There was a dilapidated barn. When the soldiers looked over, an unkempt head with disheveled hair emerged from the barn.

When the soldier saw the man and was about to say hello, the man screamed like a rabbit and shrank back in fright.

Later, when Li Mengxi heard the soldiers report that they had found the person, he hurried over.

When everyone arrived at the barn, they heard a commotion. Several soldiers with swords and guns were surrounding a dozen ragged villagers, threatening and scolding them.

These dozen or so unkempt people were the villagers of this village. They had just heard that outsiders were coming to the village and saw that they were soldiers. The dozen or so people who were still living were so frightened that they wanted to run away immediately.

Li Mengxi shouted to stop the soldiers, "Put away your swords and guns, don't scare anyone."

When the villagers saw Li Mengxi, more than a dozen people, old, weak, sick and disabled, large and small, all knelt on the ground with a plop, crying and begging for mercy.

Li Mengxi took a quick look and saw that among the dozen or so villagers, some were old, some were still babies, and there was not a single young person.

The villagers were very defensive and communication took a long time.

In this unknown village, no one fled the famine, no one followed the Yellow Turbans to rebel, and no one was affected by the military disaster. There were only a dozen or so people left.

This group of people were in rags, their bodies were wrapped in wheat straw, and they looked like savages. All of them had the appearance of bones and vegetables. Seeing that the condition of this group of people was really bad, Li Mengxi ordered someone to bring the pottery jar.

Cook some porridge and help.

Following the villagers to the barn, as soon as he entered, a moldy and rotten smell hit his face, and Li Mengxi couldn't help but frown.

When he arrived at the barn, Li Mengxi discovered that there were still people lying in the barn unable to move, and people huddled in nests of wheat straw and afraid to come out.

Li Mengxi noticed that there was a six or seven-year-old child among them. This child's nose was sneezing from the cold, and his little face was swollen and red from the cold.

What particularly attracted Li Mengxi's attention was that this timid little baby was holding a torn hemp ball tightly in his arms, which seemed to be a swaddling clothes.

Li Mengxi walked over, but the child was afraid and stepped back in fear.

Li Mengxi stopped, and he showed what he thought was a kind smile to the child, "Come." Li Mengxi waved to the child, "Come here, let me take a look."

The child was indifferent and looked at Li Mengxi warily.

On the side, an elderly man from the village called out, "Hu'er, come here and let people take a look." The old man helped and called out.

Someone from the same village helped to speak, and the child moved over cautiously, holding the swaddling clothes in his arms.

Li Mengxi glanced over, "What...are you holding in your arms?"

Li Mengxi asked.

"It's my little brother." The child said weakly, hugging the baby boy tighter, for fear that Li Mengxi would snatch her away.

When Li Mengxi coaxed and coaxed him to take the swaddling clothes from the child's arms, Li Mengxi saw a pitiful little baby in the swaddling clothes. The baby was so fat for some reason that his fat eyes could no longer be seen.

The baby's condition was obviously not good. He couldn't move, his hands and feet couldn't move, and his mouth opened and closed without making any sound.

Li Mengxi could clearly see that the baby was not fat, but had edema. The whole baby was swollen.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He lowered his head to look at the eager child. When Li Mengxi looked towards the child, the child stretched out his hands and wanted to pass on his younger brother.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but ask, "Do you have anything to eat? Have you fed your brother anything?"

The child sniffed, and he reached into his arms and touched it for a while, "I have wheat, feed it." The child raised his hand to show Li Mengxi, and Li Mengxi saw a handful of dry wheat in his hand.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but frown.

Fortunately, he brought the military doctor with him. Li Mengxi saw the military doctor Tian Bu and asked Tian Bu to take a quick look at the baby.

When Tian Bu saw the swollen baby, Tian Bu's face instantly became serious.

Tian Bu's expression changed, and Li Mengxi also became serious.

Tian Bu held the swaddling clothes in his arms, looked at the thin swaddling clothes, and looked around again, "Commander, we have to make a fire."

"Oh!" Li Mengxi said loudly and hurriedly lit up the fire.

After the fire was raised, Tian Bu held the swaddling clothes in his arms. When he got to the fire, with the fire to keep him warm, Tian Bu dared to carefully lift off the swaddling clothes.

The little baby looked fine when wrapped in swaddling clothes, but when the whole thing was exposed, it became a bit unbearable to look at.

It was obviously a little baby that was about to die, but the baby's belly was very bulging and distended.

Tian Bu gently pressed his hand on the baby's belly. It was very solid and could not be pressed down.

After just pressing it lightly, the baby cried out in pain. The baby had no strength to cry, and his voice was like a mosquito, moaning and groaning, and his little hands and feet moved feebly.

"How? Can it be saved?" Li Mengxi asked.

Tian Bu frowned, "It's troublesome. It looks like you've eaten badly and there's something stuck in your stomach."

"What should we do?"

"You have to clear your stomach and take some laxatives..."

"Ah?!" Li Mengxi looked at Tian Bu in surprise, "A child as big as a palm is already like this, how can he use laxatives?!"

Li Mengxi was extremely suspicious. He suspected that Tian Bu had used laxatives and tortured the poor baby to death.

Tian Bu knew that the baby was very weak, and he was also worried about whether he should use laxatives. If not, the stomach and intestines would not be cleared and the treatment would not be cured. If he used laxatives, he was afraid that the baby would not be able to carry it and die on the spot.

In desperation, Tian Bu had no choice but to ask the opinions of the adults in the baby's family. After asking around, Tian Bu found out that there were no adults in the family, only a six- or seven-year-old child and an infant.

Tian Bu couldn't help but sigh.

In the end, Li Mengxi made a decision for the little baby. It was better to use medicine to save the baby.

Tian Bu said that there was something blocked in the baby's stomach. Li Mengxi looked at the six or seven-year-old child on the side. The child said that he was feeding his younger brother with wheat. He thought just now that he was breaking the wheat to make porridge, but he

This child is only six or seven years old. He probably doesn't know how to take care of a baby. He probably feeds him wheat grains directly.

Babies can't digest wheat grains, so their stomachs will become bloated, and if they are hungry for a long time, they will become edematous.

When Tian Bu came out with the army, he actually took laxatives with him.

Seeing Tian Bu holding potions and preparing living water to pour into the baby, Li Mengxi thought to himself, it seems that laxatives are not poisons, but one of the commonly used drugs. Otherwise, it would be unexplainable that Tian Bu would carry laxatives with him.

Tian Bu was busy rescuing people, and Li Mengxi was also thinking about what he could do to help.

After much deliberation, we can provide insulation measures. There is a fire kang in Julu City, and babies who cannot eat food can get breast milk. There is a camp for women and children in Julu City, and lactating women can borrow a little milk.

Also, the baby can't eat food, but it's fine with glucose.

Maltose, the army reserves a lot of maltose for seriously wounded soldiers. Maltose can actually be used as milk powder. Although maltose water can only replenish energy and cannot replenish a little nutrients, it can replenish energy and it is enough to save one's life.

In the barn, the fire was burning fiercely. In the pottery urn hanging on the fire, the water slowly became hot. The millet in the water began to stir slowly. The sweet smell of the millet began to rise. I was almost hungry.

When the dead villagers smelled the food, they stared straight at the pottery urn. If someone hadn't been watching, they would have rushed to grab it.

When the porridge was ready, the porridge was cooked thoroughly first, and then some soldiers went to the village well to fetch cold water. When the cold water was poured into the urn, the hot porridge turned into warm porridge.

Afterwards, the porridge was distributed among the villagers, each person having only a small bowl. He did not dare to share more, for fear that these people, who had been hungry for a long time, would starve to death if they overeated.

After a bowl of porridge was distributed, the villagers picked up the bowl, raised their heads and took a sip. The porridge was finished before ten was counted. The villagers finished the porridge and stared eagerly at the urn.

Looking at a group of villagers who were in dire straits, Li Mengxi, out of consideration for everyone, asked them if they would like to go to Julu City, where they would have a place to live and food to eat.

Without hesitation, the villagers immediately agreed to leave.

It's so cold. Although there is wheat straw in the barn and it's still warm, the food is running out and I'll starve to death if I don't leave.

Because there was a baby among the crowd, and the baby was in extremely bad condition, there was no time to delay. After dividing the porridge, Li Mengxi directly ordered the soldiers to take the people to Julu City to settle down.

Everyone left, and after the dozen or so villagers left, only outsiders like Li Mengxi and an old man from the village were left in the village.

Li Mengxi carefully asked the old man how many household registrations there were in the village and how much farmland there was. After asking clearly, Li Mengxi went to see the farming conditions of the village's farmland.

After looking around, Li Mengxi was surprised.

I thought that since there were still some people left in the countryside who had not fled, it would behoove them to have some fields planted with crops.

However, after looking around, all the required fields were deserted. Li Mengxi asked the old man, why don't you plant some food? If you don't plant food, what will you do next year?

The old man smiled miserably and explained that even if he planted the land, he was afraid that the food would not be his own. Soldiers and thieves were coming and going, and no amount of food would be enough to rob him. To plant the land, he had to bring food in, so he simply stopped planting and kept the food.

Forget it, wait and see.

Li Mengxi could only respond with silence, sowing several kilograms or more of seeds with only a few seeds, and he could harvest several hundred kilograms next year. However, the people who were living on their last legs were already in a desperate situation, and they had nothing to eat.

It’s gone, and there’s no food seeds left to eat.

After the inspection, we found that this small village called Masheng Village had 34 acres of cultivated land, all of which were deserted.

Standing on the ridge of the field, Li Mengxi stared at the endless fields covered with snow in a daze. After a long time, he turned his head and looked at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei also happened to look over, and after looking at each other for a moment, Li Mengxi asked, "What do you think Duke Xuande should do going forward?"

Liu Bei breathed a long sigh of relief and looked towards the jungle at the far end of the field, "Oh, if the Yellow Turbans are in chaos, the people in Julu Countryside will be in such a state of embarrassment that they will be destroyed soon.

I think it will not be too late to check the fields later. As a matter of urgency, we can send all the military doctors to rescue everywhere so that the dying people can survive!"

What Liu Bei said was exactly what Li Mengxi thought.

This Masheng Village was the first stop for checking the fields, and as a result, we encountered a group of people who were almost dead.

Based on this, Julu County is probably full of people hiding and trying to survive.

Li Mengxi thought for a moment and said, "That's how it should be.

You can order a caravan of traveling caravans, consisting of several horses and several chariots, to haul in food, load military doctors and medicinal materials, and disperse in all directions from Julu.
To be continued...