"A group of officials did go into the mountains a few days ago, and they haven't come down yet."
Shen Yong looked at the old man who looked so hungry that he had no strength, but did not eat the buns. He frowned in confusion.
"Uncle, you're so hungry that you can't even stand up. Why don't you eat the buns?"
The old man pulled his cracked lips.
"Your Excellency, you may not know that my humble wife is almost dying of hunger in bed. She needs these two buns even more."
"At least I can still move around, and I can still hold on..."
These two buns were his wife's life-saving buns, how could he bear to eat them.
Shen Yong frowned and threw another bun to the old man.
“Eat it!”
The old man hurriedly reached out to catch the bun, looked at Chen Yong with tears in his eyes, and knelt down.
"Thank you so much, sir. Thank you so much..."
Shen Yong watched the old man eat a bun with tears in his eyes and said,
"Do you have a son at home?"
The old man licked his fingers carefully, swallowed his saliva and looked at Chen Yong.
"My dear, I have three sons."
"But the family has already split up, and things are not going well for the sons either."
"Well, it's a drought year, and the whole village is pretty much the same, just holding on."
"It's good to have sons." Shen Yong nodded, "Master can let the sons go to Menglan City to sign up for the army."
"If you successfully register, you will receive your monthly salary immediately. Each person will receive 20 kilograms of rice, 20 kilograms of brown rice, 20 kilograms of white flour, one kilogram of salt, five kilograms of rapeseed oil, and five kilograms of pork."
"That's enough to get you through the winter."
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