I travel back and forth between ancient and modern times, hoarding goods to raise my grandchildren a

This morning, Deputy General Chen Shu fainted from hunger.

Pei Yi immediately took out a dagger and cut his own hand, then gave the blood to Chen Shu to drink.

The other generals watched with bloodshot eyes.

In the military camp, whenever there is food, the general always gives it to them first. It can be said that the general is now even thinner than them.

The reason the general hasn't fainted yet is simply because his physical condition is much better than theirs.

But this was not enough to justify the general making Chen Shu drink his own blood.

Hungry and thirsty, Chen Shu was unconscious, but he would instinctively suck on the blood whenever it touched his mouth.

Seeing Pei Yi's increasingly pale face, many men turned away and cried.

"Chen Shu, you bastard, when will you ever stop?"

"Chen Shu, you bastard, stop right now!"

Unable to persuade Pei Yi, everyone could only place their hopes on Chen Shu.

Perhaps Chen Shu was still conscious, because amidst the angry shouts and onlookers, he actually moved his eyelids.

Then she slowly woke up.

When he realized he was sucking Pei Yi's blood, he was so shocked that he backed away repeatedly.

"I...I'm sorry...This humble general was unaware..."

If his body weren't still too weak, he would have knelt down immediately to beg for forgiveness from Pei Yi.

When the army doctor saw that Chen Shu was no longer drinking blood, he quickly brought over some coarse linen to bandage Pei Yi's wound.

"Chen Shu, you brat, you truly have the General's blood in your veins. If you ever dare to do anything to betray the General, I will be the first to not let you off the hook."

"That's right, you brat, you've become the first person to have the blood of a general in your veins. You've really struck gold."

"Since Chen Shu has the general's blood in his veins, will Chen Shu have to take care of the general in his old age and see him off when he dies?"

"So does that mean Chen Shu has to call the general 'father'?"

I don't know who started it.

Suddenly, the entire military camp was filled with teasing about Chen Shu.

The sounds of laughter made the atmosphere in the military camp a little less somber.

But after the laughter subsided, the expressions on everyone's faces stiffened again.

"Even the Black Bear Army is out of food. What are we going to do?"

"In a few days, even if the enemy doesn't attack us, we will starve to death."

“If our entire army is wiped out, the people will become their food, the border will be occupied, the enemy will be able to enter unopposed, and the entire Dasheng Kingdom will be in grave danger.”

"I can not be reconciled!"

"If I die on the battlefield, I can accept my fate; it's because I'm not skilled enough. But I can't accept starving to death before I even get to the battlefield."

"The Great Way is ruthless, and the Way of Heaven is unjust."

Pei Yi allowed the military doctor to bandage his wounds.

His vision blurred, and he felt dizzy. He bit his lip hard until it bled.

The intense pain brought him a sliver of clarity.

Listening to the words of his generals, he closed his eyes in sorrow.

He was powerless before the will of Heaven.

If this drags on any longer, will they really have no choice but to eat the corpses of their own comrades to survive?

A general burst in, holding a clump of tree roots in his hands, and said excitedly.

"General, your subordinate and his men have dug up some tree roots near the Black Bear Army's camp."

The tree roots were covered in soil, and they were all rootlets that looked almost like fibrous hairs.

It looks like it was dug out from deep in the soil.

It must be the part that was missed.

But these are the very things they now treasure.

Pei Yi: "Take it and distribute it to the wounded soldiers first."

Even though he couldn't see a future, he didn't want to give up until the very last moment.

He wanted his brothers to live as long as possible.

"The rest of you who are not injured, come with me to dig for kaolin clay."

"Don't waste your urine either."

Eating dirt, drinking urine, drinking blood—as long as you can survive, there is always hope.

***

After successfully receiving their rewards from the palace, Yu Wanwan and her group planned to return to the General's Mansion.

When she reached the street, Yu Wanwan suddenly changed direction.

She then walked towards the palace.

Go and borrow a royal physician from the emperor.

Are you worried about a plague in the capital?

Upon hearing Yu Wanwan's guess, the Emperor frowned.

He had also worried about the things that Yu Wanwan was worried about.

He had previously sent soldiers to patrol the city and strictly required that the dead in the city be sent to a special place for unified disposal.

They also sent a large number of soldiers to guard the city gates.

Anyone suspected of having the plague was stopped outside the city gates.

So despite the fact that countless people starved to death in the capital over the past three years, no epidemic broke out.

But no one can guarantee that there won't be any oversights.

Moreover, Yu Wanwan is someone even the gods approve of.

Maybe it's a deity who knows where the hidden dangers are in the capital?

The Emperor immediately dispatched five imperial physicians to accompany Yu Wanwan, and also sent the Crown Prince and his son, Xiao Niu Ma.

“The last time we passed through here, we smelled the stench of corpses, which made us a little worried.”

Yu Wanwan led the imperial physicians to the slums.

Standing at the entrance of the alley, Yu Wanwan breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, the stench of the corpse from last time is gone.

Zhou Nan followed along.

During this period, he was in charge of leading people to deliver food to the slums, so he was quite familiar with the situation there.

He said, "Before, because there was no food, people left behind the bodies of their deceased relatives in order to survive."

Some elderly people feel that living is a waste of food, so they end their own lives, leaving behind their physical bodies.

"These days, thanks to the grain that you, Madam, have sent over, everyone has been able to eat their fill, and naturally, this situation has disappeared."

Yu Wanwan also understood this principle.

Even the most cold-blooded person cannot remain indifferent after the death of a loved one.

If it's not their only option for survival, they'll abandon it.

The bodies have all been disposed of, but we still cannot let our guard down.

Yu Wanwan instructed Zhou Nan to lead the imperial physicians to the homes of ordinary people to examine their pulses and diagnose the plague.

Yu Wanwan remembered the names of some of the children in the slums.

Thinking back to today when the system notified me of the reward points, only the children in the slums had given me the maximum points.

Since they were so helpful and adorable, Yu Wanwan felt she had to do something too.

She asked the fourth brother and a few others to call the children out.

Take out the remaining candied hawthorns from the space.

Modern candied hawthorn skewers are all small skewers.

There were hundreds of candied hawthorn skewers in one cabinet back then.

Many children in the alley starved to death; now only about sixty remain.

At the urging of the fourth brother and his friends, everyone obediently came out to line up.

Yu Wanwan led the third and fifth brothers to hand out candied hawthorns in front.

Most of the children in the slums had only heard of candied hawthorn before, but had never tasted it.

Not to mention the colorful and varied candied hawthorns that Yu Wanwan gave them.

Most children held it in their hands, reluctant to eat it.

Some of them grabbed their candied hawthorns and rushed home to tell their parents.

When Yu Wanwan sent the message to the twentieth child, she heard the sound of adults scolding their child in one of the households.