Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
The city was still as calm as before.
Outside the City Lord’s Mansion, the food that the people needed for that day was distributed as usual.
He Chuan stepped on the city wall and looked down at the scenery outside the city. His mind kept deducing, trying to find a good way to resist the beast tide.
At this moment, Xu Ke ran up.
“Your Highness, something has happened.”
He panted and said, “A team of hunters hasn’t returned for two days. There’s no news at all.”
“Have you sent people out to look for them?” He Chuan asked.
“The mountain is sealed by heavy snow now. The roads are very difficult to walk on. The people we sent out haven’t returned either.”
He Chuan frowned slightly. This matter was a little difficult to handle.
If the city guards were dispatched to clear the snow on the roads and receive the hunters, doing so would have the risk of attracting the strange beasts.
However, if they were allowed to do nothing, the prestige that they had just accumulated in the hearts of the people might be completely gone.
What should they do…
In the end, just as he was feeling troubled, the City Lord’s Manor started to make trouble first.
An old man rushed to the food distribution center, pushed aside the people who were queuing up, and shouted angrily.
“You bunch of heartless b*stards!”
“All of you have hands and feet, how can you have the nerve to take this food!!”
“Yes, you have eaten your fill and are warm!”
“What about the soldiers guarding the city?”
“Cough cough… What about the City Lord?”
“You bunch of blood-sucking worms… cough cough… why can you take things for free with a clear conscience!”
“Cough cough cough cough cough…”
Because he was too emotional, the old man kept coughing and clutching his chest with a pained expression, so much so that he could not speak the rest of his words.
The people next to him immediately surrounded him and reached out to support him.
In the end, they were forcefully pushed away by him.
“The dirty hands that have taken the City Lord’s things do not have the right to touch me!”
These words caused many people to be dissatisfied.
“It’s not like we didn’t help the City Lord. The traps outside the city and the renovation of the houses in the city, which of these things were not done by us?”
“That’s right! Old Sir, I respect your age and don’t want to quarrel with you. Just ask a question, do we not have the right to even eat a full meal after doing so many things?”
“Hehe, I’m afraid that some people don’t have the body to do things and are too embarrassed to eat, so they want to drag everyone along with them!”
Faced with such accusations, the old man’s attitude remained firm.
“Idiot, what an idiot!”
“Do you really think that the City Lord needs you to set up traps? Repair the houses?”
“When the beast tide arrives, will those wooden toys be able to withstand a slap from the strange beasts? Ah?”
“What if the city falls? So what if these houses are as beautiful as a landscape painting? Won’t they still be in ruins?”
“The reason the City Lord did this was to make you feel at ease and not develop the habit of slacking off because of this relief!”
“Are you really using chicken feathers as an order?”
His words rendered everyone speechless.
Could it be that… it was really like what this old man said?
The City Lord was doing this for their own good… So he let them use the method of ‘doing things’ to exchange for food?
Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there was indeed such a possibility.
After all…
Who could exchange two hours of work for a day’s rations?
This was something that didn’t exist when they were working under the hands of merchants in the past.
“Old man, you’re right!”
At this moment, someone walked to the front of the crowd and looked at the food in his hands with reluctance. Then, he put it on the table in the grain storage.
“I’m not eating this food! Leave it for the soldiers guarding the city!”
Before the soldiers who were putting food on the table said anything, the people behind them came forward one after another and put back the food they had just received.
“I can’t take these clothes either! The soldiers have worked so hard outside and fought so hard for us. How can we let them fight with only their clothes on?”
“And me!”
“And me!”
At this moment, He Chuan and Xu Ke, who were alarmed, rushed over from the city wall.
However, when they saw this scene, they were a little dumbfounded.
What was going on?
They didn’t want relief?
Were these people stupid?
Weren’t they all starving?
Weren’t they all freezing in the middle of the night?
They were already in such a miserable state, yet they still returned the things to them?
They didn’t want their lives anymore?
Moreover, it was fine if one or two of them did this.
What the hell were they doing if all of them didn’t want it?
Then how was he going to get the return?
“The City Lord is here!”
A voice suddenly came from the crowd.
Instantly, everyone turned around and silently retreated to both sides, making a wide path for He Chuan.
At the front was the old man. When he saw He Chuan, he immediately knelt on the ground in fear.
“This commoner dares to openly disobey the City Lord’s orders. I don’t ask for forgiveness, please punish me!”
He Chuan was a little helpless, “Old man, why are you doing this?”
The old man gritted his teeth and said what he was thinking.
“There are no eggs left intact after a nest is overthrown. These people who only care about themselves and only care about the people in front of them can’t understand. How can an old man like me who has half a foot in the coffin not understand?”
“Sir, listen to this commoner’s advice. Don’t give out any more supplies. When the beast tide arrives, whatever you do will consume resources. If you don’t save up now, you won’t have the chance to save up in the future!”
“If all the soldiers guarding the city die, how many more days can we commoners live?”
“The beast tide is coming menacingly. Once the city is breached, we will all be buried with Glory City!”
He Chuan nodded slightly.
He finally understood what the old man was thinking.
It was nothing more than thinking of using steel on the blade.
Ordinary people like them who did not go to the battlefield should not waste too many military resources at this time.
However…
What He Chuan wanted was to waste!
What he wanted was to squander!
He immediately said righteously.
“Soldiers protect Glory City, not for this piece of land, and certainly not for me!”
“They are protecting you, the common people who live on this piece of land!”
“If you are not here, what’s the difference between this city and a dead city?”
“What’s the point of us protecting it?”
Hearing this, the old man’s eyes were already filled with tears, but he still wanted to stick to his point of view, “But City Lord…”
He Chuan directly interrupted him and said sternly, “I’ll give it to you, just take it. Don’t make me angry over this small matter. I have my own ways to resolve the military’s resources.”
The old man fell silent.
In the end, he still did not dare to disobey He Chuan, who had come from the imperial family.
When the people heard these words, the gratitude in their hearts could no longer be described with words.
Where else could they meet such a wise and considerate City Lord?
Unknowingly, the seed of loyalty had already been buried deep in their hearts, waiting for it to take root and sprout.
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