Chapter 293 Relief food is delivered!
The two carriages in the distance finally arrived, and Qiao Ran stepped forward to greet them.
Two coachmen drove two carriages, followed by more than a dozen government officials to escort them. It was so majestic that those who didn’t know thought they were escorting some precious treasure!
The first carriage had a carriage, and the second was a flatbed cart used to load goods. It had no carriage and had more than a dozen sacks piled on it.
Qiao Ran frowned. Is this the only amount of relief food provided by the government?
More than 60 households, more than 500 mouths, just these dozen bags of food?
"Shut up!"
The driver tightened the reins, and the two carriages stopped three feet away in front of Qiao Ran.
A man in official uniform got out of the first carriage. When Qiao Ran saw it, he turned out to be Jia Tongpan.
Unexpectedly, he would come to deliver food in person. Qiao Ran guessed that this guy probably wanted to see if they, the mud-legged refugees, had died in Devil's Valley?
"The civilian daughter has seen Lord Tongpan! I didn't expect that Lord would come here in person."
Qiao Ran spoke and deliberately took a few steps forward.
Jia Tongpan, who had just gotten off the carriage, did not expect that she was coming over. He quickly took a few steps back, covering his nose with one hand and waving his hand like a fly: "You, you, you... stop, don't come over!"
Qiao Ran saw Jia Tongpan's expression as if he had seen the plague. What else didn't he understand?
She stood there and said apologetically:
"Sir, do you dislike the sour smell of the folk girl? I'm sorry, the folk girl just fled here yesterday, and yesterday she went into the Devil's Valley to look for food and water. The forest stinks, and there is a lot of dirt on her body, and there is no Wash it with water, please forgive me."
Upon hearing that she had actually entered Devil's Valley, Jia Tongpan quickly took several steps back and waved his hands to drive Qiao Ran away: "Don't come over! Back away! Back! Back! Back! Don't come forward." !”
After saying that, he turned around and shouted at the coachman and government officials: "If you don't hurry up and move the grain down, hurry up and send me away from this unlucky place! It's really unlucky! Unlucky! If I had known it, I wouldn't have come!"
Jia Tongpuan was so regretful that his intestines turned green.
In order to be able to see with his own eyes the fate of those stinky mud-legged people, so that he could report to his immediate boss and claim credit, he put down what he was doing and followed him to deliver food.
However, now he was scared to death when he thought that these mud-legged people might have been infected with miasma and might infect him if they got closer!
If I had known earlier, I would not have come in person. What a bad luck!
Seeing that Jia Tongpan did not dare to let her get close, Qiao Ran took a few steps back calmly, folded her arms and watched as the dozen or so government servants threw a total of twenty bags of grain from the two carriages to the ground.
When Jia Tongpan saw that all the food on the carriage had been unloaded, he hurriedly left. He pointed to the twenty sacks on the ground and said:
"I am here to deliver relief food to you. The road into the mountain is too small for the carriage to enter, so it is left here. You can carry it back on your own! No need to kneel down to thank me, I am leaving!"
Qiao Ran twitched the corners of her lips and sneered.
Still kneeling to thank you? If there weren't so many government officials present, she would have wanted to jump up and blow his head off!
Wait! Sooner or later, she would find out who was behind Jia Tongpan and take revenge on these bastards who wanted to put them to death!
Seeing that he was about to climb onto the carriage in a hurry, Qiao Ran quickly asked: "Master Tongpan, when will the household registration documents for us refugees be issued to us? Should I go to the government office to get it or... …?”
"No, no, no... you don't have to come! I will send someone to deliver it to you then. Six days later! After six days, you wait here again and I will send someone to deliver it to you. I am warning you that if you are infected, you must not Enter the city! If you bring the disease into the city, everyone in your village will die!"
Jia Tongpuan warned fiercely.
But he was sneering in his heart.
Six days later? I'm afraid that all these people will be infected with that strange disease in six days, right? What's the point of needing a household registration document if he's going to die from ulcers all over his body?
However, he was also worried that there would be a few people who were still alive and would find an opportunity to sneak into the city to look for him. If people in the capital were also infected with the strange disease, then he would not be able to bear the burden and walk away.
Therefore, he could only agree to have the household registration documents delivered.
Anyway, these people will die sooner or later, so what if we give them household registration?
After getting the answer, Qiao Ran was satisfied.
"Okay, I will be waiting here at noon six days later. I hope the people from the government office can come early. If they don't come after noon, I will go to the city and ask if you have forgotten."
When Judge Jia Tong heard this, his face turned green.
"You are not allowed to enter the city! I will send someone to deliver it as soon as possible! You are not allowed to enter the city within this month! The Chinese New Year will be in half a month, and you are not allowed to enter the city to buy! I will have someone send a pig to you then. No, these two pigs are here to celebrate a good year for you, I am good enough to you, please don’t cause any trouble for me!”
When Qiao Ran saw that Tongjian had already got on the carriage and was about to ask someone to turn the horse around and drive back, she took two hurried steps forward and said loudly:
"But Lord Tongpan, this little food is not enough for more than 500 of us! With just twenty bags of food, we can't survive the next month even if we drink gruel every day. You can't let us starve to death! I heard that There are many rare medicinal materials in Devil's Valley. How about we go into the forest to collect some medicinal materials and sell them in the city so that we can get some food for the winter? Please forgive us, please, and be accommodating!"
Jia Tongpan was so angry that he suddenly lifted the car curtain and roared at the ungrateful girl:
"You are not allowed to enter the city! You are not allowed to enter the city! You are not even allowed to get even half a step closer to the city gate! Otherwise, you will be punished as a traitor!"
After he finished yelling, he took a few deep breaths and said: "In half a month, I will have another fifty bags of grain delivered to me, so that I can stay calm!"
After saying that, he swung the curtain and angrily urged the coachman: "Hurry up! Go back to the city!"
The driver immediately waved his whip, and the carriage hurried toward the capital. Qiao Ran raised her lips and smiled.
Fifty bags of grain was not much, but it made Jia Tongpuan and the man above him unhappy, which made her happy.
Seeing that the people were gone, Qiao Ran immediately took out thirty bags of grain from the space and piled them with the grains thrown on the ground.
When Zhao Tieniu ran back, he met a group of men from the village pushing carts out of the mountain halfway.
It turned out that everyone went back at noon to prepare for lunch, but learned that Qiao Ran and Zhao Tieniu, who were waiting at the mountain intersection, had not returned yet. Everyone was worried that something would happen to them, so they rushed over with several carts.
Seeing Zhao Tieniu who was running out of breath and learning that the government office had sent someone to deliver food, they felt happy and quickened their pace.
When they reached the intersection outside the mountain, they saw Qiao Ran standing alone next to a pile of big sacks. Several big sacks were already placed on the cart she brought.
