When you wake up, you are given marriage to your nemesis

Qianyang City is only a quarter of the size of the capital city, and almost all the people in the city mobilized. Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin found the place where the crowd gathered without much effort.

It was the northeast side of Qianyang City. Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin came late, and the whole street was blocked by crowds. The soldiers were pushing the crowd out and making them stand in four rows.

The strong and powerful people in the crowd rushed to squeeze forward, and many women, children, old and weak were squeezed to the back.

In front of Qiao Wan, several middle-aged men came up and pulled the people in front of them out, pushing in by themselves, trying desperately to get to the front before the soldiers came.

An old woman with gray hair was pulled out by one of the men. The man didn't even look at her, he pushed her aside and pulled her again.

The old lady seemed to have come here from a long distance, and she was not breathing well when she let this person push her, and she was about to fall to the ground.

It's not fun to fall to the ground in such a crowded place, or you will have to be trampled by someone pushing out in front of you.

Qiao Wan immediately stepped forward to help, but saw that Luo Fengxin had already caught her one step ahead of her, and stepped back a few feet to bring the old woman to a safer position.

"Oh, what a crime!" The old woman saw that she would not be able to squeeze in front today, after Luo Fengxin let go of her, she sat down on the side of the street beating her chest and crying loudly.

"Mother-in-law, are you distributing food?" Qiao Wan squatted down and looked at the old woman and asked, besides distributing food, she really couldn't think of anything else that could make the people in Qianyang City so crazy.

"Yes!" The old woman wiped away her tears, suddenly stopped crying, looked at Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin with her cloudy eyes, and asked doubtfully, "Are you two from other places?"

Qiao Wan was about to answer, but saw her sitting up suddenly, and asked excitedly: "Are you people sent by the imperial court? Has the new relief food arrived? Are we about to be rescued?"

After asking these questions, she didn't look at Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin again, as if she was afraid that she would get a negative answer.She stood up tremblingly, went to the end of the line, stared at the front and said to herself: "It must be like this, there is food, there must be food today..."

"How could this happen?" Qiao Wan was quite surprised, "Qianyang City is not a disaster area. It stands to reason that the people in the city, not to mention every household, should have more than one month's rations at least, and the better ones should even have half a year's worth of rations. One year’s rations. It’s only been less than two months since the city of Minzhou was destroyed, and it’s been less than two months, and every household has come out to grab food..."

The material of the clothes that the old lady was wearing just now is not bad, although it is not made of brocade, it is also a twill shirt.Those who can afford this kind of material are generally from wealthy families, and it is impossible for them to be poor enough to wait for the rice to cook every day. Judging by her demeanor, the family should already be on the verge of running out of food.

Luo Fengxin looked at the crowd thoughtfully: "Looking at it like this, after Zhong Xin's group entered the city, it's very likely that they searched for food from house to house and collected all the food in the city."

Now it seems that this must be the reason.

What surprised Qiao Wan was that she had learned about Zhong Xin's background from Yue Cuffs. If Zhong Xin was born in a poor family, it is not difficult to understand why he would make such a move. Normally, the leader of the rebel army who was born in poverty is even more It is easy to have the idea of ​​"equalizing the rich and the poor".

Ke Zhongxin's father was a squire in Fuqu County, and his family owned quite a lot of land, which made people wonder.

Qiao Wan followed the crowd and looked forward, the long line couldn't see the end.From the clothing of these people, she could easily identify which were the original rich households in the city and which were the original poor people in the city.These people who might not be able to get together are now crowded together, the only thing in common is that their faces are full of worry.

The situation in this city is even worse than she imagined, and there must be many things in the city that she doesn't know about.The outside looks like a monolith, but the inside is already crumbling. I don't know if other cities have the same situation as Qianyang City.

Qiao Wan was thinking about how to deal with this situation, and the soldiers who were sorting out the crowd had already come to them.

With her and Luo Fengxin's attire, they stood out in the crowd, and they couldn't pretend to be passers-by. Besides, they were followed by a group of tails sent by Zhong Xin, so they generously showed their identities to the visitors, and said Want to visit and visit.

The soldier stared at Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin warily for a while, then looked at the people following them.

The two leading Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin probably didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this move, but they probably felt that they could take this opportunity to let them see the majesty of their leader, so they didn't stop them and beat the soldier A gesture of letting go.

The soldier got the order and let Luo Fengxin and Qiao Wan pass.

The two walked along the side of the team, and every ten or so people there were two soldiers guarding the left and right sides of the team.After walking for several blocks, I finally saw the front of the line.

In the corner near the city wall, hundreds of sacks were piled up, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers.Zhong Xin personally sat in the middle of the town, and divided four stalls in front of him to distribute food, and the bearded man Qiao Wan had seen in the conference hall earlier today was also among them.

What they distribute is not the kind of white rice, but rice with husks.Qiao Wan observed for a while, and discovered the law of grain distribution - each young and middle-aged man can get half a liter of rice, while the elderly, children and women get half of it.

The liters used in the Yu Dynasty were relatively small, and a liter of rice weighed about eight taels. The bran had to be removed before eating the rice, so the actual weight would be less, about six taels.

Qiao Wan has been in this world for a long time, and the family also raised servants. A strong man can eat two liters of rice a day, but now the two liters have become half a liter, while women, young and old, do not even have half a liter. .

Apart from rice, no other supplies were distributed.Now all commercial activities in the city have stopped, and there is no place to buy vegetables. The rice can only be boiled into gruel when taken back.Eating porridge every day, no wonder everyone looks hungry.

The process of food distribution lasted from the morning to the afternoon. Hundreds of bags of rice were not enough to supply so many people in the city. At the end of the distribution, the food was gone. Qiao Wan made a rough count, and there were still 500 people who had not received food, including Including the old woman who was pushed to the back earlier, almost all of them were old, weak, sick and disabled.

A soldier came forward and said loudly: "Today's rations have been distributed, and everyone will go to the state government office to collect rations after the bell rings tomorrow!"

Qiao Wan thought that she would hear the voices of those who hadn't received the rations bursting into tears, but they didn't. Everyone stood dumbly, as if they knew this would happen a long time ago.

As soon as Zhong Xin and others left, these people rushed forward and knelt on the ground, frantically picking up the rice left on the ground.

But how many can there be, how can it be enough for hundreds of people to rob?

These people crowded together and you pushed and shoved each other. There were no soldiers to maintain order. These people even bit each other when they got red eyes, like mad dogs. Even the decently dressed old lady from before participated in this In the middle of the night, she was riding on a crippled woman and was holding that man's hand, half of her neatly combed hair was loose, and there was a fresh red mark on her face where she was scratched.

For a person who has lived a decent life for most of his life, it is not possible to lose this dignity in a day or two. At first, he would rather go hungry than do this kind of thing, but it has reached the point where he cannot bear it...

Qiao Wan couldn't bear to stare, and turned her head. Luo Fengxin held her shoulders and let her bury her face on his shoulders.

"I thought of the barbarian cannibalism you mentioned." Qiao Wan said sadly, "If this continues, I'm afraid this place will..."

"No." Luo Fengxin gently rubbed Qiao Wan's neck, "Aren't we here?"

The bell rang again, and the crowd who had been wrestling together just now seemed to have been pushed by a switch suddenly. The people on the outside got up one after another and dispersed with wooden faces. The queen also left.

A few people who were crushed inside snatched about a small handful of millet, but their bodies were bruised and purple with no good skin, their clothes were torn, and there were many tooth marks on their exposed arms.

Their faces couldn't tell whether they were sad or happy, and they seemed to be smiling, but tears kept falling.

This time the clock rang ten times in total, and after the last ring, there were no people on the street, and the whole city returned to its previous dead and silent appearance.

"It seems that Zhongxin not only confiscated all the food in the city, but also forced the people not to come and go at will." After the crowd dispersed, Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin walked along the streets again.

Qiao Wan was discussing with Luo Fengxin in a low voice while recalling the situation just now: "The soldier explained that the food distribution place for the day is in the government office, and the government office is in the center of Qianyang City, and the food distribution place for today is in the northeast corner..."

She thought for a while and said, "Could it be because the people's residences are different distances from the food distribution points, and the food distributed in a day is not enough for everyone, so the location is changed?" grain."

Qiao Wan had never participated in disaster relief and relief, let alone experienced such a special period.In her impression of history, the current situation in Minzhou City is a bit similar to the wartime communism implemented in Soviet Russia, but it is more brutal and extreme than wartime communism.

"It's too weird, isn't it? If Zhong Xin wasted so much time for the sake of fairness, why didn't he organize people to distribute food from door to door? Besides, they have occupied Qianyang City for more than a month. Don't they know the number of people in the city? Will there be hundreds of people left every day who can't get food?"

Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin fell silent after raising doubts.The two walked for a while, and spoke at the same time: "Unless—"

"You talk first." Luo Fengxin said to Qiao Wan.

"Unless he did it on purpose." Qiao Wan said, "A large number of disaster victims flooded into Qianyang City. The original food reserves in Qianyang City were not enough to supply so many people for a long time. With continuous improvement, the food in the city will run out sooner or later..."

She thought of a terrible possibility in her heart, because it was too cruel, she was afraid to say it for a while.

Qiao Wan's heart softened, and Luo Fengxin spoke out for her: "If there will be people in the city who will starve to death, then he will use this method to screen out those orphans, widows, old and young, and give up this part of the 'burden' first."

"It's too much!" Qiao Wan was so angry that she kicked the steps on the side of the street fiercely, "Why should he decide who should live and who shouldn't live? Widows, old and young don't deserve the right to decide whether they can live or not." ?"

Luo Fengxin had never seen Qiao Wan like this before, unlike when she was sullen with her, now Qiao Wan looked gloomy.

"Are...are you alright?" Luo Fengxin helped Qiao Wan's shoulder with some worry.

Qiao Wan turned around, took a few deep breaths, and waved her hands: "I'm fine, I just remembered something from my childhood."

After that, she calmed down a bit, so that she would not be affected by her emotions, and calmly reorganized all the situations she had seen since entering the city today in her mind.

"I always feel that things may be more than what we saw..." After thinking about it, Qiao Wan still felt that there were too many contradictions in Zhong Xin.

"The relief food brought by Inspector Qu should go to Qianyang City first, and then be sent to other cities below. At that time, Qianyang City was already occupied by Zhong Xin, and he put Inspector Qu under house arrest. Whether it can be sent to other cities and how much is entirely up to him. Besides, he also confiscated the food of all the families in the city. It stands to reason that the surplus food in Qianyang City is not so tight. Why is there such a rush to clean it up? What about the 'baggage'..."

"Furthermore, there is also the problem of the distribution method. Even if he doesn't want to distribute the food to these old and young people, he just skips it when distributing food from house to house. Why is it necessary to come up with such a laborious method of distributing food?"

The more Qiao Wan analyzed, the more she felt that something was wrong, and she said to Luo Feng, "We have to find a way to meet the inspector Qu, and first find out what happened in the city."

"This matter is not difficult." Luo Fengxin glanced at the people following them, lowered her voice and whispered in Qiao Wan's ear, "Since they put Governor Qu under house arrest in the Governor's Mansion, they will most likely deal with us in the same way. When it gets dark Then I will find an opportunity to take you to him, by the way..."

"By the way?" Qiao Wan heard the hesitation in Luo Fengxin's words, and asked a little strangely.

"By the way... ask him about the man we met earlier." Luo Feng said in his heart, "I always feel like I've seen him somewhere."

The author has something to say: Today is an hour earlier than yesterday!I will definitely be on time tomorrow! (Crazy brainwashing myself)

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