Feng Yu was also very frightened by the riots in the city. Yangzhou had never had such chaos and chaos.

"Girl, I'll find a way to take you out of Yangzhou City. I'm afraid this time the chaos will affect you." Nuan Yang said in a deep voice, "Yangzhou City is too dangerous."

"Is it still possible to go in this situation?" Feng Yu was also very worried, but if she left, what would her grandfather do?My grandfather was seriously depleted, and it was impossible to run around with him.

What if the disaster victims broke into the mansion?
"Grandfather is old and the city is chaotic. If I leave, he will have no relatives by his side. How can I bear it? Besides, who would dare to open the city gate under such circumstances?"

Unless there is a strong attack, how could they storm the city gate with such a small number of people? There are tens of thousands of refugees outside the city gate. People starve to death every day, wailing everywhere.

This is the biggest flood that Yanyang has encountered in the past 30 years.

Su Ming coughed while clutching his chest, and waved his hands, "Don't worry, Marshal Fang will lead his troops to maintain stability after such a big incident in Yangzhou, and don't mess around. After a catastrophe, there will be a catastrophe. Hurry up and stockpile medicinal materials in case A rainy day. And..."

Before he finished speaking, he seemed to be exhausted. Feng Yu hurriedly stroked his chest, and Su Ming said, "People from other places flooded into Yangzhou. They have no shelter and no food. There will definitely be troubles. The state government will accept them." They were unable to appease them. This is a problem with the decision-making. The victims just want to live. We still have surplus food in the granary. Ah Zheng, you organize people to open the granary for disaster relief. The food is limited. Don’t make the porridge too thick, make it thinner .”

"Yes!"

"Grandfather, don't work too hard. Grandpa Su and I will do these things. Take good care of your health."

"Okay, with Ah Yu here, my grandfather can rest assured."

Steward Su went to ask the shopkeepers to open warehouses with the clansmen to release grain. This is a consistent tradition of the Su family. Whether it is a flood or a drought in Yanyang, Su Ming is always there.There are a lot of rich merchants in Yangzhou city. In fact, they started to open warehouses for disaster relief on the first day. After the state government ignored them, some wealthy merchants still insisted on distributing food.

The victims gathered in the west of the city and set up simple tents, barely sheltered from the wind and rain.But the management is not good, it is very dirty and messy, the Shantang is just outside the tent, guarded by government soldiers.

Steward Su and his clan transported the food and cooked it into porridge. The victims came to collect it in order. Someone in the government was maintaining order and they were not allowed to leave the west of the city. After more than a dozen people were killed last night, they became more stable. Disaster victims also seek survival.

Fengyu asked Chunlu to take care of the medicinal materials. She frowned slightly as she looked at the files after the floods in previous years. Grandpa said that after a catastrophe, there must be a catastrophe. If the disease spread in Yangzhou City, the consequences would be disastrous.

Nuan Yang came back quickly, looking for Feng Yu in a panic, and reported the situation of the disaster relief. There was not enough food at all, only enough for half of the victims, and half of them were still hungry.

Feng Yu was shocked. She had allocated rations for 3 people a day, why not enough?Moreover, there is only three days of grain in the granary, and after three days, there will be no more grain left in the granary of the commercial bank.Feng Yu didn't know that the Liuhe River broke its embankment, and when transferring property, the first batch to go was grain. There were three ships full of grain, and they had already left Lanzhou Port. At this time, there was no way to turn the ships around. It was too presumptuous, so it turned out that there was still grain in the granary. If something happened three days later, the granary would be removed by her, and only the grain for the winter would be left. She would not leave a bag of rice to the state government.

Fengyu changed into a beaded hairpin skirt, put on a green robe, dressed like a man, and followed the warm sun to see the situation of the victims, which almost made her angry.

Twelve prefectures were trapped and had no food, so the people affected by the Liujiang River came to Jiangnan together. In previous years, the twelve prefectures affected by the disaster would share the pressure. It is a world of ice and snow, and the victims do not want to freeze to death on the road.But when they come to Yangzhou, can they get enough food?
The wealthy households in Yangzhou will indeed open warehouses to provide disaster relief, but the ugliness of human nature has also reached its peak at this time.In the queue to receive food, there is a group of people whose clothes are old but neat, and it is a large number.Their dress was completely different from that of the victims. The victims were begging all the way here. They were dressed in rags, and it was winter. Many people wore thin clothes.Lack of food and water, all of them were sallow and emaciated, and their hair had not been taken care of. These people were obviously the people in Yangzhou City, and they came to occupy the rations of the victims.

"Let Grandpa Su add rice bran and fine sand to the porridge." Feng Yu made a quick decision, this was taught by Su Ming before going out, Feng Yu didn't understand at first.

Rice bran is eaten by livestock. Few people eat rice bran in rich and prosperous Yangzhou. Only those places that cannot afford food will rob rice bran from livestock. Porridge with rice bran and fine sand must be hard to swallow. This is not disaster relief, but harm to people. .Su Ming asked her to see it with her own eyes, so Feng Yu would go out in disguise.

Su Ming has opened warehouses for disaster relief countless times, and he is well aware of human nature. "White rice porridge, even if it is thin porridge, everyone queues up to get a share. These people may not all be victims of disasters, some of them are ordinary people in the city, and their families already have Food, if there is free food, naturally you have to come out to get it, and naturally take up the share of the victims. Yangzhou City is rich, very few people are hungry, and there is surplus food in winter. They have gnawed on the bark on the road, and they will not dislike the chaff and sand in the porridge."

Sure enough, after adding rice bran and fine sand, a well-groomed man took a sip, spewed it out, found rice bran and fine sand in the porridge, and smashed the bowl, "What's the intention of your Su family firm? Adding bran and sand to the porridge makes it difficult to swallow, are you showing kindness or harming others!"

The man cursed and looked angry.

Not far behind him, a child saw the white rice porridge scattered on the ground, staggered forward, and threw himself on the ground to pick up rice grains to eat. Feng Yu's eyes hurt when he saw it. The child looked about five or six years old.

She remembered that when she was wandering, she also ate the grain scattered on the ground.

The men behind him who should all be familiar wanted to kick over the pot in front of the Shantang. Fengyu was furious, "The batch of rice in the Su family's granary has not been sifted, so there is chaff and sand. If you don't eat it, you should eat it." Because you live in the city of Yangzhou with rich clothes and fine food, of course you don’t like it. You ask the real victims of the disaster, do they eat it? The bowl of porridge you smashed is the hot food they couldn’t ask for when they went all the way south.”

The man's identity was exposed, and he became angry from embarrassment. He wanted to go up and make trouble, but Nuan Yang kicked him over, "A man, you have food at home, and you came to grab the rations of the victims, are you ashamed!"

The victims are not stupid, but after all, they came to Yangzhou and occupied other people's land and food, and they would not break the news even if they knew that someone in Yangzhou was coming to collect food.

The Yangzhou people in the team were pointed out, but they didn't show any shame, and said without changing their faces, "Why can't you come to get the free food? I knew it was mixed with rice bran and sand. Who cares?"

"You are not rare, many people are rare!"

Afterwards, a large number of people left the team, and the real victims were able to receive food. If the people in Yangzhou could really bear it, they must be really poor at home, but it's nothing.

Seeing that the order was stable, Feng Yu helped up the child who was picking up food on the ground. The child was covered in filth, with only a pair of black and clear eyes, "Where is your adult?"

"They're all dead, I'm the only one left."

Feng Yu thought of her wandering companion, who was also at the same age, and wondered whether he had met a good person, how to survive in this world, and what he looks like now.

Feng Yu took the steamed stuffed bun that Chun Lu handed over and put it in his palm, "Eat it."

"Thank you sister."

"I am brother!"

The kid grinned, "...Thank you brother."

Feng Yu's heart was soft, but she knew calmly that she couldn't save everyone, so she tried to resist the discomfort and got up, but suddenly she heard Nuan Yang's unbelievable voice, "My lord...do you see who is here?"

Feng Yu turned her head and saw a familiar face. She was wearing an elegant dress and ran over like a lunatic. She didn't dare to call her name and hugged her heavily.

"I miss you!"

Meet old friends in a foreign land.

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