Traveling through famine years, peasant girls hold space in their hands to store food

"Princess Chen, this is a good idea. It can save time and return Yongcheng to normal as soon as possible."

Lu Qingqing nodded secretly, and then asked about the whereabouts of His Highness Prince Rui. When he heard that Prince Rui and his uncle had visited the villages below, Lu Qingqing said goodbye to Mr. Chen.

They also patrolled towards the villages below. The master and servant found a deserted place and released the horses in the space.

The two of them got on their horses neatly.

"Master, where should we go first?"

Lu Qingqing stretched out her hand and pointed, then looked in the direction ahead.

Look at the damage to the villages below.

Ziyao nodded slightly and followed her master slowly on her horse.

At this time, Xiao Zimo and Liu Chenwen also came to the village below. They looked at the houses and fertile fields that were washed away after the heavy rain, and felt a sense of emotion.

"It seems that the money in hand has repaired the dam, but it is not enough to help these people rebuild."

Liu Chenwen said softly, and Xiao Zimo also looked serious at this time.

This was indeed a problem. As he spoke, he saw a few men standing on the hillside in the distance.

Xiao Zimo slowly urged the horse to run towards that place.

"Who are you? Do you know the situation in Yongcheng?"

One of the men took the initiative to ask. Seeing the tall and powerful people in front of him, he quickly stepped forward to ask without caring about the others.

If we can't find any food, people will starve to death.

Xiao Zimo and others came closer and got off their horses.

"Are you all from the village? How many people are there here?"

Several men looked at each other in confusion, and then returned to the mountain. There were hundreds of people there. If no one came, they would starve to death on this mountain.

"The emperor has ordered the opening of granaries to provide grain. You will not starve to death, but we still have to work together to rebuild the village."

Xiao Zimo looked at the more and more people gathering around him, and saw that they all looked disgraced.

At this time, Liu Chenhan asked if any of the people on the mountain were infected?

The people around them all looked at each other and shook their heads in unison. There was an old doctor among them. When the rain was heavy before, some children with weaker constitutions did catch the cold.

Fortunately, there is a doctor, and there are herbs on the mountain. This is also due to the natural cave on the back mountain, where they shelter from wind and rain during these days.

"That's good."

Xiao Zimo told them to send people to the Yongcheng magistrate's office to collect food.

"Oh my God! We are saved."

"Very good!"

"Go and notify the village chief and pull out the cattle. I'll go to the village to find out if there are any usable carriages. Let's go into the city to pull out grain."

After saying that, they started to run away according to their respective tasks.

Xiao Ziyi got on his horse and turned around the pier to continue patrolling towards the next place. Liu Chenhan behind him asked a few more people and then left.

Finally, he reminded everyone that any corpse found to be rotten must be burned, otherwise they will be infected with the disease.

"By the way, if you can find some lime, don't forget to sprinkle some around and in the village."

Everyone nodded in agreement with serious expressions and watched Liu Chenhan get on his horse and ride away.

"Auntie, who do you think they are?"

"I think he was sent by the imperial court."

A group of people stood there looking at the back of the fight in the distance, talking about it, and the man behind them shouted.

"Have you dug your wild vegetables? The children are all screaming with hunger."

A group of women waved their hands and said, they have almost dug up all the wild vegetables on the mountain, hey! It’s such a hard life!

With that said, a group of women resigned to their fate and continued to search for wild vegetables in the mountains.

At this time, in the village where Lu Qingqing and Ziyao came, there was a loud sound of raindrops, which only destroyed the crops in the fertile fields.

At this time, the elders in the village were leading the younger generation to dig ditches in the fields to release water to see if there was any hope of saving the food.

"Village chief, do you think this food can still..."

The village chief sighed inwardly as he looked at the dozens of acres of fertile farmland. He saw that the harvest would be ready in the autumn. He did not expect such natural disasters. Last year's drought and this year's floods really left people speechless. The lives of ordinary people are so difficult.

"Village chief, look at the two girls on horseback coming over there."

As he spoke, everyone looked in the direction of the man's finger, and saw the horse arriving in front of them very quickly.

In the hands of the village chief. The tool poked the mud stalk, and he raised his head and asked the two of them what they had come to the village for.

"Old man, we are just visiting a few nearby villages to see how the people have been affected by the disaster."

The village chief's eyes lit up at this moment, and he walked up from the field ridge tremblingly, asking Lu Qingqing, "Are they from the government?"

Lu Qingqing and the others got off their horses, "Old man, my master, the Master of Anning County, you..."

Before Ziyao could finish her words, all the people knelt down in front of Lu Qingqing, crying and complaining that they couldn't live any longer. The sudden flood caused them to lose their fields, but they still had a house that could protect them from the wind and rain.

Otherwise, they really don't know how to survive. They won't be able to go to Yongcheng for a while. No one dared to go there rashly when the city was besieged by floods.

But it seems that the village is about to run out of food.

"Don't worry about this. The emperor has ordered the warehouses to be opened for grain distribution, and at this time, the magistrate outside Yongcheng is still personally buying porridge on credit."

The people in the village jumped for joy when they heard it. This was really great news. They no longer had to go hungry.

The child next to him pulled on his father's clothes and asked if he didn't need to eat the bitter wild vegetables anymore.

Lu Qingqing smiled slightly and said softly to the little guy that he would not be hungry.

She asked the village chief again about the disaster situation in the village, and found out that only fertile farmland had been washed away, which would be much easier to handle.

She told the village chief to send a few people to Yongcheng to collect food. Now that everything was being rebuilt, those who participated in the reconstruction could also receive corresponding food subsidies.

"So don't worry, you won't go hungry. If you are more diligent, you can clear out these fertile fields.

The county owner can also provide some potato seeds. Planting some potatoes can also be used as food, which will at least ensure that you can survive the winter safely. "

Lu Qingqing's words gave the villagers hope again.

Everyone knelt down and kowtowed to thank her: "Living Bodhisattva! The common people thank the county master."

Lu Qingqing shook her head helplessly and told them to get up and talk, there was no need for this.

Finally, when Lu Qingqing left, he told everyone not to pick up dead things, but to burn them if they saw them, and to be careful of contracting the disease, which would be more than worth the loss.

The old people in the village nodded and mentioned the flood in their childhood, where countless people died!

"If you encounter a floating corpse, you must burn it. You can't show mercy, otherwise it will still be destroyed by fire."

Lu Qingqing warned uneasily, and finally got on the horse and left with the village chief's promise.