The disaster relief team is moving forward mightily, and the journey that can be made back and forth in a day on weekdays is less than half of the way now, and they have to stop from time to time to rest.

"General, it's raining heavily, so you better get into the carriage." Zhuo Yi looked at Su Jing who was riding on a horse.

"General Su, just listen to Vice General Zhuo, you are the emperor's hand-picked disaster relief messenger, if there is any accident, no one will be able to preside over it at that time." Lord Lu, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, poked his head out of the carriage.

"Yes, yes, Lord Lu is right." Several other officials5 nodded in agreement.

They were all specially assigned by the emperor to assist Su Jing in disaster relief, and they were all people who could be used, and they didn't dare to say anything else when they looked at Su Jing one by one, after all, General Su was deeply favored by the emperor, and even the face of the four princes was lost for General Su in the court.

And this General Su has a strange temperament, and he doesn't like to associate with people, so it's not good to offend him by accidentally saying the wrong thing.

Su Jing bowed slightly, and glanced up at the foggy front: "Find a place to rest when you get there, and I'm on my way tomorrow morning." ”

"General, Cheng Jin has sent the news."

Su Jing took the small bamboo tube handed over by Zhuo Yi, poked through the wax seal and took out the note inside, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth after a glance.

Sure enough, as he thought, what did this Xiangfu lady want to do?

"General, what's the good news?"

"Cheng Jin said that the eldest lady of the Ji family has already set up a shed at the gate of the city to give porridge."

Zhuo Yi just asked casually, but he didn't expect Su Jing to answer.

"General, this eldest lady of the Ji family started buying grain more than ten days ago, isn't she really going to be unpredictable? This is a natural disaster. Zhuo Yi really couldn't figure it out, when he heard Cheng Jin talk about this, he still felt that the eldest lady of the Ji family had a brain disease, so she bought so much food and hoarded worms.

Su Jing didn't answer Zhuo Yi this time, because he had the same question in his heart.

"Okay, don't tell anyone about this, do they have any news?"

Su Jing never did anything he was not prepared for, and as soon as the holy decree was issued, he had already sent people to various hard-hit areas to inquire about the situation.

"Not yet, my subordinates should be coming soon." Zhuo Yi replied.

I saw more and more victims along the way, all of them were ragged and yellow-skinned, and their eyes looked at them with despair and fierceness.

The mood of the group is also quite heavy, but now is not the time to be soft-hearted, if it is not for the sergeants in the team to escort them, and to deal with several waves of chaotic refugees in the middle of the way, I am afraid that these relief food will be robbed before they can be transported to the disaster area.

"Didn't the imperial court already order the opening of the warehouse to release grain? How are there more and more victims? Zhuo Yi sighed, looking at the victims who were skinny and longing to look at them, and couldn't bear to look over.

"It seems that things are more serious than we thought." The fact that such a large number of people have left their homes is inextricably linked to the mismanagement of local officials.

Zhuo Yi turned his head and looked at the back of the team: "Then the disaster relief food we brought this time is enough, do you need a message from your subordinates to send a letter to Cheng Jin......?"

"Not yet." Su Jing frowned slightly.

The team continued to move forward as usual, originally wanted to find a place on the road to live in a sharp store, regardless of the environment, Xu is the influence of the displaced people is too great, but until the time of the unitary did not find it, either closed or empty,

The weather was so bad, and the sergeants were all exhausted and couldn't find a place to rest, so Su Jing could only find a family to go to the empty shop to settle down temporarily, so that the team could rest.

There are not many rooms in the small shop, except for a few adults who have two rooms, and the rest of the people can only sleep on the floor in the hall.

"I've wronged a few adults." Su Jing said polite words, but his tone was extremely cold.

In front of Su Jing, several people were still a little restrained, and they waved their hands hurriedly: "General Su is polite, how can you say that you are wronged during the special period, compared to the refugees in the disaster area, this condition is already very good." ”

There were a few people in the kitchen who were busy cooking on the fire, and the faint smell of rice came over, and their stomachs couldn't help but drum.

After everything was settled, Su Jing called Zhuo Yi aside: "Zhuo Yi, take a few people tonight to take care of the disaster relief food this time." ”

"Is the general afraid that the homeless people will break in and steal the grain?" Zhuo Yi was a little puzzled, the disaster relief food was guarded by a special person.

"The displaced people are just one of them, I am worried that some people will do something to the relief food, and the emperor appointed me as the Qincha this time, I am afraid that some people will not be willing to ......"

Zhuo Yi quickly heard the other meaning, and glanced out: "Could it be that there is a ...... in our team?" How dare they, this is a unconscionable thing. ”

"People who are hungry for power have always only cared about their own interests, so how can they care about this." Su Jing's eyes narrowed slightly.

"The subordinates understand that the general has doubts in his heart, and we can be on guard."

"Not yet, anyway, it's better to be careful." He doesn't have a specific candidate yet, but there are always a few people.

In the second half of the night, when a group of people were sleeping soundly, someone shouted.

"It's on fire, put out the fire." In order to make things easier, Su Jing slept in his clothes, and when he heard the shouting, he picked up the sword on the side and rushed out.

The fire was on the side of the stable, and it had been extinguished when Su Jing arrived, and it was smoking, and the scene was a mess, and there were more than a dozen ragged victims kneeling aside.

"What's going on?" Su Jing asked in a deep voice, and the whole person exuded a cold aura.

"Just now a group of homeless people came to grab the food, and before they could grab it, they began to throw fire folds into it."

"The grain can be damaged, what about Zhuo Yi?"

"General, I'm here." Zhuo Yi strode in with a person and threw it to the ground.

It was a man of about thirty, his face was covered with mud, and although his clothes were tattered, he did not look like a refugee when he looked at the horizontal flesh exposed on his stomach.

"Say, who instructed you to pretend to be a homeless person to burn the relief food?" Zhuo Yi asked.

The man secretly glanced at Su Jing, and hurriedly knelt down and shouted injustice: "My lord, the villain is really a refugee, he hasn't eaten for several days, so he wants to get something to eat to fill his stomach, the villain really doesn't know that this is disaster relief food, otherwise he wouldn't dare to give the villain a hundred cowards." ”

"Pretend, there are disaster victims like you, how fat and strong do you look like a homeless person?" Zhuo Yi looked at him angrily.

"General Su, what's going on?" Lu Shilang and several other adults were late.

"Someone disguised himself as a homeless person and deliberately set fire to burn the disaster relief grain, but fortunately, it was found in time, the food was fine, and now the person has been caught, as long as the strict interrogation can know who is behind the scenes." Su Jing glanced at them quietly.

Several people were surprised when they heard this, this is the courage of eating leopards, and they dare to burn the relief food.

"Is General Su saying that these people were instructed by others?" The person who spoke was Lord Chen, a member of the household department, a young man under thirty, with a square face, and his face was full of shock at this time.