Chapter 371 Secret Competition
A group of people worked from morning to afternoon, delivering thirty barrels of porridge.
During this period, Magistrate Meng was exhausted from serving porridge to everyone. In the end, he could spill more than half of a spoonful of porridge.
Sun Tongzhi, who was standing next to Magistrate Meng serving porridge to the people, saw that the consumptive magistrate looked wrong, so he asked him to go back and rest. There were enough manpower here.
But despite Magistrate Meng's poor health, he still has a bit of stubbornness in his temper.
He held the big iron spoon tightly, gritted his teeth and said: "Since I, ahem, cough, arrived in Liaozhou, I haven't done anything for the people. Ahem, cough, cough~~~~I feel so ashamed~~ ~~"
In the middle of the prefect's words, someone in the front team suddenly shouted: "If you really think about the people, please find someone else to serve us porridge!!"
You can shake out half a ladle of porridge. The team next door has a full bowl of porridge. In our team, a bowl of porridge is only half the price of others! ! "
Mr. Sun stretched out the big iron spoon in his hand and pointed randomly at the crowd: "Who!! Who is it!!"
You're so good at talking, are you going to kill yourself?
He just said that Magistrate Meng was really useless.
From the time I came to Liaozhou to now, apart from getting sick, I have never done anything serious.
He couldn't even hold porridge, Sun Hanwen! !
Just wait, sooner or later the position of prefect will still be his.
Hey hey hey.
Although he was happy in his heart, Mr. Sun still cursed at the crowd.
After he finished scolding people, he turned around to comfort Magistrate Meng, whose lips began to tremble, "Don't be like these people, they don't understand anything!"
Magistrate Meng glanced at Mr. Sun twice, and then replied, "I know."
Then he handed the iron spoon in his hand to Jiang Tongpuan beside him.
Everyone originally thought he was leaving, so they wanted to see him off by the carriage. Unexpectedly, Magistrate Meng had someone bring a horse stool.
He was helped onto the horse stool, and then shouted loudly: "Today...#@¥!@#¥!@¥"
There was no way, the people waiting for porridge below were too loud, and Magistrate Meng's breath was drowned out.
In the end, Chen Dongyue used her unique lion's roar skill, and the porridge soup scene became quiet.
The people who came to ask for porridge were probably afraid that the woman would really eat them if she got angry.
Magistrate Meng nodded to Chen Dongyue, then took a deep breath and said again: "I am very pleased that Ci'an Hall is reopening today, so I decided to donate three stones of rice and food and give porridge here for ten days to express my sincere gratitude.
In addition, in order to accommodate more orphaned elderly people and children, our government decided to donate another 100 taels of silver to Ci'an Hall in our own name. "
As soon as he finished saying this, there was cheers from below.
Although no one wants to go to Ci'antang, after all, everyone is not sure whether this place is good or bad.
But giving porridge for ten days is a real thing.
Although Liaocheng is richer than other places in Liazhou, it is now in a period of recession.
Coupled with the lack of food harvests in previous years, many poor people in Liaocheng are indeed facing difficulties at home.
Now that there was free porridge to eat, everyone could not help but think of Buddha.
Someone at the bottom was the first to kneel down and thanked Magistrate Meng, "Master Magistrate, you are truly our Lord Qingtian!!"
Once one person kneels down, countless others will follow.
For a time, people in the porridge team knelt down and kowtowed to Magistrate Meng.
Although Magistrate Meng walked crookedly, he still had to help the old and young in the team.
What Chen Dongyue saw was Magistrate Meng helping others, while the servants of the Meng family supported Magistrate Meng.
The whole one, mixed with Russian sets.
After everyone had finished expressing their gratitude, Magistrate Meng got into the carriage and prepared to leave.
Before leaving, he even looked at Mr. Sun who was sending him off respectfully.
That look~~~~ seems to be saying again: Just win people's hearts, don't you know how to be my boss?
If you have the guts, you can also pay for it.
But Mr. Sun started from the grassroots level, so he is more sensitive to money matters.
Three stones of grain and one hundred taels of silver, if he really had to use it to help the poor, it would be more painful than ripping out his heart and liver.
Mr. Sun can't do this.
So even if he knew that Mr. Meng was using money to win people's hearts, he would never follow up.
People's hearts are built by covering them up, not by buying them with money, Master Sun comforted himself in this way.
"Master Sun~~~ Do you want to donate some as well?" Chen Dongyue is used to knowing which pot to use.
"Eh?! If I donate, won't I steal the spotlight from Prefect Meng? Director Chen, please don't try to harm me!!"
After saying that, Mr. Sun returned to the porridge stall and continued to serve porridge to the people with a smile.
He filled the bowl of porridge. Since it wasn’t his food anyway, he should make it with all his strength!
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When all the thirty buckets of porridge that had been prepared were put away, the people lining up at the entrance of Ci'an Hall dispersed.
There were only five lonely elderly people and children who stayed where they were, waiting to move in.
The five people, facing Sun Tongzhi, Jiang Tongpan, Chen Dongyue, Song Haopo, Kong Jie and everyone in the inspection department who came to help maintain order, all trembled.
An old woman had the courage to say, "Bitch~~~~"
Chen Dongyue's eyebrows jumped.
Just listen to the old woman continue: "Bitch me~~~~~"
"Old sister, we don't need to call ourselves a bitch." Song Haopo saw that the old woman was frightened and knew that she had never seen so many officials, so she didn't know how to call herself.
Song Haopo was a good old woman, so she whispered to the old woman, "Let's just call ourselves old women."
"Oh!" The old woman nodded gratefully to Song Haopo, and then knelt down in front of Mr. Sun with a bang.
The unprepared Sun Daren was frightened and took two steps back, "What are you doing?!"
Yes, ordinary people do have to kneel down when they see officials.
Mr. Sun is also used to being kneeled on his knees.
But it was his first time to kneel so unexpectedly.
Just listen to the old woman saying: "Old lady Zhao Wang, where do you live... where do you live... where do you live?"
The old woman was so nervous when she met an official for the first time that her mind went blank and she couldn't tell where she came from.
She crawled on the ground, turned her head to the child behind her and said, "Tuotuo, hurry up and tell the adults where our home is!"
The child, who was called Tuotuo, looked to be only five or six years old. Because he was so dirty, he could not tell the difference between male and female.
The child sniffed, scratched his head, looked up to the sky, thought for a while, and replied: "We live in Bastard Village."
.......The eyes of everyone who were waiting for the child to say something serious were all twitching.
What kind of village is it that can be called a bastard village?
Chen Dongyue wanted to go and see it.
After the child reminded the old woman, she finally remembered, "It's not a bastard, it's not a bastard, our family lives in the bastard village.
We have a rural market there called Xiangua Township Market. The old lady in the county has never been there, and no one in our family is literate, so I don’t know where it is..."
Fortunately, Mr. Sun has been living in Liaozhou Prefecture for so long, so he knows about Xiangua Township. "Xiangua Township is in Jining County. Did you get bandited before and ended up here?"
"Yes, yes," the old woman nodded and said with tears, "Everyone in the old woman's family is dead, only me and Tuotuo's grandson are left.
I originally wanted to take Tuotuo to a good place, sell him to a good family, and then die on my own, but there was no way to survive anyway.
But our grandfather and grandson walked slowly, and we had to dig wild vegetables and beg along the streets to find food. This journey lasted for several months.
When I arrived in Liaocheng, I heard that the bandits had been wiped out... Old lady, I thought that I should not die first.
So we are here in Liaocheng..."
"Mother-in-law," Mr. Sun interrupted the old woman, "we sympathize with your experience. Since our Ci'an Hall has taken you in, you can live here for the time being. If anything happens in the future, just ask Director Chen. ”
The other three people, also an old woman with two children, saw the mother-in-law introducing herself, and the other one also opened her mouth, wanting to 'report' her origins to the adults.
But Mr. Sun has been standing for most of the day, and he really doesn't have much interest in listening to the tragic stories of the people.
So before anyone could say anything, Mr. Sun took the lead and said: "You guys too, if anything happens in the future, please see Director Chen. I have other things to be busy with."
Dongyue, can you make arrangements? I won't be here tomorrow. You can go and make arrangements with Mr. Meng about the porridge soup. I'll leave first. "
After saying that, Mr. Sun turned around and left, not wanting to stay any longer.