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Chapter 959 The People Are Not Afraid of Death
The Empress Dowager Bao looked at the stopped frame, and waited for a long time with benevolent eyebrows, but no one came down from above. After a while, the guards came to her and said respectfully:
"Empress Dowager Bao, Your Majesty got out of the car first, and now you have arrived in Taiping County, please go back and wait."

The Empress Dowager Bao's face suddenly turned into surprise, she opened her mouth slightly, her eyes were empty, it took a while to recover her expression, and she blamed:
"You are all here. How dangerous it is for him to walk around alone. If something happens to His Majesty, I will see what you will do!"

The guard raised his eyes and saw that the Empress Dowager Bao was excited, so he said:
"Returning to the Queen Mother, Your Majesty is not alone. I have Shen Shizhong following me and General Xie protecting me. Please rest assured."

When the Empress Dowager Bao heard this, she looked at the imperial carriage hesitantly, and finally took a last look at her son Hua Shi who was beside her. Seeing that his eyes were flickering and his mind was active, she turned around preoccupied and said:
"Hua Shi, come on, take the car back with Eminem, I have something to tell you."

Hua Shi saw the magnificent and majestic ceremonial guards of the emperor going out, the canopy covered with cloud banners, and the astonishing momentum, she couldn't help but became afraid again, and changed into her usual honest and timid appearance, supporting her own mother, the Empress Dowager Bao, without saying a word or moving.

When he heard that the emperor was not there, he went to Taiping County together with Shen Liuzhen. While he was afraid, he also had some dangerous thoughts from the bottom of his heart, and his body became even more rigid.

He didn't hear the Empress Dowager Bao calling him.

The Empress Dowager Bao was a little anxious, she reached out and grabbed his hand, and walked towards her carriage.

After arriving in the car, the Empress Dowager Bao asked him:
"I asked you to dismantle the racecourse and vacate the horses to the next county, did you do that?"

After hearing this, Hua Shi recovered from the daze, wiped the sweat from her palms, and said in a low voice:
"Who dares to pick up so many horses? I'll let the wind picker see you later. Ah Mu, why don't you just tell the emperor that you can't, let him make me a king, so what can I do if I raise a few war horses."

When the Empress Dowager Bao heard this, she said anxiously:
"I told you that it was too much to become a king. You asked Ah Mu to try, and Ah Mu tried too. His Majesty didn't agree, but came here to inspect it. It's too abnormal. I'm worried, you are still so disobedient You really want to kill me!"

Hua Shi suddenly erupted, staring and trembling all over, shouting loudly:
"Didn't you say that I and the emperor are brothers?! You said that I am no worse than him. The emperor also kept saying that I was his brother, why? It's not enough to be a king?! What's the point of being a king for the emperor's brother? Passed?!!! Liar!!! Liar!!!"

Empress Dowager Bao was taken aback, and raised her sleeves to look at her son in horror. After a while, her eyes showed heartache and worry again.

Seeing that Huashi had stopped talking, she reached out to reach his hand carefully, and held it lovingly in the palm of her hand, comforting him with tears in her eyes:
"Hua Shi, don't be afraid, Ah Mu is here, Ah Mu will help you, and Ah Mu will protect you, ah, don't be afraid."

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The emperor and his party rode straight to the location of the horse farm.

It was still the formation with the emperor in the middle, the guards in front, and Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen in the back.

In order to be able to see the size of the horse farm more intuitively, they found a higher hillside to look at. Unexpectedly, as soon as they went up, they saw a ragged beggar sitting there with his back to them, motionless.

The beggar's hair was tied with straw ropes, and the malnourished hair was dry and yellow, shaking in the wind. He was completely naked, with arms and legs exposed, skinny and skinny, so dirty that his original skin color could not be seen.

There was also a wooden crutch beside him, and a piece of broken tile that barely counted as a bowl.

Strangely, even though there was the sound of hooves behind him, he never moved.

The guard who opened the way in front thought that he was sitting dead there, so he turned over and immediately went to check. When he got to the front, he saw that the man had a very sad face and red eyes that were crying in the wind.

The guard paused his breath-probing hand, quickly took it back, and said:
"Hey! Beggars! Go aside!"

But the beggar still looked down the hillside without moving his head.

The guards were about to stretch out their feet to kick him, but Emperor Ulay quickly stopped him and shouted:
"Jiuying, step back!"

The guard hastily withdrew his feet and stepped aside in a neat manner.

The emperor drove his horse forward a few times, and saw that under the hillside, the fence of the enclosure turned around the bottom of the hillside, and he didn't know where it stretched.

Due to frequent trampling, the land where horses are raised will not grow grass and gradually become deserted.

That's why the nomadic people outside the Great Wall keep migrating to ensure that the grassland will always grow grass.

Seeing that such a large place has been trampled and eaten like this, it is conceivable that there are not many horses.

Emperor Ulay immediately turned pale in disappointment, and fell silent while looking at the distant scenery.

At this time, although he was dressed in brocade clothes and riding on a tall horse, his expression was similar to that of the beggar next to him.

After an unknown amount of time, Emperor Ulay murmured and asked:
"Old man, what are you looking at?"

Perhaps it was because of Ulay's desolate tone, or perhaps someone finally cared about what he was thinking, the beggar replied subconsciously:
"Look at my place..."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Ulei turned his eyes and looked at the beggar without saying a word.

But the beggar didn't look at him, and said sadly:
"The barbarians who kill thousands of knives choose the best land to raise horses. What a pity, what a pity."

"Your land?" Emperor Ulay repeated calmly.

The beggar still didn't look at him, stretched out his hand tremblingly, pointed down and said:
"The land that our family has been planting for several lifetimes, just here, it was all gone in one day, and it was turned into such a ghost..." He said weakly:
"The dog emperor who kills thousands of knives, he likes to raise horses so much, he just stays in the plug, what are you doing here..."

Emperor Ulei's pupils shrank, and the guard next to him immediately drew his knife, about to kill him, and angrily said:
"presumptuous!"

Xie Yuan hurriedly said:
"Wait! Old man, raising horses is not the emperor's will. You are blaming the wrong person!"

At this time, the old beggar turned his head and looked at them.

He first looked at Wu Lei and Dugu Jian, then at Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen.

But even with the knife resting on his neck, the eyes of the old beggar were as calm as stagnant water.

Emperor Ulei pursed his lips, his pupils trembled in his deep eyes, and suddenly thought of a sentence in the book:
The people are not afraid of death, how can they be afraid of death?
The anger in Emperor Wu Lei's chest gradually disappeared, replaced by a sense of crisis as an emperor.

When the people are not afraid of death, it is often a harbinger of rebellion.

He ordered in a deep voice:
"Let him go!"

Then he pulled the rein and turned half of his body, and said firmly:
"Old man, live well, I want you to see this place with your own eyes, and return it to your hands!"

(End of this chapter)