After the rebirth of Madam Hou Clan, her heart was sealed with cement

The county magistrate sighed every time he said a word.

In his intermittent words, Gu Huaijing had a general understanding.

It only rains in the west at this time of year. Now the rain that the people have been waiting for has not come, and there is almost no running water now. Can the people not be anxious?

"Then tell me, where is the water source now?"

"The biggest problem here right now is the lack of water. It has been dry for months. Not a drop of water has fallen. Not to mention the crops have not grown. Now even daily drinking water is a problem. We have also been to the surrounding towns. Follow us. The situation is similar. Now our only river is still stagnant water, and the drinking water is fixed, so the government sent many people to guard there..."

While talking, they had reached the only stagnant lake.

The lake is so big, but there is only enough water to cover the bottom of the lake. It is indeed not much, and it is all muddy water.

"Is this water just for eating?"

"Yes."

The county magistrate knew that this was unbelievable, but there was nothing he could do about it. Such muddy water was the only source of water.

The county magistrate couldn't help crying when he thought that in the past, people could only get a small amount of water, and even some children could no longer hold on.

It was a bit unexpected for a rich and powerful county magistrate to cry without caring about his image in front of Gu Huaijing.

Maybe he realized that he was doing something wrong. The county magistrate just cried a few times and then stopped crying. "Master Gu, I want to send you to the local officials. I want to pray for the people, and I want the people to live a happy life." Good, but..."

At this point, the county magistrate directly knelt on the ground.

"Master Wang, what are you doing?"

Gu Huaijing took a step back and helped Mr. Wang up.

This adult is much older than Gu Huaijing.

And Gu Huaijing could see that this Lord Wang was not the kind of villain who exploited the people, but a good official.

On the way here, he looked through the files on the West.

It was found that Mr. Wang had served here for many years but had never asked for promotion or transfer. Naturally, he was aware of the successive disasters in the west.

In this place, if you do your job well, it's your job; if you don't do it well, you'll lose your head.

In this way, we can conclude that Mr. Wang is a good official, and there is not even a familiar minister in the court.

But as long as you are an official in the court, how can you not know the minister? He has not made any achievements, it is just that he has not moved around.

How can an official who only serves the people and doesn't care about himself not be a good official?

"Master Gu?"

Master Wang saw Gu Huaijing helping him up, but he didn't say anything. He was very nervous.

"Master Wang, don't worry. Since the court asked me to come, it is natural to solve the problem. We must find the cause of this severe drought and solve it."

"Thank you, Mr. Gu."

Although Mr. Wang is far away in the west, he has heard of Gu Huaijing's reputation.

He is the youngest canal admiral and the most trusted person by the emperor.

Now that the emperor asked him to come, it naturally shows that the emperor attaches great importance to it.

Gu Huaijing's trip brought some devices that can purify water, all of which were designed by the experts of the Ministry of Industry.

He handed the equipment directly to Mr. Wang.

"Purify the lake water first so that people can consume it directly."

"Yes."

Mr. Wang, although you couldn't understand what it was, you knew it was a good thing. With tears in his eyes, he quickly told his subordinates to start contacting the guards from the capital.

After settling in here, Mr. Wang returned to the Yamen with Gu Huaijing.

At this time, all the supplies had been carried through the back door.

Because every household is short of food and water, looting is inevitable, so they can only secretly get supplies to the government office. "Heavily guarded."

"Yes, it has been arranged."

Lord Wang also understood Gu Huaijing's concerns, and did not stop him from doing so. Instead, he asked the more capable people in the yamen to join the guards from the capital.

After counting all the supplies, Gu Huaijing asked Mr. Wang to dispose of the supplies based on the current disaster situation.

"We are the advance force, and most of the supplies are still on the road. It is estimated that it will take more than ten days at the earliest."

Gu Huaijing said, Master Wang took note of it seriously.

After recording these, the chief bookkeeper of the government office has finished counting the supplies.

"Sir, the supplies have been inventoried. According to the people in the west, we can last for ten days at most."

"Ten days……"

Gu Huaijing muttered, he naturally knew that ten days was far from enough, but now that the people could not suffer, they could only distribute it first.

"Soup porridge."

After Gu Huaijing gave the order, Mr. Wang took people to cook porridge.

When the people heard that people from the government office were giving porridge to the west of the market, they came one after another.

By the time the first wave of people arrived, several pots of porridge had already been cooked.

Seeing a large group of people approaching not far away, Gu Huaijing's eyebrows did not relax, "Keep it up, don't make the people too excited."

"Yes."

This time Gu Huaijing had a premonition that something might happen, so he asked his secret guards to follow him.

These secret guards are good at every aspect and are no match for these common people.

Groups of people surrounded the porridge stall.

"Everyone, this is Mr. Gu from the capital. He came with supplies, but most of them are still on the way. So we still need to live frugally in these few days, so we can only get food from the porridge shop. The old and the weak The sick and disabled will be ranked first, and the young and strong will have to endure hardships, all for the sake of our families. I hope you can persevere."

As long as a selfish person appears at this time, there will only be more selfish people in the future.

Master Wang seemed to have a high importance in the hearts of the people. When he said this, the noisy people stopped making noise and started queuing up as Master Wang said.

Seeing this scene, Mr. Wang breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Gu Huaijing and explained: "Mr. Gu, in fact, the people here are good people. Although they are very hungry, they have been helping each other during this time. , if not for this, it would be impossible for us to have only a few people die here..."

Gu Huaijing believed Master Wang's explanation.

This was the first time he had seen such a quiet refugee. It seemed that Mr. Wang had put in a lot of effort.

"Mr. Wang, you have worked hard during this time."

Gu Huaijing bowed deeply to Mr. Wang on behalf of the court.

Master Wang really didn't expect Gu Huaijing to be like this.

He was stunned and quickly returned the greeting.

Gu Huaijing helped Mr. Wang up and waved the guards to come to him, "Here."

The guard hurried forward, "Sir."

"Go and prepare hot tea for Mr. Wang."

"Yes."

Mr. Wang was flattered and said, "Sir Gu, I'm fine. Now I still have to keep close contact with the people."

After declining Gu Huaijing's kindness, Mr. Wang joined the ranks of giving porridge.