The grace of the bucket of rice, the hatred of the rising rice! Reality is so realistic!
The evening meal time arrived, the northern suburb of the flood shelter area canteen area early lined up a long queue, more than 20,000 victims lined up waiting to play rice. The long queue is full of laughter, the atmosphere is harmonious, they are in the flood shelter these days, that is eaten and slept, slept and ate, don’t mention how nourishing life.
However, this harmonious atmosphere of laughter was broken in no time, the people at the back of the queue heard a clamour of noise and cursing coming from the front, and could not help but curiously tilt their bodies and stretch their necks to look forward, and then they saw a few of the people who were in the front of the queue to eat arguing and cursing with the cooks, and it seemed that their emotions were still agitated.
“What’s going on? The people in front of the queue are sick, what are they arguing about, hurry up and eat, there are still a large number of people waiting behind them.”
The people in the back couldn’t help but raise their voices and curse, very dissatisfied with the people in front.
“That’s right, people care about your food and drink, you don’t know how to be thankful, what face do you have to quarrel with others. Grab the rice so that it’s our turn.”
The people next to him followed closely in agreement.
“Alas, it’s not right, are you guys listening? The situation is a bit off.”
One of the people in front of them twitched his ears, and his face changed all of a sudden, twisting his head around to say to the two of them.
“What’s not right ah, what do you hear? Three Dogs, what did you hear, quickly tell us, don’t keep us in suspense. You have the sharpest ears in our village, whoever has a quarrel in their house, you dog said that you can hear it all at once!”
The two people in the back couldn’t help but push the three dogs a little bit, and urged in a loud voice.
“I heard the man in front of me cursing the cook for being a black-hearted maggot, deducting our food! Didn’t we originally receive two nests and a pickled wild vegetable dumpling, and enough thin rice to drink? This time, we were only given one dumpling, one bowl of rice, and one thin strip of pickle! The man in front of us is fighting with the cook.”
The three dogs’ ears were really sharp, and he heard the quarrel in front of him, and learnt from the two men.
“What? A nest a bowl of thin rice! Dog said, also too black!”The back two people can’t help but listen to the excited curse out, can’t accept the meals from the two nests of rice enough to turn into a bowl of rice a nest, have long forgotten that they just also scolded the front of the people don’t know thankful it.
Soon, the entire flood avoidance area cursed.
The team is also chaotic, excited victims out of the team, the place to play rice surrounded by a group, cursing.
“Let go of your mother’s arse! I’ll tell you again, this is the meaning of the above, not me coveting your nest egg! Besides, in this time of disaster, we are thankful for a mouthful of food, let alone a bowl of thin rice! I’m not charging you any money, so why don’t you know what to do?”
The cooks scolded each other with red faces and ears, but they were soon drowned out by the curses of the victims.
“I bah! The government has so much food, giving us one more nest egg and letting us drink one more bowl can kill us!”
“Black hearted! Even our nests are black!”
The victims cursed and spat on the several cooks.
Liu Dianliang, the competent official in charge of the Northern Suburbs Flood Shelter Area, stepped in to explain, but was also cursed.
At the critical time, Zhu Pingan appeared and took control of the situation. Zhu Pingan was dressed in his official uniform and was followed by Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou and other officers. Seeing Zhu Pingan’s arrival, the screaming and cursing victims instantly quieted down. In feudal society, an era of strict hierarchy, the common people were naturally afraid of officials.
“Folks, this is a last resort, it is not that they are greedy ……The current flood lasts for a long time, the destruction is extensive, the court rescue needs time, and my county magistrate food is limited, for the sake of the long-term solution, I have to temporarily reduce your meals. My county government office is also trying to find a way to solve the food problem, when the food problem is solved, not only will you be fed, but you will also be fed well, so please bear with us for a few days.”Zhu Pingan stood in the centre of the crowd, arched his hand towards the crowd and explained to them.
Zhu Pingan’s status in the minds of the Jingnan commoners was very high and his image was very good, after Zhu Pingan explained, the local Jingnan commoners basically caved in, though those from outside the country who had fled to the country did not really buy it.
“Of course, if you can’t accept it, you all can also leave at any time. My Jingnan gate is open to accept all of you, and I will not close the door and confine you.”Zhu Pingan swept a glance at those people and said indifferently.
Leave? Wouldn’t that mean that they wouldn’t even have a meal to eat! The refugees who had fled to the area immediately didn’t dare to squeak.
Thus, the situation in the northern suburb of the flood shelter area stabilised, and the people once again stood in a long queue to get their meals.
As soon as the order was stabilised, Zhu Pingan led Liu Dazhou and the others away to the next flood shelter area.
“Bah! These officials, with their mouths full of grandiose words, what limited food and long-lasting solutions ……Bah! We pay money year after year, the county office has more food to feed the rats, more money to rust, can we be worse off with a nest egg and a bowl of thin rice? It’s not the officials who are so black-hearted that they save the grain and put it in their own pockets!”
One of the refugees received a bowl of rice, and ate it while cursing and swearing.
“What are you talking about, our governor big lord is not that kind of person.”The local disaster victims heard this and said to him.
“What, I’m not right. Heh, we just came here, you guys told us how much better your Great Master of the Magistrate County is, what love for the people, what two-sleeves cleanness, talking about the sky, just like Pao Qingtian was alive, and now, even the woo-woo and diluted rice are blackened by half! What else is there to say!”The victims who fled from the disaster laughed coldly and choked.
“Er ……Didn’t you hear our big old magistrate say that he told us to endure for a few days, and when the food problem is solved, not only will we be fed, but we’ll also be fed well.”The local disaster victims were a little short of breath, after all, the decrease in nests and thin rice was the truth, how could they deny this?
“Pull back, these promises made by the officials, just listen to them, don’t take them seriously. A few days can solve the food problem? And let us eat well? Eat well? The crows in the sky are all black!”The victims who had fled the disaster sneered, not believing it at all.
There were many such voices within the flood shelter areas, mostly from the victims from outside the area, the local victims from Jingnan were a bit less.
All the way into the night, the five major flood avoidance zones cursed continuously.
On the second day, when the victims found that not only the standard of food was lowered, even the meal was changed from three meals a day to two meals a day, there were even more curses in the flood shelter area, not only the refugees from abroad cursed, but even some local victims also joined in.
If not for the flood avoidance areas learned from yesterday’s lesson, organised in advance to maintain order, or else the order of the flood avoidance areas will be out of control.
