"Okay, then I'll go make some soup first. If Mei Niang wants to see me, she'll go to the kitchen." Yufeng said goodbye to Mei Niang. Even if Mei Niang wanted to talk to someone, she wouldn't be able to delay her from doing her business.

After Yufeng left, Mei Niang hurriedly washed her face and saw that the sky outside was almost the same as nine or ten o'clock in her previous life. It was too shameful for her to sleep until this hour.

When I arrived at the front hall, I didn't see anyone. There was a bowl of polenta paste, two steamed buns, and a plate of pickled radish strips on the table.

Mei Niang sat at the table and started to eat. Although it was a little cold, she still enjoyed it.

After eating, Mei Niang took the empty bowl to the kitchen to wash, but she didn't see anyone along the way. She walked around for a long time before following the sound and found the kitchen.

It's said to be a kitchen, but it's actually just a dozen large pots set up in the yard. The water in the pots is steaming. Yufeng and a middle-aged woman are staring at it.

When a pot of water boils, they will pick up a pot of corn noodles soaked in water and pour it into it, while stirring it with a wooden stick with a flat end.

After it bubbles up and simmers for a while, call someone over to pour the cooked corn paste into a big wooden bucket and bring it to the front.

Mei Niang took a closer look and saw that there was even minced meat in it. It seemed they were the ones they sent yesterday. This showed that Shi Hai was really a good official. He only ordered so much meat and still thought about the people in the town.

After watching for a while, Mei Niang also went over to help. She naturally knew how to make a paste.

Yufeng was very happy to see her helping, and introduced the middle-aged woman to her as her mother, whose surname was Zheng. Everyone in the captain's house called her Aunt Zheng.

Meiniang also called Yufengniang Aunt Zheng, and then she and Yufeng started chatting while looking at the pots. Only then did Meiniang know that Shi Hai had gone to Linxian County to beg for food, and there were still several rice shops there struggling to support themselves.

, but the price of food is so high. In comparison, Helongji is not profitable at all.

Jiang Chuye and Yun Xuan took a dozen people to the mountains to hunt early in the morning, and they should be back in the evening.

And judging by the meaning, it seems that they may continue to hunt for several days.

As for Shi Hai's request for food, Yufeng was not optimistic, "If you wanted to give it, you would have given it already. Brother Shi didn't send people once or twice. Each time, he could get back ten or twenty kilograms at most, which is not enough."

What? I hope Brother Shi can ask for more this time when he goes there in person."

Yufeng frowned as if she was worried, and it could be heard from her sighs that her request for food might not be successful this time.

Mei Niang hopes that he will stay in the town for a few more days, so that she can often go to the Huang Mansion to exchange some silver coins. It would be best to see if other families have people who collect vegetables and grains. She can also earn more, right?

If you always deliver it to the Huang family, you will inevitably be watched.

But what can they catch when they go hunting in the mountains? How much prey are there for them to hunt on the mountains?

Mei Niang's heart was entangled again. Originally, she just wanted to live well. What does the life and death of others have to do with her?

After her father remarried in her previous life, she lost the warmth from her family, and her heart gradually became cold.

After her father died, the experience of being murdered made her even more unable to open her heart. Even if she wanted to survive as Meiniang, she lacked a heartfelt closeness to Yun Laosan and his wife.

But during this time, getting along with the Yun family and the Jiang family made her feel warm, and her heart that was not cold enough was melted and became softer and softer.

Although she couldn't feed everyone, she still wanted to do her best to help the people in the town, not for anything else but because Shi Hai, a good official, should do the same.

Mei Niang's heart was determined. As long as there was a chance, she would take out the food in the space for disaster relief. Anyway, except for some things that needed to be exchanged for money, the rest could only be turned into inventory in the warehouse.

Just think carefully about how to take it out, and don't expose yourself.

However, this would greatly increase her workload.

Hey, I tried my best to prevent myself from choking due to guilty conscience while eating!

He was busy until nearly noon before he finished cooking the porridge. The day's work was not finished. Even if Shi Hai wanted to provide disaster relief, the current situation did not allow him to provide three meals a day. This thin porridge was all he needed every day.

It almost made him exhausted.

And water is even more scarce, so there is no need to clean the pot. I will just add water and continue to simmer it tomorrow.

After taking a short rest, Yufeng came to see Meiniang. She wanted to take people to fetch water from a distant place and asked Meiniang if she would go.

Mei Niang had nothing to do, so she went out to fetch water with Yufeng and others. She was accompanied by a group of more than ten guards and two carriages.

An extra large wooden barrel with a lid was placed on each vehicle.

Naturally, Yufeng and Meiniang were not needed for the job of driving the carriage, so they just walked around.

The place to fetch water is a bit far. The well where they had a big fight last time dried up two days ago. Now they can only go further to fetch water.

After leaving the town, we kept walking for nearly two hours before we saw a long queue waiting for water at a well. Of course, water still cost money.

After learning about Shi Hai's behavior of leading people to give porridge, Meiniang understood his behavior of selling water. The court had no money for disaster relief, so Shi Hai had to pay for the disaster relief by himself. He was not a corrupt official, and he didn't want to buy grain or anything else.

Money? The money from selling water is just a supplement to buying food.

But now the water output from wells is not large, and the supply simply exceeds demand.

Therefore, it was stipulated that the water supply would start at Shen hour and end at Xu hour, and the remaining time would allow the well to slowly rise back to the water level.

At this time, it was still more than an hour before Shenshi's water supply, and the long queue here was already far away, and people were still coming here one after another.

Yufeng explained: "I was afraid that I would be late and not be able to catch the water, so I came early and waited in line."

After finishing speaking, he sighed and continued: "There is nothing we can do about it. Brother Shi tried his best."

Meiniang couldn't say anything. She had a lot of water, a lot, a whole river. If she could contribute, it would solve a lot of problems, but she couldn't do anything.

Of course, there was no charge for the officers and soldiers to come to fetch water, and there was no need to queue up. Meiniang and Yufeng watched from the sidelines. It didn't take long for the two carts of large wooden barrels to be filled with water, and they were pushed back.

Those long queues are still waiting for the time to fetch water. In disaster years, people always live a very hard life.

Back at the captain's house, Shi Hai had already come back, and he was bored in the room and worried.

He concentrated all the food in the town in the Xiaowei Mansion. According to the current consumption, it would still be enough for three days. If this was not done, the people in the town would starve to death. Would they really be so hungry that they could eat like they did before he came?

person?

This time I went to Linxian County to beg for food shamelessly, but they gave him some rice for his sake, but... what does a stone of white rice cost? Compared with the tens of thousands of victims in the town, it is not enough for one person to drink half a bowl of gruel.

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Now we can only watch Jiang Chuye and Yun Xuan lead people up the mountain.
Chapter completed!