Chapter 282 Go to the North to pick it up
Amid the blizzard, disaster relief efforts are ongoing.
Led by the inspector of the Sixianjian, local soldiers and yamen runners quickly joined in, and first moved the people living near the town into the city.
After doing all this, they began to search for the people trapped in the mountains.
These people generally live in remote areas, and their settlements are basically villages, with dozens of people at most and a few households at least. If they don't have the ability to run into the city, it would be difficult for them to survive for too long in the snow.
At first, the search was extremely difficult.
Because everything is white on a snowy day, accurate searching is impossible with the naked eye.
The body cultivators like the Sixianjian were better, but a large number of inspectors in the Sixianjian had low cultivation levels, and many of them suffered from snow blindness during the long searches.
There were even many local officials who had no skills at all and found themselves trapped during the search.
Some local noble families and immortal villages watched coldly and did not lend a helping hand.
For them, this kind of thing is a waste of their practice time.
However, one day later, the situation suddenly began to change.
The efficiency of the search and rescue team began to continuously improve. Countless refugees were rescued and poured into the city, causing these aristocratic families and immortal villages to frown deeply.
Because although these cities have their own city officials, most of them are occupied by large families. The influx of so many refugees will naturally disturb their meditation.
Many aristocratic immortal villages were puzzled as to why these search and rescue teams seemed to have suddenly opened their eyes and were able to rescue such a large number of people every time.
Until one day, one of them found a piece of letter from the government.
The contents of these letters were very simple, with drawings of woods, hills, and villages as reference points, and arrows indicating the locations.
"What is this?"
"It was sent by the Sixianjian. The search team followed the map and found that there were many refugees trapped in every location."
“Who found this location???”
"According to them, this was found by an immortal using his divine sense."
"Searching the mountain with divine consciousness? Are you kidding me..."
After hearing this, all the cultivators' faces changed slightly, and they pulled their lips together and exclaimed that it was absurd.
Because there are some things that mortals may not know, but they know how high a level of cultivation is required to be able to search the mountain with divine thoughts.
At the same time, Ji You sat with pale lips on a broken wall collapsed by heavy snow, and the gold in his eyes seemed to have dyed his pupils.
He had already had a good sleep, but he still felt hollow and weak.
He felt that if the young master of Lingjian Mountain saw how listless he was now, he would even dare to crawl into his arms with his bare butt.
Not far in front of him, Kuang Cheng was leading the people from the Sixianjian and a group of yamen runners who stayed in the city to resettle the refugees who had just been rescued.
Among them were many children, whose hands and feet had turned blue due to the cold. They were now gathered in front of the charcoal fire, shivering while holding corn porridge, and their complexion did not return to normal for a long time.
There were some serious cases where they had already developed frostbite and were being applied ointment by doctors carrying medical boxes.
Ji You was quietly watching the scene in the wind and snow, when he suddenly felt a gaze coming at him.
Turning around, he saw Kuang Cheng, who was settling the new refugees not far away. He straightened up and waved to him.
In fact, ever since he met the little girl who was frozen to death on the road the day before yesterday, Kuang Shusheng has always felt that Brother Ji's complexion has not been good, and there is a hint of black air between his eyebrows.
But after entering the city and seeing many people being rescued, he found that Brother Ji's expression gradually eased.
Brother Ji saved many people, but at the same time he felt that Brother Ji was also saving himself.
At this moment, Peng Dongyang came over holding a piece of letter: "Lord Kuang, the first batch of relief grain for Fengzhou has arrived. Please find someone to distribute it."
"Should we ask Brother Ji first?"
Peng Dongyang was stunned for a moment: "The food comes from Fengzhou, so it should be so."
Then the three of them walked towards the collapsed wall and looked at Ji You who looked tired. "Master Ji suddenly fainted in the mountains. I was really scared. I wonder how he is now?"
Ji You opened his dry mouth and said, "My spiritual power was over-consumed, but fortunately my body is strong. I feel much better after a good night's sleep."
"The first batch of relief grain from Fengzhou has arrived. We came to ask whether it should be distributed now."
“How are you going to distribute it?”
Peng Dongyang glanced back and said, "The refugees gathered in the city are basically in villages. I think we should distribute them according to the number of people in the villages."
Ji You looked around at the places where the refugees gathered and said, "Take the village as a unit and call all the women, the elderly and the children to come and collect them. Each person will get two portions according to the number of people. Men will not get any. If anyone who comes here beats or injures someone, the entire village will get half of the portion."
Peng Dongyang thought for a long time, then turned around thoughtfully and was about to give an order.
Seeing this, Ji You stopped him and said, "Remember, my food is not given for free. If you eat my food today, you will have to go to Fengzhou to work to pay off your debts after winter is over."
"clear."
"Excuse me, Master Peng."
Peng Dongyang bowed deeply, then stood up and left, passing on the orders to his subordinates.
Afterwards, the first batch of grain was unloaded, prepared according to the number of people, and began to be distributed according to the process established by Ji You.
For several consecutive days, the elderly, the weak, women, and children came every day to collect the food and take it back to the shelter where their villages were located.
On the first day, many women had wounds on their bodies, but as time went on, their wounds gradually lessened and no new wounds were added.
There were also some young children who were rescued very early. Even after Wuliu Trading Company distributed all its stored food, their faces were pale with hunger. But now they are finally getting better.
However, after the food shortage problem was temporarily solved when the first batch of food arrived, another problem loomed.
That is, as the number of refugees increased, the places under the city walls and in the valley were all occupied.
You know, it is still a cold season, and the cold wind alone is enough to take half of a person's life. Letting refugees gather in the open air here is not a long-term solution.
After all, the winter will be long and will last for several months. No one can survive that long under such circumstances.
Ji You has been thinking about whether he should kill a few immortals these days to ease the urgent need, but then he thought that if he really went that far, he might not be able to withstand it even with his boundless combat power.
By then, it will not only be him who will suffer, but also the Sixianjian and these refugees, who will probably not escape the disaster.
But at this headache moment, Kuang Cheng brought him to a yard.
The yard is huge and there are many houses, but it is empty.
"This courtyard is an unused residence of a southern noble family. Only in spring and autumn will people come here to appreciate the changing seasons. No one lives here now."
“Is there such a good place?”
Then Kuang Cheng and he took a carriage to the west of the city, and just like before, they pushed open a yard.
This courtyard is also a place where one of the noble families goes for an outing and cools off, but no one lives there at the moment.
After Ji You finished reading, he looked at Kuang Cheng with a strange look in his eyes: "How do you know these courtyards?"
"It was Rui'er who sent me a letter yesterday, telling me the location of these courtyards and asking me to come and see if they are suitable for taking refuge."
"Miss Rui'er is also involved in this?"
Kuang Cheng nodded: "Although Rui'er did not come here with us, she has been helping out at the Sixianjian these days, calculating the food needed and counting the number of disaster victims."
Ji You looked at the yard and said, "The rich are feasting and drinking, but the poor are freezing to death on the streets."
"Brother Ji, what do you think of placing the disaster victims here?"
"How could immortals allow mortals to live in their courtyards? But this is the only way we can do now. If any trouble really arises, we can ask the Heavenly Academy for help."
The refugees were then moved into these vacant gardens, but Ji You did not leave them idle.
Instead, they were asked to use this time to build temporary shelters in the valleys and near the city walls to accommodate the refugees who would enter the city later.
And giving these refugees something to do can also prevent them from worrying too much and causing chaos.
However, it was only after these people moved in that Ji You thought of one thing, which was where the key in Kuang Cheng's hand came from.
He asked Kuang Cheng, who said that it was borrowed by Wei Rui and that there was no need to worry about these noble families settling scores later.
Wei Rui was only the granddaughter of the prime minister of Daxia, so Ji You was a little surprised that she could have such a great honor.
After the houses were built, more refugees were rescued and brought into the city. Ji You went to see them several times, mainly to see the children.
Then he discovered that Si Xian Jian was feeding them a kind of crimson pill, each of which was about the size of a fingernail.
"What's this?"
"The cold-repelling pill can dispel the cold poison and warm up the yang body after taking it."
Ji You watched the child in front of him swallow the pill, and after observing for a while, he asked, "Are there any side effects of this pill?"
The inspector of the Sixianjian immediately spoke up: "To reply to your question, there are no side effects."
"Dan Zong's medicine?"
"yes."
The only sect in the world that can make elixirs without side effects is the Dan Sect. After hearing this, Ji You picked up a pill and looked at it for a long time: "Where did this pill come from?"
The inspector pointed to a figure not far away and said, "It was sent by Lord Kuang's contact. It is said to be the work of Miss Wei, the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion."
Hearing this, Ji You couldn't help but look up at Kuang Cheng.
The Dan Sect's elixirs have never been sold to outsiders, let alone to mortal women.
Moreover, after the news that he had not made a breakthrough in the Holy Land of Sages spread, the Dan Sect's attitude towards him also changed. It was highly likely that they would not send him elixirs just for his sake.
As for Yuan Caiwei, she might want to do it, but this is the time when Danzong is delivering the elixir to Xianzong, and Danzong will not allow her to waste time on this kind of cold-relieving elixir.
Ji You seemed to be thinking about something, then he touched the head of the child in front of him, stood up and looked around.
Not far away, some immortal cultivators with decent skills were staring at him in the wind and snow.
The supply of spirit stones had been cut off a few days ago, and several noble families in Jiuzhou had set off for Shengjing, while several large clans in the surrounding areas had specially sent people to keep an eye on him, intending to take action as soon as there was a result.
In addition, people from several nearby immortal villages were also watching, waiting for this farce to end.
This kind of approaching atmosphere of solemnity and murderous intent would naturally make people nervous.
Everyone in the Sixianjian has been quite worried these days, because they know in their hearts that the impact of the interruption of spirit stone supply is too great.
When Ji You made this decision, everyone in the Sixianjian advised him to think twice.
However, Ji You said that he had his own arrangements, and then issued an order to Fengzhou, saying that if anyone came to ask, everything should be blamed on him.
He also said that he was a disciple of Tianshu Academy and was not under the control of the aristocratic families. Only Tianshu Academy could give orders to control him.
As expected, the noble family went to Shengjing to be held accountable.
But the problem was that he had never been sociable in Tian Shu Yuan and had never thought about making friends. It was said that he even declined several attempts by He Xiangzi, a disciple of Zizai Palace, to recruit him. So how could anyone in Tian Shu Yuan speak for him?
Amid the panic, disaster relief efforts are still ongoing.
During this period of time, some immortal cultivators who came here to monitor him even followed him closely, but they did not see any change in Ji You's expression, which made everyone in the Sixian Supervisor feel uneasy.
Not long after the news came that more than a dozen noble families gathered in Shengjing and headed for Mount Ni, several noble families not far from here suddenly took action.
They hired several horse-drawn carriages, loaded with rice and supplies, and drove towards the official road to the northern border, where they drove away in a bumpy ride.
It was at this time that the people following Ji You evacuated overnight.
"Why are they all gone?"
"They said they would go to the North to get it themselves..."
(End of this chapter)
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