Yangpu County, the biggest problem is that there is no problem.

Even at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are beggars and untouchables, who can enter the city at dusk, Pei Yao looked at it coldly, in the city of Long'an, the seat of Yangpu County, it was spotlessly clean, and it was thriving everywhere, and as far as the eye could see, it was full of smiling ordinary people-

"If there really can be such a carefree place in this vast red dust, it is long overdue to ascend to heaven and make a new Yaochi."

Pei Yao's voice landed, someone knocked on the door outside, Qingchen came back to his senses and went to open the door, but saw that the person who came was Wei Chaoyang.

"Princess," Wei Chaoyang stood outside, greeting her through the door, "Your Highness still has some things to do there, so I asked my subordinates to come and tell the princess, please don't wait, sleep early." ”

Pei Yaowei came to the door, looked left and right, and saw that Wei Chaoyang was coming, and added several guards to her room, and gradually counted in her heart, "I know." I went back and told His Highness on my behalf, please be careful in everything, don't be bitten by a mad dog. ”

Wei Chaoyang's expression moved, bowed down, and left with his order.

Qingchen closed the door tightly, turned around and asked her, "Niangniang!" Isn't there going to be an accident? ”

"Look at your eagerness, as if you're hoping for something!" Pei Yaowei said, and asked her to put away the bed clothes that had been prepared on the side, took another set of regular clothes and changed them, and lay down like this.

"Come here," she moved in and patted the bed, "if he doesn't come back, it's not peaceful tonight, so you can sleep with me." ”

Qingchen didn't twist, and crisply responded with a sentence of 'yes!' Then he followed her example, changed into clean clothes, and went to lie down on her side.

In the second half of the night, there was the sound of gongs and drums outside, and Qingchen sat up from the bed at once, and listened carefully, and heard the word 'walking water' in the noise all over the ground.

Pei Yaowei then woke up, and at this time, there were already guards knocking on the door outside, and his tone was hurried, saying that he asked the princess to go to the front immediately to take refuge. She didn't frown, got out of bed and stepped on her shoes, and led the light dust out of the room.

When I arrived at Xiao Di, I realized that it was not in the hotel that walked on the water, but a deep mountain and old forest more than ten miles outside Long An - in other words, a mountain fire.

Pei Yaowei paused outside the door, and saw that inside, Wei Chaoyang and others were kneeling and begging His Royal Highness the King of Chu to leave the city for refuge.

"Your Highness, the wildfires have spread very quickly, and now the situation is unknown, please evacuate immediately, in order to survive!"

Xiao Di's eyes glared angrily, and he was full of anger, "You can remove the people of the whole county from this king, and then come and talk to this king!" ”

"Your Highness......"

He slapped his palm on the case and shouted angrily: "No need to say it again! With this grinding kung fu, don't take your people out to do things! ”

Wei Chaoyang hesitated for a long time, gritted his teeth and said yes, turned around and strode away.

When he met Princess Chu in front of the door, he was slightly stunned, and in a hurry, he lowered his voice and said to her: "The princess advises His Royal Highness!" ”

Pei Yao glanced inside, and from a distance, she was almost blinded by Xiao Di's anger, she had never seen him so angry.

"Just do your thing, and Your Highness will be safe."

She lifted the hem of her garment and came to him.

His eyes fell on her, Xiao Diqiang suppressed his anger, but it had no great effect, he hurriedly ordered: "I have dispatched an accompanying guard to escort you and Mr. Yiyuan out of the city overnight and continue south." As he spoke, he beckoned someone to take her to the front, "This is not the place for you to stay, let's go!" ”

"Mr. Yiyuan has a heavy responsibility, and he has to go, but he ......" she changed her words: "Advance and retreat with the people of the county, this is a famous thing in history, Your Highness wants to be a hero, and the concubine sings with the woman, so naturally you can't be a bad seed!" ”

Before she finished speaking, she saw Xiao Di's face change: "Xiangyu! He was irritable, only to feel that his anger was a little uncontrollable, "Don't mess around!" The wildfires have always been menacing, and it is never good for you, you are a woman......"

Pei Yaowei calmly interrupted his words, with a slight smile on his face: "Your Highness has this kung fu to rub shoulders with me, so it is better to hand over the power to me." ”

She said what he said to Wei Chaoyang and returned to him, Xiao Di was speechless for a while, and then, he saw the strength of firmness and calm in her eyes, and said to herself: "You are only one person, and there are not many people who can be used with you, so let me come to help you with this matter of comforting the people." ”

In a trance, he flashed out of place what she had said to herself not long ago—

'In the past, Emperor Wei Wen was designated as the heir, Empress Guo had a plan, Tang Taizong was successful, and there was no shortage of Jia Liang Zuo Yingsuke. Although the concubine is not talented, she should also do her best for her husband and never give up. ’

As if guessing what he was thinking, Pei Yaowei took a step closer and said, "I'll add one more sentence now-the sword mountain and the sea of fire, if the prince wants to stay, I will definitely not leave." ”

A gentle sentence was not majestic or arrogant, but it seemed to have a cluster of sparks in his heart.

After receiving Xiao Di's warrant, she hurried out with Qingchen at her feet. Qingchen was unusual, and looked a little worried, "Niangniang, this mountain fire is really not easy to get along with, why don't you persuade His Highness to leave quickly?" ”

Pei Yaowei glanced at her, "He cares about the people and doesn't want to leave." And at this moment, as the king of Chu, he can't leave. ”

Now that the fire is just rising, if he flees in embarrassment immediately, it is inevitable that he will lose his prestige and lose his trust in the world, and even more, now the ins and outs are not yet clear.

In the end, it is always better for him to stay than to leave.

This matter of comforting the people, Pei Yao, a person who has been the mother of the country for several years, is easy to deal with, and the only thing to do is in the sentence 'It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice'.

She led people to mediate sleeplessly in front, contacted the wealthy families in the city, went to the granary to count the grain in person, and stared at the construction of porridge sheds and the settlement of refugees everywhere in the city.

"Mother, it's almost arranged! Why don't you go back and rest! Coming out of the refugee center, Pei Yaowei didn't have time to give anything, so she saw Qingchen's little face wrinkled, and persuaded her from the side with worry, "Look at you in the past few days, you have done everything yourself, and you haven't closed your eyes for half a moment!" If you continue like this, your body will not be able to bear it! ”

Can you not do it yourself?

Pei Yao sighed in her heart. Although she hadn't met Xiao Di in the past few days, she had also heard about it during her subordinates' dealings.

This mountain fire incident implicated a big case of embezzlement of ink, the inside story was deep, Xiao Di was angry in front, from the Taishou downward, chasing and arresting, the big officials and small officials deducted a lot of them, how could they still divide the extra people to call her? This is today, the people transferred from Beijing have arrived, and they have given her a chance to breathe for the time being.

"Okay," she smiled at Qingchen soothingly, rubbing her temples and said, "I know you're worried, don't talk about me, why don't you work hard after following me these days?" I feel sorry for you too! Fortunately, there are people available at this time, so I'll be relieved and go back first. ”

Qingchen breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ordered the coachman to go back to the hotel.

When the two returned to the hotel, it was still bright, Pei Yao washed up, lay on the couch and slept for a while, but because she remembered what was ahead, she woke up again not long after.

When I woke up, Qingchen was no longer in the room, and when I looked through the window, it was already night overhead.

The lights in the room were dim, and she heard that there seemed to be a sound in the outer study, and when she raised the lamp, she saw Xiao Di in front of the bookcase.

The case is in the shape of labor, and His Royal Highness the King of Chu has a layer of dark blue under his eyes, and there is still a long time between his eyebrows.

She paused in front of the gate and looked at him quietly for a long time, remembering how he had been angry that night, and she was in a trance......

If he becomes an emperor, he should be a Ming monarch.

After a long time, clearing these useless thoughts, she turned around and added a few lamps to the room, took the incense burner, and lit a dose of soothing incense.

She carried the incense burner into the study, Xiao Di's nose moved, her brows deepened, and she only let her take the incense burner back to the bedroom to sleep.

"How many nights have you not slept?" She turned a deaf ear, but still came to him, and put the incense burner on the bookcase, "The fire in front of you has not been completely extinguished, is it possible for you to make up your mind to stay up and die with the fire?" ”

"Tsk......" He already felt that his energy was low, and her words blocked him more and more, making his thoughts more and more unable to keep up, "You are getting bolder and bolder." ”

No way, she said in her heart, who made you more and more worry-free?

You...... If there are three long and two short, who will I take revenge?

She simply became more bold, and directly deducted the official documents under his command to the case, "Officials, big and small, who should be arrested and detained, are now locked up in prison, even if you are a few hours late, they can't escape!" ”

The two eyes were stalemate for a long time, and in the end, His Royal Highness the King of Chu took a step back.

He threw the pen in his hand and pinched the corners of his eyes fiercely, full of exhaustion until this time, he finally came out.

Pei Yaowei hesitated for a moment, stepped forward slowly, and pressed his temples gently.

In the past few days, Xiao Di is not only tired, but also angry.

As soon as the incident came out, Li Lin was sent by him to investigate the mountain fire the next day, and the ins and outs of the matter have been investigated clearly in the past two days.

Due to the drought in the southeast last year, refugees have been moving north to survive until the end of the year. The imperial court sent money and grain for disaster relief, and because Yangpu County was located near Gyeonggi, it was even more responsible for relieving refugees and saving them from pouring into the imperial capital in large numbers. Unexpectedly, Taishou colluded with a group of officials, filled his own pockets, and lied to his superiors about peace.

Until this time, the king of Chu suddenly went to Lingcheng, and he must have passed through Linyangpu County on the way, however, there were still many refugees in Long'an City alone, and they were not allowed to settle. Taishou knew that if His Royal Highness the King of Chu saw such a scene, he would definitely face a catastrophe, and in order to protect himself, these dirty-hearted people simply secretly ordered to hunt down and kill refugees.

To kill someone is to abandon the corpse, and the deep mountains and old forests in the west have naturally become the first choice. It's just that they didn't expect that the people under their hands were not clean, and a few people who were not dead crawled out of the pile of dead people with their last breath, and fought with those lackeys in an attempt to save themselves, but they scattered the torches in a panic, which caused a catastrophe.

"You said a few days ago that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, but this time it will happen again." Xiao Di sighed in a deep voice and said slowly: "If there is no fire, I don't know how many things that heaven and earth will not tolerate under the hands of this dog official......

She said softly: "Fortunately, the weather has been dry recently, and the wind is not very strong, although the victims of this mountain fire are not few, but compared with the aftermath, it can still make people breathe a sigh of relief." ”

As she spoke, she saw that Xiao Di's eyes were slightly closed, as if she was sleepy, so she withdrew her hands and persuaded, "Go and sleep on the couch for a while." ”

This time, he didn't refuse.

There is a pair of Arhat couches for people to rest in the study, Pei Yaowei took him a bed and futon, and after watching him settle down, he was about to leave, but before he could finish a step, he was held by his wrist.

She was startled, looked down, and saw that he was still closed, but in a low voice: "Stay here with me for a while." ”

With that, he quietly moved out of half of the place, and the meaning was self-evident.

It's not the first time to share a bed, but this time she is particularly entangled. Xiao Di waited for a moment, but he didn't see her move, his eyes opened, and he slowly glanced at her-

The wind in her eyes was quiet and quiet, which made her heart tingle for no reason.

Pei Yao didn't know what she was panicking about, she suddenly turned around, lay down with her back to him, and a touch of crimson on her face was also hidden in the light.

An Shenxiang accompanied by the moonlight in the sky, slowly sent to his surroundings, thousands of comforts, but he couldn't suppress the waves stirred up in his heart by the person next to him for days.

Steadfastness and stubbornness when disobeying orders, bowing down to things when settling refugees, and the audacity that makes people hate again and again.

It's too much of a resemblance.

Like this, he began to get a little scared.

Xiao Di looked at her back, and after a while, he raised his hand to put his hand on her waist.

She shuddered as expected, and a low chuckle from behind her was heard.

Being tricked, she bit her lip and was annoyed.

He was still asking, "Aren't you bold?" ”

She threw back a sentence angrily: "Aren't you afraid of dogs, aren't you afraid of wolves?" ”

"Huh?"

“…… Lang Jun's Lang. ”

Xiao Yao's hand fell on her, and he never moved, but he didn't make any further movements, Pei Yao held his breath and stared, the whole person was nervous, and after a long time, he suddenly heard him say: "Be bold, there's nothing bad about it." ”

She was stunned.

He added, "As long as the heart is not bad." ”

She opened her mouth, wanting to ask something, but she didn't say anything.