Chapter 29: You're a Coward
As the concubine said, all this is just the beginning.
Outside the city gate, a large group of people who threatened to bring down Sheng Jingming gathered outside the city gate, including angry and overwhelmed people, and more of them were court opponents who fished in troubled waters.
The profit-hungry officials do everything they can, calculating and calculating, and even the anger of the people is used as a bargaining chip.
Sheng Jingming was unconscious in the dormitory, while Prime Minister Zhang Qing pretended to be an honest and good official in front of the people, and learned the tricks of Qianzhaozhi.
First arranged a place for them to live, and entertained them with delicious food and drink.
After eating and drinking, several children were arranged, and the people were asked to express all their demands, and then handed over the pleadings to Zhang Qing's case, and Zhang Qing conveyed the people's dissatisfaction to the people at that time.
For a time, Zhang Qing's image in the hearts of the people became as tall as a savior.
It is said that the old people who are over half a hundred years old hugged Zhang Qing and cried with blurred tears, and called Zhang Qing a master of the blue sky, who understood the suffering of ordinary people, and even bluntly said that Zhang Qing was a good official who worked for the welfare of the people.
The sincerity and touching of everything was said, and the scene was uncontrollable for a while.
Qian Zhaozhi frowned, his heart was full of confusion, and he felt that it was not a way to wait like this.
She looked up at the sky and saw that the goose feather snow had stopped, but the cold air was still pervasive, desperately burrowing into the human body.
Yun Shu looked at Qian Zhaozhi's line of sight and muttered, "It's strange, there has been heavy snow before, but there has never been a snow disaster." ”
Qian Zhaozhi's face froze, he held Yun Shu's hands tightly, and hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" ”
Yun Shu was taken aback by Qian Zhaozhi, but he still hurriedly said: "Princess, it snows every winter in Wu Kingdom, which is bigger than this, and the houses in Wu Kingdom are not as strong as ours. ”
"Princess, when we were in the Kingdom of Wu, we never heard of such a disaster caused by heavy snow for two days!"
"That's right!"
Qian Zhaozhi slapped his face, his eyes were bright and scary.
Nan Yuan seemed to understand the meaning of the words of the master and servant, and instructed his subordinates to bring drawings, which clearly recorded the terrain of the destroyed house.
The three little heads came together on the drawing, and Qian Zhaozhi took the lead in pointing to the mountain painted behind the house.
"If I'm not mistaken," she says, "the villages that live near such high mountains report to the imperial court every year, and regularly maintain the devices to cushion falling snow. ”
Nan Yuan nodded affirmatively, and his eyes finally changed when he looked at Qian Zhaozhi.
"The eldest princess is right, this village also applied for a new buffer device last winter, and it has been safe and sound for so many years, it is impossible to change to a new device and then have a snow disaster."
What's more, although the snow is heavy, it is not as strong as before.
Qian Zhaozhi and Nan Yuan glanced at each other, and they both smelled of conspiracy in this matter!
She couldn't sit still for a moment, stood up, and said eagerly: "Nanyuan, you send a few people to follow me to that village to find out the truth." ”
Nan Yuan rejected Qian Zhaozhi's proposal without thinking about it, and he said, "No, the eldest princess has a golden body, how can she go out at this time?" ”
The concubine Niangniang kept an eye on Qian Zhaozhi's movements, but whenever there was a little trouble, she couldn't wait to rush over and cut Qian Zhaozhi with a thousand knives to vent her hatred of preventing Qian Yong'an from ascending the throne.
What's more, Qian Zhaozhi was an indispensable part of the palm print scheme, and it was even more impossible for Nanyuan to let Qian Zhaozhi act rashly.
"I've been hiding in Sheng Jingming's dormitory for a day, and in their hearts, I'm just a timid person, I'm afraid I won't be able to guess that I will go out on an adventure at this time."
Nan Yuan's eyes made Qian Zhaozhi choke...
She closed her eyes fiercely, pretended not to see anything, and continued: "There is no one more fit to appear in front of the people than me, and they believe me, don't they? ”
Nam Yuan was silent.
Suddenly, I understood why the palm print wanted to fight for the hearts of the people for Qianzhaozhi, and there was still a person who could show his face at the critical moment...
Qian Zhaozhi directly decided this matter, and took a few Jin Wuwei assigned by Nanyuan to protect her safety, and Yun Shu, who had a dead skin and a dead face, and secretly slipped out of the palace gate through the path.
In order to hide people's eyes, when she went out of the palace, she wore the dress of a small palace maid, and when she arrived at the market, she changed into the dress that ordinary people often wear.
When Yun Shu was arranging the hem of Qian Zhaozhi's skirt, he said with a smile: "Even if you wear coarse linen clothes, you can't hide the princess's national beauty." ”
Qian Zhaozhi covered Yun Shu's mouth and instructed softly: "What we did was a lifeless thing, we can't shout anymore, call me girl." ”
Yun Shu nodded, indicating that he understood.
Jin Wuwei drove the carriage all the way towards the village, and happened to meet the group of people who threatened to bring down Sheng Jingming on the way.
Qian Zhaozhi hurriedly glanced around, and at a glance, he found that there was something unusual about the person who was talking loudly.
Even though the man tried to disguise himself as a suffering citizen, his lean face had the red of a wine and fish pool.
Qian Zhaozhi closed the curtains, all the hustle and bustle gradually faded away, and there were more important things waiting for her to do.
The carriage slowly stopped at the foot of the mountain, and Qian Zhaozhi got down from the carriage, and at a glance he saw the collapsed house not far away, and the old wood lay gloomily on the snow.
Even without this calamity, I'm afraid this house wouldn't last long.
It's a pity that no matter how much it is destroyed, it is also the home they live on and a place for them.
Now that even the last shelter has been lost, it is undoubtedly worse for the people who are not wealthy.
The appearance of Qian Zhaozhi attracted everyone's attention, and they became vigilant.
She glanced around the weeping crowd, then fixed her gaze on an old man with a sad face, and she smiled, "This is the village chief? ”
Old man Li nodded blankly and said, "Exactly, I don't know who your nobles are...?" ”
Yun Shu showed out Qianzhaozhi's personal waist card, and said loudly: "Our master is Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of Daqian, and I heard that there was a disaster in Jianghu Village, so I came here to take a look!" ”
Old man Li glanced at the thin carriage with his eyes, and couldn't help muttering in his heart.
If you come here to visit the refugees, can't you bring anything with you?
Qian Zhaozhi took Old Man Li's eyes into her eyes, and she smiled: "It is said that the snow in the back mountain suddenly collapsed, why don't you take us over to have a look?" ”
She pointed to a few tall Jin Wuwei behind her, and her ability to open her eyes and tell nonsense came out again.
"These are all adults from the household department, and when we go to the back mountain to see and determine the cause of the disaster, as well as the extent of the casualties, several adults will formulate a reasonable compensation method."
As soon as they heard that there was compensation, everyone's eyes lit up, and they gathered around Qian Zhaozhi one after another.
He said a lot of seemingly nonsensical words, but it also made Qian Zhaozhi even more sure that this disaster was man-made!