Chapter 34: Showing the Horse's Feet
An Ronghua made another strange move, and actually took a group of beauties out of the palace, and even went out of the city to a barren land and a poor village.
The beauties had just stepped out of the carriage and could not bear the indescribable strange smell that permeated this remote place.
"What is this place?"
"This is a pariahish village, a place where displaced people from all over the world gather. An Ronghua explained calmly.
The beauties were indeed embarrassed one by one, covering their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs, unwilling to get out of the car.
"Why did you bring us to this kind of place, this kind of place, dirty and smelly, all of them are untouchables, how can we have contact with them and dirty our bodies!"
"yes, that's right!"
"If your body is dirty, you can wash it, but if anyone doesn't go in with me today, just go home. ”
An Ronghua took the lead, a team of guards carried boxes of clothes and rice and food, and the beauties followed one by one with more disgust in their hearts.
Near the entrance of the village, a young man squatting at the entrance of the village, dressed in tatters, and unclean, suddenly got up and blocked everyone's way forward with his body.
"Who are you?" said the young man, looking at the young and beautiful woman at the head of the group.
"We are here to help the poor. An Ronghua replied.
"What are you kidding, you have such good intentions and want to come to our village to make trouble?"
An Ronghua saw that he really didn't know what to do, so he stepped forward to argue with him, but Xia Huaijin stopped her and said: "You misunderstood us, you see that most of us are powerless women, what can we do to you, but our leader learned that there were homeless people gathered here, so he gathered many caring people to send supplies to everyone." ”
The guards opened the boxes, and the young man saw that they were indeed food supplies. He glanced at An Ronghua again, although he looked like he was not easy to mess with, he was really irresistibly beautiful.
"It's me who misunderstood, my name is Wuji, I'm a villager from the untouchable village, you come in with me. "No disease is no longer pretending to resist.
Entering the untouchable village, the beauties were even more unbearable, and they had nowhere to step on tiptoe, but they could only forcibly endure it.
"My clothes are Hangsi's!"
"My shoes are still custom-made in the Splendid Pavilion!"
The whispers of the beauties were frightened by An Ronghua's eyes.
"Wu Ji, take us to an open place, and gather all the villagers. An Ronghua commanded very naturally.
Wujian led everyone to a wide and clean courtyard, where a little girl of three or four years old was hidden in the dilapidated house, and when she saw a group of people coming and going, she ran to him and hugged his thigh.
"Brother Wuji!"
"Xiaohua, where is your mother?" asked Wuji.
"My mother went out to work, let me stay at home, brother Wuji, who are these beautiful sisters?"
"They are great good people!"
Xiaohua is young and simple, and the clothes she wears are torn clothes that are not suitable for big changes and small ones, and she is thin and small, which is pitiful.
"Where's Sister Xiaocao?" asked Wu Ji again.
"My sister is in the house. ”
"Go and call my sister out. ”
Xiaohua came into the house and brought out a girl who was about twelve or thirteen, who was also undressed, but unlike the clarity in Xiaohua's eyes, her eyes were full of stubbornness that was out of her age, and she looked at people with malice.
"Xiaocao, greet the guests, I'll call someone. ”
Without a problem, he went to call the villagers, and Xiaohua Xiaocao moved out of the only tattered benches and chairs at home, and it was really difficult to sit down. The grass also boiled water, and the bowls at home were all cracked, which was not enough for so many people.
Xiaohua brought half a bowl of water to An Ronghua, she took it with a smile, and Xiaohua also smiled with her. An Ronghua looked down at the dilapidated bowl in his hand, it was rotten, if he touched his mouth, it would inevitably hurt, and the water looked even more dry.
An Ronghua didn't hesitate to say anything, she picked up the water and was about to drink it, but Xia Huaijin stopped it. An Ronghua glanced at Xia Huaijin, smiled very relieved, and drank this bowl of water with a complicated taste.
"It's so sweet!" An Ronghua told a white lie to Xiaohua, for her, she didn't know what sweetness was.
Xiaohua used this bowl to hold another bowl of water and sent it to Xia Huaijin, but An Ronghua quietly rubbed beside him and said, "This water is bitter, and it smells of sand, if you are not thirsty, don't accept it." ”
Xia Huaijin was not, he gladly accepted the water handed by Xiaohua, drank it all without saying a word, and returned the bowl to Xiaohua.
An Ronghua was stunned for a moment, pointed to the bowl in Xiaohua's hand that ran away, and said with his eyes rolling: "Then I drank it, I didn't wash it!"
Xia Huaijin and An Ronghua looked at each other, as if the unscrupulous kiss that had been interrupted earlier had been indirectly completed.
"This water is really bitter. Xia Huaijin changed the topic and said.
"Well, of course I'm not going to lie to you. An Ronghua said smoothly.
An Ronghua got up and walked idly, focusing on Xiaohua and Xiaocao to send water to the beauties, but they were all refused, and what was clearly written on their faces was "I'd rather die of thirst than drink".
Only Gu Nanxi, who sat alone on the pyre under the fence, accepted Xiaocao's water, and said thank you from the bottom of her heart. That was the first time An Ronghua saw Gu Nanxi with a faint smile, and when she was in the palace, she was expressionless even if she won the chess championship.
Wu called the people in the village, most of whom were old, weak, women and children.
"Eldest sister, except for some who can't leave, some people who go out to find work, and other people in the village who can come have come. Wu Ji said to An Ronghua.
"Eldest sister?" An Ronghua pointed at himself and glanced at Xia Huaijin, but he was calm.
"Okay, it's up to you to count the population of each household and receive the corresponding food and supplies. ”
An Ronghua turned around with a stern face and said, "You all go to help distribute food, if you dare not follow the consequences, you know." ”
An Ronghua was clearly a threat, Xia Huaijin sighed helplessly, got up and cooperated with her: "Please help together." ”
The beauties went to the material box to help with fear, and they cooperated without illness.
"Have you forgotten what this king said to you before?" Xia Huaijin reminded, "They are all the queen's choice, if you want to take them to experience the hardships of the people's livelihood, can you pay attention to your attitude?"
"Why should I be afraid of them, as soon as the election is over, I will run away, so that no queen can find me!" An Ronghua planned to be very confident.
"Where are you going?" asked Xia Huaijin without thinking.
"Well, I'll talk about it then!" An Ronghua deliberately sold Guanzi, leaving a suspense in Xia Huaijin's heart.
An Ronghua was talking to Xia Huaijin, and she had no intention of turning back, only to see Xiaohua fall by the side of the material box, and she fell in front of Qin Sujin's feet, so frightened that she touched the hand of a dirty villager with a grain bag in her hand. In an instant, Qin Sujin's eyes showed a look of disgust, and he didn't care about Xiaohua, threw the grain bag casually and walked to the side to wipe his hands.
Xiaohua got up and sat on the pitted threshold, and Xiaocao stood behind her, half hiding in the door.
"Sister, those beautiful sisters are so nice!"
"They are all from rich backgrounds, they don't worry about food and clothing, and they just throw the excess to us. Xiaocao's eyes were deep.
"That's not the case!" disagreed.
An Ronghua picked up a few pieces of cloth and a bag of grain and walked to the threshold, Xiaocao turned his back and hid against the door.
"Well-behaved little flower!" An Ronghua smiled.
"Beautiful sister!" beckoned Xiaohua with a smile.
"These are for you and your sister, and when your mother comes back, let her make a new dress for each of you, and make it beautiful. ”
"Thank you, beautiful sister!" Xiaohua pulled the grass next to her and came forward to accept An Ronghua's kind gift.
Before leaving, Wu Jian led the villagers of the untouchable village to express their gratitude to An Ronghua and others. They came from all over the world, with different accents, without relatives or clans, and they were united by poverty and hardship. But An Ronghua knew that a single handout would not change their situation at all.
Walking out of the village, he chased after him without illness, and ran to An Ronghua and asked, "Eldest sister, can you let me say a few words to you alone?"
"Alone?" An Ronghua hesitated, but the honesty and urgency in Wuji's eyes moved her, so she turned around and said to Xia Huaijin, "You take them to the carriage first and wait for me, and I will go back soon." ”
An Ronghua and Wujian walked to the uninhabited stream, and Wujian knelt down first without saying a word.
"What are you doing here?" An Ronghua exclaimed.
"Thank you, big sister, for your kindness today!"
"The man has gold under his knees, are you kneeling like this?"
"I know that the boy has gold under his knees, but I kneel to the sky and kneel to the benefactor, I only ask the eldest sister to help us villagers!"
An Ronghua listened to what Wu Ji said, which was roughly the same as what she guessed. They are all survivors of natural and man-made disasters everywhere, wandering here in order to survive.
But the rich and noble in the city don't care whether others live or die, even if it is the lowest kind of hard work, no one is willing to give their untouchables a chance, some can only continue to wander the world, some drag their families and can't leave, and even their relatives starve to death.
"The government can only beat and scold us, saying that we have polluted the atmosphere of the imperial city, but if we have a clean clothes to wear, who would want to be treated as beggars in rags?" said Wu Jian bitterly.
"I know, I won't leave this matter alone, you go back now, make a clean dress with the cloth you got today, and when I go back and plan clearly, I will order someone to settle you. An Ronghua promised.
"You don't lie to me, do you?"
"If you don't believe me, why do you seek me? ”
Xia Huaijin led the beauties back to where the carriage was, but they didn't just wait.
"Do you know what the point of bringing you here today?" Xia Huaijin asked.
"It's obvious that the valley girl deliberately wants to play with us!"
"The world is big, the imperial city is prosperous, but even if there are poor people here only a few miles away from the imperial capital, you can imagine how many poor and helpless people like them are in this world. The emperor cherishes the common people in the world, for the peace and stability of the country and the health and happiness of the people. The people of the world are all the emperor's people, and the future queen will also be them*, if you don't know the suffering of the people, how can you be worthy of being the queen of a country. Xia Huaijin took great pains to explain.
"In this way, Gu Nu is to let us understand the people's livelihood and suffering, and to be of the same heart and mind as the emperor, and she didn't deliberately bring us to this dirty and messy ghost place to trick us. ”
"You don't understand Gu Nu's intentions, but she is the queen mother's own reference to the major events after the election, if you think she is a person who is unreasonable and acts recklessly, you are questioning the queen mother. ”