Takagi watched Li Jiang leave, turned his head and bowed his head to a few sturdy men in the refugee area and said a few words, and then saw Takagi and those men leaving together, and everyone didn't think much about it.

There were several carpenters who walked towards the refugees, old and young, as high as the old man in his eighties, as small as a baby who was still swaddling, in ragged clothes, when the carpenters approached, one of the children subconsciously hid in their mother's arms, probably seeing that they had been here yesterday, several adults came to comfort the children, signaling them not to be afraid.

Comforted by his mother, a slightly more courageous child stretched out his hands tremblingly, his eyes were full of fear, but with a trace of longing, and said intermittently: "I'm so hungry, please, give me something to eat." ”

Looking at the emaciated children, several carpenters had an indescribable feeling in their hearts, although they were not rich and noble, but they were not worried about food and clothing, and never thought that the beggars they had met on the street were not the most miserable people in the world, at least they could still live on the alms of the rich, but this group of people could only live on the weeds and roots outside the city.

A chubby carpenter took out the dry food from his arms, which he prepared for fear of being hungry halfway, the carpenter handed the dry food to the child, and the child took the dry food without hesitation, took a few gulps, and then stopped, only to see him turn around and give the dry food in his hand to the other children one by one, without the slightest reluctance in his eyes.

The other children took the dry food, and were reluctant to eat it, and handed the only small piece of dry food in their hands to the adults who accompanied them, and looked at the sensible children, and the carpenters were silent again.

The carpenter, knowing that his small piece of dry food would not solve any problem at all, turned away quietly, and no longer dared to look at the glimmer of longing in the children's eyes.

Suddenly, the chubby carpenter thought of something, pulled over another carpenter standing aside and said, "Shi Ming will come with me." ”

The carpenter named Shi Ming was pulled by the chubby carpenter, and while following his footsteps, he asked, "Where is Qishan going?" ”

Qishan didn't answer Shi Ming, just pulled Shi Ming back to the city without a sound, and then directly pulled Shi Ming to the steamed bun stall, Shi Ming always understood what Qishan wanted to do, but he could only say helplessly: "Qishan, you can't solve the fundamental problem like this, we don't have so much silver to support them." ”

"I know." Qishan listened to Shi Ming's words and said silently: "However, I just want them to have a meal, even if it is a meal of warm food." ”

"There are so many refugees outside the city, and these are not enough." Shi Ming said.

Shi Ming's words, Qishan also understood, the first time he felt that he was so useless, in the past, Qishan always felt proud of these hands that could be carpenters, and would give alms to beggars on the street from time to time, but he didn't expect that one day he would be so powerless.

Shi Ming has been a friend of Qishan for many years, how can he not know what Qishan is thinking, looking at Qishan who is so depressed, Shi Ming said: "If you really want them to eat a mouthful of warm food, I have a way." ”

"What's the solution?" Hearing Shi Ming's words, Qishan's eyes flashed and he asked.

"Soup kitchen." Shi Ming said.

"Soup kitchen?" When Qishan heard Shi Ming's words, the expectation in his eyes immediately disappeared, and Qishan said, "Where did we get so much food for them to eat." ”

"We don't have that much food, but we don't have to be as thick as we usually eat." Shi Ming looked at Qishan and said, "The refugees outside the city must have not eaten a nutritious meal for a long time, and we can only have a few ten grains of rice in each person's bowl, although they may not be full, but they are more nutritious than tree roots and weeds." ”

"That's good." Qishan listened to Shi Ming's suggestion and said: "Even so, we still don't have so much rice supply, and the thousands of refugees outside the city, at most, two or three days, we will be starved of food." ”

"Have you forgotten?" Shi Ming said: "This test is not just the two of us. ”

"You mean to go to the other carpenters?" Keishan asked.

"If it is, in the eyes of Li Lao, who they want to enter, they will definitely generously transfer the silver taels in their hands." Shi Ming said.

"Okay, we'll go find them now." Qishan listened to Shi Ming's words, and happily pulled Shi Ming to find the carpenters outside the city.

"Kaishan, you wait." Looking at his popular friend, Shi Ming said helplessly: "What are you going to say to them now?" ”

"Let them donate, let's just say that Li Lao will definitely treat everyone differently when he sees everyone raising money to help refugees." Qishan said.

"Don't forget, there is only one disciple of Li Lao, do you think there is a high probability that they will agree to say it so directly?" Shi Ming asked Qishan rhetorically.

"So what do you say you should do?" Qishan listened to Shi Ming's words and said anxiously.

"You are in a hurry, I really don't know how you can be a carpenter." Shi Ming shook his head helplessly and said, "Let's go out of the city first to see how the situation outside the city is, and then you will listen to my orders." ”

"Okay." After listening to Shi Ming's words, Qishan did not refute, because Qishan always knew that Shi Ming paid more attention, and he said that if there is a way, there will be a way.

"Let's go, let's get out of town." Shi Ming said to Qishan.

"Okay, the boss helped me wrap all the steamed buns." Qishan said loudly to the stall owner.

"Okay." When the stall owner heard this, he was happy in his heart, and with a smile on his face, he wrapped all the steamed buns and handed them to Qishan and said, "Guest officer, your steamed buns." ”

Shi Ming didn't stop Qishan, because he knew in his heart what Qishan's temperament was, Qishan paid two silver taels, and went out of the city with Shi Ming with steamed buns, they didn't know, and when they left the city, a figure disappeared behind them, and this person had been following behind them, monitoring their every move.

Zhao Gao not only brought Vice General Yang and others, but also asked Meng Tian to pick more than a dozen people with quick skills to secretly observe every move of all the carpenters and report at any time.

When Shi Ming and Qishan returned to the outside of the city, Gao Mu and several refugees happened to come back together, they pushed a few carts of wood back in sections, and then put the wood on the ground, Qishan handed the spearhead to the children just now, some of the refugees saw it, their eyes were slightly red, and they stared at the steamed buns in the children's hands without blinking, as if they were like a pack of hungry wolves.

If it weren't for Shi Ming's cleverness and letting Vice General Yang and a few soldiers follow behind him in advance, I'm afraid that because of these steamed buns, they would already be a large number of dead and wounded, Qishan didn't think about it so much, just looked at this group of gobbling children, and his heart became steady, and he really knew that the symptoms were not cured, but he could let them eat a hot steamed bun, and his heart was much better.

"Everybody come here." Takagi said to the other carpenters, "This is some wood, although it is not very helpful, but it can also provide them with a little shelter from the wind and rain. ”

"You mean to build a house for them?" A carpenter listened to Takagi's words and said mockingly: "Are you kidding, there are so many refugees, how can we build houses for them, just a few of us, how can we do it?" ”

"Although the strength is meager, you can't use your own strength to help others, it's better than doing nothing." Takagi said as he looked at the carpenter who had spoken.

"Even so, there are so many of them, how much wood do we have to build a house for them? Don't forget, the number on the mountain can't be cut indiscriminately, otherwise according to the laws of Great Qin, stealing other people's property will be imprisoned. The carpenter retorted.

"We don't have to build a mansion like where I live, I can build a shelter from the wind and rain with these woods." Takagi said, pointing to the wood on the car.

"Are you kidding?" Hearing Takagi's words, the carpenter laughed louder, pointed to the wood pulled by Takagi, and said, "These pieces of wood are not enough to make eaves, and you still want to build a house?" ”

"Without this wood, they would just be sleeping in the open, and they wouldn't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain." Takagi was not angry, and said calmly: "But these logs can be built to build a simple shelter from the wind and rain, we can use these woods to strengthen the shape of the house, so that it is not easy to collapse, and then spread withered grass outside, although it is not a good house, but it is much better than them using the sky as a bed." ”

Everyone listened to Takagi's words, and there was no refutation for a while, although Takagi's method did not reflect the carpenter's craftsmanship, but it was also right, and it was a good idea.

But the other carpenter said, "You are right, but what about wood?" Where did we get all that wood? ”

"Yes, there are so many refugees, it's not something that can be solved by a few houses, what about wood?" Another carpenter chimed in.

"These truckloads of wood are three miles away, and the timber on my mountain, although the area is not large, can also hold on to four or five." Takagi said.

"Four or five?" The carpenter smiled and said, "Look at the people here, how can you settle them without a hundred houses?" And with so many houses, would Daqin be willing to let us build them? If it were built, it would be bigger than a village, or even a small town. ”

I have to say that this carpenter said a big question, how could the government agree to this large-scale construction? This is a consequence that Takagi did not expect, and if the government demolished the houses he had built, everything would be in vain.

Takagi listened to his words and also fell into deep thought, at this time Shi Ming saluted and said to Vice General Yang: "Vice General Yang, I don't know this situation, can you tell General Meng?" ”

"This matter is not under the jurisdiction of General Meng, and such a large-scale construction will not be approved by His Majesty." Vice General Yang said truthfully.

After listening to Vice General Yang's words, Shi Ming stopped talking, and Takagi was silent for a while, and continued: "No matter what, I am willing to shelter them from the wind and rain for a while. ”

After Takagi finished speaking, he walked to the wood, because Takagi did not go back last night, so he did not bring his tools, so he had to ask a few refugees to push the wood aside and put it away, and then turned around and went back to the city.

Looking at the back of Takagi leaving, Kaishan pushed Shi Ming's arm and said, "Do you say he really wants to build a house?" ”

"Huh." Shi Ming smiled and said, "Bring your tools tomorrow." ”

"You're trying to help him?" Keishan asked.

"It's not a good idea, but he's right, do whatever you can on your own." Shi Ming said.

"Well, whatever you say is what you say, anyway." Qishan no longer asked, for Shi Ming, a friend for many years, Qishan trusted him very much.

"Let's go." Shi Ming smiled at Qishan and said, "For your soup soup plan, while everyone is here now, it is convenient to ask them to have dinner together in the evening, so that it can go smoothly." ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Qishan said happily, it can be said that Qishan and Shi Ming are two different existences, Qishan people are tall and big, and they look mellow, and Shi Ming is not a gentleman but also a talent, at first glance, he is a more intelligent person, and Qishan has always trusted Shi Ming.