What's so interesting about watching people distribute porridge?
Yuan Yao still wanted to refuse.
At this moment, Xie Zhi said again, "Those brother and sister have caused a lot of trouble, and they deserve what they got."
Let's go, let's go take a look. I'll bring you back after we're done.
The streets have become lively these past two days.
Things from Huai River City are nowhere to be found in the capital!
Yuan Yao: "..."
She thought to herself, "I'm really someone who can't resist temptation..."
Yuan Yao put down the paper and pen: "Go and come back quickly, or I'll tell my father!"
"good!"
Xie Zhi smiled radiantly.
Danqing turned a blind eye and followed the two out the door.
At noon, the sun was blazing.
Once outside the restaurant, one is exposed to the scorching sun.
Walking down the street, Yuan Yao could barely keep her eyes open.
After the flood receded, the city was cleaned up for several days. Now, there is not a trace of mud, and the entire street is so clean that it almost reflects light.
Suddenly, darkness fell overhead as an umbrella blocked the sunlight.
Danqing said gently, "Princess, you caught a cold earlier, so it's best if you don't expose yourself to the sun."
Yuan Yao nodded obediently.
Xie Zhi walked casually beside her, turned around and saw her holding an umbrella, and couldn't help but laugh and say, "Little Yao'er, what are you doing with an umbrella?"
When the sun comes out, it's meant to be enjoyed.
Look at you, your skin is so white it's almost as white as jade!
"Get some sun, get a tan, it'll look healthier."
Yuan Yao was speechless for a moment.
She glared at him: "Are you just jealous that I'm fairer than you?"
"Hahaha..." Xie Zhi laughed heartily: "Why would I be jealous of you? I just love getting tanned, the darker the better!"
Good my ass!
Getting too much sun exposure can easily cause skin cancer, right?
Besides, it's pitch black, what's so beautiful about that?
She prefers sunny people, but dislikes people who get tanned by the sun!
Xie Zhi was like a mischievous monkey, running around everywhere.
Along the street, some small stalls have been set up, selling trinkets and gadgets.
Xie Zhi looked around at this house and that house, and after a while, he picked up two shell-shaped objects and handed them to Yuan Yao like treasures: "Guess what these are."
Yuan Yao glanced at it: "Seashell?"
"Guess again," Xie Zhi said.
Yuan Yao: "..."
Little brat, how boring!
Seeing her blank expression, Xie Zhi laughed and said, "This is called a clam!"
“Isn’t a clam just a seashell?” Yuan Yao said.
Xie Zhi smiled and said, "These are river clams. When cooked by a skilled chef, they are especially fresh."
"When we get back to the restaurant later, Brother Zhi will make it for you!"
Yuan Yao took small steps, squinted, and looked up at Xie Zhi: "...Don't think I didn't realize you were praising your own cooking skills."
Xie Zhi laughed heartily.
The two walked for a while longer.
The further you walk, the more people there are on the street.
The floodwaters receded, the plague was brought under control, and the people were overjoyed. With nothing else to do, they would go out and stroll around the streets.
Upon seeing Yuan Yao, the people who recognized her greeted her happily: "Princess, there are too many people ahead, you'd better not go!"
Yuan Yao smiled sweetly and said, "Thank you, I'll just browse around."
"It's crowded, not good to shop around." A slightly plump woman said kindly, "The prefect's daughter and son are distributing porridge."
Xie Zhichong's wife laughed and said, "We just went to see them distribute porridge."
"Oh dear, what's so interesting about distributing porridge?" the woman continued. "That area is stinky; only refugees and people who have no food at home go there to get porridge."
It smells awful?
Yuan Yao paused for a moment before asking, "Auntie, why does it smell so bad over there?"
The woman's smile faded considerably, and she sighed, "The prefect's son and daughter went to play in the place where plague patients are quarantined."
They contracted the plague and then went to Xiangsu Pavilion for tea and snacks...
Many unsuspecting people were infected with the plague...
These brother and sister have ruined hundreds of people in one go!
Today, they came out to distribute porridge and also displayed confessions.
The patients and their families who contracted the plague because of them hated them to death, throwing rotten eggs and vegetable scraps at them!
As she spoke, the woman shook her head.
The son and daughter of the prefect were pelted with rotten eggs and vegetable leaves?
Yuan Yao and Xie Zhi exchanged a glance before asking the woman, "Don't the prefect's men care?"
"Why should we care?" the woman sighed. "In some families, people died from the plague, and they were already being kind by not throwing stones at those two siblings..."
The woman then went on and on.
Yuan Yao pursed her lips.
Xie Zhi walked over and took her small hand: "Come on, let's go take a look."
Yuan Yao wanted to refuse, but Xie Zhi grabbed her away.
The two pushed through the crowd and walked inside.
On the street, a tent was set up, and under the tent, several large wooden barrels were placed.
Large "confessions" were hung on the wooden poles on both sides of the tent.
The confession detailed the mistakes made by the Li siblings.
Although the two came to distribute porridge, it seemed that no one came to claim a single bowl.
At this moment, the brother and sister were covered in various colors and emitted a foul stench.
Li Zhenzhu cried countless times; her eyes were swollen.
The stench of scalding egg liquid dripped down her hair and clothes, and rotten vegetable leaves clung to her head; she dared not even reach out to pick them up.
Li Rui shielded her, shouting, "Don't hit my sister, hit me..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a rotten egg flew through the air and hit him squarely in the face.
The eggshell broke, and rotten egg liquid flowed down her brow bone and cheeks, soaking into her clothes.
The surrounding residents, who had thrown things around, remained angry.
"It's all your fault! You've caused us to get sick! You're a menace!"
"You are the sons and daughters of the prefect, and you have contracted the plague and need treatment. My mother didn't get the good medicine and she's gone..."
"Stop pretending to give out porridge! The prefect is such a good person, it's all because of you two siblings! You jinxes!"
"..."
Various curses and insults rang out from all around.
Most of the rotten eggs and vegetable leaves were thrown on my body.
Only a small number of people, either because they were unskilled or stood too far away, managed to throw the ball at the Li siblings' heads.
After smashing it for a long time, apart from getting a little dirty, the brother and sister were not injured.
These people, tormented by the plague and separated from their loved ones forever, still couldn't bring themselves to use excessive force...
Yuan Yao looked on, and besides sighing and feeling sympathy, she didn't know what to say.
The damage was already irreversible.
Even if they tried to remedy the situation, they had already missed their chance.
The dead have long since turned into a handful of ashes and are buried deep underground.
Those who are atoning for their sins, may remain here to atone.
Yuan Yao called to Xie Zhi, "Let's go back."
Xie Zhi nodded: "Let's go."
He said to the crowd that had gathered, "Excuse me, please make way, please let me pass..."
As his voice rang out, Yuan Yao felt a gaze fixed on her back.
She frowned and turned around.
Inside the porridge stall, Li Zhenzhu, with rotten egg liquid clinging to her eyelashes, looked at her from afar...
After staying in the Huai River for a full month, the plague was completely over.
As dawn broke, several hundred people, fully equipped and ready to depart, some on horseback and others in horse-drawn carriages, waited at the foot of the city gate of Huai River City.
Li Chang, whose skin was peeling from the sun, rode his horse to a carriage and said, "Your Majesty, Princess, it's time to set off."
The Ninth Prince smiled and said, "Let's go."
Yuan Yao lifted the carriage curtain and gazed at the towering Huai River city wall shrouded in mist. Her sweet, childlike voice was filled with excitement: "Back to the capital! Back to the capital!"
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