Chapter 277： people move

   "Your family is quite viable," Bowen looked at them curiously and asked, "Aren't you cold when you stay outside dressed like this?"

Zhang Wu smiled bitterly, "This is already all our clothes."

How could it not be cold? If Mu Yangling hadn't woken them up, maybe they would have turned into a corpse now.

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu are the people in the village where they settled down. Their parents died when they were very young. First, Zhang Wu's parents died when he was six years old, and they were raised by his uncle Zhang Liu's father. But only three years ago, Zhang Liu's father also died when he went out to serve in labor, Zhang Liu's mother raised two people for two years, and finally committed suicide when Zhang was fifty-one years old, and Zhang six or nine years old. .

Therefore, the two brothers have always depended on each other for life. The villagers helped them, and they themselves went to the county town to beg, scavenging waste during the autumn harvest, and helping people work in the spring to beg for a bowl of rice. The two stumbled and survived until today.

But this year was particularly difficult. First, the drought started in early summer. The food harvested from the fields was not enough to pay taxes, so the villagers naturally did not have any extra rations to help them.

They went into the city to beg for less and less things. On the day Mu Yangling entered the village, they had been starving, digging underground grass stalks to eat.

Their complexion is yellow, the two are thin and weak, but their faces are old, all due to years of hard work and hardship. In fact, Zhang Wu is only 18 years old this year, and Zhang Liu is only 16 years old. In the previous life, he was only two Just a high school student, they have already experienced too much.

They really couldn't survive this time, so they wanted to steal Mu Yangling's sheep.

But after watching it for a day and a night, I still had the guts to start, and I couldn't get past that hurdle in my heart.

Zhang Wu said that the two brothers have always been helped by others. Although they didn't know much, they knew right and wrong. He was squatting behind a tree, and his consciousness became more and more confused. He felt that it was okay to die, at least not Will do things to shame parents, uncles and aunts.

When Zhang Wu said this, Zhang Liu lowered his head in shame, because he couldn't bear the hunger, so his cousin thought to steal Mu Yangling's sheep.

"Then what do you mean by following up now?" Mu Yangling looked at them condescendingly with his hands in his arms, and said, "I remember that I gave you five taels of silver, save some money, and you should be able to pass the spring."

Zhang Wu's face was ashamed, his face flushed, he took out the piece of silver with his body temperature from the inner layer of his clothes and stuffed it into Mu Yangling's hand, and said crampedly: "I'm sorry."

After he finished speaking, he took his younger brother and bowed to Mu Yangling, then turned and ran away.

"Stop!" Mu Yangling stopped them, frowned at their feet still wearing straw sandals, and panicked for them.

Mu Yangling couldn't sit back and watch. The two of them ran away like this, and within three days, even if they didn't starve to death, they could freeze to death.

She handed the silver back, her face softened and said: "Take it, go to the city to find something to do, you are all grown up, it should not be a problem to support yourself."

Zhang Wu hesitated for a while, then glanced at his brother, he still took the money, he bowed gratefully to Mu Yangling, and said with red eyes: "I will use this money to buy tools to open up wasteland, and I must open two acres before the spring. Come to the land, when we have money to buy seeds, we will not starve to death in winter. Don't worry Miss Mu, we are strong and strong, and one day we will return the money to you. I don't know where to find you with the money. ."

"You use money to buy tools and seeds, then what do you eat and wear?" Mu Yang said with aura: "This is for your life, you live so close to the county, can't you go to the city to find work? With healthy limbs, what kind of work can't you find?"

If they were farming, they would still be reclaiming wasteland. Mu Yangling felt that before they could start farming, people would already starve to death.

"How can it be that simple?" Zhang Liu exclaimed: "To be an apprentice, you have to sharpen your head and squeeze in. In order to grab a place for an apprentice and a buddy, people are looking for relationships and money, and we do everything. No, and people in Sanquan County know that our brothers are beggars, and no one will use us."

With tears in his eyes, Zhang Liu said, "My brother helped them in front of the grain store two years ago, helped them carry grain, and helped them sweep the floor. In short, I was rushing to do all the dirty and tiring work, just wanted to mix it up. The apprentice Dangdang doesn’t need money, as long as he has three meals a day, he can find a way out.”

"But he helped people carry food for more than four months, and helped them with dirty work for four months. Except for a black bun every day, he had nothing. My brother just tentatively asked if he could be a Apprentice, they kicked my brother out and beat him up. Even if we were doing physical work, they wouldn’t hire me. We really had no way to survive, so that’s why we got a crooked mind. Well, we'll serve the land, it won't scold us, beat us, and it won't despise us, brother, do you think so?"

Zhang Wu nodded again and again and looked at Mu Yangling eagerly, holding the silver block in his hand tight and tight, very afraid that Mu Yangling would take it back.

Mu Yangling held his forehead with a headache, looked up at the time, and waved: "Okay, I'll talk about this later, just as I need help here, you two just follow me first."

Zhang Wu's eyes lit up, he dragged Zhang Liu to his knees on the ground, and kowtowed three times to Mu Yangling and the others, "Ladies and young masters, rest assured, we must work hard."

Mu Yangling didn't have time to stop him, so he grabbed the person's back collar and picked him up, "Okay, don't kneel, and don't call us young lady, you can just call me Miss Mu, our family doesn't Keeping slaves."

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu stared blankly at Mu Yangling, "Isn't Miss Mu going to accept us?"

Mu Yangling shook his head again and again, "You are all children of good families. You have never sold your body before. How can I buy your body deed? Come on, help me drive the sheep on the road."

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu opened their mouths. Zhang Wu wanted to tell Mu Yangling that in fact, they wanted to sell themselves, but rich people would definitely not use them. Everyone in Sanquan County knew that their brothers were beggars. Hook up with them, although they have never done a bad thing since they were young, well, except for wanting to steal the sheep from Miss Mu's house.

But if you don’t sell yourself into the government, you can only sell yourself to mine. That way of living is not as good as being a beggar or dying.

But seeing that Miss Mu had already driven the sheep to the road, the two wisely did not explain, and followed behind to help drive the sheep.

Bowen and Xiuhong climbed into the carriage and sat, feeling sleepy.

"Have you been to Xingyuan Mansion?" Mu Yangling asked after walking behind.

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu shook their heads, "We have never been out of Sanquan County."

Mu Yangling didn't understand this very well, "Xingyuan Mansion is not far from Sanquan County, it only takes a day's walk to walk, you can pack up and go to Xingyuan Mansion from here, who will know who you are there? Slowly you will find a way to live.”

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu were silent. Like most people, they had fear and rejection of unfamiliar places. Most people in Sanquan County had never been to Xingyuan Mansion, so naturally they would not have such thoughts.

Mu Yangling could only be silent about this, saying that when trees move to death, people move to live. Why can't people move?