Chapter 32 Flood
However, looking at the official uniforms on the officials and the bright swords in their hands, no refugees dared to grab the grain truck.
Although no one dared to take action, they all followed the team.
"What should we do?" Li Dayong asked Liang Jiamin in a low voice: "How about scaring them with a knife? Drive all these refugees away."
Liang Jiamin glanced at the refugees and said, "Don't panic now, take a look before talking."
He walked until the sky It was completely dark, and everyone finally found a shelter from the rain.
This is a very dilapidated Taoist temple that can only barely shelter from the rain.
The officials went outside to collect some wet firewood and came back. They used the broken pieces of wood that had been dismantled from the Taoist temple to make a fire and cook together.
That night, Jiang Tangtang did not dare to show off her superb cooking skills and only made some simple meals.
But even so, many refugees still came around.
Seeing the fierce appearance of the official, they didn't dare to say anything, and they all surrounded Jiang Tangtang. One of the women held a child in her arms, knelt in front of Jiang Tangtang and said, "Sister, please do a good job and give me something to eat. Please save my child!"
Looking at the sick child in the woman's arms, Jiang Tangtang I felt very uncomfortable.
But she did not dare to give them food. She only said: "Auntie, I am now a clay Buddha and cannot save myself when crossing the river. How can I help you?"
The woman naturally saw the prison clothes on Jiang Tangtang's body. Normally, she would never dare to come into contact with these prisoners.
But this year it rained continuously, and the dam upstream collapsed. Their entire village was flooded. In order to save the mother and son, the man was washed away by the flood. His life and death are still unknown.
The children her man had sacrificed his life for were now starving to death.
She put the child on the ground and kowtowed to Jiang Tangtang: "Please, just do it and help me! I don't want food, so just give my child a bite to eat. Save my child! As long as it's okay, please help me!" If you are willing to save my child, I will repay you by being a cow and a horse!"
"Mom! Don't cry, I'm not hungry..." The child looks about the same age as Lu Tiantian, but he is older than Lu Tiantian. Thin, Jiang Tangtang's hard-working heart suddenly broke through.
She handed over her share of multi-grain dumplings and said, "For the sake of the children, I will save my rations for your children to eat, but there will be no more. I just help the adults cook." They are just prisoners."
When Jiang Tangtang relented, the remaining refugees all knelt in front of her like women, pleading: "Noble, please save us too! We haven't eaten in three days!"
"Noble, please save us too! Save my child..."
Jiang Tangtang knew that if he saved one person, countless refugees would swarm him, but he was still shocked by the scene in front of him.
Fortunately, Liang Jiamin raised the whip in his hand and said, "Stand back. If anyone dares to come forward, I will kill him with one strike!"
Seeing Liang Jiamin's ferocious face and holding up the big knife in his hand, these refugees retreated in fear. .
Lu Shiyan escorted Jiang Tangtang back to their donkey cart.
It rained today, so Jiang Tangtang didn't cook anything in the carriage. Collecting all the things inside, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Su also crowded onto the donkey cart.
However, there are already so many things in the donkey cart, and if two more people are added to the cart, it will instantly become more crowded.
Neither of them could straighten their feet in the carriage.
When they arrived at the dilapidated Taoist temple, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Su wanted to get out of the car and stretch their hands and feet.
But there were so many refugees outside, staring at them like evil wolves, that they did not dare to come down.
Dinner in the evening was eaten together in a donkey cart.
However, because the Taoist temple was full of refugees, Jiang Tangtang did not dare to cook meat porridge for the children alone. The children followed them and ate multi-grain dumplings.
There were people everywhere in the Taoist temple today, and with so many eyes watching, Jiang Tangtang didn't find a chance to add any private ingredients, and he didn't dare to take out the white noodles in the carriage for cooking.
The texture of this multi-grain dumpling is almost the same as the dry food originally distributed to the prisoners by the officers.
Although the child's health has improved a bit after this period of conditioning, the multigrain dumplings made their throats irritate and everyone ate very slowly.
Afraid that the children would be hurt by eating too much whole grains and hurt their stomachs, Jiang Tangtang took away the whole grain dumplings from several people's hands and said, "Don't eat these. I'll make sugar water for you." Lu
Tiantian looked at Jiang Tangtang with bright eyes and said, "Mom, what's the matter? Is there any candy?"
The last time Jiang Tangtang went to the city, he took out two jars of candy from the space, saying that he bought them in the city and distributed them to several children.
However, after being away from the city for so many days, the two jars of candy had already been eaten by Jiang Tangtang cooking for several children.
Jiang Tangtang said: "Without sugar, you can make sugar water without using a sugar lady. Believe it or not?"
"How can you make sugar water without sugar?" Lu Tiantian stared at her curiously.
Lu Jingcheng's face was cold, but his hands betrayed his heart at the moment.
Through this period of getting along with each other, Jiang Tangtang discovered that the little guy always had a cold face, making it difficult for people to tell the slightest clue.
But when he thinks seriously about a problem, he picks his nails subconsciously.
Jiang Tangtang glanced at her eldest son, who had a cold face, and said deliberately, "You'll find out later."
As she said that, she took out a few sweet potatoes from under the carriage.
This was taken out of the space when she was resting last night.
These sweet potatoes have been washed. Jiang Tangtang cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces and put them into the casserole.
Then she took the prickly pears she picked on the mountain out of the bag, carefully removed the thorns on them, cut them open with a knife, removed the seeds, and threw them into the pot.
Finally, pour the water in the water bag into the casserole, burn the charcoal fire, and slowly boil it.
Looking at the basket Jiang Tangtang was holding charcoal in, Mrs. Lu sighed: "You can't tell that this basket looks small, but it can actually hold it! Fortunately, this basket can hold it, otherwise the children would have to work hard."
Jiang Tangtang said a little guiltily: "Maybe the charcoal I bought this time is good and resistant to burning, so I used it slowly."
In fact, according to the speed at which they used the charcoal, the charcoal in the basket should have bottomed out long ago.
It's just because they secretly take two pieces from the space and add them in every night when they go to bed.
That's why the charcoal in the basket appears to be used very slowly.
Sweet potatoes already contain sugar, but the sweet potatoes in space are extra sweet. Soon, the unique sweet aroma of sweet potatoes emitted from the carriage.
Although the doors and windows of the carriage are tightly closed, some smell will inevitably come out of the gaps.
"What does this smell like?" A refugee sniffed, "It smells so good!"
"It seems to come from over there."
Although the refugees couldn't tell what kind of food the smell came from, they all knew it was food.
People who smelled the smell immediately ran towards the donkey cart.
Lu Shiyan held a long stick as thick as a baby's arm and said, "Everyone, stay back!"
"Brother, just give us a bite to eat!"
"Everything in our house has been washed away by the flood. We haven't had anything for many days. Come eat, please save us!"
"Just give my mother a bite to eat, just one bite."