Waving over the nearest guard, Yu Zizhen said to the man, "I'll have my guards go and inform your family. Please tell them the address."
The child's father looked embarrassed and said, "My home is far away."
His family lived in a slum very close to the city wall. If it weren't for the Dragon Boat Festival today, and he wanted to bring his children out to join in the fun and see the world, they and their son would not have appeared on this bustling street that he usually deliberately avoided.
When he took his child out, he never dreamed that while he was buying his son a candied haws, his son actually ran to the middle of the road by himself.
Of course, what he could not have imagined was that he and his son could actually dine at the same table with a distinguished person like Yu Zizhen.
He heard the guards calling Yu Zizhen "Prince". Prince, to be called that, his biological father must be at least an uncle. Is this someone that common people like them can get close to?
According to his inherent understanding, let alone his son being rescued by someone, even if he was not rescued, he could only kowtow to the ground and apologize for his son's offense against the noble person.
Otherwise, if they angered the noble, their family would be destroyed in a matter of minutes.
"It doesn't matter if it's far away. They have horses." Yu Zizhen patted the child's thin shoulder. "Let's say the person is not injured, but frightened. The doctor said that for the sake of caution, we should stay in the hospital for the time being. Is that okay?"
The man nodded vigorously, "Okay, okay."
Yu Zizhen thought for a moment and said to the guard who was in charge of delivering the message, "If their families are worried, you can hire a car to take them to the clinic. You can ask Feng Yuan for the expenses."
The guard took the order and left. After he left, Yu Zizhen, Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi sent the father and son to the clinic for temporary stay.
The room in the clinic is spacious, and the bedding is thick and clean, but there are not many things in the room, so it looks a bit empty.
Seeing that Yu Zizhen seemed unhappy, the apprentice sent by the doctor to settle the father and son in the clinic said carefully, "They can use the firewood in the yard and the water in the well. The stove at the door and the pottery pot on it can also be borrowed to boil water and cook porridge. If they want to have breakfast with the clinic staff tomorrow, they can each have two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge, which costs six cents for the two of them."
Before Yu Zizhen could say anything, the man had already waved his hand to refuse without hesitation, "No, no need, we can bear it and eat after we get home."
Yu Zizhen was a little amused and helpless. Breakfast cost only three cents per person, and she had no idea what this person was saving for her.
She didn't agree. The clinic provided meals, and she saved Feng Yuan the trouble of packing three meals a day for them.
So she not only ordered breakfast for the father and son at the clinic, but also gave the apprentice an extra dime, "Please cook them some chicken noodle soup tonight, and an extra bowl of egg custard for each person in the morning."
If she wasn't afraid that they would suddenly eat too much oil and their stomachs wouldn't be able to handle it, Yu Zizhen would have wanted to just give them a whole chicken. It wouldn't cost her much anyway.
She pointed at Feng Yuan and said, "That's Feng Yuan. You should ask him to pay for all the expenses of the father and son at the clinic."
Upon hearing the voice, Feng Yuan bowed slightly towards the apprentice in the clinic as a greeting.
The apprentice in the clinic also hurriedly returned the greeting and gave his name.
Yu Zizhen asked the accompanying guards to hand over all the buns, pancakes, and steamed buns that they had packed from the noodle shop to the child's father. "Keep these. Whenever you feel hungry, just steam them in a clay pot and fill your stomach."
The man subconsciously waved his hand, but the guard pushed the small bundle containing several oil-paper bags into his hand without hesitation. "Take it. My prince can't take these back to the palace."
The guard thought to himself, if the look in your eyes when you and your son looked at those noodles clearly showed "reluctance to leave" and "heartache", how could his son suddenly ask the store owner to pack them up.
The man realized it belatedly and muttered with a red face, "Thank you, Prince."
Yu Zizhen smiled. It was a good thing not to waste food. If she didn't want to be regarded as a lunatic by the people around her, she would not have wasted food so blatantly.
Didn’t you see that when she was alone in the private room of the teahouse, she put all the snacks that she hadn’t eaten into the system warehouse without leaving a single one behind?
Only when others were watching would she be forced to waste food to avoid suspicion of her identity, such as at the palace banquet at noon, and just now at the noodle shop.
"Then you guys have a good rest. Brother Chen, Sister Zheng and I will leave first." Yu Zizhen raised her hand and gently touched the child's head, then invited Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi to leave with her.
She invited them to stay at the palace, but they had companions looking for an inn, so they flatly rejected Yu Zizhen's proposal.
Yu Zizhen tentatively offered to reward them with silver and other valuables, but the two of them were not happy and refused.
The outspoken Zheng Yuzhi couldn't help but say, "Instead of giving us the money, why not give it to that father and son who are obviously living in poverty?"
The result of the test made Yu Zizhen very satisfied. So she smiled and explained to the two of them with a cheerful mood, "It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. If I give them money, they will most likely not be able to keep it. Even if they are not targeted by bullies, their relatives will definitely come to them to 'borrow' money once they hear about it."
She deliberately emphasized the word "borrow", and the experienced young couple immediately understood that Yu Zizhen's "borrow" actually meant borrowing without returning.
"I think that person has a soft personality and is easy to manipulate. If I really give him money as compensation, it might just bring endless trouble to them."
"Instead of that, I'd rather spend more time and effort to find a way for him or his wife to make a living, so that they can live a good life with food and clothing through their own efforts."
After Yu Zizhen said this, Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi immediately looked at her differently. They swore that Yu Zizhen was definitely the most unique and powerful person they had ever seen.
The two men praised Yu Zizhen sincerely. Yu Zizhen took the opportunity to remind them to tell Feng Yuan when they had chosen an inn. He also enthusiastically gave them the address of the palace and one of his jade pendants, asking them to find time to visit him when they came to Beijing in the future.
"I felt a strong connection with you two the moment we met. I'd really like to have a drink with you, but I'm still young and can't drink, which is really a pity."
When she said this, Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi suddenly remembered something they had ignored for a long time - the thoughtful and considerate Yu Zizhen was actually just a child who was not even as tall as their waist.
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