When the heavy rain stopped, the progress of the project must have accelerated a hundred times.
Zhu Yunxi was in charge of Kaifeng Mansion, and Hou Yong was in charge, and they worked together to resettle the people within a few days. Although it was somewhat unsatisfactory, it was still in good order.
Grain and grass supplies from various places to support Henan also traveled through the stars and nights and were transported to various places.
However, there are still many places that cannot be taken care of. Henan is a marshy country, and the official roads are almost submerged. Where horses can be used, horses are used, and where boats can be used, boats are used. Ants move like moving houses, transporting supplies to other places.
At this time, Zhu Yunxi was on a small boat.
Kaifeng is the center of Henan, so naturally we don't dare to slack off. But there are other places that we really can't let go without seeing it with our own eyes. And when it comes to the danger of the Yellow River bursting, the surrounding counties, cities and countryside are the most severely affected places.
"Your Highness, can I put some clothes on you?"
On the bow of the boat, Zhu Yunxi only wore ordinary clothes. The bastard was afraid that he would catch cold, so he said behind him.
"It's okay, it's not cold!" Zhu Yunxi looked at the water surface of the flood water with some shimmering scales. Through the water surface, the wheat ears soaked in the water on the ground were almost clearly visible.
"Ahead is Gong County!" Tie Xuan, who was accompanying him, also stood on the bow of the boat and said, "This breach of the Yellow River was the most serious, and the city wall was breached. Fortunately, we were saved. There are ten miles and eight villages around Gong County, and there are countless
One place was spared!”
Zhu Yunxi felt heavy. In this era, there are no efficient means and ways, so we can only make gradual progress. But in this gradual progress, how many people have to suffer.
At this time, the ship will soon run aground.
And people in the city have already come to help, like ants moving, transporting supplies to the city.
Zhu Yunxi got off the boat in a shallow place and walked slowly toward the county town with his guards and others.
As soon as I got closer, a stench suddenly hit me.
Under the city wall, countless victims of the disaster were crowded together. Their expressions were numb, and they had only the slightest strength under the sun. When they saw the cleanly dressed Zhu Yunxi and his party, their eyes were full of fear at first, and then
And full of life.
"Uncle, please be merciful. I haven't had any water or rice for several days. Please be merciful!"
"This young master, your family will reward you for stuttering for generations to come!"
"Young master, I don't want to ask for anything, but my children will never grow up, so please do your best!"
Suddenly, the guards around Zhu Yunxi felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy. They quickly stepped forward and roughly drove these people away.
"Your Highness!" Xie Jin said from the side, "You can't stay here for long, you'd better enter the city quickly!"
Li Jinglong also said, "Yes, Your Highness, I don't agree with your private visit in disguise. Isn't this the capital?"
Zhu Yunxi ignored the two of them, but frowned and said, "Didn't you say that food has been sent to various places to help the victims? Why is there not even a porridge shed?"
No one around him answered. Xie Jin thought about it and said hesitantly, "Maybe the food has just arrived and it hasn't had time yet."
"Old man, how many days have you been here?" Zhu Yunxi asked an old man directly without waiting for Xie Jin to finish speaking.
The old man looked miserable, "I fled here when the flood broke out, but the county town didn't open the gate! Then the flood came, and the old man said he would help block the flood and let us enter the city. But he said no,
We have tried our best, but now we are still not allowed in!"
Zhu Yunxi was furious, "Then what do you eat?"
"Where is there a place to eat?" the old man asked again, "There are kind-hearted people who will throw some for us along the city wall. But you see, there are more and more victims now, and the little things thrown away are not enough to eat! Later,
The government keeps sending out pots of porridge every now and then, but people like me can't grab them!"
Zhu Yunxi suddenly turned to the other side and looked at the team transporting supplies.
Except for the manpower of the Kaifeng organization, those who went out of Gong County to receive supplies were all soldiers with swords. Like wolves and tigers, they separated the victims from a distance and pulled them directly into the city, and the gate of the city was heavily guarded.
, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Being among the victims, this place is like hell.
No one resettled them, no one managed them. The people in the city allowed these victims to fend for themselves outside the city.
"Master!" The old man stretched out his dirty hands and begged, "Give me two! There was a flood and my family lost everything!"
"Your Highness, we can't give it! If you give it, these people will probably swarm us!" Li Jinglong whispered quickly, "They have been hungry for many days, and some of them have red eyes!"
Zhu Yunxi understood this, so he suppressed the anger in his heart and walked forward slowly.
The stench in the air is the excrement of the victims. The yellow and white stuff spread under the city walls in the floods, making people sick just by looking at it.
"Don't drink it, the water is dirty!" Zhu Yunxi suddenly shouted.
He saw with his own eyes an unkempt woman drinking dirty water with her child.
There will definitely be diseases after the flood. Are you afraid of living too long if you drink that dirty water?
But the woman turned a deaf ear and took the child to drink a few sips. Then she hugged the child numbly and went back to the corner to curl up.
"The officials in this place deserve to be killed!" Tie Xuan said angrily, "The whole Central Plains is united in fighting disasters, but there are such beasts!"
Xie Jin sighed, "Man-made disasters are greater than natural disasters!"
Zhu Yunxi continued to move forward without saying a word. The guards around him nervously held the handles of the daggers at their waists, ready to deal with any eventuality.
The closer we walked to the city gate, the more victims there were, almost shoulder to shoulder.
"Wait a moment, Your Highness, I will ask someone to clear the way first!" Li Jinglong said cautiously with cold sweat on his forehead, not leaving Zhu Yunxi.
"Well, go ahead!" Zhu Yunxi said expressionlessly.
At this moment, Zhu Yunxi suddenly discovered that among the crowd of victims, there were a few more unruly and playful men, who seemed to be sizing up something among the victims.
Then, they stopped in front of a girl holding an old man.
That girl seemed to be only six or seven years old, with a delicate face. She hid behind the old man in fear and held on to the old man's trouser leg.
She seemed to have a premonition of something.
"Two gentlemen, would you like to see my little granddaughter?" the old man bent down and asked flatteringly.
Among the several unruly men, a man in Tsing Yi smiled condescendingly and said, "How old are you?" After saying that, he grabbed the girl roughly with his big hands, opened her mouth directly, and looked at the teeth in the mouth like an animal.
"Master" the girl burst out crying instantly and kept struggling.
The old man also wiped his tears and said, "Six years old!"
"It's fair, not bad!" The man smiled at the people around him and said to the old man, "How much does it cost?"
"Twenty," the old man just said. Seeing the unkind expressions of those men, he quickly changed his words and said, "Fifteen pounds, fifteen pounds of millet!"
"Hey, you old man really dares to ask for it!" The man clapped his hands disdainfully, "Nowadays, there are little girls everywhere in the disaster. How about the money of the family? Five pounds, five pounds of millet. The little girls belong to me, and the food belongs to you!"
"No, no!" The old man hugged his granddaughter and cried loudly, "My family was raised as a treasure. If it weren't for a natural disaster, who would sell the child? How can a living person only have five kilograms of millet? Master, you can't do this.
Bullying!"
"Humph!" the man squinted and cursed, "I won't sell it! Well, I won't force it, just wait for death!" After saying that, he led the people to the side and shouted, "Who sells their children!"
The old man's face was filled with tears. He looked at the other huddled figure under the city wall affectionately. He gritted his teeth and said, "Zhong, I sold it!"
The man immediately turned around and said, "Press your fingerprints and I'll give you food!"
"Grandpa, don't sell me! I'm obedient and I won't cry out that I'm hungry. Don't sell me!" The girl burst into tears, clutched the old man's arm, and shouted heartbreakingly, "Grandpa,
You can't sell Xiao Ni'er. Didn't you say that I am your bottle of wine? If you sell me, who will buy you wine in the future? Don't sell me!"
"Xiao Nier!" The old man burst into tears and greedily touched his granddaughter's face with his trembling hands, "I don't want to sell you, you are my life. But if I don't sell you, your brother will starve to death! Your brother
If you die, your father will be dead!"
"Master, don't betray me, I won't cry out that I'm hungry!" the girl cried loudly.
"I can't help you, my dear, for Brother Xen, I can only wrong you!" As the old man said, he knelt down to his granddaughter and kowtowed directly, "For your brother, and for the sake of our family, I can only
Sell you. I kowtow to you, and I will work as a cow or horse for you in the next life, Nier! I can’t help you!"
"Master!" The girl threw herself into the old man's arms and cried loudly, "Why are you so cruel!"
"There's nothing I can do! Your brother is the only one in our family!"
"Master!" The girl suddenly stopped crying and wiped the old man's face with her little hands, "Can you help me with one thing? When the disaster is over, you take your brother home. Don't move. If you move, I will
I can’t find you!”
"Okay, I'll wait for you at home! Ni'er, go to my house and be obedient!" the old man cried.
"You're howling, it's your fate!" The man next to him roughly grabbed the old man's hand, put his fingerprints on a piece of paper, and then threw down a small bag of grain.
"Master!" The girl screamed and was hugged directly by the man.
Another man pulled his neck and shouted, "Take the baby, five pounds of millet for a girl and three pounds for a boy!"
Zhu Yunxi and his party were already looking at it with eyes that were about to burst.
"Why are girls more expensive than boys?" Xie Jin said to himself in confusion.
Tie Xuan said, "Girls can be sold in brothels, but boys are worthless!"
With one sentence, Zhu Yunxi's heart exploded with murderous intent that he could no longer hold back.
"Li Jinglong!"
"exist!"
"I will kill all those who buy children!"
This chapter has been completed!