Chapter 61: Refugees
After eating dry food and filling her stomach, Chu Xia closed the package, and before closing, she glanced at Xiao Tan and asked, "Xiao Tan, do you still want to eat?"
After Xiao Tan ate two, he was already full, although he still had some desire to eat, but he finally shook his head and rejected Chu Xia, "I don't eat anymore, I'm already full."
After all, there is a quantity of dry food, and if you finish eating it today, you won't have it tomorrow.
Xiaotan understands this truth, although it is delicious, but it can't be greedy.
After hearing Xiao Tan say that she wouldn't eat it, Chu Xia closed the package, she looked at Jing Yuan and asked, "Where are we going next?" Jing Yuan said, "The town below is Manliancheng, and we should go to Manliancheng."
On the way to Manliancheng, there are still a lot of refugees.
Jing Yuan and Chu Xia were sitting in the carriage, and countless people reached out to them to ask for food.
Chu Xia was easy to be soft-hearted, and in the end he still gave some of the food that the villagers brought to them to the refugees on the road.
Of course, Chu Xia, the dry food that Xiao Tan likes to eat, will not give it to the refugees, if it is given to them, it is estimated that Xiao Tan will be distressed and die of distress.
Chu Xia knew Xiao Tan, and when she said that she wanted to give the refugees some food, Xiao Tan's face was nervous.
While Chu Xia was amused in his heart, he still didn't give away the dry food.
It was not easy to distribute food to the refugees while sitting on the carriage, so Chu Xia got out of the carriage after dividing the food she was going to distribute to the refugees from their food.
There was a group of people around the carriage early, Chu Xia was startled by their blazing gaze, but he still reacted quickly, and said to them with a smile, "Our food is limited, so we can only give you so much, I also hope that you don't rush, take your time, don't crowd, line up, okay?" I promise you'll all be given food."
The originally noisy voices of the refugees suddenly quieted down, they looked at each other, and after a while, they lined up one by one, standing in front of Chu Xia, one after another.
Chu Xia smiled when he saw the refugees who were so cooperative, and he cherished them even more in his heart.
They met a lot of refugees along the way, and sometimes she would distribute food to the refugees, as long as she ensured that their food was sufficient, she would definitely distribute food to the refugees.
Sometimes the refugees I met would come over and grab it like crazy when they saw Chu Xia having food in their hands because they hadn't eaten food for a long time, and sometimes a lot of people rushed up, and Chu Xia was almost hit by them and fell to the ground.
Because of such a thing, Chu Xia still had some fear in his heart for these refugees, especially when he saw the refugees' green and greedy eyes.
Chu Xia was especially afraid that as soon as they swarmed up, they would drown her in the crowd.
Fortunately, the refugees this time were not as they had seen before, they were particularly cooperative with Chu Xia, listening to Chu Xia's words, and one by one they went to line up and wait for Chu Xia to send food.
Chu Xia stood next to the carriage, afraid that the people behind him would not hear, so he said very loudly, "You come here to get it one by one, because the food is limited, don't come to pick it up if you take it once, you know?"
"Got it." The refugees replied to Chu Xia.
Chu Xia smiled with satisfaction, and then began to send the food.
In fact, it is just some snacks, prepared by the villagers, similar to dried sweet potatoes and the like, which can only barely cushion the stomach, but it can't play a big role.
Chu Xia sent them over one after another, and the people who received the snacks would walk to the side, and they ate happily very quickly.
Chu Xia finished beating the last snack in her hand, and everyone here was given a snack, she turned around and walked to the carriage, and said to Jing Yuan, who was sitting in the car, "Come down and ask the refugees about the situation here."
Jing Yuan's brows furrowed, although he had done this kind of thing more than once, there were still some things in his heart that he didn't want to go.
"Hurry down, don't waste time, asked
After that, it's time to set off." Chu Xia knew what Jing Yuan was thinking, so he coaxed Jing Yuan with gentle words. Jing Yuan took a deep breath, and then stepped down from the carriage.
Jing Yuan has no other shortcomings, that is, he has a slight cleanliness habit. He can still tolerate a little dirty, but the refugees are too dirty and smelly, and he hates dirty and smelly things the most, so let him come into contact with the refugees, which is a special test for him.
After Jing Yuan got out of the carriage, he walked towards the refugees who were eating frantically, his steps were not big, but he really walked towards the refugees step by step.
Chu Xia stood behind him, and he didn't dislike him for walking slowly, just walked behind him.
Jing Yuan searched for someone to talk to in the crowd, and after finding someone who looked easier to talk and was slightly cleaner, he walked towards the person.
The man was a man, who seemed to be just about the age of a weak crown, and he had just finished his snack and was sitting there gasping for breath, his head bowed, and he didn't say anything.
Because he had some dirt on his body, Jing Yuan couldn't see what kind of skin color he was.
Hearing Jing Yuan's footsteps walking towards him, he raised his head and looked at Jing Yuan motionless with dark eyes.
Jing Yuan stopped half a meter away from him, then squatted down and asked him with friendly eyes, "You guys, why did you become like this?"
Jing Yuan can still see that the man in front of him, the clothes he is wearing are not bad, although he is not rich and expensive, but he also feels that he is not a poor person to the point where he is now, so there is a reason why he will become like this now.
Knowing that Jing Yuan was with Chu Xia, and Chu Xia gave them dry food, he naturally couldn't hide anything from Jing Yuan, so he said, "It's not because of our good emperor! After his policy was issued, it was those who were happy for the emperor and officials, and it was us ordinary people who suffered. We have no power at all, so we can only let them scrape oil and water on us. I'm sure you also saw the clothes on my body, I lived a good life at the beginning, but later, I asked for more and more money, and if I didn't give money, I would be killed, we really had no choice, and in the end we were bankrupt and could only become refugees."
Jing Yuan listened, and there was silence in his heart.
There were so many refugees passing by, and all of them were worse than the other, Jing Yuan knew in his heart that this was because Jing Ming needed to pay more taxes for his policies.
"I'm okay here, I escaped to the refugee pile, and some of them were killed because they didn't have money." The man shook his head over and over again and told Jing Yuan what he had seen and heard, and sighed: "If this goes on for a long time, then I'm afraid that even if it is the capital, except for the place called the Imperial Palace, there will be refugees everywhere!"
After Jing Yuan asked what he wanted to know, he stood up, and Chu Xia followed Jing Yuan all the time, waiting for Jing Yuan to speak.
"If I had tried to stop Jing Ming, I wouldn't be like this now." He looked at the refugees who were lying or sitting with regretful eyes, and he knew very well in his heart that the food they gave them this time was only enough for them to eat once, even if they ate less, and left it to eat after they were hungry next time, but sooner or later the things would run out, and by that time, he and Chu Xia would not be able to help them at all.
At present, the only pity to alleviate the pressure on the lives of the refugees is only one way, that is, to let Jingming take back this brutal and inhumane policy, otherwise, the lives of the refugees will only get worse and worse.
"I don't want to see starvation." Jing Yuan shook his head.
When Jing Yuan was in the capital, he only saw one acre and three points of land in front of him, and he was full of prosperity, and he couldn't see the scene he saw now.
Everything he knew was all the information collected through the intelligence network, and it was all selected by Xiao Tan after he was selected. Therefore, he does not know that this is the real situation of the people.
He had no objection to Chu Xia's distribution of food to them
But whenever he saw so many refugees waiting for the only food they had, he felt that they were safe and could not help them.
The number of refugees is simply too large, and their capacity is limited.
When Jing Yuan was still the high-ranking prince, he thought that his strength represented everything, and no matter what problems were put in front of him in this world, he could solve them, but when he left the capital and saw everything in front of him, he realized that his strength was so limited, and those things that he once thought could be solved without much effort, but he didn't want to be like that.
"My power is so small." Jing Yuan looked at the piles of refugees in front of him and sighed.
Chu Xia was standing behind Jing Yuan, naturally she heard Jing Yuan's words, she stepped forward and took a step, and said softly, "But as long as you work hard, your strength will become great one day, I believe in you."
Jing Yuan was stunned for a moment, and turned his head sideways to look at Chu Xia.
Chu Xia also looked at him sideways, his eyes were gentle, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Jing Yuan was finally rendered by Chu Xia's positive attitude, he looked at Chu Xia deeply, and laughed with Chu Xia.
Xiao Tan was not by Jing Yuan's side, there were pigeons flying by, and he recognized that it was the carrier pigeon that they were dealing with the people of Jingwangfu in the capital.
The carrier pigeon circled above the refugee's head, and after Xiao Tan looked up, he got up and jumped on the book, and the carrier pigeon naturally flew in front of Xiao Tan.