Wei Ming remembered the past.

That was the second year after he became a Jinshi and was appointed as the magistrate and went to Pingnan County, Guangxi to serve.

It rained in Pingnan for one month, and it never happened in a century. Finally, it only sunny for one day, followed by a sudden heavy rain, the water level rose sharply, the embankment collapsed, and the whole county was affected. This disaster was not only Pingnan County, but all surrounding counties and even prefectures were flooded in the water.

Guangxi is located in a remote area, not as close to the capital as Shandong. The news spread quickly, and the court could also allocate granaries from neighboring provinces to provide relief. Pingnan County, which he presided over, had no relief, and officials and local people could only save themselves.

Floods, epidemics, and famines come one after another. A bucket of rice is worth a thousand coins, and a pig is worth twenty taels of silver. Men and women put straw into the market and trade, but only a few dozen cents. You should know that in the prosperous land of Jiangnan, a bucket of rice is worth two cents of silver. Twenty taels are enough for ten people to spend a year!

The price of money and food is completely indiscriminate. Families who have no money to buy food can dig out the corpses buried underground. What's more, father and son fight each other in the street to eat each other.

He watched a girl run past him with his own eyes, and it disappeared in just a few breaths. He heard the scream and hurriedly searched for him, but the girl had been torn into the crowd. He called for someone to pull all the people in front of him, but the girl was still gone, and one leg fell to the ground alone...

So, Cui Zhi ran away in front of his house. Without even hesitating, he pulled her in and blocked the person outside the door with a stick, so that she could save her life.

It can be considered as a way to untie the knot of the past.

Later, he could not wait for the food from the court to provide disaster relief. The wealthy family he received donated was only a drop in the bucket, so he forced himself to use the incense money from a large local temple to go to other places to sell grain for relief, and the disaster situation was slightly relieved.

It was only this year's famine that led to Pingnan's vitality not recovering from his previous years until his departure for three years.

People and land are unkind...

"What are you thinking?" A little hand suddenly shook in front of Wei Ming's eyes.

Wei Ming was dizzy after being disturbed, and his thoughts instantly dissipated, "Nothing."

"But I see that your eyes are very deep! You are only ten years old, what deep things can you think about?" She tilted her head and looked at him, suddenly pointed her foot in his ear, "Hey, you are not more than ten years old, are you?"

Wei Ming paused for a moment. Could it be that she could see that he had lived a lifelong life?

He hasn't figured out her origin yet. If she snatched the opportunity, it would not be the best solution.

He remained silent, and only heard her say again: "Rich, democracy, civilization, harmony...you can take it?"

She said this, like a strategy for governing the country, why has he never heard of it?

"What did you say?"

He asked back, but she stared at him and then sighed, "Forget it, you're just a fool."

She watched her sit back under the old elm tree in the village. On the bare branches, there were only a few fresh leaves on the tips of the treetops. When the wind blew, it swayed gently.

The Guo family and the Bai family are talking about her, "I haven't seen any young daughter of such a good age yet! It's so lovely!"

She giggled, "Hehehe!"

Grandma Bai pointed at her and said, "I am as old as hers, but I can only play in the fields! The Wei family is a good family, and it is also her blessing to be able to take her in."

Grandma Guo touched Cui Zhi's head again and asked her, "Where are your parents and brothers?"

"It's gone."

The two old ladies sighed and didn't say anything for a while. After a while, they recovered and said, "You can live a good life in the Wei family, Muzi is a good one."

Wei Ming raised his eyebrows and looked at her. Seeing that she didn't seem to understand, he still smiled foolishly, "Hehehe!"

The two mother-in-law were joking with her silly giggling and laughed.

Soon, people from Jiuxizhuang rushed over, borrowed a road from Luting Village, and snatched grain from Zhaotang Village.

When did Cui Zhi slip out of his two mother-in-law's arms? He pulled his arm and said, "Let's go and have a look!"

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There was a mess in the Zhao family's yard.

Zhao Gong's wife, daughter-in-law, youngest daughter and grandchildren were all locked in the house, and someone guarded the door to prevent them from coming out. Zhao Baojian's wife was so loud that she was screaming at the top of her throat.

The dike at the north end was not too far away. Zhao Baojian's wife's voice was hoarse, and no Zhao family came back.

Guo Tianda stood on his millstone and spoke.

"Aunt Zhao, sister-in-law, don't cry. We just take away the food we deserve. We don't want your family's things. When we leave, you can go and count it yourself, you can't make any mistakes!"

He spoke righteously, and someone below who had long disliked Zhao Gong said, "If you want me, we should rob the Zhao family's grain! Seeing that the sky was making some thin soup and water to fool people, there was only this little grain left, and it was taken away by the Zhao family!"

When this person said this, many people responded.

But this is a difficult account. The most urgent task is to move the emergency grain out of Zhao's family first and bring the grain back to each village. Zhao Gong had to stomp his feet when he came back.

Unfortunately, the villagers have gone to a lot of people due to famine, so it is hard to calculate how much food each village should receive.

The people in the yard were waiting for a young man who had been an apprentice in the county for several days to plan. The young man was so anxious that he was sweating, but he kept making mistakes and started again.

Wei Ming was pulled by Cui Zhi and squeezed into the crowd. He saw that the food was moved to the yard at first sight, but the amount was not calculated, so everyone could only wait.

Wei Ming hasn't encountered such a situation for a long time, and someone will always handle this for him. In the current situation, I finally managed to control the people of the Zhao family. Could it be that he would take action personally?

Wei Ming thought about how to guide the young man, and saw that Cui Zhi had already walked behind the man.

The young man was named Wu Dong, who was from Zhaotang Village. He worked as a servant in a wine shop in the county before the famine. When the famine arrived, the shop could not afford to support the servant, so he sent him back.

He muttered how many households in each village, how many people there are in each household, how much emergency grain has been issued by the government, how much grain should each household be collected, how much should each village take away from the Zhao family, how much grain should be divided now?

"Oh my God, I'm afraid it's the level of first grade in elementary school..."

Wei Ming saw Cui Zhi showing a surprised and questioning expression. Although he couldn't understand what she was saying, he understood what she meant.

Could it be that she still plans to do it?

Wei Ming was slightly surprised and asked her, "Would you plan to do it?"

Cui Zhi: "No."

Don’t know how to plan, and still dislike Mr. Wu?

Wei Ming looked at her behavior with doubts. Seeing her squat down, he pinched a branch under his feet, "Release your feet, I'll count it quickly and get the food and leave."

Wei Ming quickly raised his feet and saw her smooth out a piece of soil with the branches and ask about Donglai Wu.

She didn't ask about households or press Ding, but asked Ding. Ding was a man from sixteen to sixty, but he counted everyone. Like their Wei family, only his missing uncle was considered Ding.

She asked the people of each village, so she drew a few twisted talismans on the ground with branches, and then asked how much food was left to divide.

There were wheat and rice in the emergency food. Guo Tianda had already brought someone to weigh it. She wrote it down with a talisman again and turned to ask him, "I remember that one stone is ten dou, one stone is ten liters, and one liter is ten rounds, right?"

Wei Ming nodded.

I saw her start to draw with those talismans, and she even drew a lot of them, with circles, horizontal and crosses. After drawing, she seemed to mutter and cleave the side again.

"Okay!" Wei Ming saw her turn, smiled at him, and then kicked the circle that had been drawn for a long time to ashes.

She put her head behind Mr. Wu who was still planning to make plans and said aloud: "Didn't you calculate this?"

"Yes, is that?" Dong Wu was stunned.

Cui Zhi looked at the numbers that were not on his abacus and read it out, "Luting Village wheat Ba Dou, rice Jiu Dou, Jiu Dou, Jiu Dou, Jiu Dou, Jiu Dou, Wu Dou, Wu Dou, Wu Dou, Wu Dou, 6 liters and two liters, Dixi Village wheat six liters and five liters and five liters, start to weigh it!"

When the people who were crowded in the yard heard this, they immediately started to move regardless of who they said it.

"Ah? Ah? Is it my calculation?" Director Wu looked at the abacus, then looked at the villagers who were moving, scratching their heads.

Cui Zhi patted his shoulder, "You're the one who counts, that's right!"

Wu Dong was still a little confused. Wei Ming's eyes passed by Cui Zhi and fell onto the circle talisman that she had not kicked all, and his heart sank slightly.

She will do too much.
Chapter completed!