Qin Yining's lips trembled, looking at the familiar city gate and the once familiar street, the sourness and sadness in his heart flowed all over his body like magma.

It's a troubled place. The people living here, in addition to being harassed by wars, are also being ruthlessly tortured by various natural disasters.

Is Heaven really going to kill everyone?

Although she did not live in the capital for too long, after recognizing her ancestors and returning to her ancestors, she always regarded this place as her hometown, and although the time spent in this city was short, it was more rich and wonderful than her previous fourteen years, which made her remember deeply.

Therefore, among the group, Qin Yining did not want to see the old capital like this.

Xiao Xiao hugged Qin Yining's shoulder and patted it, then turned around and ordered: "Let's enter the city, go to the yamen first." ”

"Yes."

The originally wide and flat street has an extra deep pit in the sky, and most of the houses on both sides are in ruins.

There was a dead smell in the streets, and the air was mixed with the smell of white lime, the smell of burnt corpses that lingered after being burned, and the stench of corpses that had not had time to dispose of them.

It's July, and the old capital is in the south, and it doesn't take long for those buried in the ruins to emit an unimaginable stench.

However, in such a harsh environment, the streets are full of ragged people who build rough sheds to live in. Naturally, there are also those houses that are unharmed, but the walls are cracked, and the whole is still the same, but they are all big families after all.

Usually, the kind of intact courtyard is built with great care in engineering and material selection. Most of the ordinary people live in mud houses, where can they resist the toss of the ground dragon turning over continuously?

Qin Yining's brows tightened as he watched it all the way. The streets, familiar and unfamiliar, are now in a state of ruin.

Xiao Xiao knew that she was sad, after all, this was her hometown, so he couldn't help but hug her shoulders and protect her in his arms.

And on the way to the original "Shuntianfu" and the current "Yamen of the Old Governor's Mansion" on foot, the people they met saw the appearance of their group, and they were even hungry and did not have the strength to raise their eyelids to take a look.

They were so hungry.

The supply in the city is insufficient, the roads leading from outside the city to the city are blocked, the food in the city is limited, and the shops that have food in their homes will not open their doors, and they cannot buy food even if they have money.

And the relief of the imperial court has not come.

They were the ones who surrendered to Da Zhou, and it was difficult to have a sense of belonging in Da Zhou.

And now, the Great Zhou Dynasty is just as they expected, and they can't think of them when they are in danger. Just like the former emperor of the Yan Dynasty, he can never remember to care about the lives of the people.

So what can you do if you change the sky? What should be abandoned is still to be abandoned.

Along the way, he saw those yellow-faced and thin-skinned refugees, and their slender sword eyebrows were frowning a few wrinkles in the center of their eyebrows.

"Sister-in-law Liu, sister-in-law Liu!"

At this moment, a low cry suddenly came from the side of the road.

Everyone looked at the source of the sound, but saw several victims rushing to a small remote alley in the corner.

In the alley, a shriveled woman hung a sturdy branch with a sash on the side, her shabby skirt and bare feet dangling in a covered greenery, with a few scattered and overturned bricks and stones at her feet.

Qin Yining exclaimed and covered his mouth.

Immediately afterwards, he covered her eyes with his hand.

Huzi hurriedly ran over to inquire, and after a while, he came back dejectedly, and whispered in the voice of the victims who had no strength to cry:

"The woman was a widow, her husband who was sick and starved to death in the famine last year, the earth dragon turned over, and her son and mother were buried under the old house, and she was the only one who was a servant woman for a large family in the city, but the big family could not afford to support the servant woman, so they drove everyone away, and the woman had no hope of living, and she starved for so many days, and she ...... in despair."

Xiao Xiao frowned and nodded, "Got it." Let's go. ”

The group continued to step forward, leaving the faint cries in the distance.

But where else in the city are there few such tragedies?

The courtyard wall of the yamen of the old capital was also shaken and collapsed, apparently repaired later.

The gate of the yamen was locked, and he commanded the men to knock.

The people who answered the call inside were weak, and when they learned that the person who came was actually Qincha, several people in a hurry opened the door together.

Several pale-faced men hurriedly looked behind Xiao Xiao and his party, but they only saw a carriage and horses, and no grain or grass.

Disappointment flashed in their eyes, but they respectfully invited someone to enter and closed the door carefully.

Li Qitian later arranged in the old capital of the local official surnamed Gong, the name is excellent, the word Zhongtang, forty years old, is a jinshi in the Northern Hebei Dynasty. It has always been reused by Li Qitian, and he was named the prefect of the old capital, and governed the old capital and several surrounding counties.

Seeing Xiao Xiao and his party coming, Gong You hurriedly greeted him and saluted.

The two sides exchanged polite words and entered the antechamber.

Gong You asked straight to the point: "The prince came this time, can he bring grain and grass?" ”

Xiao Xiao smiled bitterly and sighed, and it was not good to directly say that Li Qitian had not allocated food, so he had to say: "This king is worried about the situation, so he came first." The grain and grass prepared by the household department should arrive later. ”

Gong You didn't doubt him, and sighed: "It's not easy to walk on this road, right?" ”

Otherwise, I wouldn't have been walking for so long.

Hearing the meaning of the words, Xiao Xiao's smile became more and more bitter, "This king is also driving ducks to the shelves, and the disaster relief ambassador set by the saint before is the king of Yanjun, who knows that the king of Yanjun actually rebelled and escaped halfway." For this matter, it was delayed for several days, and the saint then named the king as the ambassador for disaster relief, replacing the task of the king of Yanjun. ”

"So that's it!" Gong You now understands thoroughly, "That King Yanjun is too ungrateful, the saint is so reused and trusted, thinking that he is familiar with this place after all, so he arranged for him to come, for the sake of the stability of the people, he can get good, and he actually escaped by the way!" ”

When he saw Gong You like this, he knew that he was a straightforward and hot-blooded upright person. Working with such a person requires a straightforward approach, which happens to be the way he prefers.

"Well, don't mention him." Xiao Xiao sighed and asked again, "How is the situation in the city?" This king didn't see the porridge shed for relief all the way? ”

Gong You shook his head with a wry smile, and said dismally: "Lord Wang, you don't know anything. The old capital of Dayan has long been hollowed out, and in the famine year last year, the people went to sixty percent, sixty percent! ”

Gong You painfully gestured with the thumb and tail finger of his right hand, "That Dayan Dynasty is not unjust at all!" The dog faint king has no ability, and the people who have been harmed are displaced, and it is true that when the official was appointed, it was last winter, and that winter, the city was a dead city! There was no outbreak of a large-scale plague, and that was lucky.

"Who knew that the remaining four adults would meet the earth dragon in the next year. I don't know how many people died at this time. ”