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Chapter 291 Setting Off for Disaster Relief

Lu Xiao knew he had made a mistake in the past, and patiently explained, "Honey, please don't misunderstand me anymore. There's really nothing between me and her. From now on, I will kick any woman who gets close to me far away."

He only has his woman and daughter in his heart and eyes now; he can't be bothered to even glance at the other women.

If his wife misunderstands him again, it would be such a waste!

Yu Tan snorted coldly, "I know! You guys should leave now."

He glanced at his daughter, feeling extremely reluctant to part with her.

No matter how reluctant she was, she knew that this disaster relief effort concerned many lives, and she had no choice but to send her daughter.

"When I get back, we'll give our daughter a few more younger brothers and sisters." Lu Xiao laughed and left with his daughter in his arms.

Yu Tan's face immediately turned red. She's never serious!

Watching the father and daughter walk away, it made sense. Lu Xiao's illness had been cured by the pills his daughter had given him, so it would be fine to give his daughter a younger brother or sister.

On second thought, before she had her daughter, this man's attitude towards her wasn't this good, so she absolutely couldn't forgive him so easily.

Once outside the city, Lu Xiao stared blankly at the carriage that had suddenly appeared before her. "Daughter, what's going on?"

How many good things does his daughter have in her online space?

"Cars..."

Of course, this cart is faster! Faster than riding a horse!

The disaster area can't wait for the food to be delivered, so we have to go there first!

The horses in this carriage don't need to eat or drink, nor do they need to rest; a journey that would take ten days can be completed in three.

Zhui Feng also gasped. If the journey of ten days could be shortened to three days, how fast would this carriage be?

“We’ll go to the disaster area first, and Zhuiyu will personally escort the subsequent food supplies.”

Lu Xiao carried Lu Yaoyao and climbed into the carriage.

Zhui Feng sent out a signal flare, then boarded the carriage and sat in the front to drive.

The carriage started moving and disappeared through the city gate in the blink of an eye.

Zhui Feng's eye twitched. This carriage didn't even need him to drive it; it knew where it was going. It was amazing!

Lu Xiao was shocked when she saw what was inside the carriage.

Everything here is priceless, and the space is incredibly vast.

Lu Xiao didn't ask his daughter what was going on with the carriage. Instead, he let her play inside while he went to a meeting to deal with the official documents he had brought out.

Zhui Feng also came in and was shocked by what he saw inside. He could only calmly take care of Lu Yaoyao and feed her some snacks.

The carriage indeed traveled very fast, and they arrived in Bai'an County three days later.

Bai'an County is the area most severely affected by the disaster this year.

Upon entering Bai'an County, we witnessed scenes of widespread suffering and misery.

This place is remote, with layers of mountains. From a distance, there is no greenery at all; everything is dry, yellowish-brown.

It's like an old man who has lost his vitality, waiting for his death.

Bai'an County is a place with scarce water resources. It has been drought-stricken for three years, so the relief grain from the imperial court should have been delivered by now.

Unfortunately, people here are still dying, and it's easy to imagine that very little of the grain transported by the imperial court will actually reach the disaster victims.

The terrain here is rugged, with the land mostly situated halfway up the mountainside. It would be wonderful if this land could be terraced.

If more water cellars were dug on the hillside to store water, the local people could grow more crops and their yields wouldn't be so low.

Lu Yaoyao peered out the carriage window and noticed that most of the land here was mountainous, and even in years with favorable weather, the yield of grain grown on such land was not high.

Not to mention during this drought year.

If it could be made into terraced fields, it could retain enough water, and the crops wouldn't all die from drought.

Lu Xiao looked up from a pile of documents. Terraced fields? What do they look like?

He knew about water cellars; that was something he could do.

Lu Yaoyao took out paper and pen and started drawing on it. Soon, the shape of the terraced fields was drawn on it.

Because of his young age, his drawings were crooked and messy, like scribbles, but upon closer inspection, they resembled terraced fields. "Dad, fields."

Lu Yaoyao pointed to the terraced fields in the painting.

Lu Xiao looked at the scribbles on the paper and couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. "Is this farmland?"

These lines, which look like snakes crawling, are called fields?
Lu Yaoyao was extremely anxious. Was her father really that stupid?
Her terraced field drawing is so simple, how can you not understand it?
There's no other way but to use the ultimate move!

There's no other way! We'll have to let Dad see that footage for himself.

Lu Yaoyao climbed onto Lu Xiao's lap and tapped his forehead with her little finger.

Lu Xiao's mind was filled with a multitude of beautiful images and information, and he was stunned when he saw the terraced fields.

I'm so tired, I've used up all my energy! I'm going to sleep for a while.

Lu Yaoyao fell asleep in Lu Xiao's arms, exhausted.

"Yaoyao." Lu Xiao felt extremely distressed; she had fallen asleep from exhaustion more than once.

The last time was to restore Yu Tan's damaged body, which required using her power, and she slept for three days before waking up.

This time, it was he who caused his daughter to use that mysterious power again.

Lu Yaoyao was sleeping soundly, and the seal on the first level of the Five Elements Technique was slowly breaking.

This time, Lu Yaoyao woke up after sleeping for a day and saw that she was still in her father's arms. She rubbed her eyes.

"father."

Looking around, I realized I was no longer in the carriage; I was on the street.

"Little girl, you're awake? Is there anything else that's bothering you?" Lu Xiao touched the little girl's forehead.

They were relieved to find that her temperature was normal.

He couldn't bear to put her down all day and slept in his arms the whole time.

He was genuinely worried that something might happen to his daughter.

"No." Lu Yaoyao stared wide-eyed at her surroundings. This was the main street of the county town, and many people were dressed in rags, their eyes gleaming with hunger.

They all stared at the entrance of the grain store, wishing they could rush up and snatch the grain.

These people must have been starving for a long time, right? Those children are almost starving to death.

Where is the county magistrate here? Why isn't he doing anything?

The most important thing right now is to ensure these people have a bowl of porridge.

That grain store was the only shop still open in Bai'an County; all the other shops were closed.

There were several burly, martial arts-skilled men guarding the entrance to prevent refugees from stealing the food.

"So expensive." Lu Yaoyao looked at the sign standing at the door, which read two taels of silver per catty of rice.

An ordinary family's annual income is less than ten taels of silver. This pound of rice costs two taels. Who can afford it?

Lu Xiao carried Lu Yaoyao into the grain store and saw that there wasn't much grain inside, only one type, which was moldy.

"Don't you know that eating this kind of food can cause poisoning?"

It's true that it's a year of famine, but we can't eat moldy food.

What's the difference between eating this kind of food and eating poison?
The shopkeeper thought a big customer had arrived, but he didn't expect the customer to start by questioning him. His smiling face instantly turned pale.

"This is all the food we have here. Are you going to buy it or not? If not, get out."

This grain was specially taken from a corner of the granary by their county magistrate!

These lowly people don't deserve to eat good food.

We should be grateful to have food like this; what kind of time is this to be picky?

[How shameless! The county magistrate hoards the best grain in his backyard, eating the good stuff himself and selling the moldy stuff. These days, the people are starving and will eat anything; many have already been poisoned.]

To cover his tracks, the magistrate threw all the poisoned people into a large pit behind the mountain. Now that it's hot, a plague will soon break out. The dead should all be cremated.

Oh dear! If this continues, the people of Bai'an County will be doomed.

(End of this chapter)