Seeing the cotton-padded jacket she had worked on for several sleepless nights being thrown to the ground mercilessly by Jun Beiqi, Si Xueyi's face froze, revealing a delicate and tearful expression, as if she would cry in the next second.

At this moment, Lin Zan, who was standing next to him, stopped watching the show, walked out, coughed lightly, and actually picked up the clothes thrown on the ground.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is a piece of clothing made of woolen fleece that is very good at keeping out the cold. It looks thin and light, but it is very warm when worn. Your Highness, the Crown Prince, really doesn't want such a good piece of clothing."

Lin Zan said this deliberately, and Jun Beiqi looked at her with calm eyes like a deep pool.

"Since the prince doesn't want it, I can't let Miss Si down, so I'll put it on." Lin Zan's health was not good to begin with, and he had been standing outside for a long time, so his hands and feet were already frozen.

So she put on the clothes made by Si Xueyi without hesitation, and soon blocked out the cold wind outside, without any disgust at all.

"Miss Si's craftsmanship is really great, and this dress is so beautiful." Lin Zan said with a smile, praising Si Xueyi.

Unexpectedly, the affection she had shown over the past few days was actually worn by someone else. Si Xueyi's face was extremely embarrassed, but she had to show a tolerant and generous look. "As long as Miss Lin likes it."

After saying that, she looked at Jun Beiqi with pitiful eyes, but Jun Beiqi didn't buy her at all and walked straight to Qin Huai, the official in charge of transporting grain.

That's right, after the injustice was reaffirmed, Qin Huai was reinstated and was temporarily designated by Jun Beiqi as the main official for disaster relief. He transported food, compiled the population, and began to distribute it to the victims.

"I'm wearing this dress that Miss Si took so much effort to sew. Miss Si won't blame me in her heart, right?" Lin Zan walked to Si Xueyi and asked with deliberate blinking, his tone still containing a hint of naivety.

Si Xueyi shook her head quickly. She naturally couldn't let others know what she was thinking. "Miss Lin, you are joking. This dress is meant to keep out the cold. If it can be used, it will be worth my effort."

"Miss Si is really beautiful and kind-hearted!" said Lin Zan's grandmother, but she complained in her heart that Si Xueyi's face-saving work was unmatched.

Si Xueyi's coming was just an episode, and everyone's attention was still focused on disaster relief.

Soon, the gate of Yonghe City was opened, and the victims who were blocked outside the gate were let in. Porridge stalls and a place to distribute food had been set up in front of the government office.

Although a lot of grain was seized from grain stores and granaries where officials had embezzled grain, it was still a drop in the ocean compared to the vast number of disaster victims and was not worth mentioning.

Jun Beiqi then issued an order that every disaster victim could come to the government office every day to receive two bowls of rice porridge and half a bushel of rice, and they were not allowed to claim without authorization, nor more than that.

The victims swarmed towards the government office like ants, and then they saw the officials inside mixing rice porridge with clean sand and distributing it to them.

When seeing this scene, Lin Zhan nodded slightly with feeling, then looked at Jun Beiqi, and the two people's eyes instantly met.

When Lin Zhan made this suggestion, he did not expect Jun Beiqi to accept it. This unconditional trust made Lin Zhan feel as if he was immersed in warm water, and his whole body was warm.

Si Xueyi, who was standing nearby, was quite puzzled when she saw this scene. "Why mix sand into the rice porridge? Since it's disaster relief, can't the victims eat well?"

Si Xueyi was not the only one who thought so. The victims were also stunned when they saw the rice porridge mixed with sand and soil to form a bowl of gray rice porridge.

"Why do you want to mix sand into the porridge? Are you trying to kill us?"

"If I drink this kind of porridge, it will cause my intestines to break and my stomach to burst. How can I drink it?"

The voices of the victims talking around them soon made the scene noisy. Jun Beiqi waved his hand, and the officers and soldiers in the government office appeared next to the many victims with swords in their hands.

The deterrent effect of these officers and soldiers was still very useful. The victims soon calmed down. Jun Beiqi then said to the victims, "There is limited food in Yonghe City now. I don't know when the relief food will be delivered. In order to ensure that everyone can have a bowl of porridge to drink and not starve to death, I have no choice but to do this."

After listening to the prince's words, many disaster victims still could not understand. Hunger and ignorance made them angrily throw the porridge bowls in their hands to the ground.

There were even some pedantic literati who felt that the prince was humiliating them and that a gentleman should not accept food given out of pity.

Looking at this chaotic scene, Lin Zan frowned slightly. She had only seen how Jun Beiyu handled this matter in the original book, but the original book did not describe the details of the handling.

She only knew that if the food supply was completely released, the food in Yonghe City would not last more than seven days. After all, once the news of the release of food in Yonghe City spread, the disaster victims in the surrounding areas would flock here.

There are more and more victims of the disaster, but less and less food. When there is no food left, the riots begin.

Once the riot begins, there will be casualties in the confrontation between the victims and the soldiers. By that time, Jun Beiqi's reputation will plummet, and the emperor's trust in him will also fall to the bottom.

For a moment, Lin Zan frowned deeply, thinking about how to solve this matter.

At this moment, the self-righteous Si Xueyi stepped forward, walked to Jun Beiqi, and said affectionately, "Prince, why don't you distribute rice porridge to the victims while there is still enough food? If there is not enough food in a few days, how about adding sand to the rice porridge?"

Listening to Si Xueyi's words, Jun Beiqi didn't say anything, but instead set his gaze on the silent Lin Zan.

Lin Zhan naturally also heard what Si Xueyi said, and although her voice was soft, her tone was very firm.

"It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. If the disaster victims were to eat rice porridge without any sand at the beginning, they would definitely not agree when sand was added later."

"You mean to act according to the original plan." Jun Beiqi instantly understood what Lin Zan meant.

Lin Zan also nodded. What was unexpected was that Jun Beiqi unconditionally accepted Lin Zan's opinion. He just waved his hand and continued to put sand into the rice porridge.

Those who had received a bowl of porridge before were not allowed to receive it again. Everyone was shocked for a moment, but they could not survive without drinking this bowl of porridge mixed with sand.

So under the strong suppression, many victims had no choice but to take the bowl of porridge mixed with sand and sit aside to drink it carefully.