However, not everyone can join the rebel army, and the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled are not accepted.
As long as you have the ability to work.
This also means that there are still some refugees who have not been resettled and may die at any time and anywhere.
On the way here, Chu Qi pretended to form a caravan with General Wei and others and bought a lot of food along the way. However, facing a large number of hungry people, that little bit of food was simply a drop in the bucket.
but.....
We cannot just watch the refugees starve to death.
Chu Qi acted promptly and wrote a letter to her brother Qi Chenli, asking for support.
Before her brother's rescue arrived, she first went to look for Shi Qiang's relatives with more than 200 "merchants" under her.
Shi Qiang didn't have many relatives. Apart from the distant relatives who didn't live with her, she only had her father, mother, and a younger brother.
After all, he was once a minor official in Shenzhou, so it was easy to find his place of residence.
But when the disaster struck, Shi Qian was not sure whether her relatives were still at home.
Before arriving in Shenzhou, she had never known that a place that had experienced a disaster would be like this.
Everywhere there are traces of floods and earthquakes.
On the way, she also saw many people who died in natural disasters, starved to death, or died of disease.
I wonder if daddy and the others are safe?
Now all her worries about eloping with someone and being discovered by her father and then being beaten by him were gone. She only prayed that her father and the others could survive!
Chu Qi saw that Shi Qiang was uneasy, but there was nothing she could do except comfort her.
At that time, with a feeling of trepidation and fear, Qiang and Chu Qi and others came to the county government office where her father once worked, only to see that the county government office had been flooded.
There were many earthquakes and floods in Shenzhou. In some places, both natural disasters occurred at the same time, while in some places, only one occurred. Obviously, this county government office was the place covered by the flood.
When Shi Qiang saw that the county government office was deserted and lifeless, her legs went limp.
Chu Qi held her arm, held her waist with his left hand, and used himself as a support to hold her up, preventing her from falling to the ground.
"Daddy, mother, brother——"
No response was heard.
She has already looked for her parents' family but found no one. Her last hope is in the county government office.
She remembered that there was a cellar behind the county government office where grain was stored.
If Dad and the others were lucky enough to survive, they would probably come back here and stay temporarily.
After all, the world is so big, but there are not many places to stay. If you move with the refugees, your chances of survival are not great...
However, it was impossible for a small official to seek help from the court on his own under the rule of Emperor Yanqing.
Shi Qian's voice was choked with sobs, her fingers tightly clasped on her lover's arm, "I'll go in and look for her..." she said.
"Okay, I'll go with you." Chu Qi responded and helped Shi Qian walk in.
General Wei and several other men also helped in the search, while the rest of the men were left to guard the cargo carried by the horse-drawn carriages at the rear.
Although there are no refugees around at the moment, there is no guarantee that there will be no robbers, so it is necessary to have more people guarding the place. On the way, the group has already encountered many robbers fleeing famine. If it were not for Chu Qi and General Wei, I am afraid that everyone would have suffered casualties.
From the back, a disheveled man walked back slowly. When he saw the neatly dressed people standing in front of the county government office, he was stunned. He couldn't help but stop in his tracks, and a look of vigilance appeared on his dirty face.
He walked with a limp, as if he had some problem with his legs. He was leaning on a cane and holding a bunch of weeds in his hand, hesitating to move forward.
But when he saw someone entering the yamen, the man gritted his teeth, hid a handful of grass in his arms, and stepped forward to ask:
"May I ask who you are?"
"I and others are merchants passing by..." Xuan You is the oldest and the highest-ranking official in the group, so his words carry a lot of weight. Since the leader Chu Qi is not here, he is the one who fools people:
"Everyone else is fleeing, why are you still staying here?"
The man's lips were straight, his eyes were flickering, and under Xuanyou's kind gaze, he spoke:
"I have disabled legs and feet, so it is inconvenient for me to flee, so I stay here."
As he spoke, his eyes uncontrollably glanced towards the back of the county government office, with a hint of anxiety in them.
Xuanyou naturally noticed that he was absent-minded, so he asked casually, "Do you have any relatives alive?"
We will also be recruiting refugees in the future, so it would be good to say a few more words and understand the people's sentiments.
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With the support of Chu Qi, Shi Qian walked into the county government office with weak legs and feet. She came to the place where the cellar was in her memory and continued to call for her relatives.
Soon, there was a faint noise from the cellar, and then the iron lid was opened, and a young man popped his head out:
"elder sister?"
"Sister, it's really you!!" The boy's eyes lit up, and he pushed open the lid abruptly. He climbed up using his hands and feet, not caring about how dirty he was, and was about to pounce on Shi Qiang:
"Why are you back? I missed you so much--!!"
Suddenly, a soft palm wind came from his waist and gently brushed him away. He followed the force and took three small steps back.
Chu Qi retracted her hand, and the hilt of the sword blocked between Shi Qiang and the young man:
"Just talk like this, don't hug me."
juvenile:"??"
He was confused, and soon found his sister in the arms of a strange man. He was immediately shocked: "Sister, who is he? Didn't you enter the palace?"
Shi Qian knew that Yun Chang disliked her brother for being dirty, so she did not try to break free from the hilt of the sword. Instead, she stood two or three people away from her brother and said,
"Where are Daddy and Mommy?"
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