Chapter Twenty-Three: Scarce Food
Ruxue looked at Li Yang and said, "I'll bring them to move things, can you help send them over?"
Li Yang nodded, and the moment he nodded, Li Yang found that there were some black handprint-like marks on the skirt on Ruxue's legs.
Puzzled: "What are you?"
Ruxue lowered her head, glanced at her skirt and said lightly: "It's okay, it's a few children, you'll know in a while."
There were more than ten large boxes of food brought by Ruxue, and in order to ensure that the things would not fall into the river when carrying them, Li Yang directly unfolded the wings of the true phoenix.
After steadily delivering everything to the other side, Li Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did Li Yang fully see the appearance of the three men.
All three were young men who looked about his age.
The clothes they wore were shabby, and it could be seen that they were made of a lot of fabrics, and although they were a little energetic, there was no blood on their faces, which was obviously caused by long-term malnutrition.
Only a small amount of food was given to them, and the rest was shared between Li Yang and Ruxue.
On the way, Li Yang learned from Ruxue's mouth that the three men were named Zhang Yi, Zhang Er, and Zhang San, and they were three brothers.
Li Yang couldn't help but wonder in his heart: "What kind of name is this, is it so arbitrary?"
As if seeing Li Yang's doubts, Ruxue said: "Living, it's already a luxury, people here don't deserve to have a name, anyway, even if they do, no one will remember it."
After speaking, Ruxue's eyes dimmed a little, and her body was full of sadness.
Looking at Ruxue's depressed appearance, Li Yang wondered in his heart: "What is wrong with her." How do you seem to be talking about yourself. ”
Just as Liyang was questioning, a house made of wood appeared in front of him.
Immediately afterward, four or five children ran over and surrounded them.
The same emaciated, sallow-complexion, tattered clothes, bare feet...... It seems that looking like this is the main theme here.
But at this moment, the children surrounding them have a bright smile on their faces, for them, the arrival of Ruxue is like the New Year for them, because only when Ruxue comes once, they can eat once.
Li Yang finally understood what was going on with those small black handprints on Ruxue's skirt.
A little boy pulled Ruxue's skirt with his dirty little hands, and said aggrievedly: "Sister Ruxue, Sister Ruxue, you haven't been here for a long time, I thought you didn't care about us anymore."
Ruxue didn't dislike the little boy's dirty hands at all, but touched his head affectionately, and said with a rare smile: "How come, my sister has been busy lately, my sister must come to see you often in the future."
The little boy nodded vigorously: "Well, Sister Ruxue, you are our angel, grandma said that only angels will be so good to us as you."
Li Yang's heart trembled suddenly, and he muttered in his mouth, "Angel."
That's right, isn't this girl in front of me just like an angel, I always thought he was a cold person, but I didn't expect her to have such a gentle side.
Li Yang looked at the little boy and said, "They're very cute."
Ruxue smiled again, but it was a wry smile: "It's cute, but it's also pitiful, isn't it?" They have never done anything wrong, but they were born to endure this nightmarish purgatory on earth. ”
With such a scene, Li Yang felt bad in his heart, but he didn't know how to comfort Ruxue.
I had to sigh heavily.
Surrounded by a group of children, they walked into the wooden house.
Maybe I heard the noise of the children, and soon a lot of people came out of the house, and many people were always boasting that Ruxue was an angel, a bodhisattva, or something.
It can be seen that Ruxue does come here often.
In order to avoid looting, Ruxue took Liyang to move her things into one of the empty cabins.
Soon an old woman walked in, and the old woman was rickety
With a wooden stick on his waist, he moved slowly.
Seeing the old woman, Ruxue hurriedly stepped forward and helped the old woman to sit down.
And he called out "Grandma." ”
"Grandma?" Li Yang was surprised, but thought that it should be just a name, so he didn't think much about it.
"Grandma, please divide these things among everyone."
Although she often comes, Ruxue doesn't know exactly what is going on here, so she has to ask the locals to share it to ensure that everyone can get a share of what to eat.
At this time, there were already many people standing outside the door, and Li Yang roughly estimated that there were more than sixty people outside the door.
The little things they had brought with them were quickly distributed under the arrangement of the old woman.
Inside the chalet......
The old woman looked at Ruxue gratefully and said, "Xue'er, thank you, if it weren't for you, we don't know how many would have died a long time ago."
Ruxue said: "Grandma, don't say that, this is what I should do, but unfortunately that's all I can do, by the way, how is the situation in the surrounding villages......
Li Yang sat silently on the side, listening to the old woman chatting with Ruxue.
From their chat, Li Yang learned that there were several such villages nearby.
They gathered together, stored food in the same place, distributed it uniformly, and tried to keep everyone in the village alive.
But the situation in several surrounding villages has not been good lately, there is a shortage of food, and some villages have been attacked by the idle poor, and many people have died......
The more Li Yang listened, the more frightened he became, is this the cruelty here.
In the past, the poor people here couldn't stand the hunger, so they ran out of the city wall to find food, but now the food that can be eaten near the city wall has almost been eaten, and if it is farther away, it will become food in the mouth of the spirit beast.
Although there are very few large spirit beasts on the periphery of the city wall, small spirit beasts are not something that these hungry ordinary people can deal with.
Li Yang really couldn't stand it, and said to Ruxue: "Let's go back and get some food, this time change to a bigger car, and send some to the surrounding villages."
Ruxue shook her head gently: "It's useless, you can only solve their problems today, but what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?" Can you keep bringing them food?"
Li Yang was silent, yes, this is a very real problem, the poor here are not hundreds, thousands, but tens of millions of poor people.
The fertile land was just outside the city, but these people could only survive within the walls.
Although Ruxue said this, Li Yang still did not give up, adhering to the idea of being able to help a little bit, and finally called his uncle Cao Ren.
"What, Jiangxin District?"
Cao Ren's surprised voice came from the other end of the phone.
After listening to Liyang's appeal, Cao Ren said lightly: "Okay, I'll arrange it for you here."
In this era of land scarcity, food is extremely precious, and even with the strength of the Cao family, it is impossible to purchase too many things at one time.
It wasn't until late evening that Liyang received a call from Cao Ren asking him to pick up the car.
But Cao Ren is still quite effective, and he used many people's shares to help Liyang arrange a large truckload of food.
Li Yang hurriedly called Cao Ren to thank him.
However, Cao Ren reminded: "This is not a long-term solution after all, and if it is tracked down by the Human Alliance Council, it will be very troublesome."
However, Li Yang can't manage so much for the time being, and the situation of these poor people makes him really feel very uncomfortable.
Li Yang drove his truck around the surrounding villages with Ruxue until he delivered the last box of food in the truck.
After a busy day, although there was no progress in the task, Li Yang felt a little better.
On the truck, Li Yang asked while driving, "Next, where are we going, will we go back?"
Ruxue shook her head: "Let's eat something first, and then go to the place where those city defense soldiers disappeared to investigate, maybe there are any clues."
Li Yang found a random place to park the car, anyway, in the environment outside, where to eat is almost the same.
After getting out of the car, Ruxue handed Li Yang a loaf of bread, and she also took a loaf of bread and began to chew it slowly.
It seemed that the bread was too dry, like snow choking, and gently pounded his chest.
The light flashed in Li Yang's hand, and a bottle of water appeared in Li Yang's hand, and Li Yang handed the water to Ruxue.
Ruxue was surprised by the result of Li Yang's hand: "You, how did you do this."
Suddenly, I saw the ring on Liyang's middle finger.
"You're a storage ring?"
Li Yang chewed the bread and said as a matter of course: "Yes, don't you have it?"
Ruxue said: "I can't afford such a precious thing."
Although the city defense army will have a fixed salary, and there will be a task reward for completing tasks, but that is only enough to make them better than ordinary people.
And most of Ruxue's income is used to buy food for people in the slums. There is still a luxury in the storage ring.
This time it was Li Yang's turn to be surprised, because Li Yang obviously saw that every time Ruxue used her Frost Sword, it appeared in her hand out of thin air.
He looked at Ruxue from head to toe, and wondered, "Then where do you usually put your frost sword?"
"You mean that?"
I saw a blue light flashing in Ruxue's hand, and the quaint frost sword had already appeared in Ruxue's hand.
With the appearance of the Hanshuang Sword, the temperature around him began to plummet.
Li Yang was trembling, and he didn't know why Ruxue's sword was so powerful, just the cold air emitted could make Li Yang feel cold, you must know that with Li Yang's current physique, even if it was winter to jump into the river to take a bath, it would be no problem.
"Quick, put it away!"
The light and shadow flashed, and the frost sword had disappeared from Ruxue's hand.
"You don't have a storage ring, so where are you hiding this sword?"
Ruxue said: "Spirit Bead, since I got this sword, I can put him into the Spirit Bead, just summon it when I want to use it."
Li Yang grew his mouth: "Is this okay?"
Ruxue said lightly: "It seems that I am the only one who can do it, and my sword seems to adjust its size according to the size of my spirit bead space."