Chapter 14: Anger
After testing the weapon, Chen Jianghong demonstrated to Wei Dongxian and Zhang Da how to use the wheelbarrow.
"This is a good tool, climbing over mountains and mountains is like walking on flat ground, and what is even more rare is that one person can push and walk, driving on mountain roads, it is estimated that we can go faster than our carriages. Wei Dongxian said admiringly.
"Five hundred slaves, one wheelbarrow for every five people, the old and weak can sit on the wheelbarrow, and the strong people take turns to push the wheelbarrow, the speed should be much faster, if this is the case, can we reach Shuanghe City on time?" Chen Jianghong told his plan and asked Wei Dongxian and Zhang Da for their opinions.
"According to the prince's arrangement, we will definitely arrive in Shuanghe City within three days, two days earlier than the agreed time. Zhang Da estimated the distance from Shuanghe City and replied affirmatively.
"That's it, Zhang Da, you organize the slaves to make a fire to cook, the rice pipe is enough, and then take out all the bacon in our car, let the big guy let go of their bellies, eat a good meal, and rest for half an hour, and then we will rush at full speed." Chen Jianghong said with a smile.
"Do you really let those slaves eat such good rice? Isn't that a waste of things?" said Wei Dongxian with a heartache on his face.
"Lord Wang, how have these slaves ever eaten such good rice, if the amount of food is not limited, Weichen is worried that some slaves will be strangled to death. Zhang Da said.
"Will it be strangled to death?" Chen Jianghong asked incredulously, born in New China, Chen Jianghong really hadn't seen it, someone would eat and die.
"Yes, Lord Wang, our rice is so good, those slaves must not have eaten it, plus some time ago, they all ate brown rice with raw insects and mold, mixed with some wild vegetables and tree roots, and now they suddenly eat good, if there is no restriction, they can eat two or three catties of rice alone?" Wei Dongxian said heartbrokenly.
"Two or three catties of rice? That's a big pot. On weekdays, Chen Jianghong eats three or two taels of rice more in one meal, and he feels very full, he really can't imagine that someone can eat two or three catties of rice at a meal, no wonder he may be strangled to death.
"This is not considered by this king, so be it, one person can eat at most half a catty at a meal, Zhang Da, you send someone to tell those slaves, everyone will eat such rice every day in the future. Chen Jianghong said: "We have such rice." ”
Zhang bowed and went out to do errands, although he also had some heartache for such a good rice to eat for the slaves, but he could see that Chen Jianghong had made up his mind, so he didn't persuade him more.
When there were only Wei Dongxian and Chen Jianghong in the tent, Wei Dongxian whispered, "Lord Wang, are these foods and weapons prepared for you by Your Majesty?"
Chen Jianghong was stunned, he didn't expect that the things he bought from the earth, but Wei Dongxian thought that it was sent by his cheap father, but this saved him the way to explain things.
Chen Jianghong shook his head and didn't say much.
"Lord Wang, in fact, Your Majesty loves you very much, don't blame him. Wei Dongxian said.
"Don't put Chen Jingping in front of me in the future, from the moment my mother was poisoned, he was no longer my father. I don't know why, Chen Jianghong suddenly roared angrily.
"Your Majesty, after all, he is your biological father, and he also has his difficulties...... Wei Dongxian persuaded.
"What's the difficulty? Isn't it that he is afraid of the law enforcement elder of the Qingyun Sect, 'Ouyang Zhentian', and the generalissimo of the Yan Kingdom, 'Ouyang Zhennan'? Isn't it just coveting the emperor's throne? As a man, he can't even protect his beloved woman and child, what qualifications does he have to be my father. Chen Jianghong patted the chair handle and yelled angrily.
"Lord Wang......" Wei Dongxian still wanted to persuade.
Chen Jianghong waved his hand, interrupted Wei Dongxian's words, and said with some annoyance: "Big companion, don't say it again, this king wants to be alone for a while." ”
"Alas!" Wei Dongxian sighed, opened his mouth a few times, wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, shook his head, and walked out of the tent.
After Wei Dongxian went out, Chen Jianghong sat alone on the chair, his expression was complicated, silent, and after a while, he said to himself: "I didn't expect that absorbing the memories of the Seven Princes, in a subtle way, will also affect my joys, sorrows, and views on things, and I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing." ”
Just now, when Wei Dongxian mentioned the Emperor of Yan Kingdom's 'Chen Jingping', Chen Jianghong's heart suddenly surged with an uncontrollable anger, and the scene of his mother being pressed by three sturdy palace maids and forced to drink poison also flashed in his mind.
He cried to stop him, but was caught by a eunuch, and he couldn't break free, and he still clearly remembered that after seeing his mother die of poison, the queen laughed arrogantly, and before the queen left, he looked at him with disdainful eyes.
It seems to say, "Even if I killed your mother in front of you, so what?"
An eight-year-old child who saw his mother killed by someone else was too big a blow to the Seven Princes.
At that time, the seventh prince frantically ran to find his father 'Chen Jingping', crying and telling the scene he saw with his own eyes, begging his father to kill the queen immediately and avenge his mother, but Chen Jingping was silent, and finally said only three words, "Got it." ”
Then let the guards drive out the crying and noisy Seven Princes.
Within a few days, the palace made a conclusion that his mother was virtuous and committed suicide by drinking poison.
Knowing the news, the Seven Princes were stunned, just like a fool, not crying or laughing, not eating or talking, in the most painful years of the Seven Princes, it was Wei Dongxian who accompanied him, enlightened him, and accompanied him to endure the difficulties of other palace maids and eunuchs.
In winter, smokeless stoves have long been lit in the bedrooms of other princes, but the Seven Princes have nothing here, no one has even repaired the broken windows, the north wind is howling, the bedroom is like an ice cellar, the Seven Princes don't know how many nights, he was shivering from the cold, almost frozen, at this time, Wei Dongxian hugged him and covered him with not many thick clothes, while Wei Dongxian himself only wore single clothes, trembling.
From that time on, deep in his heart, the Seventh Prince regarded Wei Dongxian as his dearest relative, not his father, but he surpassed his father.
Other princes have thin shirts in summer and padded jackets in winter, but the seventh prince has nothing, wearing a rotten shirt with patches and patches all day long.
When other princes ate fragrant and spicy food, the seven princes could only eat leftovers.
There were too many such difficulties, too many to count, and the Seventh Prince lived to the age of fifteen in such torture.
When he learned that he was sent to Shuanghe City, the other princes were sneering, waiting to see when he would be eaten by the beast, but the seventh prince himself was a little happy in his heart, he would rather be eaten by the beast than die in the palace, not in front of Ouyang Ling's cheap woman, this may be a fifteen-year-old helpless boy, the only way to fight.
The Seventh Prince hated the queen 'Ouyang Ling', and he couldn't wait to break her into thousands of pieces, eat her flesh raw, and drink her blood, but he hated his biological father 'Chen Jingping' even more, and hated the cold-blooded and ruthless man who didn't care about his mother and himself for the sake of his throne.
Chen Jianghong sat quietly for a quarter of an hour before she dissipated her anger, and said in her heart: "The humiliation you have suffered is my humiliation, and I will avenge you." ”
Chen Jianghong got up, walked out of the tent, and found that Zhang Da had already arranged for people to prepare the meal, and the whole camp was wafting with the tempting smell of rice.