In the small building of the Li Mansion, the chess game was placed over and over again, and Qingming looked at the figure of the scholar who was half-hidden in the darkness in front of him, and tilted his head slightly:

"Got it."

The person who looked like a steward retreated respectfully, and Gu Huai, who was watching coldly, shook his head gently, he could call the steward of the princess's mansion as an ordinary servant, the identity of this girl...

"At the city gate, the curtain has ended."

Gu Huai thoughtfully put down the chess pieces: "It's faster than I thought." ”

"Jiangning Fu Yin executed several corrupt officials, and cut off the heads of a group of refugees who took the lead in storming the city gate, and the rest of the refugees withdrew from the city," Qingming was expressionless, "The city gate has sent additional vigilant troops, and the notice has also been posted, talking about future disaster relief, and the refugees seem to be very satisfied." ”

She lowered her eyes slightly: "Your abacus has failed, nothing has happened." ”

"Sounds like you're happy?" Gu Huaimo rubbed his sideburns, "Push a few people out to calm down the people's grievances, cut off the person who took the lead as a punishment, and then generously said that he was not guilty of the past and wanted to improve his treatment... After this set of officialdom combinations, the refugees were naturally satisfied, after all, they didn't really want to rebel. ”

"Why bother with this?"

"For fairness and justice? This reason sounds like some nonsense," Gu Huai stood up, "Okay... In the final analysis, it's just to vent the grievances in his heart, but it is indeed impossible for an officialdom like Jiangning Mansion Yin, who has been in the officialdom for decades, to be stupid and make things more and more ugly, but at least for his own reputation, the treatment of refugees outside the city will be much better from today onwards. ”

A trace of disgust flashed in Qingming's eyes: "Even if you let those innocent refugees die to achieve your goal?" ”

"No, I just got them what they wanted."

"If you were in there, would you be willing to die?"

Gu Huai was silent for a moment and walked out of the shadows: "Of course I thought about it... If that happens, hopefully someone will hand me a knife. ”

……

The noise at the city gate finally calmed down completely at nightfall, and by the next day, except for a few blood stains near the city wall, and a few figures that were hung up, everything seemed to have never happened, but many refugees began to be grateful for the government's new disaster relief measures, and the atmosphere outside the city was not much better for a while.

Wei Laosan, who watched the whole process coldly, found an old blanket to cover his wife from nowhere, and now the soup porridge is enough and there are steamed buns to take, and many craftsmen have also gone out of the city to build sheds for the refugees, although they can't shelter from the wind, but after all, it's summer, and they can save a lot of lives if they can avoid the rain, and the refugees are naturally more confident in living.

And probably because the plague has been contained, there are now many soldiers patrolling outside the city, although it is to prevent the refugees from making trouble again, but it has also invisibly improved the chaos and order at the beginning, at least at the beginning, there are many fewer people who rely on their bodies to do evil, and everything seems to be back on track smoothly.

But there are still a lot of strange things - occasionally refugees are called in by the soldiers for questioning, mostly about the inexplicable riots; There are also sneaky people who spend their days wandering around the refugee pile, preaching what the princess of the city has done during this plague... This is not the most weird, the nobles occasionally show kindness, and the common people are grateful to Dade for a few days, but those people don't know how to talk and get excited, and they actually say that they want to set up a monument to the princess!

The key is that these people are not one or two, and over time, many refugees who watched the drama were also moved, and if you think about it, it does seem to be the case, if there is no princess to come forward to save people, where can they still live to this day? The government left them alone, and later the disaster relief was the same face, doesn't it seem that the princess is a bodhisattva in comparison?

Thinking of this, Wei Laosan sighed, he really couldn't understand the way of the world anymore...

As night fell, the newly opened porridge shop in the past few days did not deduct, Wei Laosan also felt a sense of fullness for a long time, he walked to the shed where the old lady was resting with a bowl of porridge, and crossed a corner of the shed area, and heard a conversation in a low voice:

"The altar master... Something is wrong these days, those refugees are chanting the princess all the time, how can we preach? Nobody buys it..."

A slightly gloomy voice also sounded: "What a fucking weird, what kind of evil did they fall for?" I thought that this was a good opportunity to preach, how could I let the Dharma Protector impress me, but I didn't expect to meet these people who were blinded by lard, and instead of believing in Our Lady Mother, I believed that the princess was a Bodhisattva? Where the hell is this reasonable? ”

"That's... Why don't we go back? ”

"Fart! Taking advantage of the plague to preach, it was originally under the Protector Law, but now that the religion has not been preached, many of the sect members have contracted the disease and died, so I just went back, what does the Dharma Protector think of me? ”

"But these mud-legged people don't listen to our mission... On the contrary, as soon as the princess was good, many people gathered around, and when the Virgin was mentioned, they laughed, and said why didn't the Virgin come to their rescue..."

There was a brief silence in the shadows, and it was evident that the altar master had been in the same situation, and after a long time he spoke again:

"Gotta figure figure out... On Jiangning's side, if this mission has an effect, the road will be paved, and when the time comes, a new altar will be opened, there will definitely be a shortage of people, if we do a good job, I will be the protector of the Dharma, and you will be indispensable for the position of the owner of this altar. ”

Another voice was stunned, and then there was some eagerness: "Thank you for the appreciation!" ”

"Don't be too happy too early, you can't think of a way, you and I have to go back in disgrace."

"Solution... Altar Master, I have a way that is not a solution," the voice hesitated, "I just don't know if this matter will be taboo..."

"Tell me about it."

"Yes, since the doctrine says that the Virgin Mary has been incarnated in thousands of ways, walking the world to save the suffering, those mud-legged people are now so grateful to that Pearl Princess, or... Or let's say that the princess is too..."

"The incarnation of the Virgin?" The altar owner was stunned for a moment, and then sighed a little, "Can the hell you do this?" A good idea indeed... Well, this is also to spread the teachings, the elders of the sect will definitely not blame, and they don't want to erect a monument to that Pearl Princess? Maybe we'll be able to make some money out of it..."

"Altar Master, great idea!"

"Then go and tell the congregation that from today onwards, that Princess Pearl will only save these mud legs if she is enlightened by the Virgin, understand?"

"Understood!"

"Go down, remember not to be followed by someone who cares... The White Lotus is here! ”

"Pudu sentient beings!"

The two hands in the shadows gestured, the figure quickly disappeared into the darkness, and Wei Laosan, who was hidden in the corner, walked out, his expression was a little dazed, he always felt as if he had heard these two slogans somewhere.

After a while, he remembered a well-known sect in his hometown before joining the army, which not only went to the countryside every day to preach, but also recruited many people to become members.

He scratched his head, always feeling that everything had happened to him:

"White Lotus Sect?"