A few people were a little unresponsive for a while, and they didn't dare to reach out to pick it up. They just pointed to themselves, unable to communicate:

"For...for me?"

The other party didn't make a sound, just put the bowl and chopsticks in front of them, and then left without making a sound. They were convinced that it was for themselves, and quickly picked it up, but they couldn't help feeling even more guilty.

Others found out that someone would bring flat food to them when they were doing the work, so they all had their eyes lit up and rushed to "help". However, they said they were helping, but their attention was always on when someone would deliver food to them.

The common people are not stupid, they can tell if they are helping with their heart, so naturally they will not deliver food for them. In the end, they finally understood and began to help with hunger.

After the guard in charge of watching them reported their situation here to Ying Ze, Ying Ze sneered:

"Let people be optimistic about them, don't give them food, they are just hungry, they can't stand it, and let them experience the feeling of people suffering from hunger and cold when they can't wait for the relief rice."

The guards retreated in response, so on this day, from morning until nightfall, they really didn't have a bite of rice. If it was a normal day, they would be pampered in the mansion, have servants to do everything, and be hungry for two or three meals , it is hard to say how hard it is.

But here, not only did they have nothing to eat, but they also had to work hard to help. All they did was physical work. The food in their stomachs was almost used up last night, and they couldn't make it through the night.

When they were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, the little boy who came to teach them how to build a hut yesterday actually came to them again. When he saw them all collapsed to the ground from exhaustion and hunger, he suddenly said:

"Are you hungry?"

Everyone looked at him, and they were overjoyed immediately, thinking that he was going to help to serve the food, so they said quickly:

"Yes! We haven't eaten for more than a day, Xiao... Xiaoguo, can you bring us something to eat?"

Xiaoguo looked up at the person who was speaking, saw the kind smile on his face used to coax the child, his eyes flickered for a moment, and replied:

"it is good."

Then turned and ran away.

Everyone looked at each other and were very excited, but before they were happy, Xiaoguo came back, with red hands, holding a big snowball.

The man was suddenly a little dumbfounded, and he couldn't react:

"Xiaoguo, aren't you going to get us something to eat? Why... you came back so soon, did you bring something to eat?"

Xiaoguo looked up at him, moved the handful of snow closer to him, and replied:

"Bring it, isn't this what it is?"

Everyone looked at Baixue in his hand and said in disbelief:

"This...how is this considered food?"

"Why can't you eat it?"

The boy looked at them with clear and sincere eyes, which could clearly reflect each of them:

"Before Brother Chen came, there wasn't much to eat at home, so my mother let me and my sister drink rice porridge, and she grabbed clean snow to eat. She said the snow was delicious, and she didn't feel hungry at all after eating it. Really, eat it." I won't be hungry after that."

After the words fell, everyone was speechless for a moment, some showed shock, some bowed their heads silently, even the most hungry person couldn't say anything about asking Xiaoguo to get something to eat.

The little boy seemed to have not noticed their abnormality, and continued:

"My mother said that the snow on the side of the road is not clean, so it is best to find the snow on the eaves and in the courtyard where no one has walked. The snow on the top is the softest and the most delicious. If you dig deep, you will eat it. Dust, so you can't just grab the snow around you to eat because you are too hungry..."

Finally someone couldn't bear to listen anymore, and couldn't help but said:

"Don't say it...don't say it!"

As if startled by his sudden utterance, Xiaoguo shuddered, stopped speaking, and finally stopped trying to teach them how to eat snow, but turned around and ran away without looking back.

After he left for a long time, among the silent crowd, someone finally moved.

He reached out and grabbed a handful of fresh snow from the roof of the hut beside him, stuffed it into his mouth, one after another, and after eating several handfuls of snow, he suddenly said to himself:

"It turns out that eating snow will really make you feel less hungry..."

……

Few people paid attention to what happened here. The vast majority of people, under limited conditions, tried their best to prepare for the Lantern Festival.

Although it is impossible to go to the Lantern Festival in Beijing this year, Lou Rongrong still prepared many lantern riddles for the people here.

More than a dozen dexterous women helped tie the lanterns, and Lou Rongrong wrote down the corresponding lantern riddles for each lantern. If a commoner guessed the answer, he could win the corresponding lantern.

When they came, Fei Wusu brought some extra caramel, and it happened that Lou Rongrong found some hawthorn in the medical center, melted the rock sugar, and made some rock candied haws for the children who survived the disaster.

Although each of them got only one or two pieces, the children were all very happy. One by one, they stood on tiptoe and waited impatiently for their own small bunch of candied haws by the small pot of boiling sugar.

This Lantern Festival is destined to become an unforgettable existence in the memory of many people.

Many years later, the people in Gyeonggi will always talk about the Lantern Festival when they chat with others. They once ate the same pot of flat food with the Emperor Daqing, and guessed the lantern riddles written by Princess Tianlu himself. The disaster may have overwhelmed them. But in contrast, the tenacity and softness of human nature also gave them the courage to continue to face life.

On the second day, Lou Rongrong and his party planned to return to Beijing. The relief supplies had already been delivered, and Ying Ze's identity had been exposed. It would be inappropriate to stay here any longer.

Except for a few officials from the Household Department and Sinong Temple who stayed behind to take care of the rest of the relief work, the other officials, along with Ying Ze, Fei Wusu and the others, embarked on the journey back to Beijing.

Chen Yun was also one of the candidates to stay in Ji County for disaster relief. Before leaving, Lou Rongrong still gave him the "Quan Nong Shu" that he had copied.

After spending the past few days together, she has a better understanding of this rather cowardly young man. She knows that he is upright in nature, and that he is indeed interested and talented in cultivating crops. The most suitable candidate has been selected.

When Chen Yun took this book, he didn't know that the content in it was enough to make his name go down in history. He just thought it was just like a common agricultural book, just a friendly gift from Lou Rongrong, so he just accepted it.

On the journey back to Beijing, Fei Wusu and Xiao Li were escorting them on horseback. In the carriage, Lou Rongrong was sitting opposite Ying Ze, sipping hot tea that had just been brewed, when Ying Ze suddenly spoke with a voice that could not be ignored. of exhaustion:

"Rongrong, do you think that the Emperor Gu is really, as the rumors say, unworthy of virtue, that's why the heavens sent this punishment?"

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