The Rebirth of Jiangmen's Daughter

Chapter 1556 Where is there still someone who cares about our lives?
I saw only a table with a broken leg and three long benches in the barren room, and there was a small stove in the corner of the room, but the stove seemed to have been extinguished for a long time.

"This house is just like this. If you want to stay, you can rest for one night. If you don't want to, go to the east of the city for another [-] miles. There is a town. If you hurry there, you may still be able to catch up with the lodging..."

"Old man, let's spend the night at your house. It's getting late now, can we borrow your kitchen for a while?"

This road is in charge of everyone's rations. Although they have prepared dry food early in the morning, if they can eat some warm food on winter nights, they will feel more comfortable.

"Old man, you see that we are staying at your house, and you don't want to accept the money. Why don't you come and have a meal with us? I wonder if there is anyone else in your house? I feel sorry for us bothering you so late."

Ye Qingcheng is not a person who likes to take advantage of others, so she can feel more at ease when she thinks about having a meal with this family.

"Old man... It's so late, who is it? Whose house is it at night?" In the back room, the voice of the old woman asked.

The old man took a few steps back, and then he said to the old woman in the house: "A few children passing by, they asked us to have a meal with them, old woman, get up!"

"Cough... cough cough cough... cough..." There was a coughing sound from the inner room, followed by the sound of clothes rubbing against each other.

In the kitchen, Yumo and his wife were heating white film and steamed buns, and they also heated some water to warm the wine in the old man's pot.

In the main room, Ye Qingcheng was carrying home with the old man with a smile on his face, while Huangfu Ye brought Huangfu Xun and the two brothers of the Ye family to bring in the luggage on horseback.

"Old man, we walked all the way and saw that this village is almost at rest, but now it's almost dark, and it's not completely night yet. Why did you rest so early?"

They knew more or less about Jingling's situation, but what they knew was not detailed, so Ye Qingcheng also had a plan to find out the truth in this move.

"You guys are all foreigners, right? You don't know something. In our Tangwan Village, the harvest is not good this year, and the millet is only harvested in autumn. Who knows that there is a severe drought, so the autumn planting is missed, and it will snow now. Well, even if the wheat is planted, there will not be a few grains of wheat harvested tomorrow..."

Perhaps the old man was getting old, and when he talked about the past few years, he didn't look like he was complaining, but instead he had a calmness honed over the years.

"Unfortunately, God has not fulfilled people's wishes. Since the beginning of autumn, the price of salt has been rising. We farmers should eat salt when we plant the land. But now it doesn't matter if we eat or not. Go to bed early. The family can save some candle money and firewood..."

After hearing what the old man said, several people in the house fell into silence. Days like this are common for farmers, but there are no holidays, and no one expected to encounter such a disaster year.

"Then...does the imperial court not care about these things? The common people do not have enough to eat, and the imperial court has the responsibility and obligation to take care of these..."

Although he knew a little bit, Ye Qingcheng still wanted to know the most fundamental reason why Jingling fell into this situation through the old man's mouth.

"Girl, it's not the old man who scares you. The Jingzhou Mansion and Hanyang Mansion don't care about Jingling, even our county grandpa doesn't want to care about it... How can anyone care about our lives?"

(End of this chapter)