Chapter 129 Food Appears Out of Thin Air
She was right to think so, after all, since they were the good guys, she had to be the bad guy.
Xia Xing'er really kept her word. At night, she visited the county magistrate's mansion alone. Not just one county magistrate's mansion, but also all the places where there were disasters in the surrounding area, east, south, west and north, without any partiality.
Now it’s all good. Not only the county magistrate of Yushan County is no longer in trouble, but the magistrates of all the counties that have suffered disasters in the surrounding areas are also no longer in trouble. When they go to check the next day, they will definitely find that the granaries are empty.
She was a bad person to the end, and she sent all the food to the people affected by the disaster.
They will definitely thank her!
Xia Xing'er didn't have to worry about how to take out the food from her own space. The food collected from the county magistrate's office in each county was enough for the people affected by the disaster.
That night, the people of Tongxinling all received food.
Xia Xing'er sat on the roof, the moonlight shining on her sly smiling face. She patted the dust from her hands, feeling secretly proud in her heart.
Rather than letting yourself rack your brains over countermeasures until you go bald, it would be better to let these county magistrates worry about this sudden "theft" case until their hair turns white.
She thought, the law does not punish the masses. The granaries of several county governments around here were emptied at the same time. Even if the emperor wanted to get angry, he would have to think twice. He couldn't just execute all the officials, right?
At most, a few unlucky people were demoted and exiled.
So, overnight, a lot of food appeared out of nowhere in Tongxinling and other small places like Tongxinling that had been hit by natural disasters and man-made disasters.
Bag after bag, all filled with white rice!
The villagers who opened the sacks were all stunned, as if they were dreaming.
The land here is barren and mountainous, with more mountains than fields. Not only is the land difficult to cultivate, but the yield is also low.
The grain harvested each year was basically used to pay taxes. Even if there was any left, it was sold for silver and exchanged for brown rice and black flour. They could not eat white rice once all year round, and they did not even have white rice porridge.
But now the bags in front of them are full of white rice grains!
This is white rice, as white as snow!
The local villagers felt dizzy looking at the white rice and couldn't help but pinch their thighs hard.
"It hurts, it really hurts, this is real, they really aren't dreaming!"
"Rice, rice, they have rice!"
"Rice, really rice!"
Afraid that all this was fleeting, they couldn't help but look at Xia Chengsheng and asked cautiously, "Sir, is this rice for us? Is this bag of rice really for us? Can we eat white rice too?"
Everyone was stunned by this surprise, but they still couldn't believe that all this was true and needed to confirm it over and over again.
Precious things like rice are only eaten by rich people. People like them who work hard in the fields are not worthy of eating them. They are lucky enough to have brown rice and black flour to fill their stomachs.
They really couldn't imagine this rice being as white as snow!
Liu Youran, her two daughters-in-law, and several other women who helped her were busy most of the night, either boiling water or decocting medicine, helping the doctor take care of the wounded.
They hardly stayed up late that night, and it was not until dawn that they were able to rest for a while.
Many tents were set up, but they were still not enough to accommodate the people, as a constant stream of wounded were carried in.
Zhang San and others spent the whole night searching for survivors with the villagers. They were busy all night, with bloodshot eyes and tired faces, but they refused to stop.
The night was getting darker, the sky was turning pale, and the torches in their hands gradually went out. They could only continue their search in the faint morning light.
They piled up the bags of food scattered everywhere, forming a small hill in the middle of the camp.
At the first light of dawn, the hill-like pile of grain glowed softly in the faint morning light, as if it were given life, standing there quietly, exuding warm and solid power.
Sacks piled tightly together, layer upon layer, resembled the skin of the earth gently covered by a white veil. The villagers surrounded this "mountain of rice," their faces filled with disbelief and joy. They reached out and gently touched the sacks, as if to confirm the authenticity of all this.
The air is filled with the fresh aroma of rice, intertwined with the smell of morning dew and soil, forming a warm and shocking picture.
Liu Youran was surrounded by people. Seeing so much food, she pretended to be shocked: "Oh my god, where did all this food come from?"
No one noticed that when they arrived, the food was already piled here.
No one answered Liu Youran's question.
"Madam Xia, wasn't this food obtained by your third son?"
Someone asked, and Liu Youran looked at Xia Qingyu with an expression that said, "I don't know, and no one told me."
Xia Qingyu also looked confused and said, "I don't know either. I didn't get these. I bought those yesterday. Last night, everyone and I were setting up the tent."
He said with hope, "It stands to reason that to transport this much grain here, it would take at least a dozen wagons. But last night we didn't see any wagons carrying the grain, nor did we see any wagon tracks. It's as if this grain just appeared out of thin air."
Everyone was surprised!
Liu Youran knew exactly what was going on, but she didn't show it on her face. Frowning, she said, "This is bizarre. I wonder who has such incredible abilities to move so many things so quietly."
She asked this seemingly casually?
Someone immediately remembered and raised their voice excitedly: "Yes, there really is such a person, Madam Xia, I know who it is?"
Liu Youran looked at the person who spoke in surprise: "Oh, do you know who it is?"
The person who was speaking was a young man who was traveling outside all year round.
The man was very excited when he saw everyone's eyes were looking at him.
"Haven't we heard before about a thief with extraordinary skills? She emptied not only the imperial palace overnight, but also the residences of many court officials and local county magistrates. She simply had that ability to empty a house overnight."
"If these grains really appeared here out of thin air, then I'm sure it must have been done by that rumored thief with superb skills. Apart from her, no one else could have such a skill."
As soon as the young man said this, everyone quickly connected this incident with the extremely skilled thief.
"It can't be her. We've only heard of thieves emptying out various mansions overnight, but we've never heard of thieves stealing things!"
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