On this day, God is not happy. It was raining intermittently and lightly.

At dusk, the rain stopped, and the sun came out for a while, but the northwest wind rose again.

This can freeze the tired and hungry civil officials who have been kneeling for a day, and one by one they are still involuntarily sifting the chaff there.

"Sneeze ......"

The cold sneezes came and went, and many people threw out long snots from time to time.

"Xue, Xue Butang, if you go down this night, I'm afraid I'm going to die again." Zheng Jiucheng's face turned pale and his lips were purple, and he said in a trembling voice to Xue Xiang, who was kneeling beside him.

"That's what I want." Xue Xiang is worthy of being born in engineering, and with that tenacity, he blew his nose and said in a low voice: "The emperor is hard-hearted, there are fewer dead people, and it is useless." ”

"Ah, this ......" Zheng Jiucheng's face was embarrassed, he didn't worry about anything else, he was only worried, what if he died?

None of the other crumbling civil officials wanted to die. Grit your teeth and don't let yourself fall on the cold stone floor.

Just when they were shouting that the heavens were not spiritual, and the earth should not be right, they suddenly heard a dense sound of footsteps behind them.

The civil officials turned their necks with difficulty, and looked behind one after another, only to see Hu Xiang with a large group of Chinese scholars and clerks, coming in from the noon gate, going up to the Inner Wulong Bridge, and walking towards them.

Those middle- and lower-level officials still held two or three quilts in their arms, some gray, some blue, and some colorful. At first glance, it is half-new.

The kneeling party was moved to tears.

"Clothe them." Hu Weiyong waved his hand, and Peng Geng and Zeng Tai hurriedly put a quilt on the body of the kneeling party.

"Don't, don't!"

"Take away the ......" The kneeling party refused with their mouths, but their bodies were very honest, and they grabbed the quilt tightly one after another, wrapping their bodies as much as possible, and some even wrapped their heads in it.

"Ginger soup." Hu Weiyong gave another order, and the servants of Guanglu Temple carried thermos buckets and baskets and began to distribute ginger soup to the kneeling party.

As early as the pre-Qin period, our ancestors discovered the method of heat preservation, which was not only heating but also heat insulation. Copper, ceramic, and wooden thermal insulation baskets, thermal insulation baskets, thermal insulation boxes, and thermal insulation barrels have long been used in folk life, not to mention the Guanglu Temple, which specializes in banquets.

The insulated barrel of Guanglu Temple is a double-layered large wooden barrel filled with hot water to maintain the temperature inside the barrel. So when the ginger soup is poured into the bowl, it is still steaming.

The kneeling civil officials held the hot bowls, drank ginger soup in small sips, and felt the heat generated little by little in their bodies that had already been frozen, and then they felt that they were alive again.

Of course, it would be nice if you could put some brown sugar......

"Thank you Hu Xiang......" After it warmed up, the civil officials thanked Hu Weiyong one after another and apologized.

"We misunderstood Hu Xiang before."

"Hu Xiang is the ...... who loves us"

"I'm sorry, Hu Xiang."

"You don't have to thank me." Hu Weiyong waved his hand and said: "If you want to thank the emperor and the crown prince, you are just acting on orders." ”

"Thank you, thank you."

"The prince is merciful." The civil officials wrapped themselves in quilts and kowtowed to the East Palace together.

But there is no one to thank the emperor...... For Boss Zhu, they only have 'Hou Lixie' full of heart.

~~

"Ninety percent, almost, right? Are you really going to kneel for another night? Hu Weiyong personally handed a bowl of ginger soup to Zheng Jiucheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who took the lead.

"Xie Huxiang, is the emperor relieved?" Zheng Jiucheng took the porcelain bowl with both hands and asked in a trembling voice.

"......" Hu Weiyong shook his head: "The prince is working hard." ”

Everyone knew the emperor's stubbornness, so Zheng Jiucheng was not surprised.

Hu Weiyong said, and pointed to the Fengtianmen City Tower in front of him with his chin and said, "The fourth brother has been waiting for a day with the five hundred government troops under him. If the prince hadn't pressed it, he would have put it down and cut you a long time ago. ”

"The fourth and the sixth, the emperor's civil and military minions!" Zheng Jiucheng said hatefully.

"Alas, when will this be......" Hu Weiyong sighed, as if he had just remembered, and said: "Oh yes, Song Taishi has already entered Beijing." ”

"Really?" This news is much more than ginger soup in charge. Zheng Jiucheng was like being beaten with chicken blood, and his whole body was full of strength and said: "Great! As soon as Taishi Gong arrives, we will have the backbone! ”

"Yes, hehe......" Hu Weiyong laughed for a while, these Confucian officials are really ridiculous, they do not judge their status by their official positions, but by the level of their articles and the relationship between teachers and students.

Song Lian is just a mere scholar, who can he play?

~~

On the upper floor of Chengtianmen City.

The prince watched this scene quietly, and the civil and military minions in Zheng Jiucheng's mouth stood on his left and right.

The trio stood slightly further back so they could see their heads and not see them.

"Big brother is too kind, what's polite to these miscellaneous people?" Zhu Di muttered unhappily, he was still waiting to freeze to death tonight. It's probably no fun now. "Give them the ginger soup quilt, are you afraid that they won't be able to hold on?"

"Are you saying that I'm a good person and being bullied?" The prince glanced at the fourth child.

"Brother Dare." The fourth child quickly shook his head.

"I'm just taking a salary from the bottom of the kettle." The prince still explained: "If you warm them up at this time, their anger and will will involuntarily weaken greatly. Their attitude was softened and they could accept the outcome of the negotiations. ”

"Who are you talking to, Zheng Jiucheng?" The sixth asked: "He's just a puppet, it's better to talk to Wu Zhuangyuan if you want to talk." ”

"Wu Zhuangyuan doesn't need it, my old master has already entered Beijing." The prince said lightly: "It is estimated that at this time, he is already waiting for me in my palace." ”

"Song Lian came so quickly?" The fourth and sixth children were a little surprised, Dongyang was far away from Nanjing. It was only a few days after the incident, and I couldn't come by boat.

"I heard that he came by car, and he changed several cars along the way." The prince explained.

"It seems that I am in a real hurry." The fourth laughed.

"Big brother might as well dry him again and let him fill his mouth with a big bag." The sixth is also bad.

"You think I'm just like you two?" The prince glanced at the two of them, and said angrily: "As the prince, you must respect the teacher, understand?" ”

"I understand, do you want to be a model for the people of the world?" Seeing that the prince was leaving, the brothers hurriedly sent the eldest brother to the staircase.

"No need to send it." The prince asked the two to stop, and then admonished: "You must calm down, don't stir up the fire anymore, do you understand?" ”

"Understood, understood." The two brothers hurriedly responded.

"Then I'm leaving." The prince walked down the gate tower with a steady step.

"Congratulations to big brother." The fourth and sixth children kept watching the figure of the prince, and disappeared into the twilight before turning back.

"You and your father can really give your eldest brother a problem." Then the fourth said to the sixth: "You see the speed at which the eldest brother goes downstairs, it is much slower than usual." ”

"I'm really sorry big brother." The sixth brother hurriedly apologized and said, "The fourth brother should also hurry back to guard the fourth sister-in-law." ”

"Well, anyway, tonight is a literary drama, and there is no martial arts." Princess Yan will give birth at any time, and the fourth child is suffering all day, and when she heard this, she said politely: "Then I will go back too." ”

"Okay." The sixth nodded with a smile.

"You all listen to the king of Chu, what he says is what I say." The fourth said a few words to his officers, handed over the command to the sixth, and then walked downstairs quickly.

Because he was in such a hurry, he almost stepped on the air, and rolled down with a grunt.

But the speed is indeed a lot faster than that of the big brother......

(End of chapter)