Chapter 31: Can't Wait That Long
It's a pity that the prefect of Liangcheng had lived for forty or fifty years and had been confused for half of his life. At this moment, his lips were trembling with joy at the admiring eyes of Duke Zheng Yuchi Shuo and others.
And he looked at Gu Feixue with even more respect.
When Gu Feixue saw some people gathered together to chat after registering, she just frowned slightly, and the prefect immediately ordered people to disperse.
Gu Feixue felt a little relieved despite her helplessness. It seemed that the prefect of Liangcheng was indeed a good official. As long as he paid attention to the methods and approaches in the future, he should be able to govern Liangcheng well.
After inspecting the refugee camp, the prefect personally wrote an inscription for the village, naming it Anju Village instead of the refugee camp.
Duke Zheng had been working non-stop since last night. As soon as he saw the sun high in the sky, it was time for dinner, so he led Yuchi Shuo and his party to the largest restaurant in Liangcheng for dinner.
Although he did not want to be extravagant, Duke Zheng was also afraid that other people in the restaurant would offend His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so he set up private rooms in the restaurant and had guards at the door so that he could discuss disaster relief matters.
When they arrived at the restaurant, Gu Feixue took a look at the menu and found that there were not many items that interested her.
Most of them are simple vegetable markets. Apart from some big dishes like braised pork, braised fish, and lion's head, there are basically few fresh dishes.
Fortunately, in her memories, she knew that there was oil in this world.
In other words, oil is not difficult to find. In addition to the common lard in ancient times, there are also some rapeseed oil and corn oil.
However, corn oil with a mild flavor is difficult to find. As far as I can remember, there were only a few of them on the Gu family’s table.
In fact, the efficiency of oil extraction in ancient times was not high. Besides, vegetable oil is not necessarily healthier than animal oil. As long as animal oil can be obtained normally, Gu Feixue will feel at ease.
After all, she would have to cook some food to reward her stomach in the future, otherwise living in ancient times would be too boring.
Everyone checked into the Tianzi room, and after waiting for a while, the dishes came up one after another.
Since there were more than ten people here, except for the guards, there was no distinction between men and women, and the dishes ordered were quite varied.
However, these dishes seemed pretty good to people like Duke Zheng, at least they were pretty good dishes in this time of famine, but in Gu Feixue's eyes they were really not that good.
Especially when the vegetables are overcooked and the meat is overcooked, I always feel that it is a waste of food.
Rather than not being able to enjoy the food's true flavor, Gu Feixue thought it would be better not to cook it. She ordered a pot of porridge, which these people could eat and they could just stand by with the other victims.
In the end, Gu Feixue didn't touch the food. Instead, she filled two bowls of rice porridge and drank them quickly.
He turned around and looked at Gu Sang and Gu Da, and saw that they had not eaten any vegetables or even meat.
After asking, I found out that the two were not used to the food. That's right, nomadic people are herders and have no shortage of meat.
And they are not used to eating pork, but beef and mutton are more to their taste.
Beef cannot be eaten here, and mutton is not yet in season for slaughter, so the restaurant naturally does not have it.
So the two of them could only do the same as Gu Feixue and just drink the porridge.
Gu Feixue looked at the white porridge in the bowl and thought of yogurt. Her mouth immediately secreted a lot of saliva, and she felt very greedy.
She decided that once the disaster was over, she would find a way to earn money to buy a dairy cow and make dairy products.
She was still too short. In her previous life, she was 1.75 meters tall, not much shorter than a boy. But in this life, she seemed to have failed to develop. At the age of seven, she was not even as tall as Gu Tingchuan's shoulders.
"Xue'er, why aren't you eating your food? Is it because it doesn't suit your appetite?"
Gu Lang and his wife did not follow the Crown Prince's team out, and are still in the prefectural villa. Duke Zheng likes Gu Feixue very much when he thinks of her intelligence and cleverness. Since Gu Lang is not around, he naturally has to perform well and win Gu Feixue's favor, so that he can let that rascal trick her into becoming his daughter-in-law in the Zheng family.
"To reply to Duke Zheng, Xue'er just wants to drink porridge."
"If there are no outsiders here, Xue'er can just call me Uncle Zheng."
"Uncle Zheng." Gu Feixue said readily.
The call of "Uncle Zheng" melted Zheng Yannian's heart, and he immediately served Gu Feixue more porridge.
Gu Feixue looked at the porridge in front of her and felt full just by looking at it.
Fortunately, Gu Tingchuan noticed Gu Feixue's embarrassment and brought the porridge over to her to drink.
When everyone left the restaurant, Gu Feixue, Gu Sang and Gu Da were the only ones left with the chubby baby who had just finished drinking the porridge, all with an annoyed look on their faces.
This look really pleased Yuchi Shuo. Seeing Gu Feixue's embarrassment, he couldn't help but smile.
Zhuifeng, who was standing by, saw this and immediately showed a look of horror on his face.
Fortunately, Gu Tingchuan was not too full. Seeing that Gu Feixue could not walk, he bent down and carried her on his back.
In the end, Gu Feixue chose the latter between having her belly shaken constantly and being carried on Gu Tingchuan's back.
Everyone finally remembered that Gu Feixue was just a child of a few years old, and they couldn't help but smile.
By the time the group arrived at the wasteland, half an hour had passed.
Seeing the refugees who had received farm tools and were reclaiming the wasteland, the people who watched the scene were very happy to see the enthusiastic and enthusiastic people working on the wasteland.
However, Yuchi Shuo knew that this enthusiasm would not last long.
Because they will soon find that there is not a trace of water in these fields, let alone the possibility of growing crops.
All of this was already known before Yuchi Shuo arrived, otherwise those people would not have abandoned their homes and fled the famine.
Of course, these things were unknown to this group of refugees from other places.
"Duke Zheng, have you found any clues about the water source for the wasteland?"
Upon hearing this, Zheng Yannian said with a serious expression, "The nearest water source has a good amount of river water, but it's a full two kilometers away. These wastelands require too much water, and getting water from there will only be half the result with twice the effort."
Yuchi Shuo pondered for a moment, then asked, "How's the progress of recruiting personnel to build a new waterway?"
Zheng Yannian also shook his head: "There are not many people in Liangcheng who can use water. It's a famine now, and not many people are willing to come and repair it even if they are paid. Unless..."
Zheng Yannian paused, looked at Yuchi Shuo and continued, "Unless we allow those refugees to repair it and use food as payment for their labor."
This was obviously a good idea in the eyes of Zheng Yannian and the prefect, but Yuchi Shuo rejected it out of hand.
"No, these refugees are weak. Building water conservancy projects will not only test their physical strength, but also easily breed plagues due to the proximity to water."
Zheng Yannian and his companions were suddenly speechless. What should they do?
"When is the fastest we can recruit people from the nearest neighboring town?"
The prefect thought for a moment and replied respectfully, "At the fastest, half a month; at the slowest, two or three months. However, the places nearby have heard that Liangcheng has suffered a disaster, so recruiting people will cost a lot of money."
When everyone heard that the water problem was so difficult, they were completely helpless.
After a long time, everyone only heard a sigh from the crowd.
Then everyone just heard Gu Feixue say calmly:
"Even if we could recruit people today, it would take more than a month to build the ditches. These disaster victims who are reclaiming the land cannot wait that long."
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