northernbook Chapter 960: Disaster
Chapter 960: Disaster
Jiang Fenghua showed a solemn face. Many villages were almost completely destroyed by the flood. Mudslides rolled down the mountains and cut off the roads. The seedlings planted in the fields were all destroyed. They cried and said that without a family, they had nothing.
They had seen many poor people along the way and had helped all those they should have helped. Now that they had encountered another one, there was no reason not to help.
Seeing the refugees waiting in the dilapidated temple, Xiao Yu leaned closer to the car window and lowered his voice, "I know Miss San feels sorry for them. There are more and more refugees here. We can only help them by waiting for the imperial court to release grain. We don't have much food left in the car."
What he meant was that he couldn't give them any more food, and they only had enough food for three days.
They brought guards with them, and the guards were armed with knives, so the refugees didn't dare to go forward and rob. The situation here seemed to be even worse. The worse the situation was, the more they couldn't leave the food exposed, otherwise it would be too late if a looting occurred.
Jiang Fenghua had already gotten off the carriage. The sky was gloomy and drizzling, and the ground was covered with mud. She asked the old woman, "Where are you from?"
The old woman said, "We are all from Meizi Village. Our village was completely flooded, and many people didn't escape. They all died."
Jiang Fenghua felt very upset when he heard this. "What are you all doing here? Why don't you go to the local government office to collect food? The court has already sent an imperial envoy to the disaster area to provide disaster relief. The emperor will not let any of the people in the Great Zhou Dynasty go without food or clothing. You must believe that the court will save you."
The old woman hugged her grandson, tears streaming down her face. "We are all waiting for our families. I am waiting for my son and daughter-in-law, and my old man. They haven't escaped yet."
Jiang Fenghua then realized that it wasn't that they didn't go to the government office, but that their families hadn't escaped. She asked, "How long have you been waiting?"
"We have been waiting for our relatives who didn't escape for ten days. Those who could have escaped have all escaped. Everyone has survived."
The old woman actually already had the answer in her mind. If someone didn't escape, they would most likely be dead. But they had no other choice. What if someone was still alive? So they were all waiting.
"The whole village was flooded and it's been so long. How could he still be alive?" Xiao Shang said coldly.
When the old woman heard this, her tears flowed even harder. This was the kind of words she was most afraid of hearing. Her son and daughter-in-law were still young, and they had encountered a natural disaster just a few years after their marriage. They even knelt on the ground for several days, praying to God not to bring down more disasters.
The grandson in her arms was so hungry that he didn't even have the strength to cry. If he had no more food, he might not be able to survive.
"Aoxue, carry the child to the car and ask Miss Gongsun to check it out!" Jiang Fenghua said in a deep voice. She couldn't just stand by and watch him die. Besides, they had no way to leave now. The area within a ten-mile radius was affected by the mudslide and there was no road at all.
Aoxue walked up to the old woman, who held her grandson tightly, not daring to let go. She was afraid that her grandson would die if he left her sight. She said, "Just give him something to eat."
"We have a doctor in the car. Your grandson seems to be sick. If he is not treated, he may die at any time." Aoxue said.
The old woman hurriedly said, "Tiger! Please save my tiger."
Aoxue carried the child to the carriage. Gongsun Lan took the child's pulse and fed him a pill. The child woke up. They fed the child water and handed him a steamed bun. The child looked at the white steamed bun and ate it greedily.
Outside the carriage, the people in the dilapidated temple watched Hu'er being carried onto the carriage. They all knelt in front of the carriage and said, "Please be kind and give us something to eat! Save my child, save us."
Seeing the people approaching, Xiao Yu quickly protected Jiang Fenghua and said, "Third Miss, please get in the car first!"
Jiang Fenghua signaled him to step back first. The people in front of him looked embarrassed and helpless. If no one helped them, they would only wait for death.
She said, "Send someone to the nearest government office to find out what's going on. It's been ten days since the flash flood in Meizi Village. Find out if the government knows about this and if they have any food to distribute to them."
Xiao Yu frowned. Such a serious mudslide and landslide had occurred here. The other villages and towns nearby would certainly be in trouble. If the granary was flooded, it would be even more serious. There would be a lot of things to deal with after the disaster.
He sent someone and found someone to lead the way, but that person was unwilling to lead the way and insisted on waiting here for his family. Xiao Yu said that only by finding the yamen and asking the government to send people to deal with them would they have hope of finding their relatives, so that person went.
Xiao Shang looked unhappy and muttered: How could Jiang Fenghua be so stupid? She is wasting her time saving these people here.
He had to find a way to make Jiang Fenghua face reality. If she could find the method of rebirth for the ancient country of Yinchuan, she could change the fate of these people.
He called Xing Yun over and whispered a few words in his ear. Xing Yun said, "Master, do you really want to do this?"
"Go do it!" A hint of cunning flashed in Xiao Shang's eyes. If Jiang Fenghua wasn't forced, she would never know what was most important.
At this time, Jiang Fenghua and Gongsun Lan and others were treating the injured civilians. Although she had no medical skills, she was quite skillful in helping.
The number of refugees in the ruined temple was still small. There were more people affected by the disaster outside Meizi Village. They didn't know where they got the news from, but when they heard that a doctor had come to the ruined temple, everyone rushed to the temple.
Soon, people started spreading the rumor that this natural disaster was caused by a calamity star, and that if they could find and eliminate the calamity star, they could avoid the disaster.
The people are now on the brink of collapse. They believe whatever the outside world tells them, and think that all the suffering is caused by a disaster. They even want to find out who the disaster is and where it is.
At this moment, the crowd suddenly became lively, and everyone was talking about it. "Have you heard? What we are suffering from is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster."
"I heard that the person who brings disaster has a special mark on his body, which means the disaster was brought by that person."
"That star of disaster must have angered the mountain god. The mountain god was furious and flooded our village, killing our loved ones and destroying our crops. That star of disaster is killing us!"
Voices echoed among the crowd, "Legend has it that the star of disaster has a mark between its brows, a bloodthirsty red."
Jiang Fenghua had thick bangs on her forehead, which covered the mark between her eyebrows and half of her cheek. In addition, she covered her eyebrows with rouge and powder before leaving the palace, so it was not very obvious.
At this moment, she was about to bandage the leg wound of a seriously injured woman. The woman's leg was seriously injured and she suddenly screamed, "It hurts, it hurts so much!"
Jiang Fenghua said, "Just bear with it. If we don't fix the deck properly, your leg won't be healed."
"Thank you, young lady." The woman said gratefully. She had escaped from the village for many days. Since she could not walk, she had been living in a dilapidated temple. Seeing that her legs were swollen and she could not move, she thought she would die here and there was no hope.
"No need to thank me. Take care of yourself. The emperor will send someone to rescue you." What Jiang Fenghua didn't know was that the flower ornament on her forehead was gradually showing.