Chapter 124 – Second Brother Returns Early

Some of these families were better persuaded and some were harder to persuade, but more or less they would listen to Wei Ruo’s words.

They knew that it was Wei Ruo who advocated for the distribution of land to them, so that they had new land to cultivate, and they could also receive relief food from the government every day, giving them hope for life.

That’s why Wei Ruo’s words had no small influence on them.

After an hour, most of the peasants had been persuaded to leave, leaving one of the most remote homes.

Wei Ruo saw that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, so he asked the master to take the people away first:

“Master Chen, you first lead the magistrates to escort these people into the city, I’ll go find the last family, we have a carriage, and when we’ve brought that family with us, we’ll catch up together in the carriage.”

“No, His Excellency told me to take care of Miss Wei, I can’t just leave Miss Wei behind!” Master Chen didn’t dare to just leave Wei Ruo behind.

“Time is not early, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, the weather is getting colder and colder, if you go on like this, the body is weak and will not be able to eat, you go back first, if you really don’t feel at ease, you can leave a yamen to me.” Wei Ruo said.

Master Chen agreed to Wei Ruo’s proposal after agonizing over it for a while, “Alright then, I’ll leave a magistrate with you.”

And then Master Chen led the crowd to the city first.

Wei Ruo led Xiu Mei and an officer to the far end.

The three of them wore straw raincoats and walked on the muddy ridge.

The rice paddies are filled with water, but it’s still raining.

“Miss, I’ll carry you on my back.” Xiu Mei said heartily.

“It’s fine, although I don’t know martial arts, my body isn’t that bad, it’s not hard to defeat me on such a small path.” Wei Ruo refused.

Wei Ruo just did not have martial arts, but living in the countryside for many years, going down to the fields, going up to the mountains to collect medicines, physical fitness is much better than the average young lady in the boudoir.

The last home was behind the small hill in front of it.

There is a good flat piece of land back there, and the land was originally in better condition than the rest of the property, and less difficult to improve.

But it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is far away. On weekdays there is no problem, rice seed fertilizer and so on are transported by the government. Today it seems slightly more troublesome.

Wei Ruo’s trio came to the last house, the simple thatched hut rattling in the wind and rain.

A woman in the house was holding a child three or four years old in her arms.

Seeing Wei Ruo come in, the woman seemed to see a ray of light and begged for help, “Save my child, save my child!”

Wei Ruo stepped forward and reached out to touch the forehead of the child in her arms, rolling.

Wei Ruo touched the brocade pouch he had with him and took a white bottle out of it, pouring out a pill before looking around for a bowl and water.

There was only a bowl with a missing mouth, but no hot water.

Wei Ruo had no choice but to hand the pill to the child’s mother, “You chew this pill and feed it into the child’s mouth.”

The woman hastened to do as she was told.

Immediately after that, Wei Ruo said, “Let’s leave here first and wait until we get to a safe place before we give her a proper cure.”

It is cold and wet here, there is no condition for treatment and recuperation, Wei Ruo can only give the child medicine first to properly relieve his symptoms.

“Good, good!” The woman nodded repeatedly.

“You give me the baby to hold.” Xiu Mei came up to help the woman carry the child.

Unwrap the straw raincoat and hide the child inside his own.

Wei Ruo, on the other hand, took off his straw raincoat and put it on the woman.

Seeing this, the magistrate next to him was busy giving his straw raincoat to Wei Ruo: “Miss Wei can’t make it.”

“Don’t talk nonsense, hurry up, you can’t leave if the water rises again.”

Wei Ruo interrupted the magistrate and walked back quickly.

The magistrate hurriedly unclipped his own straw raincoat and stuffed it into Wei Ruo’s hand, he didn’t dare to touch Wei Ruo, he only dared to throw it to Wei Ruo.

Seeing that he was sincere, Wei Ruo took the straw raincoat hat, “Clothes you wear, I’m not a big person, this hat is enough to block most of the rain for me. Stop talking nonsense, nonsense delays things.”

Wei Ruo didn’t give this magistrate another chance to continue inking.

Put on your hat and head out.

Just coming out of the house, the way we came was completely flooded with water, like a swamp.

The soil in the rice paddies is inherently silty and will sink if you step in it; only the part that was originally a ridge is slightly better.

Wei Ruo urged several people to be extra careful.

A few people walked hard and moved slowly, watching the water rise higher and higher ……

At that moment two figures appeared in the distance, and because they were wearing straw raincoats, they did not know who they were for a while.

Wei Ruo looked at the visitor and felt a bit of familiarity.

And one of them walked right up to her, raising his hat so Wei Ruo could see his face.

“Ergo?”

The people who came were actually Wei Jin Yi and Xiao Bei, who hadn’t seen them for a long time.

Wei Jin also didn’t answer, glancing down at Wei Ruo’s feet, the cold rainwater hadn’t gotten past her ankles.

“I’ll carry you.”

Wei Jin Yi finished speaking without waiting for Wei Ruo’s response before picking Wei Ruo up horizontally.

“Ergo, no, I can walk by myself, I’m not that weak.”

Wei Jin also didn’t answer Wei Ruo, but instead spoke to several other people, “Hurry up.”

Xiao Bei, who followed Wei Jin also came, carried the woman without saying a word.

At this moment, when lives are at stake, no one will care about the defense of men and women.

Wei Jin Yi’s footsteps were quite a bit faster than Wei Ruo’s, and he was still able to tread on the muddy rice paddies as if they were flat.

Wei Ruoze was a bit overwhelmed, this experience of being carried around was the first time, she raised her head and saw Wei Jin Yi’s chin and neck.

Even from this angle, I feel that he is so good looking, it’s just that his expression is a little cold, as if it has four big words written on it: stranger don’t enter.

It didn’t take long for Wei Jin Yi to carry Wei Ruo to the carriage they had parked on the official road.

In the back, Xiao Bei, Xiu Mei, and the magistrates had also arrived.

Wei Ruo, Xiu Mei, the woman and the little girl all got into the car, Xiao Bei and the magistrate drove, and Wei Jin also rode a horse.

In the car, Wei Ruo took care of the little girl while learning about the mother and daughter from the woman.

The woman’s husband was a soldier who fought against Japanese invaders and was unfortunately killed in battle. Since the family was left without a male member, relatives drove the mother and daughter out of the house and seized the fields that had belonged to them.

The woman could only beg on the streets with her daughter, and then because of Wei Ruo’s offer, they were able to follow the other homeless people to the south of the city to settle down.

When the fields were first divided up, the others were supposed to take care of the woman for fear that she wouldn’t be able to do the work, and only then did they divide up this piece of land, which was not so heavily salinized, and which would save a lot of effort to improve.

On weekdays, even though they were far away from each other, there were kind aunts and uncles who sent them living supplies every day. Who would have thought that today’s situation would lead to the mother and daughter being the last to go.

The carriage quickly rushed back to the city and arrived at the county courthouse, where the woman and the little girl were settled into the warehouse vacated by the courthouse.

The warehouse was not very large, and the gate went in, with a row of bedding on the floor on each side, and all the people who had been brought here were accommodated here.

In some cases where there are fewer people, the family sleeps in one bunk, and where there are more people, the family sleeps in two bunks.