Chapter 291: Setting off for disaster relief
Lu Xiao knew that he had done something wrong before, so he patiently explained, "Wife, please don't misunderstand me anymore. There's really nothing between me and her. From now on, if any woman gets close to me, I will kick her away."
Now he only has his woman and daughter in his mind and eyes, and he is too lazy to even look at other women.
If his wife misunderstands him again, it would be really unfair!
Yu Tan snorted coldly, "I know! You guys should leave now."
I took a look at my daughter and felt extremely reluctant to leave.
No matter how reluctant she was, she knew that this disaster relief effort concerned the lives of many people, so she had to let her daughter go.
"When I come back, we'll give our daughter some brothers and sisters." Lu Xiao laughed and left with his daughter in his arms.
Yu Tan's face turned red all of a sudden. She has been so frivolous all day long!
Looking at the backs of the father and daughter as they walked away, I thought that Lu Xiao's illness had been cured by the pills fed to her by her daughter, so it would be fine to give her a younger brother or sister.
Then she thought again, before his daughter was born, this man's attitude towards her was not so good, and she absolutely could not forgive him so easily.
When they got outside the city, Lu Xiao looked at the carriage that suddenly appeared before him, his mind froze. "Girl, what are you doing?"
How many good things are there in his daughter’s space?
"Car, car..."
[Of course this car goes fast! It's faster than riding a horse!]
[The disaster area can't wait for food to be delivered, so we have to go there first!]
The horses in this carriage don't need to eat grass or drink water, nor do they need to rest. They can complete a ten-day journey in just three days.
Zhuifeng also took a breath of cold air. If the ten-day journey could be shortened to three days, how fast would the carriage have to be?
"We'll go to the disaster area first, and Zhui Yu will personally deliver the subsequent food supplies."
Lu Xiao carried Lu Yaoyao and got into the carriage.
Zhuifeng sent a signal flare, then got on the carriage and sat in the front to drive.
The carriage started and disappeared at the city gate in the blink of an eye.
Zhuifeng's eye twitched. This carriage knew where to go without him even having to drive it. It was amazing!
Lu Xiao was in the carriage and was shocked when he saw what was inside.
Every item in here is priceless, and the space is terrifyingly large.
Lu Xiao didn't ask his daughter what was going on with the carriage. Instead, he let her play in it by herself while he held a meeting to deal with the documents he brought with him.
Zhuifeng also came in and was shocked by the situation inside. He could only calmly take care of Lu Yaoyao while she ate snacks.
The carriage was indeed moving very fast, and they arrived in Bai'an County three days later.
Bai'an County was the worst-hit area this year.
As soon as we entered Bai'an County, we saw the scene of people living in dire straits.
This place is remote and mountainous. From a distance, there is no green at all, and it is covered with dry yellow earth everywhere.
It's like an old man who has lost his vitality and is waiting for his death.
Bai'an County is a place with scarce water resources. It has been suffering from drought for three years, and the relief grain from the imperial court should have been delivered there.
But people here are still dying. It goes without saying that not much of the food transported by the court can reach the hands of the victims.
[The terrain here is steep, and the land is all halfway up the mountain. It would be great if we could turn this land into terraces.]
If they dug more water cellars on the hillside to store water, the locals would be able to grow more crops and the yield wouldn't be so low.
Lu Yaoyao leaned against the window of the carriage and looked outside. She found that most of the land here was mountainous. Even in years of good weather and harvest, the grain yield from this kind of land was not high.
Not to mention the drought years.
If it could be made into terraces, enough water could be stored and the crops would not all die of drought.
Lu Xiao looked up from a pile of documents. Terraced fields? What did they look like?
He knew about the water cellar, so it was possible to have one.
Lu Yaoyao took out paper and pen and wrote and drew on it. Soon, the shape of the terraced fields was drawn on it.
Because he was young, his drawings were crooked, like ghostly scribbles, and if you looked closely, they looked a bit like terraced fields.
"Dad, the fields."
Lu Yaoyao pointed at the terraced fields in the painting.
Lu Xiao looked at the scribbles on the paper and couldn't help but feel a headache. "Is this a field?"
The lines drawn here look like snakes crawling. Is this called a field?
Lu Yaoyao was extremely anxious. Isn’t Dad too stupid?
The terraced fields she drew are so simple, how can you not understand it?
There is no other choice but to use the ultimate move!
[There's nothing I can do! I can only let Dad see the scene in person.]
Lu Yaoyao climbed onto Lu Xiao's legs and tapped his forehead with her little finger.
A large number of beautiful pictures and information appeared in Lu Xiao's mind. After seeing the appearance of the terraced fields, he was shocked on the spot.
[I'm exhausted. I'm so tired! I need to get some sleep.]
Lu Yaoyao fell asleep in Lu Xiao's arms due to exhaustion.
"Yaoyao." Lu Xiao felt so distressed. She had fallen asleep from exhaustion more than once.
The last time was because he wanted to restore Yu Tan’s damaged body. He used her power and slept for three days before waking up.
This time, it was he who caused his daughter to use that mysterious power again.
Lu Yaoyao was sleeping soundly, and the seal of the first level of the Five Elements Technique was slowly being released.
This time, Lu Yaoyao woke up after sleeping for a whole day. Seeing that she was still in her father's arms, she rubbed her eyes.
"father."
I looked around and found that I was no longer in the carriage, but on the street.
"Girl, are you awake? Are you still feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" Lu Xiao touched the little girl's forehead.
I was relieved to find that her temperature was normal.
He was reluctant to put her down that day and slept with her in his arms.
He was really worried that something might happen to his daughter.
"No." Lu Yaoyao stared around with wide eyes. This was the main street of the county town. Many people were dressed in rags and their eyes were green with hunger.
They all looked at the door of the grain store, wishing they could go up and grab the food.
[These people must have been hungry for a long time, right? Those children are almost starving to death.]
[Where's the county magistrate here? Why doesn't he do anything?]
[The most important thing now is to let these people have a bowl of porridge.]
That grain store was the only shop still open in Bai'an County; all the other shops were closed.
There were also several burly and strong martial artists guarding the door to prevent refugees from stealing food.
"It's so expensive." Lu Yaoyao looked at the sign at the door, which read two taels of silver for one kilogram of rice.
An ordinary family's annual income is less than ten taels of silver, and this kilogram of rice costs two taels. Who can afford it?
Lu Xiao carried Lu Yaoyao into the grain store and saw that there was not much grain inside. There was only one kind of grain, and it was moldy.
"Don't you know that eating this kind of food will cause poisoning?"
It is true that it is a disaster year, but we cannot eat moldy food.
What's the difference between eating such food and eating poison?
The shopkeeper thought that a big customer had come, but he didn't expect that he would be questioned right away. His smiling face changed color in an instant.
"This is the only food we have here. Do you want to buy it or not? If not, get out."
These grains were specially taken out from the corner of the granary by their county magistrate!
These untouchables don't deserve to eat good food.
It's good enough to have this kind of food to eat. It's already this time and you're still picky.
[How shameless! The county magistrate here has stored the good grain in his backyard, eating the good food himself and selling the moldy food. Now the people are hungry and will eat anything, and many people have been poisoned to death.]
To conceal his actions, the county magistrate dumped all the poisoned civilians into a large pit in the back hills. Now that the weather is hot, a plague will soon break out. All the dead bodies should be burned.
[Ouch! If this continues, the people of Bai'an County will have no chance of survival.]
(End of this chapter)
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