Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 376 Shantytowns

Fortunately, although food is expensive, it can still be bought with money.

To say that what Yuzhou Prefecture couldn't really buy with money before, is a mouthful of fresh fruits and vegetables that can be seen everywhere in other places.

Now that there is rain, a small amount of vegetables and fruits can be fed. For this reason, many well-connected people in the city have obtained seedlings and planted some common fruits and vegetables in small private plots in their yards.

It’s just that it is a very long process from sprouting of vegetable and fruit seedlings to maturity and edible. In contrast, as long as there is water, soybean sprouts and mung bean sprouts that can grow a large crop in a few days are much more popular.

Not only the people in Lushan County, but also the cooks under Gu Qi's hands would send out some bean sprouts for salad or stew every day.

Otherwise, add it to the Wotou and noodles. Although the taste is a bit monotonous, at least the juice is full and tender. For the people of Lushan County who have not eaten vegetarian dishes for a long time, this handful of bean sprouts still makes many people feel happy. taste.
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If it weren't for the floods outside that flooded many places, the resettlement area temporarily designated by the government in the north of the city would have new victims brought in every day, and corpses would be carried out every now and then. For the mung bean sprouts that are growing well, the people of Lushan County may feel that Yuzhou Prefecture is finally going to come to an end.
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It's a pity that soon, because of the abundant rice grains, the fresh bean sprouts, and the green sprouts in the yards of the county towns, the hopeful joy that filled the air gradually increased in the shantytowns in the north of the city every day. Disappeared among the corpses carried out one by one.

Originally, the rain slowed down, and many people who felt bored after staying at home for a long time wanted to take advantage of the better weather to go out and find something to do. They were also anxious about whether their newly planted fields were damaged by the rain, and they went to the city in small groups. They walked outside, but what they saw along the road were more and more guards pulling ox carts and carrying piles of corpses from the shantytowns in the north of the city, everyone's hearts sank.

Those corpses were finally sent to a barren slope more than ten miles away from the county town.

If someone followed to take a look, they would find more than a dozen huge potholes neatly dug on those barren slopes, and each pothole had traces of fire.
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According to the customs of Yuzhong, after the death of ordinary people, if the body is not far from home, cremation is not allowed.

Those who have money put them in a high-quality coffin and are buried in a splendid manner, while those who have no money to buy a coffin are at worst wrapped up in a straw mat and encoffined simply.Only those who are far away from their homeland in a foreign country and really can't go back will let their relatives and friends bring their ashes back to their hometown after being burnt to death.

Everyone knows that the shantytowns in the north of the city are all those villagers who had to be relocated and resettled due to floods near the county.

But now they can only be dragged away by the guards and burned in any pothole.For half a month, those burnt ashes and incompletely burnt limbs kept mixing with the new and the old to fill one hole after another.

What this means, everyone knows well.

Gradually, families with old people and children at home no longer go out except to line up at the Sihai Supermarket to buy rice grains.

Even if there is no child in the family, if they really have to go out, they will find a handkerchief to cover their faces when passing through the north of the city, and carefully avoid the shantytowns and take a detour.

And the people in the city who originally lived in the north of the city became even more cautious and panicked because of this. No one knew whether the situation in the shantytowns would get worse, and whether death would spread.
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In the government office, Liu Shouzheng frowned, looking at the first subordinate officials under the desk who were so frightened that they dared not make a sound, their complexions became more and more gloomy.

"I ask you, is there a solution!"

Liu Shouzheng was furious, and he reached out to pick up the gavel on the desk and threw it down.

A subordinate official couldn't dodge in time and was hit on the calf, his face turned green from the pain, but seeing Liu Shouzheng's expression, he also wisely didn't dare to cry out.

"Speak! Are you dumb?!"

"My lord, there is no medical center available in our city, let alone a doctor staying behind, so there is nothing we can do." An older subordinate officer whispered back.

This is an objective fact, everyone knows it, how can Liu Shouzheng not know it, but it is because he knows the situation inside that Liu Shouzheng can't control the anger in his heart even more:

"Is there really no way? What does it mean that there is really no way? Are all of your brains just for display?"

Everyone's heads were lowered.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there is no medical center and no doctor. They are officials, and they have read a lot of sage books, but unfortunately, few people will be involved in medical books.In the current situation in the shanty town, even if they have the intention, they are powerless.

Of course, no one would foolishly say this in front of their boss now.

Such an atmosphere became more and more silent.

At the head of the case, Liu Shouzheng was so angry that the veins on his forehead were throbbing when he saw that he was asking questions one after another, like a stone sinking into the sea, and no one responded.

However, when the anger subsides, another indescribable sense of powerlessness fills his chest, making Liu Shouzheng a little depressed.For a moment, he even began to wonder if his poor official luck and conflict with Yuzhou caused him to suffer such difficulties one after another.

"My lord, since the heavy rain has eased, why don't we first resettle the affected people in the shantytowns outside the city?" An official surnamed Zhao suggested carefully after thinking about it.

It's not that Mr. Zhao is really courageous, daring to be the first bird among the officials, and come up with such bad ideas when the immediate boss is obviously in a bad mood.

In fact, Mr. Zhao's family is in the north of the city, and it is not far from the shanty town, only one street away. Now the family members are too scared to go out.

And this Mr. Zhao even covered his entire head when he went to the office every day, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be unlucky enough to catch the ill-health of the shanty town.

In fact, some time ago, when the dead body had just been brought out of the shanty town, Mr. Zhao's family members suggested that they might as well move to the south of the city at home.

There is the main store of Sihai Commercial Market in the south of the city. It is convenient for food, drink, housing and transportation. The most important thing is that it is far enough from the shantytowns. Zhao's family still has two young sons, so it is no wonder that they are so worried.

However, the south of the city is indeed far enough away from the shantytowns, but at the same time it is also too far away from the government office. Nowadays, there are a lot of business affairs in the government office. Who dares to be lazy and slack in the office at night at this time, wouldn't it hit the boss's muzzle?

The matter was delayed.

It wasn't until recently that more and more corpses were brought out of the shantytowns that Mr. Zhao became afraid.The man who looked for the tooth began to inquire about the vacant houses in the south of the city.He thought that even if he didn't want to live there, he would have to send his wife and children to the south of the city to take refuge.

But for some reason, the entire Lushan County was full of empty houses, and when he went to look for them, he found that all the houses in the south of the city that were a little bit farther away had been bought away.There are only a few places left, either the small ones cannot move their legs or the leaky ones cannot live at all.

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