Old man Qi and old lady Tian asked Qi Bao'er to check over and over again, saying "darling, darling" and "bao" to "bao". Yan
The two of them are fed by the pills that Qi Bao'er picked up from the old man when they were young. They are not really pampered old men and women. One likes to wander around, and the other is cultivating a large vegetable garden at home. They have both hands.
They were so strong that Qi Bao'er was really carried back and forth with their feet off the ground.
What can Qibaoer do?
Now she was just a salted fish without dreams. When Old Man Qi shook her, her whole body shook like waves several times.
Qiu Yu worked extremely hard to hold back her laughter. Looking at her master's expression of hopelessness, she finally found her conscience and stepped forward to save her master from the fire and water.
"Old Master, Old Madam, the Prince has just come back and is definitely hungry, and he is also tired. It is better for the Prince to go wash up first. Madam, please just ask someone to prepare some food."
"Yes, yes." Mrs. Tian wiped away her tears, called Mammy, and trotted away with her nimble legs.
With this attitude, it was obvious that she was going to the kitchen to cook herself. Yan
Old man Qi was also busy urging his granddaughter to wash up quickly, and said: "Don't wash in the bathtub, go to the hot spring. I guess you will come back soon. The hot spring has been cleaned and prepared by the housekeeper every day.
You go take a bath and relax for a while. I heard it’s cold in the North, so don’t leave any cold air or anything in your body.”
It is now December, and the capital has entered the cold season. Even if people are wearing thick clothes on weekdays and don’t have a big cloak wrapped around them, they dare not go out. The wind can already penetrate the cold in the bones.
When Old Man Qi thinks about his granddaughter going to the Northland, which is even colder than the capital, he feels extremely worried every day.
The mother is worried when her son travels thousands of miles, and this is absolutely true. Even if she knows in her heart that he is an obedient spiritual cultivator and is not afraid of severe cold and heat, she still worries when she should.
Qi Kang'an, who was at the border, almost cried to death in the camp. Why wasn't his father worried about his own son, who had been suffering at the border?
A letter came out half a year ago, but it didn’t mention him a word. Is this his biological father? Yan
Qi Bao'er never turned away this kind of love and care from his father, and went to the hot springs as arranged without any hesitation.
She went to the Northland and was not affected in any way, but a bath in a hot spring could calm the old man and old lady's mind.
As soon as Qi Bao'er left, Old Qi stopped Qiu Yu and asked about what happened in the North.
Not to mention, Qiu Yu is really a capable person. She only stayed in Yicheng for one day, no less than someone who has stayed there for ten and a half months.
Qiu Yu slapped her thigh (I learned this from Mrs. Tian), "Old man, you haven't seen that the people in the two neighboring cities are in such misery."
"My servant arrived at Yicheng a step too late. At that time, people from the two neighboring cities had already settled in Yicheng, and the government officials took them to various places to settle down."
"But I have heard a lot from the people in Yicheng." Yan
"I heard from the women who cooked in the post house that the people from Liancheng came to Yicheng first, and Yicheng vacated the entire south of the city for them to stay temporarily..."
To the south of the city is where the poor and beggars of Yicheng live, which is also the poverty-stricken area of Yicheng.
There is a port in the north of Yicheng, close to the sea. Because of the cold weather, this port can only be used for more than two months out of the year. At other times, the water near the shore is thickly iced and cannot be used at all.
Pass the ship.
However, in the port, several wealthy merchants from Yicheng have built large warehouses there. The profits from shipping are huge, and all the wealthy merchants attach great importance to the warehouses at the port. Not to mention the actual construction, there are more than a dozen warehouses.
Because of the special inventory, there are also floor dragons for heating.
During the cold winter, the warehouses were left idle, but the wealthy businessmen were kind enough to lend them out.
Zhou Wenxun and Magistrate Min had never thought of using the port's warehouse to house the victims.
At first, the wealthy households were not very happy. They just borrowed the warehouses and didn't give them away for free. They would have to take them back and continue to use them as warehouses in the future. What if the victims made the fields dirty or damaged?
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Secondly, the port's warehouses combined cannot accommodate hundreds of thousands of disaster victims, and the location of the port is relatively sensitive. It is very close to a grain storage warehouse in Yicheng. If the victims know the location of the grain storage warehouse...
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After discussions between the two parties, they decided to free up the southern part of the city to accommodate the victims.
The people in the south of the city are also happy. Not only can they live in a warm place in winter, but the government has lent them their houses and paid them rent. The only requirement is that the warehouses should not be dirty or damaged, which is not difficult to do.
Despite Yicheng, there are many big houses in the south of the city, but there are not many people, only a few thousand people. A few warehouses with floor dragons can be arranged without being too crowded.
The entire southern area of the city was freed up, and two to three hundred thousand victims could be accommodated even if they were squeezed in. It was perfect.
"The houses in the south of the city are all dilapidated, and many of them have no shelter from the wind and rain. The people in Liancheng are better off. They bring everything they can at home, but the people in the border town really have nothing. It's extremely cold.
The only things we have are the cotton-padded clothes and quilts issued by the government. The government itself cannot provide many of those cotton-padded clothes and quilts, so each household can only receive one set."
"There are also victims of the disaster in the White Crane Kingdom. I took a look at them. Old Master, you haven't seen them. They are all gone." Yan
"It was too difficult for them to get all the way to the border town. In addition to the ground cracking during the earthquake, a huge mountain suddenly appeared in some places where there were no mountains. They had nothing left under the earthquake, but it was still so difficult to get all the way there. After arriving at the border town
, and many people are infected with the disease."
Qiu Yu didn't dare to talk too carefully, for fear of startling old man Qi.
But since the old man himself has been a person fleeing disasters, how can he not understand the suffering of the victims?
Hearing this made him feel uncomfortable, and his eyes turned red, "I heard Guaiguai mentioned before I left that the border town itself is short of food and medicine."
Qiu Yu also nodded in panic, "I didn't dare to ask the prince, but I listened when the Wuying Army members were chatting."
"The prefect of the border town was unkind and colluded with the wealthy businessmen in the border town and several deputy generals in the border army. He embezzled a lot of the food distributed by the imperial court to the border town."
"The people in the border town are hungry and hungry, and the army in the border town doesn't have much food left." Yan
"When the prince arrives at the border town, the food in the border town army can only last for another day or two. If the prince arrives a few days later, even the border town army themselves will have no food to eat."
Under such circumstances, they still had to give rice paste to the victims of the Baihe Kingdom outside the city, at least once a day, otherwise the victims would surely riot.
Old man Qi slammed the table angrily, "These damn beasts are alive."
Those who escaped the disaster most hated this corrupt official who was trying to kill the people in disguise.
Qiu Yu hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man pray, fearing that he would get angry.
"Old Master, please calm down. Your Majesty has dealt with those corrupt officials and made decisions for the people in the border town."
"You did the right thing, obediently. Such a dirty official deserves to die." Yan
