MTL - Female Official In the East Palace-Chapter 72

Prince used to focus only on reading and did not really take any errands, but he was indeed a very capable prince. In just two days, he communicated properly with the abbots of the temples of each peak and ordered hundreds of soldiers Together with more than a thousand monks, with Wutai Mountain as the center, they radiate to the surrounding area to rescue the people.

And he transferred some people from it to open the way for him to go to Daizhou.

The adults surrounded the children, all of them had frozen faces, and some even had frostbite, and their open eyes were full of despair and misery.

Not to mention the prince, even Rong Xin, who has never seen such a tragic situation with his own eyes. He couldn't bear to watch it any longer. When he turned his head, he saw that the prince's eyes were red.

"Prince?"

"Hmm." The prince responded with a stern voice and choked, "Aunt, if I hadn't gone down the mountain, I would never have known how miserable the people were when they suffered..."

He looked at the people under the dangerous wall without blinking, and didn't have time to take care that the eyebrows and eyelashes were frosted, and his eyes were full of stinging pain.

Rong Xin stretched out his hand from the cloak, patted him on the head, and said, "Prince, now is not the time to be sad, don't forget your purpose for going down the mountain."

The prince sniffed, nodded heavily, and instructed: "Quickly count the number of casualties in the village, find a shelter from the wind and snow, and put the people in together."

"Yes, His Royal Highness."

The soldiers went into the depths of the village to get busy, while Rong Xin took the rest of the people and went straight to a family whose houses on the north wall of the village seemed to be intact.

Compared with the thatched cottages of other people in the village, this one is almost a "big family".

An accompanying guard stepped forward and called the door: "Is there anyone! Open the door!"

His voice was quite arrogant, Rong Xin only looked sideways slightly, then withdrew his gaze again without saying anything to stop him.

As soon as he finished speaking, the wooden door in front of him opened, obviously this attitude is more efficient.

"You, who are you?"

It was a thin middle-aged man. Unlike the villagers he had seen before, his face was extremely ugly.

At this time, the middle-aged man looked at them with three points of fear, three points of alertness, and four points of caution.

The prince stopped the guard who knocked on the door, and said politely, "This fellow, can we go in and talk?"

The middle-aged man glanced at the many guards behind him, hesitantly stepped aside, and reluctantly said, "Young Master, please come in."

The prince stepped in first, Rong Xin took a step behind, raised his hand and grabbed the guard who knocked on the door earlier, and instructed: "You are here waiting for someone to come."

The guard, Jingxi, the son of Yue Le, Prince of Anhe, is only seventeen years old this year. He was named the King of Doroxi in twenty-one years. He accompanied him to Mount Wutai last year, and was later arrested Kangxi left to protect the empress dowager and the prince.

Previously, the prince and Rong Xin said that there was Jingxi in the entourage, but he had been hiding from Rong Xin, and he went down the mountain this time, and the two officially met each other.

Jingxi is taller than that year, maybe because he is married, his face is a little less childish, as for mature and stable... Judging from his hiding behavior, it is obviously not How much to grow.

Only one woman was allowed on this trip, so for convenience, I wore men's clothing and the cloak was dark.

At her age, she doesn't have to be so concerned about men's and women's defenses, she untied the straps directly, handed the cloak to Jingxi, and said, "It's cold outside, cover some wind."

Before entering the house, she glanced at the courtyard and retracted her eyes. Then she stood behind the prince and looked at the ten people gathered in the main hall to keep warm.

The middle-aged man who opened the door for them earlier walked back to an old man. If Rong Xin guessed correctly, he was the head of the family, and the father of the middle-aged man.

The rest of the people look at their appearance, they are probably sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren.

Rong Xin stared at the ruddy-faced boy and the sallow-faced girl, and then moved away as if nothing had happened, quietly listening to the prince talking to them.

"I don't know where this little boy came from? Why did he come to our remote village when it was snowing?"

The prince did not report his family, but instead asked: "I have been traveling all the way, but your house is better, but the old man is highly respected in the village?"

The old man looked back and forth on them for a moment, and replied, "I am the village chief of this village."

The prince's eyes were extremely cold for a moment, and he pressed his anger and asked: "Since you are the village chief, why are the villagers sleeping rough in the wind and snow, and you do nothing?"

Another younger man behind the old man stepped forward angrily, "You..."

The old man stopped the impulsive young son and said calmly: "The young man is extravagant, and the old man can't afford to offend him. Why don't I tell you sincerely."

The prince was noncommittal, raised his hand slightly, and signaled to listen to what he had to say.

"Last autumn, there was an earthquake in Taiyuan Prefecture, especially in Daizhou and other places. There was a heavy loss of farmland in various places. Our village is better but it is also difficult. day."

The prince lowered his eyes slightly when he heard his words.

Shortly after their departure last year, a major earthquake occurred in Shanxi Province, involving fifteen prefectures and counties, of which Daizhou, Nao County, and Fanzhi were the most severely affected. Added disaster relief.

Rong Xin followed his words and gently swept over the wall stacks and walls, and there was indeed some color difference between the old and new mud plastering walls, it should not be a lie.

"The old man is the head of the village, but he has made the decision to open the ancestral hall in the village to some villagers to survive the snowstorm. The rest...

The old village chief sighed and said in despair: "I disturb the purity of my ancestors now, but at least some people have been saved, and they will enter the soil in the future. I just ask my ancestors not to blame me."

His remarks are also sincere, but the prince asked sharply: "Dare to ask the village chief, how did you select who can enter the ancestral hall?"

"This..."

The old village chief's face changed suddenly, Rong Xin looked at the prince's profile with a smile in his eyes.

The youngest son of the old village chief broke out from behind his father and quibble: "There is no need for outsiders to intervene in the affairs of our village!"

At this moment, Jingxi knocked on the door and came in, "Too..."

The prince didn't wait for him to say the next words, he slapped the table at the old village chief and others, and said angrily: "I am the son of An and Prince Yuele, the king of Doroxi County, who was proclaimed by the sage. , Could it be that there is no king in the world, why are there outsiders?!”

Jingxi's face was dazed, the prince is the king of Doluoxi County, so who is he? OK…

The prince didn't care how confused he was, and said solemnly: "Bring me the seal of the king of this county."

Jingxi met his gaze, and without the instructions of his brain, he directly took out his silver seal of the county king and presented it to the prince.

The old village chief's family was the only one who had seen the county magistrate. He never thought that one day a county king would appear in the house, and he was shocked.

At this time, when they saw this little boy holding a silver seal that looked very good, they didn't dare to look closely. Forgive me!"

Jingxi was still in a daze, Rong Xin glanced at the child helplessly, and reminded: "What do you want to report to the king of the county, why don't you report it quickly?"

Jingxi recovered, twitched the corners of his mouth, bowed and said: "Back to the county, the king of the county, the guards are here to report, there are 42 families in the village, more than ten of them. In the ancestral hall, the rest are sheltered from the cold in their own homes."

The prince asked indifferently: "What about the casualties?"

Jingxi replied immediately: "Since New Year's Eve, seven people have died in the village, and more than half of the injured and sick have not been treated."

Prince clenched his fists slowly and didn't say anything for a long time.

They only brought a younger imperial doctor Liu down the mountain, and he did not bring much medicinal materials on his body, and they all kept life-saving things. The lives of the people and the lives of the guards around him, the prince must be Hard to decide.

Rong Xin gave the prince a distressed look, and said to Jingxi: "When I came here, I saw that there were many trees in the woods outside the surrounding village, and firewood can be obtained even if it is difficult to cut. Bring some people and the sturdy villagers in the village first, and bring more snow water to boil for those people outside to warm up."

Jingxi glanced at the prince, saw that he did not speak, and said: "Yes, I will go here."

Before he stepped out, the prince stopped him and instructed: "It's not easy to build a house now, you teach the villagers to build a solid snow house to keep out the wind."

Jingxi blinked and said embarrassedly: "Tai, the prince forgives the sin, and the lower officials don't know how this snow house was built..."

The prince listened to what the empress dowager said and put it forward by making inferences, but how could these Baqi children who grew up pampered in Beijing know that the people of Shanxi have not experienced such a big snow disaster, Don't you know how to temporarily save your life?

Suirong Xin approached the prince and said, "I'll go."

The prince is worried, "You..."

Rong Xin shook his head and said in a low voice, "Your trip is already inappropriate. If there is any accident, we will not be able to explain it."

She didn't say anything, but the prince already understood and nodded: "I see, you take care of yourself."

"Yes."

Rong Xin walked to Jingxi's side and said, "Let's go, I'll go with you." After speaking, he turned his palm upwards.

I am puzzled.

"In the past I saw you as a very clever child, why are you so clumsy now?" Rong Xin said helplessly, "Big cloak."

"Oh." Jingxi didn't care about being told that she was not smart, and hurriedly smiled and returned the cloak to Rong Xin.

The two of you said each other, and left without a heavy tone.

The prince retracted his gaze from the closed door, and then said to Imperial Physician Liu: "Now we can only collect materials on the spot, you list a food that can ward off the cold, and I will send someone to the village to collect them. "

Imperial Physician Liu's mind turned extremely fast, and he replied: "It's the king of the county, and I will make a list here."

The prince nodded slightly, and then pointed at a guard to signal him to go with Doctor Liu, and then he looked at the old village chief's family who was kneeling and trembling on the ground, saying: "If you have not exploited, you are just negligent in your duty. , I will give you a chance to make up for your faults and order your son to lead the way for my guards."

The old village chief kowtowed and said, "The little one will go in person, I just ask the county king not to pursue the little fault."

The prince said calmly: "You are so old, and I am not that unreasonable person, just ask your son to go."

"Little Prince Xie!"

"Xie Jun Wang!"

The prince said indifferently, "Get up."

On the other side, Rong Xin took Jingxi and explained how the snow house was made solidly in the simplest terms based on the previous description of the Empress Dowager and her own experience.

Jingxi and other guards still have some juvenile temperament, and the villagers also find it novel. After she described it, it didn't take long for her to understand, and she started to do things with enthusiasm.

There are few people in the village, and in just half a day, they helped a dozen families build snow huts on their original sites.

Prince and others can only stay in this village for a short night, and they have to leave early the next day, so the villagers have no idea of ​​the road ahead, so they specially left a message: "I will be able to arrive directly. God listens, the court will not let you go, just wait patiently."

He was like this all the way before he arrived at Daizhou Mansion.

There are many refugees outside the city of Daizhou Prefecture, and the city gate is closed regardless of it.

Personally, without the emperor's will, the lower officials have no right to open the warehouse and put food, so don't make it difficult for the lower officials."

Arms and supplies are very important, even if he is the prince, he will definitely be blamed.

The prince looked at his aunt subconsciously.

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The prince's eyes flashed with tears, and when he turned to the prefect of Daizhou, he said solemnly: "What if I, as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, ask you to open a warehouse to help the people? Put the people first, everything The consequences will be borne by me."