Mo Yu found an inn that looked pretty good and walked in.
But there was no one in the inn, even the waiter was sitting on a chair, swatting flies, bored.
After seeing Mo Yu and the others come in, he was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that there would be people staying at the hotel at this time. He immediately put on a smile and greeted them: "Dear guests, would you like to stay at the hotel?"
Mo Yu naturally noticed the strangeness in the waiter's words. Shouldn't an inn normally ask whether one wants to eat or stay overnight
So I asked this question: "Isn't it possible to eat here?"
The waiter smiled bitterly, sighed and said, "My dear guest, you may not know that the current grain prices in Chuzhou are too high. Even our shopkeeper cannot afford it. So now we can only let you stay in the hotel. If you want to eat something, you may have to find another place."
Mo Yu nodded, indicating that he understood.
He asked his bodyguard Goro to open three rooms.
The waiter's face was full of smiles. Ever since the flood, their inn had not had any business.
Gong Wenmin packed up simply, said something to Mo Yu, and then couldn't wait to find out the news.
Mo Yu didn't stop him, he thought the same thing in his heart.
So he took Goro out with him.
Mo Yu looked at the street environment and found that it was obviously much better than that of the small county town, and there were not many disaster victims wandering around.
But there are not many people left in such a big continent.
There are very few shops open on the street, and none of them are open, but this is their livelihood and they can only barely make ends meet.
Except for one place that was particularly lively.
People are born to eat, so the busiest place is naturally the grain shop.
Mo Yu asked people and walked for a while before he saw a grain shop in the distance. There was a long queue. Everyone was holding a big bag of silver in their hands to buy grain, with hopelessness in their eyes for life.
The silver looked to be about one hundred taels, but only five kilograms of grain were given. In comparison, the price of grain was even more outrageous.
When Mo Yu saw this scene, the smile on his face deepened.
Why do some people always go down the road of death and never come back
A sturdy man with patches all over his body asked, "Brother, you don't look like a rich man. Where did you raise so much money?"
Zhuang Hanxiang said something and suddenly remembered something. His body stiffened for a moment. Without saying anything, he turned his head and hugged the silver in his arms tightly. It was life-saving money.
Mo Yu didn't care about his vigilance and moved away from him.
Mo Yu had no intention of causing trouble here. This situation had been going on for a while, and they were not the real culprits.
But Mo Yu did not leave. When the strong man bought the food and left, Mo Yu and Ge Luo secretly followed him to see where he went.
After all, among these people, his behavior was the strangest.
They were obviously not a wealthy family and were wearing patched clothes, but they were able to come up with so much money to buy food.
Mo Yu and the others did not dare to follow too closely. As his footsteps got farther and farther away, out of the outer city, there was nothing here, only a dilapidated temple.
Two children were sitting at the door, their skinny bodies filled with only bones.
The child saw the strong man coming back and circled around him happily: "Uncle, you are back."
The child's voice seemed to alarm the people in the temple. There was a commotion in the temple, and soon someone came out of the temple.
But everything in front of him shocked Mo Yu. In this small temple, there were more than 200 refugees. They were so ragged that they could barely walk.
The refugees looked at the strong man with great joy. To be more precise, they were all staring at the food in his arms.
But no one went to fight for it.
The strong man then spoke: "Put up the pot, let's get ready to eat."
After saying this, the refugees took the initiative to become their own servants.
I have only seen wild vegetables, tree bark, and even other things that I don't know how to describe being taken out of the dilapidated temple. They came from nowhere.
This is their food for the day.
The sturdy man carefully grabbed a small handful of food from the bag of food he bought.
The remaining food was carefully put away.
Only then did Mo Yu realize how they had survived all this time.
Mo Yu just watched them eat.
Goro was a little confused as to what the Marquis was doing.
He asked carefully, "My Lord, do you want us to go back first?"
Mo Yu shook his head and just looked at the scene in front of him.
Goro felt even more uneasy as he looked at the person in front of him. He had never seen Mo Yu like this before. It was as if there was a wild beast that wanted to rush out from the bottom of his heart, but was suppressed by what he had experienced.
After the strong man and his friends finished their meal, they looked at the sky with empty eyes, not knowing what they were thinking.
Mo Yu came out and looked at him.
The sturdy man immediately became alert, realizing that this person had been following him, and his face turned grim: "Why are you following me? The people in this dilapidated temple are all refugees, they should be of no use to you."
The burly man didn't know who he was, but seeing that Mo Yu was dressed luxuriously, he was definitely not someone they could afford to offend.
Mo Yu spoke soothingly, trying to find out what he wanted to know: "Don't be nervous, I'm not here to embarrass you, I'm just a little confused, why are you here? Don't the government care about you?"
The sturdy man felt that the people in front of him had no ill will towards them. Indeed, they were just a bunch of burdens.
The sturdy man waved his hand at the refugee who was holding a stick and preparing to hit someone.
Looking at Mo Yu who was sitting next to him, he nodded.
The strong man gnashed his teeth and said, "Care about us? The prefect wanted us to die, so how could he care about us? Not long after the flood, he was ready to drive us away. If I hadn't organized us, I don't know where I would be dead now. Later, he drove us here. Those who were able to escape fled, leaving only these children and women."
The strong man continued, "I heard that the imperial envoy will come during this period. We are not allowed to get close to the city recently. We can only wait to die here. We have to live one day at a time."
The tone was very decadent.
When the others heard the strong man say this, they all shed tears silently.
After hearing what the strong man said, Mo Yu was like a mute and didn't know what to say.
"Goro, give them all our food." Mo Yu said lightly.
"Yes!" Goro felt very uncomfortable after hearing this. The prefect's behavior was even more sinister than that of the county magistrate.
If they had come to Chuzhou and revealed their identities directly, they would probably have seen the Chuzhou prefect who had governed the place in an orderly manner, and they would probably never have seen the scene before them.
Some people injured their feet, which had become festered without any medicine for treatment, and some could not even stand up and lay on the tattered straw mats waiting to die...