How should we deal with this matter?

" Miss Yu? What are you doing here?"  Magistrate Li looked at Yu Dong who was striding inside her office with snow covering her shoulders and head. " Is something the matter?" 

" There is indeed something that I need to discuss with you," Yu Dong took the initiative and sat down on the chair in front of  Magistrate Li  who was sitting behind the table and then said in a soft voice, " But firstly, I want to ask if the imperial family has thought of a way to deal with this disaster?" 

If the imperial family could not send enough grains when there was a flood, Yu Dong could still understand it but now the matter had escalated even further, whats more so many months have passed by ever since the flood took place. The winter of this year was exceptionally cold and biting, one could see that many refugees were dying because of cold and hunger yet there was not even a single noise from the imperial city.