Lin Ruoyan was taken back to the room by the maid to wash.

Lin Ze walked to Lin Yanxi's side, sighed and said, "Tell your sister in a while, your mother has just passed away, and you are not often at home, she relies on the prince, and she is fascinated for a while and can't wake up."

Lin Yanxi looked at the mess all over the ground, and glanced at Xu Xiaoniang, who was standing at the entrance of the courtyard and looking inside.

Xu Xiaoniang was a little hairy by her, she had seen how powerful this little girl was, and hurriedly took two steps inside and said, "It has nothing to do with me, this food has not been treated badly."

Lin Yanxi couldn't help but laugh when she looked at her anxiously explaining that she was afraid of getting into trouble.

Seeing her smile, Xu Xiaoniang didn't know what she meant, and she also laughed.

Lin Ze said, "You and Shibai go back first, I have something to tell Zhaozhao alone."

Lin Shibai was standing at the entrance of the courtyard and was about to turn around to leave, when Lin Yanxi stopped him and asked, "Big brother, fry her with sugar...... Are you alright?"

She hasn't seen the sugar fry since she returned.

Lin Shibai was stunned for a moment and said, "Recently, Yin Yin was pregnant, and what she said just now made her unhappy, and she was punished to kneel, if you want to see her, I will send someone to call her over to catch up with you."

Lin Yanxi said, "No need, just treat her better."

It's a pity that there is no old thing to talk about between them.

Zhao Yinyin has a bad temper, and it is difficult to make a living under her, this is all the path she chose by sugar frying, so she will have to bear the consequences.

Lin Shibai vaguely agreed and hurriedly went back.

There were only two father and daughter left in the courtyard, Lin Yanxi turned to look at Lin Ze and said, "Don't worry, I will persuade her well."

She calmly looked at Lin Ze's expression for a while and then asked, "Dad, do you have anything else you want to tell me?"

Lin Ze's somewhat tired eyes made it difficult to see what he was thinking, and after a while, he shook his head and said, "It's gone."

Lin Yanxi thought that he would also intercede for the prince, after all, her father and the prince were there before, but her father didn't say anything.

That's fine, it seems that Dad has figured it out.

After a while, Lin Ruoyan freshened up, changed into a new dress, and combed her hair in a double-ring bun, looking delicate and playful, but the girl's little face was still sullen.

Lin Yanxi didn't care about taking her out of the city in a sedan chair.

"Sister." Sitting in the carriage, Lin Ruoyan was entangled in how to plead for the prince again.

Lin Yanxi lifted his eyelids slightly, glanced at her, and staggered his gaze to look out the window and said, "Don't be in a hurry to speak first."

If the smoke swallows what you want to say.

When the carriage drove outside the city, Lin Yanxi said, "Stop first."

Her slender fingers lifted the curtain of the carriage and pointed to a jumble shed with her fingertips, motioning for Ruyan to look that way.

The shed was mostly empty, and everywhere was a chaotic and dilapidated scene, and the old people and children sat on the floor, their eyes lifeless and could not see the light.

"Why are you here, it's dirty." Lin Ruoyan followed her sister out of the carriage.

When the people in the government saw Lin Yanxi coming, they saluted and said, "I've seen the second lady."

Lin Yanxi asked, "What's the situation now?"

The officers and soldiers replied, "Second Miss Hui, after the heavy rain, most of the people have returned to their hometowns, and there are still some orphans and sick people, who are now barely surviving with a bowl of thin porridge per person every day in the shed."

There were probably hundreds of people left behind in the shed, many of whom were seriously ill.

One of them, a sick woman who fell to the ground, coughed for a long time, as if she was about to lose her breath, and beside her sat two small children.

When she saw Lin Ruoyan passing, she grabbed the corner of her skirt with all her might.

Lin Ruoyan screamed in fright: "Ah!"

"You, what are you doing?"

She softened her tone when she lowered her eyes and saw the sickly-faced woman with two children next to her.

The woman was scrawny, and she had exhausted all her strength just to maintain her breathing, and she frowned

He got up from the ground, staggered to his knees, and said, "I...... I'm dying."

"Miss, look, look at the good-natured, and dress up as a nobleman."

Her voice was hoarse as if it had come out of her throat, weak and intermittent, which made it uncomfortable to listen to.

"Please, noble." Her words stopped, and she looked at the two children with tears in her eyes, "I beg you to accept these two children, this ...... The older ones, nine years old, are already able to work."

"The small, the small one can also be ...... after two years."

The older one threw herself on her mother and cried, "I'm not leaving, mother, I'll follow you, let me take care of you."

Two lines of tears flowed from the woman's deep, sunken eyes, and she pushed the child away and said, "I beg the nobles to take these two children, and only that they will have a full meal every day and a cotton coat in the cold winter."

Lin Ruoyan saw this situation for the first time, she was a little flower living in the sun, and she never knew that there was such a group of people in places where the sun couldn't shine, and their eyes were full of yearning for life.

She no longer hated the dirtiness of the woman's barely obscured clothes, and helped her to sit on the ground, "Do you know what is wrong with her?"

The woman shook her head, barely able to speak.

She looked at the two children and said, "In that case, I'll go to the doctor in the capital to see you first...... I'll take care of these two children for you."

The older child blinked his round eyes and cried, "Thank you, sister."

Lin Ruoyan had mixed feelings in her heart, but she still barely squeezed out a smile at her.

"Miss, help me too."

"And my children."

"Sister, please save my father."

The people in the shed crowded to Lin Ruoyan's side, telling their difficulties.

One of them, who was a little older, said, "The river in our village has been dry for more than half a year, and the only well in the town is controlled by the government, and a bucket of water sells for two taels of silver."

He stretched out two cracked fingers and gestured repeatedly, and his weather-beaten eyes couldn't help but be filled with tears, "We croppers, serving a piece of land is like serving our father's mother, and the harvest at the end of the year is less than five taels of silver a year. This little bucket of water will sell for two taels."

"The people in the village are so thirsty that they can't help it, and they are crazy...... He actually began to drink the blood of the dead."

"Later, I went out with a large village, and we went to the prefect everywhere to complain, and the people who sued the yamen occupied the well and collected the money, but it was like this everywhere, and the officials protected each other."

"I promised them that I would bring them back after the drought. But when the people of this village came out with me, I was left alone, and I couldn't take it back, alas, I couldn't take it back......

After he finished speaking, he squatted on the ground decadently, covered his face with his hands, and cried out tremblingly.

When the refugees saw him crying, they also silently lowered their heads and wiped the tears from their faces.

---

"Lord Wang, Mrs. Fang has brought the third young lady to the refugee shed." Xiao Liu replied.

Shen Muzhou happened to come to the refugee shed today to count the remaining number of people and evacuate the refugees.

Standing in the midst of a group of bureaucrats, he is tall and outstanding, and his temperament is extraordinary.

"Lord Wang, then this matter will be handed over to his subordinates first." The two ministers knelt before him, waiting for his orders.

Shen Muzhou looked at the two people kneeling in front of him with an indifferent expression, he couldn't see joy or anger, maybe his expression was too lonely and cold, that look made people feel frightened, and the two people kneeling on the ground didn't dare to look at his eyes.

The two of them originally supported the crown prince, but since Shen Qingyun was imprisoned, they surrendered to Shen Muzhou three or twice, but Shen Muzhou never had an attitude.

It's hard to figure out what he's thinking.

After a long time, both of them had some kneeling pain, and their hands trembled slightly when they raised their hands to their chests.

Until Xiaoliu said it

Lin Yanxi came over.

Shen Muzhou's eyes softened a little, "Hmm."

"Rise up, two adults, and do as you say."

Since they are willing to take the initiative to surrender, Shen Muzhou is willing to give them a chance to show their sincerity.

"This matter is like this first, and this king still has something to do, so he will take his leave first."

The two adults got up from the ground and glanced at each other, and one of them said, "I have long heard that a few days ago, the prince broke into the Yaohua Palace to save people, and he did not hesitate to draw a sword with the queen to meet him, and it was the lady who was as beautiful as a flower to be saved."

Another minister also came interested and whispered, "Is that the second lady of the Taifu Mansion who prayed for rain?"

"No, that's her."

"Tsk, it's no wonder that this prince, who has always been lonely and cruel, and who is not close to women, can be so attentive to that person, how much is the side lady in the palace who is as beautiful as a flower, like a fairy."

The two of them laughed and stopped talking.

When Shen Muzhou arrived at the refugee shed, Lin Yanxi had already taken Ruoyan to the warehouse with rice and grain on the side.

There were two officers and soldiers outside the room, and there were only Lin Yanxi and Lin Ruoyan in the simple room, which was full of grain and straw mats.

Lin Yanxi kept the officers and soldiers farther away, and the door was guarded by the small servants he brought.

"Ruoyan, you see, natural disasters are inevitable, but natural disasters are not terrible, what is terrible is the human heart." Lin Yanxi said.

Lin Ruoyan covered her nose with a handkerchief, disgusted by the smell in the house, and after listening to Lin Yanxi's words, she asked, "You mean that these things were done by the prince's brother?"

"Or else? My stupid sister, you don't want to think about it, even if I hate the prince again, I am just a concubine of the Taifu Mansion, if he hasn't done those things, if he doesn't have those ironclad evidence, why has he been locked up for so many days, and His Majesty hasn't ordered him to be released?"

"And do you think that once the crown prince was caught, he said that he would be caught?"

Shen Muzhou asked Xiaoliu to stay in the refugee shed to help, and went to the grain warehouse by himself, and the little guy at the door saw Shen Muzhou coming over and wanted to salute, Shen Muzhou waved his hand and signaled him to be exempt.

He was holding a jade carved rabbit in his hand, which he saw on the street this morning, and he thought it looked like Lin Yanxi so he bought it, and wanted to give her a detailed description.

As he walked outside the storeroom, he hesitated and paused when he heard the people in the room seem to be talking about himself.

Lin Ruoyan said, "Sister, my mother is gone, my father doesn't know what he's busy with every day, my sister is also going to marry into the palace, and I only accompany Shen Muzhou all day long, I'm alone, no one cares about me, no one cares about me. Only the prince's brother comes to me every day to talk."

Lin Yanxi said, "Who said that you are only left with yourself? I won't stay in the palace, and after I avenge my mother's relatives, I will take you and my father, as well as the people in the Taifu's mansion, to leave the capital forever and never come back."

Shen Muzhou could hear every word clearly outside the door, his hands hung down on his sides, clenching the little jade rabbit in his hand, and his heart felt like falling into the abyss.

She's leaving?

And it is to leave the capital forever and never come back......