The next day, because Yin Linxi had to supervise the reconstruction of the houses in the disaster area, I also got up early in the morning when there was snow in Jiangbei.

After Fang simply washed up, he saw Taoxin come in with an embarrassed face.

"Princess—" she placed a bowl of white soup in front of me.

"What is this?" I raised my hand and fiddled with the spoon in the bowl, only to see a pitiful few grains of rice under the soup.

Momoxin whispered, "Breakfast." ”

"What?" I was dumbfounded.

Taoxin pulled the corners of her mouth embarrassedly, "I heard that Jiangbei has been out of grain for several days, and the grain allocated by the court was looted by bandits on the way, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked the court to reallocate grain, but it will take at least seven days to reach Jiangbei with the intermediate procedures plus the midway transportation." ”

"Seven days..."I looked at the white rice soup in the bowl and forgot how to react for a moment.

Momoxin saw that I was stunned, thinking that I was dissatisfied, so she put the bowl of rice soup back up, and said tentatively with an embarrassed face, "Then why don't you let the slave maid cook the bowl more substantially?" ”

As she spoke, she seemed to sigh softly and walked out with her legs raised, but I ran out of the tent before her.

"Princess!" Momoshin exclaimed, holding a bowl of rice soup in her hand, and ran after me.

But my footsteps stiffened with the shocking scene in front of me, and there was something painful in my eyes that could no longer be concealed.

"Princess." Momoxin whispered beside me with a complicated face, but I didn't know it.

I just froze in place, letting the wails get into my eardrums.

I looked at the huge and tragic picture outside the tent at this time, and I didn't know what to do, but I saw that among the dense victims in front of me, there were mothers who had lost their children and were crying, and there were also children who had just lost their parents and were crying.

Those who died were placed in rows more than 20 meters outside the tent, and the pessimism of the scene made people feel cold.

Next to the cold body, there is a mother holding the corpse in a daze, and there are toddler dolls lying on their already cold and stiff parents and sleeping soundly.

Looking at this heartbreaking scene, I stood still for a long time.

I felt a chill rush from the soles of my feet to my heart in an instant, causing my fragile heart to contract and tingle for a while, and then my teeth began to tremble involuntarily.

Momo Xin couldn't bear to open her eyes, and shook the corner of my clothes, "Princess, don't look at it." ”

When I turned my eyes, I saw an old woman holding a bowl of black grassroots soup into the mouth of a baby who was still swaddling.

While pouring, he patted the baby's back and coaxed softly, "Xiaobao is good, Xiaobao is not hungry after drinking, Xiaobao is good..."

After that, the old woman poured some grass root soup into the baby's small mouth, but the black soup flowed down the baby's frozen purple face into the neck socket.

The baby began to cry.

The old woman really had no choice, so she had to put down the bowl in her hand, hide her face and sob.

At this time, my eyes swept to the bowl of rice soup that Tao Xin was still holding tightly in her hand, so I took it from her hand and handed it to the old woman.

"Give this to the kids!"

The old woman was stunned for a moment, took the bowl tremblingly, and was about to kowtow to me if she was grateful.

I hurriedly reached out to stop it, and by the way, I took off the half-arm coat on my body to cover the baby's small body that was bruised from the cold.

The old woman's eyes instantly turned red, and she said continuously, "Thank you." ”

When she began to feed the baby, I remembered and asked, "Old man, I think Jiangbei was originally a rich land, why did a white disaster make such a scene?" ”

"Hey," the old woman sighed lightly, until the last drop of rice soup in the bowl was fed into the mouth of the baby, Fang said, "Speaking of this white plague also came suddenly, originally Jiangbei has not seen a few snows in this area for decades, let alone such a white plague that has been executed, poor Jiangbei people rely on grass and water to be beautiful, originally every household is based on animal husbandry for a living, unexpectedly, this sudden white disaster not only ruined our residence, but also fed the livestock of the whole family to death to death, escaped." ”

"And those who escaped?" I raised my eyebrows in surprise.

The old woman's expression became more and more solemn, "The animal is cunning, and if it escapes, it will not wait for people to catch it again, so in order to recover the escaped cattle, many people have gone into the forest, but they have never returned." ”

Speaking of this, she looked down at the child who had fallen asleep at this time in her arms with pity, and sighed heavily, "This child's father and mother are two of the ones who didn't come back. ”

I couldn't help but be silent, and I had some complications in my heart.

At this time, the old woman sighed again, "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hadn't arrived in time with life-saving food, I'm afraid Jiangbei would have already become a ghost town full of hunger at this time." ”

Hungry all over the wilderness...

I silently read it a few times, and suddenly an idea flashed in my head.

"Old man, you just said that the grass is fertile and the water is beautiful, right? I would like to ask, what kind of water is this? ”

When the old woman saw me ask, a trace of doubt appeared on her face that had experienced vicissitudes, "It's the Luanshui River in Jiangbei, but girl, why are you asking this?" ”

I smiled mysteriously and continued to ask, "Where exactly is the Luanshui River?" ”

"But go straight here, and you'll be down the slope," the old woman pointed me in the direction, and said, "But girl, the current Luanshui River can't go, don't look at its frozen surface, but there are countless undercurrents underneath, if you are not careful... The consequences are unimaginable. ”

I nodded at the old woman, but didn't take her admonition to heart.

Wait until you get back to the tent...

"Taoxin, go to the Luanshui River with me."

"Huh?" Momoshin suspected that she had misheard.

I repeated, "Come with me to the Luanshui River!" ”

"No, princess!" Taoxin, who has always been timid, hurriedly grabbed my wrist, "Didn't you listen to what the old man said?" There are too many undercurrents in that river, and if there is an accident, the consequences will be unimaginable! Besides, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not here at this time... If anything happens in my life..."

Momoxin's voice became smaller and quieter, and finally it turned into a low whisper, and I didn't hear much of what she was whispering.

Just pulled her up without saying anything and walked out.

According to the direction pointed by the old woman, after about a stick of incense, I finally found this so-called Luanshui River.

"Princess, what are you doing here?"

Momoshin looked at the surface of the river, which was already covered in thick snow at this time, and swallowed with difficulty.

I smiled at her, winked, and put one foot on the thick snow of the river.

It made Momoxin scream, "Princess, what are you doing here?" ”

The timid peach heart hurriedly pulled me to the shore, and a little face instantly turned slightly white with fright.

I gave her a blank look, broke her hand, and walked quickly to the surface of the river, stepping on both feet.

"Princess!" There was another deafening howl, and Momo's face turned pale.

However, I smiled at her easily, stood firmly on the surface of the river, and took two more steps, "Look at you, the surface of this white plague river has long been frozen three feet, where can you fall into the river?" ”

Momoxin looked at me suspiciously, and very carefully stretched out one toe to probe, until his feet touched the hard surface of the river, and then he relaxed a little.

"But Princess, what are you here for?"

I smiled "hehe" and picked up a half-fist-sized rock from the river.

"I still remember when I was in the palace, once my father celebrated his birthday, the prince's brother specially invited a storyteller into the palace in order to make everyone fresh, that gentleman is knowledgeable, and can say a lot of interesting things from all over the world, since that time, I especially like to listen to the storyteller tell stories, and my father specially asked him to stay in the palace for this reason!"

"But what does Mr. Storyteller have to do with the frozen river?"

I raised my eyelids and glanced at the increasingly confused Mokoshin, and pursed my lips and smiled, "Of course, Mr. Storyteller has nothing to do with the river, but a story he told me is still fresh in my memory. ”

"Story?"

I nodded slightly, crouched down and used the stone in my hand to pick up the thick snow covering the river, and continued, "That story is about a wanderer who wandered to a place of extreme cold, and when he was hungry and cold, no one was willing to help him, and when he was desperate, his eyes inadvertently swept to the frozen river in the distance, and even if he thought of a way to avoid the torture of hunger, it was risky to implement this method, and if he did not succeed, he might die here. But in order to survive, he had to take risks. ”

"What's that way around?" Taoxin seemed to be interested in listening to the story, and for a while forgot the original intention of asking in the first place.

I smiled and pouted Nunu under my hand, "This is the solution!" ”

Momoxin looked down and followed my finger to see the stone in my hand, peeling off the thick snow on the river, and chiseling the smooth river surface little by little.

"What's the solution?"

"At the end of winter, when the weather is cold, when the fish come up to ventilate or hunt, they will be frozen in this ice if they are not careful, and they will not be able to move.

Saying this, Momoshin was surprised for a moment, and then her face changed suddenly, and she hurriedly pulled me down from the river.

"Princess, do you want to emulate the man in the storyteller's story?"

"Why not?"

"Princess, are you crazy? The stories of storytelling are all made up, how can you believe it? Besides, you yourself said that the street boy did this without certainty, which shows that it is very dangerous, doesn't it? ”

I smiled and looked at Taoxin's anxious little face, dare to love this girl so smart at a critical moment?

But at this point, I just broke away from her hand that grabbed my wrist and continued to walk towards the river, "How do you know if you don't try?" ”

"Princess!" Seeing that I was still stubbornly heading towards the river, Momoxin immediately turned around and left, "I'll tell His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"Stop!" Good guys, have you learned to sue?

In order for my plan to proceed smoothly, I had to know it with emotion and reason, "Taoxin, you have also seen Jiangbei now, there is not a grain of grain everywhere... It is no exaggeration to say that people are dying all the time, and we can wait for the first time here, but the victims can't wait, and in a second they are afraid that someone will starve to death in this white plague. ”

"But—" Momshin turned, hesitation on her face.

I hurriedly continued, "Yes, Yin Linxi was sent to provide disaster relief, but he is not an immortal, he can't make this white disaster retreat quietly, let alone make the hungry victims eat out of thin air, but now there is such a glimmer of hope, why not give it a try?" ”

With that, I crouched down and began to dig up the frozen river.

Momoxin was silent for a long time, then picked up a stone from the river and chiseled it in my own way.

I smiled with relief.

Finally...

"Male... Princess, chisel to... Chisel! Momoshin suddenly let out a cry of surprise and joy beside me, and held a fish the size of a little thumb in front of me.

I nodded at her, and the girl's eyes immediately sparkled as if she were a god.

As her interest grew, she and her subordinates also became a little more energetic in digging ice.

Then, the two of us went back and forth, and I don't know how long we did this, but I felt that my subordinates were getting hotter and hotter, and I looked back at the few vertical fish that I had chiseled behind me...

Glancing at the peach heart with green eyes full of energy, who would have thought that the person who shrank his tail at the beginning would now be the most prosperous.

I smiled helplessly, turned my head down and continued to chisel the ice, but at this time, two blisters suddenly appeared under my feet?

What's going on? Is it going to crack?

I was about to move away from the blistering area, when my body suddenly lost its center of gravity...

Then a hysterical cry rang in his ears, "Princess! ”

The moment my body fell into the ice hole, I was quickly surrounded by a chill.

And the winter water is extremely cold, stinging every inch of my skin like a cold blade straight into my body, the pain coming from all directions is really indescribable.

I just felt that the cold water was pouring into my body through my eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, and my heart was cramping rapidly.

I flapped my hands upwards with all my might, but it was as if someone was grabbing my feet and dragging them underneath, and I couldn't move.

In the end, I had to watch in despair as the narrow ice eyes above my head got farther and farther away from me... Farther and farther away...

Until the eyes are completely plunged into darkness...

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