The giant dragon landed on the mountainside, and Bai Huang and I walked around the dead forest covered with heavy snow and looked down. The scenes of starving and dying all over the fields are more realistic and cruel. As far as the eye can see, there is no difference between humans and livestock and beasts. They are all homeless, living in the wilderness, and struggling in the cold north wind. But the beast still has fur to spend the winter, but the people in front of them are all wearing single clothes. From this point of view, people may not live as comfortably as animals.
Bai Huang's face was ugly, with anger and shock.
As a child who grew up in such a prosperous place like Yunhai, she probably has never seen such a scene.
"Go, go down and have a look."
Bai Huang's voice was cold, and the soldiers behind were also submissive. He Ji hesitated for a moment, and said to Bai Huang:
"Miss, the disaster victims have suffered for a long time, suffering from hunger and cold, and most of their human nature has become indifferent. Our people dress differently. If you go on rashly, once you get entangled by them..."
The soldiers saw the wind and turned the rudder, and hurriedly said:
"Yes, Lord City Master. These ordinary people are not sensible, if they bump into you..."
Bai Huang turned her head, her eyes were sharp, and she said in a cold tone:
"Then go down and have a look!!"
For a moment, it seemed that even the heavy snow falling from the sky stopped for a moment. People often say that when the emperor is angry, he is like a tiger roaring and a dragon singing, and Baihuang's voice carries the demeanor of her name. But then, her expression returned to normal, and she laughed like the usual heartless Xiao Huang, and said:
"Go down and see what will happen. Our two guards here are not just for show, and the soldiers are also from the capital. Are we afraid that some ordinary people who are starving and cold and unable to move will fail? Hehe Ji, don't tell me such things in the future, what you have to consider is how to protect my safety in danger, not how to persuade me to run to a safe place to stay."
Heji bowed his head deeply and said:
"yes."
With her hands behind her back, Bai Huang led the people down the mountain with the posture of the head teacher secretly patrolling the rear window.
And the more you walk, the more shocking you will see and hear.
There are tens of thousands of people affected by the disaster we saw alone, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Tianyue Mountain is very tall and huge. There are disaster victims here, and naturally there are disaster victims in other places. Calculated in this way, I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands of people. Although the number of people reaches a certain level, it is just a number, but for those who have never seen this bleak scene, if they see it, they can clearly feel—
right there.
Every person, every life is not a number.
There they are, struggling and suffering. Life is passing away bit by bit.
The people who fell on the ground, I don't even know whether they are alive or dead. Their bodies were covered with frost and snow, their hair and beards were frozen, and their eyes were empty and lifeless. Many people fell together and fell on the road. If you want to walk normally, you can only step over them. When you land, step on the open space between people, it's like walking in a pile of dead bodies. The weather was already cold, and the dead air that made people feel chills hovered in the deep mountains. No matter how warm the clothes were, they couldn't stop the severe cold.
While walking, a low voice suddenly came from the mountain:
"Someone... Someone is coming from above...!!"
This ghostly voice echoed in the mountains, looking around, everyone seemed to be looking at us, thousands of eyes were staring at us. There was no escape, no retreat, their mouths did not move, but their voices were clearly audible.
A little girl staggered up to us. Her face was covered with chilblains, red and black, and some of the sores were covered with frozen water. Her black hair was disheveled like burnt weeds. She leaned on a crutch in her left hand and held a broken bowl with a chip in her right hand. She whispered:
"My lord, my lord...give me something to eat. My mother and I haven't eaten for three days..."
The soldiers behind Baihuang shouted:
"Nonsense! You are so bold, the relief food has arrived long ago, and the soup kitchens are everywhere, and you are still talking nonsense here?"
The little girl looked fearful, took a few steps back, knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Bai Huang and me:
"My lord, we are not lying, we really have nothing to eat..."
The soldier behind Baihuang said coldly:
"Nothing to eat? Can you live so long without something to eat? Don't think that you can get money by saying a few miserable words in front of a few adults. We are not so easy to fool!"
The little girl kowtowed, her forehead covered with white snow, and said hoarsely:
"Snow... In this mountain, we only eat snow... My mother hasn't eaten hot porridge for three days... If this continues, if this continues..."
At the end, I was sobbing.
Bai Huang took a deep breath, and started searching in his pocket without saying a word. When he couldn't find anything to eat, he took out a handful of money and planned to throw it into the little girl's bowl. The moment I was about to make a move, I reached out and stopped him. Bai Huang glared at me, and I also looked at her. The two of them looked at each other for a while, and I said:
"You throw coins."
Bai Huang was puzzled, and said with a bewildered expression:
"Yes what's the matter."
As soon as the words fell, I suddenly realized, kicked my butt, and said angrily:
"You're the one throwing coins!"
I grabbed Bai Huang's wrist, dragged her to a secluded place, and asked:
"Little Huang, do you know what will happen when you throw down your handful of gold and silver coins? Have you thought about it?"
Baihuang said:
"Save people, what else can happen. Give them money and let them live, it's as simple as that."
I shook my head:
"There's only one outcome, we can't get out of here. Just look around."
Bai Huang turned his head, and I also looked over. The voice of just now disturbed the people around, and it was passed on from ten to hundreds, and the black crowd was slowly walking towards us. There may be more than a thousand people on the inner three floors and the outer three floors. They moved slowly, like zombies, but there was clear desire in their cloudy eyes, their frozen mouths were speechless, but their hands were still stretched out towards us, begging.
Bai Huang narrowed his eyes, and I said lightly:
"Don't worry about scarcity but inequality, it's been like this since ancient times. You think you saved her, but this person will soon be surrounded by refugees, and all the money you sent will be robbed. There will be an unknown number of people killing each other and dying. And we will also be surrounded by them, unless you can save everyone, this kindness is meaningless and will only lead to more troublesome consequences."
Bai Huang frowned, she is a smart person, she can listen to what I say.
But the unwillingness on her face was also obvious, she looked at me with red eyes, and said in a low voice:
"But now it's Chinese New Year... It's only once a year. In our sea of clouds, even people who have worked hard for a year will cut off half a catty of fat at this time, and have a good New Year! Those children are three hundred and sixty Fifteen days, I look forward to the New Year every day, just to drink a sip of broth and taste what meat is. They are also bitter! But no matter how bitter it is, the new year must be passed well, which symbolizes the hope for the coming year. How come the king? Nearby, so many people make it like this... Lide, are we just standing by like this?"