Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 65 065 Changes in the City Lord's Mansion
These grains that can grow in drought years gave Mu Yu confidence and strengthened her heart to flee famine.

Three days is not a long time, and there is no special thing to do, just wait for the time to come step by step.

But life doesn't always go exactly as expected.

Seeing that the next day was the scheduled day to start fleeing famine, something happened the day before.

This day Muyu's plan is to stay in the ruined temple all day and talk to his relatives, confirm their wishes for the last time, and then tell them about leaving early tomorrow morning in the evening.

Yang Erlang's task was to confirm whether the holes in the city wall were still usable, especially the ones that were bigger enough to fit a small cart.

This morning was fine, but when it was close to noon, Mu Yu noticed that the atmosphere in the ruined temple had changed a little, becoming agitated.

She asked a few people on the sidelines, and only got the answer that "a rich family fled the famine and left".

She didn't think it was right. In the past few days, she could always hear news that someone's family had fled the famine again, but she hadn't seen such a big movement?
But after inquiring again, they didn't know much, what they relayed was unclear, what they said was specious, and they couldn't get any more useful information.

She didn't know what happened until Yang Erlang came back.

"You mean, the city gate is open???"

"Ah."

"Everyone can leave? No high fees for leaving the city?"

"It should be. I see that many people who stayed and failed to go out also left, and many people who looked like beggars also went out."

Mu Yu bowed his head and walked away without thinking for a while,
"That is to say, we can go directly to the city gate without going through the hole in the wall?

But why?

Why are the people in the city allowed to flee the famine openly now? "

Could it be that Huangsha City really ushered in some kind of catastrophe?
……

Mu Yu guessed right, or in other words, most people guessed right, the situation in Huangsha City is really bad.

City Lord's Mansion.

It has been less than a month since the new wife of the city lord got married, and there has never been a trace of celebration in the city lord's mansion, instead it has always been lifeless.

On this day, this dead energy reached its peak.

A small courtyard somewhere in the mansion is covered with white flags, which turned out to be a small temporary mourning hall.

There are two coffins in the mourning hall, and a young woman in white mourning kneels in front of the coffins.

"Madam, you have been kneeling here for a long time, so be careful."

The kneeling woman in white slowly opened her eyes, but there was no trace of expression in her eyes.

The servant girl who just spoke out suddenly felt distressed. Is there anyone in this world who suffers more than her young lady?
The arranged marriage was suddenly brought forward, and the wedding was hastily held and passed through the door. I didn't feel aggrieved when I thought about marrying the husband I had admired for many years.

But soon he learned the cruel truth. The "groom" at the wedding was actually the groom's younger brother. The groom himself was lying on the bed dying, and he left within two days.

Two days after the groom left, her young lady was still immersed in the bad news, so the groom's family played emotional cards to force her young lady to accept the groom's younger brother, forcing her to give birth to the groom's blood.

Her family's young lady naturally did not agree to such absurd things, but she was helpless as a charming young lady, and she was in the mansion, so they finally succeeded.

But now, in less than half a month, the groom's brother is also lying here.

It has only been less than a month since she got married, but her young lady seems to have lived her whole life, her body is full of despair and death.

The servant girl felt sorry for her young lady, and finally said nothing more, wanting her young lady to be quiet for a while.

But she felt distressed, but it didn't mean others felt distressed too. Soon the door of the small courtyard was slammed open, and a group of people rushed in.

"Quick, doctor, show her again to see if she is pregnant or not?"

After being yelled at like this, the old doctor had no choice but to touch the wrist of the woman who was forced in front of him, and said in a low voice after a while,

"This, the time is too short, and I can't figure it out for a while."

Generally, it takes more than 40 days of pregnancy to feel the pulse. Some cases with obvious reactions may be earlier, but it takes about 20 days anyway.

But this lady has only been married for twenty days, and her husband's condition...

As the old doctor of the City Lord's Mansion, he certainly knows what happened in the City Lord's Mansion, and he also knows why the old lady of the City Lord's Mansion is so obsessed with whether the lady is pregnant or not.

The city lords of the Daqi Dynasty are hereditary, and the father dies and the son succeeds, but if a certain city lord has no heirs, things will become troublesome.

If the family power is strong, it's okay, just adopt any heir from the clan as the new city lord. If the family power is not obvious, and there are people inside and outside the city who are watching, then as long as they make a wrong step, they will be lost forever.

Of course, judging from the current situation, the whole Huangsha City is irreversible.

Mrs. Wu, that is, the mother of the city lord, this obese old woman with a strong temper heard this answer, and suddenly shook off the woman in white she was holding in her hand.

"Useless stuff! My son went to see you so many times, and he didn't even conceive a child!"

The woman in white who had no reaction to anything at first clenched her hand on the ground a little bit, and her eyes that were originally dead were also filled with hatred.

Mrs. Wu didn't take her seriously, she was just angry about what the Wu family would do next without a child, and the people who followed her jumped out to speak.

"Old lady, don't be angry, the lady must be pregnant, and it must even be a boy."

Mrs. Wu narrowed her small eyes and asked,

"what do you mean?"

"What I'm saying is, we can find a boy of about the same age from the Wu family to raise him, and when the time comes, we will say that he was born by the madam, and that he is the blood of the city lord.

In this way, those who are loyal to the city lord will also be loyal to the small city lord. It is justifiable for the small city lord to inherit the position of the city lord.

Even if the military division really intends to do something, it will be unfair, and there will not be many people supporting him. At that time, he still has to obediently assist the little city lord.

With the assistance of the military adviser and the city lord's subordinates, the small town's main task is to secure the seat of the city lord, and it is not difficult to defend Huangsha City.

Huangsha City is notoriously easy to defend and difficult to attack. No matter whether it is Beidi or the rebels, don't want to capture it easily. We can delay them to death! "

Mrs. Wu nodded thoughtfully, then laughed loudly,

"that's right!"

Then she stopped laughing and said aloud,

"Since we can keep it, why do we have to let people go, let people go and close the city gate soon."

"Old lady, don't worry about it, it's good to let some people go.

There is not much surplus food in the city, and after a while there must be people asking for food relief. If there are more people, won't the food consumed be too much?

It's better to let them go out to find their own way of life, which can also reduce the burden on the city. "

As for going out to die or live, isn't that their own choice?
Mrs. Wu nodded, with a satisfied smile on her face,
"That's right, let's do it."

(End of this chapter)