Layers of soldiers with knives on the handles, no one dared to cross there, and there was a dark red mark on the ground, exuding a strong smell of blood.

These people under the low wall were all ordinary people in the villages near this Huaibei City, and as soon as the locust plague occurred, the family had no food, so they entered this Huaibei City.

The climate here is hot, and you can harvest rice twice a year.

But the twenty-three miles of Huaibei City are low-lying areas, either floods, or droughts, this successive years of disasters, heavy taxes, has made the stormy Huaibei City even worse.

This year, the rice in the field had just ripened, but suddenly there was a locust plague overnight, and there was no harvest.

Not only Huaibei City, but also dozens of other villages within a radius of ten miles from Huaibei City have suffered from locust plagues.

After more than two months of carrying more than 100,000 people in this city, the grain was gone, and now the imperial court had to transfer several batches of grain from nearby cities.

It's a pity that it's far from enough, and the other cities can't save the fire from far water.

Qin Mufeng's eyes skimmed, and he quickly turned back, an inexplicable light flashed in his eyes, he couldn't save these people, the food for disaster relief was almost gone, and the medicinal materials were even more scarce, the people under this low wall were all old, weak, sick and disabled, they needed sufficient food, and there were many precious medicinal materials.

Even if you have these two things, you may not be able to save them.

But these two things are most lacking in Huaibei City now.

He took two steps forward, the moaning behind him getting louder.

Qin Mufeng stopped again, he walked a few steps towards the woman holding the child, and the prefect Lord Lin next to him urgently called: "My lord, there is no extra food in the city, and it is helpless to abandon these people." ”

Lord Lin was still persuading bitterly, Qin Mufeng had already waved away the guards on guard, and walked over in a few steps, his eyes looked coldly at the child in the woman's hand, probably a baby less than a year old in swaddling clothes, at this time on his thin little face, his eyes were tightly closed, his face was pale, he had already lost his breath, and he was afraid that he would have died for a long time.

"Give it to me~" Qin Mufeng said coldly, he stretched out his hand, but the woman shrank back with a panicked face, and choked with a whimper.

Qin Mufeng's face was cold, and his outstretched arm was stretched out in the air like that, without moving.

Everyone had different faces, and for a while they couldn't figure out what this Qin Wang Ye was doing, just a madman, Qin Mufeng and the woman were still in a stalemate.

There was a foul smell in the air, Qin Mufeng's brows furrowed slightly, but her body didn't move, the woman seemed to see that this person would not hurt them, she made a gurgling sound in her throat, and her mouth was chanting words from time to time, but her arm slowly moved, slowly moving the child in Qin Mufeng's direction.

As the minutes passed, beads of sweat kept pouring out of everyone's foreheads, and their eyes were all glued to the two of them.

Just when Qin Mufeng's fingers were about to catch the child, I don't know whose knife it was and fell to the ground with a click, and the loud sound instantly woke up the woman holding the child.

"Hmm~" Her eyes suddenly became sharp, she grabbed the child back, and rushed towards Qin Mufeng, Qin Mufeng saw that the situation was not second, and hurriedly dodged away, but she was a step too late and was directly knocked to the ground.

"Lord Wang?" The crowd exclaimed, but the woman cried wolf with the child in her arms, and the expression on her face was sometimes mad, sometimes sad.

When the guards heard the movement, they immediately surrounded him, and Lord Lin, the prefect, hurriedly stepped forward to help Qin Mufeng up, and he whispered, "Lord Wang, are you okay?" ”

Qin Mufeng replied coldly: "It's nothing~" He patted the dust on his body, his eyes stared at the woman tightly, the woman saw more and more people, and her face instantly showed a fierce look, grinning teeth, and gurgling in her throat, like a fierce beast, forced into a desperate situation.

"Ah~" The woman rushed towards the soldier's sword.

"Don't kill~" Qin Mufeng said sharply.

But it was too late, and everyone's swords had already pierced into the broken body, and the woman spurted a mouthful of blood, and everyone dodged one after another, with a hint of disgust in their eyes.

The hand holding the child held it tightly, and with the woman fell to the ground, dusty.

Qin Mufeng's face was as cold as ice, and without saying a word, he strode directly towards their camp.

A ghostly light shot out of the corner of the prefect's eyes, but there was a flattering smile on the corner of his mouth, "Lord Wang, you wait for me~"

He gave the guard a look, and the man immediately stepped forward to clean up the woman's body.

The buzzing sound like a mosquito instantly lowered, Qin Mufeng originally asked the woman to dispose of the dead baby for him, so that the woman could be taken to the porridge shed not far away to drink porridge, but he didn't expect it to become like this.

The woman was probably irritated by the death of her child, and she was probably insane, but she didn't know when she went there.

He just wanted to save the woman's life, but he didn't expect that in the end, the man died.

Qin Mufeng raised his eyes and looked into the distance, a few wisps of fireworks rose, and there was a long queue in the porridge shed not far away, and countless ordinary people were waiting to drink porridge with broken bowls in their hands.

And the people under this row of low walls are sick and sick, except for the old and sick who are too sick to crawl, and the rest are people who have a bad brain like the woman.

He looked around, poor and broken, with broken wrists and ruins, and the whole city smelled of corruption.

One side is like a world of hope, and the other side is like being in eighteen layers of hell.

From time to time, there were heart-wrenching howls on the streets, and the desolate cries for help made people's hearts twitch tightly, but they were a little sour.

Because the weather has been so hot lately, people will die on this street at every turn, and as soon as someone falls down and is silent, the patrolling soldiers will immediately pull them away.

In the ravine outside the city, corpses were piled up, and in order to prevent the occurrence of epidemics, those corpses never stayed overnight, and they were burned directly on the same day.

Qin Mufeng's face was solemn, such a tragic scene was even more terrifying than that hell on earth.

"Lord Wang~" The prefect Lord Lin chased after him and shouted in a low voice.

He saw that Qin Mufeng's expression seemed to be a little unkind, so he put on a heartache and said, "Lord Wang, the lower officials are as heartbroken as you are about what happened to these people, but now we don't have much food, it's really..."

Qin Mufeng waved his hand to interrupt Lord Lin's words, such words had been heard countless times since he came here, and he didn't want to hear them anymore.

He knew better in his heart that this was cruelty, and that it was better to leave food for those who could survive than for the dying, and this was the trade-off.

Passing by the porridge shed, Qin Mufeng's footsteps couldn't help but stop, he walked over, took the spoon that scooped the porridge and stirred it, and found that the rice in the porridge was pitiful, this was 100,000 denier rice.

After less than a month in this Huaibei City, there is not much of this meter.

Qin Mufeng lowered his head and pondered, and handed the spoon to the guard who served the porridge again.

He looked at the panic on the faces of these people or the voices begging for mercy, and his heart was like a big stone blocked, heavy.

"Is there any paperwork coming down today?" Qin Mufeng opened his mouth and asked Lord Lin, the prefect next to him.

"No... No. Prefect Lin shook his head.

A few days ago, Qin Mufeng had already sensed that the grain and grass might not be enough, so he directly sent someone to send a letter to Tianfu City.

Qin Mufeng walked to the door of the mansion in a few steps, he stared coldly at Lord Lin of the prefect for a few moments, and Lord Lin of the prefect was even more frightened The cold sweat on his forehead broke out, and he secretly muttered in his heart, this Lord Qin's gaze was really scary, and it felt like a needle prick when he stared at it like this.

Qin Mufeng's eyes swept on the face of the prefect Lin in front of him, this person is the leader of the Great Yuan for fourteen years, that is to say, he has been an official for five or six years now, his face has been weathered for a long time, and his eyes have a bit of cunning that has been experienced in officialdom.

This prefect Lord Lin's eyelids are often drooping, and he looks like he listens carefully, making it difficult to see the look in this person's eyes.

Qin Mufeng waved his hand, signaling that Lord Lin of the prefect did not need to send it anymore, so he turned around and entered the mansion in a few steps, and the Lord of the prefect Lin, who stayed in place, watched Qin Mufeng lift the curtain and enter, only then did he say goodbye to the official, and then turned around and left with people.

The few rooms behind this mansion are temporarily arranged for Qin Mufeng's daily rest, and since Qin Mufeng came to this Huaibei City, he has been living in this mansion.

Originally, this prefect Lord Lin arranged their house for Qin Mufeng, but Qin Mufeng thought that the house was too far away, and after all, it was the private residence of the prefect Lord Lin, and there were female dependents, so Qin Mufeng refused without thinking about it.

As soon as Qin Mufeng entered the courtyard, he met Xiao Liuzi head-on, and Xiao Liuzi said with a look of surprise: "Lord Wang, are you back?" ”

Because in the past few days, Qin Mufeng has gone out early and returned late, basically every day until it gets dark, the prince of their family will not come back, and even sometimes he often comes back hungry, which makes the little sixth son very distressed, and their prince has lost weight.

Qin Mufeng nodded, raised his feet and went up the steps, Xiao Liuzi hurriedly followed, and he sent the little servant to hurry up to bring Qin Mufeng's medicine.

Yes, Qin Mufeng was injured, and on the way to their disaster relief, they were assassinated by two men in black along the way, and they lost four masters, and the rest were only slightly injured, and the prince's right arm was also slashed.

Originally, Xiao Liuzi was about to get better, but when he went out yesterday, I don't know how to get it, the wound on this arm cracked again, and Xiao Liuzi was so angry that he muttered to Qin Mufeng's wound for a long time, saying why doesn't the prince take care of his body? If the old lady knows, she doesn't know what to worry about?

In the end, in Qin Mufeng's cold light, Xiao Liuzi closed his mouth with a knowing look.

Xiao Liuzi stepped forward and took a closer look, and saw that Qin Mufeng's right arm didn't seem to be anything unusual, but just in case, he still stubbornly spoke: "Lord Wang, please stretch out your right arm, and I'll take a look at your wound." ”

Qin Mufeng was sitting down, holding a cup of tea in his hand, and after listening to Xiao Liuzi's words, he was not annoyed, so he put down the cup and stretched out his right arm to Xiao Liuzi for inspection. ”

Xiao Liuzi looked at the traces of blood that had been reflected on the wrapped white cloth, and suddenly couldn't hide his shock, and said, "Lord? ”

Qin Mufeng glanced down at it without care, and the wound opened again, he frowned and thought about it, and remembered that it should have been the woman who had touched her wound when she bumped into her just now, so his wound opened again.