Chapter 144: Refugees
Wan Yunjun didn't come back this afternoon, and Zhang Xucong and the three of them had to accompany him on the last afternoon in Danling, and this is how the relationship was established.
Meng Ying and the others experimented with various delicacies in Luoluo's booklet in the kitchen, and even made a few more troublesome pastries such as cakes, and also innovated, adding some fruits to make cakes that looked much better than Luoluo's birthday.
In the end, there were too many dishes to make, and Zhan Qiaoyun proposed to send the surplus dishes to the refugees outside the city, which happened to be the time when the porridge shed of Wanjia gave porridge every day.
The group came to the outside of the city with food boxes containing meals, led by Shao Meng and Guo Du in a carriage.
Xiaoya knew that she could see her second brother and sister-in-law when she went out of the city, and she was very happy, although she would not suffer if she was with Zhao Yuan's family, but in the heart of the little girl, maybe her relatives couldn't give up.
The refugees outside the city are getting worse and worse, and there were originally three families that set up porridge sheds outside the city to give porridge, but because of the rising food prices, now only Wan Yunjun and the other family are left.
The wild vegetables that have just grown on the nearby wild hills have also been dug up to the same extent, and in order to eat more, they have to spend more physical strength to find edible wild vegetables in farther places, and there have been cases of refugees being attacked and killed by wild animals in the wild.
Zhao Si saw some patients in the city and people who came to see the news during this time, and today he found that there were a lot fewer people who came to him to see a doctor, and he originally planned to go to Zhao Yuan, but someone outside the city was injured, and he was looking for someone to bring news to let him go to see, but he didn't expect that the refugees outside the city were sick a lot, so he could only stay in the refugee group and use some of the money he had saved during this time to treat everyone.
"The situation is serious, the refugees look much worse than when we first arrived, and if this continues, many people will die." Zhao Yuan and his entourage came to the outside of the city, and when they saw the situation of the refugees, their hearts were solemn.
"Yes, although most of these refugees are not from our Shudi, aren't those who are officials afraid of causing riots if they go on like this?"
"No, they can't eat enough, how can they have the strength to start a riot, maybe that's what those officials think."
"I hope to solve it quickly, otherwise there will definitely be problems after a long time."
In Zhao Yuan's memory, there seems to have been no refugee riots in Shudi, especially in Danling, but there is no guarantee that there will be no problems, and perhaps some small riots have not been recorded and passed on to future generations.
Coming to the porridge shed of Wanjia soup kitchen, there was a long queue outside the porridge shed, boiling this somewhat thin brown rice porridge in three cauldrons, no one would definitely not be able to fill their stomachs with a bowl, the fragrance of rice porridge spread, and the refugees were even more hungry when they smelled the taste.
"There is no way, there is not much food stored at home here in Danling, and the price of food has risen a lot during this time, although I have tried my best to buy food, but now I can only do this." Seeing Zhao Yuan looking at the rice porridge boiling in the pot, a steward in charge of the porridge shed stepped forward and said.
"Is that the same situation with that one over there?" Zhao Yuan frowned and said.
"Almost, maybe not as good as our side, they are the old man Xu's family in the city, although he is a well-known good man from far and near, but it is impossible to spend all his family property to help refugees, I heard that his family has a lot of conflicts over the matter of soup kitchen, and this porridge shed does not know how many days it can be opened."
"Sister-in-law, I think the dishes we brought can't be directly given to everyone, and it is impossible for everyone to share them with so many people, so they can just put them directly in the porridge, so that everyone can eat a little." Zhao Yuan said to Zhan Qiaoyun.
"Okay, it's still the Atomic Brothers who have thought it through."
"What's the situation outside the city, there haven't been any dead in the past two days, right?" Zhao Yuan nodded, and asked Shao Meng and the others to hand over the food in the food box to the guy who was boiling the porridge, chop the pieces of meat with a knife, and put them in the porridge.
"Why not, yesterday I heard that some refugees went to the wild to look for wild vegetables, and were attacked by wild wolves in the mountains, two of them did not come back, and several of them came back and were injured."
"How's it going?"
"Thanks to Doctor Zhao, those people are not seriously injured, and there should be no major problems."
The refugees were already desperate, now that so many people are injured, if they are not handled well, there will definitely be problems, Zhao Yuan knows about many refugee riots in history, but fortunately, although there are about 1,000 refugees outside the city, it seems that it is quite calm now.
"Is the porridge going to be ready?" Zhao Yuan nodded, knowing that the doctor Zhao Shen that the steward said should be Zhao Si.
"It's almost good, there are too many people, and you can only start the porridge when they are all boiled, otherwise the people behind you can't hold it, and there may be problems."
"Let the guys burn the fire a little hotter and boil the porridge quickly." Zhan Qiaoyun, who was on the side, looked at the hungry eyes of the refugees outside the porridge shed and commanded.
"Yes, ma'am, spread the fire a little bigger." The steward nodded and said to a few guys who were cooking porridge on the fire.
"Brother Yuan, can you think of a way." Meng Ying asked expectantly.
Zhao Yuan told Meng Ying about some things during the war, which made Meng Ying full of fear of war and famine, and it was hard to imagine how difficult it was to move hundreds of miles to find a bite to eat that could survive.
"Later, I'll discuss it with the second brother and them, and unite the rich families in the city to find some way." Zhao Yuan nodded and said.
Taking advantage of the fact that Zhang Xucong and the others have not left yet, I hope to borrow their names to exert some pressure on the county magistrate and relieve the interference of official forces in this matter, whether it is to build roads, canals or build a workshop that requires a lot of labor, in short, let the refugees outside the city find a way to stand up.
"What should you do?" Zhao Yuan began to think.
Luoluo and Xiaoya, Wan Xin and Wan Xiaoxiao sat on a few small benches in the porridge shed, perhaps due to the solemn atmosphere of the refugee area, several little girls were very quiet, Xiaoya secretly looked at the refugees in line, maybe her second brother and sister-in-law were in the queue.
The refugees in the queue seemed very quiet, perhaps they did not have the strength to speak, and when the porridge was almost ready, the refugee queue finally had some voices.
"Master Zhao, it's Doctor Zhao over there." Standing by the porridge shed, Xiao Qi said.
"It's really the fourth uncle." Zhao Yuan nodded and asked Shao Meng to pick up Zhao Si.
Zhao Si is not only a miracle doctor in the hearts of refugees, but also the hope of some people, during this period of influence by Zhao Si, some people in the city donated some things to the refugees, some shabby clothes, pots and bowls that are not used at home, etc.
"Atom, you're coming to see everyone?" After a while, Shao Meng took Zhao Si to the porridge shed.
"Fourth uncle, how are those injured, is it okay?" Zhao Yuan asked.
"It's hard to say, the injuries are not serious, but their bodies are too weak, and if the wounds are infected, it will be difficult to survive." Zhao Si shook his head and said.
Maybe it was because she heard that someone was injured, and Xiaoya was in a hurry, so she stood up and ran outside the porridge shed.
"Uncle!"