Chapter 333: Disaster Victims Enter Heihe Village
Princess Mingzhu glanced at Concubine Shu, pouted, and went out reluctantly.
"What does Your Majesty want to tell me?"
"My beloved, you gave birth to twins that year. Is it certain that the other one...died?"
"Why does Your Majesty ask such a strange question?"
Concubine Shu frowned slightly. "That year, the child was covered in bruises and had stopped breathing. Your Majesty saw it with his own eyes. Your Majesty, are you bringing this up again today to deliberately upset me? After all, that child is your own flesh and blood..."
"It's my fault. I won't mention it again." The emperor leaned over and kissed Concubine Shu on the face. "My beloved, have a good rest. I'll come to see you again in the evening."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Looking at the emperor's departing back, the expression on Concubine Shu's face instantly turned as cold as ice.
She picked up the silk handkerchief beside the pillow, wiped the place where she had just been kissed, and then threw the handkerchief directly on the ground.
The emperor said to Princess Mingzhu, "Zhu'er, let your mother have a good rest. You and your father should go to the Yangxin Palace."
"Okay, Zhu'er loves father the most!"
"Father also likes Zhu'er the most!"
"Father, does Mother dislike Zhu'er?"
"How could that be? Your mother sends the best things in the world to Zhu'er. Doesn't Zhu'er know that?"
"Your Majesty is right. Mother is very kind to me!"
The footsteps of the two people gradually faded away.
Concubine Shu closed her eyes lazily and turned over with an expressionless face.
Two sarcastic chuckles quickly dissipated into the air.
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Heihe Village.
Regarding the location of the temple, Ye Yanping and Zhao Xingjian took Zen Master Huineng out for a few days.
Finally, Zen Master Huineng decided to build the temple on the mountain between Heihe Village and Jingwan Village.
"Master, does this mountain have good feng shui?" Ye Yanping asked.
"Average." said Zen Master Huineng.
"Then why don't we choose again and choose a better position?" Zhao Xingjian said.
Zen Master Huineng shook his head and said, "Look, what can you see from here?"
The two looked down the cliff in the direction the Zen master pointed, and suddenly saw the Ye family's house.
"This way, if I want to see Xiao Jiuer, I can just jump off this cliff and go see her. I don't have to go in or out of the Heihe Village gate. How convenient."
Ye Yanping: "..."
What should I do if my daughter is too likable?
Zhao Xingjian: “…”
When I imagine Zen Master Huineng jumping up and down the cliffs like a monkey in order to see Xiao Jiuer, I inexplicably feel like laughing.
But he is proud!
If he hadn't rescued the dying baby, they would never have had the chance to see the lively and energetic little Jiuer today.
After the location of the temple was chosen, the money was also raised.
The materials are in place, the craftsmen are in place, all that’s missing is the labor.
The villagers of Heihe Village would like to be the laborers, but they are too busy to spare the time to build the temple.
People in the surrounding area are also very busy. In addition to preparing breakfast and supper, they also have to take care of the village's homestays and promote the village's specialty products. Now they are as busy as spinning tops every day.
The Black Eagle Village volunteered, just as Hawkeye said, they had done some wrong things when they occupied the mountain and hoped to use the opportunity of building a temple to atone for their sins.
The construction of the temple began.
During this period, more and more people came to Heihe Village from the capital.
This was something that Heihe Village had anticipated a long time ago, but what they didn't expect was that the people who came to Heihe Village were actually disaster victims!
In other words, not all of the people who come to Heihe Village come to stay in the inn.
Many of them were civilians. Because of the severe disaster in the capital and the rumor that made them panic, they abandoned the capital and fled here.
Compared with the rich people in the capital who have various industries that are difficult to give up, the common people obviously do not have such worries. They take their families and negligible property and set off directly without stopping along the way, heading straight to Heihe Village.
It’s hard to believe, but in the past, disaster victims all chose the capital as their destination for escaping famine, after all, the capital was prosperous and had many opportunities.
But this time, the situation was reversed. The people of the capital fled the capital with their families, just to come to the small Heihe Village in a corner of Dayu.
When the disaster victims arrived at Heihe Village, the first thing they did was to kneel down and worship reverently in front of the village wall. Everyone knew what they were worshipping.
Then the whole family jumped into the river and shouted happily. It can be imagined that they were really fed up with the drought in the capital.
The river in Heihe Village is like a dumpling storage area every day, with people everywhere in the water and on the shore.
Fortunately, Heihe Village planted many trees upstream of the river, and the water quality of the river has improved a lot. Otherwise, these people would know that the name of Heihe Village is not for nothing.
As the number of disaster victims grew, the Heihe Village instructed them to set up camp on the other side of the mountain that had been blown up before and to stay there for the time being.
The drought in the capital had lasted for over three months, which wasn't a long time. Most of the victims had surplus food in their savings, so it wasn't yet necessary for Heihe Village to provide them with porridge.
The victims made it clear to the village head that they would stay in Heihe Village and would not move.
The village head allocated some villagers to lead the victims to dig loess and make mud bricks, so that the victims could build houses first and have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
That day, Zhou Huaining came.
So many disaster victims suddenly poured into Xianchuan County. As the county's chief official, he was under a lot of pressure.
"Senior brother, I miss my dad." Zhou Huaining followed behind Zhao Xingjian with a sad face.
"Go! I don't have a father!" Zhao Xingjian didn't have time to pay attention to him, "Can't you see I'm busy!"
"Brother, what kind of luck do I have?"
Zhou Huaining was full of doubts about his life. "When I was asked to come to Xianchuan County to be the county magistrate, I thought that Xianchuan County was far away and the emperor was high and high, so the position of county magistrate must not be too difficult, so I came! What happened!"
Zhou Huaining sniffed suddenly.
"As a result, I have come to this day inexplicably! Brother, have you ever had a single day of rest since I came to Xianchuan County? I also want to come to Heihe Village to relax for a few days, but I really don't have the time! I am getting busier and busier, so busy that I can't stop at all! I have to worry about more every day than the Prime Minister! Oh my God, is this still Zhou Huaining! I, Zhou Huaining, just want to be a salted fish lying flat on my back!"
Zhao Xingjian turned around while busy and stepped on Zhou Huaining's foot.
"Awoo!" Zhou Huaining covered his feet and howled like a wolf.
Zhao Xingjian patted him and pointed at his waiter outfit.
"Look at me, your senior brother. Do I have anything to complain about? Don't you know what kind of person I was before? Okay! Isn't this just the situation? Look at Zen Master Huineng, and you won't feel so sad anymore!"
"Where is Zen Master Huineng?" Zhou Huaining blinked his moist eyes.
Zhao Xingjian stretched out his hand and pointed in a certain direction.
Zhou Huaining looked closely and said, "Oh my god!"
I saw that Zen Master Huineng was covered with little dolls.
Some of the children touched their bald heads, some pulled their eyebrows, some pulled their beards, and some used their monk robes to wipe their noses...
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