Chen Qi was taken back to Yingge Village by Yi Tianhu and his wife. After staying for a few days, he wanted to say goodbye.

"Why don't you live for a few more days?" Yi's wife looked at Chen Qi reluctantly. Although she had never met for eighteen years, Yi Tianhu and his wife were still extremely happy about Chen Qi's sudden appearance and treated him like their own child.

"Godmother, I still have some things to do. I should have spent more time with my parents in the mountains, but that matter is also very important. I will come back to visit you and your adopted father in the future. I will spend more time with you at that time."

"Since you have something to do, we won't force you to keep it. Remember to come back more in the future, this is your home." Yi Tianhu said.

"Kids remember!"

Yi Tianhu took out a letter and handed it to Chen Qi with an animal tooth, "My brother is a deputy general in Xiang Chengjun, not far from the capital. My son is also there. If you have something to do outside, you can go there to find them. When they see this letter and this wolf tooth, they will help you."

Chen Qi took the letter and Langya and said, "Thank you for your adoptive father!"

Chen Qi bid farewell to Yi Tianhu and his wife, and left Yingge Village with the clothes sewn by Yi's wife and some dry food.

After crossing mountains and ridges, this continuous mountain range was out on May and 6th, and the official road was on the way. This official road led to Yuezhou and Yunzhou on the other side. Chen Qi determined the direction and walked towards Yunzhou City.

Along the way, Chen Qi met many victims from Yuezhou, and often saw victims starving to death on the roadside. Chen Qi felt very sad when he saw these. The dry food he brought had long been distributed to those victims in need. When he saw that there was anything sold, he would buy them all and share them with the victims.

Chen Qi only realized during his conversation with the victims that not only Yuezhou, but Hengzhou and Qingzhou were also seriously affected. Last autumn, the three states had no harvest. The prefecture reported to the court. The court not only exempted the taxes of the three states, but also received food for disaster relief for each household.

After the beginning of the Spring Festival, the disaster relief food under the court was gradually eaten, but the prefecture did not send any disaster relief food. It gradually began to starve people to death, some people fled, and some people began to rob official grain. The robbers were quickly suppressed and many people were killed.

Those who were the first to have no food escaped in early spring. Some people have been forced to escape from their hometowns where they have lived for generations until now. Yunzhou, the closest one, was the option to escape. On the way to escape, many people starved to death without perseverance until the end.

"Since someone robs grain, it means there is food in the granary of the government. Why don't they help you?" Chen Qi looked at a man who fled and asked, "He just rescued this man, he was in his twenties, named A Niu, as strong as a cow."

A Niu ate some food given by Chen Qi, drank some water, slowly recovered his strength, and started chatting with Chen Qi.

A Niu said: "Although the court allocated not much disaster relief food, it can also allow most of the victims to survive the spring planting. When the autumn harvest comes, there will be new food. This disaster year is over. However, most of these officials have fed their own pockets, regardless of the lives of the people, deducted the court's disaster relief food, and then joined forces with the unscrupulous merchants to sell it at a high price, which will cause great disaster wealth."

"Since the court has allocated disaster relief money and food, it will definitely send officials to supervise it. Why don't you sue these corrupt officials?"

"Report? We can't even see these officials, how can we sue?" A Niu said angrily, "Although the court sent people to supervise, these dog officials are the same. As soon as people arrived, local officials served them delicious food and drink, and then sent a lot of silver notes. Will these people still make decisions for the people?"

"Just to fill your personal pockets and ignore the lives and deaths of the people. Should these dog officials really be killed?" Chen Qi said angrily.

Although he heard the disaster situation mentioned in the mountains that day when those who escaped from the escaping labor mentioned the disaster, Chen Qi did not expect that the disaster was so serious. He did not expect that there were three states who were affected, nor did he expect that these officials would dare to deduct the money and food of the court's disaster relief regardless of the lives of the people. So when he knew about this, he was extremely angry and also blamed himself for coming out earlier so that he could rescue these victims earlier and starve less to death.

"Kill them? Those who robbed some food will be beheaded when caught. Who dares to kill them? Besides, they are protected by guards and cannot get close to them at all." A Niu shook his head, his face full of helplessness.

"You can't just do this, you must think of a solution." Chen Qi said to himself.

Chen Qi asked A Niu to move forward with him, which not only guaranteed his life, but also allowed him to help him save people on the way.

Aniu's family left one by one due to hunger and illness on the way to escape, and he was the only one left here. If Chen Qi had not rescued him in time, he would have died now. Now that Chen Qi asked him to travel with him, he was naturally very willing.

Walk along the way, provide rescue, and go all the way outside Yunzhou City.

In the afternoon of that day, Chen Qi saw a shed selling food at a glance. Strangely, although there were a lot of food in the shed, there were only a few men in black sitting, and there were no diners. No one came forward to beg for those hungry escapees.

Chen Qi and A Niu walked forward and said to several sleepy people: "Do you sell food here?"

A man in black looked up at Chen Qi, stood up, stretched his waist, yawned a long time before slowly saying, "Don't you sell it? Can't you give it to you?"

Chen Qi said: "Didn't the prefecture expect to have relief for so many victims who fled?

The man said angrily: "Relief? You think it's beautiful. There are so many disaster victims and the court has not allocated money and food for disaster relief to Yunzhou. How can the prefecture save you?"

"Did the court stop saving the victims without allocating money and food? Are you just watching these victims starve to death?" Chen Qi scolded.

The man immediately became angry when he heard Chen Qi say this and said, "You kid is here to find trouble. Whether you save them or not is the government's business. Whatever I do, you have to talk nonsense, be careful not to be polite."

Seeing this, the other people immediately jumped up from the chair. They were all big men with a back and a bear-back. Each of them lifted a steel knife in their hands, showing their fierceness.

Someone said, "He was killed even if it was a troublemaker."

A Niu hurriedly smiled and said, "Several uncles calm down. We are not here to make trouble. My brother just asked casually."

Chen Qi also realized that he was a little excited just now. These were not people from the government, but just business. Although it was a bit fierce, disaster relief really had nothing to do with them.

"How much does this food cost? I bought it all." Chen Qi said.

The man in black sneered twice, then smiled at the big men behind him, "He wants to buy all our food..."

After the man in black said that, he turned around and looked up and down at Chen Qi and A Niu in ragged clothes, and said in a bad voice: "It seems that you are really looking for death, and you dare to spend time."

A Niu was a little scared. Although Chen Qi spent a lot of money to buy food to help the victims along the way, the few people here looked obviously unkind, and there was no one to buy it. He pulled Chen Qi's arm.

Chen Qi patted A Niu's arm and signaled that he didn't have to worry. Then he continued to say to the man in black: "I didn't spend time with you, you offer a price, I'll buy it all."

The man in black was a little surprised and looked at Chen Qi again. Seeing that Chen Qi was dressed in coarse cloth, he didn't look like a rich man, but he was extremely determined when he heard Chen Qi speak, not as if he was joking.

He looked back at the big men behind him, and the people nodded to him. Then he turned around, raised his right hand, stretched out three fingers, "Thirty taels."

"Thirty taels, you guys are robbing money. You just want thirty taels?" A Niu didn't care about being scared and said angrily. The price he offered was outrageous, which made him forget his fear.

"Thirty taels are thirty taels," Chen Qi agreed readily, "I'll add twenty taels to you, and you can sell me these tables, chairs and benches in this place."

"What? You bought this place for fifty taels?" The man in black stared at Chen Qi in surprise after hearing Chen Qi's words. Seeing Chen Qi nodding, he looked at the big men behind him with bricks. The big men nodded to him with excitement on their faces, which was much larger than before and moved faster.

The man in black got the promise of his companion and quickly turned around and said to Chen Qi: "The deal is done."

Chen Qi took out a silver ingot from his arms and threw it to the man in black, "This place is mine, you can leave now."

A Niu looked at Chen Qi in surprise. He didn't expect that Chen Qi really paid 50 taels of silver to buy all the place.

The man in black took the silver, stared at him and looked back and forth carefully several times. After confirming that there was no problem, he turned to look at the other people and said excitedly: "Let's go, brothers, go back to the city for a drink, and come and build a shed tomorrow."

Some of his companions agreed, and some looked at Chen Qi with confusion, but they didn't stop returning to the city. They just didn't understand that this was obviously being slaughtered, but Chen Qi really bought it.

"Brother Chen, why do you spend so much money to buy this place?" A Niu asked in confusion after leaving.

"These food and the items in this shed are indeed not worth fifty taels of silver, but I bought them for usefulness. Compared with the use, fifty taels of silver is not much." Chen Qi smiled, "You will understand tomorrow. Now please greet the victims and share the food with them."

When I heard that there was free food, the victims who were hiding in the distance and staring at the shed all surrounded me in an instant.

"Slow down, don't squeeze, there are all..."

A Niu shouted loudly while steamed buns, but the victims could not listen to him now. Some of them squeezed in, grabbed the steamed buns and ran away.

Faced with such a situation, Chen Qi was prepared for it. He picked up a whole tray of steamed buns and gave them to the elderly and weak victims.

Although the scene was a bit chaotic, fortunately these people were not greedy and left after only taking enough of their needs. Soon, the steamed buns disappeared, and Chen Qi and A Niu distributed the porridge to the victims.

After the last night of porridge was delivered, Chen Qi said to A Niu: "I have something to do in the city. You will live here tonight. Look forward to this shed. I will come to find you tomorrow."

"Yeah." A Niu nodded.

Chen Qi took out two steamed buns from his arms and handed them to A Niu, and walked towards the city.
Chapter completed!