117 The Prince Comes
"Thank you, Master Emperor! Thank you, Master Emperor!" I don't know who was the first person to kowtow to Huainan to thank you.
Jiuqing Town has been completely renewed in just a few days. The bodies that once starved to death on the roadside were properly buried. The people no longer wandered around like ghosts all day long. When the people were full, they started to pick up things and do it.
Huainan nodded slightly to the people. She has done everything herself these days and is kind to the people, making the people deeply remember this Emperor.
Huainan reached out and took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Looking back, he saw King Qi and Prince Yi discussing how the people should live in the future. After all, giving porridge can only save the people for a while, and the court will not be like this all year round. What's more, if this is true, then these people will lose their fighting spirit for life, which is not what everyone wants to see.
Suddenly, a man came on a horse, and this person was Liuguang beside King Qi. Looking at Liuguang's appearance, there must be something urgent. Huainan asked the soldiers to take over him and walked towards the head of the pavilion.
"Master, the court sent people to start digging and transporting water for Jiuqing Town!" Liu Guang said.
Indeed, all three of them wrote to His Majesty these days, saying that this Jiuqing Town must have a water source, otherwise the victims would still not have food or drink when they left. The only way is to dig up and transport water, so that not only can the flooded lake water flow into Jiuqing Town, but it will facilitate irrigation of crops in the future, but also allow these people to work to obtain food now, which is the best of both worlds.
But the only dissatisfaction was that this was obviously the solution they had come up with. Now Emperor Nan Cang sent others to take over. This was not a waste of money. Fortunately, none of them were greedy for merit. Although they were a little dissatisfied, they also knew that those people in the court would definitely not let them take all the credit, so it was natural to send people to come.
"Who is here?" Huainan asked.
Liu Guang lowered his head slightly, "It's the prince who came here in person!" As soon as this statement came out, the three of them were silent for a while. The prince had just found such a big trouble for them, and King Qi and Prince Yi also took revenge, but now the prince was eager to come, which made the three of them feel that the conspiracy was suddenly absent.
"Good here, I haven't let out this anger yet! He came to the door!" King Qi slapped the table, his voice very unhappy.
Prince Yi put away the map on the table. The map was drawn on the route they discussed to dig the water transport. Now that I heard that the prince came, Prince Yi was a little disdainful. "It seems that the prince's things in Nancang City have been destroyed by us. This is coming to Jiuqing Town to accumulate the hearts of the people!"
"Okay, come here. It would be fine if he really seeks welfare for the people. If he comes just for a name, so what if he is the prince!" Huainan's tone was cold. She was not blind in her guardian of Nan Cang. If the prince could not do things for the people, she would not be ruthless.
The prince didn't know that while others were still coming, the three of them began to think about how to deal with him.
The prince came very quickly. Perhaps because he was anxious to grab the credit, the prince was coming this time. He received the news that the prince was about to come early, and Huainan and others were waiting at the gate of Jiuqing Town. As for Mingyue and Xingchen, the two men saw that Huainan had improved a lot, and now they were going to have a trip to the town next to Jiuqing Town. After all, they were people from the world, and they still had an instinctive disgust for these things in the court.
From a distance, I saw the prince leading the guards. The prince had a great show of pomp. Seeing his arrogant look, I felt that it was not for disaster relief but for showing off.
"I've seen the prince!" Huainan and others saluted, and the people also heard that the prince came today, and they all came to watch the fun one by one. After all, it was an honor for the people to see the royal family in this life.
The prince sat high on the horse, watching the victims kneeling in front of him, and felt relieved. But the three people in front of him felt uncomfortable. Prince Yi was sitting in a wheelchair and could not force him to do anything. Master Emperor just bowed and bowed and did not kneel down. It was just that King Qi was standing there, without even being perfunctory, which made the prince feel dull.
"I am here to save you from water and fire. I will definitely not let you starve again!" The prince said loudly, but unfortunately the people below were all expressionless.
It would be fine if the prince said these words when the victims were hungry and cold, but at this time the disaster relief was approaching, and the people's mentality had returned to normal. Isn't it a hindsight to listen to these words?
The expected touching tears did not appear, and the people looked at the prince calmly, making the prince feel uncomfortable when he sat on the horse.
At this moment, a small stone quietly hit the horse under the prince's seat. Huainan and Prince Yi looked at King Qi, but King Qi looked like I was innocent.
At the same time, the prince, who was already holding his breath in his heart, suddenly raised his front hooves high like frightened, and directly threw the prince off.
Seeing that the horse was a little crazy, King Qi hurried forward and directly grabbed the horse's reins. It took a while for the horse to calm down.
"Crown Prince, so are you. You're here. Why don't you get off the horse quickly? Let's talk a lot here. Look, the horse can't stand it anymore! How long have these people been kneeling? The prince won't let them get up?" King Qi handed the frightened horse to a guard and spoke loudly.
Originally, falling off the horse in front of the people made the prince feel faceless. At this time, King Qi subdued the horse. The prince was angry, but he looked at the people kneeling there and looked at him. The prince could only smile awkwardly, "It's because I was negligent, get up!"
The people stood up, and the prince had no long talk at this time. He hurriedly explained a few words and took the guards into Jiuqing Town. The prince's first appearance today gave the people a deep impression. The people thought that the prince was so strange. Although he couldn't tell the strangeness, the people were inexplicably disliked.
"King Qi, you..." When the three of them walked back, Huainan looked at King Qi. Just when King Qi was uneasy, Huainan burst out with a giggle, "Beautiful job!"
Although King Qi's actions were inevitably a bit sinister, the prince's actions were very unhappy to Huainan, so King Qi's actions today made Huainan feel angry. If the time had not allowed, she would have wanted to applaud when the prince fell off his horse.
"Haha! That's of course! I'm sure I'm pretty!" King Qi spoke with a grim voice, and Prince Yi's eyes flashed with white teeth. These two people seemed to be very casual and happy to live, and did they bind themselves?
After the three of them returned, they found that the pavilion chief's mansion had become different. The soldiers were replaced by the prince's guards, and the prince chose the best room. The most important thing is that it was time to serve the porridge, but the prince pushed Huainan away and stood there alone to serve the porridge. The intention was simply too obvious.
Huainan was not angry when he was pushed away. Since the prince wanted to show his diligence and love for the people, Huainan would not have any reason to be fulfilled, so he sat not far away with Prince Yi and King Qi to rest.
"Porridge! Porridge!" A child appeared in front of the prince, and a foul stinking came.
The prince's nose was so smoky that it was full of disgust in his chest. He saw that the dirty child could not have any love. But in front of everyone, the prince knew that he wanted to be more friendly to the people, so he endured the disgust and scooped an extra spoonful of porridge for the child.
"Thank you!" the child said happily, then reached out to prepare to pull the prince's clothes. Looking at the dark hands, the prince couldn't help but retreat. Although he did not show it, the people standing behind could see that the child was disliked.
At this time, the child's mother ran over from behind and picked up the child. "Your Highness, the child is ignorant, I will carry him away now!"
The prince nodded, because he saw that the prince gave the child a spoonful of porridge, many children lined up with the prince. In order to show his kindness, the prince gave more people to see the poor, which attracted many people's gratitude. For a moment, the prince's vanity was greatly satisfied. As long as someone pretended to be pitiful, he would give more.
"Idiot!" King Qi said disdainfully as he looked at the prince like a proud big rooster.
Prince Yi was playing chess with King Qi at this time. The two of them were on the chessboard and they were not giving in to each other. At this time, they looked at the prince when they heard what King Qi said and sighed slightly.
Huainan saw the two of them stopping and urged him, "Don't he will suffer a lot in a while, you should decide the winner as soon as possible!" Both of them were both good players, and the game was played for a long time but the winner was still undecided.
The two continued to play chess, and the situation happened to the prince. You must know that the daily porridge is budgeted, and the amount of porridge is stipulated in a day. In the past, Huainan scoops porridge for everyone was the same, and he did not sympathize with anyone, nor did he belittle anyone. The daily porridge is just right for everyone to receive.
But in order to show his kindness, the prince didn't know how much more porridge was scooped out, which made the porridge that was already the best was not enough at this time. There were still many victims in line behind, but the bottom was found in the porridge bucket.
"Your Highness, Crown..." An old man stood in front of the prince, stretching out the bowl in his hand. Seeing that the prince refused to move for a long time, the old man was a little anxious. After all, everyone was starving to death.
The prince looked at the porridge bucket at the bottom awkwardly, and told the soldiers around him, "Go and bring another bucket of porridge!"
These soldiers all followed King Qi. They were originally disdainful of the prince's way of robbing credit. At this time, they listened to the prince's orders and did not lower their voices. They said directly, "Your Highness, the porridge is fixed every day. Today's porridge is here, and there is no more!"
When the victims heard that, there was no porridge, one or two of them stopped queuing up and rushed over to surround the prince. Some of these victims had not taken a bath for a long time, and a strange smell suddenly came. The prince was surrounded by the victims and could not get out, and he was so anxious that he was covered in sweat.
"How could there be no porridge? There are so many people in front of us, why is there nothing left when we get here!" The victims were filled with righteous indignation, and their saliva splashed on the prince's face.
These victims have experienced panic of extreme hunger. They are all people who almost starved to death. They now care about food strangely. Now they hear that there is no porridge, so how can they bear it? No matter whether it is the prince or the prince in front of you.
"Don't panic, I promise you all can eat!" The prince shouted.
Unfortunately, the prince just came to Jiuqing Town today, and the people were not familiar with and did not trust it. The people even thought that the porridge was not enough today because of the prince. So even though the prince tried his best to explain, the people couldn't listen to a word, and even became more and more irritable. Some people had already stepped on the prince's feet.
"It's your turn to go!" King Qi looked at the chaos over there, his tone was filled with gloating.
Chapter completed!