After returning to Nanhe City, Lin Qingdai went directly to the rice shop, found the shopkeeper and bought 300 catties of miscellaneous grains at a low price, and also bought 100 catties of rice.

Prepare to start boiling gruel tomorrow, of course, the rice must be put relatively small, mainly corn and some millet mixed together to boil.

Originally, I was going to steam and cook Wowotou, but I thought that Aunt Fang would definitely not be busy alone.

However, Lord Qin was thoughtful, thinking that Lin Qingdai would be giving porridge at the city gate tomorrow, and he was worried that there would be not enough manpower, so he sent his wife over to help.

Lord Qin is not like other officials, no matter how bad it is, there are maids and servants, Lord Qin is a good official, Lin Qingdai can feel it from the contact, so Lord Qin's mansion is only him and his family.

It was Mrs. Qin who came to help today.

Mrs. Qin looks very gentle, and her gentle and gentle appearance makes Lin Qingdai like it very much.

The pot, firewood and stove were all made by Lord Qin, before dawn, Aunt Fang, Lin Qingdai and Mrs. Qin went to the city gate to prepare, Qingkong was naturally busy, and Chu Chaoyue and Chen Long were not idle, the two were afraid that someone would hurt Lin Qingdai, and looked around vigilantly.

Lin Qingdai stirred the gruel in the pot, and finally put down the millet, and the boiling was relatively thick.

"There's a radish I bought over there, Aunt Fang, you go and cut it into thin strips and mix it with salt, and put a little bit in the bowl when the porridge is served." She looked at the radish in the basket and beckoned Aunt Fang to do something.

The radish was bought at the inn, but it was not expensive, so she bought a basket, and she thought that these people had no strength, and part of the reason was that they did not eat salt, and they were naturally weak due to the lack of salt.

Put a little more salt when you salt the radish, and it is naturally better for everyone to add a little salt when the time comes.

Aunt Fang hurriedly took the cutting board and kitchen knife and began to cut the radish.

Mrs. Qin helped stir the gruel in the pot, because the pot was too big, and she was always worried about pasting the pot.

Put the first pot of gruel in the wooden barrel, and then start to boil the second pot, with the help of the officials, the water is all brought by the officials, and the few people are much more relaxed.

There are gradually more people at the city gate, and Lin Qingdai notified her yesterday, saying that she will give porridge today, so there are a lot of people coming today.

Aozora began to maintain order, and there was a basket of thick bowls in the basket next to him.

It was Mrs. Qin who scooped the porridge, and Aunt Fang put a little bit of the prepared shredded radish in the bowl.

The queue gradually increased, and the pot kept boiling.

Lin Qingdai was worried that she was too tired, so she found two women in the crowd who looked to be relatively cleanly dressed, of course, it was not for nothing, and the gruel could be eaten.

There were too many people in Nanhe City who couldn't afford to eat, and the news spread quickly, and in the morning, Lin Qingdai saw Shubo and a group of people coming.

Lin Qingdai hurriedly put down the spoon in her hand and stepped forward to greet Uncle Shu.

Uncle Shu was holding a bowl in his hand, and the people behind him were almost the same, everyone looked very excited, Lin Qingdai guessed, probably because she didn't cheat on them, which made them very happy.

"Uncle Shu, you lead everyone to line up first, and you are still boiling porridge later, which is enough to eat." She said with a smile.

Uncle Shu was very moved, when he mobilized everyone to come today, he was actually a little apprehensive, always worried that he had walked so far with everyone, and he didn't get anything to eat, and the next time Lin Qingdai and the others needed help with something, everyone didn't believe it.

Seeing many people drinking thick gruel with bowls outside the city, he began to get excited, and now he saw that Aunt Fang and Lin Qingdai were busy, and he felt more relieved.

"I brought everyone in the village, as well as the people who were still alive in the old friend's family before, I persuaded them to follow, and we will follow you in the future, what you want to do, just tell us to do it, we just need to eat enough and have the strength."

He said very sincerely, what everyone wants most now is to eat a full meal, as long as they have a full meal, they can do anything.

Lin Qingdai asked Uncle Shu and them to start queuing, and when they were sending porridge to Uncle Shu, they asked Uncle Shu to take everyone back to get the bedding, Lord Qin had already set up a big camp outside the city, as long as the people who were willing to come to dig the ditch, they all lived in the camp for the time being, as long as they were willing to come, they could eat enough every day.

The temptation to eat well was enormous, which made many begging people outside the city come to their senses and go to the camp outside the city one by one.

Lin Qingdai just planned to send porridge to the scene on the first day, and started to get busy with other things the next day.

The camp outside the city has almost been built, and Lord Qin thinks simply, the weather is gradually getting warmer, so he directly cut down the trees in the middle in a forest, put grass around him, and then build a temporary grass shed roof, a big shed can live hundreds of people, of course, everyone has to prepare their own beds if they want to sleep.

Uncle Shu knew Lin Qingdai, and after talking to Lord Qin, Lord Qin asked the people brought by Uncle Shu to go in first to occupy the position, which could be regarded as selling Lin Qingdai's face and taking care of the people introduced by Lin Qingdai.

When Lin Qingdai came to the camp, she was satisfied when she saw people coming in and out.

Seeing Lord Qin say his thoughts: "The emperor estimates that it will take a while to get the news, and we can only rely on ourselves to support this time, Lord Qin, we still solve the problem of eating the people in the camp first, I see that everyone has bedding, so I don't have to worry about it." ”

Although the bedding brought by everyone is a little worn, it can keep warm.

Lord Qin took Lin Qingdai's words to heart, and of course he wouldn't be careless: "The uncle who came before, I asked him to find four women who can cook, and I am going to let these women help cook, and tomorrow I will call the inner people over to guard them, so that those people don't cheat and play tricks, do you think this is okay?" ”

Lin Qingdai felt that Lord Qin was really too caring, but for the time being, the porridge shed at the gate of the city had to be kept.

"Have you done all the maps I asked you to draw, and all the things I wanted? There are also small rivers and ditches that I mentioned earlier, all of which can be used, and I think that there must have been small streams in the original fields. ”

Lord Qin nodded and said: "There are streams, but not all places have streams, the fastest way is to lead the water of the Qinghe River to the nearest stream, this stream is about ten miles long, passing through several villages, but the stream finally joins a small river, how long the river is, and how many places it passes through I don't know." ”

Lin Qingdai said: "Lord Qin, prepare the horse, let's go and see it in person, the affairs of the camp will be handed over to Mrs. Qin and other responsible persons, let's go and see first, the place you said is not very far, can you go back and forth in one day?" ”

She felt that since Lord Qin didn't know, then they would go to the field to see the situation and make sure first.

Lord Qin hurriedly said, "It should be okay in one day, but Doctor Lin, do you really want to go?" It's going to be a hard ride. ”

Horseback riding is not an easy job, but Lin Qingdai feels that horseback riding is the most convenient and fastest.

Thanks to Qin Jingtian, she already knew how to ride a horse, and when she was in Anyang City, she would sometimes go to those villages, and naturally learned to ride a horse.

smiled and looked at Lord Qin: "It's okay, let's go quickly, solve the matter as soon as possible, it's so reassuring, and I also wrote a letter to ask Duanwang to see if there are any crops suitable for planting now, whether it is from the Western Regions or our local ones, with a water source, we will solve everyone's food and clothing problem." ”

Lord Qin arranged the affairs of the camp, Lin Qingdai did not take Qingkong, but asked Qingkong to help in the camp, and she took Chu Chaoyue and Chen Long to the place that Lord Qin said.

Lord Qin only took the master with him, so the group of five people left quickly.

The land of Nanhe City is vast and sparsely populated, and the most important thing is that the land here is really fertile, because the sky is too dry, the sand in the ground is blown up by the wind, the yellow sand is flying, and after the horse gallops, a piece of dust is raised, which adds a touch of sorrow to Lin Qingdai's heart.

It wasn't until the afternoon that I arrived at the Qinghe River, starting from the creek that Lord Qin said, following the creek and then walking in the direction of the river.

The Qing River is about a mile away from the creek, and if you want to connect it, you have to dig the creek to the edge of the Qing River.

The river didn't go far before it was completely dark, and they found a farmhouse yard with no one in the village by the river, and a group of five people spent the night, and told the people of the village about digging a ditch.

Digging a canal must be a nearby shouting person, such as near Nanhe City, those people are staying to dig a canal in Nanhe City, Nanhe City has no flowing water source, so that many people in the city have to run a long way to pull it back.

And from Nanhe City to Qinghe, there are actually seventy or eighty miles of land, but when she came out, she also noticed that there are actually dry streams outside Nanhe City, and if these streams are connected to other streams, then they can be used.

It was delayed for a longer time than expected, and I thought I could go back the next day, but for three days in a row, Lin Qingdai and Lord Qin were surveying the terrain, and the master followed behind to draw a map, and it took a total of four days for a group of five people to run Nanhe City roughly, which was probably only limited to following the stream for a circle.

Naturally, it was impossible to connect all the villages, so Lin Qingdai and Lord Qin decided to use streams to bring in water sources first, and then let the people of each village dig their own canals.

After this plan, several people returned to Nanhe City.

In the past few days, everything has been fine in Nanhe City, the inside of the camp is in order, and everything is fine at the city gate.

However, Lin Qingdai decided to give porridge tomorrow for another day and not to give porridge.

Arranging for people to dig the canal is Lord Qin's business, and Lin Qingdai has other things to do.

The grain has already been delivered, so let Lord Qin send someone to send the grain to those villages where the canals are dug, and each village can divide half a catty of miscellaneous grain per person a day according to the number of people, which is also a large amount of expenses.

But miscellaneous grains are not expensive, so even if they are divided like this, they can be managed for a long time, not to mention, even if everyone is added up in Nanhe City, there are not many people.

Lin Qingdai began to do her old job, and she never forgot that she was a doctor.

The canal was dug from Nanhe City, in fact, there was a river in Nanhe City, but it was stagnant water, and it dried up inside after the sky dried, Lord Qin ordered people to dig the newly dug canal outside, connect with the previous river, and slowly dig it in the direction of Qinghe.

These people in the camp have eaten a full meal for a few days in a row, and they already have the strength, and they work extremely hard when they work, because Lord Qin and Lin Qingdai both said that as long as they work hard and dig fifty miles of canals in five days, they will directly kill a pig for them.

Some of these people haven't eaten meat for a year or two, and they are all excited to hear about eating Western pork.

Lin Qingdai is a doctor, so naturally she will not make low-level mistakes, knowing that these people suddenly eat meat and their bodies can't bear it.

Therefore, let Aunt Fang add a little minced meat to the gruel every day, which makes everyone more excited.

There are many people with great strength, and they use Lin Qingdai's suggestion, and no two people are responsible for a distance, so they dug more than 60 miles in five days, and they are about to reach Qinghe, and everyone is very excited.

This canal is directly connected to Nanhe City, and there are many villages in between, although the dug canal does not pass by some villages, but everyone is still very excited.

That night, Lin Qingdai asked people to kill a pig, so that everyone could eat a little less meat and come in step by step.

As a result, everyone is more motivated.

When the canal was dug to the place where the creek was connected, Lin Qingdai asked people to dig the last mile, and the water of the Qinghe River was poured into the stream, and it was diverted from the creek to the canal.

Lord Qin hasn't eaten well or slept well in the past few days, seeing everyone cheering, he stood beside Lin Qingdai and said: "The emperor knows that we are repairing the canal, and allocated 20,000 taels of silver to come over, and said that this method is good, and it solves all the problems at one time, and also praised you and me, Doctor Lin, we still have to work hard, and there are more than a dozen villages close to the creek, which have been dug almost enough, but I think they are digging very perfunctory." ”

Lin Qingdai thought of this problem at that time, many people actually wanted to be perfunctory and cheat to eat.

But this kind of problem is really unavoidable for the time being.

However, she had already thought of a countermeasure and said: "Lord Qin, don't worry, in this way, you let people go and tell these villagers that if the acceptance is passed by then, everyone will be rewarded with thirty yuan, and if the acceptance is not passed, they will not help the village dig the canal, and the future expenses will not be borne." ”

In the past few days, tens of thousands of catties of food have been distributed, and to be honest, she is still a little worried about the lack of food.

Therefore, if someone really doesn't know what to do, and they are still cheating and playing tricks at this time, there is really no need to help.

Lord Qin hesitated for a moment and said, "Does this have any effect?" ”

"It's best to let everyone dig more ditches, even if the smaller ditches are very useful at critical times, but after everyone has dug them to sleep, the creeks and canals connecting the Qinghe River have to be dug a little wider."

It seems to be enough now, but after a long time, I don't know.

When I went back that day, I felt the cheers of the people of Nanhe City.

The water is open, and even the small river in the city has a water source, although it is not very much, but everyone sees hope.