"It seems that they have taken great pains to bring us here." Sheng Qingyuan said sarcastically.

"It is the people who suffer." Shen Zhao said helplessly.

Sheng Qingyuan no longer has the desire to continue shopping.

If they hadn't come, maybe none of this would have happened.

"Let's go to the bamboo forest." Sheng Qingyuan said.

"Okay."

Xuanyu deliberately found a local people, took them to the periphery of the bamboo forest, and gave the people silver to go back.

The bamboo forest was densely bamboo, and Shen Zhao helped Sheng Qingyuan get out of the carriage and walked inside.

On this day, I didn't go too far, but only had a rough understanding of the situation in the bamboo forest and went back.

After breakfast the next day, I went to the bamboo forest again with some tools for cutting bamboo and making bamboo carving.

At first, there were people who tried to follow them.

But with the exploration of the first day, coupled with the deliberate guidance of Xuan Yu and Xuan Yi, Sheng Qingyuan and Shen Zhao quickly threw off the people behind them.

Soon after throwing those people off, they saw a small bamboo house hidden deep in the bamboo forest, next to the bamboo house was a small stream, the water of the stream was clear, and a few small fish could occasionally be seen in it.

In front of the bamboo hut was a field that was planted with fruits and vegetables.

There is also curling smoke behind the bamboo house, which gives people a very peaceful feeling when they look at it.

Not long after, a person came out of the house, the man held a bamboo pole in his hand, slowly walked out, walked to the vegetable field in front, slowly squatted down, put the bamboo aside, touched a stone in front of him, and after making sure that it was right, he began to slowly pick the vegetables in front of him.

After picking the vegetables, I picked up the bamboo pole next to me and continued to slowly return to my house.

Sheng Qingyuan watched his movements, his eyebrows immediately furrowed, and then looked at Shen Zhao.

This man, the eyes can't see things!

Shen Zhao's heart was also tight.

At the beginning, Zeng Qi was in the barracks, but he was praised for the existence of clairvoyance.

He has a very good eye and is always able to spot something wrong at the first time.

But now......

Sheng Qingyuan took the initiative to hold Shen Zhao's hand and walked towards the bamboo house together.

There were some fallen leaves on the ground, and the sound made when he stepped on the fallen leaves made Zeng Qi immediately pause, and immediately looked for a sound to "look", his face was full of vigilance, but he did not speak.

Shen Zhao noticed that his hand holding the bamboo pole tightened, and his posture was also like he was about to launch a counterattack at any time.

"General Zeng." Shen Zhao stepped forward and called.

Hearing Shen Zhao's voice, Zeng Qi frowned tightly, and his defensive posture became more and more serious.

Shen Zhao looked at him like this, and he was even more distressed, and took another step forward.

Zeng Qi will raise the bamboo pole as soon as possible and will attack at any time.

Shen Zhao stopped stepping forward and said, "Uncle Zeng, I'm Ah Chi."

Hearing Shen Zhao's words, Zeng Qi's body immediately stiffened.

Ah Chi.

Chu Chengchi, King Jing.

Their general's favorite and proudest grandson.

Once, when he was only seven or eight years old, he sneaked into the barracks without telling the palace, and he didn't want to go back at that time, after the prince of Zhenguo asked the first emperor for instructions, the first emperor agreed to let him stay in the barracks for a while, but he must not be treated as a prince, it is best to train him fiercely, let him teach him a long lesson, and then hurry back to the palace.

At that time, there was a very special team in the barracks, and this team was full of homeless children who made the barracks their home, and they stayed in the barracks to train well, waiting for the day when they could go to war like those big brothers.

Shen Zhao was left in this way, out of Zhenguo Gong and Zeng Qi, the deputy general at the time, no one knew his identity, and it was a distant relative of Zeng Qi who was called Ah Chi.

During that time, Zeng Qi was the first time to get in close contact with this noble prince, and he also understood why the general liked this foreign so much

Grandchild.

It's not because of his noble status, on the contrary, he has a noble background, but he doesn't have the squeamishness of a prince, he is very smart, and he is also very hard-working, and he quickly gets along with other homeless children in the barracks, and because of his intelligence and adaptability, he soon has signs of being a little boss.

After the first emperor learned of this situation, on the one hand, he was proud, and on the other hand, he hurriedly asked the prince of Zhenguo to send him back to the palace, for fear that the child would stay in the barracks for too long and would not return to the palace.

Although it was only a short three months, Zeng Qi liked this little prince from the bottom of his heart.

Later, he also met Shen Zhao several times in the Zhenguo Mansion, and also heard about some of his deeds in the court, and he was indeed a prince who could take on great responsibilities.

At that time, when he learned that something had happened to him, Zeng Qi complained to God countless times that God had no eyes.

Hearing this title again at this time, Zeng Qi's tears flowed down at once.

A man in his thirties and almost forty, crying like a child.

Shen Zhao hurriedly stepped forward to help him.

Zeng Qi seemed to want to confirm whether Shen Zhao was really back, and tried hard to touch his face.

Shen Zhao put Zeng Qi's hand on his face: "Uncle Zeng, I'm back, I'm not dead, everything is fine now."

Listening to Shen Zhao's words, Zeng Qi kept nodding his head, and his tears flowed even more fiercely.

When Shen Zhao held Zeng Qi's hand, he saw the dense scars on him, and his heart felt like he had been stabbed a few times.

"Uncle Zeng, I'll help you in first." Shen Zhao said.

Zeng Qi nodded tearfully.

After helping Zeng Qi into the house, Shen Zhao asked him, "Uncle Zeng, how are you now?"

Zeng Qi pointed to his mouth and shook his head.

Shen Mingbai, he couldn't speak, and his heart hurt again.

"I'll take a look." Sheng Qingyuan said.

When Zeng Qi heard this unfamiliar voice, he looked at Shen Zhao suspiciously and with some vigilance.

Shen Zhao gently patted the back of his hand and said to him, "Uncle Zeng, this is my wife."

Hearing Shen Zhao's use of "lady" to call Sheng Qingyuan, Zeng Qi felt relieved.

He still remembered that before Shen Zhao's accident, he had met the prince once in the Zhenguo Mansion.

At that time, he had just been crowned king not long ago, but many people were already talking about choosing a princess for him.

The first emperor was also looking for it at that time, and he hid in the Zhenguo Mansion in order to escape this matter.

He remembered very well that King Jing, who was still young at that time, said with a little youthful childishness: "I don't want to look for any princess, if I want to find it, I have to find a lady, just like my grandfather and grandmother!"

At that moment, Zeng Qi couldn't help but laugh when he heard it.

This idea is very good, but he is still the prince of His Majesty, and how can he choose a wife and concubine according to his own heart.

Today, he told him that this was his wife, not his princess, and he was happy.

It's a good thing, a great thing!

"Since he calls you Uncle Zeng, then I will also call you Uncle Great." Sheng Qingyuan said to him with a shallow smile.

Zeng Qi nodded tearfully.

Good, good, really good.

Sheng Qingyuan said to him, "Uncle Zeng, I know a little bit of medical skills, can you let me look at your eyes and throat?"

Zeng Qi raised a helpless wry smile on his face, and then shook his head.

Dip your fingers in the water in the cup next to you, and write a few words on the table:

[Useless]

Sheng Qingyuan said, "Uncle Zeng, let me give it a try, right? No matter what, it's always a hope."

Listening to Sheng Qingyuan's insistence, Zeng Qi finally nodded and agreed to let Sheng Qingyuan give it a try.

Xuan Yu took out the medicine box hidden inside from the basket containing the bamboo cutting tools.

Hearing that Zeng Qi was living after nine deaths at that time, Sheng Qingyuan guessed whether he had anything on him

There were some wounds left at that time, so I brought a medicine box in case I needed it.

But he didn't expect that in addition to the injuries on his body, his eyes and throat would be so serious.

Shen Zhao cooperated with Sheng Qingyuan to inspect Zeng Qi.

This time the inspection, Sheng Qingyuan was very serious, very careful, and very serious.

It took more than half an hour to barely finish the inspection.

"How? Is there any hope for healing?" Shen Zhao asked for the first time.

Sheng Qingyuan nodded, gave him a reassuring smile, and said, "Yes, although there is no guarantee that he will be able to return to his previous appearance, but after treatment, he can still see things again and be able to speak."

Zeng Qi was very surprised when he heard this.

"Qing Yuan, are you telling the truth?" Shen Zhao asked again in disbelief.

Generally speaking, if he hurts his eyes and throat, he basically can't recover, and he just had a little luck, if it can be healed, it is a gift from God.

If it is a gift from heaven to be able to cure Zeng Qi, then the gift of heaven is the existence of Sheng Qingyuan.

Sheng Qingyuan nodded again: "Yes, but the current conditions are not good, Uncle Zeng's eyes and throat have been injured for a long time, and if you want to recover, you also need to go through a long period of treatment. If you can, when the renovation of the Yixin Hall is completed, it is the best choice to let Uncle Zeng go to the Yixin Hall."

Shen Zhao asked Zeng Qi, "Uncle Zeng, I'll take you back to the capital, okay?"

When Zeng Qi learned that he still had the opportunity to see this world and speak again, he didn't mention how excited he was, but in the end, he shook his head.

Shen Mingbai was worried, and said to him: "Uncle Zeng, if you believe me, I will definitely give you justice, for you, for my grandfather, for those soldiers who have been wronged, Uncle Zeng, you will go to the capital with me, let Qingyuan cure you, and then expose the sins of those people, okay?"

Shen Zhao understands Zeng Qi's temperament, and his refusal is not that he doesn't want to help, nor does he want to be cured, he knows his current identity, and if he appears next to Shen Zhao, it will definitely affect him.

Shen Zhao continued to persuade: "Whether you can return everyone's innocence, you are very important."

Listening to Shen Zhao's persuasion, Zeng Qi nodded and agreed.

If he still has a role to clarify for the general, then even if he fights for his life, he must do his best!

Seeing Zeng Qi nodding in response, Shen Zhao breathed a sigh of relief and said to him, "I will come again tomorrow, and then I will take you to the capital."

Zeng Qi nodded.

After leaving the bamboo forest, Sheng Qingyuan deliberately spread the news that the bamboo here is very suitable, and then bought two connected houses in Qingcheng as a place for the initial processing of bamboo, and hired some local people to help.

Many of the people were already poor, and as soon as they heard that Sheng Qingyuan was willing to hire them, and it was a long-term job, they went to sign up one after another.

Sheng Qingyuan asked people to help count the situation of each people, and finally selected a group of people after integrating the situation of the people's homes and the labor force that could be paid.

The reason for the choice, Sheng Qingyuan has also been publicized, the people who are selected, the family conditions are basically very poor, so poor that they don't even stutter, or the family conditions are relatively poor, but they are relatively strong and can do some heavy work.

Everyone has no opinion on this, but it is still the requester Sheng Qingyuan can recruit more people.

After Sheng Qingyuan expressed that there was no need for so many people for the time being, the people's dissatisfaction with the government that had been suppressed began to slowly erupt.