Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 284 If... I Can Live Through Today

"..."

Hearing Jing Li's unquestionable voice, for some reason, Xue Fang's heart trembled suddenly.

It is obvious that the other party is just a princess who is not favored in the palace, or even just a tool for marriage, but the aristocratic temperament of that day makes people can't help but obey her!
This is the innate imperial temperament!
Before that, Xue Fang had only seen it on Emperor Jing Hong and Crown Prince Jing Yuan, even the other princess Jing Xi was far inferior!

"It's really worthy of being His Majesty's own daughter, but it's a pity..."

"It's a daughter."

Xue Fang subconsciously had a terrible thought:

"No! What am I thinking!"

"What's the use of having a man's body? Today's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the eldest son, and his mother's family is the Murong family with a long history. It's fine for His Highness Jing Li to be a daughter. If he is a man, he may not even live to be alive today." !"

Empress Murong Jin is not a good person, even though the world praises her as a mother, all the officials in the court know that this woman is a ruthless master in her bones!

Twelve years ago, she was the one who proposed to go to the Jubei Palace, and brought the concubine and eldest son of the Jubei back to the capital and put them under house arrest, so that their family could not be reunited.

However, the King of Rejecting North held 15 heavy soldiers, but he didn't even dare to say a word, and could only allow his wife and eldest son to be taken away, which is enough to show how terrifying this woman is!
"Your Highness..."

Xue Fang bowed towards Jing Li and said:
"The identities of some of the dignitaries in that group are not simple. Even His Royal Highness has to be courteous when they meet, so I suggest you forget it."

"Otherwise, I'm afraid it will attract criticism from others."

"Criticism?"

Jing Li sneered, and called out the little eunuch's name:
"Yan Gao."

The little eunuch stopped playing with the dagger, lowered his head slightly:

"Your Highness, your subordinates are here."

Just listen to Jing Li's order:
"Let those noisy people go away, this princess will be upset!"

"Whoever refuses to leave, you will write down his name."

The little eunuch smiled and said:
"What about after you write down the name?"

"Do you want to hand over the list to the foster father and let him come forward to punish one or two?"

Jing Li shook her head, her eyes looked directly at the north, and a trace of tenderness flashed in her eyes:
"Don't bother Eunuch Yan, someone will make the decision for me."

"..."

The little eunuch seemed to have sensed the strangeness in Jing Li's eyes, and he couldn't help feeling bitter in his heart.

"The person His Highness mentioned should be the son of the Prince of the North, right?"

He subconsciously glanced at the north, and sighed secretly in his heart:

"I don't know what kind of person that His Royal Highness is, who can make a woman like Princess Jing Li fall in love with her, and even do such a stupid thing as resisting the order and escaping marriage!"

"Hope you……"

"Don't let the beauty down."

"Otherwise, I, Yan Gao, will not spare you lightly!"

"Even if you are the King of Rejecting the North who will be an extremely human minister in the future, it will be the same!"

……

After a while.

The little eunuch Yan Gao took off the armor of the imperial guards, wore brocade clothes and official boots representing the status of an eunuch, and came to the city with Jing Li's order.

At this time, the streets were crowded with people.

Many people waited from dawn to dusk, their enthusiasm cooled down a lot, and they were bored.

Just at this time, a group of eccentric officials and wives appeared on the street.

Someone was wearing silk on their heads, leading a group of crying maids and handymen, throwing paper money at the crowd.

Someone blocked a coffin on the street, fell on the coffin board and wailed loudly, as if his own father had died.

There were also people who didn't say a word, just held a long sword, pushed away the crowd, walked to the city gate, and carved a personal name on the city wall with the sword.

Seeing this scene, the common people couldn't help but start whispering:
"How is this going?"

"Why are all the officials and gentlemen in the city crying in the street today?"

"Who knows? It's probably because someone died in the family."

"Do you still need to talk about the dead? I wonder why they all come to the north gate to mourn? The nearest few cemeteries outside the city are clearly in the west! And have you seen how many officials and wives are crying?" The appearance is too fake, the voice sounds heartbreaking, but not a single tear fell!"

"Do you suspect fraud?"

"Don't doubt it, there must be fraud! But I'm curious about what they are doing. On weekdays, when these officials and gentlemen go out, which one doesn't sit in the carriage and hug each other, and kills someone and spends some money? , I didn’t even bother to say an apology! Now it’s all right, the retribution is coming, it’s their family’s turn to die, and the death dates are all on the same day!”

"It's a good death! It's just that there are too few deaths! These people have committed a lot of evil, and the whole family should die!"

"If their whole family dies, I must buy a few more firecrackers and set them off at your door!"

"Go, go, why come to my door? You want to let it go to your own house, and let me let it go too by the way!"

……

While the common people were discussing, a group of dignitaries felt that the street was too crowded, so they ordered the handymen to push away the common people at the gate of the city, leaving an open space for themselves and others to complete the next performance .

"Go away! Don't delay the master's work!"

"Can't you hear me telling you to get out?"

"Don't roll and break your legs!"

The handymen were like barking dogs, pushing the crowd with sticks and sheathed swords.

And this move completely annoyed the people.

"Hey, what are you doing! Why are you pushing people?"

"Crying and going to your own home to cry, what are you doing at the North Gate?"

"This is the North City Gate, not the backyard of your lord. What right do you have to let us leave? Who do you think you are? Your Majesty the Emperor?"

"Too much! We are here today to welcome the prince of the North, not to listen to your mourning, let alone to be bullied by you!"

"A group of dog officials! They only bully the common people in the capital, and they have the ability to go to the borders of the four directions to fight against foreign races? Like the father and son of the king of the north, they can fight another state for the state of Chu, that is a real hero! Only in the nest Damn, what the hell! Bah!"

……

However, the public outrage did not stop the arrogance of the rich and powerful and their house servants. Instead, a few officials spoke coldly, telling the servants to speed up their actions:

"Hurry up, it's already dusk, Jiang Qiushui's youngest son is about to enter Beijing!"

"Drive everyone away! Move the coffins we brought to the gate of the city and line them up! Today, the official wants to see, Jiang Qingyu killed my son, but he still has the face to step on their coffins Enter the city!"

"A group of untouchables, it's really noisy! I'm in a bad mood today. If I hear someone insulting me again, I will use my power and invite a few people to sit in prison!"

Several officials frowned slightly, and wanted to stop it, but they hesitated and gave up.

Today they came to make trouble. In order to show their loyalty to Emperor Jing Hong, keep their official hat and even get promoted and make a fortune, they must completely offend the heir of the Prince of the North who is about to enter Beijing.

In order to achieve this goal, any price can be paid!

They have already lost one or more sons, so it seems reasonable to kill a few untouchables to bury their sons with them.

……

At this time, after listening to the words of the official, the handymen became more unscrupulous, and the strength in their hands increased a lot, causing many people to complain.

"Stop fighting! Stop fighting!"

"If you continue to fight, you will die!"

"Let's get out of the way! You go to the gate of the city to mourn!"

……

But suddenly, a woman sternly said:

"Don't! Don't hit my child!"

Everyone looked around after hearing the reputation, but saw a handyman with red eyes, and pointed the stick at a seven or eight-year-old child!
The handyman has learned some superficial martial arts, and he is physically strong, and this club hit the head again. If it hits hard, the child will lose at least half of his life!
Fortunately...

The woman protected the child with her body in time, so the stick hit her shoulder at last, breaking her shoulder blade a lot.

However, at least the child's life was saved!

next moment.

The woman hugged the child and fell to the ground. She felt half of her body lost consciousness. She opened her mouth, but she couldn't even utter a cry.

"mother!"

"mother!"

The child got out of the woman's arms, and was frightened and at a loss when he saw the blood dripping from her shoulder.

But then, he stared fiercely at the handyman who did the work:

"It was you, you beat my mother!"

"I, I will kill you!"

The child reached out and grabbed the blood-stained stick in the opponent's hand, trying to snatch it away, and beat the handyman to death with the stick!

But after all, he was just a child and lacked strength, so he failed to grab it for a long time. Instead, he was thrown out by the handyman and fell heavily to the ground.

However, the child didn't know the pain, got up from the ground, grabbed the stick in the handyman's hand again, and at the same time bit his hand hard with his mouth!
"what--"

The handyman yelled in pain, and subconsciously swung his arms desperately, throwing the child hard to the ground.

This time, he used all his strength, as if he wanted to throw the child to death!

"..."

This scene was unexpected by everyone.

Even the group of officials and gentlemen, most of them just wanted to bully the people at most, and didn't think about killing children.

Among the crowd, a few martial arts practitioners wanted to come forward to rescue the child, but they couldn't arrive in time due to the crowd. They could only watch helplessly as the child was about to be thrown to death by the handyman, but they couldn't do anything.

"stop!"

Several officials couldn't help but speak.

But it's too late.

The handyman was so angry that he didn't care about any orders, he just wanted to throw this "little beast" to death to vent his anger!
"Xiao An, Xiao An!"

At this moment, the child's mother, that is, the woman who was knocked to the ground by the handyman, got up from the ground, and stretched out her hand to hug her child so that he would not fall to the ground...

It's a pity that it came to nothing.

She failed to catch it!
boom!
The next moment, a loud noise reached her ears.

It was the sound of flesh and blood colliding with the ground, like a dagger stabbing her chest, gouging out her heart!

"Xiao An, Xiao An..."

The woman's eyes were dull, and she didn't dare to look aside, for fear of seeing her child turn into a puddle of flesh.

She just chanted her child's name over and over again, and fell forward on the ground like a walking dead.

Her head hit the ground heavily, leaving a puddle of blood, but the woman didn't feel the pain, she just closed her eyes and burst into tears.

In a daze, she seemed to hear her child yelling softly, "Mom!"

"mother!"

This is the second sound.

"mother!"

This……

This is not an illusion!
The whole woman trembled suddenly, she moved her head a little bit in disbelief, and looked aside.

The next moment, she caught a glimpse of a puddle of meat paste.

But the dress in the meat paste is not the one she sewed for the child herself!
"Not Xiao An! Not Xiao An!"

The woman looked away again with anxiety, and saw two pairs of shoes not far from the puddle of meat mud.

One pair is leather boots worn by adults, and the other pair is small red shoes worn by children, with a tiger embroidered on each shoe.

"I made the shoes! It's Xiaoan's shoes!"

Both pairs of shoes are worn.

The woman looked up and saw that the two were holding hands. The owner of the red shoes was her child, Xiao An, and the owner of the leather boots was an iron-masked general in armor with a knife——

One of the eight commanders of the Imperial Guard, Xue Fang.

"Xue, Commander Xue?"

The woman was very surprised.

She never imagined that Xue Fang, who is a powerful person, would actually kill a handyman of an official's family in order to save a commoner's child!

At this time, Xue Fang was standing behind the child, covering his eyes with one hand, preventing him from peeking at the puddle of meat mud behind him.

At the same time, he let go of the other hand holding the child, and said to him coldly:
"Go, help your mother up."

The child nodded, stepped forward to the side of the woman, and held her arm:

"mother!"

The woman wept with joy, and rushed the child into her arms:
"Mother is fine, mother can stand up!"

"As long as you're alive, Xiao An, it's great that you're alive!"

The child stretched out a finger and pointed to Xue Fang behind him:

"Mother, it was this general who saved me!"

The woman nodded heavily:

"Mother knows, hurry up, kowtow to the general to thank you!"

The child was very sensible, turned around quickly, and knelt down towards Xue Fang.

Xue Fang frowned slightly, untied the cloak on his back, and covered the puddle of flesh with the cloak before the child turned around completely.

But there is still a small beach that is not covered up and exposed to people.

However, just as he was troubled by this, another person stepped out from behind and stepped on the small puddle of flesh and blood with his official boots, preventing the child named Xiao An from seeing an overly bloody scene.

"Xiao An, thank you General for saving your life!"

The child knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times.

"He's a good boy."

Seeing this, the person next to Xue Fang said half-jokingly and half-seriously:
"Commander Xue hasn't confiscated any disciples yet, right?"

"Why don't you take one today?"

This sentence was meant as a joke, but unexpectedly, Xue Fang thought about it seriously, and finally nodded:
"Eunuch Yan, you have a good suggestion."

He looked at the child and asked:
"Is your name Xiao An?"

The child nodded in response:

"General, my name is Guo An, safe and happy Ann."

Xue Fang laughed at himself:
"Are you safe and happy..."

"If you can't have enough strength, how can you live a safe and happy life?"

He took off a jade pendant from his waist, walked up to the child, put it in the child's hand, and said:
"My name is Xue Fang, and I am the commander of the imperial guards."

"Now take your mother back to find a doctor to have a look at the injury. Tomorrow, bring this jade pendant to the north gate to find me as a teacher. I will teach you enough to protect yourself and your mother!"

"if……"

"If I could survive today."

　I owe two chapters this week, and I must pay it off before the end of the weekend

　　
　
(End of this chapter)