This time, before Lou Rongrong could speak, Ying Ze said:

"Go to the county government office."

There was a hint of anger in his tone, obviously dissatisfied with the official's slack.

However, Lou Rongrong on the side lightly held Ying Ze's clenched fist, and when Ying Ze turned to look at her, he shook his head slightly and reminded:

"Today is different from the past, let's take a look at the situation of the people first."

Only now did Ying Ze recover from his rage, remembering that he was currently traveling in a low-level suit and could not reveal his identity easily. It would be unreasonable for him to go to the county government office to question him as an ordinary businessman.

So Fang restrained his anger and said in a muffled voice:

"If that's the case, let's listen to the fluffy ones, first find an open place, unload the charcoal fire, then set up a table, put up a signboard, if there is a disaster in the home of the people, after confirming that it is correct, you can take the charcoal fire to go. .”

Zheng Baisheng responded and went to make arrangements. Ying Ze and Lou Rongrong also got out of the carriage and went to check the situation of the people's homes one by one.

Ying Ze had already checked the officials' briefing while in Beijing, but he never expected that the disaster would be more serious than what was stated in the briefing.

It is almost common for people’s houses to be crushed and collapsed, but some houses collapsed completely, and some were lucky, only a corner collapsed, and the family could squeeze into the remaining space, shivering for warmth , and for some families, although the houses they lived in did not collapse, the sheds where they raised cattle and sheep collapsed, and the livestock that represented the wealth of the family died unexpectedly.

In such weather, cattle and sheep cannot be sold at all. Lou Rongrong saw the frozen corpses of cattle and sheep exposed under the collapsed sheds of several families.

The property loss is relatively light, but the most serious thing is that due to the continuous heavy snow, the weather is extremely cold, and many people have lost their houses and have nowhere to go. The clothes on their bodies are far from enough to keep out the cold. At a distance of one street, I saw the bodies of people who had been frozen to death parked in the yards of several families.

Among these corpses, some were infants under the age of [-], some were rickety old men with white beard and hair, and some were even men in their prime. They may have been protecting their family members in their arms when they died, and they still maintained this posture after death. As if frozen in that moment by the cold winter, there is a little girl who is still a few years old,

A woman with a vicissitudes of life...

The most deplorable thing is that these corpses are almost all naked, and all their clothes have been stripped off by other people. In order to survive, those who are still alive have to sacrifice the dignity of the dead, even wrapping their bodies. The straw mats were used to keep warm, and in the end only the sky was covered with snow, covering the living and the dead with a quilt.

Such a tragic scene is almost hard to remember. It is even in the first lunar month. A few days ago, everyone was cheering for the new year, setting off firecrackers and sticking peach charms. The family gathered together, reunited, warm and happy Eating New Year's Eve dinner...

Not to mention Lou Rongrong, even Xiao Li couldn't help but swear when he saw such a scene:

"*Damn it, if those grandchildren from Hubu came here two days earlier, so many people wouldn't die. When I return to Beijing, I have to..."

It must be something, Xiao Li didn't say it after all, and there is no power to say it, no matter what you do, these lost lives in front of you will never come back.

Lou Rongrong looked at it, and suddenly walked towards a family. The house of this family was dilapidated and probably hadn't been repaired for a long time, so the collapse was particularly serious. In the middle of the yard lay a woman's corpse, and there was still a layer on the body. Unlined clothes, at first glance, don't look like a human being at all.

But Lou Rongrong walked through a section of collapsed ruins, walked to the last small corner, squatted down, and looked at the same level as the two little guys hiding in the corner. Facing the panicked eyes of the two, he calmed down. The voice asked softly:

"Are you hiding here, is it cold?"

These two little guys, one is seven or eight years old, the other is four or five years old, they look like brothers and sisters, their cheeks are flushed from the cold, besides their original clothes, they are also wrapped in several unsuitable adult clothes, tightly Being close together, it seems that by doing this we can survive the severe cold and live together.

Hearing Lou Rongrong's question, the elder brother hesitated for a moment. Seeing the thick clothes and cloak on Lou Rongrong's body, he licked his chapped lips with a hint of fantasy after all, and responded:

"It's cold...but mother said, if you squeeze together...it will be warmer..."

Lou Rongrong thought of the female corpse in the yard, and was silent for a moment. She didn't ask where the parents of the two children were, but stretched out her hand, and asked in a gentle voice:

"I know a place where they built a big fire and gave everyone charcoal fire and porridge. It's very warm. Do you want to come together?"

The two little guys looked at each other, and it was the elder brother who asked first:

"Really...really? Are they the people from the imperial court that Brother Chen said? Are they finally here?"

Lou Rongrong was startled, and subconsciously wanted to ask who Brother Chen was, but in the end he held back and only responded:

"No, but they are also good people. People from the imperial court will come soon. Your sister seems to have a fever. They even brought a doctor to see her for free. Do you want to come with me?"

Hearing the word "doctor", the older brother who couldn't believe it just now widened his eyes, hugged his sister on the spot, and said to Lou Rongrong:

"Please, take us there!"

Lou Rongrong stretched out her hand, and the little boy grabbed her hand, hugged the little girl, and climbed up the ruins with his strength. The moment he felt the unshaded cold wind outside the corner, the little boy shivered subconsciously, and quickly curled up into a Tuan, don't forget to protect my sister in my arms.

Lou Rongrong saw it, took off the cloak, unfolded it to cover the two little guys, when the little boy looked up in surprise, smiled, took his hand, and said:

"Let's go."

The little boy's lips squirmed for a while, but in the end he didn't say anything, he just hugged his sister tightly in his arms, and followed Lou Rongrong to the convoy's station.

From a distance, the little boy saw the long line of villagers who were still alive in front of the convoy. Black charcoal fires shining like gold were piled up in front of the crowd and distributed to everyone who was in urgent need of charcoal fires for warmth.

Because of the severe cold, many people got seriously ill, and the medical center here couldn't treat them at all. The arrival of Baicao old man and young man can be said to be timely. Not far from the long line of the crowd, there was a young man in his twenties with good features who had been wandering not far from the crowd, as if he was observing something.

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