binnovel Chapter 378 Guilty conscience? Disaster relief...
Chapter 378 Guilty conscience? Disaster relief...
On the other hand, Shangguan Haitang, who cares about the people, sent people to investigate after the disaster relief money was robbed, and asked dignitaries to donate again.
She also secretly sent her trusted general to take her treasury silver and go to the disaster area first to check on the people's conditions.
The trusted general Lu En came to the county magistrate's mansion and found that the atmosphere among the county magistrate and the people in the mansion was very serious.
The county magistrate who was supposed to come out to greet him, didn't think of anything at this moment, and was only concerned with his own sorrow...
It was not until the servants saw Lu En in his official uniform and reminded him that the county magistrate finally remembered the incident.
He quickly adjusted his state and bowed to Lu En;
"Your subordinate, I greet the Imperial Envoy..."
"No gift."
Lu En asked, looking around;
"Mr. County Magistrate, what happened?"
The county magistrate wiped his sweat guiltily and said tremblingly;
"No...it's okay..."
"Oh?"
Seeing that Lu En didn't believe him, the county magistrate swallowed his saliva, took a deep breath and pretended to be polite.
"Alas! I am also worried about the flood. You know that.
There are many villages around here, but the income is not good. The salary I get every month is only enough to support my family.
I cannot afford the extra money, but seeing the plight of the people,
I was anxious and a little sad for a while..."
The county magistrate spoke with such sincerity that people who didn't know the truth would really think she was a good official who loved the people like her own children.
Lu Enlai had known about the county magistrate before, and what he found out secretly seemed to be different from what he saw in person, so he was 70% skeptical about what the county magistrate said.
Several people were discussing countermeasures in the study. The county magistrate was very obedient to Lu En's words because he felt guilty. He didn't even dare to ask why she was the only one in charge.
He didn't even dare to say much, fearing that he would make more mistakes. It was not until Lu En and the others left that the county magistrate relaxed his tense body...
Lu En and her subordinates looked at each other after leaving the yamen and decided to secretly investigate the county magistrate first.
In the inn, the subordinate asked;
"Sir, should we go to the village first?"
"Take a dozen people with you to check out the situation..."
Then he said to the rest of the people;
"Go check the food and herbs first. How long will it take for them to arrive..."
"Yes, my lord."
"Go check out the current situation of the town and what's going on with the county magistrate..."
"Yes, my lord."
After everyone left, Lu En and Lin Zheng talked about the scene they saw in the yamen. They pondered for a moment, took out the notebook, and noted the flooded areas with solemn faces.
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The timeline goes back to Ji Xingle. The spirit guards watch the villagers digging a drainage hole.
My eyes widened in disbelief. Isn't this... dangerous? Why are the villagers digging the drainage channel?
What about the rest of the villagers? The dozen or so spirit guards looked at each other and then separated to investigate.
The spiritual guards finally found the villagers on the mountain and asked some questions. They discovered that the person who helped them was Ji Xingle, a very famous figure in the Phoenix Kingdom.
The spirit guards breathed a sigh of relief. After asking along the way and finding out Ji Xingle's location, they hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to greet him.
"Master Ji, I have long heard of your great name..."
"You are?"
"Sir Ji, we were arranged by the Queen to provide disaster relief..."
"Oh!"
Ji Xingle paused and said;
"Have you recovered the disaster relief money?"
Hearing this, the spirit guards were stunned for a moment. They didn't know why Ji Xingle knew this.
But it is quite embarrassing to be asked about this kind of thing happening in one's own country by people from other countries, the guard said with sweat on his forehead;
“Sorry, we don’t know about that either…”
Seeing this, Ji Xingle didn't ask any more questions, but pointed to a few locations and said to them;
"Those are the best places for drainage. You guys are here too, so shall we get started?"
"Hmm? Start what?"
The guard head asked with a puzzled look.
Ji Xingle raised his eyebrows;
"Aren't you here to help? Don't waste time, dig quickly. Also, who is the head of your disaster relief this time?"
The head guard quickly explained;
"It's the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister, Lu En, and the second daughter of the Ministry of Revenue, Lin Zheng..."
Um...I don’t know him.
As for how they arranged it, it was their business. Ji Xingle said "Oh!" and raised his hand to signal them to help quickly.
The guards sent someone back to report the news, and then more than a dozen people took hoes and started digging in the heavy rain, regardless of their soaking wet clothes...
On the other side, the guard went back to inform Lu En and Lin Zheng about the situation in the village and that Ji Xingle was helping.
The two knew who Ji Xingle was. They had met him before, but Ji Xingle didn't recognize them. The queen had also been telling them about her glory days.
They didn't expect that she would be here and help their compatriots. The two looked at each other with smiles in their eyes.
They immediately decided to leave a few people to wait for the relief supplies to arrive. They wanted to go and say hello to Ji Xingle...
Just when the two decided to look for Ji Xingle, the guards who went to investigate the county magistrate came back.
The guards told her that she had received incredible news during the quarrel between the county magistrate and her husband and children.
Yesterday, all the money and jewelry in the county magistrate's house disappeared. I heard that there were as much as 100,000 taels of silver. Also, tens of thousands of kilograms of grain in her granary were gone.
More importantly, a mysterious person broke into her home last night, and her two sons were sent to the person's bed like cargo.
When they woke up in the morning, the two sons had been tortured to the point of being on their last breath.
Hearing this, Lu En and Lin Zheng were shocked. Did the county magistrate just fool them like fools?
After confirming once again that the guard's words were correct, Lu En realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately wrote a letter to the empress, asking the guards to send it back to Kyoto as quickly as possible.
Lin Zheng and the other two angrily scolded the county magistrate for not treating the child as a human being, and cursed...
It was getting dark, but luckily it wasn't winter yet, so it wasn't too cold and wet after all the rain.
After dinner, they went to bed early.
The next morning, the supplies finally arrived. Lu En and the others put aside their plans to meet Ji Xingle and focused on the rescue...
After about a week, all the supplies were delivered to the victims, and the rain gradually became lighter and showed signs of stopping.
This made everyone very happy. After the tenth day, the rain finally stopped. The villagers drank the disease prevention medicine prepared by Ji Xingle in advance.
So during this period, they were just minor problems like common colds, fevers, colds, and dampness.
Seeing that the disaster situation had stabilized, Lu En and his companions discussed visiting Ji Xingle.
When the Queen knew that Ji Xingle was in Lingfan State and had helped her people, she was very happy and wrote several letters of greeting and thanks to Ji Xingle.
Ji Xingle replied: Stop being so polite and remember to pay me back.
After that, the Queen stopped writing to Ji Xingle and instead sent him several pieces of paper regarding land use rights, telling Ji Xingle clearly that she had no money and could only compensate with land.
Seeing this, Ji Xingle accepted it without hesitation, knowing that she really had no money.
On the county magistrate's side, the queen kept her troops in place and quietly set up an ambush.
Sure enough, when the people were celebrating happily because the rain had stopped, the county magistrate met the mysterious man again.