Chapter Eighty-Three: The Ground Is Cold
At this time, Gonggong Deng walked in from outside the hall and saluted respectfully, "Your Majesty, the second prince asks to see you." β
Emperor Qiming threw the official document aside, and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly, "Xuan." β
In the middle of the morning, Yan Qingheng, who was wearing a light blue brocade robe, walked in and saluted, "Father, the son heard about the flood in Yuzhou, and asked my father to allow the son to go with the Ministry of Works to repair the dam, manage the flood with the officials, and pacify the people." β
"You?" Emperor Qiming raised his eyes in surprise, Yan Qingheng knelt down in his robe, and kowtowed deeply, "The son is willing to share the worries of his father, and ask his father to agree to the son." β
"......" Emperor Qiming looked at his second son with a determined face, and sighed after a while, "It's not a trivial matter for you to go on this trip, and it's not a matter of going out to play." β
"Erchen understands. When Yan Qingheng heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly lowered his head obediently, "The son will never disgrace his father and the royal family." β
Yan Qingheng took the initiative to stand up this time, making Emperor Qiming's face not as ugly as before, he waved his hand, "Okay, go down and pack your bags and say goodbye to your mother." β
After Yan Qingheng bowed and left, Emperor Qiming picked up the official document about the flood in Yuzhou again, stared at it for a long time, and called in a deep voice, "Old Deng." β
"The old slave is here, what does Your Majesty have to tell the old slave?"
"Let the little queen go to the Buddha Hall to copy the scriptures and pray for Yuzhou. β
Gonggong Deng was stunned when he heard this, "Your Majesty, you are not afraid that the queen will be suspicious......"
"The rain in Yuzhou hasn't stopped yet, it's all this time, and I can't care about it so much. Emperor Qiming's deep eyes crossed a dark light, with a bit of stubbornness, he affirmed, "She is the daughter of destiny, if she prays, she will be able to bless Yuzhou safe and sound." β
In the evening, Jiang Jiang climbed into bed after washing, and suddenly heard Gonggong Deng come to report, saying that the old emperor asked her to go to the Buddha Hall to copy scriptures and pray for blessings.
"Is it because of Yuzhou?" Jiang Jiang got up and put on his robe, and asked towards the crescent moon while fastening the buttons.
"Yes, Your Majesty hasn't slept well for several nights for Yuzhou. The crescent moon turned to Jiang Jiang and straightened her back collar for her, her eyebrows lowered, "As a queen, Niangniang should always do something." β
Her voice was too soft, and Jiang Jiang almost didn't hear Wen Yan and nodded in agreement, "Yes." "Occupy this position, and when it's time to contribute, you will contribute.
It's good not to let her go to the front line to help, it's a trivial matter like copying Buddhist scriptures, it's very simple.
The night was cool, Jiang Jiang wore an extra layer, she held a homemade charcoal, the crescent moon carried a yarn lamp in front, and the two of them rushed to the Buddha hall slowly, only to find that there were still candles burning in the Buddha hall.
Yan Huaishu was still there at this time, Jiang Jiang took the lantern in the crescent moon hand, and motioned for her to wait here, "I'll go and see." β
Approaching the main hall, she heard a shallow voice, and when Yan Huaishu was alone, she would also have broken thoughts, her eyes rolled, and she approached lightly, pricking up her ears to hear what Yan Huaishu told about the little secret of missing her mother.
"What are you going to do?"
"What else can I do. A cold female voice sounded in the hall, very young, which surprised Jiang Jiang, Yan Huaishu was not the only one in this hall.
The voice paused, and then continued, "With my father's thoughts, I will definitely let him stay, and use it as a means to blackmail the desert in the future." β
Sounds familiar...... Jiang Jiang frowned, and then suddenly realized that she was the eldest princess.
Then she approached the gate of the palace, what did they talk about, what did they use to blackmail the desert?
"Waishu, I want to beat him down. β
Yan Huaishu disagreed, "He's been three months, you're going to hurt your body like this." β
"Squeak-"
Suddenly, the door of the palace was leaned open a gap that could not be ignored, Jiang Jiang used the threshold to stabilize his almost crooked body, carrying the yarn lamp and planning to slip away quickly, but the door of the palace was wide open.
She raised her head to Yan Huaishu's dark handsome face, hesitated, tentatively raised her hand and waved, "Hey?"
Yan Qingdui came later, and saw the little queen sitting on the threshold with an innocent face, and was also surprised, these Buddha halls are forbidden halls, why did the queen come in?
"It's ...... to come here in the middle of the night."
Jiang Jiang raised the charcoal pen in his hand and shook it, and said obediently, "What, Your Majesty asked me to copy the scriptures and pray for blessings." β
Mom, Yan Huaishu's black face is so scary......
Sure enough, no matter how handsome and handsome a person is, once he gets angry, he is not cute.
Seeing that the little queen had been sitting still, Yan Huaishu's sword eyebrows furrowed, and she was slightly stern, "Stand up." β
Jiang Jiang hurriedly stood up and patted her skirt, "Stand up, stand up." β
The way the two get along like this subverted the assumption in Yan Qingdu's heart, she glanced at Jiang Jiang, who was very well-behaved and obedient, and then looked at Yan Huaishu, who had a serious face, and felt that her brain was a little insufficient, this is what the prince and the step-queen should look like?
Yan Huaishu didn't know what his imperial sister was thinking, he said in a deep voice, "What did you just hear?"
The man's dark phoenix eyes were too deep, Jiang Jiang shrank his head, and looked like he was wrong, "I heard you say four or five sentences, but I didn't understand too much." β
What does the eldest prince want to kill, can he still threaten the desert, Yan Huaishu is still injured in three months......
Three rains, knocked out, hurt the body?!
Groove !!
Jiang Jiang figured this out, and suddenly raised his head to look at Yan Qingdu's stomach, shocked, "She, she, she...... Conceived?"
"......" originally wanted to question sharply, but the appearance of the little queen in hindsight made Yan Huaishu press his eyebrows helplessly, "Don't let the fourth person know." β
Hearing this, Jiang Jiang hurriedly glanced at the direction of the crescent moon, leaned in front of their sister and brother, and said in an angry voice, "It's been three months, isn't it okay to beat it off?"
Regardless of the number of months of the fetus, the forcible termination of pregnancy is very harmful to a woman's body.
Hearing this, Yan Huaishu glanced at her, turned sideways and gave way, "Go copy your scriptures." β
"......" didn't let her listen, Jiang Jiang snorted at him heavily, pulled his shoulders away and forced him to give way to a more spacious way into the hall, and chirped, "The crescent moon is outside." β
Hearing the little queen's awkward reminder, Yan Huaishu looked at Yan Qingdu, "The imperial sister will go back and rest first, and the palace will find a way to do this." β
Yan Qingdu's cold eyebrows and eyes were dyed with a bit of determination, and she said persistently, "I have made up my mind, you can help me cover it." β
She didn't want to stay with this child, since she was born to be restrained and controlled by others like her, then why exist in this world, how good it would be to find a stable and ordinary person to reincarnate.
"I'll go back to the palace first. With that, she turned and walked away.
Seeing Yan Qingdu's figure hidden in the darkness, Yan Huaishu walked back to the Buddha hall, Jiang Jiang was rummaging on the small bookshelf, and when he saw him coming back, he unceremoniously instructed, "Help me find a Buddhist scripture for praying for blessings, I can't find it." β
The books here are all sorted out by Yan Huaishu, naturally he is the most familiar with it, so he took a copy and handed it to Jiang Jiang, and when he saw that she really turned over a copy and copied it, his sword eyebrows tightened.
"Why did Father ask you to copy these?"
"The flood in Yuzhou. Jiang Jiang didn't raise his head, and copied it seriously, "The crescent moon said that as a queen, I should always do what I can, and I think it's not bad." β
Then she raised her head, her bright eyes shining with stars under the candlelight, and smiled, "As the crown prince, are you also worried about this?"
"I saw the map of Yuzhou before I came. She took out a piece of snow-white rice paper, and drew the direction of the mountains and rivers in Yuzhou with a few strokes of the sharp charcoal.
"Yuzhou is a low-lying area where several large rivers meet, and when it rains, floods are common. β
Jiang Jiang approached Yan Huaishu with rice paper, gestured with his pen, and explained, "You see, using these terrain trends, several artificial rivers are dug out in different directions, and these small tributaries converge to the other side of Yuzhou. β
"However, the landform of Yuzhou is mostly rocky, and the distance is not short, and it takes decades to start construction alone, which requires many factors such as manpower and financial resources. Yan Huaishu's brows furrowed, what he said was a very realistic question.
It's not like no one has ever mentioned such an idea before, but it is extremely difficult to put it into practice, so it will not be implemented.
"It's really difficult, but now that the two countries are at peace, Dayan has entered a prosperous era. β
Jiang Jiang habitually poked his cheek with charcoal, and thought, "You see, as long as the river is dug up, some merchant ships will arrive at this place where the three states meet, and then this place can be used as a place of trade, and the small city will become a prosperous big city." β
"And the river leads to the side of Yuzhou, and the crescent moon said that this side is often dry because of the mountain terrain, so it doesn't solve the problem here. β
"I know that there are many people who have wisely proposed this matter, and it may take more than ten years to do it, spend tens of millions of gold and silver, and exhaust hundreds of people, but sooner or later there will be a generation to do it, and the sooner it is completed, the sooner future generations will benefit. β
Jiang Jiang pushed the drawings in front of Yan Huaishu, his eyes were very serious, "I'm a little woman, an ignorant mortal, just a personal opinion." β
Yan Huaishu had to say that Jiang Jiang's words moved him very much, as long as Dayan was ready to hold on and survive, it was not impossible.
There is always someone to do, why not be the first person in Da Yan, such a thing that benefits the world, and it will never be indebted to leave a name in the annals of history.
He folded the drawings and put them away, his handsome eyebrows and eyes stretched, "I'll mention this to my father another day." β
Jiang Jiang showed a row of small white teeth, "Hehe, it's an honor." β
Yan Huaishu looked at her bright smile, couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips slightly, he raised his hand to wipe her white cheeks, and watched her suddenly freeze, and her blackened fingertips shook in front of her.
"I've said it all, don't poke your face with charcoal in the future. β
As he spoke, he took out a white handkerchief from his sleeve, lifted her chin and prevented her from moving, and wiped her fleshy and soft face clean, Jiang Jiang saw that Yan Huaishu had a little disgust in his eyes, and couldn't help but snort lightly, "Go away." β
pushed him away, grabbed the white handkerchief and wiped his face vigorously, his cheeks were red under the violence.
Yan Huaishu noticed the wound on the side of her face and reminded, "It seems that the scab is about to fall off, don't scratch it then." β
Then he stood up, "You copy slowly, the main hall will go first." β
"Hey, heyβ" Jiang Jiang grabbed the corner of his sleeve, "It's all here, why don't you help copy a few pages?"
She dragged him a few times, pretending to be pitiful, "In the middle of the night, I'm almost sleepy, help complete the task." β
Seeing this, Yan Huaishu slowly pulled his sleeve out of her hand and threw her four words, "Sincerity is spiritual." β
After that, he strode away with his long legs, Jiang Jiang looked at the man's tall and slender figure, gritted his teeth in anger, and smashed the Buddhist scriptures out.
Dog man, in vain she was kind enough to help him make up his mind to complete the great act of creation, and he didn't help him copy his homework!
But everyone was gone, Jiang Jiang was useless, he picked up the scriptures by himself, sat on the futon, and continued to copy on the wooden stool, and suddenly there was a touch of black robe in the afterglow.
When she raised her head, she saw the man holding rice paper and Buddhist scriptures in his hands, stretched out his palm towards her, and said softly, "It's cold on the ground, get up, go over there and copy it." β