Chapter 2 Xuanqing's first meeting
This time, after a short time, the road surface was clean and new. Commander returns, passable. Yiyang was happy and claimed to reward everyone. A guard heard the maid beside the princess say: Go back and receive the reward. They all knelt down and thanked the princess for her reward.
The carriages in which the two princes rode were relatively backward. The second prince, whose name is honorific: King Qi is also the princess's brother. Since this trip was not his intention, he put the carriage at the end to see some broken flowers and leaves. The carriage stopped, and it was rumored that the homeless people were blocking the way, but the guards had already gone to drive them away, and they should be able to pass soon, so please wait a while.
The name of the king of Qi is called Yu Xuan, and the word Yu represents the generation, and Xuan has the meaning of Qi Yu Xuan. He was indeed born very well, and he was of excellent moral character, and was very loved by their father. I don't like to have fun in the first place, and the world has not been peaceful in recent years, so I don't want to come out.
At this time, it was reported that the official road had been opened, and the carriage was restarted. Yu Xuan picked up the peony curtain embroidered with gold silk and looked out the window. The homeless people were already weak, and they were rudely driven away by the guards before, and even punched and kicked, but now they looked more and more sad.
Stop! King Qi called a stop, and the convoy behind could only stop, and the princess's car in front of him was still moving forward. Instantly, the convoy was cut off. The homeless people were driven away by angry shouts, and now they were crowded, huddled together. Yu Xuan got out of the car and looked at the crowd behind him, the kind of grief made him feel unbearable, he couldn't imagine that so many people had fallen to this point. He came closer, and the homeless people were overwhelmed by the sight of such a magnificent man approaching. Some people know the patterns on the carriage, and then look at the honorific titles of the guards and maids to the people on the carriage, and they know that it is royalty. When they saw that the prince was coming towards them, they quickly knelt on the ground and clasped their heads, saying that they would meet His Royal Highness. He kept kneeling. When the people next to him saw it, they looked at the handsome boy and knelt down with him. Instantly, a mass of displaced people crouched on the ground. But there was a child of six or seven years old standing in the middle, looking at him in a daze.
Yu Xuan walked up to him and said please get up. But no one dared to get up, and still knelt. A woman next to the girl kept pulling the child's sleeve, tilting her head and calling the child's name, and her language was very urgent. But the child didn't react, although his thin body was pulled to the side, he still stared at Yu Xuan, his eyes were peculiar.
Yu Xuan was very curious about this child, and it seemed that the woman next to him should be his mother. He looked at the child and asked: Is she your mother?
The child didn't react and paused. Answer: Yes.
Yu Xuan continued to ask: Where did you come from?
From the south, a small town far away.
Yu Xuan nodded and didn't say anything more. I thought, if there are displaced people in the south, then I don't know how miserable the rest of the place is. The princess's car in front also stopped, and sent a little boy to ask what was wrong, and the king of Qi ordered him to call back and let the princess go first, and he would catch up later. When she got the reply, the princess did not go first, but stopped to rectify it a little.
Yu Xuan turned to the little boy serving beside him and whispered something. After hearing this, the little boy nodded, then took a package from the carriage, came to the homeless, and shouted: "We, the king of Qi, see that you are lonely, and specially order me to distribute silver taels to you." Then, find your own livelihood. When the people who were still kneeling on the ground heard this, they all bowed and thanked them, and shouted in their mouths, "King Qi is merciful."
And when they had received two taels of silver, and had given thanks, they all dispersed. In the end, only the mother and son remained. The mother knelt down and moved to her, took the money, and after thanking her, she took her son with her. Strangely, the child ignored his mother and did not leave.
Yu Xuan saw that although he was in tattered clothes and his body was weak, his eyebrows were clear and his bones were wonderful, and then he had a wonderful feeling inside, and he felt some love. Then he came to him and said to him, "What is the matter with you?"
Finally, the child lowered his eyes and did not say a word, but shook his head gently.
Seeing this, Yu Xuan got closer and squatted down, level with him. When the woman on the side saw this, she hurriedly knelt down, took a few steps back, and fell to the ground again. And the little boy also quickly knelt down, and even the other maids and attendants behind him also knelt down. At this time, the people on the three acres of land were as tall as him.
At this moment, Yu Xuan looked at this child again, and only felt more and more fond of it. His long eyelashes were as thick and soft as the fine feathers of a velvet bird, and though he was small and weak, he was not as crooked as an ordinary child, and was seriously ill, and he was a delicate and lovely man, though he was covered with filth, but his skin was like snow, and if he had removed the stains on his face, he would have been a delicate and lovely man. Seeing that he was silent, the corners of Yu Xuan's mouth couldn't help but curl, and he felt much better.
Yu Xuan turned his head sideways and looked at the woman. Q: How old is this child?
The woman listened carefully, and immediately looked up, thinking that she was asking herself. Reply: Ten years old.
Yes!
This surprised him a lot. Again: The two of you at home?
These words may have touched her sore spot. She straightened her neck and looked ahead, as if she had forgotten her etiquette and fear. His eyes were deep, thinking about something. Yu Xuan didn't care, but strengthened what he wanted to know. Now, the group was still kneeling, and he had forgotten about it, and was just waiting for the woman.
Later, the woman spoke, and spoke lightly about the events of recent years.
We live in the southernmost village, where the terroir is fertile and the harvest is good every year. People are also well-fed and well-fed, living happily, and not caring about each other. You are an inch and I am a foot, no one has ever had a dispute over this, and the neighbors are like relatives. Come to think of it, it was really a heavenly day. Although they are not rich, everyone is satisfied. But even such simple days were destroyed.
The woman paused, and sadness spread through the air. Xu was attracted by that remote but peaceful place, and no one interrupted, just waiting for her to continue.
After a while, the woman continued. Last year there was a severe drought and there was no water during the rainy season. Even the sun was scorching, the wells were dried, the rivers dried up, and even the springs in the mountains disappeared. Without water, the torn earth cannot grow food, and many people will not survive long by relying only on the next year's grain stockpile. There was no water to drink, so we had to leave there and find shelter elsewhere.
Hearing this, Yu Xuan interrupted her and asked, "So you guys are all the way here."
We walked many places, constantly looking for food and water. But some of the places we pass through are even more difficult than ours, and even the wealthier ones have a hard time. Along the way, more and more people gathered, but more and more people fell. When we got here, we were the only ones left.
Mother and daughter?!!!! She's a girl?
The woman leaned over again and nodded.
Yu Xuan looked at the girl in front of him carefully. Although she still kept her head down, without a trace of expression, it was no different from before. But in his opinion, the ripples in his heart were not just love, thinking about the way she looked at him just now, there was a trace of indescribable strange emotions in his heart.