Chapter 165 Disaster Victims
"That's good too! I think I can try it too!" Qing Ya said with a smirk on her face as she put her arms around Ling Yunxi.Regardless of Ling Yunxi's final intentions, at least Ling Yu's thoughts were not in vain.

Ling Yu soon noticed the subtle changes in Ling Yunxi.In the days to come, while he treated Ling Yunxi attentively, he also treated Qing Ya with more respect.

As the army moved north, the weather became colder and colder.Qing Ya and Ling Yunxi also stayed in the carriage most of the time.

"Ma'am, Miss San. The Shaanxi-Gansu area is ahead, and there may be bandits. And I found that there are many refugees following us. So try not to get out of the carriage as much as possible, so that we don't take care of it." Ling Yu looked at Qingya and Ling Yunxi cautiously and said.

"Don't tell me the bandits here are too bold to attack the army!" Ling Yunxi looked at Ling Yu in disbelief and said.

Ling Yu frowned and said: "Miss San doesn't know something. Last year, not only the grassland experienced a drought that hadn't been seen in a century, but the drought in Shaanxi and Gansu was also very serious. Therefore, when people are desperate, they will often do something. Something extreme happened."

Qingya nodded, she discovered it when she was on the road just now.There are a lot of ragged and skinny victims begging along the road.

"Didn't the court provide disaster relief last year?" Ling Yunxi looked at Ling Yu seriously and said.Although she doesn't understand government affairs, the movement of disaster relief last year was really too big.She couldn't help but not know.

"Pfft!" Seeing Ling Yunxi's innocent face, Qingya couldn't help laughing.

"Sister-in-law, what are you laughing at? Didn't you also donate a lot of money last year?" Ling Yunxi looked at Qingya in bewilderment and asked.

Qing Ya waved her hand and explained: "The money we collected last year was for the Yujiang River's embankment breaking, and most of the money went to the south. Although the Shaanxi-Gansu area also suffered from drought, the imperial court also allocated funds to donate, but it was a drop in the bucket after all. It can't solve any problems." Qing Ya said with regret.

In fact, since ancient times, when drought and flood disasters were encountered, the imperial court had appropriate funds and donations.But after going through layers of exploitation by officials, how many of them can really get into the hands of ordinary people?But how can a lady like Ling Yunxi, who grew up in a wealthy family and kept her hands free from the sun, understand the sufferings of the people!

Ling Yu looked in surprise at the elegance of what he said.In the past, he always felt that the master liked his wife, but what he liked was only her appearance and temperament.But after getting in touch with Madam along the way, Ling Yu discovered that Madam is actually a very intelligent and insightful woman.

Ling Yunxi nodded half-understood, although she still didn't understand why there were so many unidentified victims despite the fact that the imperial court provided disaster relief.But she chose to remain silent.She believes that she will gradually know in the future.

"Don't worry! We won't get out of the car easily." Qing Ya said to the worried Ling Yu.Qingya knows that Ling Yu is not only worried about those thugs who kill without batting an eyelid.He is more worried about the homeless and unarmed refugees.

The team is still moving forward in an orderly manner.

"Madam, miss, please do me a favor! Save my child! Save my child!" Qingya's carriage stopped abruptly.

Both Qing Ya and Ling Yunxi raised the curtains of the car in astonishment, looking at the scene outside.A scrawny young woman was kneeling not far from the carriage, holding a baby tightly in her arms.It's just that the baby's cry was very small, as if it could die at any time.

Qing Ya and Ling Yunxi felt pity immediately, they looked at the young woman in unison and asked, "What's wrong with the child?"

The young woman looked up at Qingya and Ling Yunxi in surprise and said, "Ma'am, Miss, my child is really hungry. She hasn't eaten for two days. Please do me a favor and help her." My poor child!" The young woman kowtowed to Qingya and Ling Yunxi several times as she said that.

Ling Yunxi turned her head and glanced at the leftover steamed buns and pancakes that were placed on the tea table in the carriage.She couldn't help looking at Qingya, and asked for Qingya's opinion.

Qingya poked her head out of the car window, and glanced at the refugees around her.Now there are many refugees and disaster victims crowded over.Qingya was not afraid of anything else, but was afraid that if they saved the child, it would attract the attention of more refugees.

"Sister-in-law, that child is really pitiful!" Ling Yunxi looked at Qingya expectantly and said.That child looked really pitiful to her.If she and her sister-in-law just refused to save her today, then she would definitely not be able to forgive herself in the future.

"Yun Xi, don't worry! Even if we want to save him, we have to find a safer way." Qing Ya looked at Ling Yunxi solemnly and said.She also wanted to save that child, but she couldn't just do it rashly.

After deliberating for a while, Qingya said to Yudian: "Yudian, you go and tell Ling Yu that our team lacks a woman who works as a handyman. Let him ask that woman if she would like to stay in my In the team."

"But, ma'am, what if Ling Yu disagrees?" Yudian said calmly.Along the way, they met many people who wanted to join the team.But they were all rejected by Ling Yu.

"You just say that Miss San has already agreed. He will find a way to keep that woman and child." Qingya blinked and said to Yudian.

"Sister-in-law, you..." Ling Yunxi blushed involuntarily and looked at Qingya coquettishly with disapproval.

Qingya looked at Ling Yunxi with a smile and said, "Don't you really want to save that child? Since you are helping each other, of course you have to save it in your name."

"But you can't...!" Ling Yunxi still muttered dissatisfied.

"If he didn't say that, Ling Yu wouldn't have left that child and woman behind." Qing Ya said, looking at Ling Yunxi seriously.Because Ling Yu has seen too many things like this.Moreover, their team is different from other teams, they are the team that escorts food and grass.Therefore, they have to strictly check every person who enters the team.

Ling Yu quickly rushed over, he frowned and glanced at Qingya and Ling Yunxi.Then he walked up to the woman who was kneeling on the ground with the child in her arms.He squatted down and carefully looked at the baby who could barely hear the cry.

The child was so thin that it was almost skin and bones, and her sobs were getting lower and lower.Looking at her weak appearance, it seemed as if she would die if she couldn't catch her breath.

"How old is your child?" Ling Yu looked at the woman and asked solemnly.

"In terms of adults, my baby is more than six months old. She could still drink my milk before, but I haven't eaten for several days, and I can't express any milk anymore." The woman Looking at Ling Yu with a miserable face, he cried.

After listening to the woman's narration, Ling Yu took another serious look at the woman.Judging from the woman's complexion, she was indeed disheveled, and her complexion also showed severe malnutrition.But Ling Yu was still a little skeptical. Ordinarily, ordinary women would be paralyzed with fright when they saw such a dignified officer and soldier like him, so how could they tell the whole thing so completely!

"What's the matter? Didn't you see that this child is about to die?" Just as Ling Yu was constantly looking at the woman.Ling Yunxi finally lost her composure and got off the carriage.

Ling Yu hurriedly stood up, cupped her hands at Ling Yunxi and said, "Miss San, the closest in our team..."

"I hope you can save that child, okay?" Ling Yunxi looked at Ling Yu pleadingly and said.

After seeing Ling Yunxi's pleading eyes, Ling Yu had no choice but to swallow the words he just wanted to say.He turned his head, looked at the woman majesticly and said, "It happens that there is a lack of a laundry handyman in our team. If you can work, you can stay!"

"I can! I can...!" The young woman said gratefully.

"Come with me!" Ling Yu led the woman and quickly disappeared into the team.

Ling Yunxi, who returned to the carriage, looked at Qingya with a worried face and said, "Sister-in-law, why is that child so pitiful, but why doesn't Ling Yu want to save it?"

"It's not the child's problem, it's the woman who might have a problem." Qing Ya said after pondering for a while.She also heard the conversation between Ling Yu and that woman just now.She also always felt that there was something weird about that woman.Because as a woman, her organization is too clear and her narrative is too reasonable.But when she did this, it seemed unreasonable.

"Is there something wrong with that woman?" Ling Yunxi looked at Qingya in surprise and asked.

Qing Ya shook her head and said: "That's not necessarily true. In many troubled times, women are sometimes a hundred times stronger than men. Besides, mothers are stronger. If a mother is for her own children, sometimes she is fearless. "In any case, the child just now is also a life.They did at least one meaningful thing.

After the woman was taken away just now, Qingya found that more women and children surrounded her.Most of them are disaster victims who are yellow, emaciated and listless.

Qing Ya and Ling Yunxi also asked Zhu Er and Yu Hui to quietly distribute some food to the poor victims at the right time.But because of this, Qingya's carriage struggled even more.

"Da da...!" There was a rush of hoofbeats, and finally the victims who surrounded Qingya's carriage gave way.

Wang Han of Chengjun looked at Qingya and Ling Yunxi with a serious face and said: "If Madam and Miss San still want to continue to show kindness, then we won't be able to get out of this place for a month."

Qingya embarrassedly said to Chengjun Wang Fuliao Fushen: "What the county prince said is true, Qingya is being rude." Qingya also knows that if they continue like this, it will be difficult to get rid of these victims.

Ling Yunxi pouted, and looked at King Cheng with dissatisfaction.She always felt that these disaster victims were really pitiful.As a minister in the imperial court, King Chengjun didn't think about how to appease the victims, but how to get rid of them.It's really chilling.

King Chengjun also felt the strong dissatisfaction emanating from Ling Yunxi.But he couldn't explain anything, he could only swallow all the wry smiles in his stomach.But anyway, Mrs. Guogong is still a sensible person.It wouldn't be too difficult for him to do so.

Qingya also saw Ling Yunxi's dissatisfaction with King Cheng, she couldn't help but quietly pulled Ling Yunxi who had a cold face, and said earnestly: "Yun Xi, you can't blame the prince of the county for this matter. The prince of the county also has his own Moreover, the resettlement and rescue of these victims should also be done by officials in the Shaanxi-Gansu area. After all, what we can do is only a drop in the bucket, and cannot solve any fundamental problems.”

Ling Yunxi nodded involuntarily and said: "Sister-in-law, I actually know what you said. I just feel a little chilled by the inaction of the county prince!"

"No action! How do you know that the county prince didn't do anything? Didn't you realize that the county prince has disappeared since we entered the city?" Qing Ya pointed to Ling Yunxi and said with a faint smile.

"Yeah! Then what did he do?"

(End of this chapter)

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