Ma'am, your vest fell off again

Chapter 207
"Cough cough cough! My lord, don't care about these details. Anyway, our husband and wife are also meeting in Nanguang now. As long as the result is good, don't care about the process."

Li Junhao's eyes were still cold and frightening, Fu Xuanrong smiled flatteringly, and then changed the subject, "By the way, since you came two days earlier, why don't you tell me about the situation in the town. I was just outside When I left, I found many coffins on both sides, are there corpses in those coffins?"

"Well, yes."

"Actually, how long have they looked dead? Suicide or starvation?"

"Many, with different methods of death, but almost all of them have become mummies."

Fu Xuanrong touched her chin, "Nanguang is droughty, and it is normal for corpses to become mummified due to long-term sun exposure, but what do you mean by different ways of dying?"

Xiao Feng heard the words and replied: "Master Rong, several coffins were opened by his subordinates. The corpses there are really strange. Most of them lack arms and legs, and some of them have no heads. A hole was knocked open, and I don't know what kind of abuse they suffered before they died."

Missing arms and legs, and a hole in the head?

Fu Xuanrong combined what An Li said earlier about cannibalism, and her voice inevitably became hoarse, "If my guess is correct, those people should be the old, weak, women and children in the town. They are weak and can't last long at all, and After death, the corpses were left there, so the living people in the town ate their limbs, and as for the heads being knocked open, they must have sucked the brains."

"No, it's not being eaten after death." Li Junhao stared into Fu Xuanrong's eyes with a rather gloomy expression, "The expressions of the corpses are grim and distorted, it doesn't seem to die naturally at all, and several of them have marks of being strangled by ropes."

"So you're saying they were killed while they were alive..."

"pretty close."

Fu Xuanrong's face was pale, and it took a long time before she could speak, "In times of peace and prosperity, the common people are actually killing each other like this. Is there no one in the court to send food and relief money?"

"Give it away, but officials withhold it layer by layer, and how much will be left in the hands of the people." Besides, disaster relief is not a long-term solution.There are years of wars on the border, and the national treasury is not sufficient. If there is a constant drought here, how long can tens of thousands of mouths be fed?

At the end of the day, getting some water out first is the most important thing.

"Forget it, it's useless to discuss these things now. Xiaofeng, Anli is downstairs. Take her to search around the town and gather all the living people. But let's not say that we are from the government, I guess Those people will feel resentment when they hear these two words now."

"Yes!"

Xiaofeng and Anli were extremely fast, and they gathered everyone in the town together in less than half an hour. Fu Xuanrong took a look and roughly estimated that there should be three to five hundred people.

"Are you the only ones left in the town?" According to the information she had received before, there were obviously tens of thousands of people here.

Those villagers looked at me, I looked at you, and finally an older one came out and replied, "Nanguang drought, death, escape, walk away, now the only ones staying here too much."

Fu Xuanrong looked at their yellow and thin faces, feeling sore in her heart, "The town has become like this, why don't you leave together, why wait for death?"

"How to leave, the ancestors' foundation is here, and the family ancestral hall is here. Even if we die, we will never leave Nanguang."

This answer was not far from what Fu Xuanrong expected.The most important thing for the ancients is to return the leaves to their roots. Most of the people here are already old. If they died in a foreign country, who would help them bring their remains back to the ground?

"Forget it, let's not talk about these things. I brought some millet and water when I came. You go and get a big pot. Everyone drinks a bowl first to fill their stomachs. We will figure out how to solve the specifics later."

When those people heard that there was food and water to drink, all of their gloomy eyes brightened a lot.However, after experiencing such a thing, they inevitably became a little more defensive towards others, "Who are you? Why do you want to help us?"

Fu Xuan smiled gently, "I'm just an ordinary Jiang Hu person."

"Benefactor, benefactor, I don't know how to address you?"

call?

Fu Xuanrong thought about it carefully for a while, then brushed her hair one last time, and said happily, "Just call me Fu Nvxia!"

"Yes, yes, thank you Fu Nvxia for saving my life, thank you Fu Nvxia for saving my life!"

"You're welcome, hurry back and get the pot, Xiaofeng, go get the bag of rice and get ready to cook."

"As ordered!"

After a while, a large cauldron was set up, and the victims gathered around the fire. Although each person was only given a small bowl, at least they could satisfy their hunger temporarily.

"How about it, does this girl look like a heroine today? Do you think I'm handsome?!" Fu Xuanrong crossed her arms and flirted with her man cheekily.

Li Junhao glanced at her indifferently, "These millets can only solve the urgent need, what are you going to do next, Fu Nvxia?"

"Uh." Fu Xuanrong scratched her hair, "I really didn't think of this at the moment."

The situation in Nanguang Town is far worse than she imagined. Looking at the dryness of the land, it is estimated that even if you dig a few tens of meters, water may not seep out.

"Then you have to think about it carefully." Li Junhao stopped talking nonsense to her, and took Xiaofeng to the back of the mountain to check the water source.

Fu Xuanrong looked at the back of the man leaving, and gave her middle finger fiercely.

"Son of a bitch!"

Just after noon, Fu Xuanrong looked at the two people who came back from inquiring, and asked, "How's the situation?"

"No water source found."

The mountains on both sides were so dry that they were about to collapse, and it was difficult to climb up even one step, even if there was water on the top of the mountain, there was no way to get it.

"It's really getting more and more difficult. The water we brought is not much, and it probably won't last for a few days. We must find a new water source during this time. Xiaofeng, how far is the nearest town from here?"

"It's very far away. It takes at least two days to ride a horse back and forth."

Fu Xuanrong gritted her teeth, "Two days, then continue to investigate. If there is really nothing to do, let people use a carriage to carry water back to another town. Anyway, none of the people here can die anymore!"

"Yes!"

The afternoon sun was very poisonous, Fu Xuanrong's mouth was dry, she sat in the room and drank a big mouthful of water.

"Li Junhao, which official is in charge of Nanguang Town?"

"It should be the county magistrate Chen. It is in the town that Xiaofeng mentioned. The two places are far away from each other. Another county magistrate should have been assigned to take charge of it, but this place is remote and in the mountains, so no officials are willing to come here. In the end, they had to combine the two into one and hand them over to County Magistrate Chen."

"Then that county magistrate Chen is so dereliction of duty, no one will impeach him?"

(End of this chapter)