I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

How could Liu Zhengqing dare to argue with Lin Jin anymore? "All sorts of things."

He doesn't eat it anyway.

Lin Jin stopped talking nonsense with him and went back to hoeing the ground. Because the land she was hoeing this time was all dry soil, even though she was wearing gloves, after two days, Lin Jin still had several blisters on the palms of her hands. She simply pricked a small hole in the blisters, squeezed out the tissue fluid inside, and then continued to swing the hoe.

The 10,000 kilograms of grain were divided into several portions, one portion remained in the city, and the other portion was transported to other counties. The people in the city watched the rice being transported away and stood up to stop the carriages.

"We have nothing to eat, why should we send the food away?"

"That's right. We have to eat such watery porridge every day that we don't even have the strength. Why should we give away the extra food?"

"So many of us died, can't you see?"

The grain transport vehicles were surrounded, unable to move forward or backward. If these people were not afraid of the big swords and did not have too much strength, they would have rushed up to grab the rice.

"God, please open your eyes. Look at these officials. They have food but they won't give it to us."

"A few days ago, truckloads of disaster relief food were delivered to the city. Why do we only get so much every day? Where did all the food go?"

"It must be because these officials are greedy. They drink and eat meat every day, and now they won't leave us any chance to live!"

"You are greedy even for the relief grain from the imperial court. You officials are not human! You are beasts!"

The gong was struck loudly. One of the prosecutors in charge of disaster relief stood on the grain cart, holding the gong in one hand and the gong hammer in the other: "Quiet!"

The people looked at Zhong Fu in purple robes with hatred: "You dare to ignore the relief grain from the court and you are taking human lives lightly!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhong Fu blew his beard. During the disaster relief period, they ate whatever the people ate. They knew that the people were hungry. "Is it possible that Taiyuan Prefecture was the only city affected by the disaster?"

"Does the imperial court ignore the people in other cities? This is the share of other cities. There is absolutely no such thing as us ignoring it." Zhong Fu first explained the reason.

"We still need to share it with them? We don't have enough to eat, and we still need to share it? People in our city can't survive!"

"Instead of everyone starving to death, why can't we let the people in our city live?"

"Ding ding ding!" Zhong Fu struck the gong three times. "Quiet!"

"Everyone listen to me, no one of us will die! We have food and water. Can't you feel the difference between the porridge you eat today and the porridge you eat in the past?"

"Just yesterday, our Great Xia's Prime Minister Song Shiqiu..."

"Is the Prime Minister here?" Someone immediately rushed to ask Zhong Fu, "Is the Prime Minister here?"

"The Prime Minister is here? I heard that the Prime Minister has countless fertile fields, and the grain he produces every year is so abundant that it can't be eaten even if it's left to mold. If he comes, will we be saved?"

Zhong Fu looked at the people whose anger turned into joy, and he didn't know what to say, but he still struck the gong once again.

"Be quiet, the Prime Minister has not come, but his wife is here." Zhongfu's words made the people feel very emotional. Some people wanted to ask what the use of a Prime Minister's wife was, since she was not the Prime Minister in charge.

"The rice porridge you eat today is made from the food and water that Madam brought!" Zhong Fu saw that they didn't care, so he raised his voice and said, "We will have more food and water! So we won't die!"

The people were not comforted by Zhongfu's words: "What's the use of these? She can send food and water once, can she always send food and water?"

"Yes! We can!" Zhong Fu said loudly.

Most of the officials of Daxia are atheists, and Zhongfu is no exception, but this time he wants to use the power of ghosts and gods to convince these people.

"Madam is now tilling the land in the government fields. Do you want to know why she is tilling the land at this time? Because Madam, a woman, has traveled hundreds of miles to come to our Taiyuan Prefecture, willing to abandon the glory and wealth in the capital to share the joys and sorrows with us and tide over the difficulties together."

"Her sincerity moved the gods, who granted her food and water. But Madam knew that this amount of food and water was far from enough, so she made a deal with the gods. As long as our people work hard to cultivate the land, the gods will grant them a steady supply of water and food!"

"The food and water you eat today were all bought by Madam yesterday when she went to Taiyuan Prefecture and dug two acres of land!"

Zhong Fu didn't say anything profound, but just spoke passionately about what Lin Jin had done after coming to Taiyuan Prefecture: "The court has not ignored your life and death, and we will not watch you die. If you must die of hunger or thirst, I will definitely stay in Taiyuan Prefecture with you. If I live alone, I will die without a complete body!"

"If you don't believe it, I can have someone take you to the official fields to see if the lady is farming. Once you confirm, we will transport the grain out of the city." Zhong Fu knew that these people would not really believe it unless they saw it with their own eyes. Everyone is afraid of death. He did not blame these people. They were just afraid of hunger and thirst during this period.

"Some of you have fled from other counties, and you have relatives and friends in those cities. These food and water are also saving their lives!"

Zhongfu sat on the grain cart and asked someone to take them to the official fields. He sat in the middle of the road under the scorching sun and waited for them to come back.

Dozens of common people followed the officials to the official fields, but were stopped when they were still a hundred meters away.

"This is it. You can't go any further." The officer stopped them and said, "You can see clearly from here."

A group of people looked at the figures swinging hoes in the distance, as if they wanted to see it more clearly.

"Look, it's water!" Someone spotted the bamboo used to conduct water. The clear water flowed through the bamboo joints, refracting the sunlight and looking like sweet spring water.

In order to reduce the evaporation of water caused by sunlight, the bamboo was only broken at the joints, but even through that small hole, they could still clearly see the water inside.

"It's water, really water! We are saved, we are saved, as long as we have water we are saved." People who knew each other cried with joy, as if they saw hope, or as if they saw the end of the drought in advance.

"That gentleman said that the lady made a deal with the gods, so she could exchange farmland for water and food. If we help the lady to farm, can we get more food and water?"

"Really? I guess so?"

"It must be. Didn't you see those people helping Madam hoe the fields? It must be like this!"

Lin Jin was farming here step by step, and had no idea what had happened before. Apart from turning the soil, he was also checking how much debt he had paid off.

"Like Yang Bailao." Lin Jin drank a bowl of licorice water and teased himself with a smile.

"What Yang Bailao." Liu Zhengqing changed into a short brown shirt to make it easier to farm. The gray short brown shirt was already wet with sweat. Compared with ordinary farmers, he looked a little paler and weaker, with no other differences.

Lin Jin fanned him with her straw hat: "I'm saying that I'm working for nothing, Lin Bailao, hahahaha."

"You're just asking for trouble. You didn't have to come here in the first place."

"What do you care about me?" Lin Jin made a face and soon sighed, "When will this drought be over?"

The book doesn't mention this drought either.