The eldest daughter of the emperor, she began to build a city wildly

Chapter 296 Poverty Saves Lives (Part [-])
When Su Tang asked about this, an old man with a white beard patted his side proudly. The young man who was talking outside just now said, "It's thanks to my big nephew who saved the lives of the whole village!"

Su Tang listened to him slowly saying that the survival of the people in their small village all depended on this young man, and Su Tang also looked at that young man with special respect.

The young man is called Chu Zishen. He looks resolute and can be regarded as a good-looking talent.

According to the white-bearded village head, Chu Zishen was exceptionally smart when he was young, and he could firmly remember two lines of poetry when he heard others read them.

The village head felt that he was not a thing in the pond, and after a long time of deep thinking, he decided that no matter what, he should let the child read and write.

But how could these ordinary people get the money to send their children to private schools, so the village head went to visit each family and persuaded everyone to pay for his tuition together.

"At that time, I told the people in the village that this kid is extremely intelligent and will surely achieve great things in the future. If he can be confessed, the whole village will be honored, and everyone will contribute some money as much as they can. Enough money for school.

Our village is small, and every family is related to each other. They are united with each other and help each other on weekdays. Chu Zishen is a child who is smart. Everyone can see that they are very likely to be a grand master. , are very willing.

We really didn't waste our time in vain. At the beginning, everyone just collected some money from each family for him to study, but now he saved everyone's life! "

The white beard village head talked about this radiant man, as if deciding to let Chu Zishen study at the beginning was the most correct and greatest decision he made in his life.

Fortunately, Chu Zishen did not live up to the expectations of the whole village. He took part in the college examination and the township examination in succession. Staff.

At that time, people in the village raised their heads when they went out, and they would say that the new Juren Dalord in the ten miles and eight villages was confessed by them, which aroused the envy of the people in other villages.

Just when he was preparing to participate in the examination for tribute, the drought happened quietly. The court was busy with disaster relief and didn't care about so much. The imperial examinations everywhere were postponed. This delay has not been done until now. It's time to hold it.

Because of the drought, all the crops and plants died, and many people began to flee the famine with their families. The people in the village couldn't hope for rain every day, and they didn't know where to go to flee the famine.

At this time, someone proposed to seek refuge with Chu Zishen. Although they confessed this child, since Chu Zishen was selected as a juren, they never thought of getting rich, and they never asked him for it. which.

Now to trouble him is really because the people in the village are desperate. Fortunately, Chu Zishen is a person who never forgets his roots and knows how to repay his kindness. Just when everyone in the village is thinking about which direction to go, Chu Zishen The men sent to fetch them arrived.

When Chu Zishen heard that there was a severe drought in the west, he sent people to pick up the people in the village immediately. He was afraid that the people in the village would get lost if they had never traveled far. Many people got lost, without his care, what would happen is really hard to say.

Fortunately, the city where he was located was on the other side of the boundary river, and the impact of the drought was not too serious. After taking the people over, they were arranged at a corner of the mountain far outside the city.

It was really helpless for him to do this, even though he won the Juren, because he had to take the imperial examination, he did not take up the post, and his family property was really limited, even if he wanted to, he couldn't support these dozens of people.

Everyone makes a living by farming, let alone have any entanglements on their bodies. Arranged at the foot of the mountain, they can still dig some wild vegetables, catch some small prey, and so on, which can be regarded as stuttering.

What he never expected was that their lives were saved because of their poverty!
Before the drought was resolved, the epidemic broke out. The city where he was located was closer to the west, and it was the first to bear the brunt. Even the prefect could not escape the disaster and died of illness.

It is not the first time Su Tang has heard about this prefect. When she first came to Xizhao Country and passed by a city to treat many patients, a young man told her.

After their prefect died of illness, coupled with the epidemic relentlessly taking lives, people in the government ran and scattered, and no one maintained order, which caused complete chaos here due to drought and epidemics.

The turmoil caused the disease to spread faster, and many places were left empty.

Chu Zishen was following the prefect, and all the leaders were dead, so he could only pack up his clothes and run away to find the people at the foot of the mountain. Because there were not many outsiders in the place where they lived, the disease did not spread to them.

Chu Zishen talked about the situation outside, and everyone made a decision unanimously. You can't go to places with people. If you go into the mountains and there are no people in the mountains, you won't be infected with the disease.

So they ate wild vegetables in the mountains for several months, and they didn't come out until they found out that the disease outside had been eliminated and the weather was calm.

When they walked out of the deep mountains and saw the situation outside, they were all afraid for a while. The prosperous cities in the past are now like gloomy dead cities. Occasionally, they can see a few people looking for something inside. What is more is the crow crowing on the wall.

Everyone was horrified by such a scene. For a while, they were confused and didn't know where to go, where to settle down, and went back to the previous village.

Confused, they joined the team of scavengers, rummaging around for food and valuables, while keeping an eye out for suitable places to live. Unfortunately, there was death everywhere, and none of them satisfied them.

Until more than ten days ago, when the pouring rain poured down, they finally smiled, and the village chief immediately clapped his hands and went home!Now that it's raining, they must go home, where their roots are.

What's more, there was Chu Zishen, who saved their lives, and everyone else died or scattered, only the people in their village were neatly together.

The village chief felt that their village must be a place of geomantic omen. After a while, when the imperial court resumed the imperial examination, maybe Chu Zishen could still win the top prize. Just because of this, everyone had to go back.

After so many days of wandering, everyone was already returning home. They couldn't wait for a moment when they were so hot, so they set foot on the way home in the rain.

When they saw the familiar village in front of them, they had excited smiles on their faces, ready to rush into the embrace of the village.

However, what greeted them was not the arms, but the cold swords of the Shence Army.

The Shence Army, who was in charge of the night watch, saw this group of people rushing this way like crazy people, and thought it was an assassin, or some robber who offended them, immediately blew the alarm and turned their swords.

If the villagers hadn't seen the situation was wrong and knelt fast enough, their heads might have moved long ago.

(End of this chapter)