After several days of hurrying, I unknowingly arrived at the Zhongjun Mansion.

Zhongjun Mansion was about halfway between Minzhou Mansion and the capital, thinking that he had already walked half the way, and seeing that he was about to arrive in the capital, Ji Yue's face finally showed a smile.

But she didn't wait long for her to be relaxed and happy, and the next scene made her heart sink completely and fall into desolation.

Hearing the ticking sound of rain falling on the roof of the carriage shed, it was like a brisk drum beating on her heart.

Chi Yue chatted with Gu Han for a while, and when she opened the curtains and wanted to take a breath to see the scenery, she was stunned by the scene in front of her.

In front of me was a swamp with a rushing river flowing in front of the village in the distance, and the roofs of the tiled houses in the village were uncovered, and the ruins seemed to be abandoned.

Where have they been? Could it be that there is no one in the county government here?

Glancing at the two things lying on the ground, Chi Yue's eyes were almost round, and she hurriedly pointed at them and said, "Someone fainted on the road!" ”

She went to see Gu Han, trying to get his attention, so that he could stop the carriage and go down to investigate. But the strange thing is that Gu Han's face is expressionless, as if he already knows everything about the outside world.

"I've seen a lot of corpses already." Gu Han said unexpectedly.

Chi Yue asked in astonishment, "Then why didn't you say it earlier?" What's going on? Could it be ...... Is there a war going on here? ”

Gu Han's eyes were dark, and he said in a deep voice: "It's not a war, it's a natural disaster." Don't you see the flood outside? When I came from the capital, it was still a dry land, but now it was a vast sea full of mud. It is the time of the early spring when the snow melts, and a flash flood broke out here a few days ago, and several villages below the mountain are probably submerged. ”

Chi Yue suddenly realized, and couldn't help but lament for these people who suffered from the flood, resulting in the loss of their homes and even their lives.

However, she caught the strangeness in Gu Han's words, and asked, "Why a few days ago, how can you be so sure?" ”

"If the flood had hit this place a day or two ago, it would not have gone so quickly, leaving only patches of swamps." Gu Han patiently explained, "Look at the corpse on the road, it is swollen and swollen, so rotten that it can't be seen clearly, and it looks like it has been dead for many days. I think they were swept here by the flood, and they didn't come out until the flood waters receded. ”

Chi Yue looked at him worriedly, couldn't imagine that Gu Han still had the basic knowledge of forensics? She remembered that she had seen the explanation of the "Corrupt Giant View" in modern times, and she thought it was such a terrifying look.

She nodded, very convinced of Gu Han's inference, but frowned again: "But according to you, it is clearly very close to the Zhongjun Mansion, less than twenty miles away. If these people have been dead for many days, and many corpses are scattered all over the field, won't the people in the county government come to collect the corpses? Or did even tens of thousands of people in the central county government fall in the flood? ”

Speaking of this, Chi Yue herself felt creepy.

If it is really as she said, it will be a devastating natural disaster like the extinction of the dinosaurs!

"Not necessarily." Gu Han frowned slightly, "Let's go to the Zhongjun Mansion first." ”

On the way, Chi Yue opened the curtains from time to time, and could always see a few miserable corpses, as well as ragged pedestrians, probably with no place to stay, and no food, waiting for people to starve to death. It can be said that the corpses are all over the field, starving all over the ground, and it is shocking to see and full of desolation.

Silhouette drives a carriage and struggles through the mud until it is stopped by a large river.

There are quite a few boatmen waiting on the river, probably taking advantage of the natural disaster to make a few bucks. Seeing that they had crossed the river and had reached the Zhongjun Mansion a few miles later, they simply mortgaged the carriage to the boatman and carried his boat over.

On the boat, a young boatman who was only ten years old sighed: "This natural disaster is rare in a century, it is said that there are as many as eight or nine of the more than ten counties in the central county government!" Although the home was washed away and the land was flooded, at least my father and mother and younger brother could still escape death, which always gave people hope! But other counties are not so lucky, you are from the south, can you pass by Gudian County? Not only are there more than ten villages without shelter, but even the county town has been washed away by the flash flood, and very few people have survived! ”

Sighing, the boatman continued to sigh to himself: "Hey, but what about living, isn't it the same waiting to starve to death? Like me, at this age, I shouldn't have come to do this heavy work, but my father was injured during the escape, and my mother needed to take care of him and his little brother, and the family was waiting for dinner. Hey, if Nafutai were a good one, it would be good if we were willing to give food to our people, and it would not make us call the heavens and the earth unspiritual, and we would have such a hard time to live! ”

It can be heard that this young man has a lot of complaints about the Zhongjun Mansion.

"Do you know that there is grain in the Zhongjun Mansion?" Chi Yue asked curiously.

The young man nodded vigorously, "How do we not know?" This county government is the jurisdiction of the fourth emperor Ye Wang, and it is the capital where he is stationed on weekdays, and the dredging pipes in the four places are perfect, but the flood is coming, and it has not invaded there at all, but it flows to other towns and villages. Since King Ye came here three years ago, taxes have risen year by year, and this year, farmers have to pay half more grain than three years ago! The granary depot in the middle of the county government was rebuilt and expanded twice, and how much grain was stored in it can be imagined. But for seven or eight days in a row, the disaster has become so serious that everyone has no food to eat, and they are so stingy that they refuse to give a grain of food! And he shut up the men who begged for food, and lifted the bridge of the moat, so that everyone who went out of the city had to go by boat......

The more the young man talked, the more angry he became, and even though he was close to the river, he still had no intention of asking the people on the boat to go down to the river, and muttered endless complaints.

Chi Yue listened to him empathetically for a long time, and roughly understood the beginning and end of the matter, as well as many infuriating details, comforted him a few words, and continued on the road with Gu Han and the others.

On the way, Chi Yue glanced at Gu Han and asked cautiously, "How many brothers do you have?" Don't you think that in addition to the two elder brothers of the emperor and King Jing, you also have a younger brother named King Ye? ”

"Your mother is really capable of giving birth." This sentence was swallowed into her stomach by force.

"My father had three thousand beauties, and he bore him six concubines." Gu Han said sternly without emotion, "Although I have two elder brothers, only the emperor and I are the same mother, as for King Jing, he was born to Concubine Rou, and the mother of King Ye was a concubine in the past." There are still three younger brothers below, but they are still young, and they don't have fiefdoms, just barely surviving on their fame in a corner of the frontier. ”

Chi Yue realized this and nodded, "I see." I said, if King Jing and the emperor were born of the same mother, how could they end up in such a situation where they were too anxious and incompatible? ”

Gu Han sighed slightly, and didn't respond, obviously not wanting to talk about it.

"So, how is King Ye as a person? I guess it's very selfish, right? Otherwise, they would not have denied food to the victims and turned people away. Chi Yue asked.

"I'm not familiar with this brother." Gu Han said, "When my father died, he was only thirteen years old, and he was only by her mother's side, and the two of us rarely saw each other. After the death of my father, he came here with the concubine, and the two of us were thousands of miles apart, and it was rare to see each other, only at the emperor's wedding ceremony, and on my mother's birthday, I only met one or two faces. ”

Chi Yue counted, and now the king of Ye is only sixteen years old.

So selfish at a young age, regardless of the lives of the people? Wouldn't the people of Yecheng become more and more dire in the future, and they won't see the light of day for a long time?

A vicious and hateful mind suddenly arose, and she had the urge to meet King Ye and admonish him fiercely.

When I came to the city, I saw countless people on the roadside, all of whom were as depressed as lost dogs, and even some of them were dying and about to die, and they were abandoned to the wilderness after closing their last breath.

Seeing a few of them well-dressed passers-by, everyone rushed up, stretched out their hands and wailed everywhere, "Please show mercy to the sons and give us a little food!" ”

"We haven't eaten for five or six days, and we're dying of hunger! Please, save us! ”

"Please......"

Chi Yue's sorrow came from it. She dug out her pocket, took out her purse, and distributed a dozen taels of silver to everyone little by little.

Although the most important thing the people needed now was food, knowing that the money could also buy the boatmen on the moat and bring them into the city to buy food, he gladly accepted it.

"Childe is really a living bodhisattva!"

"A good man has a good reward, so benevolent and kind, he will definitely have a beautiful lady as a companion in the future, and love each other for a lifetime!"

The pool moon is full of black lines. Is she actually a daughter?

The corners of Gu Han's mouth on the side also twitched vigorously.

"I don't need this blessing......"

Chi Yue was about to continue, but she heard a woman not far away holding a fifteen or six-year-old boy crying bitterly, "My son, you should wake up!" Now that we've got the money, let's go buy food! Don't starve to death right now! Mother is still counting on you for the rest of my life......"

The boy probably hadn't eaten for many days, and he was so hungry that he broke off in one breath.

The silhouette walked over, pressed the boy's pulse, tried his snort again, and said to Gu Han: "There is still a breath, if there is food now, I can save it." ”

But they had run out of dry food in the wagon, and where did they have anything to eat now?

In a panic, Chi Yue thought of the system space that was always by his side.

She didn't care if it would make people suspicious, so she whispered to Gu Han at the moment: "I'll come when I go." ”

As he spoke, he disappeared into the grass beside him.

Gu Han was about to catch up, fearing that she would have some accident in this chaotic place, but thinking that Chi Yue probably couldn't hold back and go to the toilet, he immediately stopped.

At this time, he regretted that he didn't bring a famous maid over, otherwise it would be more convenient to ask her to guard Chi Yue at any time.

Chi Yue arrived at a hidden place, and when she saw that there was no one around, she closed her eyes and entered the space.

The workers she hired were busy watering, pulling weeds, or harvesting on 100 acres of fertile land.

Chi Yue unfolded the package he was carrying, put in a lot of fresh tomatoes that he had just harvested, and put two cucumbers in it, and wrapped the package again. In the blink of an eye, there was space again.

When she returned to Gu Han's side, Chi Yue didn't notice the complicated expression on Gu Han's face.

Gu Hanshi was worried about her, seeing that she was slow to come out of the grass, and was about to catch up regardless of it, when he saw Chi Yue come out, he breathed a sigh of relief, and tried his best to show a light appearance, as if he had not had any entanglement.

It's just that his subtle expression was all seen in the eyes of the silhouette, and he said that he couldn't say it, so he had to hold back his laughter in his stomach.

"I remember I had some food in my package." Chi Yue said, unwrapping herself, revealing the small tomatoes and cucumbers inside.

Everyone's eyes immediately lit up, as if they had seen the delicacies on the Queen Mother's banquet, and they immediately drooled.