"Sir, not to ntion those ruthless people who might threaten your life, if sothing happens to you, how will the people of Guangye City survive? There will be no one left to protect them.
Do you think we can rely on Mr. Shen? It would be fortunate if he doesn’t try to seize the people’s water and grain."
Even though these words are harsh, they are true. Mr. Shen is the chief under the governor, but he is greedy for money and never considers others in his actions.
However, Mr. Shen has connections above. Even if Mr. Sheng wants to reprimand him or report him to the Heavenly Court, it’s hard to do so, and it might even bring trouble to himself.
"Alas."
Sheng Qingyu sighed heavily again.
As the parent official of Guangye City’s people, he feels utterly useless for being unable to handle even small matters.
"Enough, enough. I only hope that person will disrupt Steward Hao’s plans a few more tis, so the people can drink their fill of water a few more tis," he said wistfully.
As long as the people can live better days, that would be good.
"How are things in the suburbs? Do the people still have water to drink?" he asked.
"There are no issues for the ti being; I’ve sent people to investigate several tis," the advisor replied.
"Although everyone is claiming there’s no water, my years of living in the city tell that most households have so stored water, so drinking water is temporarily not a problem.
I’ve also had my wife ask around, and from what her friends have said, there should still be water stored in their hos."
Guangye City has experienced droughts more than once or twice; people have so ways to survive and won’t allow their households to reach desperation. There should definitely be so water.
"Other places are okay, but sir, you should also think about the Governnt Office; the people there are drinking water on a day-to-day basis and haven’t saved any," he reminded.
Hearing this, Sheng Qingyu raised his hand and rubbed his forehead.
Is it that he doesn’t want to store water? It’s just not possible to store any; there’s no well in the Governnt Office, so they must fetch water outside.
But everyone is watching when fetching water outside; he cannot instruct the governnt guards to fetch more water. Wouldn’t that be unfair to others?
"Let think about it. You go and have soone keep an eye on Steward Hao and his people," he instructed.
"Understood, sir,"
the advisor responded and left.
As the drought persists, the matters in the Governnt Office are increasing.
Especially the officials inside the office are incapable; when disaster strikes, instead of doing sothing real for the people, they’re thinking about how to benefit from it.
Only Mr. Sheng is diligently working for the people’s welfare.
Thinking about it, it’s really unfair. Why should everything fall on one person? Those who just eat without working are simply bullying others.
He walked outside and happened to encounter a servant carrying a al.
"What is the Governnt Office eating today?" he leaned over and asked.
"In response to the advisor, today the kitchen made corn grits, and the governnt guards collected so wild vegetables from outside and caught a pheasant to make chicken soup,"
the servant replied.
"There’s chicken soup?"
The advisor’s eyes brightened, then he turned back to look at the door he had just co out from.
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