"Yes, sir." Liji wiped his tears with his tattered sleeves and explained: "Since last spring, the weather has never warmed up, with heavy rain and cold winds constantly. Until early summer, the weather was still very cold. By September, the rice planted was still green and not mature at all.

When the New Year is over, I think that God will be kind and give the poor some way to survive. As a result, it is still cold and storms are constantly rising. Before the rice in the field is planted, wildfires broke out in Yanmu Mountain, and magma and mudslides have destroyed the fields.

The elders in the village said that the vassal lord would distribute relief, so we kept waiting. But after a few months, all the food stored in the family was eaten up, and there was no relief in the vassal lord. Let alone wild vegetables around the village, even the rats were caught."

The tall man asked, "How long has the food been out of stock in your village?"

"I lost food more than three months ago. More than a dozen people have starved to death in the village."

"Does the government care?"

"Official government? Alas..." Li Ji immediately described what he saw and heard in the vassal city.

The tall man was silent after hearing this, sometimes looking up at the sky, sometimes looking at his feet, and sometimes looking at what he was thinking.

Seeing that the other party was not paying attention to him, Liji's eyes turned around and savored the delicious food he had just eaten, so he pulled his wife Shino's sleeve. The two turned around and retreated aside and started whispering.

"Thank you very much for saving my husband and wife's lives! I, I..." Li Ji stumbling for a long time, finally bowed his head and bowed and said, "I hope that my husband and wife can take me in, and be a slave, and serve you for your whole life."

The tall man was stunned: "What? Do you want to be a servant for me?"

"The land cannot be cultivated anymore. We are really desperate. Please pity us, sir!" As he said that, Riki and Shino kowtowed to the young man.

The young man's eyes rolled, and after a while, he said, "Okay. Follow me for the time being, in the future... forget it, take a step by step."

When Li Ji and his wife heard this, they were very happy. They quickly kowtowed: "I haven't asked you what your surname is?"

The tall man touched his short hair and said, "My surname is Zhao, Zhao Xin."
Chapter completed!