After sending Meng Tingru away, Mr. Jiang said to Yu Zizhen disapprovingly, "Sir, you shouldn't have said those things to him. He's just an ordinary country gentleman."
Yu Zizhen's expression was calm, his tone objective yet tinged with curiosity. "Can't ordinary gentry do their utmost to protect themselves and their families? Or is there a law in the Great Qi that prohibits ordinary gentry from keeping servants who have trained in martial arts?"
Mr. Jiang was speechless after being rebuked by her, but Yu Zizhen's expression and tone of voice, which seemed to be sticking to the facts and asking questions sincerely, made him suspect that she was deliberately rebuking him without any evidence.
Mr. Jiang silently swallowed a mouthful of blood, then said to Yu Zizhen in the same calm tone: "That's not the case. It's just that with his status and financial resources, even if he puts all his efforts into it, the troops he trains will definitely not be elite."
Yu Zizhen was speechless. She reminded Mr. Jiang, "You also said that he was just an ordinary country gentleman. How could he train an elite army? His enemies were not foreigners from outside the Great Wall. He just wanted to protect himself from the rioters and bandits."
How strong could the fighting power of the rioters and bandits be? As long as the people trained by Meng Tingru dared to take action, as long as they could beat three or even five people at once, then their family would no longer be fish on the chopping board to be slaughtered at will.
Yu Zizhen secretly complained: "Do you think everyone is like you, with such grand ambitions to conquer the world? We are just ordinary people who want to protect our families!"
After hearing what she said, Mr. Jiang suddenly realized that his perspective on the matter was indeed a bit too condescending.
He adjusted his mood and said, "Your Highness is right. I was just mistaking my thoughts."
Yu Zizhen raised her eyebrows. She was surprised that Mr. Jiang could admit his mistake so readily.
She said, "Mr. Jiang is a man of great achievements. His vision and pattern are naturally not comparable to those of ordinary people."
Mr. Jiang smiled bitterly. Although Yu Zizhen's words were extremely sincere, he still felt like he was being mocked.
However, he did not think that Yu Zizhen was mocking him deliberately. After all, Yu Zizhen was only seven years old, and Mr. Jiang did not think that she could cultivate into an old hermaphrodite at this age.
He said to Yu Zizhen, "If the prince has no other instructions, I will take my leave."
Yu Zizhen stood up and saw him out. "Thank you for taking care of everything, Mr. Jiang. You've worked hard."
Mr. Jiang was very pleased. He bowed and said, "This is all my responsibility. I dare not say that it is hard work for you, Your Highness."
Yu Zizhen smiled and gave Mr. Jiang a little support. Mr. Jiang stood up and walked slowly towards the door.
After crossing the threshold, Mr. Jiang stopped at the door and gently advised Yu Zizhen, "Sir, there are too many injustices in this world. You can't handle them all."
Yu Zizhen was stunned for a moment, then realized that Mr. Jiang must have noticed something from her energetic look tonight.
She didn't feel the slightest bit of shame about being caught pretending to be sick. "Then I'll just take care of it."
The girl has a bright smile and a childish face, but her expression is extremely resolute.
Mr. Jiang looked at her and said with mixed feelings, "Those who accomplish great things don't pay attention to trivial matters. You, the prince, should focus on the overall situation."
Although she didn't know how Yu Zizhen knew that there would be a disaster in Mengjiazhuang tonight, if it weren't for her, the guards of their palace would not have been forced by the situation to shoot arrows at the refugees.
Although this matter is not enough to shake the Zhenbei Palace, they still have to spend some effort to settle it.
Hearing what Mr. Jiang said, Yu Zizhen chuckled in his heart.
Bullshit about putting the overall situation first. Damn, people who accomplish great things don’t care about trivial matters. Her, Yu Zizhen’s “big things”, and their so-called “big things” have never been the same thing.
These civilians, whom they regard as ants, are cannon fodder that she must protect.
Summer insects cannot talk about ice, and people with different ideals cannot work together. She did not argue with Mr. Jiang, but just smiled meaningfully, "Don't worry, I won't let the prince down for the rest of his life."
Mr. Jiang felt uncomfortable with her laughter, but he couldn't tell where this uncomfortable feeling came from, so he could only secretly make up his mind to strengthen his observation and guidance of Yu Zizhen in the future and never let her go astray.
Yu Zizhen had no idea that Mr. Jiang had a "lofty ambition" to transform her character and ideas. She took the time to sleep for a while, then washed up after dawn and had a hearty breakfast carefully prepared by the Meng family. Finally, accompanied by the two little ones, she got on the carriage and headed towards the county town.
Mengjiazhuang is very close to Kangping County. After the convoy had been traveling for about an hour, Meng Tingru brought his family to say goodbye to Yu Zizhen and others.
They would enter the city with their servants, while Yu Zizhen and others would separate from them outside the city gate and then head straight to the provincial capital along the official road.
After saying goodbye to each other, Yu Zizhen got on the carriage as Meng Tingru and her family saw him off. Immediately afterwards, Yu Zizhen heard a series of announcements coming from the baby-voice system.
That was the sound of points being credited after the mission was completed. In addition to the points obtained from the main mission of saving Meng Tingru's family, Yu Zizhen also obtained a lot of related points.
According to the system, this was because when the guards of the Zhenbei Palace were dealing with the corpse last night, Meng Tingru organized the servants to distribute all the food, vegetables, firewood, medicinal materials, chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, cotton clothes and quilts, pots, pans, etc. in the house.
Most of the refugees who gathered around Mengjiazhuang waiting to receive porridge were very grateful to Meng Tingru.
When they heard the servant of the Meng family who was responsible for distributing supplies say that the Meng family was attacked by refugees and Meng Tingru was preparing to take his family into the city, they thought that Meng Tingru would vent his anger on them, who were also refugees. However, they did not expect that Meng Tingru was actually thinking of distributing everything he could from his home to them before entering the city.
Everyone was moved and ashamed at the same time. Many people lined up to receive things from the servants of the Meng family, crying and kowtowed in front of the gate of Mengjiazhuang.
Seeing this, the servants of the Meng family finally felt a little relieved. Thinking of their master's previous instructions, the servants of the Meng family began to warn the refugees who had taken the things:
"There are so many of you, and each of you gets a very limited share. So, theoretically, there shouldn't be any danger. But those heartless wolves are very different from us. You might just take advantage of them, while they come to trouble you with nothing."
"That's right! Everyone, after receiving your gifts, you must be more vigilant. If you really can't get the upper hand, just give up your gifts and save your own lives."
The refugees immediately became wary upon hearing this. They felt that those bastards weren't just "something that might happen," but would definitely come and rob them. After all, if they could lay hands on the Meng family who cooked porridge for them every day, what other unscrupulous things would they not do?
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