"Where, I heard that they have been without food for three days!"

"I heard what my relatives said, saying that the old man of Zhixian County stopped porridge for a day on Chinese New Year's Eve and gave Yachadu back for a good year, but now that Chinese New Year's Eve has passed, he has not given porridge for a long time, and it has been cold for two days, and some people can't stand it if they are not careful." ”

A woman who seemed to know the inside story said if she had something to do, Cheng Yangyang could still accept this statement, cutting off food for one day would not starve people to death, but now that it has been cut off for three days, if someone has not grabbed food for several days, then there is indeed a possibility of starvation.

But why did the yamen run out of food?

She couldn't figure it out, and it happened that the third king and Erkui of the junior high school were going to deliver food to the city again, so she simply went with them.

Wang Erkui didn't know why Cheng Yangyang suddenly wanted to go into the city with him to deliver food, could it be that he found out that he was selling fish privately?

"Cheng girl, this city gate hasn't opened yet, why are you thinking of going to the city with us today", seeing that the city gate was getting closer and closer, Wang Erkui couldn't help but ask her, and his face was still a little empty.

"It's nothing, just ask Brother Qian, how are these dishes selling", she casually found a reason, now she doesn't have the heart to ask Wang Erkui about selling fish.

Before the three of them approached the city gate, they saw a large number of refugees sitting and lying outside the city gate, and the city gate, which was originally only guarded, was directly closed today.

This large vermilion city gate nailed with iron plates has become so ruthless under the weak slapping of the refugees, and there are still a few officials guarding the city gate, and they are also ruthless.

"Look, someone's coming!"

As soon as Cheng Yangyang, who was carrying vegetables and fish, approached, he was watched by the refugees outside the city, who looked at the baskets and bamboo baskets covered by leaves, and they were ready to move.

"Who are they?"

"Isn't this the person who came to the city every day the other day to deliver food?

The refugees seemed to recognize Wang Erkui and Wang Tong, and the refugees knew that there was food in their baskets, so people got up from the ground one after another, gradually surrounded them, and followed closely.

Faced with this scene, it is impossible for Cheng Yangyang not to be afraid, she can only force herself to be calm, if she is really robbed, safety is the most important.

Surrounded by refugees, she walked to the city gate with difficulty, and the people standing at the city gate and banging on the city gate begging for food saw her coming, and they all subconsciously made way for her, maybe she could call the city gate open.

Cheng Yangyang, who was inexplicably pinned on by people, could only knock on the door now, "Is anyone there? I'm here to deliver food to Wanfu Tavern."

She shouted at the door, but no one answered her.

"Brother Yacha, I have a warrant from Lord Zhixian, can you let someone open a door for me?" she shouted at the yacha on the city gate again.

The only response was silence.

"Sister Cheng, why don't we go back!" Wang Tong was so frightened that his legs were about to weaken, and the group of people stared at him as if they were going to eat him.

They didn't do anything, but their hunger and desperate gaze were enough to scare him to death.

Cheng Yangyang took out the warrant and tried to open the city gate again, but the people on the city wall didn't even look at it, they seemed to be more numb than the refugees, and they didn't feel anything under the city gate.

I don't know what happened in the city, why the city gates were suddenly closed, cutting off all communication between the inside and outside.

"Folks, do you know what happened in the city, why did the city gate suddenly close?" Anyway, he couldn't open the city gate, so Cheng Yangyang simply chatted with the refugees.

"I don't know", everyone shook their heads, and no one knew why this was happening.

"Girl, do you have food in this basket?" asked a skinny old man who looked at Cheng Yangyang weakly.

Cheng Yangyang nodded, she was ready to be robbed after admitting it, but what she didn't expect was that they didn't squeeze up to grab her things, but looked at her with blank eyes.

"Girl, can I beg you, give me something to eat, my grandson is dying of hunger", the old man's face suddenly wrinkled, and he knelt down to her crying.

Immediately afterward, one by one, people knelt down to her, all reaching out and begging her for something to eat.

"You ......"

Cheng Yangyang was shocked by the current situation, she thought that they would rob directly regardless of everything, if they robbed, maybe she would be more relieved, at least she didn't do nothing.

But now, they had pushed the initiative on her, making her feel even more uncomfortable, and she asked herself, could she watch them starve to death outside the city?

"But I don't have a lot of things with me, so I don't know how to give them to you......" she said cautiously, for fear that they would fight over it.

"To the child!" said a man eagerly, "just give it to the child, we can still hold it, we can hold it......"

The crowd nodded in agreement.

Cheng Yangyang looked at them, most of the people who could come and follow her were adults, and the people lying around were children.

She suddenly remembered what Cheng Qingqing had told her, and the parents of the Cheng sisters also gave them things to make it unbearable, and she felt sad when she thought of this.

In a small Shimen town, the population outside the city is only tens of thousands, but once something happens, there are one-tenth of the refugees, and there are those who do not want to fall and are struggling to support themselves at home.

It's cold, and the wild vegetables have been dug up long before the famine, so what can you take to satisfy your hunger?

"If you have a pot, then these things will be given to you", Cheng Yangyang put down the basket and didn't think about it anymore.

"Cheng girl!"

Wang Erkui naturally refused, how could she just give something, she was not the county magistrate, so she didn't need to worry about it.

"Uncle Erkui, let's put things down", Cheng Yangyang glanced at the people at the city gate, and she was even more determined.

Wang Erkui saw that Cheng Yangyang had already put down his things and left the crowd, he was unwilling, and he couldn't pull the person who had already pounced on him to grab his bamboo basket, so he could only put it down helplessly.

After putting down the things, she didn't leave directly, but watched them be so neat that they couldn't even scrape the fish scales, so she directly cooked the vegetables and fish.

Cheng Yangyang knew how unpalatable the pot was just by looking at it, but they gobbled it up and ate it very satisfied.

The three of them went back with the empty basket, and on the way, Wang Erkui kept complaining that Cheng Yangyang was nosy and wasted the vegetables and fish he had just picked early in the morning.

"Those people are just lazy to eat, so they ended up as refugees, you see they have been staring at our bamboo baskets, what are they all about, that's for the people in the city to eat, they deserve to eat good things?"