Before Gu Qing could leave the hospital, he heard Gu Fei's shout and hurriedly walked into the house.
Gu Fei groaned and took out a few taels of silver from under the pillow, "Brother, I know that the family has no money. This is all I saved before. You can use it to buy food first."
Gu Qing took the silver in surprise. Could it be that the money is still hidden in the shoes? Such a big piece would hurt your feet.
Gu Fei added: "I have one more thing to ask of my eldest brother. Go into the city and ask for me whether the female relatives of Pingyang Marquis are still in prison."
She was worried that the second lady might be exiled.
Gu Qing nodded, "I'm about to go to the Yamen, I'll make sure to inquire carefully."
Gu Qing took the money and went out, and the father and son hurried to the city.
After a while, Li Chunhua came in with Xiaocao in her arms, followed by a woman and a little boy.
Gu Fei stood up and smiled at her, "Auntie."
This woman, Mrs. Li, was her brother-in-law's wife and Li Chunhua's aunt. When Gu Qing and Li Chunhua got married, Mrs. Li was the one who led the way.
The little boy is Li's child, named Huzi, and he is seven years old this year.
Mrs. Li held a dozen eggs in her hand and put them on the bed, "Auntie, I heard that you came back and you didn't get any other good things. I also saved a few eggs at home to replenish your health."
"Thank you, Auntie, Is Auntie okay at home?" Gu Fei said while looking at Mrs. Li. She hadn't seen her for eight years. Mrs. Li was much older, and her face was full of sadness.
Mrs. Li sighed, "Oh, what's the matter? The harvest this year is not good. It hasn't rained since the beginning of spring. Not even a drop of summer grain has been harvested. The autumn grain can't be sown. What will the family eat from now on?" Ah!"
Li Chunhua hugged Xiaocao and sighed, "Isn't it true? I heard that several families in the next village have fled. There is no way, there is no food, so we can't starve at home.
" I still have some savings, but in order to redeem my sister-in-law, I have emptied all my money. I don't know how I will live in the future.
The two women sighed at each other.
Gu Fei felt a chill in her heart when she heard this, and suddenly remembered the history book she had memorized during the college entrance examination. In the year xxxx AD, there was a severe drought in the five counties in the north. The drought lasted for three years, and the entire north had no harvest, so that nine out of ten households were affected. The fields were empty, and the fields were starved to death. They ate bark, grass, roots, field mice and bugs, and everything edible in the fields. In the end, they had no choice but to eat people.
Some ate their own wives, some ate their own sons, some cut the flesh directly from the corpses and ate it, and there were countless women and children sold to the south by human traffickers.
Too many people died and no one collected their bodies. The decay of the corpses caused bacteria and caused a plague. Later, the entire north became a hell.
Gu Fei knew from his memory that it was the third year of Jiayou in the Great Ying Dynasty, and Jiayou was the reign name of the last emperor of the Great Ying Dynasty!
According to the year of the demise of the British Dynasty, wouldn't this year be around AD XXXX?
Has the three-year drought begun?
Gu Fei's heart trembled, and she tried her best to recall the content in the history book. The current emperor was called Emperor Ai in history. Since the severe drought in the north in the third year of Jiayou, the people in the north have been in dire straits. The central government has gradually lost control over the local areas. The vassal kings Separate regimes and endless wars, the entire Kyushu region fell into a century-long period of turmoil.
Oh my god, how could I travel to this era? Gu Fei suddenly felt like she was getting cold.
How to do how to do?
(End of chapter)