Return of the Swallow

Chapter 444

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Qin Yining's lips trembled, looking at the familiar city gate and the once-familiar street, the sourness and sadness in her heart flowed like magma all over her body.

This is a troubled place.The people living here, in addition to being harassed by wars, are constantly being tortured by various natural disasters.

Does God really want to kill everyone?

Although she did not live in the capital for too long, after recognizing her ancestors and returning to her ancestry, she always regarded this as her hometown. Although the time spent in this city was short, it was richer and more exciting than the previous fourteen years. , Let her remember deeply.

Therefore, Qin Yining did not want to see the old capital like this.

Pang Xiao put his arm around Qin Yining's shoulder and patted, and then turned around and ordered: "Let's go to the city and go to the Yamen first."

"Yes."

There was a cracked deep hole in the originally spacious and flat street, and most of the houses on both sides were ruined.

There was a dead breath in the street, and the air was mixed with the smell of white lime, the scorching smell that lingered after the body was burned, and the smell of the body that was too late to be disposed of.

It is now July, and the old capital is in the south. Those buried in the ruins in this weather will emit an unimaginable stench in no time.

However, in such a harsh environment, there are rough sheds built by people everywhere around the street.Naturally, there are also those houses that are intact, just cracking the wall into a gap, and the whole is still the same, but after all, they are all big families.

Usually, the kind of intact courtyards are constructed with great care when engineering and selecting materials.Ordinary people mostly live in mud houses, how can they withstand the continuous toss of the earth dragon turning over?

Qin Yining's brows furrowed while watching.Those streets, either familiar or unfamiliar, are now completely dilapidated.

Pang Xiao knew that she was sad, that this was her hometown after all, so she couldn't help but squeeze her shoulders tightly to protect her in her arms.

And this group of people walked to the original "Shuntian Mansion" and the current "Prefect Yamen of the Old Capital". When the people they met saw the appearance of their group, they were too hungry to lift their eyelids and take a look. Look.

They are so hungry.

The supply in the city is inadequate, the roads outside the city are blocked, the food in the city is limited, and the shops with food in their homes refuse to open their doors. Even if they have money, they cannot buy food.

The court's relief has never come.

They were Dayan who surrendered to Da Zhou, and it was difficult to feel a sense of belonging in Da Zhou.

And now, the Great Zhou Dynasty, as they had expected, couldn't remember them as people in times of crisis.Just like the emperor of the Yan Dynasty, he can never remember the life and death of the people.

So what can happen after changing the sky?What should be abandoned is still to be abandoned.

On the way, Pang Xiao saw the yellow-faced and thin refugees, and their slender eyebrows wrinkled a few lines between their brows.

"Sister Liu, Sister Liu!"

At this moment, a weak cry suddenly came from the roadside.

Everyone looked at the sound source, but saw several victims rushing to a remote alley in the corner.

In the alley, a shriveled woman hung on a sturdy tree branch with a waistband, dangling shabby skirts and bare feet under a covered green shade, and under her feet were a few overturned bricks. Tile stone.

Qin Yining exclaimed and covered his mouth.

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; Then Pang Xiao covered her eyes with her hands.

Huzi hurriedly ran over to inquire, and soon returned with his head downcast. In the voice of the victims who were unable to cry, he whispered:

"That woman is a widow. Her husband who fell ill from the famine last year starved to death, and the earth dragon turned over. Her son and her old mother were buried under the old house. She was the only one who was a servant for a big family in the city and survived. But the big family couldn’t afford the servant’s wife, so they drove them away. The woman had no hope of living, and she was hungry for so many days, so she just...

Pang Xiao frowned and nodded, "I see. Let's go."

The group of people continued to move forward, leaving those faint crying sounds far away.

But where are there fewer such tragedies in the city?

A piece of the courtyard wall of the prefect Yamen of the old capital was also destroyed by the earthquake, which was obviously repaired later.

The door of the Yamen was tightly locked, and Pang Xiao ordered people to knock on the door.

The people who responded were weak, and when they learned that the visitor was actually an imperial envoy, a few people in a hurry opened the door together.

Several pale-faced men hurriedly looked behind Pang Xiao and his group, but only saw a carriage and horses instead of grain.

Disappointment flashed in their eyes, but they respectfully invited people in and closed the door carefully.

Li Qitian later arranged a local official in the old capital with the surname Gong, famous and named Zhongtang, who was forty years old and was a scholar in the Beiji Dynasty.It has always been reused by Li Qitian as the prefect of the old capital, governing the old capital and several surrounding counties.

Seeing Pang Xiao's party coming, Gong You hurriedly greeted them and saluted them.

The two sides were polite and entered the lobby.

Gong You asked straightforwardly: "The prince is here, but can he bring food and grass?"

Pang Xiao sighed with a bitter smile, and it was hard to say that Li Qitian hadn't allocated grain, so he had to say: "This king is worried about the situation, so he will come first. The grain and grass prepared by the Ministry of Households should come afterwards."

Gong You didn't doubt that he was there, and sighed: "It's not easy to walk this road, right?"

Otherwise, it would not have been so long.

When Pang Xiao heard what he meant, his smile became more bitter, "This king also drove the ducks to the shelves, and the relief ambassador appointed by the saint was the king of Yanjun. Who knew that the king of Yan made a rebellion and fled halfway. For this matter. My son, it took several days, and then the Lord appointed the king as the ambassador for disaster relief, replacing the task of King Yanjun."

"It turned out to be like this!" Gong You understood thoroughly now. "The King Yanjun is too ungrateful, so he uses and trusts him so much, thinking that he is familiar with this place after all, so he is arranged for him to come to the people. Peaceful, he is fine, but escaped!"

When Pang Xiao saw Gong You doing this, he knew that he was a straightforward, passionate, upright person.Working with such a person requires direct contact, which happens to be the way he likes it.

"Oh, don't mention him." Pang Xiao sighed, and asked, "What's the situation in the city? From the perspective of this king, he didn't see the relief porridge shed?"

Gong You smiled bitterly and shook his head, and said bleakly: "You don't know what the lord. The old capital of this big swallow has long been hollowed out. In the year of famine last year, the people went 60%, 60%!"

Gong You painfully gestured with the thumb and tail finger of his right hand, "The Great Yan Dynasty was not wronged at all! The Gouyun Jun had no skills, and the people who had been lost were displaced. It is true that the official was appointed last winter. That winter, the city was a dead city! It was lucky that there was no large-scale plague.

"Who knows that the remaining four adults met the Earth Dragon and turned over in the next year. I don't know how many people died at this time."