Chapter 570: Disaster Victims
The steamed buns are very big, twice as big as the steamed buns sold outside, Xia Zining asked the house slaves to send one by one, and those who have received it can't be received again, if it is for the family, call the family to come, otherwise, tell the people of the Xia family that there are many disaster victims who can't come over there, and the guards will drive the carriage to send some over.
After Xia Zining saw the greenhouse sheds in the two villages, she took a carriage to the town to see the situation.
Just near the market in Gusu Town, there were long queues of people at the aid station, with yellow-skinned, cold and hungry faces, with hope and helplessness for life in their eyes.
Xia Zining went over and asked about the situation of the house slave here.
It was to take a carriage further away to a rescue point in the opposite direction of the market.
There, it is closer to Lao Liu Village, where Luo's daughter married, and Wangjia Village, which is a little more than an hour's journey by carriage.
The victims from Hezhou and Qingzhou came to Gusu Town, and they all came from the official road in that direction.
There are more steamed buns here, and when I come here, the steamed buns are cold, so I can only build a temporary stove nearby, and steam the steamed buns in a cauldron again before I start to distribute them to a group of victims.
After Xia Zining arrived, she asked a group of house slaves to see that the victims who received food here were more yellow-faced and thin-skinned than the victims in the town.
Xia Zining walked over, squatted down and looked at the two old men in front of him, the male old man was holding a one- or two-year-old boy in his arms, who was also extremely thin, and the old woman was holding a month-old baby in her arms, they did not go to the queue, but sat quietly in the grass here.
"Two old men, why didn't you go to the queue to get food?" Xia Zining asked curiously.
Although I don't know Xia Zining's identity, seeing that Xia Zining is dressed well, and there are two good-looking girls behind her, the old man knows that Xia Zining and the others must be nobles with good living conditions.
"Nobleman, my son and daughter, they went to line up." The old man smiled.
"Old man, where are you from? Is one here? It's cold, stay home and get warmer. Xia Zining frowned slightly and asked softly.
"Where is there a home, here to receive food, most of them are the same as our family, from Qingzhou Hezhou generation to flee, just after the first few towns can not settle down, can not find a job, only to Gusu Town here, a while ago I heard that Gusu Town held a hundred flowers festival, everyone thought that maybe they can find work here, I didn't expect, when I came here, I said that there was an accident in the Hundred Flowers Festival here, many people in the local town are unemployed, we are outsiders, it is more difficult to find a job, a while ago everyone gathered in the deserted Queen Mother Temple as a foothold temporarily, But, a few days ago, the temple was destroyed by a group of people, hey..."
"Ruined? How so? Xia Zining asked.
"It is said that there are some people in the temple who participated in the kidnapping of people, and when the government arrested people, they fought with them and destroyed it, and our group was almost arrested together, but fortunately, some officials investigated us and had nothing to do with them, so they didn't arrest us." The old woman sighed.
"Then those officials or county officials didn't do anything to help you when they saw that you were all working so hard?" Xia Zining frowned.
"Hey, that time, an official sent a few bags of rice, let everyone share and leave, but, the food is so many people, after eating for a while, it will be gone, and the young people have not found a job, now, we are also worried, there is no work, how will everyone live when the weather is colder after a while, there is no place to shelter from the wind and rain, there is no food..." An old man who looked sick sitting next to him choked up.