Chapter 349: Stampede
As soon as the queen left, the imperial concubine, the concubine and others also left, and the spoon in their hands was either taken over by the palace maid or the eunuch.
Soon, the porridge in the bucket bottomed out, and the deacon and eunuch on the side called a few guards to carry the porridge, and I don't know if it was the departure of these nobles and some of the guards that made the people fearless or someone was hungry and impatient, the original queue suddenly became chaotic, and more and more people began to squeeze forward, this squeezing, the bowl in the hand must not be able to hold, and some of the hot porridge that had been served before was spilled on others, and a new dispute arose, and someone fell, causing the personnel to step on.
Seeing this situation, Zeng Rong asked the eunuch and the remaining guards to maintain order while standing at the front desk to tell everyone to wait with peace of mind, and the fresh hot porridge would arrive soon.
Who knew that Zeng Rong's words not only did not appease everyone, but caused a bigger riot, because I don't know who took the lead in shouting, saying that this princess was so kind-hearted, and this caused more people to squeeze forward, all wanting to see the true face of the princess.
It turned out that because she was going out of the palace to go home today, Zeng Rong was wearing the fox armpit cloak given to her by Zhu Heng, although the cover of this cloak was relatively ordinary, but it was also a good silk, although it could not be compared with the brocade, makeup, satin, silk, etc. in the palace, it was also good in the eyes of ordinary people.
Moreover, when she went out today, Zeng Rong was wearing a sable hat given to her by Zhu Heng, and a purple gem the size of a pigeon's egg was decorated in the middle of the hat, which was not ordinary.
This dress that is completely different from the surrounding palace maids has caused everyone's misunderstanding, but Zeng Rong was arrested temporarily, and he didn't bring a hat, how can the people not be curious?
Zeng Rong saw more and more people crowding forward, she first explained that she was not a princess, and then kept calling on everyone to line up and stay calm, but no one listened to her at all, and it was not easy for several eunuchs and palace maids to speak.
When there was nothing to do, Zeng Rong saw a five or six-year-old girl being squeezed down, and the child cried, but no one around noticed her.
Fortunately, the people in the audience saw her jump down, and some people spontaneously made a way for her, but some people took the opportunity to make trouble, stretched out their feet and tripped her, Zeng Rong fell to the ground, fortunately, she quickly got up and rushed to the little girl, who knew that she was just about to pick up the little girl, and someone made trouble with her, she was tripped again, and fell down again with the little girl.
At this time, a few guards came with a large bucket of porridge, and when everyone saw what they were eating, where could they care about anything else? They crowded forward again.
Zeng Rong didn't know how many times he was stepped on because he wanted to protect this little girl, and he didn't even know who dragged the hat on his head away, but fortunately, a eunuch finally told the guards about Zeng Rong's situation, and several guards rushed over the crowd to rescue Zeng Rong.
Someone soon told Wang Tong what happened here, and Wang Tong was shocked and a little worried when he heard that Zeng Rong had an accident.
is shocked because this accident was not arranged by her, happy that Zeng Rong's injury invisibly made her angry, and worried that this accident would be used against her by people with ulterior motives, or it was arranged by people with ulterior motives at all.
If that's the case, it's a bit of a problem.
Thinking of the emperor's favor for Zeng Rong, Queen Wang decisively ordered someone to escort Zeng Rong back to the palace, and in her name Xuan Imperial Doctor went to check Zeng Rong's injuries.
As for herself, she had to stay and sit in the town because the soup kitchen was not yet over, and she had to order someone to secretly investigate how the accident had happened.
At that time, Zeng Rong was indeed very embarrassed, there was no clean place on his clothes, not to mention, even his face was rubbed with a lot of mud, but he was afraid that even the skin would be broken, and there was a faint pain, as well as on his legs, hands, and back, and there were pain in several places.
She didn't believe that this accident was purely an accident, since someone gave way to her, and someone mistook her for a princess, how could she have the audacity to deliberately stretch out her feet to trip her?
It was not enough to stumble once and stumble a second and third time, and finally took advantage of the chaos to kick and step on her, it seemed that there was more than one person, but unfortunately the situation was too chaotic at that time, and she could only hunch over and hug her in order to protect the child.
The little girl was also scared silly, Zeng Rong asked her for a long time, she could only shake her head and cry, but she didn't see a relative to find her, Zeng Rong couldn't bring her into the palace, so she had to hand her over to a guard and beg him to help her find her relatives.
It is a coincidence, in order to take a shortcut, and in order to avoid encountering the emperor, Wang Tong specially told the guards not to enter from the Xihua Gate, from the side door of Cining Palace, who knew that Zeng Rong had just been carried by two grandmothers of Kunning Palace from the back garden of Cining Palace, and met the emperor head-on, followed by Zhu Heng and Zhu Wu, the father and son had just come back from the New Year's Hall and came to meet the Queen Mother.
Because Zeng Rong's clothes and hair were covered with muddy water, and his face was also rubbed, the hat on his head was gone, and his hair was scattered and covered half of his face, so Zhu Xu didn't recognize Zeng Ronglai at once, thinking that the little palace maid fell into the mud because of his greed.
But Zhu Heng recognized Zeng Rong at once, and hurriedly took a few steps forward in his wheelchair, stopped the two grandmothers, and called out in a trembling voice: "Ah Rong? ”
Hearing this "Ah Rong", Zhu Xu stepped forward a few steps, stretched out his hand and brushed the hair on Zeng Rong's face, without waiting for him to ask, the two grandmothers were so frightened that they hurriedly let go of Zeng Rong and knelt down, "The emperor is angry, and the slave maid does not know the truth, only that the Zeng female official accidentally stepped on the soup kitchen, and the queen ordered the slave maid to send the Zeng female official back to the palace, and also ordered the slave and maid to find a doctor to take a look." ”
"Emperor Qiqi and Second Highness, the lower officials are fine, but they look a little scary." Zeng Rong couldn't kneel, and as soon as the two mothers-in-law let go of her, she collapsed directly to the ground.
"Nonsense, it's all like this, and it's okay." Zhu Heng stretched out his hand to her, at this time he really hated himself, if he could stand up, if he was a normal person, he would directly take Zeng Rong away.
"It's really not a big deal, but the emperor, can the lower officials go back and clean it first?" Zeng Rong didn't have to look in the mirror to guess how embarrassed he was.
"Come on, go to Cining Palace and call two palace maids." Zhu Xu instructed the eunuch beside him.
A eunuch quickly ran into Cining Palace, and quickly brought out two palace maids, this time, without waiting for Zhu Xu to speak, one of the stronger palace maids directly carried Zeng Rong on his back, and Zhu Xu ordered them to send Zeng Rong back to the inner three institutes.
Later, he ordered Chang Dezi to ask for a royal doctor, and he himself took the two mothers-in-law of Kunning Palace back to Qianning Palace, and he wanted to interrogate these two mothers-in-law.
As for Zhu Heng, he originally wanted him to go back to Cining Palace according to the emperor's intentions, but he refused, and followed him back to Qianning Palace, and he wanted to know what happened.