Chapter 137: All or Nothing
Yang Kaiguang huddled up in the prison car, his originally fat body having become much thinner.
At this moment, he really regretted it.
He studied hard for more than forty years and put in a lot of effort before he passed the imperial examination at the age of fifty.
He was already old and didn't know how many years he could live. It was impossible for him to climb up the career ladder, so his initial plan was to be a small county magistrate peacefully. Even if he could not become famous throughout the ages, at least he could live with his conscience.
But somehow, he ended up in this situation today.
Now he has lost his reputation, his official position, and soon even his life.
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After Yang Kaiguang was beheaded in public, the people cheered and some even set off firecrackers in the street to celebrate.
The crackling sound was even more lively than the Chinese New Year.
Since all the officials in the local county government had been killed, in order to maintain the normal operation of the county government, the Prince's Tutor and the Prince's Guardian had to take over temporarily.
Luo Qinghan wrote a letter to the Prince's Grand Tutor, asking him to go to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Personnel and send a few reliable officials to Gangu County to take over as soon as possible.
After the palace was built, it had been empty. Luo Qinghan felt that it was a waste to leave the place empty, so he ordered people to open the city gates and let the disaster victims outside the city in to live in the palace.
The palace became a temporary refugee settlement.
There is a porridge stall outside the palace, and rice porridge is distributed regularly every day.
There were mountains of grain in the county government storehouse. All of this grain was withheld from taxes by Yang Kaiguang. He had so much grain and didn't have to worry about going hungry. Naturally, he didn't understand how those disaster victims outside felt who were starving to the point of being worse than death.
Such a large amount of food is enough to feed the people in the city for more than a month.
After settling the victims, the prince began to prepare for praying for rain.
Xiao Xixi tapped the boiled egg gently and said as she peeled the eggshell.
"You asked me what I need to prepare for the rain-making ceremony? Actually, there are only a few things, chicken, duck, fish, meat, fruits, snacks, incense, candles, and paper money."
Luo Qinghan frowned: "Is this all that's needed?"
Xiao Xixi took a bite of the egg and said vaguely, "The rain-making ceremony mainly depends on the intention. As long as the intention is there, everything else will be easy."
Luo Qinghan was half-believing and half-doubting: "If it's really as simple as you said, then everyone can pray for rain, right?"
"Of course that's not possible. You are different from ordinary people. You are the future Son of Heaven. What is the Son of Heaven? It means the son of God. Your own son has come to you with gifts. How can a father refuse?"
"...Why do you always have so many twisted ideas?"
"Don't worry about whether it's absurd or not, as long as the job can be done."
Luo Qinghan looked at her steadily for a moment and said seriously.
"I'm risking everything this time by trusting you. If you can't get rain, both you and I will be in trouble."
Xiao Xixi swallowed the egg in her mouth and comforted him, "Don't worry, if I really can't make it, I can still go back to Xuanmen to live off my parents. Then I'll take you back with me, and we can live off our parents together."
Luo Qinghan: “…”
Not only will you be supporting your parents yourself, you will also be taking your man with you to support them.
You are so promising, does your master know?
Xiao Xixi: "By the way, you will have to read a eulogy at that time."
She found paper and pen and wrote a whole page of eulogy.
Luo Qinghan took the memorial and saw that it was written entirely in vernacular Chinese. The content was very simple. It just described the serious consequences of the drought and at the end begged God to send down rain to save the poor children!
(End of this chapter)
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