Although he said that he was trying to find a way, Wu Zhongyuan couldn't think of any way, at least for now, he couldn't think of any way to solve the problem of food shortage in the bear clan, at this time, the productivity was extremely low, and the problem of food and clothing had not been solved, that is, there was not enough food to eat if there was no war, not to mention the additional consumption caused by large-scale wars.

In addition, the fact that the five seals are about to disappear is already known to the world, but anyone with a little brain will stock up on food to prepare for a shortage, and at this time, it is several times more difficult than usual to exchange rice for rice.

Wu Di took the opportunity to take out some of the wooden planks in the wooden box, untie the tied ropes, and remove the wax seal and handed it over to Wu Zhongyuan for review.

Wu Zhongyuan was already worried, and then looked at these planks, the more he looked at them, the more annoying he became, these confidential folds were not reported on government affairs, but small reports of intrigue, Zhang San sued Li Si for being a little black, and Li Si reported Wang Er Mazi for violating the law and discipline, all of which are similar content, and there are also those who compete for favor and loyalty, and the only value of these folds is to be able to see everyone's temperament and who they have a better relationship with through the content of the folds, and there is no other fart.

After reading it patiently, Wu Zhongyuan got up from his seat and let out a rough breath, "Let's go, go out for a walk with me." ”

At this time, the palm book had also finished writing Wu Zhongyuan's disaster relief will, and Wu Di ordered someone to carry the bamboo slips down and distribute them separately, and then put on a cloak for Wu Zhongyuan and accompanied him out of the palace.

The cloak of different colors is a symbol of the identity and status of the warriors, the warriors of the three tribes wear the cloak all year round, the cloak worn from April to October is relatively thin, which belongs to the real sense of the cloak, and the cloak from October to April of the next year is thicker, and it is more appropriate to call it a big one.

Wu Zhongyuan's cloak is brand new, with the two sleeves with the mark of the bear clan, and the embroidery behind him is not a bear head but a dragon head, he only agreed with the old blind man yesterday to ascend the throne of the Yellow Emperor, so it can be seen that this cloak with dragon head embroidery was made by a large number of embroiderers last night.

Wu Zhongyuan originally wanted to tell Wu Di not to do this in the future, but after thinking about it, he didn't say it, no matter how difficult it is now, as the Yellow Emperor, there must always be a decent piece of clothing.

It was cloudy, there were snowflakes in the sky, Wu Zhongyuan did not go to the Zuofu Palace, nor did he go to the Right Bi Palace, and went directly to the city residence after leaving the palace, at this time, in addition to the royal family and nobles, ordinary clansmen only ate two meals a day, and he wanted to see what the clansmen ate.

The situation in the city was a little better than he expected, the porridge and rice were not very thin, and the amount was not very small.

The people of the capital are equivalent to the modern urban population, they are mainly craftsmen and soldiers, their situation is not representative, if you want to see the real situation, you have to go down, Wu Zhongyuan turned his head and said to Wu Di, "You go back, I'll go around elsewhere." ”

"Where are you going?" Wu Di asked.

"I'll go down there and look at the besieged city. Wu Zhongyuan said.

"I'll go with you. Wu Di said.

Wu Zhongyuan thought about it and nodded in agreement.

The two of them went to the south, after being promoted to Taixuan, they could reach eight miles by flying through the air once, and the snow in the south was larger than that in the north.

Daejeon is a grain producing area with bears, and he wants to come and see the situation here, and by the way, see if the city lord Wu Shouzheng is exaggerating.

The two did not go to Yuancheng, nor did they go to Yicheng, but came to a besieged city, this village is very small, there are dozens of houses, when the two came here at noon, because the snow is very heavy, there is no one outside, the villagers are staying at home, Wu Zhongyuan was almost choked out after pushing open the door, and the house was full of smoke.

Seeing someone open the door, the people in the house walked out, a woman with three children, the life of the good or bad can be seen at a glance, the family of four is in rags, in fact, the clothes are not enough to describe their poverty and embarrassment, because this family of four is not in tattered clothes, but has no clothes at all, they are wrapped in ragged linen, animal skins and straw.

In addition to ragged clothes, Wu Zhongyuan also had three other words in his mind at the same time, noodles with vegetables, small radish heads, gray faces, in fact, modern people have no concept of vegetables on the opposite side, because there are no modern people with vegetables, and the noodles are not emaciated, but swollen, and their faces are blue.

Due to long-term malnutrition, the heads of the three children are very large, similar to the image of the small radish head in the dregs hole, or it is possible that the head is not as big as it seems on the surface, but because the limbs are too thin and the head is large.

The gray face is because there is smoke in the house, and the family of four makes a fire in the house to keep warm, and the smoke is big because there is no charcoal, so they can only burn straw to keep warm.

The woman didn't know Wu Zhongyuan and Wu Di, but she knew that the people who wore the cloak were all officials, and the one who wore the purple cloak was the biggest official, so she politely and fearfully invited the two to enter the door, and then she didn't know what to treat the guests.

The woman had never seen outsiders, she was very nervous, and she was even more nervous when she talked to Wu Zhongyuan, and Wu Di knew what Wu Zhongyuan wanted to know, so she asked questions.

After talking, Wu Zhongyuan knew that there was a man in this family, but the man had not come back from going out to fight, and the warriors besieging the city had also gone out to fight and were not in the village. It was a long way from Daqiu, and according to the time calculation, the soldiers who went to Daqiu to participate in the battle that day should still be on their way back to the city.

After the corn is harvested, the period until the snow is supposed to be the time for men to repair houses, chop wood, fish and hunt, because men go out to fight, these things can only be done by women, but women are at a congenital disadvantage in physical strength, how can they replace the role of men.

The land in the field is very suitable for farming, but at this time the grain production is very low, most of the grain must be handed over after harvesting, and the remaining ones are not enough to support the villagers for the winter, and they have to add the income from hunting to barely make a living, but this year the man was conscripted to fight, and he has not returned until now, and now the heavy snow has closed the mountain, the difficulty of hunting has increased greatly, the water surface has frozen, and it is more difficult to fish, and they are afraid that they will starve to death.

The woman cried while talking, Wu Zhongyuan, who was crying, was so uncomfortable, although the current situation was not caused by him, but these were his clansmen, seeing his own people, his mood could be imagined.

The woman's cry attracted the other women in the village, who saw that they were wearing purple cloaks, and knew that they were high-ranking officials of their own clan, and cried at them, hoping to be rescued, but they only said that it didn't matter whether they were dead or alive, as long as they didn't starve their children to death.

Emotions are contagious, everyone is sad and crying, Wu Zhongyuan's mood is also extremely heavy, he has experienced many hardships before this, and has encountered countless dangers, but no matter what difficulties, he can overcome them, but at this time he feels powerless, no matter how high his aura cultivation is, these things cannot be solved by force, the top priority is to find food for the clansmen, otherwise the vast majority of them will not be able to survive this winter.

From entering the village to leaving, the two stayed for half an hour, but until he left, he did not have the courage to lift the lid of the house's pot, he did not know what was in the pot, but he knew that it was definitely not what he wanted to see.

"Do you want to go somewhere else?" Wu Di asked softly.

"Let's go again. Wu Zhongyuan said in a deep voice.

The route was chosen by Wu Zhongyuan, he chose to move to the southeast, and stopped at five sieges along the way, the situation was even more serious than he imagined, all the sieges lacked firewood and rice for the winter, like bears, the people below could only last until the end of the month at most, and if they were not rescued, they would have to start dying after the year.

At this time, he finally understood why the old blind man didn't let him run around anymore, and the current situation did not allow him to do goodbye anymore, the search for psychic magic soldiers could be postponed, and the prospecting for minerals and metallurgy could also be delayed, and the lives of the clansmen would be saved at all costs.

At the time of the shift, Wu Zhongyuan came to the mountain forest where Dasha was, it was also snowing here, and there were no living creatures in the mountains, only Dasha braved the cold in the night to open up the mountain and open the road.

Dasha is not as unruly and cold as Huang Mao'er, seeing him coming, he came over to get close to him, Wu Zhongyuan reached out and stroked while sensing Dasha's emotions, in addition to the joy of reunion after a long absence, there is also a strong tiredness and the pain of enduring the cold.

Dasha is an insect, insects are cold-blooded animals, the most afraid is the cold, such a cold day should not send it to work, before this Wu Zhongyuan's mood was already very bad, after seeing Dasha was even more depressed to the extreme, now Dasha has been much ahead, is to continue to open up, Yiren can not keep up with the cleanup, the weather is too cold, don't do it, take it away.

Wu Zhongyuan did not return to Youxiong, but went east with Wu Di on Dasha, the Yi people did not pay tribute to the bird clan this year, they must have extra grain and grass, and they have to be cheeky to ask for some.

Although he had promised to shelter the Yi people before, the consensus reached by the two sides was that the Yi people would provide them with bows and crossbows for defending the city and a certain amount of salt, which did not include food.

On the way to Yiren City, Wu Zhongyuan thought about his senior brother Lin Qingming the most, after the death of the master, he and Lin Qingming had a very difficult life, but Lin Qingming never let him worry about money, he never borrowed money from others, nor did he owe tuition, and the living expenses after going to college were also given by Lin Qingming.

Now it's his turn, not only no one takes care of him, but there are tens of thousands of people waiting for him to take care of, at this moment he feels the pressure of never doing anything before, it turns out that life is not only about happiness and killing, but also living and living with firewood, rice, oil and salt.

Knowing that Wu Zhongyuan was going to Yiren's city, Wu Di guessed what he wanted to do, and when he saw that he was depressed, he said with relief, "When we recover our vitality, we can repay them more." ”

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head with a wry smile, and did not answer, his current mood is the same as if he was going to someone else's house to borrow money, except that he was embarrassed or embarrassed, except that he was embarrassed or embarrassed.

The weather was cold, and Dasha flew slowly, and it was not until the third watch that he arrived at Yiren City.

On a cold winter and snowy night, who doesn't rest early, when the two of them arrived, Yiren had already fallen asleep, and the city was pitch black.

It's embarrassing to borrow money from someone's house, and it's even more impolite to call people up again in the middle of the night, after hesitating for a long time, Wu Zhongyuan turned his head to look at Wu Di, "It's too late, don't bother them, there's a cave near here, let's go there and rest for the night." ”

"Good. Wu Di nodded in agreement.

Wu Zhongyuan sent his mind and instructed Dasha to go to a cave not far away, he had been here with Li Bei, and knew that there was a cave in Dongshan where people could live.

The cave is quite large, Dasha can also enter it, the cave is located at the eastern foothills, and the light of the fire will not be seen by the people.

Wu Zhongyuan packed up the firewood and grass, lit a bonfire from the entrance of the cave, and then sat by the fire and watched the bonfire in a daze.

"If you don't take over Dawu, you won't have these difficulties. Wu Di said.

"I am the only remaining royal family of the bear clan, and it is my responsibility to protect them......"