In contrast, Wen Chong, who was still a young man, seemed a little impetuous at the moment, assuming that what the little sister said was true, but he still maintained a certain skepticism that the ghost would help ordinary people, especially after learning that the ghost king had made a seemingly dangerous request.

"If we want the Wen family to become a vassal of that ghost town to do things for him, I'm afraid there are a lot of hidden dangers in this! It's hard to say if there will be anything harmful......"

He was similar to the fears of the maid who had smelled the ice smoke in the first place, fearing that the goblins would take advantage of them.

In this regard, Wen Bingyan still maintained a different opinion, and retold the original explanation to the maid. Although Wen Chong's face softened, he was still a little worried.

However, in the end, the decision still fell into the hands of Wen Gonghu, the head of the family.

After waiting for a long time, he looked at the statue of the immortal and finally said slowly: "This matter, let's do what Bingyan promised at the beginning!" ”

"But......" Wen Chong was about to speak, but was interrupted by his wave.

"Chong'er, you don't have to say more. These life-saving grains have been delivered to Peishan, do you want to send them back? This is absolutely unfeasible. What's more, as Bingyan said, this matter is not necessarily a bad thing, and it may even be closely related to the future of our Wen family. ”

Wen Gonghu patted the table, stared at him, and said in a deep voice: "This matter is so decided!" ”

"Bingyan, the matter of food is left to you to arrange! This time, we will distribute it for free according to the advice of the king, and focus on promoting the Dharma name of this Jade Fairy! ”

Originally, they only planned to buy grain and sell it at a flat price, but now it seems that they might as well use the money to invest in a future, and maybe they will gain more.

……

At the same time, Qing Dai and Bai Yu, who entered this town with the caravan, came out under the pretext of entering the Wen family, wanting to carefully investigate the famine situation here.

In fact, although they had seen a very terrible scene outside the city gate, the scenes inside the city still shocked them a little.

Most of the shops here have been closed, especially the grain shops, and even the flags hanging at the door have become tattered, as if they have been torn by many people, and the inside has long been empty, with not half a grain of rice in sight.

In the shadow of the corner of the road, there were poor people sitting on the ground, with yellow faces and thin muscles, who looked like they hadn't eaten a full meal for a long time, and there were also some children.

A child who is supposed to be innocent and lively and old is now skinny, blind, and hobbling to follow his parents, trying to find anything to eat.

However, even rotten vegetable leaves, which no one wants at all, are extremely precious treasures at the moment, and most of them can only wander from morning to night, and most of them end up on an empty stomach.

A subordinate who followed the two girls couldn't help but feel emotion when he saw this scene, and sighed: "Alas, it's good to have officers and soldiers guarding this city, if it was placed in those rural places, it would have been in turmoil a long time ago, and there were not a few people who robbed and killed people for some food. ”

"There are also some hungry people who will dig up grass roots and tree bark to eat, but often they will eat their stomachs badly, and finally they will die, and the end is not good......"

"But if we only rely on the porridge mixed with sand and water that the government distributes in the morning, I am afraid that it will barely survive...... And the amount of relief grain in the morning was very small, and it was even worse when it was distributed......"

In contrast, although people like them in rich and noble families have to obey the call of their masters and have no freedom, at least at this time they can eat a bite of food and not be so miserable, which is also a good thing to be thankful about.

However, at this time, they saw an extremely strange scene.

I saw that in such a desolate place, there was a rice shop that was actually opened, and the business was unusually hot, and there was a long queue at the door, and everyone seemed to be eagerly looking forward to buying food.

"Doesn't it mean that the seedlings here can't survive? Why does this rice shop still have surplus grain? Qing Dai couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

And it seemed that the owner of the shop did not seem to be worried about the lack of surplus in the rice shop, and the door was wide open, as if he could buy enough food as long as he had money.

This strange scene is in stark and strange contrast to the desolate scene of the scrawny people who I and others saw just now, picking up rotten vegetable leaves on the ground and eating them.

The subordinate on the side glanced at the rice shop, his face couldn't help but change slightly, and he quickly lowered his voice and said: "Two girls, be careful, that place is not a good place, it is the rice shop of another local family, the Wang family." ”

"The Wang family?"

"The Wang family has something to do with the officials sent by the imperial court for disaster relief, and most of the food that should be used for disaster relief is sold in their own pockets, and the price is extremely high, and ordinary people can't afford it." The subordinate was obviously secretive, and didn't dare to say more, "If it weren't for that, our Wen family wouldn't have ventured out to buy food elsewhere......"

After hearing this, Qingdai and the others immediately understood, but they were even more angry in their hearts.

It was a natural disaster, and there were still people who disregarded the lives of these poor people, but instead used these life-saving foods to make money!

Such villain behavior is really despicable!

At the same time, there are other strange characters encountered on the streets.

Most of them are guys dressed in uniform strange costumes, walking slowly down the street in two columns, shouting words like "immortals save the world", which makes people a little confused.

After questioning, the two learned the reason.

As the drought in this place continues, the locals are desperate and have some intention to seek medical treatment in a hurry, no matter which god wants to ask for it. Along with this, there were many guys who came in from outside who claimed to have great mana and could communicate with the immortals, and used all kinds of magical-looking spells to deceive some people into supporting them.

However, in addition to collecting money to do some seemingly powerful rituals, the drought has not abated at all, but has intensified, which can probably prove that most of these people are just a group of charlatans who cheat money.

But the already desperate people have nowhere to go, and they can only hope for these guys.

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