It's not the first time Yun Xi has been in disaster relief, so he didn't feel too surprised by the victims along the way, but Haotian didn't feel comfortable when he saw these victims, and he kept blaming himself, otherwise he kindly gave the snacks prepared by Yun Xi to those little beggars.

Yun Xi looked at the snacks he was preparing to eat on the way and was relieved by Haotian to the little beggar, and wanted to blame him, but when he saw those children begging with adults at a young age, he stretched out his dirty little hand when he saw someone coming, you give him a silver ticket, he will wave his hand at you and leave, when you take out a little food and hand it to him, he will take it and kowtow to you and thank him, Yun Xi feels that he is also touched by their innocence.

Since the dim sum was taken over by the emperor to help the little beggar, Yun Xi and his party could only eat when there was a restaurant, sometimes they could only eat two meals a day, and the closer they arrived in Sishui County, they could hardly even see the restaurant.

Yun Xi hadn't eaten all day this day, and she was dizzy from hunger. At this time, I heard someone shouting: "There is a restaurant in front of the emperor." ”

Hearing the word restaurant, Yun Xi suddenly came to his senses, lifted the curtain and looked outside, and saw that there was indeed a restaurant called Continuation of Life in front of him. Because she was very hungry, Yun Xi didn't care about the name of the restaurant.

The group walked to the restaurant, the emperor's famous team stopped and went into the restaurant to eat, and the shopkeeper saw that so many people came, so he hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the recipe of the restaurant, you can order it casually." ”

An official on the side handed the recipe to the emperor Haotian, and the more Haotian picked up the recipe, the more he looked at it, the more his brows wrinkled, and Yun Xi was hungry and dizzy and waited for the meal. Seeing that he just frowned, he didn't order food. snatched the recipe from the emperor's hand and muttered: "You take the recipe and don't order anything, you want to starve everyone to death." After that, he opened the recipe.

Yun Xi frowned and shouted, "The shopkeeper." ”

"What's the matter, officer?"

"Don't you have anything to eat here? Look at the wotou, pickles, wild vegetable soup, leaf dumplings, sweet potato bread, ......"

"I'm sorry, we have a locust plague in Sishui County, it's good to have something to fill your stomach, and you want to go to Kyoto if you want to eat good."

"This is Sishui County?" Yun Xi asked in surprise.

"It's Sishui County. It's just that this is the border between the two counties. It is also the lightest place for insect plague, the deeper you go into Sishui County, the more severe the locust plague is, and when you get there, I'm afraid you have money and no place to eat, don't you see those begging on the road? They all came from the county seat. I heard that all the wild vegetables and leaves there have been eaten. The streets were full of old people and children starving to death.

"If you don't eat, you're eaten. Don't you see so many people eating with relish? Do you know why our restaurant is called a life-sustaining restaurant? ”

Yun Xi shook his head, and listened to the shopkeeper say: "Our restaurant has a rule, each person only needs to eat one nest. No matter how rich you are, we won't sell it to you, because food is limited, and I can only buy you a small portion of a large group of people like you, otherwise everyone else will starve to death. ”

"Let's go to the nest, you will not starve us to death if you give us one each." To be honest, Yunxi was still trying to taste the taste of wotou, I remember that when I was a child, my mother made wotou with all kinds of coarse grains, and it seemed to taste good.

After the nest head was served, Yun Xi was completely dumbfounded, and saw a small black and yellow nest head the size of a ping-pong ball on the plate in front of him, Yun Xi looked at Haotian and asked in a low voice, "Can you eat it?" ”

"What about you?" Haotian asked rhetorically.

"I'm full." Yun Xi said.

"I'm full, too, let the shopkeeper settle the bill, let's take these out to the hungry people along the way." Haotian said.

Yun Xi called the shopkeeper to settle the bill, and a nest head asked Yun Xi for a tael of silver, Yun Xi twitched the corner of his mouth and teased: "The shopkeeper, is your nest made of silver?" So expensive. ”

"Little guest officer, do you want to think that a nest head can kill a person, and when you are hungry and about to die, you will have two things in front of you, one or two pieces of silver and a nest head, which one do you choose?"

"Okay, it's not expensive, it's indeed a life-saving nest, it makes sense."

Coming out of the restaurant, Yun Xi walked up to Haotian and said, "Your Majesty, I'm dying of hunger, or let's cook and eat the rice and noodles we brought!" ”

"Wait a little longer, when we get to Sishui County, we will give porridge to the hungry people, you haven't eaten for a day, so you shout that you are hungry, where the hungry people have not eaten rice for several days."

"I knew I wouldn't come with you like this, and I would be hungry after donating money." Yun Xi grumbled.

Seeing that Yun Xi was angry, Haotian took out a piece of dim sum from his arms and handed it to Yun Xi and said, "Eat it quickly!" My little God of Wealth. ”

"Come on, you can eat a little too." Yun Xi divided the dim sum into two halves and handed it to Haotian in half, and the two of them slowly ate one bite at a time.

"When we get to Sishui County, we will give up porridge, and we will not be hungry at that time, but now there are so many hungry people on the road, our food will not dare to be exposed, and we will be robbed."

The two of them finished their snacks and continued to hurry, and along the way, Yun Xi saw locusts crawling on the bare straw of the farmer in the field, the leaves on the trees were also eaten by locusts, and even the weeds on the roadside were crawling with locusts. The closer you get to the county seat of Sishui, the more severe the locust plague becomes.

When it was dark, they finally arrived in Sishui County, Haotian and Yunxi came to the county government first, and saw that the gate of the county government was closed, and they were busy knocking on the drum next to the gate. Not long after the yamen opened, and seeing that it was an old lady who opened the door, Haotian asked, "Who are you, old man?" ”

"I'm the mother of the county magistrate, he went out to beg, and he will come back later."

The corners of Yun Xi's mouth twitched, thinking that it seemed that there was really a famine, and even the county order went to beg, so he heard the emperor ask: "He is gone, what should I do if I have a case?" ”

"People have gone to beg, leaving only the elderly and children generally do not go out, there is no case to try, our whole family is counting on him, he is so good that he writes well, and when he goes to a wealthy county to sell words to earn some food, he will bring it back at night to satisfy the hunger of the whole family."

"Old man, we were sent by the emperor to provide disaster relief, can you let us live in the yamen?" Yun Xi said.

"Even if it's sent by the emperor, then come in!" The old man said.

Yun Xi and the others entered the yamen, the yamen was also spacious, the front was the public hall where the case was heard, and the back was a small courtyard, the guards tied the horses to the manger in the backyard, Haotian said to the old man: "Old man, we brought rice and noodles, where is your stove, we want to cook some food, we have been hungry for a day, you must be hungry too, right?" ”

"There's writing on it on the east side." When the old man heard that he was eating, he excitedly pointed to the stove room on the east side and said.

Hao Tianfang people found firewood, washed the pots and bowls and began to add water to cook, the prepared vegetables had already rotted, and the fruits were also eaten by them. It was just some rice porridge, and the guards who had been hungry for a day also ate it with relish, and each drank two large bowls. Zhixian's mother and children were also very happy, the three children in Zhixian were so hungry that they were only skinny and bones, Yun Xi looked at the youngest little girl, her collarbones were high and bulging, her eye sockets were deep, and she smacked her lips and made her a big bowl of rice porridge.

After eating, the old man let Yun Xi and Haotian and others to the guest room to talk, Yun Xi never saw Mrs. Zhixian, and asked the mother of Zhixian County: "Old man, where is Mrs. Zhixian?" Did you go begging too? ”

The old man heard Yunxi mention his daughter-in-law and said with tears in his eyes: "My daughter-in-law ...... two days ago Two days ago, she starved to death, and she begged for something and left it for me and the children. My son sells his words in exchange for food, and he uses a portion of it to help the hungry who are dying of starvation. ”

Yun Xi was moved to tears, as the saying goes: "Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver." "My wife was starved to death, and I used part of the begging food to help the hungry. As a magistrate, he still has to go to other places to sell words and beg to support his family, what kind of magistrate will this be, Yun Xi frowned and looked at Haotian.

"Old man, you have a good son. Don't worry, this time the emperor sent someone to help the victims of our Sishui County. Starting tomorrow, we will start the porridge in the big stove. ”

A few people were talking, when they heard someone outside shouting: "Mother, what do you think I brought back today?" ”

Everyone raised their heads and looked out the door, and saw a middle-aged man in ragged clothes coming in from outside the door, and the man was holding a dirty steamed bun in his hand.

The old man watched his son come back, wiped away his tears and said, "Xiaojie! The palace has sent someone to us. After speaking, he pointed to Haotian and Yunxi.

Haotian looked at the county named Xiao Jie and ordered: "Li Lianjie, I ordered you to inform the villagers today that you don't have to beg tomorrow, and there will be porridge at the gate of the county every day." After speaking, he took out his jade seal.

Zhixian Li Lianjie saw the royal jade seal plopping down and kneeling: "Long live, long live." The ministers were guilty of failing to make a good life for the people, and they had to be displaced and begging everywhere. ”

When everyone saw him kneeling, they all knelt down, Haotian looked at him and said: "Natural disasters and man-made disasters can't blame you, you have done your best, starting tomorrow you and a few of them will go to other counties to buy grain, and you will tell the people today that we have to give up porridge every day." After eating the porridge, people went to the fields to catch locusts. There is a reward for catching more. I'll write a notice later, you go and post it with them. You go to the stove room to eat something first. Remember not to tell others that I came to Sishui County. ”

After eating, Li Lianjie took the notice written by the emperor and led a few guards to post it everywhere, and they did not come back until it was dark.

The next morning, the guards tired a stove with adobe, set up a marching pot and began to boil porridge, and the people lined up early, holding their own bowls and waiting for the porridge. Yun Xi took a big spoon and scooped porridge for the villagers, and said: "After the villagers finish eating the porridge, they will go to the field to catch locusts, and exchange locusts for porridge. ”

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