Three Hundred and Nine: 3 Years in Langya (9)

This year's first snowfall lasted for more than half a month, and the weather got colder every day. Many houses were collapsed by the snow, and the casualties were countless. Several aristocratic families in Beijing opened granaries and set up porridge sheds everywhere. , and more wealthy families continue to live in intoxication. WwΔW. LieWen. CC

Jiang Pengji is currently living in Feng Mansion. When she heard that there was a porridge shed, she also went out with Feng Jin to provide porridge to the people.

The snow continued to fall outside, and there were already several rows of people lined up in front of the porridge shed.

Almost everyone has a haggard face and thin clothes. Some people wear relatively thick clothes, but they are covered with large and small patches.

“I don’t know how many people were crushed to death by this heavy snow…how many people were frozen to death…”

The boy serving porridge in the porridge shed looked at the endless queue and whispered to the boy next to him, with pity and sympathy in his words.

Although two large pots have been set up, there is still not enough porridge for the people to eat.

The companion was so busy that he said, "...Stop talking nonsense, work is more important...Can the life of a nobleman be the same as that of an untouchable?"

The people queued up to receive the porridge numbly. Jiang Pengji helped serve the porridge or carry firewood to light the fire. Feng Jin, a weak scholar, was so tired that sweat broke out on his forehead.

There were no people around making noises or jumping in line. The active audience in the live broadcast room was also silent for a long time. The atmosphere was extremely depressing. Some viewers could not help but feel a sore nose just watching. They did not have the courage to continue watching. There were no unscrupulous bombardments. screen.

[Tuzki Dancing]: ...Although we always complain that winter is very cold and we shiver from the cold, and that there is no natural heating in the south and it is very cold in winter... But our life is very happy now, really...

[Tuzki Dancing]: There is no natural heating in this area, but we can go to Taoniang to buy a heater and turn on the air conditioner for heating. If we are not afraid of wasting electricity, we can still wear summer clothes in the house in winter... these, In ancient times, it was almost impossible to do this. Rich people could wear more clothes and burn high-quality charcoal fires to keep warm. But what about the common people?

Right, where are the people?

Too many people cannot afford to buy clothes to keep out the cold, live in a house that is protected from the wind, or burn charcoal fires for heating. This is Shangjing City, which is under the feet of the emperor! If this is the case here, what will happen to the areas around Shangjing?

When a heavy snow falls, how many houses collapse, how many people are crushed to death, and how many innocent creatures freeze to death?

Without external conditions, you can only rely on your body to resist. If you can't bear it, you will freeze to death... This is freezing to death!

"system,

Can popularity points be exchanged for food? Clothes to keep out the cold are also fine..."

Jiang Pengji secretly asked the system.

"No, the anchor level is too low unless you choose to upgrade."

The cold mechanical sound of the system fell into Jiang Pengji's ears, causing an unprecedented murderous intention to rise in her heart.

Jiang Pengji secretly calculated the total points on the backend account and asked, "Can I exchange for food by upgrading? What is the ratio?"

The system replied, "Ten thousand points can be exchanged for one hundred catties of grain."

Ten thousand points can be exchanged for one hundred pounds of food?

Jiang Pengji now has more than 1.3 million points, which seems to be able to exchange for a lot of food.

However, Jiang Pengji is not that easy to fool.

The system avoided answering the previous question, thinking that even if it were upgraded to level three live streaming, it would still not have the redemption rights.

Regardless of this, it takes one million popularity points to upgrade a second-level anchor to a third-level anchor.

If all are exchanged, the remaining popularity points will not be exchanged for much food according to the proportion given by the system.

This is a pit.

"Forget it, you're totally unreliable." Jiang Pengji replied coldly, turning around to think of other solutions.

System was holding his breath, but he didn't dare to say anything to Jiang Pengji.

Unless Jiang Pengji chooses to spend her popularity points to upgrade, the current system will have nothing to do with this host.

Fengfu is one of the few families in Beijing that chooses to open a porridge shed. They set up pots to cook porridge all day long, but the supply still exceeds demand.

A bowl of porridge is not thick, or even very thin, but at least it will fill your stomach with water and warm your cold body.

Jiang Pengji helped at the porridge shed for several days, but she still didn't hear the disaster relief instructions, let alone the rice grains and warm clothing.

Liu She came back from the court, looking more and more tired every day.

He said with a gloomy face, "My father has written to me many times, and the officials always used the second prince's wedding as an excuse to evade it several times. Today he finally let go and gave the job to a man named Shi. Attendant Zhongchang... That man is greedy by nature, and he plucks his feathers when the geese pass by... I don’t know how many people will deduct the twenty thousand taels of silver that he appropriated, and how much will eventually end up in the hands of the people..."

Although the current world has not really become chaotic yet, is it much better than the chaotic world?

Jiang Pengji has been helping out at the porridge shed these days, or distributing some warm clothes to the people. She knows the situation of the snow disaster best.

She sneered coldly, "Twenty thousand taels of silver is not enough, let alone what use can it do after being exploited and corrupted at all levels..."

Liu She sighed, "My father has secretly purchased a batch of grain and sent it north to Beijing, hoping to alleviate the urgent need a little."

In today's world, no matter what he does, it will be a drop in the bucket, so he might as well solve the hidden dangers from the root.

After another three days, the heavy snow finally stopped.

Jiang Pengji looked at the invitation with a cold smile on her face, "The second prince is getting married. He and I are not related, so what were you doing there?"

It's so big that the capital city is covered with white snow, and the sky and the earth are the same color.

The princess of the Northern Xinjiang Imperial Court was wearing a bright red wedding dress, and with the exception of Emperor Dongqing's permission, she was sitting on a sedan carried by sixteen people.

The sedan chair was decorated with gold, silver, jade and hung with red silk, which sparkled in the sunlight and was very luxurious.

The wedding procession was dressed in festive new clothes, and entered from the gate of Shangjing City with music and drums, and circled the city. The people on both sides of the street cheered and blessed. A hundred tables of buffet were set up next to the prince's mansion, and court officials and noble ladies came in and out, which was very lively.

In sharp contrast, in the remote corners of Shangjing City, there were stiff corpses dug out from the ruins.

One after another, frozen stiff corpses filled one cart after another.

Jiang Pengji wore a plain dress, tied with a wooden hairpin, and her expression was as cold as ice and snow.

This world... really needs to change!

Jiang Pengji instructed the servant who was cleaning the corpses, "Bury the people properly. The weather is cold now, and the corpses are not easy to decompose, but we can't neglect it. If the corpses are piled up and not handled, it will easily cause epidemics after the spring."

"Don't worry, young master, I will definitely do it properly."

At the same time, in another place in Shangjing.

Lv Zheng held a plate, chewed the slightly cold and hard white cake, and sighed, "It's been almost a month since the evaluation, and the court still hasn't issued an appointment letter. I think there is no hope this year..."

"Master has decided to leave for Langya in two days... I really don't want to come to Shangjing again."

Han Yu heard the sound of music outside and felt extremely irritated.

How many people died of freezing and starvation, and the government still held such a grand wedding for the second prince, which was even higher than the scale of the crown prince.

How can Dongqing not be ruined like this!