Chapter Seventy-Three: Gather at the Palace Gate Again
Xu Hejia nodded, and then turned his head to look at the imperial doctors who were seriously refining medicine over there. Shen Le'an also followed his gaze.
"Princess, why don't you kill An Fu while he is in a coma?" Xu Hejia said suddenly.
"What?" Shen Le'an didn't hear clearly, and asked again.
Xu Hejia spoke again: "The minister wants to ask, why didn't the princess take this opportunity to kill An Fu with a knife?" ”
Shen Le'an was silent for two seconds: "Isn't it taking advantage of people's danger?" Although he won the Anping Kingdom in this way, I can't be like him, and in the future, the people of the world will definitely laugh at our Anping Kingdom as a country of villains. ”
Xu Hejia stood up respectfully: "What the princess said is extremely true, and it is a minister's false words." ”
Seeing this, Shen Le'an also stood up: "Sit, it's okay." ”
Xu Hejia opened his mouth and said: "No, the minister wants to go back to the house to train the army, and in the future, it is good that the princess will appear in time when she needs it and save the princess from fire and water." ”
Without waiting for Shen Le An's words to stay, Xu Hejia turned around and opened the door and went out.
Shen Le'an looked at Xu Hejia's back as he left, slightly in a daze.
In this way, five or six days passed, the imperial doctors continued to refine the medicine day and night, and Sheng Xuanhao often went to Shen Le'an's side to shake and brush his presence and familiarity, so that Shen Le'an had a good impression of himself.
"I said, are you okay to do? Play on your own! Shen Le'an said impatiently to Sheng Xuanhao, "Why are you so strange lately, either follow me or follow me!" ”
Sheng Xuanhao pursed his mouth: "Hey, Shen Le'an, this is the place where you have lived since you were a child, you are considered to be home, I am a person from out of town here, I am considered a guest, if you don't treat each other politely, I don't know if the guest will ......"
"What will be? Homesick? Then you can ride home today, and don't be an eyesore here doing nothing all day. Sheng Xuanhao's words were interrupted by Shen Le'an before he finished speaking.
"You...... I mean, you don't know that guests can feel uncomfortable and lonely living in a foreign land! Sheng Xuanhao said angrily.
Shen Le'an was slightly stunned, it makes sense! I can't imagine Sheng Xuanhao, you are such a person!
"Then, you wait, in two days, I'll be busy for a while and take you around." Shen Le'an said perfunctorily.
"Really?" Sheng Xuanhao asked in a questioning tone.
"Am I going to lie to you when I'm full?" Shen Le glanced at him with a weak look.
"That's good, I can remember it, when the pills are all refined, let's go shopping, this is what you said, I have to write it down and remember it, so as not to forget it or you will pay the bill." Sheng Xuanhao said that he really went to get a brush and wrote it on a piece of paper, and hung it high in front of Shen Le'an's bed curtain.
Shen Le'an looked at the big black letters on the bed curtain with a dark face and was a little forbearing, "Shen Le'an said that he would take me out for a while." "Forget it, he's lonely, I forgive him!!
Shen Le'an was writing something in front of the desk, she was counting how many taels of silver there was in the treasury, and a soldier knelt in front of her to report to her the incidence of infectious diseases sent from various places today.
"That's it, princess, they have isolated all the sick people, and at the same time they are harvesting tomatoes according to the princess's orders." After the soldier finished reporting, he glanced up at Shen Le'an.
Shen Le'an nodded and said without raising his head: "Go down and rest, it's hard to go back and forth." ”
As soon as the soldier withdrew, another soldier hurried in to report the incident.
"Newspaper, princess. There was a riot in Kyoto. The soldier panicked slightly.
"What riot?" Shen Le'an looked at the soldier with a slight startle, aren't we all healing? How can there still be riots?
"The people of Kyoto united to protest against the grounding, saying, saying that the princess has been grounded for too long, they can't go out to grow vegetables and eat anything, they can't go up the mountain to chop firewood, where to buy silver and rice, and there is no school to go to, but after paying the tuition fees to take the top prize, those businessmen are also protesting together, saying that they can't sell things, no one dares to come out, let alone buy, and they have to feed a large family at a loss, which is really difficult."
Shen Le'an was slightly silent, "Continue to be confined, no one is allowed to take the lead without authorization, you go and ask Lord Xu Hejia and let him lead someone to suppress it, but don't hurt the innocent, just let them go back to the house and wait." ”
"Yes." The soldiers left in a hurry.
Shen Le'an put down the pen in his hand and stood up, went to the window over there to look outside, a team of forbidden soldiers just walked over, she looked back at An Fu on the ground, he had just eaten and fallen asleep, but it was really leisurely, his life would be absent at any time, and he could still sleep.
"We protest, we want to eat, we want to live, why lock us up, what is this!" "Protest protest, protest protest." "My child's tuition this year is his father's half-life to help people do small jobs in exchange, and if the school doesn't open again, won't my family's tuition be paid in vain?" "We're going out!"
The people gathered at the gate of the palace to make noise and noise, and a few people stood behind and said cool words.
A beautiful man with a sword on his back stood not far away and watched them make trouble, the handsomeness on his face became a little more terrifying with the cold light he revealed, and he began to raise his left foot and slowly walk towards the crowd in front of him.
When he came to the back of the crowd, his eyes closed slightly, and he said loudly: "When the epidemic first broke out, you gathered at the gate of the palace, Anfu not only didn't care about you, but later didn't want to study medicine to cure you, the down-and-out princess was about to be chased and killed by Anfu, and on the other hand, she was also concerned about the people and rushed back as soon as possible, and she risked being killed to break into the palace and kidnap Anfu, and it was refining medicine and managing you, what you wanted, it was inevitably too much, right?" ”
The crowd in front of him looked back at him when they heard this, but the man's face still did not change and his heart did not beat, Xu Hejia rushed over from the palace with his people, but saw a group of people standing quietly with their backs to him, he took two steps forward and looked over suspiciously.
The man slowly spoke, "If it's really a bunch of fools, do you know why I grounded you? Could it be that you want to go to the mountains to hunt your prey, to take advantage of your absences to go to the academy, or to take advantage of your lockdown to roam the streets with great fanfare? ”
Xu Hejia was attracted by the man's voice, and he listened carefully to the man's words, listening quietly and carefully like the group of people.
"As far as I know, the princess has been sleepless in the palace these days, busy formulating treatment strategies for you, checking the progress of the imperial doctors every day and whether they are serious about refining medicine for you, she also stays at home and confines herself in the imperial study, and stays with some men who refine medicine every day, a noble woman, but she has to endure the smoke of refining medicine and the smell of men's sweat, and she has to endure the scolding and insults of An Fu who was locked up by her all day long and did not kill her family and blood relationship, Is she to blame, is it you foolish people who are dragging her down? ”
The man's gaze was cold, giving people a kind of deterrent, everyone didn't dare to move for half a minute, and even Xu Hejia's face was full of admiration.
Seeing that the fools stopped protesting one by one, the man turned around and wanted to leave, Xu Hejia saw this and hurriedly said, "Son, stay for the time being." ”
"Everyone, I am Xu Hejia, the head of the palace brocade guard, please listen to me with peace of mind! I came here on the orders of the princess to solve everyone's doubts. Xu Hejia got off his horse as he spoke, and a forbidden soldier hurried to lead the horse, and the man was looking at him.
"The reason why the princess ordered you to be confined to your own house is to find those who have been in contact with a patient with an infectious disease who will cause a second transmission, and it will take time for them to slowly become ill, and once they have been found, the princess will order them to take medicine, and then they will be cured and will be able to go home and be reunited with you. As for your worries, the problem of eating, the princess is already planning to take out silver taels from the treasury to prepare a meal a day for everyone, because the treasury is limited, so only prepare a day's meal, we have so many people in Anping Country, and one meal a day is also a big expense. ”
The people below began to whisper, "It seems that we are wrong to blame the princess." "I can't imagine a princess like this."
"On the issue of the school, the princess said, when the epidemic is cured, all the schools and private churches must refund the part of the tuition fees that have not been studied because they are confined at home, there are no exceptions, and the people's money should be used on ideas." Xu He Jiayi said in words.
"Okay." One of them couldn't help but take the lead in cheering, "It's us who blame the princess." ”
"We blame the princess." The people began to talk, and even cried, "Woo, let's go home and be grounded to cooperate with the princess." ”
Xu Hejia waited patiently, until the people at the gate of the palace had dispersed, Xu Hejia breathed a sigh of relief, and the man was still standing in place and watching him.
Xu Hejia slowly walked towards him: "I don't know Gongzi's surname?" Who are they? Look at the son's extraordinary bearing. ”
The man's face was expressionless, "The people of Hangzhou are grass people, why should adults worry about their teeth?" ”
Xu Hejia respectfully saluted him: "I see that the son is quite sober, if the son is willing, he can be a general in my Jinyiwei, and he will make contributions in the coming days, become famous, and glorify his ancestors, just around the corner." ”
"No need, I come and go in a hurry, like a shadow duckweed, happy and comfortable." The man was still expressionless, and declined Xu Hejia's kind invitation.
"In that case, then, I can't force it to stay, then ......" "My lord, my lord, it's not good, the princess fainted." Xu Hejia hadn't finished speaking, and his subordinates hurriedly came to report.
"What? Take me back to the palace immediately to see you. Xu Hejia said that he didn't have time to care about the man behind him, and he was about to get on the horse and return to the palace.
"Wait, my lord, can you allow the grass people to enter the palace together to see the princess? The grass people know some medical skills, so you can give it a try. The man stopped Xu Hejia and wanted to go back to the palace with him.
"Prepare the horse, and allow this son to enter the palace with me." Xu Hejia glanced at the man, and then instructed his subordinates.
Xu Hejia's horse stopped at the gate of the palace and hurriedly ran into the imperial study to see Shen Le'an, but the man had to dismount and search his whole body and pay his sword before waiting outside the imperial study.
"Princess, princess......" Xu Hejia hurriedly came, Sheng Xuanhao was feeding Shen Le'an medicine.
"Lord Xu......" Shen Le'an shouted weakly.