Chapter 213 Adopting Three Children
The two masters personally led a team to appease the victims, and delivered food and medicine.
Even so, the number of victims who lost their homes and the severe disasters in the ten li and eight townships still exceeded prior expectations.
In less than a day, the food storage in the Imperial Court was running out, and the food and medicines in reserve could not last for two days.
The letter from Feige who reported the disaster arrived in the capital city on the same day. The empress issued an imperial decree, ordering state and county officials to provide immediate support. The safety of the little prince must be guaranteed, otherwise he would never be hired.
The prefect of Xuzhou cooperated with county officials to rush to the countryside in a hurry.
However, landslides, boulders blocked the road, and the mountain road was blocked. The convoy transporting grain could not get through. In desperation, they had to rush to repair the mountain road, and at the same time sent people to carry grain across the mountains and rush to other courtyards.
The food and medicine for support could not come through, and the two masters were grey-haired.
Su Qingluo was obliged to donate the food stored in the cave in advance to help the villagers tide over the difficulties.
The origin of the stored grain is easy to explain. After all, when they learned that Little Fuwa was going to make wine, the villagers in the ten miles and eight townships all sold their grain with their backs, earning a profit that was double the market price.
With the stored food, the two masters were overjoyed, and sent people to follow Su Qingluo to the cave to get the food, which was distributed equally according to the population of each family, Bao Zheng was given three days' rations per person.
The villagers who sold grain at the beginning were moved and cried bitterly when they saw their own grain, including the bag, returned to their hands intact.
Knowing that it was the little Fuwa who donated food to help the villagers overcome difficulties, they were even more excited, and they all knelt down in the direction of Woniu Village.
Since then, the title of Fortune Doll has completely replaced Su Qingluo's name.
No matter where she goes, the villagers will surround her cordially and pay respects to the lucky doll bestowed by the heavens.
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The flood subsided completely two days later, and the victims returned to their homes, scoured the houses, and dug out the remaining daily necessities from the collapsed courtyard walls and eaves.
Post-disaster reconstruction proceeded in an orderly manner.
Men cut down trees, moved rocks, mixed soil to build new yards, erected beams to build houses, and rebuilt their homes.
For the young children stranded in the cave, family members heard the news and came to pick them up one after another.
All the family members who found the child were grateful to Su Hu's family and wished they could pay homage to their benefactors with three sticks of incense every day.
Three days have passed, and there are still three children who have not come to pick them up.
The light in the eyes of the three children gradually dimmed, losing the color that children should have.
Su Qingluo rubbed realistic portraits of the three children, and asked someone to go to the upstream village to inquire about their relatives.
The message that came back was sad.
The relatives of the three children were all killed in the flood, and they were left alone and orphaned in this unprecedented flood.
Su Hu's family decided to adopt three children.
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After rushing to repair the mountain roads and spending five days and five nights in the open air, the prefect of Xuzhou and his party finally arrived at the Royal Courtyard with a large amount of food and medicine on the sixth day after the flood.
The floods submerged fertile fields, ruining half a year's hard work, and the victims suffered unspeakably.
As soon as the relief food arrived, the two female officials immediately ordered that the relief food should be distributed evenly again, and the relief food would be distributed to the victims without delay.
Woniu Village is next to the Weishui River, and suffered a lot from the disaster, with as many as 12 houses destroyed.
The Su family's newly built house in the past few years is considered solid, and it is the only remaining house in the village that has not collapsed.
For the sake of the villagers, Su Hu cleaned up the house, squeezed out his own family, and donated the extra house for the elderly and children in the village who had no homes to live in.