Chapter 407 Refugees Coming
Eat by yourself, live behind closed doors, focus on your health, and get as much nutrition as you can. ơɱWhen mourning for your family, you can't drag down your body, otherwise how can you have the physical strength to work?
Of course, she is not the real one, and she has no intention of mourning in her mind.
But when entertaining guests, you have to pay attention to your image. She only prepared sake as a drink, just for the sake of courtesy.
After everyone had eaten and drunk enough, they talked in the yard for a while before they dispersed.
Bai Yunxi took Du Shi to send everyone to the door one by one, and then turned back. He couldn't help rubbing his old waist. He really couldn't do too much entertaining work at ordinary times. It was too tiring.
In a blink of an eye, it was autumn harvest again.
According to the standards of summer harvest, the second son was asked to go to the town to hire a few temporary workers. I don't know if it was fate, but the few people invited were still the ones from summer harvest.
With the cooperation of the previous season, everyone was familiar with each other and worked more efficiently.
With good food and drink, they hurried to put the grain into the granary, and then continued to sow winter wheat.
This time, Bai Yunxi planned to plant winter wheat on the east and west slopes of the mountain, and after the harvest next year, she could plant another season of late rice.
This combination was just right in terms of timing.
After working intensively for ten days, the grain was finally stored in the warehouse. When the winter wheat was planted, Bai Yunxi finally breathed a sigh of relief and went to the town to buy some ingredients to prepare a reward.
After entering the town, she suddenly found that many outsiders appeared in the town.
Although these people were not dressed in shabby clothes, they could not hide the fatigue and vicissitudes on their faces. They looked like they had come from a long way away.
Seeing these people, Bai Yunxi's heart sank, and she hurriedly bought some things and went home.
After leaving the town, she saw some people walking towards the town one after another.
These people were dressed in shabby clothes, dirty and covered in mud.
These people had the same standard as those seen in the town, that is, thin and tired.
I heard that they were all beggars recently, and there were quite a few of them.
Someone had already inquired about it, and they all fled from the northwest.
Seeing this, Bai Yunxi panicked, and what he feared would come true. He hurried home to gather people and tell everyone what he saw in the town.
"More and more people are coming here to escape famine, and they all fled from the northwest. Although they look pitiful, these people who can come all the way from the northwest to here are not ordinary people."
"So, don't be kind and bring people home easily, especially those young and strong laborers, you must not provoke them. Fortunately, our autumn harvest and sowing are completed. If you have nothing to do in the near future, don't go out easily."
Hearing the serious tone of the mother, the faces of several people were not good.
"Mother, do you think they are the refugees rumored?"
Li blinked and asked curiously.
When Du heard the word refugees, her face changed, and she couldn't help but feel lucky in her heart that they had built the house before this, and as long as the door was closed, the refugees could not get in.
"Mom, what should we do?"
Bai Anyan rubbed his hands, looking at the women and children at home, worried.
"Nothing to do, just stay at home. We can't control the refugees outside, and we can't provoke them. It depends on how many there are. If there are many, the government will intervene. If there are few, I guess we can only rely on ourselves to deal with it."