Chapter 561 Beggar

Zhou Zhoulang took the rice back to the kitchen, poured it back into the pot, pulled out the hot ashes and some remaining charcoal from the stove, and then put the pot on it so that the rice would stay hot and not burn immediately. get cold.

After finishing all this, he took the pot of vegetables and went out.

Go out of the alley, walk along the street, and walk to the most prosperous section, where there are often young beggars or old beggars begging there.

During the time he came to Yizhou City, Zhou Zhoulang did not dare to say that he had visited the entire Yizhou City, but he was familiar with the workshop where they lived and the nearby streets.

When you first wander around, you will always get lost, so you have to ask the people on the road for directions, but you will always meet some people who don’t want to talk to you, or deliberately point you to the wrong way, or you obviously don’t know the way. People who don't understand, but insist on showing you the way.

After being cheated more times, Zhou Zhoulang knew that it would be more reliable to ask roadside beggars for directions.

In addition to some restaurants on the street, I like to let some helpers who clean up to help run errands, deliver food and recycle tableware every day.

It is said to be a helper, but they are actually beggars.

The restaurant pays them some food, and they run errands for the restaurant.

Zhou Zhoulang has met them several times, and he got to know them well after coming and going.

Because today is Qingming, the restaurants at the entrance of the alley are closed, and the beggars have gone to nowhere.

Zhou Zhoulang went along the street to the bustling place, and when he saw a restaurant that was open, he turned and entered an alley, which was the back door of the restaurant.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked in, he saw a group of ragged people looking for something in a wooden barrel from a distance.

Zhou Zhoulang narrowed his eyes and looked around, finally found a familiar person, coughed lightly, and called, "San'er?"

An eight or nine-year-old boy turned around, saw Zhou Zhou Lang and walked up lazily, "Brother Zhou Zhou, did you help us find a job?"

"You have all been exposed to the restaurants on the street, what job can I find for you? Come, I brought you a dish."

When San'er heard this, he immediately grabbed his own bowl and rushed up. Seeing the vegetables and meat inside, he was overjoyed, "Brother Zhou, have you made a fortune?"

"No, isn't this Qingming Festival? Please have a good meal. There are only vegetables, no rice."

San'er waved his hand, and the other little beggars also rushed up, saying one after another: "It doesn't matter, we have."

They have some naan bread and steamed buns in their stash, although they are not whole and have been kept for several days, but they are still delicious to eat with such vegetables and meat.

Especially when the dish is still hot.

Zhou Zhoulang handed the dishes to San'er and asked him to divide them. They were pleasantly surprised to find that the dishes were hot, and they were overjoyed.

Zhou Zhoulang took back the empty bowl and saw that they were eating with gusto, he waved his hand and said: "Then I'll go first, you can eat slowly."

Everyone bid farewell to Zhou Zhoulang enthusiastically, "Fourth brother, walk slowly."

"Fourth brother, let's go."

When Zhou Zhoulang walked to the entrance of the alley, he saw Man Bao and the others staring at him dumbfounded. He first glanced at the baskets in their hands, and immediately went up happily, "You guys bought it? So fast!"

Man Bao nodded, "There are few people going to the restaurant today, so the speed is very fast."

She glanced at the empty basin in Zhou Lang's hand, frowned and asked, "Fourth brother, you just took the vegetables..."

"Oh, they are friends I met outside, I will tell you when I get back." Zhou Zhoulang was a little hungry, so he went to pick up the baskets in their hands very attentively, and hurriedly said: "Let's go, let's go back to eat first."

Man Bao and the others only bought vegetables, and the rice was their own. Daji carried the rice out of the kitchen, and Zhou Zhoulang explained, "Those vegetables were thrown away, so I sent them to them."

Man Bao asked, "Then why don't you deliver food together?"

"... Only this little food is enough for us."

"We can cook again," Bai Shanbao said, "Since we want to do good deeds, why don't we make them perfect?"

Zhou Zhoulang scratched his head and said, "I didn't want to do good deeds. Isn't that a waste of things? We don't eat vegetables, but we need to eat."

Bai Erlang said: "You are picking."

Zhou Zhoulang was not happy, "This is not called picking, I don't like what you are going to do, we don't have gold mines and silver mines at home, how can we cook special meals and give them away? You gave it today, Will you give it tomorrow?"

Daji glanced at them and said, "Hurry up and eat, it's already past lunch time, be careful if you're hungry."

Man Bao asked while serving the meal, "Fourth brother, why don't they go home?"

"Because I don't have a home," Zhou Lang said, "Who would run away if they have a home? San'er and the others have been homeless for more than two years, most of them came out because of the flood three years ago, and there are others, There are various reasons, I have nothing to ask, why are you so careful?"

Man Bao frowned, "I remember that we don't have so many beggars in Luojiang County, but there are so many people. Why didn't Magistrate Tang distribute land to the refugees like Magistrate Yang did?"

Bai Shanbao thought for a while and said, "Yizhou is prosperous, maybe he doesn't have so many lands?"

"What about their original land?" Man Bao said: "Since they had a family before, obviously their parents and even their grandparents had land. Seeds, tools, and tax exemption for a few more years will naturally settle down."

The reason why Man Bao said this is because Yang Heshu resettled the refugees in this way.

Shortly after he took office that year, he began to arrange some healthy refugees. After the autumn harvest, he found that the grain price in Yizhou remained high and began to arrange other refugees.

The refugees who were still stranded in the county were dispersed and divided into various villages, or a piece of wasteland was directly found to resettle them, so that they could form a village of their own.

Lend them some grain, and give them some seeds and agricultural tools, and the Lord will exempt them from taxes for the next year on the grounds of opening up wasteland.

For some barren or difficult-to-reclaim wasteland, he will also issue a conscript order, and the conscripts will help reclaim the wasteland.

Now that two years have passed, not only the refugees stranded in Luojiang County have been arranged, but also refugees from other counties have flooded in after hearing the news, and most of them have been arranged by Yang Heshu.

Therefore, the population of Luojiang County has grown very rapidly in the past two years. Apart from those born in the county, it is these newly joined refugees.

Population is one of the performance evaluations of a county magistrate. Among other things, Yang and Shu are very good at it alone.

Man Bao and Bai Shanbao also knew that because of this matter, Yang and Shu were sued by two neighboring counties because they were suspected of competing for population.

As Yang Heshu mentioned to them, most of these refugees came from Yizhou. Otherwise, if their ancestors were in Luojiang County, he would not have to bother so much, and he would just support them with some food and seed farming tools.

Therefore, there is still a big difference between the resettlement of refugees who have lost their land and those who have not lost their land.

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