’s house is in a good location, and they are all large brick houses. The house was built in a short time, so it was not affected this time.

Many people in the village can’t live in their houses. Most of them live with relatives who have good houses. Some relatives’ houses are also leaky and cannot live in. The next row is the Manbao’s house.

  So Manbao's family also vacated two rooms for them to live in. As soon as the rain stopped, the village chief organized the villagers to help these people repair their houses.

  If it has collapsed, it must be rebuilt, and the others must be repaired.

  Of course, these jobs belonged to Zhou Dalang and the others, and it had nothing to do with Man Bao. She was still carried to Bai's home by Thu Lang to go to class every morning, and was picked up by Thu Lang to go home in the evening.

  Mr. Zhuang was worried, but he could only hold back and set up small stoves for the three children, occasionally telling them about Yizhou, Qianwei Weir, and various droughts and floods.

  In late May, the rain gradually stopped, and the swelling river slowly receded. Lao Zhou led his sons to look at the seedlings in the field with their hoes.

  Many fields were submerged, some fields near the river, even the top of the seedlings could not be seen. At first glance, it was a wide river.

  Many people in the village want to cry without tears, and the old Zhou’s head is also worried. They go out early and return late every day, and come back if they are optimistic about the loss.

  In this calculation, almost half of the Zhou family's fields may have no harvest. When the water recedes, the seedlings will either be washed away or the roots will be broken. Even if it is good, I am afraid it will not be harvested.

  After all, I missed the most important heading time in the middle.

  Fortunately, Zhou's family has many fields and scattered fields. This area is flooded, but some of them are lucky enough to escape.

  Other people may not have that good luck. Although Man Bao rarely goes out to join in the fun with his father, he often encounters people in the village. Almost everyone has a sad face. Talking about this year's harvest, everyone is very pessimistic.

  The water slowly receded, but a lot of insect eggs were left. Even if the sun came out, everyone was not happy. The villagers started to get busy again, catching insects, weeding, and re-fertilizing every day when they came back early and late.

  The school has to be cleaned and renovated, so the school is still on holiday.

  Mr. Zhuang did not go to class. He wanted to take the time to go back to the county town. The three children had no class and could finally rush to the outside world.

  The adults didn’t give them access to the river, so they called friends to go to the mountains to play. Man Bao remembered that he had been in the flower basket business for two years, so he picked a lot of flowers back and wanted to make flower baskets.

  Of course, adults have to make up the small bamboo basket.

After thinking about it, Lao Zhou said to Tuesday Lang: "You will not go to the fields in the afternoon and leave home to make bamboo baskets. This year's harvest will definitely not work. The price must go up, so the family should make more money."

  Tuesday Lang nodded. In fact, his family had already given up a lot of fields. Now it is just a rescue. No one knows how much he can get from the field.

  Lao Zhoutou and Xiaoqian said, "Since the second child is going to the county seat, you can also make tofu and let him take it. Now there is a penny in the family that counts as a penny, and you have to save it."

  He was very worried, "The ground is like this, and I don’t know how to pay the autumn tax."

  Everyone bowed their heads.

  Man Bao raised his little hand and said: "Father, I will help you!"

  Lao Zhoutou squeezed out a smile and said: "Hahaha, I know that Manbao is filial."

  Zhou's brothers:...as if they were not helping.

The Zhou family is now in negative equity, and the shortfall is quite large. Although Man Bao has no chance to listen to his parents whispering at night, he still has an account in his heart. He knows that the family owes five taels of silver to the eldest sister. This money is not in a hurry, but Qiu If the tax can't pay enough food, I'm afraid you have to pay.

  Man Bao calculates taxes for his father every year, so I don’t know the most about this.

  She said to help as soon as she said. The next day, she took the sixth brother to take the big head and the big girl to the city with the second brother.

   Zhou Dalang put everything on the cart, glanced at the flowers in their back basket, and acquiesced.

  No one at home speaks. Last year and the year before, they did make a lot of money selling flower baskets. Even though there are many people selling flower baskets on the market, it is strange that the flower baskets they sell are more popular than others.

  Of course, it is at the same price.

  Tuesday Lang and Friday Lang only assumed that this time they entered the county seat as usual, but they realized something was wrong when they arrived at the gate of the county seat.

  There were so many people who lined up to enter the city, so many people left long queues, and many of them were in ragged clothes and numb faces. Lang was startled when he saw him on Tuesday and stopped there for a long time.

  Saturday also looked at those people curiously, and then turned to ask him, "What's wrong with the second brother?"

  Tuesday Lang wanted to turn around and go back, but when he saw the tofu in the basket, he thought about it and decided to go to town.

  Bamboo weaving can be stored and sold later, but tofu cannot be kept.

  He clenched his hands and told a few people, "Don’t run around selling flower baskets when you enter the city for a while. Just follow me and sell them on the spot. You are not allowed to go anywhere, you know?"

  Man Bao immediately said: "Then I still want to talk to Miss Fu Er. I promised her the last time I communicated. If I go to the city, I will find her to play."

  And she wants to sell her sugar.

  (End of this chapter)