The little cook in the book has fallen asleep

When the three Cheng Yiyu brothers arrived in Yunnan Province, it was already late at night, but they still saw many old, weak, women and children on the road. Some of them were sitting on the roadside supporting each other, while others were lying directly on the road and the side of the road. The road was packed with people!

Cheng Yiyu immediately asked the guards around him to get off the car to check. The guards got off the car, checked the people lying in the middle of the road, and then walked forward with pale faces to report the situation to Cheng Yiyu and the others.

"Sir, these people are no longer breathing!" a guard said to Cheng Yiyu.

These guards were specially sent by the emperor to protect them, because the emperor was well aware of the most terrifying human hearts after a great disaster, such as the county magistrate, local officials and gentry... and the horse bandits that would emerge!

If you are not careful, the person will be gone!

Cheng Yiyu and his two brothers quickly got off the carriage. The victims who had wanted to surround them immediately dispersed when they saw that they were wearing official uniforms.

Cheng Yiyu and his brothers did not come to this provincial capital to take up the posts, but were temporarily sent to take charge of these places. Because they were still young, the emperor asked the three of them to cooperate in handling a large province.

And this time, it was the three of them who took the initiative to request to come here for disaster relief, otherwise the emperor would not have been willing to send them here.

The emperor ordered them to return to the capital after dealing with the flood problem here, because the emperor had other important matters for them to do.

At present, the three of them have only been given the position of inspector, and the leader of the Imperial Guards He Jin has been sent to protect them.

"Sir, sir, please save us!" A ragged, haggard woman hugged the weak child tightly in her arms, crying and crawling with difficulty to the feet of Cheng Yiyu and others.

The woman's bloodshot and desperate eyes were filled with a desire to live.

"Sir, sir, my child is sick, please save my child!" Another man also knelt on the ground, his cracked lips trembling slightly, his eyes full of tears, and his voice hoarse and sad.

"Sir, we are so hungry! Please save us!" A group of skinny and pale people gathered around. They looked at Cheng Yiyu and the others with begging eyes, as if they had placed all their hopes on him.

"Ah! God, please stop raining!" It suddenly started raining again, and there was a burst of terrified shouts from the crowd.

"Oh, God! Open your eyes and look at us! Stop raining!" People knelt down and prayed to God. Their thin bodies shivered in the cold wind and rain, as if they would be blown down by the wind and rain at any time.

"Everyone, get up first. We are sent by the court to help you. You have not been forgotten by the emperor! Hold on, the rain will eventually stop!" Cheng Zhiwen said loudly, and his sonorous and powerful voice reached the ears of every citizen!

"Go ask why the county magistrate doesn't let so many disaster victims into the city?" Cheng Yiyu was very angry. It was raining heavily outside, but the gate of the county town was tightly closed! The people were kept out!

These people were standing outside the city gate, all wet, which showed that they had been here for quite some time. If the county had not been located on high ground, I'm afraid these people would have been washed away by the flood.

"Captain He, thank you for your hard work. Can you help me ask the soldiers at the city gate why these people are not allowed to enter the city?" Cheng Zhiwen had great respect for the leader of the Imperial Guards appointed by the emperor. At this moment, they were wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Guards, which just saved them some unnecessary trouble.

"Lord Cheng, you are too polite!" Chief He immediately sent his men to knock on the city gate.

He was born into a large family, and even though he had heard others talk about the horrors of floods and catastrophes, he had never been as shocked as seeing it with his own eyes.

The ground was littered with floating corpses and starving people, the county gates were tightly closed, and the common people gathered together with nowhere to shelter from the rain, lying or sitting on the ground in tattered clothes and soaking wet!

"Dear soldiers, listen up! Gather all the deceased together and take good care of the women and children. Chief He, please ask your men to find a place to shelter from the rain and cook a big pot of porridge for them!" Cheng Liyao said calmly. People who have been hungry for a long time cannot eat something too thick, otherwise it will be counterproductive!

Even though he and his brothers had thought about the severity of the flood, they never expected to see such a scene!

"But we don't have much food left. What should we do next?" Chief He asked immediately as he looked at the little food on the carriage.

"Do it first, and we'll worry about the rest later! Now take care of the living people first!" Cheng Yiyu pointed at the people wailing on the ground.

If they had arrived a little later, there would have been dozens or even hundreds of more corpses piled over there!

"Okay! Let's take it one step at a time!" said Chief He.

Fortunately, the emperor gave him a token when he left. When they passed by the border defense camp here, they were careful and dispatched a team over.

Thinking of this, he looked at Cheng Yiyu with admiration. This was exactly what he had proposed.

This idea was thought up by the three brothers of the Cheng family, because they had already anticipated this situation when they recommended themselves.

This is because no official from the state government is willing to come. This must be a tough nut to crack! There must be a lot of people involved behind the scenes!

"Chief, the guards simply refused to open the city gates and said... that it was an order from the county magistrate!" An imperial guard walked up to Chief He and said.

"Hmph, you are so bold! Not only did you turn a blind eye to the disaster, but you also dared to conceal the truth. Just break in! I want to see what this damn county magistrate is doing!" Cheng Yiyu couldn't bear to see the people suffer, so he immediately took his men to the city gate!

Cheng Liyao also followed him up happily.

When the county magistrate reported the situation, he clearly said that the situation was not serious. So what does it mean to be serious? Is it serious only when all the people died?

"Everyone listen to me, we are inspectors sent by the court. Please follow the officials in a moment. The court will definitely protect you!" Cheng Zhiwen said loudly immediately!

"Thank you, great judge! Thank you, great judge!" An old man looked at the scene in front of him with tears in his eyes. The soldiers were helping them build a shelter.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!" A woman pulled her child down and knelt down. When the flood came, they were so desperate that they were even stopped outside the door by the county magistrate.

"Thank the court. The emperor hasn't given up on us. We have hope!" A group of people knelt down. They... they were saved.

A loud "bang" sounded at the city gate. It seemed that Cheng Yiyu and Cheng Liyao had forced the city gate open. The powerful pills that their sister gave them were still useful.

As the city gate fell, the crowd began to become restless.

Cheng Zhiwen watched his two brothers lead a team of government troops into the city, and began to calm the restless victims.

"Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet! Listen to my command. The elderly, the weak, women and children should line up in front, and all the young and middle-aged people should stay behind and follow the person holding the red cloth!" Cheng Zhiwen's voice was not loud, but it instantly calmed the restless people.

There were a few troublemakers who were unwilling to cooperate, so Cheng Zhiwen asked Leader He to capture them. Then the others obediently cooperated with Cheng Zhiwen and his team.

As soon as Cheng Yiyu and his companions entered the city, they went straight to the county government office. He wanted to see what those inactive county magistrates and county magistrates were doing!

"Bang!" The door of the county government office was opened, and Cheng Yiyu saw an unbearable scene! The people outside were starving, and the county magistrate and his men were drinking wine!

A man hugged a beautiful woman, how happy he was! County magistrate, county magistrate, and legal advisor! Very good, he didn't have to look for them one by one.

"Someone, catch him!" After all, Cheng Yiyu was only a teenager from a farming family. He was too lazy to flatter the county magistrate!

"You! Who are you? How dare you touch me! How dare you trespass into the government office? I will kill you!" County Magistrate Shen came to his senses only when he was held up by someone!

"I am the inspector appointed by the emperor himself. You can come and trouble me again if you are still alive. My name is Cheng Yiyu, remember?"

Cheng Yiyu walked up to Magistrate Shen and slapped him. This was for the people! Then he picked up a plate and slapped it, and Magistrate Shen fainted!

This coward can be a county magistrate? Or a county magistrate of a border town? If all officials are like him, then the Mu Kingdom will be destroyed!

"You can't...you can't touch him! He is a member of the Shen family?" The county magistrate said as he stepped back.

"The Shen family? Then let the emperor decide!" The mountain of aristocratic families has been weighing on the emperor's head for too long. The emperor must need a breakthrough. County Magistrate Shen may be the person the emperor needs.

"Yes, Lord Cheng, I'll take them away right away!" Several officers took the county magistrate away and locked him up in the dungeon.

"Someone, take out the tables, chairs, and benches first! Let the elderly, the weak, women, and children come in to take shelter from the rain first!" Cheng Yiyu looked at the well-built county government office, which was three times larger than the one in their Bai Ze County.

"Yes, sir!" The guards quickly carried all the tables, chairs and benches from the county government office to the outside yard, and cleared all the places in the inner hall that were not exposed to the rain.

"Sir, I found some quilts in the inner room. Would you like to see them?" A guard came out with his brothers, carrying a lot of quilts.

"Okay, okay, keep them all, keep them all! Doctor, remember to record the sick people, and separate the sick and the healthy people!" Cheng Zhiwen said.

They had never encountered a real natural disaster, so they could only resettle the people according to the book given by their sister.

"Sir, someone is looking for you outside!" A guard came in from the door and said to Cheng Yiyu and Cheng Zhiwen.

"Who?" Cheng Yiyu asked.

"It's a girl, she said her last name is Yu!" the guard continued.

"Let her in!" Cheng Yiyu thought about it and felt that there really seemed to be a wealthy family with the surname Yu among the local people, so he asked the guards to bring the person in.

"Greetings, Your Excellency!" Yu Qianqian didn't expect that these new officials were so young.

Her father heard that the new official broke down the city gate and arrested corrupt officials as soon as he arrived, so he eagerly asked her to come first to test the waters.

"Get up, no need to be polite!" Cheng Yiyu didn't expect that the girl who came to see him, who should be about the same age as him, was so young!

"Hello, sir. I am Yu Qianqian, the eldest daughter of the Yu family. I came to see you this time to find a resettlement site for the disaster victims!" When Yu Rourou saw the room full of valuable furniture thrown casually in the yard, she knew that Sir Cheng was an official who got things done.

Although the Yu family was a grain merchant, they did not want to profit from the national disaster, so when other grain merchants were raising the price of grain, they closed their doors and provided porridge. Otherwise, how could the victims still be alive after more than ten days!

But there were so many victims that many of them were reluctant to eat the porridge they received and gave it to the young or the old. Moreover, her Yu family only had food but no medicine.

So when Cheng Yiyu and the others first arrived, they saw many dead bodies on the roadside or on the road.

"My Yu family is willing to use our restaurant to house the disaster victims. As for our Yu family's ancestral hall, except for the one where the ancestral tablets are placed, we will use all of it to house the disaster victims." The Yu family had actually approached Magistrate Shen a long time ago, but he did not agree. Instead, he joined forces with other grain merchants to suppress the Yu family.

"Then I will thank the Yu family for their generosity on behalf of the victims!" Cheng Yiyu almost knelt down in front of Yu Qianqian.

"Sir, this is what our Yu family should do. We should take our money from the people and use it for the people! Our Yu family's granary can last another week. I hope you can find food as soon as possible!" When Yu Qianqian came in, she had already seen that there were at least four or five thousand victims, if not ten thousand. Feeding so many people was no small matter.

"We've been thinking about this!" Cheng Yiyu sighed. It would be great if his sister and family were here, so there would be someone to help with ideas!

Of course he didn't know that his long-missed sister was here!

And brought him a big surprise!