Back and forth: I brought supplies to help the impoverished prince

Chapter 138 Rescue

Today was indeed very lively just as Qiao Shinian had imagined. Passersby on the street were interrupted by the next rumor before they had even finished telling the previous one.

Listening to the discussions of the people along the way, Qiao Shinian felt happy, but he also felt a little reluctant about their future.

If we help them now, they will all become obstacles on the road to unification in the future.

If we don't help them, they will starve to death or die of disease in various disasters.

"What's wrong? Are you unhappy?" Mu Qingchen, who had been paying attention to Qiao Shinian, immediately noticed her low mood.

Qiao Shinian smiled reluctantly, "I think my actions just now must have offended a lot of people. I was just a nobody before, with no sense of existence at all. What if I was retaliated against for making such a big fuss just now? You won't ignore me, right?"

"I will protect you from harm." Mu Qingchen didn't say much but just said this. Qiao Shinian nodded: "Well, I believe you. If you don't care about me, I can only abandon Wen Jiu and hide back home. Thinking about it this way, I feel very sorry for him."

Mu Qingchen discovered that Qiao Shinian particularly liked being in a lively environment. She always looked around in surprise and was curious about everything, like a newborn baby.

Especially when standing on the bridge and looking at those flower boats, my eyes were wide open.

He wasn't sure whether she was looking at the dancers at the bow or the handsome young men.

So he frowned from time to time, and glanced in the direction Qiao Shinian was looking at from time to time.

Fortunately, the parading flower boats passed by quickly, and Qiao Shinian retracted his gaze and prepared to move forward.

The bridge was crowded, but she could stand there and watch the parade of flower boats peacefully, thanks mainly to Mu Qingchen and Qingyu and Yingzhu who had returned from their work.

"Ah! Someone fell into the water!"

"Someone jumped into the river!"

At this moment, different sounds came one after another in the crowded bridge.

Qiao Shinian quickly pushed aside the crowd behind him and leaned over to take a look. He saw a girl struggling below.

"Ah~, my daughter!"

"That scholar is such a nuisance. Not only did he jump into the river, he also dragged the little girl into the river with him."

People around who saw what happened have started talking about it.

"Help!" Qiao Shinian shouted to both sides.

Everyone shook their heads and said at once: "I can't swim."

"Neither can I."

Several men shook their heads, and the women covered their mouths, looking as if they couldn't bear to watch any more. Only the mother lay on the bridge, shouted twice, then knelt on the ground and begged someone to save her daughter.

Qiao Shinian looked down again, immediately took off his thin coat and stuffed his coat and purse into Mu Qingchen's hands, stretched briefly, and immediately jumped down from the position next to him.

Before Mu Qingchen could reach out to stop him, Qiao Shinian had already fallen into the water.

The people following behind stared at this scene in disbelief: "Is she crazy? What does the virtuous king do for a living? He can't even stop a woman!"

Qinghong covered her mouth in disbelief and hurriedly took two steps forward to take a look.

Qiao Shinian picked up the little girl and swam to the shore, where Mu Qingchen was already waiting. Without saying anything, she went back and grabbed the scholar who had implicated the little girl. After finally dragging him to the shore, she was exhausted and lay there gasping for breath.

Mu Qingchen quickly wrapped her in his coat, picked her up, looked at the scholar lying on the shore spitting water, frowned and ordered: "Take him back to the palace."

"It's said that men and women shouldn't touch each other. You're a prince, you..."

"Don't say that anymore. Come back tomorrow morning. I'll send a message to the Thirteenth Prince later." Mu Qingchen interrupted Qiao Shinian.

"Yiyi!" The girl's mother watched her daughter cough. After confirming that her daughter was fine, she kowtowed to the person walking away: "Thank you, girl. Thank you so much."

Looking at the person walking away, Mo Lin sighed and pulled Qinghong in the opposite direction.

As the two groups of people walked away, a girl in a pink dress came out surrounded by the crowd.

Princess Yu'an was surprised. She looked at Wen Jiu in amazement: "Your maid is amazing! It seems that your plan was successful. He really cares about her!"

Wen Jiu said "hmm" expressionlessly, his eyes fixed on Qiao Shinian who was being carried away.

Lan Sheng said to Princess Yu'an with a smile: "Princess, we have finished watching the show. It's time to go back to the palace now, right? If you are any later, the palace gates will be closed. If the queen knows that I am with you and you are still late, I am afraid she will blame me."

Princess Yu'an looked at Mu Qingchen's back as he walked away and nodded with satisfaction: "Let's go back."

Gu Ahua secretly glanced at Wen Jiu, and seeing that he looked unhappy, she quietly moved away from him.

Wu Han couldn't help but turn around to take another look, but still said nothing and left with them.

Lan Sheng seemed unaware of it and patted Wen Jiu on the shoulder: "You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. Take it easy, it's just a chess piece." He deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word "chess piece".

Wen Jiu glanced at him coldly and followed Princess Yu'an without saying a word.

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"Well, I'm fine." After returning to the palace, Qiao Shinian saw that Mu Qingchen had a serious face. She tried to ease the atmosphere. "It's just that I rescued two people in a row, and my adrenaline dropped, so I lost my strength. In fact, I will be fine in a while."

Mu Qingchen silently swallowed the three words "call the imperial physician" that were about to come to his lips. He looked up at Yingzhu and said, "Is the water ready? Take her to change into clean clothes."

Yingzhu led Qiao Shinian to take a shower and change clothes.

Facing Yingzhu's service, Qiao Shinian found that she couldn't refuse. She looked at Yingzhu with a bitter face: "Really, I can wash myself. It's very...very inconvenient for you to do this."

Yingzhu lowered her head and pleaded, "Miss, the prince is angry tonight. If I can't serve you well, I'm afraid I will never see you again."

"Is it that serious?" Qiao Shinian hesitated and took off all her clothes. She stepped into the wooden tub and waved her hands at the person who was about to help her take a bath: "No! Don't come over. I can wash myself. Really!"

"Girl~" Yingzhu stretched out her voice and looked at Qiao Shinian pitifully.

"Well, how about you bring in another bucket of water and help me wash my hair?" Qiao Shinian reached out and touched his head, his tone full of pleading: "I really hope there are no other things in that river that shouldn't be there."

"Okay, please wait a moment, girl. I'll get the basin to wash your hair." Yingzhu's tone became noticeably cheerful.

There was still no soap at this time. Qiao Shinian looked at a bucket of soup cooked using traditional methods and stretched her neck.

Yingzhu gently washed Qiao Shinian's hair. Her eyes rolled and her tone was slightly cheerful: "Miss, I think you must have been sent by God to pity my prince."

"Hmm?" Qiao Shinian suddenly opened his closed eyes. This development was not right.

Yingzhu said in a very surprised tone: "I actually saw the prince smile today, that is really rare! Although the prince always greeted people with a smile in the past, that smile was too cold and emotionless.

At noon, I saw that the prince's smile was happy and relaxed, just like an ordinary person's smile. "

The corners of Qiao Shinian's mouth twitched slightly, and her voice was a little dry: "Your words remind me of some classic novels about overbearing CEOs."

In another part of the palace, Mu Qingchen supported her face with one hand and looked at the scholar kneeling on the ground. After listening to the reason why he committed suicide by jumping into the river, she looked up at Qingyu and said, "Take him away, give him clean clothes, and wait."

"Yes."