Huaishui Town.

Chu Bing and Li Yuxi were the first town they arrived.

It was already a long, far distance from the capital, and even with the fastest speed, it took them a whole day to reach it.

"Why are there so few people here?" It was the first time that Chu Bing had come to this place, and when he saw that this was almost down, he couldn't help but be puzzled for a while.

As the saying goes, the feet of the Son of Heaven are full of gold, and it is far away from the capital, so it is not at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but it will definitely not fall so far.

Looking at the small village that Liao Tianqi chose for him, it is a little better.

The houses are extremely poor, and the only difference is that there is a little more popularity, a little more fireworks, and people know that there are still people in this place.

"This is the result of the reign of the Queen Mother." It was no surprise to leave Yuxi.

However, seeing that the woman next to him was interested, he still got acquainted with the following sentence for the first time: "The Queen Mother is too domineering, so the capital is too prosperous, and use people, how to say it, listen to her, what can bring him benefits is to promote hard, and some are talented, but they are slightly different from her opinions, so they are desperately suppressed, which also causes the rich to become richer and richer, and the poor to become more and more sad during the years of his rule, and many people have to starve to death every year, and many people have to freeze to death in the cold winter." ”

"You stay in the capital every day, you feel that the place is very prosperous, in fact, there are many people who can't even eat, the court is capable of helping them, but the Queen Mother is unwilling."

Chu Bing and Chu Wenyan were silent when they said this.

Chu Wenyan was an official in the court, so he knew a little bit about this matter, and only Chu Bing knew nothing.

Seriously, looking at the dilapidated and depressed period in front of her at night, her heart was sour.

seems to see himself who has been suppressed by the Queen Mother in the palace. When the queen of the dynasty gave birth to a little princess again, and then such a day is not easy, and Xiaoqi is the same, not as good as some ordinary people, not to mention compared with rich and noble families.

The same is true here, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it is unbelievable that there is such a place of defeat.

"What to do? Let's find a place to live now, is there an inn here? Chu Bing was a little skeptical about this.

It is a broken place, it is difficult for every family to eat, and even some thatched houses are about to collapse, there is no doubt that such thatched houses can see the night sky in the house, if it is a rainy day, it is a heavy rain outside and a light rain inside, except for the little wind can be used to block it.

"Look, you don't understand this." Chu Wenyan explained beside him: "This place was actually quite good before, did you see those blue brick houses?" Those were all made by the emperor in the past, but the reason why it became like this is because of the queen mother's handwriting, inns, there are still some, but the conditions are not too good, but compared to us sleeping in the wild, it would be good to find a place to live. ”

Although Chu Wenyan is a weak scholar, he is not the one who doesn't understand anything, and he is not the one who can't endure hardships.

How bad will it be?

Chu Bing followed everyone forward, and by the time they found the inn, it was already completely dark, and the shopkeeper of the inn was carrying a small oil lamp in front of him.

"Very poor." After entering the room where he lived, Chu Bing shook his head with a sigh.

She really didn't expect that she would be so down, the place they arranged to live was the best, and then the best place was worse than the house where the people of Chu Mansion lived.

I don't know how the Queen Mother has been in charge over the years, holding on to the power and bullying the emperor when he is young, but it seems that he has not made any great achievements.

Is it specifically to enjoy the admiration of others, to enjoy the sense of superiority in power?

Li Yuxi explained: "Rest first today, and I'll ask someone to wake you up tomorrow morning." ”

"No, I can get up by myself, when will I leave?"

"It's bright." Li Yuxi saw that she was persistent, but she no longer persuaded her.

To what extent this girl is obsessed, this period of time can be regarded as giving him a clear understanding.

The more you persuade, the more she will go against you, and I have to say that this is really helpless.

Especially now that people are so disgusted with him, the more he rushes forward, the more Chu Bing will retreat.

Li Yuxi has never seen such a tricky problem, just when he was oppressed by the Queen Mother and almost became a puppet emperor, it was not as helpless as now, I didn't know where to start, I didn't know how to calculate.

I can't see the hope of success at all, and in the end I can only sigh that the woman's heart is needle-dropping, and the feelings are really complicated.

Night.

Dangdangdang......

The sound of swords intersecting should make Chu Bing roll over directly from the bed, and get dressed as quickly as possible, the sound of fighting is getting closer and closer to him, and even all kinds of noisy sounds next to him continue to sound.

"Kill, take down these dog thieves."

"Protect your master."

"Go to the east to protect Lord Chu."

All sorts of chaotic sounds mingled together, making the night sky, which was supposed to be quiet, completely noisy.

"Mother."

A low voice came from outside, and Chu Bing guessed that it should be a subordinate of Li Yuxi.

"What's going on?" She opened the door.

Sure enough, it was one of the 10 people who protected them, standing firmly in front of his door at the moment, if it weren't for Chu Bing being a woman, he might have pushed the door in a long time ago.

"I don't know who got the news that His Majesty came out, and now they are sending someone to assassinate us, but don't worry, we have already solved most of it."

"So fast?" Chu Bing frowned.

They had just left the city yesterday, and it was only a day, which meant that this man had almost come out with their front and back feet, otherwise he would have pinched the time so accurately.

Dowager.

This woman appeared in Chu Bing's mind again, and this matter was made by that old woman. But what is she trying to do?

Now there are almost no people in the court who support him, if something really happens to Yu Xi, the big deal is that he will be divided up by those surrounding foreign countries, and it will not be his turn to take charge of the queen mother again, is this the mentality that I can't get and let you have nothing?

Thinking of this, Chu Bing couldn't laugh or cry a little.

"Niangniang, do you see if we are here, or in the past to meet Lord Chu, there are several assassins there, and only one person was sent over, he probably can't parry."

"Let's go." Hearing the other party's suggestion, Chu Bing ran to his brother's room without saying a word.