Qingchuan History

Chapter 816 Hurricane
When news of the turmoil in Ning'an reached Suoning, Ruan Xueyin was decocting medicine in the kitchen of the courtyard.

This alley is remote and quiet, and there is no knock on the door except her.But at the moment she was in the courtyard, Ruan Zhong was beside her, but the sound of dong dong could be heard distinctly, it was especially frightening under the bright spring sun.

"I'll go and have a look." Ruan Zhong was about to get up while helping to add firewood.

Ruan Xueyin held her down, "It's not convenient for you to meet people."

The spring flowers in the courtyard have already bloomed. It is an apricot tree with white petals and red stamens standing grandly. Against the blue sky above it, it looks like flowing clouds.

Back then Ruan Zhong asked the guards to find an orange blossom tree to plant, but Qianli reported it to Gu Xinglang.Gu Xinglang replied that you can plant any kind of flower but you can't plant orange blossoms. The guard moved an old apricot tree into the hospital. It has been two years and it always blooms in spring.

Ruan Xueyin walks under the tree in the color of lake water, corresponding to the blue sky covered by flowers, and suddenly becomes a painting.Then he went to the door, but didn't open it, and asked in a low voice:

"What's the matter?"

The voice at the other end was even lower. Ruan Zhong stood by the small kitchen window and couldn't hear a word.

He just saw her froze.

When the face turned back, the expression was different.

"what happened?"

She went back to the kitchen to look for medicine, Ruan Zhong waited for a while before asking.

"I have to go back to Ning'an. I can't say when I'll come back to give you the acupuncture." Ruan Xueyin looked at him seriously, "I'm sorry, I should have used the needles non-stop to see the effect, and maybe heal."

Ruan Zhong smiled, "Good things take time."

Before she came back, he had been imprisoned for hundreds of days and was suffering from illnesses. He was really on the verge of collapse.

But people really only need one hope in life, especially for a determined person like him.As long as she appears, even just for a moment or once, he will be able to get out of the abyss and persist for another year or two.

What's more, it has been seven days.

For seven consecutive days, seeing each other every day and getting along with each other for a long time, he was satisfied and his fighting spirit for life had been rekindled.

"Yes. As I said, you will be cured." Ruan Xueyin rubbed off the medicine dregs and firewood ash in her palm, and quickly began to distribute the medicinal materials, instructing him on the decoction steps and key points.

Every day she manages him by his side, in fact, he has already seen it.

But she wanted to tell her, so he listened, nodded earnestly, and received every bit of care.

"Looking at you like this, I really want to help, although I don't know what's going on, it's not easy." Before leaving, he couldn't hold back and said his heartfelt voice.

"Fifth Brother, as long as he said at that time, throw away the fire and never pick it up, it will be the greatest help. The two years of hard work in detoxification will not be wasted."

Ruan Zhong was startled, "Yes—"

"I'm leaving first." Ruan Xueyin didn't want to say any more, "Take your medicine on time."

The carriage left Suoning and was stopped outside the boundary marker. It was Jing Tingge who jumped out of the carriage and saw the children, and said in amazement:
"Just go away by yourself?"

"It's about time you came back."

"I said Ayan and Chaochao. Ning'an was in turmoil, but you left them alone in Suoning?"

"Do you want to take them to Ning'an, which is in turmoil?"

Jingting Ge Fang sat down, "Is it safe?"

"They are all master guards for the queen. And in the old palace, there are many checkpoints, it is definitely safer and safer than going there." Ruan Xueyin stared at her, "You are willing to come back."

"I came here to see the child." Jing Tingge said frankly, "The temporary trip to Mianzhou is just to help you find out Ruan Moxi's reality."

"Fictitious geometry?"

"Of course it's false. Such an idiot beauty, do you believe that she can manipulate the old country to create chaos? If it's really her, I dare not come back." After a short pause, he continued:
"Or is it really just those wounded soldiers who rebelled after the war? Are you overthinking it?"

"Before the turmoil in Ning'an, I would still reflect on myself. Now, I can no longer deceive myself." Ruan Xue's voice was as deep as winter water, "Since you are here to see the child, don't go to Ning'an with me, go to the old palace."

Jing Tingge was surprised, "Aren't you afraid that I will take A Yan away?"

"Where to take it, go back to Cangwu to find her father?"

At the time of the first delivery, they could still be arranged quietly, but now that Princess Fang'ai knows the world, it is indeed difficult to handle.

"You're ruthless." Jing Tingge raised the curtain again in a deep voice, "Stop!"

The two guards were assigned Mr. Hu Jing to go to the old palace.

"After entering the palace, don't let her out without the will of the palace." Ruan Xueyin ordered in the car.

"Yes."

"Keep an eye on the low sky and the vicinity of Fuxi Nuan Pavilion where they live. If you see a golden bird with pink feathers, shoot it down no matter whether it is going or coming."

The two soldiers outside the car were stunned.

"Shoot it in the lightest way, so that it can't fly anymore, then search, if there is a letter, send it to Ning'an with the fastest horse, your majesty or this palace." Just listen to the inside of the car and say again.

There was another pause, "Usually in the left wing."

"Yes!"

The car drove on the gradually slippery official road in Yindong.It rained last night in Suoning, but today is clear, but the cumulonimbus cloud seems to be moving all the way south, covering the remaining four cities and their surrounding counties and towns in shadow.

Rain is coming.

Ruan Xueyin's mind was full of all the details that she had noticed in the past year.

"Your Highness." But the voice of the person who delivered the secret report outside the courtyard door earlier sounded again.

Just by the car window, accompanied by the sound of horseshoes.

"Long story short. How did it start, and how was it when you left?"

The Yindong family marched into Ning'an city in a mighty manner, the head of the family was nearly sixty years old, but it was the mother of the head of the family, who was over eighty years old, an old lady who came forward.The old lady claimed that her great-granddaughter was displaced due to family disputes three years ago, she searched for thousands of days, and finally found a clue in Ning'an this spring.

But they never found anyone. After many inquiries, they found out that she had been admitted to a medical hall and also worked as a nurse in a post-war wounded barracks, but after going to Xia, no one saw her again.

"Where did she say that?"

"In front of the government office. The eighty-year-old woman beat the drum in person, and she was born in a noble family, which directly attracted Lord Hua Bin and a group of officials who were in the government office at that time to show up."

"Is Your Majesty here?"

"exist."

But of course it is impossible to show up for a string of drums.

At least not for the first time.

But the government office is in the center of Ning'an City, and the emperor's visit is more lively than usual, so there must be a lot of onlookers.

"Beating the drum is a report. The old woman hopes that the government will help her find her great-granddaughter?"

"Yes."

With Hua Bin and others' ostentatious skills, welcoming people into the government office to receive the complaint, and then making some inquiries, at least this round can be passed, and there will be no trouble.

But what Gu Xinglang's secret guard outside the car was reporting was clearly the incident of the riot.

"Then someone in the onlookers said something?"

"Yes. There are more and more people around, and there are endless discussions. I can no longer tell who is talking about what. Then I gradually started to say that in the past two years, women in the wounded barracks have been persecuted, and they were all suppressed by the officers. more than one."

Such remarks in the crowd, on such occasions, will definitely be spread immediately, like boiling water in an instant.

"The old lady of the aristocratic family and several people in her family, including Mrs. Hua, were in front of the government office, a little far away from the crowd. When these words were passed on, they all changed their colors."

"And the aristocratic family is different from ordinary people. They are full of confidence and momentum. When they hear about this kind of thing, they immediately feel compassion. They not only want to find their great-granddaughter, but also seek explanations for the girls who are rumored to be missing." Ruan Xueyin Answer quietly.

"Your Highness's enlightenment." Being repeatedly caught by the queen, the hidden guard did not dare to delay while being grateful, and continued to report:

"When the old lady heard that her great-granddaughter was afraid of being persecuted, she couldn't stand still. With the support of her family, she managed to regain her composure. Trembling, she held the hammer and beat the drum again, and shouted for grievances."

Such a picture should be shocking, and can deeply arouse the sympathy and empathy of the onlookers.

It came too fast.Ruan Xueyin closed her eyes for a moment and continued to listen.

The people rushed to the front of the government office like a tide, it was almost noon, and the main street was surrounded by water, and the boats on the river were also crowded past, watching the excitement or making trouble, the intentional and the unintentional, the more indistinguishable, only the hurricane is approaching The smoke and dust are constantly drifting away, indicating the turmoil that is about to start.

The officers and soldiers came with weapons, but they could not hurt the people and barely maintained order. Hua Bin tried his best to repeat "the rumors cannot be trusted" and "the truth will be verified".

His voice was quickly drowned out, and the crowd shouted and shoved, and they didn't know what they were shouting.Then the old lady's voice of grievances turned into something else:
In the past, when the monarch of the Yin Kingdom was in power, Dengwen Drum was set up outside the court hall. Those who had serious grievances could beat the drum and sound it to directly sue the king;
Your Majesty is now in Ning'an, the government office is the court, the common people have grievances, and they may be involved in more than one murder case, or even involve the military commander, so they turn a deaf ear to it? !
"Your Majesty has come out?" The sound of horses' hooves and wheels splashed in the mud soaked in the drizzle, and Ruan Xueyin's heart was suspended when she heard this.

"Your Majesty appeared. But he came by car from the other side of the main street. When the drums sounded for the first time, Your Majesty left through the back door, and has been silently watching at the end of the long street."

It's Gu Xinglang's style.

To guard against all kinds of accidents, but also to explain the reason for not showing up all the time - not in the government office at all.

"The lord opened the way with a guard of honor, and the common people gave way to both sides. When you got on and off the car in front of the government office, everyone knelt down and shouted long live. The old lady was helped up by the lord."

Gu Xinglang stood in front of the people and said that since the founding of the country, Daqi has always severely punished those who robbed and abused women; in the Jinghong Dynasty, he even promoted women's classes, and the respect and love for women can be learned from the sun and the moon; Rumors, of course, must be investigated. If they are true, no matter whether they live or die, those girls must be found out, and the evildoers must die to apologize.

But the death of pistachio was known.Ruan Xueyin thought so, but she heard the dark guard continue:
"At this time, there were shouts from the crowd, saying that in January, an orphan girl who had been a nurse was sick and died. Now it seems that she was persecuted instead of dying of illness. It is said that the girl was still a student of Her Highness the Queen."

Vaguely named.

Clearly directed attention.

It is a hint that such a close relationship, the queen and even the emperor may know about it.

But chose to hide.

(End of this chapter)