The Divine Doctor and the Crazy Concubine: My princess is very cool
Chapter 5 Drought
"Old mayor, what's your last name?" Shangguan Qingge spoke first. There must be a way to address each other when communicating!
"My last name is Li, so you can just call me Old Man Li. There are no rules."
"Okay, Old Man Li, tell me what has happened in the past few months, including the terrain, how long it has been since it rained, how long everyone has been hungry, how many people are in the town, how many people have starved to death, etc. The more detailed the better."
Old man Li sighed and began to speak.
This place is called Lijia Town, a town under Heping County and also the farthest town in Heping County. According to the terrain, the town is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is only one way to go out, to the east. Originally, the geographical location was very good. It was surrounded by mountains in a basin with fertile land and abundant rainfall. People living here could be self-sufficient. Until the beginning of this year, not a drop of rain fell, the original pond dried up, and even the spring water flowing down the mountain dried up. The most terrifying thing is that the arrival of the drought was accompanied by a locust plague. Two months ago, a large number of locusts flew over, and no grass grew wherever the locusts went. A month ago, you could still leave the town to get relief food from the county, but half a month ago, a group of bandits appeared on the road leading to the county, robbing passers-by. Several people died in the town. Since then, no one dared to go out, and the relief food sent by the court never came here again.
Although there have been no cases of starvation, many people have become pale and thin. I am afraid that in a few days, people will start to starve to death. The town has a population of more than 10,000, with a total of ten villages, but fortunately the villages are close to each other and not scattered!
"Then why don't you try to dig a well? If it doesn't rain, there's no way there's no groundwater!"
"Miss, I have also led people to try to dig a well, but this place is very strange. Every time we dig three meters, there is a huge stone slab. This stone slab is extremely hard and cannot be broken no matter how hard we dig. After trying many pieces of land and it is always like this, I think there must be a huge stone slab separating this place from the ground, so we gave up the idea of digging a well."
Shangguan Qingge listened and looked at the mountain in the distance. Most of the trees on the mountain were already withered and yellow. It seemed that there were countless huge stone slabs under this place, which made the roots of plants unable to penetrate. The roots of plants can go deep into the ground for dozens of meters to get water. If there were no obstacles, it would be impossible for most of the plants on the mountain to die! Drought is a problem, and locust plague is even more of a problem. Generally, when a large number of locusts gather together, toxins will be produced in their bodies, and they can't be eaten. It's really a headache.
This is a big problem. We have to solve the problem of feeding about 10,000 people. It is not a small matter!
"Old man Li, I said I can help everyone get through this drought, and I can do it. But I can't get through the drought by myself, we need everyone to work together. In the next period of time, you have to do what I say, can you do it?"
"Yes, yes, as long as it's Miss's order, I will go through fire and water, no matter what!"
"Okay, let's solve the problem of eating first. Go and prepare ten large water vats. Then you can see how many cooking utensils you need and how many pots you need! Come find me later! And by the way, notify every household to prepare their dishes and chopsticks and gather here!"
Hearing this, Old Man Li stood up excitedly.
"Okay, okay, I'll go right away." Old man Li turned around and took only two steps before he stopped and turned around again. "Miss, I've already dealt with the man in the woodshed. My son has already taken him to the back hill and buried him!"
Shangguan Qingge almost forgot that she still had to deal with the corpse. When she heard what old man Li said, she couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
"Good job!"
Old man Li felt impressed and followed her example, giving a thumbs up and walked out happily!
Shangguan Qingge returned to the room. Nanny Qin and Dong'er had already woken up. Dong'er's face had been more than half swollen, but there were still some scars, and she needed to recover for a while!
"Madame Qin, Dong'er, we are going to do something big next. Listen to my arrangements!"
She told the two of them her plan. Although they thought it was outrageous, they chose to believe it. After all, they had seen their young lady's treasure last night!
"I'm going to go into the treasure now. You two don't need to panic. I'll be out soon. Also, only the three of us know about this. No one else can know about it, or else they might get killed!"
"Yes, Miss, I know!"
Although they were mentally prepared, they were still frightened when they saw a living person suddenly disappear and appear in front of them. Master Yuanyu might be a living Buddha, as if he gave such a powerful treasure to a young lady!
Shangguan Qingge went into the Qiankun Circle, ran to the warehouse and found a water pipe to connect to the faucet, turned it on, there was water, ok, ran to the refrigerator to see what food was there, there was cabbage, chicken breast, enough, fortunately there was rice, she and her master did not have the habit of storing rice, the general carbon water intake was potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and the like, because they were stored for a long time, so they stocked up a lot, fortunately when I came back last time, I went to the supermarket and saw the rice in the small loan packaging, so I took a bag, although there was only 500 grams in a bag, it looked good but not edible, but the merchant really grasped the psychological effect that consumers would pay for the packaging! The function of copying items in the Qiankun Circle, I am not afraid that there is only a small bag of rice!
After coming out, during the half hour of waiting, the three of them made three buckets of instant noodles and ate and drank their fill. It was so refreshing!
Half an hour later, Old Man Li knocked on the door.
"Miss, you're ready!"
Shangguan Qingge pushed open the door and was shocked by the scene in front of her. My goodness, the yard was full of people, not only people, but also cattle, pigs, dogs, chickens and other livestock! This drought not only made people starve to death, but even the livestock were starving to the point where their bones could be seen!
"Old Man Li, didn't I tell you to bring people? Why did you bring the livestock?" She said as she came closer to Old Man Li.
"Miss, these remaining livestock are kept for breeding and cannot be killed. The villagers don't want them to starve to death, so they brought them here."
"It's okay, it's okay, just bring it here, I can bear it!" Shangguan Qingge saw the big water tank and the pot prepared in the yard, she went up to touch them, there was a layer of dust on them as there had been no water for a long time. She looked at the time, it was ten o'clock in the morning, the sun had risen to the middle of the sky, the temperature was about to rise, looking at this group of people, they were pale and thin, some of them were carrying their parents and children who had been hungry for who knows how long.
She pulled a megaphone from her sleeve.
"Ahem, ah, hello, hello, can you hear me? Can the people behind hear me?"
"We can hear you!"
"Okay, folks, don't worry about this drought. Since I'm here, I promised you that I can help you through it. I, Shangguan Qingge, will keep my word! Now, I need thirty people. Anyone who still has the strength, please stand up! Ten women who can cook, twenty men, those who still have the strength, please step out, those who don't have the strength, don't try to be brave! Those in front, please make way, make room!"
After a while, a space was cleared in front of Shangguan Qingge, and thirty people stood out. Although they looked thin, they were still strong!
She arranged for the old women to go home quickly to get the kitchen knives and chopping boards to prepare cooking, while the men were responsible for physical work and maintaining order!
"Old man Li, I'm going into the room to beg for food. Please prepare six wooden barrels for me. No one is allowed to disturb me while I'm begging. Once I'm disturbed, the food will be gone. I leave this place to you! Maintain order and don't let everyone get stuck here. Go outside and find a cool place to hide. In this sun, you will either starve to death or be sunburned to death!" After explaining things, Shangguan Qingge hid behind the screen in the room and asked Dong'er to take out the water pipe and put it into the water tank.
"Miss, it's done!"
Shangguan Qingge reached in, turned on the faucet, and water slowly flowed into the tank from the pipe.
"Water, yes, there is water!" The crowd was boiling with excitement. The men who were working carried buckets and ladles, and delivered buckets of water to the villagers. Many people shed tears after drinking the water. They had not drunk water so happily for a long time. Even the livestock were drinking in big gulps!
Nanny Qin kept taking the food that Shangguan Qingge took out from her sleeves and put it into the bucket, while the rice was unpacked and poured into the wooden barrel. The two of them worked very well together, filling the barrels and moving them out, empty barrels coming in and filling them up and moving them out! In half an hour, the food they took out was enough to feed everyone and the livestock, and the water was also full.
The cook was cutting vegetables, chopping meat and cooking porridge in an orderly manner, while the men were walking around maintaining order and helping each other.
Shangguan Qingge's arms were almost broken from picking up things, and she had to wait for a long time for the nanny to help her feel better. When she came out and saw that everyone had already eaten, she felt relieved!
When everyone saw Shangguan Qingge coming out, they all knelt down.
"Bodhisattva, living Bodhisattva!"
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