Regardless of whether Gu Chunuan agreed or not, Yi Yunfei took Gu Chunuan's little hand and ran all the way to the southwest.
The closer you get to the southwest, the more desolate it becomes.
The houses also changed from blue bricks and green tiles to thatched houses.
Continuing to walk forward, people in twos and threes wearing shabby clothes huddled together.
All of them were sallow and thin, with dim eyes and a deathly silence.
The thatched houses were very dilapidated. Either the roofs had holes or they had no windows. There was almost no intact thatched house.
The people were all barefoot.
It was already autumn, and it was still very cold at night. They were shivering from the cold.
Fu Guang whispered, "Master, this is the refugee camp you want to come to tonight."
"Mom... wake up, dad is asleep, grandparents are also asleep, you can't fall asleep again."
The childish voice came clearly, and everyone looked up, only to see a five or six-year-old girl lying on top of the woman, crying continuously.
The people around him seemed to have been used to it, or were too hungry, and none of them showed any reaction.
They were not blind, and they could tell from a distance that the woman had died long ago.
Gu Chunuan's eyes moved to the right and he saw a woman biting her fingers open to force out the blood and feeding the infant baby blood.
There are also white-haired old men who are pale from illness and coughing constantly, and young children who are so hungry that they cry miserably.
Yi Yunfei said sadly, "They have no land or food, so they live on trees and grass roots. Now the bark and grass roots are hollowed out. The court's disaster relief food has not arrived for a long time, and many of them starved to death."
"The slums are sealed and only people are allowed in but not allowed out. Officials in the imperial capital are afraid that these people will flow out of the refugee slums and the streets will be full of beggars, which will have a bad impact."
Gu Chunuan suddenly realized.
No wonder there were so many officers and soldiers guarding the road to the refugee settlement. It turned out to be to prevent them from escaping.
What's the difference between this and trapping them here and starving to death?
Yi Yunfei continued, "They are pretty good, but the victims in other places are even worse. They don't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. I came all the way and saw many refugees either dying of illness or starving to death."
In order to save them, he exchanged all the silver he had with him for rice, grains and medicinal materials.
Even the clothes were pawned.
Only the jade pendant left by his father was something he couldn't bear to part with.
But these are of little use.
Only then did he come up with the idea of robbing the government officials.
Gu Chunuan twisted his brows into a Sichuan shape.
"The imperial court is also in difficulty. The imperial court now has no rice, no money, no medicine and no one."
"No matter how hard it is, you can't just watch your people starve to death. Sister Yang, why don't you ask your Majesty to ask them to make more money?"
Sister Yang?
Ah.
Did he really think of himself as Yang Man?
Even if we regard her as Yang Man, she is probably older than him.
He doesn't feel ashamed to have a little sister in his mouth.
"If the imperial court had money, it would have appropriated funds long ago. We still have to wait until now."
"Nonsense, the Ice Country is so big and ranks among the top three in the Ice Spirit Continent, how come it can't even get some money out of it."
Gu Chunuan touched his little head, but was pushed away by Yi Yunfei.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Food is distributed, food is distributed, the unknown hero is here to distribute food again, everyone, please lie down quickly."
As soon as the words came out, all the refugees lay down and pretended to sleep, and they were all extremely excited.
Soon several masked men took rice grains and distributed them one bag to each person.
After the masked men left, the people got up and jumped for joy.