When they entered the city, the hungry people also flocked in, and they all gathered outside the palace gate. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately ordered Yang Wenyu, the lord of the palace, to send people to set up a cauldron directly in the yamen to cook porridge and distribute it to the people overnight, and Shen Yu was responsible for leading the troops to maintain order on the spot. Because it takes a certain amount of time to cook porridge, and the hungry refugees waiting outside the yamen began to riot again after a while, and some of the troublemakers almost took the lead in rushing into the palace, but they were forcefully suppressed by Shen Yu and others.

When Shen Yu saw Yang Qi coming over, he took him to avoid the situation where everyone listened to him report on the arrest of the assassin. Yang Qi said worriedly: "We only caught one assassin and used torture to extract a confession, and that person couldn't stand it so he recruited him. He said there was not just one of them, but four or five of them. Those fish that slipped through the net have already mixed in with the hungry people, ready to take the opportunity to make trouble and assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Shen Yu said: "Do you know who they sent to assassinate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince" Yang Qi shook his head and said: "Just when we wanted to ask again, that person had already killed himself by biting his tongue. But a black token was recovered from him. Shen Yu looked at the black token engraved with a lightning symbol in the middle, and asked Yang Qi to be optimistic about the hungry people outside the yamen, and he took the token to see His Royal Highness the Prince.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Nan Xiangmo was frail and sickly, his health was not good, and he had to go through a long journey and work hard, so he could only listen to the words of the imperial doctor and rest in the backyard of the palace. When Shen Yu came in, he noticed that there was an extra man beside Nan Xiangmo, to be exact, a woman dressed as a man, because he had to take on the responsibility of protecting His Royal Highness the Prince, he quickly looked at him carefully, turned his head and confirmed the identity of this person to His Royal Highness the Prince.

Nan Xiangmo looked at her, then at Shen Yu, and said for a while: "Don't guard against her, anyone may want my life, but she won't." She takes my last name, Nan Xin. He beckoned to Nan Xin, who was standing on the side, and said, "Xin'er, come here, this is the great general Shen Yu, he is here to protect me." Shen Yu noticed that Nan Xiangmo even changed his title to "I" when only the three of them were present, which shows that the relationship between the two is not ordinary.

Shen Yu also treated her as a man, hugged his fists and arched his hand towards Nan Xin, "Nan Gongzi, I am busy suppressing the hungry people, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will take care of you on your behalf." Nan Xin also cupped his fists and saluted back, and nodded: "This is my duty, and I have to thank General Shen for saving the life of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just now." "Xin'er, you go down to decoct the medicine first, I want to talk to General Shen about some business." Hearing this, Nan Xin retreated.

Shen Yu watched Nan Xin walk out, and then said to Nan Xiangmo: "When is it" Nan Xiangmo knew what he was asking, and said in a deep voice: "Five years ago, when my father went to Lishui Palace to escape the summer." Shen Yuqi said: "Didn't the Holy Lord let you stay in the palace and take care of everything at that time" Nan Xiangmo smiled: "Shen Yu had a relationship with you and me in vain, can't you guess it?"

Shen Yu frowned and said, "As far as I know, King Yi was not in the palace at that time." "It's not that I'm not there, it's just that I was arrested and taken to the prince's mansion just after returning to the palace, and at that time, my father made a detour to Moyin Valley on the way back from Lishui Palace to get the elixir for me, and it took me many days to return to the palace." Nan Xiangmo thought back to what happened that year, he just took the opportunity to sneak out of the palace to play, who would have thought that he would meet Xin'er, he has been hiding her all these years, Nan Yiheng is busy practicing martial arts and looking for people, and as His Royal Highness the Prince, he is dealing with more and more official duties, so that he can see her for a long time.

Shen Yu said: "You asked for your life to come with her this time" Nan Xiangmo smiled calmly: "Shen Yu, you dislike this prince" Shen Yu said: "The minister doesn't dare, I just regret that I met someone unladylike." As he spoke, he gave the black token in his hand to Nan Xiangmo. Nan Xiangmo looked at the black token and wondered, "I seem to have seen such a token somewhere."

Shen Yu looked up at him, waiting for his next words, but he didn't hear him speak for a long time, and said gently: "His Royal Highness the Prince, can you figure out who wants your life" Who knew that Nan Xiangmo directly threw the black token back to him: "I can't think of it, I'll let you know when I think about it." Shen Yu held the teacup in his hand, glanced at him lightly, took the token, and turned to go out.

Outside the government office, the hot porridge has already begun to be distributed. Shen Yu saw that Xia Qingyu was also helping to distribute the hot porridge, so he walked over and pulled her out: "Didn't Yu'er let you go to rest, why did you run out again." Xia Qingyu looked at the hungry refugees who were queuing up to receive hot porridge and said in a low voice, "I can't sleep." Seeing so many people in dire straits, how can I still sleep. Besides, you didn't go to sleep either. ”

Shen Yu persuaded: "I need to maintain order and protect the crown prince, naturally I can't let my guard down, this is my duty." Yu'er is tired and frightened today, and you need to rest. There are still a lot of people here who are helping to divide the hot porridge, and these hungry people are all right, so you can go back to sleep. ”

But Xia Qingyu just leaned against the wall and stared blankly at the people who were queuing up to get disaster relief porridge, suffering from famine, and so thin that they were only skinny and bones, and didn't speak for a long time. Shen Yu couldn't help but pat her on the shoulder and said, "Yu'er, what are you thinking?"

Xia Qingyu came back to his senses, pointed to the hungry people with sallow faces and said worriedly: "But when will they be able to return to their normal daily lives, they can't always rely on the court's support."

Shen Yu thought for a while and said, "The prince said that the imperial court will send two more batches of disaster relief grain, and these two batches of disaster relief grain can also maintain the food of the people in the entire county of Xinyang for two months. Yesterday's heavy rain in Xinyang County at night is the first rain in the past six months, if the rainy season is normal, the people's agricultural activities can be normal, believe me soon they will be able to produce and live normally. But the most important thing now is to ensure that the relief grain delivered by the imperial court to Xinyang County is not robbed by robbers, and the eradication of robbers and bandits is also the most urgent and important task, and we must ensure the personal safety of the people. ”

Xia Qingyu gritted his teeth when he talked about the robbers who exterminated humanity and took the opportunity to rob, "Those hateful robbers, knowing that the common people can't even eat, still come to kill and rob, a group of inhumane beasts." If you catch them, it is better to whip them severely, and then hang them on the city wall and starve them for five days and five nights, and let them feel the suffering of the common people. ”

Shen Yu smiled: "Okay, okay, Yu'er, you can go back to sleep." At that time, you can catch them, and you can toss them however you want. With that, he asked Yang Qi to escort Xia Qingyu down.

Shen Yu turned around and wanted to walk away, but he was hugged by his thigh, and when he looked down, he saw that it was a ten-year-old dirty little girl, who was looking at him begging with her big timid eyes. Shen Yu squatted down, pulled her up, and said with a gentle smile: "Child, what do you want to say" But the child just stared at him, didn't speak, took his hand and left, Shen Yu had no choice but to follow the little girl.

I saw the little girl pull him to a dark corner, and with tears in her eyes, she pointed to an old woman lying in the dark. Shen Yu hurriedly stepped forward to see if the old grandmother was still alive, and probed her pulse, which was extremely weak, she should have fainted from hunger, and she was afraid that she would not survive. Shen Yu picked up the old grandmother and asked the little girl to take care of her first, and hurriedly ran over to bring two bowls of porridge, one bowl to the little girl, and one bowl was blown cold and fed to the old grandmother one by one. After feeding the bowl of porridge, the little girl still didn't drink a sip of white porridge, and couldn't help but ask softly: "Why don't you drink it?"