Chapter 235: There are Starving People on the Road
"After such a long time, his injuries should have healed!"
"It's just a broken finger. There's no brain damage. It won't affect anything at all."
Upon hearing this, Dexi immediately agreed, and then Emperor Rongcheng continued to ask, "Which palace does Concubine Hui... live in now?"
Concubine Hui has been deposed from her position as concubine.
He wanted to say Concubine Hui's name, but after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't remember what Concubine Hui's name was, so he just continued to call her Concubine Hui.
Dexi paused for a moment, then returned to the cold palace where Concubine Hui of Emperor Rongcheng was.
Emperor Rongcheng nodded in agreement.
"After all, she has served me for so many years. I'll go see her!"
As he spoke, he walked towards the palace where Concubine Hui was.
Dexi hurriedly followed and turned back to look at the yard calmly.
I thought that the court of Dacheng would probably be in chaos again.
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Jizhou.
Gu Jingchun and his companions were riding at full speed on the road.
Five days had passed since they set out again from that small mountain village.
During these five days, Gu Jinxi has been sleeping.
This made Gu Jingchun, who had been relatively calm, a little flustered.
Fortunately, Doctor Sheng Quan is here.
After seeing Gu Jinxi, he comforted Gu Jingchun and said:
"Don't worry, young lady. The young master is fine. He is just very tired. I believe he will wake up soon."
"Your body is already weak, and now you've been tossed around for days. You should rest well."
In the past few days, in order to travel as quickly as possible and to allow everyone to rest, Gu Jingchun ordered people to purchase two carriages.
Gu Jingchun, Gu Jinxi and Xiaoman Lanxin were in a carriage.
The other two carriages were for Sheng Quan and others to take turns resting, so as to ensure that they could continue their journey day and night.
How could Gu Jingchun have a good rest when he saw the desolate road ahead?
Before this, Gu Jingchun had been in a coma and had no real sense of the horror of those refugees.
As she walked along, she saw the surroundings becoming increasingly desolate, completely different from when she first left.
This made her feel a little depressed.
On the second day, Gu Jinxi finally woke up.
After waking up, he blinked his eyes and began to cry out for hunger.
Xiaoman quickly gave the food she had prepared in advance to Gu Jinxi.
However, Gu Jinxi only ate one pancake and then stopped eating.
Gu Jingchun couldn't help but feel puzzled.
"Xier, why don't you eat?"
"Is it because it doesn't taste good?"
Gu Jingchun sighed slightly and wanted to explain to him that they didn't have any extra food now.
Along the way, because of the looting by the refugees, food in the surrounding villages and even in the town was very scarce.
They went to many places before they bought these cakes.
But thinking that food would become less and less and harder to buy on the road ahead, they kept controlling the amount of food they ate, eating only two pancakes a day.
Moreover, whenever we arrive at a new place, we will stop and buy some more food.
Gu Jingchun also knew that Gu Jinxi would eat a lot after waking up, so he prepared a lot of food for Gu Jinxi.
However, after all, it is a dry biscuit, which is dry, hard and choking, so it is naturally not delicious.
Now seeing that Gu Jinxi didn't want to eat anymore, he immediately thought about explaining.
However, Gu Jinxi slowly shook his head.
He raised his head, looked at Gu Jingchun, and said in a baby voice:
"That's not the case, mother. Xier just feels bad when she thinks about how many people don't have enough food to eat and are dying of starvation, while I have to eat so much."
Upon hearing this, Gu Jingchun paused for a moment, then touched Gu Jinxi's head and spoke.
"Xi'er, I'm very happy that you think this way."
"This shows that you are a kind and sensible child."
"But, mother hopes you understand that kindness is a good thing, but blind kindness will only hurt yourself."
"Those refugees are indeed very pitiful."
"But they gathered together and robbed other people without regard for their lives. This is not right."
"Furthermore."
Gu Jingchun sighed as he spoke.
"Xi'er, you have to understand that it's not you who caused them to not have enough food to eat."
"If you don't eat yourself and give the food you save to them, it might help one or two people survive."
“But it’s just one or two people.”
"But suppose you have a full meal and come up with a perfect solution that can help ten or a hundred people survive."
"Which is more cost-effective, exchanging one meal for two people or exchanging one hundred people?"
Gu Jingchun looked at Gu Jinxi and handed a pancake to him.
"Mother understands that you want to help those people."
"But you have to eat first before you can help them, understand?"
Gu Jinxi nodded.
"But, mother, can I really help them?"
Gu Jingchun nodded.
"Of course you can, because you are not an ordinary person, you are the eldest grandson of the emperor!"
Thinking of this, Gu Jinxi lowered his head with some regret.
"But we have left the palace now. No one outside the palace knows that Dacheng has an eldest grandson."
Gu Jingchun looked at Gu Jinxi's little face and suddenly realized that Gu Jinxi had grown rapidly in just these few short days.
"Then we can think of other ways, right?"
Gu Jinxi nodded in confusion.
He was thinking while eating.
How can we help everyone?
Although he has read many books, he does not understand all of them.
He didn't even know what some of those obscure things meant, so how could he come up with a perfect method?
As he thought about this, he couldn't help but lift the curtain and look outside the carriage.
At this time, we had reached the border between Jizhou and Qijun.
Unlike other places, this place can be called deserted.
It was clearly early spring, but the area within a hundred miles was barren, with only the sky filled with yellow. There was no color at all, and no sign of human life.
Not only Gu Jinxi, but even Gu Jingchun was shocked by the scene in front of them.
This is just the border, and it's already like this. He doesn't even dare to imagine what it will be like further ahead.
She couldn't even imagine what her adoptive mother Mei Xueli looked like now.
As the carriage moved forward, they saw a pile of "bones" that had just fallen to the ground.
Gu Jinxi looked at everything around him and suddenly understood what it meant that there were people starving to death on the road.
He couldn't bear to watch any longer and turned to look at Gu Jingchun.
"Mother, if I want enough food, what should I do?"
Gu Jingchun: “Buy!”
“But this requires enough silver.
"And, judging by the appearance of this place, I'm sure you won't want to buy too much food. Besides, those grain merchants will take the opportunity to raise the price of food."
"Is there any other way?"
When Gu Jinxi asked again, Gu Jingchun explained it to him in detail.
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