There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 12

[Chapter 12, The Beggar Goes to the Yamen]

to the government office of Zhongzhou.

Countless refugees crowded outside the city gate, sitting together in twos and threes. These people were either numb, hopeful, or desperately looking at the closed city gate.

At this moment, Daohua and the others were also among the refugees, and their faces were not very good-looking.

“I finally came to Fucheng, but I didn’t expect that I couldn’t even enter the city gate.” Daohua looked depressed.

Xiao Yeyang said: “This situation is very normal. A refugee riot broke out not long ago. Now that the gates of the city are opened, refugees flood into the city. Who knows if there will be any trouble?”

Daohua: “But so many refugees The government can’t just say no to the gathering here?”

“Who said no to it?”

someone next to him interjected.

Daohua looked over immediately: “Old man, do you know any news?”

Seeing that everyone around looked over, the old man straightened himself up, coughed a few times, and said, “Yesterday I was wandering at the gate of the city and heard The gatekeepers said that a few days ago, a senior official from Beijing came.”

“A senior official from Beijing?”

“Isn’t it? Aren’t the high officials here here to help the disaster?”

Hearing this, the others looked excited, but Xiao Yeyang’s eyes flickered, and he lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

At noon, officers and soldiers from the city came out, carrying buckets of steaming rice buckets.

As soon as they appeared, refugees rushed over in an instant.

But after a while, a long queue formed outside the city gate.

Daohua asked Madam Sun to watch over Mrs. Yan, while she took Yan Wentao to line up with Uncle Sun, Xiao Yeyang, and Zhao Ergou.

They had no choice but to throw away all their baggage. Although they still had bank notes, they could not enter the city or exchange them, so they could only queue up to receive the porridge.

While waiting in line, Xiao Yeyang didn’t know what he saw, and suddenly ran out of the line. After Zhao Ergou saw it, he rolled his eyes, glanced at Daohua who was queuing up to get the porridge, gritted his teeth, and followed quickly.

When Yan Wentao told Daohua, she turned her head, only to see their backs disappearing among the crowded refugees.

Daohua frowned: “What are the two of them going to do?”

Yan Wentao shook his head: “I don’t know, Yeyang seems to have seen something. ” Daohua’s expression changed: “Don’t worry about

them, let’s get porridge, grandma was hungry all night It’s over.”

Yan Wentao felt confident.

In his eyes, Xiao Yeyang and Zhao Ergou are just two passers-by, they can’t compare to his grandmother and sister.

After queuing for more than half an hour, Daohua, Yan Wentao, and Sun Bo received three bowls of porridge, took them back, and shared them with Mrs. Yan and Mama Sun.

The old lady Yan looked at her grandchildren distressedly: “It’s good to have this experience, let you taste the hardships of this life in advance.” After speaking, she sighed and looked around.

“Why haven’t Boy Yang and Er Gouzi come back? Could it be that something happened?” Daohua didn’t know what to do, “I guess not

, that guy Xiao Yeyang looks quite smart.”

Yan Lao The wife shook her head: “No matter how smart he is, he is only a half-grown child now, and he will only suffer when he meets an adult.”

Yan Wentao: “How about, Uncle Sun and I go look for it?”

Mrs. Yan pondered for a while: ” Don’t go far, just look around. If people are really lost, it should be their lives.”

Yan Wentao and Sun Bo left, Daohua sat back beside the old lady Yan, muttering: “It’s not that bad luck.”

However, thinking of Xiao Yeyang’s unlucky nature of encountering human traffickers whenever he walks, he is not sure.

After a while, Yan Wentao and Sun Bo came back dejectedly.

The two shook their heads at Mrs. Yan and Daohua.

Daohua forced a smile and said, “Didn’t Xiao Yeyang see someone? Maybe it was his family members. He might have gone home now. Zhao Ergou will be fine if he follows him.”

Old lady Yan sighed. : “I hope.”

Having said that, several people still look forward to their return.

No matter what, after spending so much time together, they don’t feel at ease until they see whether the two of them are safe or not.

Unfortunately, Xiao Yeyang and Zhao Ergou did not come back that night.

The next day, the two were still missing.

Daohua looked at the city gate that was still closed, and then at the old lady Yan who had lost a lot of weight: “Grandmother, I don’t know how long the city gate will be opened, and Xiao Yeyang and Zhao Ergou probably won’t come back either. How about, why don’t we go?”

Mrs. Yan was silent for a while, and finally nodded: “Go, walk slowly, we will go to Linyi County even if we are begging along the road.”

Daohua smiled , whispered: “Of course, you forgot that your granddaughter still has a bank note.” If you can’t enter the Fucheng, it’s impossible that you can’t enter any of the other cities on the road.

Taking a ten thousand step back, even if you can’t get into these cities, you can always meet one or two wealthy households. At that time, you will suffer a little loss, and you will definitely be able to exchange for money.

Even if she took another step back and couldn’t exchange for money, Daohua could guarantee that they would reach Linyi County safely. Don’t forget, she still had some space, so she could secretly take out some food so that everyone wouldn’t starve to death.

On the third day, when the sky was slightly bright, Daohua and the others left Fucheng and walked towards Linyi County.

Not long after they left, a group of soldiers in armor suddenly came outside the city gate. These soldiers searched for a period of time among the refugees, but finally returned without success.

——

Half a month later.

The Daohua five, who were shaped like beggars, looked at the stone tablet engraved with the three characters of “Linyi County” with tears in their eyes.

“Grandma, after passing this stele, we will enter Linyi County.”

“Good, good, good!”

Mrs. Yan choked up and said three good words in succession.

Daohua also heaved a sigh of relief.

In ancient times, as long as she took a carriage, she would complain that the carriage was bumpy and unstable, but after walking for more than half a month, she no longer complained about the bad carriage.

No matter how bumpy the carriage is, it is better than walking on two legs.

“Go, I’ll see your parents soon.”

Daohua looked at the clothes they were wearing, and asked, “Grandma, will they agree if we go to see father like this?”

Old Madam Yan immediately widened her eyes : “What? Could it be that he still dares to despise me, my wife?”

Daohua smiled wryly.

He will not dislike the old lady, but he will dislike her.

Since she was a child, she didn’t grow up with her parents, and the relationship between people needs to get along with each other. She doesn’t believe how much her parents love her.

“Go, what are you afraid of? With grandma here, no one can bully you.”

Linyi County, at the gate of the county government.

The yamen guard at the gate was discussing where to go after get off work. He was talking vigorously when he suddenly asked about a pungent smell. When he raised his head, he realized that there were five more beggars in front of the gate of the county yamen.

“My lord, may I ask, is this the county government office of Linyi County?” Uncle Sun stepped forward to ask with a smile.

“Go and go, where did the beggar come from, where did he come from?” The yamen servants in front of the gate all chased Uncle Sun out with a look of disgust.

Uncle Sun still wanted to ask, but a yamen servant got impatient and raised the saber on his waist as if he was about to hit Uncle Sun.

“What are you doing?”

Yan Wentao was startled when he saw it, and ran over quickly in two steps at a time, grabbed the yamen servant’s arm, and rescued Uncle Sun.

“Bold and unruly people, you dare to run wild in front of the county yamen, are you impatient?” Other yamen servants stepped forward one after another. There were so many of them, they crushed Yan Wentao to the ground in two or three strokes.

Seeing how they treated Yan Wentao, the old lady Yan became very angry.

“Stop it!”

Daohua was also angry and anxious, handed Mrs. Yan to Mama Sun, ran up quickly, pointed at the yamen servant, and said sharply: “My father is Yan Zhigao, the county magistrate of Linyi County. , if you dare to touch my third brother, I want you to look good.”

As soon as these words came out, the yamen servants who were still smiling and smiling were stunned on the spot.

(end of this chapter)