In addition to distributing food and disaster relief silver, all Langzhong was gathered together in Connecticut to see a doctor for the victims. After famine and major natural disasters, plague is the most common occurrence because of the lack of medical knowledge of the people and the lack of attention to food hygiene in order to survive during the famine. In order to prevent such things from happening, he temporarily organized experienced Langzhong to diagnose the people.

When it comes to medical skills, Xu Zhonghang's medical skills are naturally powerful, so Qiu Luoxue designated him as the head of the medical team in the name of the prime minister, which is also to facilitate their meeting. In addition to sending Xu Zhonghang to Kangzhou this time, Chen Wang also arranged two other deputies, who were nominally to assist Xu Zhonghang, but in fact to monitor him. This also shows Chen Wang's distrust of Xu Zhonghang. Under the supervision of the deputy, Xu Zhonghang and Qiu Luoxue are naturally restricted, but with the excuse of diagnosis, it is still much more convenient.

On this day, Qiu Luoxue and others were giving porridge outside, and the victims lined up in an orderly manner to receive porridge. Qiu Luoxue watched Xia Zimo scoop up the porridge from the cauldron with a spoon and pour it into the bowl of the victims, tirelessly, there was no emperor's shelf at all. The warm winter sun shone on his body, and the autumn snow instantly discovered his advantages again. Although he looks noble and indifferent on the surface, he is not like this in his heart, perhaps the identity of the emperor restricts his inner expression.

"Don't look at it, if you look at it again, you'll see through it." Xia Zimo said, glancing sideways at Qiu Luoxue as he spoke.

"See through what?" Qiu Luoxue asked rhetorically.

"My heart." Xia Zimo said.

Qiu Luoxue smiled and said, "How is it possible, I don't have a clairvoyant eye." ”

"Yes, if you see through my heart, it won't be like this." Xia Zimo said, more like talking to himself.

After that, he handed the tool in his hand to the person next to him and said to Qiu Luoxue: "After staying here all morning, you are also tired, go and rest." ”

Qiu Luoxue really felt tired, so she went to rest with Xia Zimo. The two walked in the direction of the government while talking, and on the way, the sharp-eyed Qiu Luoxue found a six- or seven-year-old child lying in the corner not far away, his body curled up together, and it seemed that he had fallen to the ground hungry.

"Over there, there seems to be a child." Qiu Luoxue pointed to the corner of the street and said.

Xia Zimo followed the direction of her finger and saw it, so he said, "Let's go over and have a look." ”

The two quickly walked to the child's side, and saw him lying with his eyes closed, Qiu Luoxue said, "Maybe I'm hungry, take him to Imperial Doctor Xu to have a look." ”

Qiu Luoxue is a person with a anxious personality, and she was ready to leave as soon as she spoke, but Xia Zimo said, "No need." ”

"Why ......" Qiu Luoxue's words hadn't finished asking, she saw Xia Zimo's hand slowly leaving the child's neck carotid artery, and probably understood the reason, and asked, "It's already ...... Dead? ”

"Hmm." Xia Zimo replied that he looked at the child's corpse for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

Qiu Luoxue was also silent, she saw people starving to death for the first time, and really felt the fragility of life, the preciousness of food in ancient society, and the impact of natural disasters on people.

"I've worked hard, but under my rule, people will still starve to death." Xia Zimo said in a deep voice.

Qiu Luoxue could hear the self-reproach in his tone, patted him on the shoulder and said, "No matter what dynasty it is, no matter who it is under its rule, natural disasters are inevitable. Your Majesty has worked hard to reduce the occurrence of death, and if that doesn't stop it, then you don't blame it. What we need to do now is not to blame ourselves, but to work hard to solve the current predicament and tide over the difficulties with the people. ”

Saying that, Qiu Luoxue stretched out her hand in front of Xia Zimo, the smile on her face was so dazzling, like a light shining into Xia Zimo's heart. He couldn't help but look at Qiu Luoxue a few more times, and stretched out his hand to put it on hers.

This scene happened to be seen by Xu Zhonghang, who was passing by, he knew Qiu Luoxue's identity as a woman, so he paid special attention to her behavior, as if he was Qiu Luoxue's parents, and when he saw that she was holding hands with a man, he almost stepped forward to pull her away. However, the person who pulled Qiu Luoxue's hand was Xia Zimo, and he didn't dare to go over, so he could only quietly remember it in his heart, thinking about taking some time to talk to Qiu Luoxue. If he knew that Qiu Luoxue and Xia Zimo were kissing, he would probably jump up in shock.

Back in the mansion, Lord Zhao had already prepared the meal, and waited for Qiu Luoxue and Xia Zimo to sit down and start the meal. Looking at the table full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, if it is normal, Qiu Luoxue will definitely have a great appetite. But today, she has just seen the starving children on the side of the road, and she has no appetite at all. I finally realized what it means to "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road".

Xia Zimo was even more so, he hadn't recovered from what had just happened. The people suffered, but the officials ate and drank, and for the first time he felt the shortcomings of the system, and felt that under his rule, the situation in the court was so bad. His face was gloomy, and all the officials did not dare to speak.

"Hurry up and move your chopsticks, the food will be cold in a while." Lord Zhao said cautiously, only when Qiu Luoxue and they moved their chopsticks, others dared to eat.

Qiu Luoxue looked at Lord Zhao and said, "Lord Zhao's banquet is too expensive, and I can't eat it." ”

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, it's all trivial, and it doesn't cost much silver." Lord Zhao said with a smile.

Qiu Luoxue glanced at him in disgust, she originally thought that this Zhao Xin just wanted to curry favor with the officials in the capital, and it was understandable, but now she found out that he was just a straw bag, and he didn't know how to read people's faces at all, and he couldn't hear the sound outside the strings. What's more, through the observation of the past few days, Qiu Luoxue felt that he didn't care about the people at all, and only cared about eating and drinking by himself.

"Heh, isn't it precious?" Qiu Luoxue sneered, looked at Lord Zhao with a serious expression, and asked, "Do you know how many people's lives can be saved by this meal?" Hunger is everywhere outside, wailing constantly, you, as a parent official, are still embarrassed to eat and drink here? The court spends money to support you, is that what you do these things? ”

"This ......" Lord Zhao was angry when she saw Qiu Luoxue, and she was a little inexplicable, didn't everyone do this? But because of Qiu Luoxue's identity, he didn't dare to contradict it, so he could only give Xia Zimo a look of help and asked, "Lord Nian, what's wrong with Prime Minister Qiu?" Xia Guan was also well-intentioned, and he was afraid that the two adults would not be used to eating coarse tea and light rice, so he specially ordered someone to make these dishes. ”

"Lord Zhao's kindness, this official and Qiu Cheng have a heart. It's just that we can't swallow this dish, so you can enjoy it yourself. Xia Zimo said, paused and said: "From today on, all officials from the capital will eat with the victims. ”

After speaking, Xia Zimo left the dining room, and Qiu Luoxue also left, leaving only a group of dumbfounded officials.

"Eating with the victims? We are all noble scholars, how can we eat all those coarse tea and light rice like those untouchables? ”

"That's right, isn't this young man too right, the emperor sent him to relieve the disaster, but not to take care of us?"

The casual Beijing officials talked again, and their tones were full of dissatisfaction.

Guan Liang looked at these ignorant officials helplessly, and said: "He is the one who has the golden dragon token, if you don't want to protect your official position and life, you should be obedient." It was his kind advice, and he departed.

Xia Zimo did what he said, and ate with the victims at noon that day, he arrived at the place where the soup was given, picked up a clean bowl, and said to the soup kitchener: "Give me a bowl too." ”

When the official saw that it was him, he was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you want a bowl too?" ”

"Yes, not only does he want a bowl, but he also wants a bowl." Qiu Luoxue also came over with a clean bowl and said with a smile: "From today onwards, we will eat with the victims, so we have to make more porridge, otherwise we will have no food to eat." ”

Qiu Luoxue's words surprised everyone present, and some of the victims threw surprised and curious glances at the place. Qiu Luoxue saw that the soup cook was still stunned, so she asked: "Why are you not hurrying up to serve the porridge, I'm hungry." ”

"Ah, okay." The official who gave the porridge hurriedly scooped up the porridge and poured it into Qiu Luoxue and Xia Zimo's bowls.

The two of them were full of white porridge, and like the victims, they found a random place to sit down.

"Wow, this is really white porridge." Qiu Luoxue looked at the porridge in the bowl and said.

Xia Zimo looked at Qiu Luoxue with guilt in his eyes, and said, "It's me who forgot, shouldn't even count you." ”

Qiu Luoxue saw his guilt and said, "Why don't you count me, am I not an official from the capital?" ”

"It's probably the first time you've eaten anything like this." Xia Zimo said.

Qiu Luoxue smiled indifferently and said, "Isn't it the first time you've eaten this kind of thing?" ”

"Okay, don't do this, drink it quickly, it will be even worse if it is cold for a while." Qiu Luoxue said again.

Xia Zimo looked at the porridge in his hand, picked it up and was about to drink it, but was stopped by Qiu Luoxue, she said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'll drink it first." Saying that, Qiu Luoxue snatched the porridge from Xia Zimo's hand and took a sip.

"Why is this happening?" Xia Zimo asked puzzled.

"I'm afraid of being poisonous, I'll drink it first, and then you can drink it if I'm still alive in half an hour." Qiu Luoxue said playfully.

Her words amused Xia Zimo, and he smiled and said, "Are you testing poison for me?" ”

"Something big happened, and you saw it, don't be too moved." Qiu Luoxue said with a smile.

"What should I do, I'm super moved, do you want to repay the favor with a personal promise?" Xia Zimo said jokingly.

"Are you repaying the favor? It's obviously revenge. Qiu Luoxue said.

The two laughed as they spoke, and there was a joyful atmosphere around them. Perhaps because they were hungry, they picked up the porridge and drank it, and even the movements of drinking the porridge were so synchronized, lifting and lowering at the same time. Both of them are very good-looking people, forming a beautiful landscape in this cold and hungry winter.