Within Pengzhou.

The cold snap struck, adding frost to the snow in Pengzhou, which was already badly affected.

It's really adding to the frost.

Heavy snowfall fell in Pengzhou for three days, crushing many of the homes that survived the earthquake, displacing more people.

The temperature plummeted after the snowfall, causing distress to those who had left their homes to beg for food elsewhere because they could not be properly resettled, and the bodies of those who had froze to death could be seen from time to time on both sides of the snow-white road.

Those who were lucky enough to survive the heavy snow were as thin as firewood, carrying wooden sticks, and struggling to move forward in the cold wind.

As soon as Chenguang made eye contact with a corpse on the side of the road that had been half buried in the snow, she lowered the curtain of the carriage and tightened the cloak on her body.

Fire Dance installed another hand stove and stuffed it into her arms.

Chang Xi took a thicker mink fur from the side, wrapped it around Chenguang's body, and asked:

"Is it still cold?"

"It's fine." Chenguang carried many hand stoves, curled up on a long blanket, and even her neck was shrunk into her clothes, and only one head remained, she replied wistfully.

At this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped, startling the occupants.

Chang Xi frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Your Highness, there are people stopping the car." Si Qi replied outside the carriage.

As soon as Si Qi's words fell, Zheng Shuyu was already by the carriage window and whispered:

"Your Highness, most of them are here to beg, and the minister will give them some money to send them away."

Chenguang thought for a while, spoke, and ordered: "Si Shi, you go and ask them what they want to do, give them some silver if they want silver, and ask them about the disaster in Pengzhou by the way." ”

Hearing this, Si Shi outside the carriage answered, got out of the car, and walked towards a group of men and women kneeling in front of the carriage with a few children and the elderly.

Most of the men in this group of people were men, and Si Shi thought to himself that if it weren't for Zheng Shuyu and Zhang Hong guarding around the carriage with plainclothes guards, eighty percent of these people would come up and rob them. Because there are many people here, I don't dare, and I'm really hungry, so I will ask for help to come and ask for things.

Si Shi gave them some silver taels, and the man who took the lead made a bitter face and asked her if she had anything to eat, the famine was at the head, and food was more practical than silver, and they only wanted to fill their stomachs now, and even if they were given silver, they would have nowhere to buy something to eat.

Si Shi didn't have anything to eat, so he told him frankly, and the man who took the lead saw this, so he had to accept the silver and find a way for himself afterwards.

These people are from the same village, and the man who took the lead saw that they were rich and noble, but his attitude towards the victims was very kind, and he was a little grateful in his heart without humiliation or scolding, and Si Shi took the opportunity to ask about the disaster in Pengzhou.

The victims themselves were willing to complain, and when they heard Si Shi say that they had come to pick up their relatives living in Pengzhou, they couldn't help but sigh that it was good to have relatives outside to take refuge.

Soon after the earthquake, the governor of Pengzhou ordered all counties to close the city gates and prohibit the people outside the city from entering, not only did not immediately open a warehouse for disaster relief, but also sent officials to arrest all the people who wanted to enter the city, and killed on the spot a well-known teacher who was indignant and asked to open a warehouse to release grain.

With no money and food to help, the people of Pengzhou had no choice but to drag their families to the neighboring state capital, hoping to beg for food.

"I heard that there has been a serious plague in the area of Geping County, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines, and the doctors are unwilling to treat them, and many seriously ill people have been thrown into the mountains and burned to death by the officials in the yamen, saying that it is to prevent the spread of the plague." The man continued, a little angry as he said this.

This is also the reason why they are in a hurry to escape, fearing that the epidemic will spread and then be thrown into the mountains and burned to death.

Hearing this, Si Shi frowned.

The victims of Cheng Village took the harvested silver taels and left with great gratitude.

Si Shi returned to the carriage and told Chenguang what he had just heard as it was, and Chenguang frowned when he heard it.

Things are a little strange, on the side of the plague, although the seriously ill people are burned alive, this practice is very cruel, but that is to prevent the spread of the plague, there are indeed places where such cruel methods will be used, Xue E gave this kind of order, can only say that he is ruthless, but it cannot be said that he must be wrong to do this, because this method is indeed effective in preventing the spread of the plague.

But Pengzhou has been reluctant to open a warehouse to release grain, what is going on?

Chenguang feels that it is not as simple as Pengzhou Prefecture Pastor does not want to release grain, no official wants to have a riot in his jurisdiction, the grain in the granary was originally used for disaster relief, if Xue E is worried that the grain in the granary is not enough, it should be distributed once or twice before he is worried, but according to the victims of Pengzhou, since the earthquake, Xue E has not let go of grain at all, not once.

This situation made Chenguang have to wonder if there was no food in Pengzhou's granary at all, because there was no food, there was no food to put in, Xue E had to take a tough attitude, close the city gate, refuse the victims, and let the victims fend for themselves, because even if he wanted to take care of nothing, he couldn't do anything.

But Pengzhou's granary should not be free of grain, Pengzhou is not the main battlefield in wartime, even if it was affected a little during the war, but even the state capital where the main army has not come, and there has been no famine before, how can it be possible to run out of grain all at once?

Pengzhou has grain in stock, if Xue E is really unable to provide disaster relief because there is no food, then where does Pengzhou's grain go?

Chenguang was suspicious.

The carriage came to Qihua County, the capital of Pengzhou, according to the words heard from the victims before, Chenguang thought that the victims knew that the city gate would not be opened, and they should not continue to wait outside the city gate to die, and people would go to the neighboring state capital to find their own way out.

Chenguang was taken aback.

Far away, you can hear the shouts and cries.

Chenguang thought those people were besieging the city.

Multitudes of ragged people, gathered outside the closed gates, banged on the gates with all their might, and cried out with a loud voice:

"Let go of Lord Yang! Let go of Lord Yang! ”

Chenguang was dumbfounded, and he couldn't imagine what was going on.

A young man who looked like a scholar was unusually conspicuous in the crowd, wearing a gray robe that had been washed white, and he raised his arms and shouted in the noisy crowd, and said with righteous indignation:

"Xue E dog official, for the official is not benevolent, disregarding the lives of tens of millions of victims, insisting on closing the warehouse and sealing the grain, Lord Yang has the people in mind, and wants to open the warehouse to release grain, Xue E dog official actually wants to behead Lord Yang. Xue E's dog official and the demon girl in the north are all going to kill my Nanyue! Folks, you can't let them succeed, you must rescue Lord Yang today and force the dog official to open the granary! ”