Muhe, a native of the Western Regions, was an ordinary citizen of the former Kucha Kingdom. His wife Wu was a Han family daughter who followed her father to escape the war and ran to the Western Regions many years ago.

Mu He always felt that the luckiest thing in his life was to marry Wu as his wife... According to the masters in the temple, he must have accumulated great virtue in his previous life, or even in his previous life, and only then has the opportunity to marry his current wife Wu.

She is beautiful, gentle, virtuous, considerate, hardworking and capable...

In short, in Muhe's opinion, it is not an exaggeration to use all the beautiful words on his wife!

Therefore, he cared for his wife in every way and almost obeyed his words. Wu was not an unreasonable person, and he respected his husband very much and never blamed him.

The couple respect each other as guests. Although life is hard, they are enjoying it. Especially since the three children are born one after another, Mu He feels that he is the happiest person in the world.

Influenced by his wife, Mu He was very yearning for the Central Plains thousands of miles away. So when he learned that the Tang Dynasty, which now ruled the Central Plains, was about to re-incorporate the Western Regions into the ruling scope, he was very much looking forward to it.

Because he learned from his wife that the Central Plains government would allocate land to the people, regardless of their high or low status!

This alone makes Mu He yearn for it. You should know that ordinary people in the Western Regions do not even have a piece of land that can be cultivated, not even a piece of sandy land!

When Mu He heard that the king refused the conditions of the Tang Dynasty and was not ready to return the Tang Dynasty, he felt very disappointed and even hated the nobles for the king and the nobles. In his opinion, these noble men refused to return the Tang Dynasty just because they didn't want to share the land in their hands to them.

When Mu He saw the Tang army invading the Kucha royal city, the king committed suicide, and all officials and nobles were arrested, he was very surprised and almost jumped up on the spot in excitement.

The fact is just as Mu He’s wife said, after stabilizing the situation in Kucha, the Tang government sent officials to start counting the population, establishing household registration, and then allocating all the ranches and fertile fields that originally belonged to the nobles to each household according to the cap.

The Muhe family has a total of five people and is divided into five acres of land... There is very little land, but for Muhe, this is something that he never dared to imagine in his dreams before, so he is very satisfied!

Just as Mu He was full of confidence and longing for some crops to cultivate on his own land in the spring of the next year, a snow disaster that had never happened in a century swept over, causing this family who had just seen hope for a better life to fall to the bottom in an instant!

Muhe's family of five depended on his daily transportation of goods for the caravans and working as a hard worker to make a living.

However, after the snow disaster, the trade routes were interrupted and the caravans were gone, so Muhe had no source of income.

Although the family still has some savings, after the snow disaster, despite the government's efforts to suppress the price of grain and the prices of cold-resistant materials such as wood and charcoal still rose sharply, and their family's savings could not even last a month!

Seeing that there was not much left in the family and the remaining savings could not even afford a bucket of rice bran, Mu He's mood became more and more anxious. Especially when he saw the three children crying from time to time because of hunger, Mu He's heart was as painful as a knife.

It was late at night and my wife finally comforted her three children who had been crying and fell asleep. The two of them, who were sleepless, began to talk about the current difficulties at home.

"The surplus grain at home can only last for ten days at most...what should we do?"

The person who asked about it was not Wu, who was a wife, but Mu He, who was a husband. Whenever he encountered a difficult problem, he would always ask his wife, and the other party would always tell him a satisfactory answer.

However, Mu He did not expect much hope for this question. The reason why he waited until today to ask this question was because there was really no way.

But what he didn't expect was that Wu gave the answer!

"It's been almost ten days, and the government should be about to start disaster relief!"

Mu He didn't understand what his wife meant. He turned his face and looked at his wife's cheek, who could only see the rough outline in the darkness, and asked, "Official government? What do you think the government is going to do?"

"Disaster relief! It is to distribute food to the victims!"

"What are you kidding? Will the government give us food?" Although my wife had mentioned before that in the Central Plains, the government would take out grain for free when a disaster occurs and distribute it to the affected people for free, but he always felt that this was just a joke from his wife. How could the government be so kind?

You should know that he has lived for almost forty years now, and he has experienced countless natural disasters during this period. He was not originally a native of Kucha, but fled to Kucha from other countries!

This is also a normal state for the people of the Western Regions. As long as there is a natural disaster, the people there will flee to other countries to avoid disasters. The government never pays attention to the lives and deaths of the people, because although the Western Regions are vast, there are not many places that can truly survive. The places where various cities are located are precisely these few places suitable for people to survive! Therefore, even if you escape now, it will not take long for the people to move after the disaster has passed, and new people will move over. They do not worry that there will be no people under their command to rule.

"The Tang Dynasty is different from Kucha, and the Central Plains is different from the Western Regions. In the past, the government did not care about the lives and deaths of the victims, but now we are Tang people, so the government will definitely take care of us!"

Wu's firm voice made Mu He slightly stunned, because in his impression, his wife rarely spoke in this tone, but everything she said in this tone was very accurate. This made him hesitate. Will the government really give us free food?

"You go to the government tomorrow to ask!"

"Uh..." Mu He subconsciously prepared to refuse. He, the most ordinary citizen, dared to go to the government to ask questions? However, his wife's firm tone made it difficult for him to refuse, and he hesitated, "Okay, is that OK?"

"Don't worry, the government in the Central Plains is different from the Western Regions. I just ask about things, and they won't make things difficult for you."

"Then, okay... If the government really gives us food, then..." Mu He didn't know what to say. No matter how he thought about this, he felt that it was too unreliable!

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He was speechless all night, and the next morning, Muhe braved the cold and mustered up the courage to come to the original city lord's mansion, which is now outside the Kucha County Government Office of the Tang Dynasty.

But when Mu He saw the opened mansion gate, he hesitated for a long time, but did not dare to walk in. The more he looked at the open mansion gate, the more he felt like the mouth of a giant beast, and it would swallow people when he got closer!
Chapter completed!