allonlinenovel Chapter 199: Separation?
Chapter 199: Separation?
As a result, Shen Yuanbao, Shen Luming, and Shen Nannan each took out a gold cake from their arms. Oh my god!
There are obvious small teeth marks on it, why does it look so familiar?
Shen Youyou's eyes widened: "Are these the three pieces from the village? You didn't put them back?"
Shen Luming handed his little hand to Shen Zhiqiu, frowning and saying:
"I was in such a hurry that I forgot about it, and later I just put it in my pocket. Brother Yuanbao said he would tell the family when there were fewer people around."
Oh my! How come these three kids are so capable of keeping secrets?
If nothing had happened today, would this golden cake have to be completely settled down and only taken out behind closed doors?
However, even adding these three golden cakes was not enough. Shen Zhiqiu was stunned and even felt it was a little funny.
The whole village went to fight the bandits, but in the end, all the small change collected by the whole village was not as much as what these three little kids brought out due to negligence.
Why do you think this matter is so strange?
"Dad, isn't that enough?"
Shen Zhiqiu squatted down and touched the tops of the heads of the three little kids one by one: "It's okay, Dad will find a way."
But the golden cake really cannot be left with three little kids, in case they are lost after a long time.
It was also through this incident that Shen Youyou realized that she really couldn't underestimate these little kids.
How can they keep things to themselves? Not to mention that Shen Yuanbao and Shen Luming didn't reveal this matter for ten days.
Even the little girl Shen Nannan didn’t tell her family.
However, these three gold cakes could not be distributed privately, and even less could they be kept by the parents of the three little kids. After all, the fight against the bandits was carried out by the entire village, and the same went for the silver that had been looted before.
Everyone asked Master Shen to keep it. It was considered public money and was originally intended to be used to settle down and live.
Now it seems that everyone has to buy a place.
The secret conversation among the few people here had not yet ended when Master Shen, the old hunter, Master Dahai, and the old men from other families came over again.
"Xiao Sanzi, you are a scholar, you will definitely be able to make up for the loss. The money we have from all the households combined is limited. When the time comes, you can bring your parents and brothers, and by the way, you can make up for the loss for the younger children in the village."
After saying this, he took out a tattered bundle from his arms, which contained various copper coins, small silver ingots, and so on.
There were even a dozen strings of copper coins tied with red ropes.
Shen Zhiqiu understood what they meant and immediately said, "Grandpa, I'm thinking of a solution. Don't worry."
Master Shen sighed:
"We are all ordinary farmers. All households combined only have about 200 taels of silver.
As for those we have looted, don’t worry about whose babies they are, just take the smallest one.
We just discussed it and found that the youngest ones have poor survival ability."
Seeing what Shen Zhiqiu was about to say, Taiye immediately advised:
"There's nothing we can do. We just heard about it in the queue. We can't ask them to help us. Something bad will happen.
If by then even your family can’t make concessions, we will be at a huge loss.
Just listen to grandpa. You are a scholar. If by any chance you become a soldier or forced to do corvée labor, there will be no hope for our Shenjia Village.
Besides, we are farmers, so it doesn’t matter where we farm. It’s all the same. We just need to take the kids with us.”
Hunter Gao also tried to persuade them, "Yes, I'll keep it for you first. As long as you have the ability, you may be able to help out when you are able to stand firm, and you can also help the other kids in the future.
Even if we can't arrange for you to stay in a good place, at least you can still think about visiting us."
Shen Zhiqiu felt uncomfortable and said:
"Grandpa, I have some silver. You can take it first. Even if someone wants to be a frontier farmer, they still need to pay some silver. If you don't pay anything, you will become a military household."
Li Jingshu also followed suit:
"Yes, everyone has little money. How are you going to live after you take all this out? No matter if you are a farmer or a soldier, you all need money."
As a result, all the old men argued in unison: "What's the difference between military households and frontier farmers? We already asked about it when we took your pulse just now.
The farmers on the border are called farmers in a nice way, but when a war breaks out with the south, they will still be the first to be attacked, and are not much better than military households.
Moreover, if you become a frontier farmer, you have to hand over a large portion of your grain as rations for the troops guarding the frontier. To put it bluntly, there is not much difference between you and a military household. It's just a good reputation."
After hearing the explanation, Shen Zhiqiu completely understood the origin of this frontier farmer.
In fact, it is probably because the higher-ups were afraid that if they were all divided into military households, the refugees would rebel, so they came up with the term "frontier farmers".
In fact, it is not much stronger. Of course, you can take the imperial examination.
However, production in the border areas is problematic, especially in Jeju, which is a hilly area with many mountains and little land.
They are worried about food and drink, so how can they have extra money to send their children to take the imperial examinations? Of course, this also applies to the majority of farmers.
The people of Shenjia Village believed in Shen Zhiqiu's ability to pass the imperial examination, but they didn't know that he was a time traveler and had a stronger ability to make money.
Therefore, I just want Shen Zhiqiu to be assigned a stable place first, do well in the imperial examination, and then find a way to rescue them.
But if you really can't do it and can't get it out, then at least you can take care of the younger generation.
Along the way, they didn't trust anyone else. They only trusted the people in their own village, and they trusted Shen Zhiqiu even more.
Even their family only kept one or two taels of silver for themselves, and the rest was all here.
Among the 18 households in the village, not a single one was worried. They felt that without Shen Zhiqiu, they would lose their lives, let alone their money.
Besides, he couldn't trust the little kid to anyone, so he just felt relieved to be with the Shen family, knowing that they would never treat the little kid badly.
To be honest, everyone's trust made the family feel heavy inside, and suddenly they felt a little sad.
"Old Shen, is there really no other way? Do we have to separate?"
After such a long period of contact, Li Jingshu, who has no memory of ancient times, feels that he has become part of the big family of Shenjia Village.
I even thought: It doesn’t matter where I live, as long as it’s a stable place, no matter whether I’m poor or rich, and I’m surrounded by familiar people.
But the situation was like this: they were finally about to settle down, but what greeted them was separation.
Shen Zhiqiu hugged the torn bundle tightly and looked at the people who were already preparing to line up for porridge.
Still unwilling to accept his fate, he said to everyone in his heart: "Don't worry, I will do my best to take everyone away."
In the Shenjia Village team, the already disheartened Shenjia Villagers, including those with young children, were holding back their tears and telling their children:
Listen carefully to your Third Uncle's words from now on.
Don't cause trouble for Aunt Jingshu, be more discerning,
Learn more from Sister Yoyo, and don’t fight with Lulu. There are too many similar things.
The meaning of thousands of words is the love and reluctance of family members.