The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 197: Fellow Countryman Meets Fellow Countryman

Shen Zhiqiu's cheeks ached after reading the notice. When he returned to the team and saw the more than 200 people in Shenjia Village who were waiting for their news, all with hopeful eyes, he felt a tingling sensation on his forehead.

Licking his lips, he said, "Let's go and queue up to see the doctor first, then get the porridge, and we'll figure it out slowly!"

Everyone in Shenjia Village immediately changed the direction of their carts and followed Shen Zhiqiu.

Every old man, woman, and child who got the news looked a little unhappy and had a look of disappointment, but no one cried or wailed.

He is much more emotionally stable than the refugees who just learned the news before the notice.

But you have to ask them: Don’t they feel wronged? Don’t they feel uncomfortable?

They suffered a lot during the escape from famine and encountered many dangerous situations. If it weren't for the cleverness of Shen Zhiqiu and Shen Youyou, it is hard to tell how many people would be left in the village!

Now that we've finally arrived and this is the result, why are you reacting so calmly?

This can only mean that all the difficulties along the way have become severe tests for them, and everyone has become stronger under these tests.

Moreover, the most important thing is that they believe in Shen Zhiqiu and always remember the words that Shen Youyou often said,

As long as the mind does not slip, there are more solutions than difficulties.

Moreover, after fleeing from famine for such a long time, I understand that it is useless to blame others. Not to mention crying and making a fuss, even if you just fall to the ground and die, no one will care about you except your own people.

So those who need to take the pulse should do so, and those who need to make porridge should make porridge.

Man is iron and rice is steel. If you don’t eat for a meal, you will feel hungry. Eating is the kingly thing!

You can't queue up just because you want to. An officer came up and stopped Shen Zhiqiu and his group: "Have you read the notice?"

"Looked."

"understood?"

Shen Zhiqiu nodded and said: I understand. You can only queue up when someone waves their hand. You cannot queue up with a cart. You have to park it in an open space on both sides so it doesn't get in the way.

Don't put them anywhere randomly, plan them one by one.

Doctor Guo hurriedly made arrangements. It had rained for the past few days and a little kid had caught a cold and fell ill, so he hurriedly took his pulse.

Don’t let people accuse us of catching a cold. Fortunately, the little kids who caught the cold have been taking medicine obediently these days and their symptoms have improved, so everyone can queue up with peace of mind.

Shen Zhiqiu had seen many scenes of seeing a doctor in a modern hospital, so he said, "Divide into two groups. One group will go to the pulse diagnosis area to queue up, and the other group will watch the carts."

As for getting porridge, you can't queue up for porridge without the bamboo card for feeling the pulse.

In Shenjia Village, the elderly, women and children are given priority, but the men can still be tolerated.

It was just that Shen Zhiqiu's voice was quite loud, and suddenly someone outside the team shouted excitedly: "Brother Huaizhi, Brother Huaizhi!"

Shen Zhiqiu turned his head and squinted. Ouch! It turned out to be his classmate Ma Wenbo who had stopped him to borrow a book before they left the city.

As the saying goes, when fellow villagers meet, they shed tears.

Shen Zhiqiu immediately arranged for his brother-in-law Wang Fuxi, Shen Mazi, and Shen Fugui to lead everyone in the queue. He had to go and reminisce with his fellow villagers and find out some news.

He really didn't expect that they could meet here again after parting in the county town before fleeing the famine. He didn't expect that this kid would be one step ahead of him when others had already made porridge and were ready to eat.

"Brother Wenbo, I haven't seen you for a long time. Are you doing well?"

Shen Zhiqiu clasped his fists, but he was still not used to the flowery speech.

Shen Zhiqiu and Ma Wenbo passed the imperial examination in the same year. One was at the top and the other at the bottom, but they had a good relationship.

Ma Wenbo is a relatively studious person. However, he was assigned a bad number during the exam, which affected his performance and resulted in him coming out on top.

As far as I can remember, when the results of the imperial examinations were announced, the two of them joked about how a bad name would affect one's performance in front of the red list in the government office.

Although one was at the top and the other at the bottom, the high spirits and vigor they displayed at that time cannot be compared to now.

At this moment, Ma Wenbo, who always liked to wear white robes and was a bit showy, was holding a bowl with several holes in it, and his clothes were patched up, and the original color could not be seen at all.

He covered his face with his sleeves, as if he was speechless.

Li Jingshu asked Shen Youyou, when did your father change his name, why is it Huaizhi?

Shen Youyou said: "That's my father's name. Scholars usually address others by their names to show respect."

Li Jingshu nodded: "What are they talking about? It's so confusing that it's hard to understand."

Shen Youyou directly translated for my mother and told her:

Even Mr. Ma said that he was a scholar, but now he had fallen to the point of begging, which was really shameful!

My father said that we can’t say that. The world is just the way it is. It’s good that we are all alive. As long as we are alive, we can start over and make a comeback.

Li Jingshu frowned and said, "You are talking too lightly. Your father must be so worried, but you are still so cheerful?"

Shen Youyou said helplessly: "No way, that's what they meant when they said it, even if I spoke in a cheerful tone it was just to liven up the atmosphere.

Actually, I have been thinking about how to make all of us get closer in terms of discretion, but this matter really has to be blamed on that Fu..."

Thinking about the fact that there are so many people around here, it seems that I should not mention the word "general". What if some soldier hears it and arrests him, it will not be worth it.

It immediately changes to:

"If that person doesn't show up, then we can use the boxes we picked up from the mountain as we see fit.

As a result, he came behind us, and the money we have now is probably only enough for a few families to use, and definitely not enough for all."

Li Jingshu also felt a toothache. How could he spend so much money? He thought that if each family gave him one or two hundred taels of silver, wouldn't it be possible to make some adjustments?

As long as they are not military households or frontier farmers, we can give them the opportunity to move to the most remote and poorest mountain villages!

When they are settled, they can earn money little by little and move to a better place.

In their previous lives, didn't they first live in the countryside, do business and make money, then go to the county town, and then little by little move to the city to buy a house? Until they traveled through time, their family's Mr. Shen was already a well-known and successful businessman in the local area.

They have bought houses in many places. In Lao Shen's words, his daughter doesn't need to work hard. His biggest wish is that his daughter can live a good life by collecting rent.

As long as she could settle down in a relatively safe place, she would be content and not afraid to start all over again with Lao Shen.

At the same time, Shen Zhiqiu was asking Ma Wenbo for information.

It wasn't in vain that Ma Wenbo arrived earlier than Shen Zhiqiu, and he had heard a lot of gossip by now.

The two of them hid in a corner, sneaking around like thieves.

"For families like us who have the title of scholar, as long as we have the written documents, we can get the privilege. It should be that the King of Yan favors us scholars, but ordinary farmers have to pay money to get the privilege.

It is said that the money is collected per person, 100 taels per person, and the money must be either in cash or in the form of silver notes that can be exchanged throughout the country. As for our previous prince, silver notes from individual banks cannot be used at all."

Shen Zhiqiu was so lucky. Fortunately, he did not try to save money when exchanging the currency. He did not cut off his retreat in order to save some money.

At that time, he thought that once he arrived in the north, the silver notes from his hometown might not be valid, so he specially exchanged them for national currency.