After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Chapter 38
Doctor Feng did not dare to insist that Yu Zizhen was not sick even if he could not detect the pulse.

Thinking of these days, they have been walking in drought-stricken prefectures and counties. Although the team in the dignified Zhenbei Palace did not lack food and drink, but in such an environment, their family's eldest son, a child who had just recovered from a serious illness, would not be able to stay in it. It was already uncomfortable enough, not to mention that they were speeding up their journey just to get out of this dry zone as quickly as possible.

He thought for a moment and said, "I must be tired from traveling these days. Anyway, we have already walked out. Why not stop early and rest tonight."

Mr. Jiang hesitated for a moment, "I will send someone to find a place to live."

If Yu Zizhen was not feeling unwell, he actually wanted to travel one more day. After all, although the location they were in was no longer a drought area, most of the refugees from the drought areas were stranded in several nearby states. county.

When there are more refugees, there are naturally more potential dangers. Mr. Jiang doesn't want to create complications, so he hopes to leave here as soon as possible.

He sighed secretly and ordered his guards to look for an inn, inn, village or manor that could accommodate so many of them.

The guards took the order and left. About half an hour later, they rushed back with the news they had learned.

According to them, the county town closest to their team is now overcrowded, let alone inns and even residential buildings.

The inn closest to them was already filled with officials and their families.

With their status in Zhenbei Palace, if Yu Zizhen and the others insist on living in it, even if those people have complaints in their hearts, they will still respectfully make room for them, but the guards know that Mr. Jiang will definitely not allow them to bully others.

With this in mind, the guards rode to the villages and manors on both sides of the official road.

In order to prevent the refugees from stealing or openly robbing, the villages have set up checkpoints at the entrances and exits of the villages. If their convoys want to enter the village, they must first organize manpower to fill the traps, which can be said to be very inconvenient.

Coupled with the poor accommodation conditions in the village, the guards decisively changed their accommodation destination to a manor only more than ten miles away from the county seat.

They showed the manor owner their guard badges, and the manor owner immediately agreed to let them spend the night in his manor.

The owner of the manor, Meng Tingru, was a country squire in his early thirties. Although he only had the reputation of being a scholar, his ancestors had produced high-ranking officials of the third rank.

Their family has been operating here for generations, and more than [-]% of the surrounding fields belong to their family.

Last year, there was a drought in the neighboring states and counties, and a large number of refugees could not survive and fled to other surrounding states and counties.

Kangping County, where Meng Tingru's family has lived for generations, is adjacent to one of the drought-stricken counties, so it has become one of the landing places for refugees fleeing famine.

Meng Tingru, like other squires in the county, provided a lot of food to help the refugees after the influx.

He is a kind man, and the porridge he makes is thick, and the grain he uses is neither moldy nor mixed with gravel or other things in advance.

After receiving the news, some local people who had not finished their meal came to receive porridge with the refugees, and Meng Tingru would also have people serve it to them.

He does good deeds all year round. In the years before there was no influx of refugees in the county, he would also give porridge for a period of time every winter.In addition to him and his relatives and servants, all of whom are natives of Kangping County, the Meng family knows very well who is the real poor in Kangping County and who does not need assistance to survive, so there is no need to worry. Some people are fishing in troubled waters.

But for such a man who actually did good deeds and was very prestigious in the local area, his fate was particularly miserable in the plot of the original book.

Yu Zizhen pretended to be uncomfortable so that he could stay in the Meng family's village for one night and use the help of the guards and soldiers in their team to change the tragic fate of Meng Tingru's family.

The guards who had found a suitable place to live rode over to report the news. After receiving the news, Mr. Jiang asked someone to go over and inform Yu Zizhen, but he did not know that Yu Zizhen had actually reported to God through the system and knew in advance that his plan had been successful.

A large group of people, greeted respectfully by Meng Tingru and his son, slowly entered the Meng family village.

The Meng family's village covers a large area, but there are not many houses built in each courtyard. Considering the number of people in their team, the Meng Tingru family freed up the front yard, the second courtyard and the east-west courtyard for them.

In addition, Meng Tingru also asked his servants to kill two pigs, two sheep, and twenty chickens to entertain them.

According to the menu ordered by Mrs. Meng urgently, the cook tried her best to prepare two tables of the same exquisite dishes. Then she mixed in sauerkraut, radishes, and dried mushrooms to stew large pieces of pork for the guards and ordinary soldiers. Lamb, chicken.

The alluring scent of meat drifted out of the manor two hours later, drifting through the fields and toward the refugees sitting or lying down.

In the village, everyone ate fragrant meat and white rice. Because Yu Zizhen was feeling unwell, he also got a cup of chicken soup with oil removed and a bowl of soft and easy-to-digest pimple soup.

Adhering to the principle of not wasting food, Yu Zizhen kept two of her favorite dishes, and the remaining eight dishes were rewarded to Yaoguang, Yu Heng, Madam Zhang, Master Bai and Mr. Jiang respectively.

Mr. Jiang got the most. After all, although he was nominally a subordinate of the palace, he was actually the controller of this team. He was also the enlightenment teacher of the three Yu Zizhen.

Of the eight dishes that Yu Zizhen divided, Yao Guang, Yu Heng, and Madam Zhang each kept one dish, Master Bai got two dishes, and Madam Zhang sent the remaining three dishes to Mr. Jiang.

This was not the first time that Yu Zizhen had done this. As usual, Mr. Jiang asked Madam Zhang to convey his gratitude, and then asked the captain of the guard to enjoy it with him.

A group of people had a wonderful meal, unaware that outside Zhuangzi, there were eight to nine hundred refugees who were tempted to lose their minds by the smell of meat and were cursing Meng Tingru and his family.

These refugees have stayed in Kangping County for a long time. They are different from ordinary refugees who just want a bite to eat and just want to keep themselves and their families alive.

Ordinary refugees flee from famine, and they either bring food or drink with them, find it on their own or buy it from others on the way. And these people, who have lost moral and legal restraints on their way to escape, do a lot of bad things.

Stealing things, bullying men and dominating women are common, and even worse, they may even murder or even cannibalize people.

When everyone finally got out of the water-scarce prefectures and counties and arrived at Kangping County, which was not affected by the drought, these refugees still refused to live in peace.

While they continued their past evil deeds, they also secretly took advantage of the Kangping County aborigines.

(End of this chapter)