Chapter 452: Mean
After a long time, the door of the government finally opened. The late yamen runners walked out one after another with buckets of wooden barrels. Then a man put his hands on his hips and had a toothpick in his mouth. It seemed that the official who had just had a full meal announced loudly: "Okay, everyone can only receive it once. Come up and collect it quickly, don't waste time!"
When the people who had been looking forward to it, they looked up and were shocked to find that the wooden barrel containing porridge had only three barrels today, two barrels less than the past!
"Sir, why are there less food today? So many of us are not enough to share!" Even someone hesitated and raised his hand and asked in a low voice.
"Huh?" The official star glared at the man, picked the teeth with a toothpick, and said impatiently, "It's just that much, do you think the food in our government fell from the sky? In order to support you troublemakers, even our officials have less food than usual. Do you dare to be dissatisfied?"
"If you like to eat, don't eat, get out of here, don't waste our time!" He waved his hand, too lazy to even look at it, and then sat on the chair beside him, humming a little song and looking free and comfortable.
Although the people were so angry that they didn't dare to contradict each other, they could only lower their voices and talked secretly below: "The food for the disaster relief in the court must have been sold to the rice shops of the Wang family! Just to make these black money, we don't even care about our lives! It's a group..."
"Oh, but what can we do... This collusion between officials and businessmen, we have no power and power, and we can only bear it..." Someone sighed.
In fact, these people are more or less aware of the Wang family's affairs, especially such corruption and abuse of power, which have long been rumored. But no one dares to expose this crime, because everyone knows that if they really dare to do this, the Wang family may be fine and they will evaporate themselves.
However, what's worse is that when they took the bowl to serve today's disaster relief food, they found that it was getting lighter and lighter, almost a bowl of clear soup, and only a few grains of rice that fell slightly at the bottom of the bowl seemed to indicate that this should be a bowl of porridge...
"This..." Someone wanted to protest, but when he saw the officer staring at the extremely ferocious look, he couldn't help but feel trembling in his heart, trembling, lowered his head and turned away, not daring to say more.
"Oh...what should I do if I continue like this? I'm afraid I really can't survive!"
After drinking that bowl of porridge, he was no different from drinking water. He didn't feel full at all. After staying away from the government, a young man couldn't help complaining, touched his empty stomach and sighed.
"Speaking of the Dragon King Temple in the city, it seems that it has been renovated again. Someone should be there to worship the Dragon King. We might as well go and worship the Dragon King, so that the gods can end this drought and famine as soon as possible and restore our normal life. Perhaps this will be faster than hoping that those corrupt officials will repent..."
"That's right. Even if there are any crimes, isn't it enough to offset the pain we have suffered so much now?"
Just as the two of them were talking, they were about to make an appointment to go to the Dragon King Temple, they suddenly found that people not far away seemed to have heard some news and started rushing towards a certain direction, as if they were worried that they would not be able to get the money one step too late.
"What's wrong?" The two of them were quite confused when they saw this scene. A sharp-eyed man saw one of the running people who was familiar. They were curious and hurriedly followed him to ask.
The person who was stopped was a little impatient. When he turned around and saw that he was a familiar friend, he suppressed his anger a little, but he still said anxiously: "I wonder if you have anything important to stop me? If nothing happens, I have something urgent to do..."
"I wonder what the people here are going to do in a hurry?" the two asked curiously.
"Oh? So don't you know yet?" The man who stopped him was stunned and replied, "Just just now, someone sent a rumor saying that he was giving away free food for disaster relief like a government in front of his family. Although he didn't know whether it was true or not, it was logically reasonable. We were just thinking about going over and taking a look!"
"The Wen family is also distributing food?!"
The two of them were even more shocked when they heard this, feeling a little incredible.
"Isn't the Wen family a businessman? Why did you start to be kind to help disaster relief?"
"Is it a lie?"
"It shouldn't be a lie. Maybe it's just to use some food to make a good reputation..." One of them thoughtfully and analyzed, "But even if it's thinner than what the government issues, it can at least fill a little bit of the stomach and not have to go hungry, which is a good thing!"
The other man nodded and said, "That's true, not to mention that the Wen family does not have the background of the government. The food for disaster relief this time may be distributed soon, otherwise we should go there quickly, so as not to be bad if we lose it!"
As soon as the two discussed the matter, they planned to follow everyone to go to the Wen family to take a look.
When they arrived near the gate of the Wen family, the two of them saw an amazing scene!
I saw that there was already a line in front of the door. A long dragon was even more exaggerated than before in front of the government. Almost all the ordinary people holding a small cloth bag from the street to the alley were waiting for their turn, as if the relief grain of the Wen family of this small vendor was even more attractive than that of the government.
"What's going on?" The two of them stood there in a daze, vaguely realizing that things seemed not very much the same as they expected before they came.
"Looking at this, it seems that the Wen family is going to spend a lot of money to win people's hearts this time?"
They were quite surprised when they saw the ordinary man who had already received the food and walked out with a small cloth bag and a strange wood carving in ecstasy.
But no matter what, it is a good thing for them. Get it early and enjoy it early, so as not to stop the Wen family's failure to find that the loss-making transaction was not cost-effective and stopped.
At the front of the team, a servant looked at the white-haired old woman in front of her and patiently used a spoon to scoop out a spoonful of freshly shelled rice from the rice bag and poured it into the cloth bag she was holding in her palm.
The portion is absolutely full. If you go home and cook it, save some food, and an adult can spend the day more comfortably without worrying about getting hungry again. Compared with the clear water-like porridge in the government, it is a difference between heaven and earth.
"This kind-hearted person, I have two young grandchildren in my family. I wonder if I can give it more?" The old woman hesitated with the bag and asked tremblingly. After all, if such a request was made in front of the government, she would be driven away viciously.
Chapter completed!