Gou Becomes a Boss in the Fairy World

Chapter 1471: Tempering the Heart in the Mortal World (Fifteen)

Beside the Qingshui River, the gravity-flowing waterwheel has become a sight in Qing'an County.

Every day, a large number of people in the city, with their elderly and children, come to watch the excitement under the scorching sun, and marvel at the "big wheel" that can automatically draw water.

No matter the farmers outside the city or the people in the city, no one wants to see the rice fields fail.

Especially in the current situation of soaring rice prices, everyone is looking forward to the end of the drought and a good harvest of rice.

Otherwise, let alone rice, even grains will be unaffordable!

Because the effect of the first gravity-flowing waterwheel was very good, the county government officially issued a task to the official workshop to build ten waterwheels of the same type at once.

Ensure the irrigation of farmland on both sides of the Qingshui River!

After the news spread, the rice price in the county fell slightly.

However, this decline was only a flash in the pan, and it rose again after a few days.

Because there was no sign of relief from the drought!

Every day, the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly. The hot sun scorched the earth, causing many plants on the mountains and in the wilderness to die, and everything looked scorched yellow.

As time went by, the atmosphere in the county became tense.

Refugees appeared!

Qing'an County was nourished by the Qingshui River, and the ten water wheels that were put into use one after another drew water day and night, so the drought could be barely controlled.

But the situation in some places was very bad. Large areas of crops in the fields died, and the price of rice in the county skyrocketed. Ordinary people were in a dilemma of losing their homes and not being able to fill their stomachs.

In desperation, many people could only leave their homes and flee from the famine, trying to find a way to make a living elsewhere.

Qing'an County, which was in a better situation, was affected by refugees.

At first, there were only three or five people, and then the number continued to increase, and the fleeing team became longer and longer.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Qing'an County immediately closed the city gates and strictly prohibited refugees from entering.

However, in order to prevent the refugees from rebelling in despair, the county government mobilized the gentry and wealthy families in the county to build sheds outside the city to provide porridge relief.

These are conventional coping measures.

However, as the drought season in various places continued to worsen, the number of refugees who fled to Qing'an County increased sharply, reaching nearly 10,000.

This scared the county magistrate Yu Heqian.

On the one hand, he kept sending people to ask for help from the capital above, and on the other hand, he tried his best to "raise funds" from wealthy families to maintain the current situation.

As the saying goes, lips and teeth are cold, Yu Heqian encountered great trouble, and Ye Xiangming could not expect to get out of it.

That day he came to Wang Chen's house in person.

On the one hand, the county magistrate wanted to visit his daughter, and on the other hand, he hoped that Wang Chen would give him advice.

The self-flowing water truck provided by Wang Chen previously successfully solved the big problem.

As for the situation outside the county, Wang Chen naturally understood.

Facing his father-in-law's question, he said without hesitation: "For the refugees, we should take a two-pronged approach!"

Wang Chen's suggestion is that on the one hand, we should select the strong among the refugees and use the method of work-for-relief to let them dig wells and canals, or build roads and quarry stones, so as to avoid idleness and cause trouble.

On the other hand, we should organize people to fish in the river or go hunting in the mountains to collect food as much as possible.

Of course, the most important thing is to ask for relief grain from above - rescuing refugees is not something that Qing'an County can accomplish independently.

Wang Chen's vision and experience are not comparable to Ye Xiangming. After a conversation, the county magistrate was convinced by Wang Chen and even secretly proud that he had a good son-in-law.

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After Ye Xiangming left, Ye Dai said to Wang Chen: "Husband, should we go outside the city to help the refugees and do some good deeds?"

The Wang family is not short of food at present. Previously, Wang Chen bought a batch of foreign food at a high price through a local business.

The cellar and granary were already filled to the brim, and they would last for two or three years.

Wang Chen smiled and said, "Okay."

How could he refuse his wife's kindness?

So under Wang Chen's suggestion, Ye Dai and Ye Yu, together with the family cook and servants, made a large number of pancakes at home.

The raw materials for these pancakes were flour mixed with grains, with only a little salt added to them, but they were definitely good for filling the stomach, and they would not go bad no matter how hot the weather was, and they could be preserved for a long time.

After the pancakes were made, Wang Chen took them out of the city to help the refugees.

Due to the large number of refugees, a huge camp had been formed outside the county town, which was messy and smelly, and it was a completely chaotic and tragic scene.

Many refugees lay motionless under the straw huts, their bodies were as thin as skeletons, and cries and wailing were heard one after another.

The soldiers responsible for maintaining order would drag corpses out of the camp from time to time and send them to bury far away.

To prevent the corpses from decaying and bringing plague.

Such a scene made Ye Dai, who had been kept in the boudoir, pale.

"Daier, why don't you and Xiaoyu go back first."

Out of pity, Wang Chen said to his wife: "Leave this to me."

"No."

Ye Dai shook her head stubbornly: "I'm fine."

So under her arrangement, the servants delivered pancakes to the victims on the roadside.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, madam!"

The victims who received the food were all grateful and knelt down to pay tribute to Wang Chen and Ye Dai.

But more victims gathered around, stretching out their dry hands to ask for food. Some of them showed greed on their faces and stared at Ye Dai and Xiao Yu.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense and weird.

Although Ye Dai brought a lot of pancakes, they were quickly consumed after being distributed.

It was impossible to benefit everyone present.

"Master, Madam, please be kind!"

Seeing that Wang Chen and Ye Dai were about to leave, the victims who did not get the advantage immediately refused.

They surrounded Wang Chen and others, and some even had fierce eyes.

These people have been fleeing from the famine until now, and their humanity has been almost wiped out by hunger. At this moment, they have no scruples and are extremely jealous of Wang Chen, Ye Dai and others.

A tall man said viciously: "Brothers, we are all dead anyway, today..."

Puff!

Before he finished speaking, a flash of sword light instantly passed over his throat, and the bright red blood spurted out.

This guy who was about to turn from a disaster victim into a thug, had no time to finish his bewitching words, and his head was already separated from his body!

The one who attacked was Wang Chen.

He had a sword on him, and he cut off the opponent's head with one sword.

The dripping blood made the surrounding disaster victims terrified, and they retreated in fear.

Wang Chen sneered with the sword in his hand: "If you want to die, I will grant you your wish."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and swung the sword, chopping off the head of another sneak attacker!

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The second update is here.