That's right, receiving the grain is the top priority at the moment.
Zheng Chen and Doctor Jiao nodded in agreement, saying no more. Prefectural Governor Liu stepped forward to receive the grain personally. Looking at the seemingly endless convoy of grain carts, tears unexpectedly welled up in Prefectural Governor Liu's eyes.
The droughts of the previous two years had not affected Yan County too severely. Who would have thought that this year there would be a locust plague? Swarms of locusts swept over Yan County like a storm, devouring the crops and even the wild vegetables at the field edges, leaving even the bark and leaves of trees stripped bare.
The people either starved to death or fled to other places; only about twenty percent of the population managed to survive. The once vast Yan County now had less than twenty-thousand people... It was truly tragic.
