Return to the beginning of fleeing from famine, holding space to counterattack

Chapter 70
Wei Haixiu was happily waiting for the porridge to be distributed, but when she saw several people coming over with several buckets of water, and then poured them into the porridge, she was instantly dumbfounded.

"Hey, what's going on here? Why do you add so much water to the porridge? How can you eat it?" Wei Haixiu said in surprise.

But Jiang Nanqing didn't show any surprise on her face. She also met many porridge givers in her previous life, but most of them were like this.

Most of the food allocated by the imperial court was put into the pockets of the officials, and the real food was given out to the common people. In the end, what everyone got was only a few grains of rice. Even sparrows can't get enough to feed, let alone people.

People around also discussed.

"Why are you still adding water?"

"Adding so much water, the rice can't be seen, is this for us to drink water to fill our stomachs?"

"That's right, how do you drink the porridge now? We want to drink the porridge just now."

"Bring back the porridge just now. You are lying. The imperial court definitely didn't ask you to give porridge like this."

The people around were furious, but the porridge giver raised his hand, and immediately a group of officers and soldiers with knives came to control the crowd, and the leader of the officers and soldiers yelled at the crowd.

"Quiet immediately, and anyone who dares to shout again will be arrested."

"Now let's distribute the porridge, line up for me, and leave as soon as you get it, don't say a word."

There are officers and soldiers suppressing, no matter how much dissatisfaction there is in their hearts, no one dares to speak out, unless they are desperate.

Soon Wei Haixiu and Jiang Nanqing were given porridge. Wei Haixiu stared at the porridge with a complicated expression.

An officer and soldier pointed at Wei Haixiu who was in a daze and scolded: "Get out of here, don't get in the way here."

Jiang Nanqing hurriedly dragged Wei Haixiu away to avoid trouble.

Jiang Shidong and Jiang Xinliang stared in disbelief at the two bowls of porridge brought back by Jiang Nanqing and the others, and Jiang Xinliang couldn't help asking.

"Mom, is this porridge?"

Wei Haixiu sighed and said, "I didn't expect this to happen. The porridge was thick, so I didn't expect to add so much water."

"Oh, forget it, it can also quench your thirst. It's hard to find water recently, and the trees are almost dry."

Jiang Nanqing took out some dry food from the bag and distributed it to Jiang Shidong and the others. In an instant, several eyes looked at them. Jiang Nanqing could even hear the sound of swallowing, but she pretended not to see or hear it.

Suddenly, several officers and soldiers were escorting a person, and then they shouted to the crowd.

"This person disturbed the porridge, my lord will punish him to hang upside down here for three days!"

The crowd who were secretly talking about the porridge fell silent for a moment, fearing that they would be caught and hanged from a tree.

The officers and soldiers walked up to Jiang Nanqing and the others, and sternly reprimanded them.

"Get out of your way!"

Jiang Nanqing and the others who were resting under the tree hurriedly packed up their things and moved aside.

The officers and soldiers bound the hands and feet, gagged the man, and hung it on the tree where Jiang Nanqing and the others were resting just now, and the man didn't make a sound the whole time, letting the officers and soldiers manipulate him, as if accepting his fate.

Now hanging upside down for three days, almost no survivors, the reason why he didn't kill him directly but chose to hang him upside down is to deter other people and let them take warning.

After the officers and soldiers left, no one dared to go back to rest under the tree. Jiang Nanqing noticed a line of sight looking at her all the time. She frowned slightly and looked at it, and then looked at the person who was hung upside down from the tree. .

(End of this chapter)