A big city like Tongzhou, because of the convenience of mountains, rivers and water conservancy, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and has always been a battleground for soldiers.

Now the north of Tongjiang has been reduced to a scorched earth, if the soldiers and horses want to go south, the next step is to seize Tongzhou.

Take Tongzhou as a base, cross the water, and then go south, it is a thousand miles of fertile land, a horse and a flat river.

Because now all the soldiers and horses have been eyeing Tongzhou City, the officials in the city are already like frightened birds, and they can't take care of the homeless people outside the city, so they are left to fend for themselves.

Those homeless people had no food, clothing, and no medicinal herbs, and many died every day.

When Qian Hui passed, the situation inside was very bad.

It was a forest, but the trees, the leaves that could be reached by their reach, had been plucked.

Not to mention the wild vegetables and weeds on the ground, he walked all the way and saw people gnawing on the bark of trees.

All of them were swollen, apparently caused by chronic hunger.

Even if Qian Huan is just an artificial intelligence, when he sees such an impactful picture, his face also shows some solemnity.

His appearance made the old man who had been gnawing on the bark of the tree stop his movements, and he didn't know if it was caused by hunger, his reaction was a little slow, he was stunned for a moment, and he didn't speak.

Qian Hui knew that he was too hungry to speak, so he didn't say anything else and went straight to the point.

"This old man, there are weavers here?"

The old man didn't look at him, but shook his head.

When Qian Xun saw the forest again, he could hardly find anyone who could stand up.

I knew that I couldn't ask anything like this, so I had to turn back.

got into the carriage and shook his head at Yuan Lingchen, "...... The situation there was very bad, because of the long-term hunger, the people were all so swollen that it was difficult for them to stand, and if they had nothing to eat, they would have to starve to death. ”

The shaking light Yuheng who brought them here was also quite surprised, they only knew that there were displaced people here, but they didn't know that it was so serious.

"Take me over and see it."

As soon as Yuan Lingchen said that he wanted to go down, he stopped in front of her, "Girl, you can't help it, those homeless people are hard to distinguish between good and evil, if you have a bad heart, you ...... together."

"They can't stand up, even if they have bad intentions, they don't have the strength, and they can't get close to me because they have money...... I just wanted to go and see, and if they were really pitiful, we would buy some rice and help them. ”

The bag of silver coins that Yuan Jinning got at the beginning was still in her system package, and she kept those silver coins just to think that if she met a desperate person, she would give them some help and accumulate some good karma for herself.

It's just that she doesn't plan to help everyone, if some people are not right-minded, she will help and leave a scourge.

As soon as Shaoguang heard her say this, he couldn't say anything against it, "The girl is kind-hearted, the maid should not stop it, but you have to go over, you need to stay away from them, so as to save the short-sighted ones who collide with you." ”

Yuan Lingchen nodded: "I'll be careful." ”

Shake the light and let go of some heart.

When they went back, the old man was still leaning on the stump, with his head tilted to one side, half-asleep.

Hearing their footsteps, he slowly opened his eyes, as if wondering why they had come again.

Yuan Lingchen took out a piece of candy from his sleeve and handed it over, the old man's eyes lit up, he reached out to take it, he didn't even have time to tear the wax paper, and he couldn't wait to stuff it into his mouth.

As soon as the sugar was in his mouth, his face showed a very satisfied look, and when all the sugar was gone, the old man's face was already more energetic, and he thanked him repeatedly.

Yuan Lingchen saw that he had some strength, so he asked, "Uncle, is there a weaver here?" ”

The old man shook his head, "There were still some, but then the dead died, and the only ones left behind were us, the old and weak." ”

Yuan Lingchen looked around, and sure enough, he saw that those who were left behind were all sick and weak.

And most of them are elderly.

Yuan Lingchen asked some more questions, and the old man answered them one by one.

They were a group of displaced people, who had left their homes because of the floods, thinking that they could get help in the state capital, but they did not want to, and the officials in the city turned a blind eye to them, not only did they not let them enter the city, but they did not even have any relief.

Their hometown was plagued not only by floods, but also by war, and they did not dare to go back, so they decided to settle here.

At first, they could still find some wild vegetables to feed their stomachs, and they could catch some fish and shrimp in the rivers and rivers, but they would not starve to death.

But there are many of them, and there are not many fish in the river, and even if there are, there are not enough for so many people, and when the wild vegetables and weeds are all dug up, there will be even fewer things to eat.

At this time, those young and strong people chose to leave one after another, and gradually only they were left as old and weak.

They did not dare to go too far from the city, for fear of encountering wild beasts, so they only looked for something to eat nearby.

Gradually, there are fewer and fewer things that can be eaten, and their physical strength is gradually unable to catch up......

Yuan Lingchen looked at the person who couldn't stand on his feet again, turned around and left, the old man moved the corners of his mouth, and finally didn't say anything, and closed his eyes again.

"Yuheng, you follow the coachman back to the city to buy some corn."

Yuan Lingchen took out two taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it to her.

Yuheng took the money and got into the car.

Shaoguang looked at the carriage in the distance, and said to Yuan Lingchen, "Girl, there should be no one you are looking for there, why do you want to help them like this?" You should know that sending rice and grain can only save a while, and when we leave, they will only starve to death. ”

"If you can save them for a while, you can't just watch them fall into a desperate situation, and maybe there will be a turnaround in the end."

Shaoguang didn't quite understand what Yuan Lingchen meant, so he just followed her back to the forest again.

At this time, Yuan Lingchen walked up to an old woman, squatted down and checked her pulse.

Seeing that she was only hungry and had no other symptoms, she took out a piece of candy wrapped in wax paper from her cuff, tore it open, and stuffed it into the old woman's mouth.

watched several times in a row, until Yuheng came back with the coachman.

"Girl, I bought back two and a half stones of corn."

Yuan Lingchen got into the carriage and looked at it, but in fact, he asked the system to replace all the corn in the basket with the corn in the mall.

When he came out, he said to Yuheng, "If you give them all the rice and grain, I'm afraid that there will be some contradictions for them, so I will give them three buckets of corn first, and then look at it in a few days." ”

When Yu Heng heard this, he took a burlap bag from the car, and really only took three buckets of corn.

When Yuan Lingchen was leaving, she clearly saw that the old man wanted to speak and stopped, and she didn't stop, she only told them to come and see them in a few days.

As soon as she returned to the courtyard, someone came to report that Lu Xu had something to look for her.

Yuan Lingchen didn't know why, so after thinking about it, he still followed the comer.

When he saw someone, he didn't say much, only handed her a piece of letterhead.

Yuan Lingchen also took it silently, looked at it carefully, and his eyes stayed at the place where he dropped off for a moment.

"King Jing's handwriting? He wants to seize Tongzhou? ”

According to the historical records, Tongzhou did not fall into the hands of King Jing at first, but fell into the hands of King Wu, and the fall of Tongzhou City should be a year later.

At that time, King Jing was still dormant.

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