Wangfu little dumb wife

Chapter 333 Earthquake, Sanya Missing (1 more)
Wen Wan carefully dialed the abacus twice, but still couldn't get the account right, she didn't rush to tell her mother-in-law, and asked Song Wei what happened at night.

Song Wei took the letter and read it, lost in thought.

The previous [-] acres of their family’s free quota was all given out, and the remaining [-] acres hadn’t been completed, and half of them hadn’t arrived. It only looked like [-] or [-] acres. Song Wei had already told Wen’s father that these Tian only collected half of the court's tax.

Six or seven hundred acres, half of the income is not much at all, and when it is sold at a price lower than the market price, it is probably only a few tens of taels of silver.

Song Wei knew Father Wen well. If he wanted to send money to his daughter, he would definitely make it clear in the letter that the food money was food money, and what was for the daughter was for the daughter.

But now the letter only mentioned food and money, nothing else.

Song Wei felt strange, so he approached Wei Qian privately and asked him to arrange a trip to Ningzhou to find out the news.

Wei Qian said that now in the twelfth lunar month, the snow is falling all the way south and the mountains are closed, the news may not be so fast.

"No matter how long it takes, let someone check it out." Song Wei ordered.

The masters requested that Wei Qian dare not delay, and immediately arranged for people to go to Ningzhou after retiring.

When Song Wei went to the Imperial Academy the next day, he heard a story from a colleague. The colleague said that he had a relative’s family in Ningzhou. An earthquake occurred in Ningzhou a month ago, and a snowstorm came after the earthquake. Many families have suffered.

Speaking of this, the colleague couldn't help sighing, "Thanks to my cousin, his parents and brothers running fast, although the house is gone, at least I saved my life, otherwise I would lose my life, but I really have nothing. .”

The colleague's words made Song Wei silent for a long time.

The earthquake is not a trivial matter, but he has never heard of it. Is it because he has too little information, or is someone deliberately hiding it from him?
When I went to see Emperor Guangxi in the afternoon, Song Wei mentioned a few words tactfully.

Emperor Guangxi nodded directly, saying that someone in the court had already reported the disaster situation in Ningzhou, and the allocated funds and supplies had already gone down, but these days were busy with the New Year's Day Ceremony, so he almost forgot about it.

Song Wei asked how the disaster situation was.

Emperor Guangxi told him that the current Ningzhou magistrate had already noticed that the weather and animals on the mountain were abnormal at the beginning, and immediately ordered the magistrates of the counties below to find a way to resettle the people in the villages and towns under his jurisdiction in advance. , so when an earthquake occurs, civilian casualties and property losses are minimized.

Reducing to the lowest means that there are still some unavoidable casualties and losses.

No wonder Erfang didn't write a letter at the end of this year. Song Wei thought their family had forgotten about it. Now that I think about it, I'm afraid Erfang has suffered a lot, especially the fish pond...

After leaving the Yamen, Song Wei told Wen Wan what he had inquired about.

Wen Wan was taken aback, "Earthquake?"

She has lived in that place for more than ten years, and has never encountered it. Before she got married, she heard from her grandma that it happened once decades ago. It was at night, and the sudden earthquake made everyone panic. The villagers are completely inexperienced and don't know where to hide.

The grandma and her man could have escaped, but before they left, they saw a little baby being crushed under a big rock, and the others fled screaming out of concern for their own lives. Her man bent down to move the rock, trying to save the child .

It's a pity that the house behind her man collapsed too quickly, and the huge impact directly buried her man alive inside, and the half-lifted stone was pressed down again, and the child died because of this.

Wen Wan has never seen it with her own eyes, but the word "earthquake" is more terrifying to her than a scourge.

"What's going on at home?" Wen Wan looked anxious, and what she was most worried about now was her father.

Song Wei comforted her calmly, "Since father-in-law can write to us and send us money, it means they are safe."

"But whether this letter was written before or after the accident, we don't know at all." Wen Wan was still worried, and wished she could fly back to read it in person.

"I have already asked Wei Qian to arrange for someone to go to Ningzhou." Song Wei put his palm on the back of her hand, and the warm touch came along with his steady voice, "There will be no news about this kind of weather soon, but no matter How, before confirming the accident, we can't mess up our position."

The light in the room was very soft, and his gaze was focused and firm, which indeed comforted her.

Wen Wan responded, promising him to keep calm. After a while, he thought of a few people, "Godfather and Godmother brought Lu Yanli to live at the foot of Dahuan Mountain. Tell me, my lord, will this earthquake affect everyone?" them?"

If something happened to those two, it would be impossible for Emperor Guangxi and the Queen Mother to remain so calm.

Song Wei shook his head and said no, even if it was really affected, with so many hidden guards, they would try their best to protect the three masters.

Wen Wan finally showed a smiling face, "Even my husband said no, so I definitely won't."

"Well, don't tell your parents about this." Song Wei said: "If the second elder brother and second sister-in-law are fine, we have nothing to worry about. There is no need to bring your parents to worry about it."

……

In the following days, the family began to be busy for the New Year.

The mother-in-law took the maid to clean up, while Wen Wan took Song Jiao and a few boys who could lift heavy objects out to buy new year's goods.

The snow-covered streets and alleys in the capital are decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the pedestrians passing by in a hurry are talking about the countdown to New Year's Eve.

Wen Wan didn't hear a single word about the disaster in Ningzhou from anyone.

Today’s trip was very fruitful, I bought several baskets of charcoal, countless dried fruits, incense candles, firecrackers, imperial calendars, New Year pictures, red paper for writing couplets and blessings, and cutting window grilles, and so on.

When buying candies, Wen Wan didn't go in and let Song Jiao choose by herself.

Song Jiao negotiated a price with the boss and asked the boy to go in to get the things. When she came out, Wen Wan stared into the distance in a daze. baby?"

Hearing the little girl's voice, Wen Wan came back to her senses, looked at her increasingly fair and juicy face, and reluctantly pulled her lips, "It's the Chinese New Year, do you miss your parents?"

Song Jiao nodded, "It's a pity that the capital is too far away from our Ningzhou, otherwise I really want to have a New Year's Eve dinner with them."

Wen Wan looked away, saying that there will definitely be opportunities in the future.

The little girl was simple-minded, and she didn't realize that there were mostly comforting elements in what Third Aunt said.

……

The busyness of the year-end has finally come to an end, and the various yamen have been on vacation one after another.

When Wen Wan returned home, she saw Song Wei making a snowman with her son in the yard. She was a little surprised, and walked up to her, "Ms. Gong came back so early today. Could it be that the Imperial Academy is on holiday?"

Song Wei stopped his hands and patted the snow particles on his sleeves, "Why don't you come back and spend more time with your son?"

Song Jiao had already returned to Tingsong Pavilion, and a few servants were busy moving the New Year's goods to the storeroom. There was no one else in the courtyard at the moment, so Wen Wan took the opportunity to ask, "Just to accompany my son?"

"Well, I will accompany you by the way."

Wen Wan listened, secretly amused, knelt down and held Jin Bao's small face wrapped in a cotton hat, rubbed his forehead against his forehead, and suddenly sighed, "Who made me reluctant to compete with my son? By the way, by the way, In case the 'by the way' is gone someday, I can still think about today."

After a pause, he looked at Jinbao again, "Baby, mother has been treated coldly, please give me a sip, and I'll make a snowman for you after a while, okay?"

The little guy raised his fat arm and handed her the snow ball in his hand.

Wen Wan: "What?"

Jin Bao said: "Mother piles up first and then kisses."

"Little Slicker!"

Wen Wan poked his chubby face, reached out to take the snowball, grabbed a handful from the ground, and started pinching the snowman.

After finally building a complete snowman, the little guy started to feel sleepy, completely forgot what he promised earlier, and wanted to close his eyes after yawning a dozen times.

Knowing that Wen Wan was tired from running outside for a day, Song Wei took the initiative to pick up his son and go back to the room, took off his sheepskin boots, took off the cold coat on his body, and found a new one for the little guy to put on before letting him fall asleep .

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The news from Ningzhou was received the night before New Year's Eve.

The dark guard said in the letter that the number of casualties in this earthquake was not too many, but in the area of ​​Shangxiahe Village, due to the terrain, the loss of houses and property was relatively serious, and the villagers are now basically homeless.

Song Erlang's house had just been refurbished and half of the house was gone, and all the fish and shrimp in the fish pond were buried alive, which meant that they had lost their way of life. The couple dragged their three children to the county town to join the Wen family that night. Only then did the county town find out that Sanya was missing.

Right now, the couple took Erya and Song Duobao to take refuge in Wen's house.

Like them, there were many people fleeing for refuge. The sheds built by the government in advance were not enough, and the supplies allocated by the court were blocked halfway due to an avalanche.

Later, the eldest princess came forward and asked her own people to help the government clear the road and escort the supplies, so that the government could solve the urgent need in the shortest time. The eldest princess also bought the grain in the granary of the wealthy family with a radius of hundreds of miles at a high price, and used it for disaster relief.

The secret guards under Wei Qian used to be from the princess mansion. Even if the princess was deposed as a commoner, they still called her the same in private.

This is how Wen Wan received more than 200 taels of silver. Fanghua paid a high price for their family’s food, but Fanghua repeatedly asked Wen’s father not to tell Song Wei and Wen Wan, so Wen’s father only wrote in the letter. Not mentioned.

(End of this chapter)