"Old man, I will raise these two children for you first. After three or five years, the family will have a better life. I will send someone to send them back. Tell me your address." As he said that, Yu Ren waved to Zhao Rui behind him.

"Tell me the old man's address and name." After that, he said to Cao An again, "Go and get a bag of rice for the old man. If you have ready-made food on your boat, you can also give it to them."

Cao An just wanted to agree, and the crowd around him suddenly became turbulent and a large area of ​​kneeling.

"Mr. Chen, please take them together!"

Yu Ren looked up and saw a large group of elderly people and children kneeling down beside them. Almost all of these children were under ten years old. Yu Ren was shocked. He had never expected that the situation would develop like this.

How could he know? Most of these people are like the old man just now. They have no food at home, and adults still want to stay at home. Although they have not received anything this year, they still keep their hopes next year. Although they have confiscated food, they can still make some food in the fields for a while. What kind of bark or grass roots are there? I guess they can still get beaten. But the old man and the child are not good. The food they originally had was so small that they were deadly. If they had to be distributed to the elderly and children, they were afraid that even the adults would starve to death.

Therefore, most of the elderly in each family left their hometowns with their young children and went to other places to beg for food. In fact, the moment they left their homes, they knew that the chance of their trip would be very small. However, they still resolutely embarked on this road of no return.

Because if they don’t leave, they are afraid that even the young and strong in their families will not survive. They are the hope of this family. In order to continue the incense of this family and to survive with their relatives, they finally made up their minds to choose this path of death.

Yu Ren looked at the group of old men and children kneeling in front of him, and his heart was bleeding.

"Cao An, how long has the disaster been in this area been? Why are so many people fleeing, but no one in the government asked about it?"

Cao An hurried over, "If you say that to the young master, Shandong has suffered a drought this year, and our Yanzhou Prefecture has suffered the most severe disaster. In fact, we suffered a disaster here last year. It was not as serious as this year. So, over the past year, our rice boats have focused on selling rice in this area.

Firstly, it is because the rice price here is relatively high; secondly, it is also adhering to the principle of saving the world and saving people. The young master often teaches us that when doing business, we should trade fairly; businessmen are pursuing profits, but they cannot just focus on profits. The fundamental thing about business is to benefit others and also benefit themselves. Only such a business can last for a long time.

So, the young master asked me to buy a large batch of rice and grain that time, but then it was useless. I tried to bring a few people to transport a few boats of rice to sell. Unexpectedly, I made a small profit. Then I brought them a few more trips, and every time I came, the rice price would be raised."

Yu Ren nodded, "Since you said that you were suffering from disaster last year, why is there no one in the government? Didn't the court send disaster relief food?"

Before Cao An could speak, he heard a middle-aged man among the victims say angrily, "When did these officials regard us people as humans? I heard that when the former emperor ascended the throne, he pulled out a batch of disaster relief grain for our Yanzhou. But in the end, all these grains were taken by the King of Lu and the officials of Yanzhou. We who were really affected by the disaster did not even see a single grain of rice."

When Yu Ren heard this, he completely understood. He also knew that the Ming Dynasty's officialdom had always been like this, and this was not something he could change. He could only hope that after the Donglin Party, which has always regarded himself as honest, could slightly change the corruption in the officialdom after it came to power.

After a moment of pause, he suddenly waved to Cao An. "Tell those who are queuing up that each person can only buy ten kilograms for the time being. After a few days, our Shen family's rice boat will load more rice. Let them not be anxious.

Don’t worry, organize me immediately and set up a porridge shed here to serve porridge to the victims.”

When the victims heard this, they all looked happy, but they had been hungry for several days and they were not even able to cheer.

"What should we do with these children?" Ruolan, who was standing behind Yu Ren, asked.

"Don't we go back? You go find a few boats. If the families of these children are still willing to take the children away for us, we will take the children back together. Each person who sends the children can receive another 50 kilograms of rice and grain.

In addition, remember that people can write down the address of each child’s home and the name of their parents, as well as their own name, age, and birthday so that they can find their biological parents when they grow up in the future.”

Ruolan nodded and agreed.

At this time, Ruomei had already run back to the boat and brought a lot of fruit peanuts and distributed them to the children. There was really no ready-made cooked food on the boat, so Ruomei had to sweep all these snacks first. Zhao Rui helped Ruomei distribute fruit peanuts to the children.

Many children got peanuts and even ate the shells together. They were so hungry.

Yu Ren looked at these children silently, remembering that he used to be at home, and his parents served him well and asked him to study, but he was unwilling to cry in his eyes.

"Friends, don't worry. I, Yu Ren, took your children away today. I will not only guarantee that they will not starve to death, but also teach them to read. When they are twenty years old, I will let them come back to recognize you."

After hearing this, these people kowtowed to Yu Ren together.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yu Ren organized everyone to build a porridge shed by the canal. Refugees from all over the world were moved and soon gathered nearly a thousand people here.

Seeing that the porridge shed was not enough, Yu Ren asked everyone to do it again, and built two more porridge sheds and three sheds together. He also organized the victims to do it themselves, and specially built some straw sheds for them to shelter them from the wind and rain. In addition, because there were too many people, in order not to cause chaos, Yu Ren divided the victims into ten brigades, each with a hundred people. The brigade was divided into five brigades, each with twenty people. Each team selected a brigade leader and a brigade leader. If there was any problem, as long as these brigades were arranged to negotiate, so as not to have a situation of rushing to everything.

After working hard for an afternoon, it was getting dark, and seeing that the victims finally almost everyone received the porridge once, Yu Ren breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Liang Zongyi came back in a hurry.

"How is it? But what are you finding?" Yu Ren asked while gnawing on a sweet potato handed to him by Zhao Rui.

"I followed the Qian family's manager and found that he had taken the silver and a few kilograms of meat and went to find someone. Later, I asked somewhere else for a long time before I found out that the man was the land of the town. I heard that these people not only knew some fist skills, but also had great skills on water.

I think if they do this land, they will not have enough to worry about it, and I am afraid they will not dare. The most worrying thing is that they will cause trouble for us from the water. Our rice is still on the boat! If they sink our boat, it will be a huge loss. So, I will report to my husband and the sect leader immediately."

After hearing Liang Zongyi's words, Yu Ren turned his head and looked at Liang Ruji, "What do you think Brother Liang?"

"Zongyi's words are good. What we fear most is that they are making trouble for us underwater. The rest are not enough. Otherwise, we might as well mobilize everyone immediately, unload the rice on the boat and pile it onto the shore!"

Yu Ren nodded, "This is a way, at least temporarily, to ensure the safety of rice and grain."

However, Yu Ren did not ask everyone to do it immediately, but asked Cao An to organize the people first, and then after it was dark, he quietly moved the rice from the boat, then put it in a bag with soil, and then put it back on the boat. These things should be done as concealed as possible.

After everything was done, Yu Ren arranged for someone to quietly lie around a few rice boats, waiting for the fish to hook up.

However, after waiting for a night, there was no movement. Yu Ren was secretly surprised and thought that his move to replace the pillar had been seen through.

At this moment, Cao An came to report that someone wanted to see him.
Chapter completed!