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Chapter 212

Although King Fu's head was broken, he was out of danger at the moment, and Xiao Wenxuan finally let go of the heart that had been raised for many days.

That afternoon, under Xu Wenjin's coercion and lure, Governor Zhou finally set up the porridge shed that had been abandoned for many days.As soon as the fire burned, white steam shot up into the sky, easily attracting the victims of the disaster all over the city.

Zhong Shao only rested in the Governor's Mansion for an hour or two. After knowing that the porridge shed had been opened, he took Xu Wu and a group of Xuanjia troops to go out for inspection-the lesson of King Fu is there, even if The murder weapon for hurting people was bricks, Zhong Shao didn't dare to take it lightly, he brought enough guards with him when he went out.

The porridge shed was set up in the south of the city by Governor Zhou, because the south of the city is the poorest and most dilapidated place in Shengzhou City, and gathering refugees here will not easily disturb the lives of the nobles in the city.

Under the guidance of a small official from the Governor's Mansion, Zhong Shao led the people all the way to the porridge shed in the south of the city. The road deviated from the main road that he had taken when entering the city before, and the more he walked, the more dilapidated it became.Many houses had already been crushed and collapsed in the previous snow disaster, but many others appeared to have been destroyed only in the past two days. It is easy to know that most of these dilapidated houses that collapsed later were caused by those refugees.

It seems that there is indeed a reason for Governor Zhou's reluctance to let refugees into the city again.

Zhong Shao led the people along the way, and most of the houses he saw were destroyed, and occasionally in some corners, he could see a few refugees who had frozen to death and starved to death.It was probably because all the people were taken to the porridge shed by Governor Zhou, and the officials in the city had not had time to restrain these corpses.

After all, it is his daughter's house, and his heart is always softer. When Zhong Shao saw those corpses, he couldn't help but pause, so he asked the little official who led the way: "A few days ago, Shengzhou closed the city gate, and the city is closed every day. Are so many people going to die?"

The little official obviously also saw the corpses in those corners, his face was a bit bitter, he cupped his hands and said helplessly: "My lord doesn't know something, it's not that my lord intends to close the city and refuses to do anything, it's really helpless. There is no food in the city , when those disaster victims entered the city, they acted like rioters, smashing and looting everywhere. They not only robbed food stores, but also robbed people’s houses and even killed people. At first, my adults ordered them to be arrested quickly, but these rioters saw People get even more excited when they are arrested, and they feel that they will not starve to death if they have prison food in their cells.”

Zhong Shao was silent when he heard the words, and asked again: "Then what happened after that?"

The little official took another look at the corpses, then said with a dull face: "We won't arrest people later, and kill those who commit crimes on the spot."

Zhong Shao knew that this sentence of killing on the spot probably killed more than one or two people. There may be hundreds of thousands of people affected by the disaster in Shengzhou, and the number of people who flocked into Shengzhou city is also unknown.It is useless to kill one or two people if you want to deter them. Only by killing the victims until they are afraid can they be calmed down and the people in the city can be saved.But the victims settled down in peace, and they died.

Feeling heavy for a moment, Zhong Shao frowned, said nothing, and followed the little official to move on.Then they went to the porridge shed and saw the noisy and huddled victims, and then they realized why the road was so peaceful before.

The so-called porridge shed, Zhong Shao looked around and saw a row of temporary tarpaulin tents stretching for a hundred meters from near to far.Taking another look at the fireworks and steam, counting dozens of big pots cooking porridge.However, these are only a drop in the bucket for the victims, because the porridge has not been cooked yet, and under the control of the officials, the exhaust team of the victims has no end in sight.

As if he had noticed the arrival of Zhong Shao and others, Governor Zhou, who had been busy in the porridge shed for half a day, squeezed out from the crowd.

In this cold weather, his face was covered with sweat, but this time it wasn't cold sweat, but his face was still pale.Seeing Zhong Shao, Inspector Zhou hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Excellency is here, the lower officials have ordered people to build a porridge shed, and they are cooking porridge now."

Zhong Shao saw the black disaster victims who seemed to have no end in sight, and finally felt a little bit impatient, and asked, "There are so many disaster victims, is there enough food?"

Governor Zhou smiled wryly when he heard the words, many people died of starvation in and outside the city these days, but there were no shortage of victims.Although he raised some food, it's really hard to say how long he can last, maybe even a day or two!

Seeing him smile wryly, Zhong Shao suddenly said: "It seems that the food stored in the governor's mansion has not been moved out?"

The wry smile on Governor Zhou's face froze immediately, and then he replied somewhat hesitantly: "Your Excellency said that the food stock in the Governor's Mansion has not been moved, and the food was obtained from various wealthy households by the officials."

The wealthy households had their own food reserves, and there must have been guards at home. There was a period of turmoil in the city due to the looting of the victims, but these turmoil did not happen to them.Those ordinary people living at the bottom may have engraved their humbleness in their bones. Seeing that most of the rich men dare not break in, and those who break in are beaten to death by the guards, no one dares to come to the door. Disaster.

There was nothing wrong with Governor Zhou going to find those rich households to raise food, but there seemed to be some guilt on his face.Zhong Shao saw it naturally, thought about it and didn't ask, probably already guessed something in his heart, it was nothing more than Governor Zhou himself couldn't borrow food from rich households, so he borrowed it under her banner.It's no big deal, and she doesn't have to pay it back anyway.

While talking, the porridge in the porridge shed was ready, and the victims soon became commotion again.

Zhong Shao listened carefully, and it turned out that it wasn't an excited fight, but arguing and arguing, and even a tendency to fight again.She couldn't help being curious, so she led the people forward, and when she got close, she heard the yamen servant who served the porridge shout: "What's the name, if you don't eat it, get out!"

When she said this, Zhong Shao couldn't help but look sideways, and Xu Wenjin and Wu Changjun who were following her frowned even more.

Inspector Zhou wiped off his sweat again, and timidly said: "Master, let's not go there, these victims are restless now, and His Highness King Fu was also murdered by them when he came to inspect, if you make any mistakes... ..."

Zhong Shao glanced at him when he heard the words, and then looked at the hundreds of Xuanjia troops with bright armor behind him, the meaning was self-evident.

Inspector Zhou still wanted to persuade, but Zhong Shao had already led Xu Wenjin and Wu Changjun to the front. When he took a closer look, he realized why the commotion and dispute started——in the broken bowl of the porridge victims, there was clear water. A bowl of light rice soup, only a dozen or so grains of rice lying sparsely on the bottom of the bowl, if Zhong Shao had to say it, let alone porridge, even rice soup would flatter the contents of this bowl!

Zhong Shao is not a person who has experienced hardships. She lost her father when she was young, and she has no one to rely on for many days. It is common for her to eat and eat.But no matter how difficult it was, she didn't get to this point. This bowl of rice soup is said to be an adult, and even a child can't feed it enough.

Seeing this, Xu Wenjin couldn't hold back his face, and even murmured in his heart: I said it's okay to make the porridge thinner, but it can't be so thin. How different is it from drinking plain water? !

Zhong Shao only took one look, then his face darkened, and he said, "Jami, it's hard."

Hearing this, the yamen servant turned his head angrily and was about to scold, seeing Zhong Shao's appearance, and seeing that their lord governor was still following behind, he immediately swallowed back the words on his lips.His lips moved, and finally said: "But my lord, with so many people, we don't have enough rice..."

All the grain raised from rich families is good, but no matter how good and fine the rice grain is, there is not enough food for so much.

Zhong Shao also knew that the wealthy households had asked Governor Zhou to borrow food once before, and this time there must not be much to borrow, so he said: "If you don't have enough, go to the governor's mansion to move, the governor should not mind accompanying everyone to starve for a few days Stomach." After speaking, he turned his head and thought about Governor Zhou.

Governor Zhou had a wry smile on his face, but there was nothing he could do other than nod his head, it could only last for a few days.

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For three consecutive days, Zhong Shao would visit the porridge shed once or twice a day.Tens of thousands of disaster victims have already gathered near the porridge shed, and the food stored in the governor's mansion is barely sufficient, and they couldn't last even a day, but they were eaten up by those disaster victims. garrison rations.At this juncture of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the guards were almost provoked to mutiny.

Fortunately, Xu Wenjin, who made this suggestion, had a three-inch tongue, and in the end he managed to appease the guards.It's just that the military rations can be transported once, but there must be no second time, and I don't know when He Ming's rations will arrive?

Now that the Northland has just encountered a snowstorm and the roads are difficult, Zhong Shao does not dare to pin all his hopes on He Ming.In fact, she was more concerned about the batch of missing government warehouse relief food. After all, there are so many and the food is so heavy, it will definitely not be quietly transported out of the city, and Governor Zhou did not find anything suspicious after the investigation. , which means that the food is probably still in the city!

Xu Wenjin and others also agreed with this guess, so these days Hong Ping summoned members of the Beggar Gang to search around the city, almost without touching the ground.It's just that those grains really seemed to have evaporated in the world, and there was no clue at all for a while.

On this day, when Zhong Shao came back from the porridge shed, he was a little worried all the way—but in the third day, the porridge in the porridge shed became thinner and thinner, because they really couldn't find any more food, but no matter what Whether it is He Ming or the relief food, there is no news yet.

Zhong Shao was walking on the road, still followed by the whole team of Xuanjia Army, protecting her tightly.But as she walked, she suddenly felt vigilant, and a sense of crisis quietly hit her heart.

In the past two years, Zhong Shao has lived fairly comfortably, but the vigilance brought to her by the four years of being a merchant in the Western Regions may have been engraved into her bones, and she will never forget it in her life.So at the moment when the sense of crisis hit, Zhong Shao didn't even think about it, and instinctively turned sideways and took a quick step to the side...

She bumped into a Xuanjia army, but also escaped a crisis.

There was a crisp sound of "bang", a flower pot hit the place where Zhong Shao had just stood, the coarse porcelain flower pot was smashed to pieces, black soil and debris splashed everywhere.

It's just a flower pot, but it fell from the sky, silently...

Zhong Shao's eyes froze, and he turned his head to look, but it was a two-story inn.She looked up again, and the place where the flower pot fell was facing an open window, but there was no one in the window at the moment.The Xuanjia Army immediately rushed over to search, only to find that the inn had already closed down after being looted by the victims. After kicking open the door and entering, the inn was also empty.

This is not a coincidence, just like Fu Wang was hit by a brick when he was on tour!

Zhong Shao's heart suddenly turned cold, but the other party did not show any trace, and she couldn't find it if she wanted to.So he had to leave a few Xuanjia soldiers who were good at tracking to continue the investigation, and he didn't stay much, so he took the rest of the people and went back to the governor's mansion.

But the troubles waiting for Zhong Shao today are not limited to this one. She just entered the Governor's Mansion with her front foot, and Hong Ping followed her back.

For the previous three days, Hong Ping had been searching for the missing relief food. He was so busy that his feet never touched the ground, and he almost never came back.Now that he's back, it can be seen that things should have some clues. Zhong Shao hurriedly went to see him, but before he could ask, Hong Ping threw a small cloth bag to her with a livid face: "Your disaster relief food."

Zhong Shao saw that his expression was not good, so he guessed that something might be wrong, looked down again, and saw that there was still dried blood on the small cloth bag, presumably because of this cloth bag, members of the Beggar Clan should have been killed or injured.However, this is not the point, the point is that when Zhong Shao opened it, he saw that there was no food in the bag, but a handful of black ashes after being burnt.

Seeing that Hei Hui was slightly startled, Zhong Shao came to her senses, her eyes widened and she asked, "Master, this is..."

Hong Ping was also so angry that his eyes were red, he slapped the table angrily, and smashed the whole table immediately: "Burn it all! Those bastards stole the food and couldn't get it out of the city, so they found a place to burn it all." It was cleaned up. So many people starved to death, what they burned was food, it was human life! Two people from the beggar gang also died, don’t let me know who did it, I cut him alive!”

Zhong Shao only felt that the chill was getting worse, and she had a premonition in her heart that if the matter was not settled as soon as possible, the troubles would be even greater in the future.