Chapter 262: Great Changes in the Imperial Capital (Part II)
Yue Jingyun endured the pain in his arm, and nodded in a gloomy voice: "Go quickly, you must not let Yue Jingxuan escape from the imperial capital!" ”
"Yes, Wechen obeys."
Jingzhao Mansion Yin quickly exited the dormitory and walked out of the imperial city with the tiger talisman.
On the highest corner tower of the palace, Yue Jingxuan looked at his figure riding away, raised the corners of his lips slightly, turned around and hurried towards the place where Mu Yunlan was.
Mu Yunlan almost turned over the palace, but she didn't find Feng Jingyu's figure, she was in a hurry, and suddenly saw a flash of red light at the high wall, and Feng Jingyu was like an immortal, floating in from outside the wall.
Feng Jingyu originally frowned slightly, with a cold smile on his face, and after seeing Mu Yunlan, his expression immediately eased: "Yunlan, I just went to the altar to look around, but I didn't find you, so I thought that you must have come to the palace to look for me, and sure enough, I guessed it." ”
"Senior brother, I heard that Yue Xiaohan poisoned you, are you okay?"
"Have you forgotten what Senior Brother does? He poisoned me, and his methods were very poor. ”
Yue Jingxuan hurried over: "Yun Lan, it's time for us to go." ”
Feng Jingyu raised the corners of his lips: "King Ning'an personally came to save me, which really flattered me." ”
Yue Jingxuan raised his eyes, and the cold light flickered between his eyes: "I'm not for you." If it weren't for Feng Jingyu's life and Yun Lan's safety, he wouldn't care about this person's life or death.
Feng Jingyu naturally guessed his thoughts, but he didn't mind: "It's the same for me or for Yun Lan, when I leave here, I'll invite you to tea." ”
Mu Yunlan hurriedly interjected: "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go first, grandpa and second brother are still waiting for us outside." ”
Feng Jingyu's eyelashes trembled violently: "Grandpa, second brother? Yun Lan, it seems that you have remembered everything? ”
Mu Yunlan hesitated slightly, but still nodded: "Soon after coming to the imperial capital, I remembered, senior brother, let's go first." ”
Hearing that she still called herself senior brother, the gloom in Feng Jingyu's eyes lightened a little: "Okay." ”
The three of them had good martial arts, deliberately avoiding the patrolling guards, and easily walked out of the palace and quickly rushed in the direction of the city gate. I didn't want to just come out of the palace not far away, but I saw a cloud of smoke and dust not far from the southwest of the palace, and the people of the imperial capital poured into the streets, carrying buckets and basins in their hands, and quickly ran towards the direction of the fire with water, while running, they couldn't stop panicking:
"Who set the granary on fire?"
"Fight the fire, hurry up and put out the fire!"
"All that grain is to be used as grain, and if it is burned, there will be no grain to grow this year!"
"Quick, quick, hurry up and put out the fire!"
Mu Yunlan and Yue Jingxuan glanced at each other, a cold light flashed in their hearts at the same time, and before they had time to think about it, they turned around and ran towards the burning granary.
But when they arrived near the granary, the fire had been extinguished, and it didn't look very serious, but there was not the slightest joy on the faces of the people. Some people sat on the ground and cried, and some were stunned and repeated, and they were hit by a huge blow.
After a while, someone finally stood up and shouted angrily, "Where is the grain?" Not to mention, after the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, will he open a warehouse to distribute grain seeds to help us resume farming? Why, then, is there no grain in the granary, but it is filled with sand? ”
Only then did Mu Yunlan and the others discover that some of the grain bags scattered on the ground had been opened, revealing yellowish sediment.
"When the catastrophe came, the imperial capital had not opened warehouses to release grain, and many people starved to death on the streets. At that time, the imperial court said that the grain in the granary was reserved for the next year's grain, so it could not be distributed, and we starved for so long, in order to have grain to grow in the spring of the next year. ”
Mu Yunlan's heart sank, the anger and despair of the people around her were intertwined, and the solemn atmosphere pressed on her heart, making it difficult for people to breathe.
"Uncle Huang, aren't these grains allowed to be touched all the time?" In the imperial capital, a part of the grain is hoarded every year, and it is carefully preserved. No matter how big a natural disaster may be, this part of the grain is not allowed to be used, so that it can be used as grain seed after the disaster and retain its vitality for the next year.
Yue Jingxuan's eyes were dark, and his heart was full of anger: "I didn't expect that someone would dare to fight the idea of these grains." "Do you want to completely cut off the livelihood of the people in the world?
The people were furious to the extreme, and suddenly someone clenched their fists and shouted:
"The grain in this has already been sold out of the imperial capital privately by those officials, and we have all been deceived! The court is a liar! ”
"Grain seeds, a year's natural disasters have long been no food to eat, we stayed up for a few days in the hope that this year can be smooth and rainy, now there is no food, the next year, how do we live?"
"Give us back the food, give us back the food!"
The people gathered more and more, and surrounded the granary layer by layer, Mu Yunlan and the others wanted to go out, but found that they were densely packed with people, and at this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "There is food here!" ”
Hearing a familiar voice, Mu Yunlan hurriedly looked back. Lin Ye stood on a high platform, dressed in white fluttering: "I am the grandson of Emperor Lin Zi'an, my grandfather ventured into Kyoto, I heard that the grain in the granary was sold, in order to let the people have a chance to survive, our Lin family sold all the family property, and bought a batch of grain at a high price, although it is a drop in the bucket, but I hope to solve the urgent needs of some people, but the grain is limited, and each person can only receive one catty, please line up and come to receive food." ”
"Second brother," Mu Yunlan hurriedly squeezed forward, seeing that Lin Ye was anxious, "Where's Grandpa?" Didn't you arrange for you to go out of the city first, why haven't you left yet? ”
Lin Ye had a smile in his eyes, and the light in his peach blossom eyes flowed: "Our Lin family has never suffered a loss." ”
Mu Yunlan was stunned for a moment, looked at the cheering people around her, and a trace of realization flashed in her heart: "Second brother, you came to the imperial capital with your grandfather, should this be the day you are waiting for?" ”
"It's not all, today is an unexpected joy, rest assured, at this time, Yue Xiaohan personally brought people over, and these people will also maintain our safety."
Hearing that Emperor Lin's grandson was going to distribute grain, the people of the entire imperial capital surrounded him, and the nearby streets were crowded. Yue Jingxuan simply tore off the disguise on his face and protected Mu Yunlan to help maintain order.
"It's King Ning'an and the princess!"
"Where?"
"That's right, it's King Ning'an and the princess, when the prince and the princess got married, I went to see it, and they were right!"
The scoop in Lin Ye's hand was specially measured, and a scoop was exactly the amount of a grain seed.
Although the people were anxious, after hearing Mu Yunlan and others say that if there was chaos, they would no longer distribute grain and seeds, they hurriedly quieted down and waited anxiously.
The people came in a hurry, and there were traces of water in the buckets and basins in their hands, for fear that this would have an adverse impact on the grain, so they lifted their clothes to hold it, and then carefully held the grain in their arms, and couldn't help but tears: "Grain, it's really grain!" We are saved, and we don't have to starve to death at last! ”
"It's saved, it's saved, thank you Emperor Lin, thank you King Ning'an, thank you princess!"
The people knelt down one after another, bowing to Yue Jingxuan and Mu Yunlan sincerely, if there were no such grains, no matter how smooth the wind and rain were this year, they would definitely not be able to hold on. After a whole year of natural disasters, the people today are only grateful in their hearts, thanking God for not cutting off their last trace of vitality.
The people who got the grain seeds did not leave immediately, but carefully guarded Mu Yunlan and the others, some helped maintain order, and some stared at the Praetorian Guards who were secretly looking from afar.
King Ning'an and the princess are now traitors, and the court has ordered them to be arrested several times, and even to be executed! Once they are caught by the Praetorian Guards, several people will definitely be worried about their lives! They had received the favor of the prince and the princess, and naturally they had to do their best to ensure their safety.
The court did not act, and the grain in the granary was sold, if the prince and the princess had another accident, the world would really be over!
Yue Xiaohan finally returned from the altar to the vicinity of the palace under the escort of the Praetorian Guard, he sent many people, but he did not find any trace of Mu Yunlan, which made him extremely angry in his heart, and suddenly, the car stopped suddenly; "What's going on?"
"Back to the emperor, the road ahead is blocked by the people."
"Get out of the way!"
"Your Majesty, there are so many people that you can't drive them away."
Yue Xiaohan lifted the curtain angrily, and saw the crowd surging on the street, and was surprised: looking at the appearance, it seems that the people of the entire imperial capital have gathered here!
"Your Majesty, the slave has something important to report!"
"What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, the granary suddenly encountered a fire, and the people came to fight the fire and found that all the grain in the granary had been replaced with yellow sand!"
Yue Xiaohan was stunned for a moment, and then became angry: "What's the matter? The grain in the granary is all grain, and I have promised to distribute it to the people after the enthronement ceremony, who has the courage to touch the contents of it? ”
"Please let the emperor calm his anger, this is not the most important thing, Lin Ye, the grandson of Emperor Lin, as well as Yue Jingxuan, the king of Ning'an, and Mu Yunlan, the princess of Ning'an, took advantage of the people's grief and indignation, and began to distribute grain seeds, and now, the people gathered around, one came to wait for the grain seeds, and came to protect the king of Ning'an and others."
Yue Xiaohan suddenly lifted the curtain and strode down, and the surrounding people looked a little frightened when they saw him in a dragon robe, but they were strong and did not let go, but hung their heads, stood in a row with their hands in hand, and let the Praetorian Guards scold and drive them away.
Some people even passed the news here forward by word of mouth, and after a while, the news that Yue Xiaohan came over with the Praetorian Guards reached the ears of Mu Yunlan and the others.
Mu Yunlan and the three of them didn't panic much, but just explained to the people: "Everyone, you all know our identity, so we can't stay for a long time, this time the grain is not enough, but we will send people over one after another, as long as the imperial court does not stop it, within five days, there will be a convoy of grain to arrive, I hope the people can protect the safety of the grain deliverers, because they have to go to other cities to help transport grain." ”
"Thank you, princess, and Emperor Lin for your kindness!"
"We will definitely protect the food delivery people, and we will never let them be harmed in the slightest!"