After entering the book, he stole the heroine's charming attributes
Chapter 406: Being Considered a Burden Again
"I am Shen Li, a humble lady, and nice to meet you three adults." Shen Li simply bowed.
"Miss Shen, you don't have to be polite. You can see the environment now. There are no so many rules." said the county magistrate, Lord Zhang.
Shen Li heard his sincerity, but there was impatience in his eyes. He probably felt that her coming at this time would cause them trouble.
"Sir Qin, you know our current situation. Why did you let your fiancée come here? Do you think we are not in chaos enough? Will we have to send someone to take care of her? Isn't this nonsense?" said Weng Jianye, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works.
"Don't worry, Lord Weng. My fiancée is not an ordinary woman, so there is no need for you to rescue her." Qin Yu said bluntly.
Weng Jianye softened his tone and said, "Master Qin, I don't mean to say that you can rest assured that this woman is in this place?"
"I'm very relieved, so I won't bother you to worry about it." Qin Yu said, glanced at Shen Li, and then said: "Let's talk about the current situation and what we should do?"
Anger flashed in Weng Jianye's eyes: "Master Qin, although you are responsible for the disaster relief this time, it is against the rules for you to bring your fiancée with you, isn't it?"
"Sir, the situation is so critical now, but you still have the mood to worry about me. It seems that Sir, you really care about me. But I think you should still care about the people, or care about whether we can return to Kyoto alive. What do you think?"
Weng Jianye was silent for a moment, then laughed: "Yes, if I can go back alive, I will tell the truth in front of the emperor."
When Shen Li heard this, he thought that this meant that he was going to report Qin Yu. And it seemed that Weng Jianye was always targeting Qin Yu. Could it be that he was in Gu Cheng's party?
As for the county magistrate and the chief clerk, although they did not say anything due to their low-ranking official positions, there was contempt and disgust in their eyes.
This does not necessarily mean that they are in cahoots with Weng Jianye, but seeing that she is a woman, in such a serious situation, it is inevitable that they feel they have to divide their attention to take care of her.
To put it bluntly, he thinks she is a burden.
Shen Li could also understand. The situation here didn't look optimistic. If things went wrong, he might really have to go see the Dragon King. Who would be willing to carry a burden with him?
Qin Yu sneered: "Lord Weng has done his duty, and Qin will have a good talk with the emperor."
Weng Jianye glared at Qin Yu, but finally stopped talking.
"My two lords, it's already this late, stop arguing. Let's think about how to solve the food problem. The rain is still falling, and we don't know when it will stop. Although the people in the mountains are safe for the time being, if there is no food, they will either be drowned or starved to death." said County Magistrate Zhang.
Shen Li thought it was a great opportunity to speak out.
But it seems that there is indeed not enough food.
"Hasn't the disaster relief money from the court arrived yet?"
Weng Jianye, County Magistrate Zhang, and Chief Clerk Liu, seeing that it was Shen Li who asked the question, did not answer.
Shen Li didn't expect them to answer.
"Not yet. The rain has been falling, so it might have delayed things. We were able to rescue some grain from the granary in Luozhou Prefecture, but a lot of it was flooded and couldn't be rescued in time. Most of the rescued grain has been eaten up, and the situation now is really not optimistic." Qin Yu said.
Shen Li had expected that there would be a food shortage, but he didn't expect it to be this severe: "How long can the existing food last?"
"Where is the food? We have been hungry for two days." said County Magistrate Zhang.
"What about the people?"
"Same." Qin Yu said.
"We brought three carts of food, but we didn't expect the situation here to be so bad. We probably won't be able to last two days." Shen Li said.
"Ms. Shen...Miss Shen, you said you brought some food?" County Magistrate Zhang asked in surprise.
"Yeah, just outside the city. I saw that most of the city was flooded, so I parked the car outside the city."
"That's great, sir, we are saved." said Liu Zhubu.
Weng Jianye snorted coldly: "Why are you so happy? There are only three carts of food. How many people are there? It's good enough to have enough for a day."
"If Lord Weng doesn't think highly of this little food, you don't have to eat it and give your share to someone who needs it more." Qin Yu said.
Weng Jianye pursed his lips, but ultimately said nothing more.
No matter what you do, at this moment, if you want to survive, you can only bow down for a few pieces of silver.
"Lord Qin, in fact, Ali had already thought about the possibility of food shortage. Along the way, every time we passed a prefecture, we would collect some food. We actually collected quite a lot along the way, but because the road was difficult to travel due to rainy days, and we didn't know what the situation was here, we put all the food in my house in Luozhou Prefecture." Jin Duobao said as he glanced at Weng Jianye.
At this time, Magistrate Zhang and Chief Clerk Liu had surprise in their eyes, as if their disdain just now had never existed at all.
"Really? Did you really bring food here?" Magistrate Zhang asked in disbelief. He was already in despair, it had been raining non-stop and they had been out of food for two days.
It is unknown when the disaster relief funds from the imperial court will arrive and when the grain will be purchased and delivered. It may be too late.
No, it should be said that it is too late. They have not eaten for two days now. How many days can they hold on? After some people knew about this, they didn't want to wait to die and left.
As the county magistrate, it was difficult for him to stop him. If he went out, he might survive, which was better than waiting to die here.
"How can you lie about this? You can send people to the provincial capital to fetch grain. It's just that it has been raining and the road is very difficult to travel on. Otherwise, we wouldn't have only brought three carts of grain." Jin Duobao said.
"It doesn't matter. As long as there is food, we can ask more people to carry it back." said County Magistrate Zhang.
"A Li, I knew you were my lucky star. How much food do you have?" Qin Yu asked.
"About 300,000 shi." Shen Li said, and looked at Jin Duobao uncertainly: "Really?"
"Yeah, that's right."
Speaking of these grains, Shen Li spent 500,000 taels of silver. The prefectures close to Kyoto can still spend silver notes, but the closer to Luozhou Prefecture, the less silver notes can be spent.
It must be said that the money for the medicine was not taken by her, but by Jin Duobao. The medicine was not cheaper than food. The collected medicine cost Jin Duobao almost 500,000 taels.
They really didn't spend the same amount on purpose, it was just a coincidence.
"Three hundred thousand shi? So much? This is more than enough for us to eat for a while. By then, the disaster relief grain from the court will surely arrive, and we will never lack food again." County Magistrate Zhang looked at Shen Li as if he saw a savior.
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