Chapter 243 Disaster Relief Site
"I can't say it. I'm not a disaster victim anyway. He claims to be from this town. I asked him about his name, but he didn't say it."
Yu Ren put down the sweet potato in his hand. This was specially dedicated to Yu Ren in order to thank Yu Ren. This is also the best thing they see at present.
"This sweet potato is really a good thing! It's a pity that there are too few. Otherwise, it's okay to share it with these victims, and they can eat it raw or cook it. It saves a lot of our manpower."
Liang Rujiu said, "Isn't it easy for Mr. Yu to have this sweet potato? There are so many things in Jiangnan that are dying and very cheap. If we exchange rice and grain for sweet potatoes, the sweet potatoes we get in front of us will be enough for only one thousand people to eat for half a year."
"Really?" Yu Ren was overjoyed. He was worried about the number of these victims. He could bear it! Liang Ruji's idea made him let go of the burden in his heart at once.
"Cao An, I'll leave this to you. You can send someone home immediately and tell the young lady that he can exchange rice and grain for me for a lot of sweet potatoes. This thing is not easy to break in winter and is convenient to transport."
Cao An agreed, "Then, will you still see that person?"
Yu Ren then remembered that Cao Anlai reported to him that someone wanted to see him.
"See you, see you right away. Bring him here!"
Cao An agreed and left.
After a while, Cao An brought in a middle-aged man in his forties. This man was burly and really a Shandong man.
The big man came over and clasped his fists at Yu Ren. "Dangshen has invited him. Huang Jiezhong is here to ask him about something."
Yu Ren also hugged Huang Jiezhong. "My surname is not Shen, my surname is Yu, Shen is my uncle's surname. Because my uncle is sick, I will take charge of the affairs of the Shen family for him. I wonder what Brother Huang is going to ask?" After saying that, he signaled Huang Jiezhong to sit down next to the straw mat where he was sitting.
Huang Jiezhong looked at Yu Ren and saw that they were all sitting on the straw mat, so he sat down next to Yu Ren.
"I heard that Shen's family lives in Songjiang, but they came to our Yanzhou to serve porridge. I don't know why?" Huang Jiezhong showed a look of alert on his face when he said this.
Yu Ren smiled at Huang Jiezhong, "Brother Huang asked. To be honest, I didn't have this plan either. It was just a coincidence.
My brothers and I just came back from Beijing and wanted to go back to our hometown Songjiang. But here I encountered a large number of disaster victims. So I went ashore to see the situation, but I happened to run into my own merchant ship selling rice here.
Seeing that most of these victims had no money to buy rice and were so hungry, I asked my children to set up a special porridge shed here. Although I am a businessman, I also understand one thing: business must be done first. If the people cannot survive, I will naturally lose business.
Although it seems that I have lost money to donate porridge to them for free. But I believe that when the next year comes, their harvest will be good. They will do business with me. Isn’t this a very worthwhile business for my long-term business?"
After hearing Yu Ren's words, Huang Jiezhong couldn't help but sigh, "Brother Yu is really a talented person, with a broad vision. He doesn't just stare at the flies in front of him and refuses to let go. Brothers are taught." After that, he shook his sleeves and turned around and left.
After Huang Jiezhong left, Liang Zongyi quietly said to Yu Ren, "I saw the Qian family's manager yesterday, and he was the one I was looking for."
Yu Ren nodded, stood up and stretched. "It seems that things are almost done here. It's time for us to go back and do our own big things."
Ruomei, who was standing beside him, asked in confusion, "Why? Brother Liang didn't say yesterday, does that person named Qian have bad intentions to us?"
Yu Ren reached out and touched Ruomei's head, "You girl is smart for a moment, so why can't you figure it out. Although the Qian surnamed Qian has bad intentions to us, he dare not offend Huang Jiezhong. He is a local snake in this town and he is covered by us, so I said we can leave with confidence."
"Why do you think Huang Jiezhong will definitely protect us? We didn't give him any benefits, and he also collected the Qian family's money."
"Because of the question he asked me just now."
Ruomei thought about it and seemed to understand something, but she didn't seem to understand very well.
Yu Ren found Cao An again, "I will leave the matter here to you. If there are new refugees coming, remember to do it according to my method. First, the person in charge of each of their teams will manage them.
Try not to starve people to death, but you must also remember that our ability is limited. We can solve the current problem of Qianba people, but we can't bear it even if the refugees expand. Therefore, after I leave, you must often send people to report the disaster here. If the victims exceed 3,000, you must be careful and treat new victims with caution. If more than 5,000, you can no longer accept new victims. Although we are doing good things, we must do our best, otherwise we will drag ourselves into the abyss together.
In addition, with so many people living here, I’m afraid we have to find a doctor to stay here."
"Don't worry! Master, just be busy with your trip! The young lady has been waiting for you to go back at home. Leave everything here to me!"
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard Ruolan come back and report to Yu Ren. "It's not good. There is a child who is hungry or sick, but he actually dies."
When Yu Ren heard that someone was dead, he quickly stood up and said, "Where is it? I'll go and see."
Ruolan took Yu Ren to a straw shed, and from a distance he saw a small group of people surrounding him.
"Grandpa Yu is here, let me give in." Everyone quickly gave in to Yu Ren. Yu Ren walked into the crowd and saw a boy of seven or eight years old lying on the ground, motionless. An old lady sat aside and shed tears.
Yu Ren walked forward, squatted beside the little boy, reached out to try the child's breath, and he was indeed no longer angry.
"This child was fine just now, but I don't know what happened, but suddenly died. However, since he is dead, why not bury it earlier!" said a middle-aged man next to him. He was the captain of this team.
Yu Ren quickly reached into the child's chest again. He suddenly realized that the child was still in a weak heart. Yu Ren thought he had an illusion.
"Ruolan, come and see if this child still has a heartbeat."
Ruolan walked over and pressed her hand on the child's chest as Yu Ren looked.
"Yes, there's still a little heartbeat."
"The child is not dead yet, hurry up and ask the doctor." Yu Ren said anxiously to Ruolan.
"The doctor is here!" Before Yu Ren finished speaking, someone shouted outside.
Sure enough, an old man in his fifties came over the crowd. He was carrying an old box, looking a little tired, but his steps were still very hurrying. I don’t know if he heard that someone died here or someone told him that he rushed over.
Seeing the old man carrying a box and looking dusty, Yu Ren couldn't help but wonder, and asked casually, "Is he a doctor in the town?"
"No, Mr. Li has only come to us recently. Mr. Li is a good person. He passes by our medical practice. When he sees that we, the victims, are sick and have no money to treat them, he takes the initiative to stay and treat us for free. He has been here for half a month." A victim standing next to Yu Ren explained.
Yu Ren nodded and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: There are still many good people in this world.
Mr. Li hurried into the shed, squatted down, carefully examined the little boy, and quickly took out a pair of silver needles from the back box, took out one of the long needles and stabbed them a few times in the boy's throat, and then stabbed them a few times in his chest.
I saw the boy's throat move a few times, as if he had swallowed something, and then slowly woke up.
Yu Ren secretly admired him, but the people beside him looked like they were not surprised.
"What's going on with this child?" The person in charge of this studio asked Mr. Li.
"It's not a serious illness, it's just that when he was eating, something suddenly got stuck in his throat and didn't swallow it, so he felt suffocated."
"Sir, you are so wonderful to rejuvenate yourself!" Yu Ren exclaimed from the side.
Mr. Li glanced at Yu Ren and said nothing. He was about to carry the box and leave when he suddenly saw Zhao Rui behind Yu Ren, and the old man stopped again.
The old man looked at Zhao Rui carefully for a while and said to Yu Ren, "This young lady is seriously ill, why is she still showing up in public?"
Chapter completed!