Chapter 21: Natural Disasters
The sun is shining, after the New Year, the weather is very dry, two months of rain has not fallen, Qianxi who didn't take it seriously found something unusual in the irritability of the white tiger again and again, carefully observed that the river was drying up, Qianxi touched the beating heartstrings, and immediately asked people to hoard grain and hide water, and let people hide two-thirds of the grain in a cave that the white tiger took her to find.
Until August, Qianxi has let people dig a few wells in several places in the village, but the weather is not a little cool, since the last light rain, it has not rained for four months. There are old people in the village who have seen the suffering of disasters, and they have hidden the food in their homes one after another. One year of drought, no harvest, heavy snow falling, everyone is hiding in their homes, staying at home.
As for whether they believe it or not, Qianxi didn't ask much, which world is a shot at the head, she didn't stand up so much to ask people to hoard food, after all, a qiē is just her guess.
With the migration of time, the price of food is getting longer, even at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are more and more beggars, and the number of displaced people wandering in the village has gradually increased.
Although I don't know that the imperial court can have the meaning of disaster relief, but Ming Zhuowei has not returned to Nanzhao for many years, and most of the grain of the Great Yuan Dynasty has been gathered to the front line...... Qianxi thought about the words revealed by the people who came back from the letter over the years, Ming Zhuowei did not fight this battle hard, but it took many years, Qianxi didn't dare to think about it, but now, it is a natural disaster, she also has to take some opportunities and do something, next, let's see what the court does!
"The warehouse is opened, the imperial court is open and the disaster is suppressed, the big guy is going to get the grain, go quickly!" The sound of gongs, with this shout, brought a lot of life back to the village. And every house took pots and pans, and went to the city.
"Mother, the court has sent food, should we go?" Kang Hong and Kang Ze were in Qianxi's arms, and Kang Hong raised his head and asked. Qianxi pondered for a while, and Kang Hong said again: "Mother, let me go out with Aze to have a look!" ”
Kang Ze lowered his head and thought for a while, "Mother, let me go out with Ah Hong." ”
The six-year-old children, who have been practicing martial arts since childhood, have made them look much older than their peers, and they were ready to send them to private school, but when a natural disaster occurred, her plans were disrupted. Qianxi endured the astringency in her eyes, "Do you really want to go out?" ”
"Well, mother, let the children out! Children have to grow up! The six-year-old child, but thinking about growing up, couldn't hold back her tears anymore, Kang Hong Kang Ze helped her wipe her tears, "Mother! ”
"Go and let Master Liu in!" Qian Xi spoke, and the servant woman immediately went out to invite someone, and an ordinary tall man walked in, "Young lady." ”
"The city opened a warehouse to release grain, Ahong Aze wanted to go out and have a look, and wanted to ask Master Liu to protect them." This is the person invited by Ming Zhuowei, and he will always protect their brothers. Master Liu glanced at Kang Hong Kang Ze and responded.
Kang Hong Kang Ze put on a shabby coarse cloth, and Qian Xi also put a small hat on each of them, and sent them out, Kang Hong said: "Mother, we will come back soon, don't worry." ”
Whether they want to or not, they will always grow up and go their own way, but she really wants them to walk slower and not grow so fast!
Out of the door, Kang Hong Kangze wiped some of the plaster on the ground on his face and hands, "Master Liu, do you want to dress up?" Kang Ze stretched out his hand and asked, Master Liu shook his head, he was not reluctant, he walked in the direction of the city, along the Tu, the original vigorous trees disappeared, the endless rice fields were also dried up, and in some places there were even traces of the width of a human body.
Keep going forward, those previously lively paths, at this time there is no trace, even if there are people, they can only see the fighting, the closer to the city, the more people gradually increase, one by one but in a hurry, those people are in tattered clothes, yellow and hungry, and their eyes are shining.
"Quick, go get the food, it's a little later." As soon as someone shouted, the crowd immediately rushed to the city, and Master Liu hurriedly protected Kang Hong Kang Ze to prevent them from being swept down by the crowd.
"Queue up, queue up!" The officers and soldiers who maintained order shouted, but a mournful cry sounded in the crowd, "Two tigers, two tigers, two tigers, wake up, wake up!" Mother is about to get food, don't sleep, don't sleep, Erhu! ”
"My lord, my lord, please, please give me a mouthful of porridge, give me a mouthful of porridge to save my child, please." A woman rushed forward with a child in her arms, begging bitterly, the officers and soldiers in front hurriedly poured her a bowl of porridge, and the woman took it and hurriedly fed it to the child's mouth, "Erhu, Erhu, you open your mouth, open your mouth to drink porridge, drink porridge!" ”
The people next to him watched the child for a long time without moving, and hurriedly came over to help pry the child's mouth open, but the child was no longer breathing, no matter how they pryed, the porridge poured into it fell from the corner of the child's mouth, everyone knew that the child was dead, was starved to death.
For a time, the whole city listened to the woman's cry, and the liver and intestines were broken, and they were overwhelmed with grief. For the first time, I saw the bad situation all the way, the people who were displaced, and the first time I saw such a young child starving to death because there was no food, which had a great impact on Kang Hong Kangze.
When they saw a scholar fall in front of them, they didn't think about it, and the brothers helped the man up, "Master Liu, let's save him, save him!" ”
"Mother, mother!" As soon as Kang Hong Kangze's voice sounded, Qian Xi immediately rushed over, opened the door, and saw that although they were dressed a little wolf, they were safe and sound, and the big stone in his heart immediately fell, and he noticed that Master Liu was carrying a person behind him.
"Mother, he's hungry, bring some porridge!" Kang Ze said loudly, Kang Hong asked Master Liu to carry the person to the guest room, and Qianxi pulled Kang Ze, who was about to catch up, "Aze, what kind of person is this?" ”
"I don't know, Ah Hong and I saw that he was still angry when we came back, so I asked Master Liu to carry him back. Mother, get him some food! Kang Hong pushed Qianxi to let her go quickly, Qianxi was up-and-down to the person who didn't know the details, but she still had to go into the kitchen, Li Datou's family took the porridge out earlier, "Young lady, this is the porridge I just boiled, I'll send it to the little boy." ”
There are so many guards after all, if they are really suspicious people, but if there is an abnormal movement, it is not too late to make another move. Qian Xi thought about it, that is, he nodded, and Li Datou's family rushed to the guest room with porridge.
Qianxi listened to the movement in the room, listened to the scholar drink porridge, and woke up, but his body was weak and he couldn't tell the origin. Li Datou's family and Qianxi said that this person had good eyes and good rules, and knew that it was Kang Hong Kang Ze who saved him, so he respectfully snorted their heads.
Whether the rules are good or not, we need to see again, Qianxi asked Li Datou's family to call Kang Hong Kang Ze back, and helped them wipe their bodies, Kang Hong said: "Mother, is our family's food still enough to eat?" ”
Stopped, Qian Xi waited for Yasuhiro to continue, "We, we saw a child starving to death today. ”
The depression and sadness in that tone, Qian Xi heard it really well, "Mother, why didn't those people open a warehouse and release grain earlier?" After that, why did so many people still not get food, and they said no? Many old uncles and grandmothers wept when they heard this, and those officers and soldiers did not allow them to cry, chasing them and scolding them. Mother, I don't understand why? ”
A six-year-old child, seeing the saddest side of the world, Kang Hongkong couldn't stop crying, and so did Kang Ze. Qian Xi hugged them, "Because of natural disasters, because of **." Now that the imperial court is attacking Nanzhao with troops, the food of the front army on the front line is the supply of grain levied by the imperial court, and they don't want to open a warehouse earlier, but they have no food to send. ”
"Mother, I don't understand, why the court still has to fight when there is no food, and my father has been gone for so long!" Kang Hong had no concept at all, at this moment, Qian Xi knew that she had to give them a master, even though she had the experience of her previous life, but she didn't know if it would hurt them if she taught them according to her previous methods. Licking his dry lips, Qian Xi finally summed up what he could say, "A war, for power, for power, for fame." Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer. The struggle for power and profit of the superiors and the struggle for the land have always been the result of the accumulation of countless people's lives. ”
"Can't we stop fighting?" Kang Ze asked with a wink.
"Fighting, it's not that we don't want to fight, we can stop fighting, people's hearts are unpredictable, and where there are people, there is no way to avoid fighting. If a person doesn't have the ability, he can't even control his own fate, let alone control the lives of others. "Qian Xi is reluctant to accuse them of that cruel humanity, but they have begun to peel off the fig leaf between people, and she can no longer cover it, like that, it will only hurt them.
"What does my mother mean, if we want not to fight, if we want everyone to be fed and clothed, we have to have the ability?" Kang Hong asked with his head held high. Qian Xi nodded, "Mother, I want to be like that!" ”
"Me too, mother!" Kang Ze said firmly.
"Okay, mother believes, you will definitely be able to!" Chiki expressed her trust without any hesitation. Many years later, when their brothers have grown up and become the ones who can dominate other people's lives, and establish a place for the people to be able to eat and clothe themselves as long as they work hard, and to be stable compared to that, they will still not forget that their mother believes in them so unconditionally and supports them! Even if the whole world looks down on them and goes through countless hardships, when they turn back, she still stands behind them, trusting their eyes like that, and supporting them all her life and moving forward bravely.