Rain cats and dogs.

Old man Lai's stall is still outside the Great Xiangguo Temple, four or five tables, twenty or so small tables are scattered around, and more than a dozen bowls of uneaten tofu brains are thrown on the table.

He didn't pay any attention to it, but left the many things there, and he and his wife stumbled towards the palace gate with an oil umbrella.

On the originally cold street, gradually flow out of a lot of pedestrians, in addition to the people who go to incense early in the Great Xiangguo Temple, there are also many monks in the temple, everyone goes out, each sparsely stands outside the door, some people cushion their feet, some people go to step on the high platform, or go to find the big stone, all look to the north, as if they can see the palace gate in this way.

After only a few moments, there were more and more pedestrians on the road, and the people gathered in the streets and alleys, braving the heavy rain, or covering themselves, or wearing robes, and even some people were drenched in the rain like this, and went to the direction of the palace gate together.

Old man Lai didn't know how long he and his wife had walked and how far they had walked, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was already full of people, including beggars in rags, unkempt Taoists, wrinkled old women, and children who looked like they were only seven or eight years old.

He was stunned, he only knew how to move forward, but he didn't know what was going on in front of him, but he moved more and more slowly.

Looking up, from the alleys to the streets, there are people everywhere, shoulder to shoulder, crowded, but there is no sound.

Old man Lai finally reacted at this time, the wet water on his body was not sweat, but rain.

The rain did not stop, and the crowd in front of the Xuande Gate gathered more and more, and it had reached the point where it could not move, and no one in the field spoke, just looking at the palace gate, all waiting silently.

In the midst of the turmoil, the bell rang again in the forbidden palace.

Two white cloths fell slowly from the Xuande Gate, wet by the rain, and hit the doorposts heavily.

Old man Lai stood far away and couldn't see the white cloth clearly, but he could hear the voice.

The bell was ringing so loudly that he could barely stand on his feet.

The howling cry came out of nowhere, and it was all over the place.

The old man Lai hunched his back, and his wife supported each other, his face was full of water stains, I don't know if it was rain or tears, he turned his head tremblingly, but saw his wife in tears.

He opened his mouth, wanting to cry, but he didn't cry, his mouth opened and closed for a long time, and finally he said dumbly: "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty ......"

His Majesty didn't say that word for a long time.

The streets were full of crying.

I don't know who cried and said: "The emperor doesn't have a dragon seed yet, how can he go like this!" The ditch of the Bianhe River has not yet been repaired, and it has rained so much this time, if it is flooded again, who will supervise the construction of the ditch! Is it because we can't drown?! ”

No one answered him, but the cry grew louder.

The Bianhe River has risen year after year, and Chunhua has been flooded into the city in the second year, and the people in Beijing cannot act unless they are in the boat. The Kyoto Prefecture was in a hurry to prevent floods, quarreling with the Ministry of Industry, the Criminal Division, and the Transit Division, and the two parties fought fiercely, and finally Zhao Rui was so angry that he punished more than 10 people and personally went up to the embankment to supervise flood control.

In fact, Sun Mi was still in the court, and brought many officials to dissuade him, only saying that the flood peak on the embankment was surging, which was very dangerous, and he invited the Son of Heaven to return to the palace, but Zhao Rui said: "There are millions of people living in Beijing, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the world is changing, and Yang gives a canal of water here, and the people are suffering, they can't eat, they can't move, and I don't care about it?" ”

He actually guarded it for more than ten days in a row, until the river receded and the people were safe, and then he stopped.

The people of the capital also have ears and eyes, and they can't distinguish the ability of the Son of Heaven, but they can distinguish the heart of the emperor.

Zhao Rui can't control the court, he can't say the queen mother, don't say that the ministers in the political hall and the Privy Council, sometimes the officials in Taichung, who should be the mouthpiece of the Son of Heaven, can catch him and point fingers, but in the eyes of the people, this is really a good emperor who is dedicated to the people.

In the past, there was a shortage of grain in the warehouse, and when the price of grain soared in the disaster year, the Son of Heaven took out grain from his own private treasury to subsidize it. There are Jimin Yuan and Salesian Bureau in the capital, and he asks Neiku to send medicine every year. In the cold of winter, he urged the Chinese book to supervise the actions of the government offices everywhere, do not let people suffer from the cold, the spring is sunny, the Yujin Garden was only open for a few days, to his place, because it is his own garden, he really wants to have fun with the people, it is full of a month, except for the first few days, after which everyone can enjoy it at will.

There was a disaster in the country, and he tossed and turned, thinking about the disaster every night; There is a war on the frontier, and he stares at the map every day.

He can't do much, he will only be in a hurry, not as wise and martial as Taizu, nor as everything as Taizong, even if he is the first emperor, he can also govern the two mansions obediently, and he can be a saint Zhang, a woman and a child, who can manage the government in an orderly manner.

When he arrived at Zhao Rui, he was a nobleman and a ruler, and he had an incompetent heart and a soft character.

However, it is such an emperor who really loves the people like a son.

One of them cried and said, "The rain is so heavy, isn't it that the king of Yama can't see the place clearly, walks the wrong way, and hooks the wrong soul?" ”

Another humane: "I knew that there was today, I used to make fun of the dragon, why bother to say that Your Majesty has a dragon body...... Didn't you say too much, so that the heavenly immortals could hear it, but they took it seriously?! ”

The court is not jealous, the streets and alleys of the capital, no one will say a few words about Zhao Rui's childlessness one day, but the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven after all, everyone only thinks about the countless palace maids in his palace, and there are many imperial doctors, I can't say which Taoist priest will give ammunition one day, and there will always be an heir one day in the future, who can know, it really went like this.

In front of the Xuande Gate, on the royal street, the people cried in panic, as if they were in a nightmare.

Old man Lai was holding a copper plate in his hand, and he was already crying breathlessly.

He wanted to go forward, but the road ahead was already blocked, only to feel heavy on his arm, and when he turned his head, he saw that his wife was crying so much that she couldn't stand anymore, and sat on the ground.

She opened her palms and wept as she looked at a copper plate in her palm.

One by one, it was rewarded by the Son of Heaven last year.

Last year, Zhao Rui came to Daxiangguo Temple in person, and the temple served a vegetarian meal. Old man Lai supplied the tofu of Daxiangguo Temple, and he heard that the Son of Heaven wanted to use it, so he had to work harder and harder, and the tofu flowers that were so tender were presented.

Zhao Rui ate well, and asked deliberately, I heard that it was worshiped by a small shop outside, and asked about the method of tofu flowers, and sighed, "A bowl of small tofu brains is so hard to make, how can you eat his family for nothing." The special person rewarded a bunch of money to buy, and summoned the old man Lai to ask about his livelihood and taxes on weekdays, and asked whether Lizheng, Xunpu, and the yamen of the state capital were responsible.

The old man Lai and his wife got the money, and the rest was placed on the incense table at home, and one of them was hidden on his body, which was used as the most effective talisman.

Who would have thought that the talisman is still there now, but the one who gave it to the talisman has already dispersed......