2: Chapter 2 is just about eating, isn't it?

As soon as the words fell, the twenty City Guards paused with their spears in hand.

They were just waiting for the order to act immediately.

Zhou Yun did not speak; his gaze swept across the faces of the citizens one by one.

Every one of them was sallow and emaciated, wearing thin clothing.

Although they held the title of citizens, they seemed more like refugees during a famine.

At this moment, their lips were tightly pursed, and they remained silent, looking at Zhou Yun like criminals awaiting execution.

In their eyes, there was a panic that was almost overflowing.

But besides that, there was also a glimmer of hope.

That was the reason they had come to the entrance of the City Lord's Mansion and knelt.

They hoped that the newly appointed City Lord would show mercy and spare their lives!

Even if it were just to grant them a few more days!

"They are all pitiful people! To have fallen to this point, who could have the heart to kick them while they are down!"

Zhou Yun sighed inwardly and was just about to speak when a faint baby's cry suddenly came from the crowd.

Swish!

Everyone's gaze immediately shot toward the source of the sound!

They saw a woman clutching the infant in her arms tightly, looking around in extreme panic while trembling and comforting it, "Don't cry, don't cry~ Don't cry~ Good baby~"

But it would have been better if she hadn't comforted it; as soon as she did, the baby's crying grew even louder.

The woman couldn't help but redden her eyes, and her body began to tremble.

She could feel everyone's gaze, sharp as knives, as if they wanted to slice her to pieces!

Perhaps there had been a glimmer of hope, but now that her child had caused a scene, that hope had completely vanished!

Such immense psychological pressure completely broke her in less than a second.

She suddenly cried out, "City Lord! It's all my fault! It has nothing to do with the others! It has nothing to do with the others!"

Zhou Yun did not pay attention to this point and just asked, "What's wrong with the child? Is it hungry?"

Zhou Yun's tone was very gentle.

However, precisely because of this, the woman's tears flowed even more fiercely.

She sobbed, "Reporting to the City Lord, this commoner has not had a full meal for nearly three months and truly has no ability to feed the child. The child is just extremely hungry, that is why..."

"I see." Zhou Yun nodded, walked down the steps, and went straight to the woman, "I only have this on me, you make do with it for now."

As he spoke, he took out two white sugar steamed buns wrapped in oil paper from his bosom.

These were made by Father Zhou himself before he left, and they were among the few things he could bring over.

Because it hadn't been long since he arrived, the snow-white sugar steamed buns were still emitting heat, appearing extremely eye-catching in this cold winter.

Seeing those two sugar steamed buns, everyone was stunned.

? ! ? ! ? ! ! ! ! ! City Lord... What is he doing?

Noble as he is, he actually wants to give those two buns to that lowly woman?!

The woman was also stunned.

She stared straight at the buns in front of her, saliva secreting madly in her mouth, but she remained motionless.

"Since you are hungry, hurry up and take them to eat!" Zhou Yun did not notice the others' gazes at all; he simply held them with the oil paper and stuffed the two buns into the woman's hands.

Feeling the warmth coming from her hands that could almost reach her heart, the woman suddenly burst into tears, "Thank you, City Lord! Thank you, City Lord!!"

While shouting, she wanted to kowtow to Zhou Yun.

Zhou Yun hurriedly reached out to support her.

It was just two buns, why go this far?

To him, it was just a small effort.

After expressing endless gratitude, the woman devoured half a bun ravenously, then fed the pinched-off piece of bun directly to the infant.

Zhou Yun instinctively wanted to stop her, as feeding such a small infant flour-based food could easily cause choking.

But he was shocked to discover that as the bun entered its mouth, the infant immediately stopped crying. Even though it had no teeth, it chewed properly and successfully swallowed the bun!

Because it had eaten something, the infant's previous tearful face immediately disappeared, and it even revealed a smile!

Zhou Yun was also infected and curled the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't help but feel heartbroken inside.

Before his Transmigration, in his motherland, other things might be hard to say, but as long as one was hungry, one could ask anyone for help, and the other party would be willing to lend a helping hand!

Things like starving to death were even more unimaginable!

But here, in Flower City, under his rule...

His gaze swept over the others, seeing the same longing in their eyes...

How could this mother and daughter be the only hungry ones?!

[Ding! You successfully gifted 2 sugar steamed buns, triggering a 100x critical hit reward, obtaining 200 sugar steamed buns!]

[The returned reward has been automatically stored in the System space; you may take it at your convenience.]

The System's notification sound rang out at the right time.

System space?

Just as this thought arose in his mind, his consciousness arrived in a boundless space.

200 steaming hot sugar steamed buns were floating right before his eyes!

With another thought, his consciousness returned to reality.

With the System, and with those 200 sugar steamed buns just rewarded, he truly had the confidence!

Isn't it just about being hungry?

Isn't it just about needing to eat?

Although this is not his motherland, as long as he is here, he will not allow such things as starving to death to happen under his rule!

"Who else is hungry?" He flipped his right hand, and a sugar steamed bun appeared in his palm, "Come and take it!"

No one moved.

Even though there was naked longing in their eyes.

Zhou Yun shook his head inwardly.

They have reached this point, yet they still want to suppress themselves? Force themselves?

Too honest.

So honest that it makes people pity them.

Without further ado, he stuffed a bun into the hands of an old man nearby.

Following that was the second, the third, the fourth...

Everyone who received a bun had an expression of disbelief.

They first leaned in to smell it, then tentatively took a bite. It seemed that only when they were finally convinced that everything before them was real did they finally begin to devour it.

After a few bites, their eyes unknowingly moistened.

"It's real! It's a real steamed bun!"

"So delicious! It's so delicious!"

"Wuwuwu... So fragrant! So sweet!"

Seeing more and more people eating the buns, Zhou Yun couldn't help but reveal a heartfelt smile.

He was not worried about anyone in the city seeing "wealth" and becoming covetous, having any improper thoughts toward him.

As the City Lord, as long as he was in the city, he was absolutely safe.

No existence could harm him in the slightest.

Not far away, Lei Lie watched Zhou Yun's act of distributing buns and shook his head repeatedly,

"Still too young. Even if you can provide them this meal, can you provide them the next meal, and the one after that?"

The twenty City Guards likewise looked at Zhou Yun's figure and sighed slightly.

Obviously, their thoughts were exactly the same as Lei Lie's.

An excellent City Lord could make Flower City better.

But a naive City Lord with womanly benevolence would only make Flower City worse.

In their eyes, Zhou Yun was undoubtedly the latter.

But what they didn't know was that because Zhou Yun kept distributing buns, the buns returned in the space became more and more numerous.

[Ding! You successfully gifted 1 sugar steamed bun, triggering a 1000x critical hit reward, obtaining 1000 sugar steamed buns!]

[Ding! You successfully gifted 1 sugar steamed bun, triggering a 10000x critical hit reward, obtaining 10000 sugar steamed buns!]

[Ding! You successfully gifted 1 sugar steamed bun, triggering a 100x critical hit reward, obtaining 100 sugar steamed buns!]

[Ding! You successfully gifted 1 sugar steamed bun, triggering a 100000x critical hit reward, obtaining 100000 sugar steamed buns!]