In this way, you can clean up these days, and soon the weather will be cold, so you need to bring some thick clothes. ”

I nodded in agreement, "It's not too early, I should go back to see the crescent moon, don't overwork, if you have time, you can go and sit with me." ”

Because the flood of the Yellow River is too serious, the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens is particularly important, and the important ministers of the DPRK and China are united, and the date is mentioned again and again, and it is directly set three days later. And Xu Yunhua, who had just been swept away by the rumors, looked extremely honored again because of the upcoming festival. The venue of the festival was set up on the altar and was arranged by the ministers of the Imperial Prison.

On the day of the sacrifice, the emperor and his courtiers rushed to the altar on the third watch, and after a prayer and sacrifice, they fired a cannon to invite God on the fourth watch. The sacrificial platform is not far from the palace, and before dawn, eleven loud noises can be heard in the palace. I sat up and couldn't sleep anymore, and when Bao'er saw that I didn't want to sleep anymore, she hugged the crescent moon over.

I caressed for a while, and said to Bao'er, "In two days, I will go on a private tour with the emperor, and the emperor will discuss with me to send the princess to the Li Mansion of Cao Guogong to be raised by Li Jinglong for a period of time, Li Jinglong and I are good friends, I am naturally relieved, the three children in his family are also grown up by me, and I think it is also very harmonious, but ...... Li Jinglong is reckless by nature, although it is very beneficial to Chunliang, but if he wants to do such a thing as taking care of a newborn child, it is inevitable that he will be careless, and I will be a little worried after all. ”

Bao'er smiled, "That being the case, I'll take care of it for a while." ”

"That's great." I held Bao'er's hand and said with some emotion, "Bao'er, if there is no you in the past few years, this deep palace is sinister, I'm afraid I won't be able to support it." ”

Bao'er smiled slightly, "Don't say such a thing, the slave is a subordinate, I didn't dare to say such a bold thing, but I know that the mother is not such a stingy person, today in front of the mother to assure the mother, the slave and the maid must regard the princess as their own, the slave and the maid can not have biological children in this life, the princess since birth, is we take care of together, the slave and the maid's love for her, not shallower than the mother, the mother is not there, the slave and the maid should protect the princess with their lives, for a lifetime, never let down. ”

Bao'er said and spoke, her eyes were red, she was originally a resolute and strong person, she rarely said such things, and I also knew that she was trying to reassure me that she said her shortcomings, and I couldn't help but feel ashamed and hurt, "Don't say that, how many times have I said it, you and Zhu'er are here with me, I treat them as sisters, but I have the title of master and servant in front of outsiders." ”

Bao'er nodded and choked up, "Niangniang and Huang Sheng's kindness, Bao'er will not forget it in this life." ”

Watching Bao'er seriously open the box and inspect the cabinet, one by one for me to pack the supplies needed on the way, I feel more and more that God is fair, and at the same time give you suffering, it will also give you a lot of preciousness, this journey is hard, but I have gained Zhu Di's love, the guardian of Yuelong City, the freedom of Daiqin, the loyalty of Bao'er Zhu'er, and the little crescent moon made of pink and jade, if there are no tribulations, there will be no such people, then I am willing to exchange them with double or even ten times more difficult.

The ceremony did not end until noon, and the emperor and queen returned to the palace, feasted the Quartet with vegetarian food, and called on the wealthy businessmen and important ministers in Beijing to be thrifty and self-reliant, and donated silver money to the disaster area for disaster relief. I heard that Xu Yunhua at the banquet was infinitely generous and luxurious, which attracted many celebrities and wives, and they all rushed to urge their husbands to donate snowflakes and silver, and for a time the queen's virtuous and virtuous legend was a good story.

I thought that Zhu Di was about to travel, and he had been busy explaining the affairs of the court, and he would not come to me again, until late at night, when he had fallen asleep, and suddenly heard a voice outside the door, and hurriedly sat up, "Who?" ”

"I" Zhu Di's voice seemed to carry a hint of late-night coldness.

Before I could get out of bed, Zhu Di had already walked in, I glanced at him, found that he was still dressed neatly, and said with a smile, "Are you busy until now?" ”

"No, don't get up. Boa is already preparing toiletries for me. Zhu Di sat down in front of the dresser, supported his cheeks with one hand, and looked at me quietly, I thought he had something to say, so I let him look at it for a long time, and found that he still didn't say a word, and couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, "Why do you look so distracted?" Is it because I've removed my makeup and I don't look as radiant as I did during the day? ”

Zhu Di shook his head and said with a smile, "On the contrary, Qingshui comes out of hibiscus, and it is natural to carve, I don't dare to pamper you too much." ”

"I don't understand what you're saying again, since it's beautiful and refined, why don't you love it?" I asked, tilting my head.

Zhu Di walked up to me and grinned, "If I pamper you too much, I'm afraid that I will lose my reputation as a lustful person." ”

I took a sip, "Do your courtiers know that you are so poor in private?" ”

Before I finished speaking, Bao'er had already come in with hot water, ready to serve Zhu Di to wash his face and soak his feet, I stopped, Zhu Di sat on the side, and teased me with his eyebrows, I felt sweet in my heart, and the previous warmth and warmth slowly returned.

Seven days later, Zhu Di and I set off with 30 large internal master guards and three guarantees. In order not to attract attention, the maids and eunuchs did not bring any of them, so I basically took care of Zhu Di's food, clothing, housing and transportation on the way. Except for the deserted section of the road, Zhu Di will go out to ride a horse and chat with Sanbao, and the rest of the time he is in the carriage with me, because there are no female dependents, and Zhu Di is not a pampered person, we only half a month and hurried to Kaifeng Mansion in Henan.

Along the way, the country and the people are safe, the people are simple, if there is no disaster, this is a good trip. It's just that the more you get to the border of Henan, there are more and more hungry people on the road, and when you reach Kaifeng Mansion, it is a little shocking.

In order to better understand the disaster, Zhu Di no longer stayed in the carriage, sometimes on horseback, sometimes even down on foot, except for Sanbao who followed us closely. He was not there, I couldn't stay alone in the car, so I got out of the car from time to time to walk with him, at first he didn't want me to be tired, always drove me back to the car, and then saw that I was still healthy, so he stopped driving me. When he arrived at the outskirts of Kaifeng, he saw a large number of refugees migrating, and Sanbao grabbed an old man in his fifties and sixties and asked, "Uncle, where are you going?" ”

As soon as the old man heard the voice, he was so frightened that he hurriedly hugged the broken package in his arms tighter, and when he looked up and saw that a few of us were still dressed brightly, he was a little relieved, and replied in an old voice, "Go to Luoyang, I heard that the floods there are better, maybe you can get a bite to eat." Besides, this Kaifeng Mansion can't stay anymore. ”

"Oh? The imperial court has already received the news of the disaster, and the saint has begun to prepare for disaster relief, but if he persists for a while, the supplementary food will be sent here, why do you say that you can't stay here? Sanbaoqi said.

The old man sighed, and two lines of old tears flowed out, "Waiting for the imperial court to provide disaster relief, not to mention when it will come, if it has been consumed in the city, I am afraid that when the supplement comes, the old life will be gone!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" I couldn't help but be curious.

The old man wiped his muddy tears with the dirty corners of his sleeves, "The flood can still wait, but there is still an outbreak of plague in the city, and now I can't even eat, who can have spare money to treat the disease?" My wife, sons, daughters-in-law, and grandsons were all in the plague, starving and dying, and I was the only one left, what was I doing in this sad place? My daughter married to Luoyang, and I went to seek refuge with her, even if I starved to death on the road, I didn't want to sit here anymore. ”

Zhu Di couldn't help frowning when he heard the old man's tragic experience, "Are there many people like you in the city?" ”

The old man pointed to the people who were hurrying around, "Well, if these people are not forced to hurry, who wants to leave the place where they have cultivated all their lives?" There is no peace even when you die! ”

I followed the old man's gaze, and saw a woman not far away pulling a broken cart, on the car two beds of worn-out cotton wool wrapped in a teenage child, the face was sallow, just as if sick, so I walked forward, stopped her and asked if the child was sick, the woman was only in her thirties, but black hair like silver, red face, a sad face, didn't even bother to answer, just nodded, looked closer, the little boy was even more skinny, looking very pitiful, I was about to touch his forehead, Zhu Di walked up to me and grabbed my hand.

When the woman saw this, she said bitterly, "This lady, don't touch the child, he is sick, he will be contagious, and I see that he has only been here for two days." As he spoke, his heart was so sad that tears had already fallen, "My son! You are so young, you have suffered so much, it is useless for your mother. ”

Zhu Di's face became more and more ugly, "What about the child's father?" ”

"The dam was repaired, but the flood washed it away, and the corpse was not found. I am a woman, I don't believe that God is so unfair, I took the child to look for more than ten days on the bank of the river, but the child's father was not found, and the child was infected with the plague again, and I was to blame...... I took my children out of the city, wherever I went, you see, I didn't have anything with me in this car, just that one rope, and when my son died, I found a tree and hung myself. ”

Looking at the woman's face, it was really loveless, a withered look, and I couldn't think of it at any time, I couldn't bear it to the extreme, and said, "This eldest sister, don't be so discouraged, since we met, it is fate, your husband is for everyone to build a dam, there is no one, this is a hero, you and the child should not end up like this, anyway, you are the same wherever you go now, it is better to take the child and us into the city, this child is handed over to us, and the custody will help you heal, do you think it is good?" ”

There was a hint of anger in the woman's eyes, "Really...... Are you sure? Didn't you coax me, this lady? ”

I took out a piece of silver and handed it to her, "What do you do, if you take the child out of the suburbs like this, you can't find a doctor, and the child will die, why don't you go to the city and find a doctor to treat it well, maybe there is still hope?" ”

The woman took the money, threw herself on her knees, cried out, and then kowtowed, "Thank you, ma'am!" Thank you, ma'am! You guys are so nice people! Good people are rewarded! ”

"Don't kowtow here, it's important to go into town." Sanbao said to the woman, and I saw that he also took out some coils for the old man, so that he could take care of himself and must hold on to Luoyang, and find his daughter and son-in-law to live in Luoyang.

On the way, the woman told me that her man's name was Ah Xiang, everyone called her Xiang's sister-in-law, and the sick child was called Chunsheng, who was only eight years old this year.

On the way into the city, we picked up while walking, and picked up more than a dozen such poor people, but in the end we couldn't take it down, so we didn't pick it up again, Zhu Di was depressed, and he didn't want to speak, so he walked in front with his hands. Sanbao took out a few anti-epidemic pills from his bag and let us all take them, so that we were a little relieved.

I asked Xiang's sister-in-law where the medical hall is, Xiang's sister-in-law said a few, and finally said, although the medical center in the city treats plague, but one to charge, the second is not high cure rate, and I heard that there is a Mai temple in the west of the city, there is a pair of brothers and sisters living in the temple, the brother and sister are proficient in the art of Qihuang, and they are bodhisattvas, every day in the view of the free anti-plague soup, and will also treat people who have had plague.

I couldn't help asking, "If you have such a good person, why don't you take Chunsheng to the doctor?" ”

Xiang's sister-in-law said that the Mai Guan has basically been surrounded by water, and the brothers and sisters in the view saw that there were too many patients, so they said two rules, one is that the mild ones will not be taken in, only the disease will be given to the soup, and the terminally ill will not be treated, and the decoction and energy should be left to more people with great hope of healing.

Sanbao said with a smile, "The doctor is benevolent, but this doctor's behavior is very strange, both good and evil, not good and evil." ”

Zhu Di said, "Since there are too many patients in Maiguan, and we are all seriously ill, they may not be able to accept it, so let's send them to the paid medical center in the city first, and we will go to Maiyi to see what kind of people are so benevolent." ”<