"I listen to you in the name of Mohenjo!"

After many years, Su Ji once again stood in front of the people to accept everyone's petition.

What used to be a simple, natural routine now required him to summon up all his courage.

The handsome prince lifted his slightly pale face and looked at his people with a determined gaze.

"Great Allah, honorable Mohenjo Daro, I am Hatta, keeper of the village of Morinnon, and I ask you to listen to our humble request......"

A tall man in the crowd, who was relatively neatly dressed, walked out, knelt on one knee, and looked up at Su Ji with his fist to his chest.

"Drought for many years, no harvest in the fields outside the village, the princess is in charge of the country, the tax has been raised by 20%, if you do not pay the tax, the land will be taken by the nobles to offset the tax, noble Mohenjo Daro, your people have no land to plant, no food to eat, no way to live...... Woooooooooooo ”

The tall and strong man talked about his sadness, and he cried helplessly.

Jiang Yuan also walked behind Su Ji and whispered.

"Many of the villages we have traveled along have been desolate, and it seems that the reason for this village is not much different."

"Didn't you convey the news of the disaster to the envoys?"

The crowd shook their heads.

Jiang Yuan gently tugged Su Ji and whispered in his ear: "This kind of news involving interests is impossible to convey to the upper echelons, not to mention that the current upper echelons have become corrupt, where will you care about the life and death of the people below, this is your chance." ”

"I see, thank you."

Su Ji glanced at Jiang Yuan deeply, turned around and walked towards the villagers.

"Let's go and have a look at the affected fields."

"Please, two of you!"

They originally saw Jiang Yuan's strong force and wanted to beg her to protect the official tyrant who avoided taxes for a few days, but they met people who claimed to be royal, in fact, many villagers didn't believe it in their hearts, but what if?

"Is this it? You're not kidding me? ”

Standing on the loess slope and looking at the large area of dry and cracked land below, it is estimated that it will not be long before it will desertify and become part of the vast desert.

"It is here, noble Lords, that I prostrate at your feet, seeking your salvation."

The villagers fell to their knees one after another.

"There was a river when we came here, right?"

Jiang Yuan stood beside Su Ji, looking into the distance, thoughtfully.

"Do you want an aqueduct?"

"Well, there's that idea."

Su Ji also looked into the distance, there was a wide river not far from the village they came to, if the water could be diverted, the land would be able to reawaken.

"But the desertification on the way here is so bad that the water will sink into the sand and can't flow."

Su Ji turned her head to look at the tall Hatta, "How did you draw water?" ”

"The great Allah will give us water, and there were originally four wells in the village, but in the past two years there has been no rain, and the water in the wells has dried up, and people are dying of thirst, and there is no water to irrigate the crops......

"Wow~Wow~"

As he spoke, the cry of a baby in the crowd rang out loudly, and immediately joined together, and many of the children in the women's arms began to cry.

Jiang Yuan looked up at the sky speechlessly.

Well, it's time for dinner.

The children wept incessantly, but by looking at the shriveled breasts of the thin, dark women, you could see where they still had milk to feed their children.

Many women cried and turned away with their children in their arms.

"Honorable Lord, would you two deign to go to Hatta's house for dinner?"

Hatta was also very sad, and invited Su Ji and Jiang Yuan in a low tone, and did not think that these two Brahmin nobles would be willing to deign to the bad food in his house.

"No need, we have food, you all go back to eat, let's take a walk around the village."

This time, Jiang Yuan preempted Su Ji and refused coldly.

Under the slightly questioning gaze of Hatta and Su Ji, he dragged Su Ji's arm and left the dirt slope.

Soon after they left, the villagers on the dirt slope scattered on their own bodies.

"Why did you refuse Hatta's invitation? Are you, like those in Zheli, discriminating against the lower classes? ”

There was no one around, Su Ji broke free from Jiang Yuan, and her tone was a little stiff and slightly questioning.

"Huh, discrimination? They are too busy to take care of themselves, and they are on their knees and begging for you, what are you looking forward to, have you thought about it? ”

Su Ji was awakened by Jiang Yuan's even colder tone.

"Isn't it just to save the land and solve the tax problem?"

Isn't it?

"These two are the roots, not their purpose, their purpose is food, it is emergency food, the dry land cannot be saved by a few buckets of water, and the tax is not something you can say now, I'm right."

Su Ji lowered her head in annoyance and did not answer.

He didn't think of this layer.

"That Hatta invited us just politely, if you don't believe it, you can go to the village and see what they eat in a while, and you will understand."

After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he handed over a chicken sandwich and a cup of soy milk.

"There's no one here, you hurry up and eat, let's go into the village and have a look after eating."

Su Ji raised his hand a little heavily to take it, the food was still delicious, but he changed his mood.

"I ......"

He wanted to ask Jiang Yuan for some food for the children in the village.

"There are some things that you want to say well, and I advise you not to do things that are generous to others."

Jiang Yuan seemed to know what he was going to say, and suddenly interrupted him.

Su Ji ate the food silently when she heard this, and returned the package with a slightly gloomy face.

Jiang Yuan took the package, looked at his indignant face, sneered and threw the package back into the space, grabbed his arm and walked towards the village.

"Wow, wow, wow, wow......"

The whole village was filled with the sound of crying babies.

Jiang Yuan randomly found a mud house and knocked on the door, and after getting permission, he bent down and bowed his head to enter, Su Ji was much taller than Jiang Yuan, almost squatting and walked in, and when he entered the low roof of the house, he couldn't raise his head.

The house is almost empty.

There is a 2-meter earthen platform in the innermost part that is the bed of this house, covered with straw mats, and a dark and thin woman is stuffing her shriveled breasts into the mouth of a barren and thin toddler with a sad face.

The child took a few bites and found that there was no half drop of milk, so the toddler, who could no longer be comforted, cried out even louder.

On the other side, the man sitting on the ground with a gray face was holding a piece of yellow cake in his hand, and he stuffed it into his mouth one by one with an expressionless face.

"What are you eating?"

Su Ji had a gut feeling that it wasn't a good thing.

He saw a few pieces of yellow cake on the windowsill by the wall, so he walked over and picked up one.

"Can I try it?"

After getting the acquiescence of the owner of the house, Su Ji broke off a piece of the yellow cake and hesitated for a moment to send it to his mouth.

A hand as smooth as white jade, stretched out from the side, stopped him halfway.

"Don't eat it, it's dirt."

After that, he took the yellow cake from his hand, twisted his two fingers, and kneaded it into ashes.

“……”

Su Ji lowered her head silently, her eyes red.

It turns out that this is what he has eaten for three years?!

Earth? It's ridiculous.

The soil that can be seen everywhere, and those cool officials still send it to his mouth as a reward.

No wonder he was often bloated, bitter, and painful at that time.

Originally...... And so it was.

"Get some for that kid...... Give him my share. ”

Su Ji still couldn't hear the child's crying.

He's been hungry for a few days, and it's not like he's never been hungry.

"How many days?"

This time, Jiang Yuan didn't refute his face, but just asked him to change his rations for a few days.

"Three days."

Hungry for three days should be fine.

"Three...... Okay, that's all. ”

Jiang Yuan originally wanted to ask him if he wanted to exchange three meals for three consecutive days.

After thinking about it, forget it, if you really starve people out of trouble, it is your own medicine that you lose.

It's just to teach him a lesson, let him see what the "simple" villagers will do when faced with the uneven distribution of benefits.

Of course, this is also her only chance to give this village.

Soon ten bags of 200 grams of goat's milk, ten packets of butter soufflé bread, five lettuce, a bottle of salad dressing, ten packets of vacuum-sealed roast chicken, ten packets of vacuum mutton, and ten barrels of 1 liter of mineral water all appeared under the shocked gaze of the man and woman.

"Allah bless! Allah had! ……”

The two understood that this was for them, so they hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Jiang Yuan and Su Ji.

"Get up, this is goat's milk for the child, he has been hungry for too long, don't feed too much the first time."

Jiang Yuan checked the woman's pulse again, "You just have eaten too much soil, and you have no milk, eat this pill, eat some bread and meat, and you will have milk the day after tomorrow, try to squeeze it out at the beginning, it is not good for the child, the color of the milk becomes milky white, and then feed the child." ”

After explaining to the woman, Jiang Yuan turned around and found that the man was carrying two buckets of water to go out.

The woman also noticed his behavior, her eyes instantly turned red, and her chapped lips kept trembling, but she didn't say a word.

The man paused at the door, suddenly rushed to Jiang Yuan in a few steps and knocked a few big heads, and then slapped himself a few times in front of his wife, and then grabbed the door with two buckets of water without saying a word.

"Do you know what he's going to do?"

Jiang Yuan looked at the woman who had lowered her head and started to breastfeed the child little by little.

“… Know"

The woman replied in a hoarse voice.

"Come, drink some water first, and take the medicine."

Su Ji stood aside, watching Jiang Yuan gently persuade the woman to take medicine, wanting to go to their little bit in the villa, and the corners of her mouth slightly hooked up a relieved smile.

But before the smile could be fully unfolded, it was pressed back by several women who were also dark and thin, of different heights and heights, who rushed in from outside the door.

As soon as a few women came in, they said something to the woman next to Jiang Yuan in the slang of the village, and the women kept looking at Jiang Yuan.

Su Ji had followed the "Sage Mida" through many city-states and villages, and she could understand this village slang a little.

Probably that they want food and water from where they want it.

Only then did Su Ji realize how much trouble his momentary "kindness" had caused Jiang Yuan.

In order to calm his heart, he asked Jiang Yuan to take out the food, because he felt that Jiang Yuan had a lot, but what if there was none?

Jiang Yuan's sentence of not being generous to others, he understood, so he didn't say anything further outside the village at that time, but in his heart he felt that Jiang Yuan was slamming the door, but now that he thinks about it, this is the population of a whole village, at least no less than three hundred people, how can Jiang Yuan prepare so much food at once.

Even if she can prepare it, how many times can she prepare it?

Even if she can prepare it every time, why should she prepare for this village? Is it because they are pitiful? There are so many poor people in the world.

Holding the weak and bullying the strong, but that's the case, I'm weak and I have a reasonable crooked reason, why did he also start to subconsciously pursue it.

Su Ji felt guilty for his bad behavior, and he silently walked up to Jiang Yuan, trying to protect her behind him.

"Thanks, step aside, you're blocking the light."

It was still the whitened jade hand, but it no longer gently pulled him aside.

"I'm sorry ......"

He messed things up again.

"Does it work?"

Jiang Yuan looked at him coldly for the first time, and even his indifferent gaze was mixed with undisguised contempt.

Hurt and misfortune have been cast, and if you don't want to find a way to solve it, what can you do if you apologize.