Need for money

As the weather turned cooler, the sun also learned to be lazy in the morning, rising a little later than before. When it slowly rose from the ground, the kitchen area of ​​the Lin Mansion was already bustling and bustling.

There are only [-] to [-] people in the kitchen, but they have to prepare meals for tens of thousands of people every day. If they don't get up early to work, they will definitely not be able to complete the tasks of the day.

Shi Mo has been in charge of taking care of the affairs of the kitchen for the past few days, and he dare not be negligent, otherwise he will spoil the master's important affairs, and then he will be ashamed to see the second master again.

Today Lin Jingzhi got up early as before, got dressed, and he heard a slight sound on the bed, knowing that Tang Yuxiang had also woken up.

After thinking about it, he didn't look in the direction of the bed, and said, "Yu Xiang, I'm very busy recently, if you are free, take some time to sit with some aunts. Why have you been out of the mansion, maybe there will be some lack of daily necessities in the small courtyard, you are a sister, you should care about them more."

"Oh, I know." Tang Yuxiang only learned from Mr. Cheap last night that the Lin family is going to organize refugees to open up wasteland and dig canals. Although she has never seen any big world before, she also knows about the wasteland. , The canal digging project is huge, and Lin Jingzhi will definitely be extremely busy in the days to come.

Through the translucent bed veil, she stared at the not very tall figure, dazed. This man is really amazing, not only smart, but also quite courageous. He has the decisive ability of a superior person. When others think of refugees, don't Sympathy is sorrow, he is so good, he even wants to take advantage of it.

That's tens of thousands of people. If you want to use so many people to open up wasteland and dig canals for yourself, how much courage and courage you have to have!

At this moment, Lin Jingzhi's slightly thin figure was unusually tall in Tang Yuxiang's eyes.

After tidying up his clothes, Lin Jingzhi walked towards the outer room, and just as he lifted the curtain, Tang Yuxiang's words came to his ears, "Second Master, no matter how busy you are, you must remember to rest, don't wear yourself out!"

"En." In response, Lin Jingzhi walked out without looking back.

With the disappearance of the back, the door curtain was loosened by the big hand, and fell down, shaking back and forth, hitting, and making crisp and clear sounds.

After washing up in the small courtyard, Lin Jingzhi went straight to Aunt Yu's small courtyard. After meeting him, he didn't ask Aunt Yu what she did yesterday, and called her to the kitchen together.

As soon as he left the small courtyard, he asked Aunt Yu's maid to go to Lin Zhou's to inform that there was no need to send Lin Tian here to practice martial arts today.

"Second Master, do you have something important to do today?" Although Lin Jingzhi tried his best to relax himself, his legs were still trembling slightly when he thought about facing tens of thousands of people in a while, and the expression on his face was also different. Unconsciously showing a little nervousness, Aunt Yu asked softly after seeing it.

"En." Lin Jingzhi was thinking about what to say later, when he heard the voice, he came back to his senses, and then he gave Aunt Yu a general explanation of the matter of mobilizing the victims to open up wasteland and dig canals for the Lin family.

After listening to it, Aunt Yu first thought that the scholar in front of her was talking about the heavenly scriptures to her, but seeing that Lin Jingzhi didn't seem to be joking at all, she believed it was true.

Walking behind her, she was shocked, and when she looked at Lin Jingzhi's side face, her eyes were completely different from before. Although this scholar-in-law looks a little handsome, he is quite courageous and intelligent, and he really deserves to be called He is a young hero.

"Second Lord, don't leave too fast after leaving the mansion, or there will be too many people, and I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of you." The refugees heard that the Lin family asked them to open up wasteland outside the city and dig canals, otherwise they would not be given food. It's hard to predict what the outcome will be, so she has to give instructions in advance, lest things go wrong later, that's terrible.

Lin Jingzhi also knew that there were too many variables to discuss with tens of thousands of people, so he nodded in agreement, and thought that when he left the mansion later, he needed to bring more guards.

When he came near the kitchen, Shi Mo saw it from a distance, and hurried up to greet him, bent down and gave a salute, "My servant greets Second Lord and Aunt Yu."

"Get up, how is the breakfast prepared for the refugees today?" Lin Jingzhi gave him a hand and continued to walk forward.

Shi Mo let the master go, then followed, and replied: "It's almost there, they heard that the second master has an important announcement today, so they got up half an hour earlier than before. Look, there are already ten of the twelve wooden barrels." The porridge is filled, the steamed buns are steamed, and they are being loaded into bamboo baskets one by one."

"En." Lin Jingzhi was very satisfied with Shi Mo's answer. He walked into the small courtyard, came to the side of the carriage, looked at the porridge in the bucket, and lifted the cotton cloth covering the bamboo basket. White and big steamed buns.

"Second Lord, the leaflet slave has been sent out." Just as Lin Jingzhi put down the steamed bun, another person came in from the small courtyard, and it was the chief steward, Pang Lu.

It turned out that Lin Jingzhi had discussed with Mrs. Lin yesterday. Early this morning, he distributed the leaflets asking the refugees to open up wasteland and dig canals, so that the victims could have a psychological preparation in advance, otherwise they would be surprised at first sight. Hearing this news, maybe something will happen.

Lin Jingzhi turned around, and several maids also walked into the small courtyard, carrying food boxes in their hands, which should be the breakfast that the old matriarch ordered his servants to prepare for him.

Knowing that these people hadn't eaten yet, Lin Jingzhi called them into the side room together. Aunt Yu was a woman and couldn't sit and eat together, so he picked out some dishes that Aunt Yu liked and asked her to come I went to eat in the back room next door.

Several people gathered around a table and sat down, the chief steward and servant Mo were somewhat cautious, after all, they were servants, and there was no reason for them to sit at the same table with their master for dinner.

Lin Jingzhi is very nervous now, and the hands holding the vegetables are also trembling slightly. The chief steward saw it in his eyes, and persuaded him: "Second Master, you don't have to worry. According to this old slave, those refugees will definitely listen to the Lin family. Make arrangements to dig canals outside the city to open up wasteland."

"Yes, if they are disobedient, where will they go to eat? The porridge and rice donated by the government and other wealthy families is not enough to feed 1 people." Shi Mo was also very nervous, but obviously more excited .

"En." Lin Jingzhi took a deep breath, picked up the bamboo chopsticks, and speeded up his meal. He was nervous, and he would not escape.

After everyone had breakfast, the servants in the kitchen were ready. Hearing the master's order, they drove the carriage, and walked out of the gate of the Lin Mansion. Walking on the street, the carriage squeaked for a while because it was too heavy. With the sound of "squeaking", seeing the Lin family's porridge convoy coming out of the mansion, many refugees stood up and flocked to the south gate of the city to line up. Hu la la ran a large area, rolling up waves of dust.

Arriving at the south gate of the city, under the watchful eyes of the refugees, the Lin family's carriage stopped at the place where the porridge and rice were distributed in the past, but today they did not distribute the food immediately as in the past.

Surrounded by the guards, Lin Jingzhi followed the carriage all the way. When the carriage stopped, he supported the shoulders of the guards, jumped into the carriage, stood still, and looked at the crowd on the opposite side.

There are more than [-] refugees surrounded by the south gate of the city. They are lined up next to each other in a dense, dark area, with no end in sight. The refugees who came to Los Angeles in the past two days are different from the refugees who came a while ago. The clothes are older, more ragged, and they are thinner. Just by looking at their dirty faces, one can tell that they have suffered a lot on the way to Los Angeles.

In the crowd, there were many people holding leaflets from the Lin family early in the morning and whispering to the people around them, and some who didn't know the news, just looked at him blankly, not knowing what he was going to do, and more people , but hoped that he would go down early and share meals with them quickly.

Standing on the carriage, Lin Jingzhi took a deep breath, then raised his hands, pressed them, and said loudly: "Be quiet, everyone be quiet, Lin has something to say!"

"What are you talking about, what are you talking about? Hurry up and give us porridge and rice. We're starving." As soon as his voice fell, someone in the crowd shouted. Someone took the lead, and many people immediately echoed.

Looking at the noisy crowd in front of him, Lin Jingzhi was not flustered, because he had been prepared for a long time. With his hands behind his back, he gave the guards around him a wink. Seeing this, the guards standing behind him left behind a few masters, and the rest He immediately dispersed and ran to the remaining carriages, and jumped into the carriage.

Aunt Yu has been standing behind Lin Jingzhi, guarding his safety. At this moment, she saw his fists clenched behind his back. Although he was nervous, he was calm but not flustered, and a hint of admiration flashed in his eyes. Even though she has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and her martial arts skills are strong, facing tens of thousands of people at this moment, she still feels a little guilty in her heart.

Those guards climbed into the carriage, and when they stood firm, they looked at each other, and at the same time drew out the steel knives at their waists with a 'clang' sound, and shouted in unison,

"My master has something to say, so shut up, or the Lin family will stop opening sheds to help porridge in the future!"

Now it was the last moment, and Lin Jingzhi was not afraid to say it to death. If he couldn't persuade the refugees to go to the wasteland outside the city to dig canals, even if he couldn't bear it, he would never open a shed to help the porridge.

Before the locust plague broke out, he had spent more than 30 taels of silver hoarding grain and grass. If the matter of digging canals to open up wasteland really failed, then he would aim at the direction of the wind and sell grain in the future. If it is sold, the Lin family can also make a fortune!