in2ebook Chapter 173 I owe you a life and a relationship
Chapter 173 I owe you a life and a relationship
Chapter 173 I owe you a life, I owe you a relationship
Giving out porridge is just an introduction, the real show is sleeping at night.
Seeing that it was completely dark, Li Yanran had someone carry the soft chair sent by the palace and took her to visit every house. Every time they arrived at a house that had collapsed completely, they would stop and then say to the family in a friendly manner: "It's cold at night. If you really have no place to stay, you can come to our Li family. Our houses are relatively good and can accommodate a lot of people. No matter the master or the servant, everyone can go and squeeze together. It's better than being outside in the cold wind at night. There is a big disaster right now, and the doctors are too busy to handle it. Don't catch a cold, it would be too bad."
After saying this, he added: "It's not polite to talk to you while sitting on a soft chair, but there's nothing I can do. My foot is injured and I can't stand. Please bear with me." As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. Besides, Li Yanran originally had a good reputation in Lin'an Inner City, and now she is here to solve practical problems for everyone. So people said they didn't mind at all, and even asked about her injury.
Of course, the main purpose of people doing this is to live in the Li family. After all, Li Yanran was right. It was cold at night, and if you stayed outside, it might not be a matter of cold, but you would freeze to death.
Now that Li Yanran had come to invite them personally, who could refuse such a good thing? So everyone praised Li Yanran as a living Bodhisattva, and they all urged their family members to pack up and rush to Li's house.
There are too many mansions in the inner city of Lin'an. No matter how big the Li family is, it is impossible to accommodate them all. At this time, it all depends on speed. Whoever runs faster can occupy a bed in the Li family.
As for those who failed to get a bed, they could only make do with living in tents temporarily built by the court, and the conditions there were extremely difficult.
The Li family's home was more lively than ever tonight, with a large number of guests crowding in, making Old Madam Li's scalp numb.
She hurried back to her room and asked the servants to lock the door and keep the yard safe. No matter how noisy it was outside, no outsider would be allowed to live in her yard or house.
Tao sneered at this and didn't comment much. She just told the Li family in the mansion to squeeze in as much as possible. No matter the master or the servant, at least two people should sleep on one bed. She also said loudly in front of the guests: "The country is facing a great disaster. We must not think about our own wealth and comfort. We must work together to overcome this difficulty."
Li Yanran took the lead and moved to Tao's house. When the guests saw that the seriously injured Miss Li acted like this, they had a better impression of her. Some even said, "Last night at the palace banquet, the fourth lady was still unconvinced and wanted to win by dancing. Humph, what's the use of just dancing? When the earth dragon turns over, is she going to dance to cheer the earth dragon? Look at Miss Li, this is called the demeanor of a great family, this is called virtuous and kind. No wonder the Li family can cultivate a queen, only such a family style and education can be called a model of family and country!"
Li Yanran was very happy, Tao was very satisfied, and Li Zhiyuan was also very pleased.
Giving away rice, meat, and a house, isn't it this kind of praise that they want? The Li family had never met Empress Dowager Yu and the current emperor before, and they didn't know where to start to leave a good and deep impression in front of these two. This turn of events came at the perfect time, and in this way, it didn't seem like a bad thing to hurt my foot while dancing the knife tip dance last night.
The Li family took in many people, and the temporary tents built for the court also solved a big problem. With the Li family's contribution, the tents that were originally not enough were now enough. Although the people who lived in them were servants from various mansions, for the court, servants were also citizens and a major factor in maintaining stability. Quan Qingcheng even sent out the imperial guards to guard outside the tents, and also provided help to the people living inside.
All the royal family members have already entered the palace. No matter which palace the prince belongs to, or whether the palace has collapsed or not, they have all been summoned to the palace to discuss matters.
Quan Qinghua brought Feng Zhaolian into the palace. He was discussing matters in the Palace of Immortals, while Feng Zhaolian was sitting outside the palace.
The injuries from being crushed were not serious. In Feng Zhaolian's words, her bones and muscles were strong and her skin was thick. As long as she could wake up after being knocked unconscious for a while, she would definitely survive. Now, she was sitting on the steps outside the hall as if nothing had happened, watching the people coming and going.
During this period, Wu Fei had persuaded her to go back to the guest palace more than once. After all, it was cold outside. It was unbearable to be frozen outside from the afternoon to midnight! Besides, Princess Guiyue was wearing too little. The fabric of her skirt looked like gauze. Would it be okay? Wu Fei had thought about why Princess Guiyue was so cold-resistant, but he never persuaded her to leave.
Feng Zhaolian didn't feel cold at all. The winter in Northern Qi was warmer than the summer in Qian Zhou. As a person who was born and raised in Qian Zhou, how could she not stand such a little cold?
She was not sitting here to wait for Quan Qinghua, she just felt that the guest palace was too deserted and unpopular. In the face of the disaster, everyone was busy, she wanted to watch these people coming in and out, making a lot of noise, so that she would feel alive, and that this life was a new one.
No wonder she had the same dream since she was little. She dreamed that she was a person from the Qianzhou Dynasty, male and female, yin and yang. She dreamed that everyone called her Your Highness, and she called herself the King. She also dreamed that she was soaked in a medicine barrel all year round, enduring the inhuman pain, watching her body change. She had fought, but it was useless. She couldn't fight against the powerful bullies, nor could she fight against fate.
Fortunately, there were some beautiful things in the dream, for example, she loved to eat the fish in the Four-Color Lake, for example, she met Ah Heng and Xuan Tianming, met Xuan Tianhua, met many beautiful people, and also let down many serious people, owed someone a life, and owed someone a love.
Before he died, Duanmu Anguo said that Ah Heng and Xuan Tianhua were both dead. Should he believe this? After dying once and living again, he still hadn't figured out the answer to this question.
Wu Fei brought out some hot tea and placed it in front of her. Feng Zhaolian thanked him and asked Wu Fei if the emperor was very busy and if he hated her as well as the Guiyue envoy. She said to Wu Fei, "If you have a chance, tell your little emperor that I didn't mean to roll my eyes at him. I was mainly angry at our stupid envoy. Why did he want to arrange a marriage without my permission? If my father and mother knew about this, even if he didn't die in Northern Qi, they would skin him alive when they returned to Guiyue. So he deserved to die, but he couldn't take me with him. Tell the little emperor clearly."
Wu Fei quickly told her: "Don't worry, Princess. Whether you really want to overthrow him or not, as long as you are on good terms with Fourth Miss Ye and stand on the same side, it doesn't matter if you really overthrow him. The Emperor will not be angry with you, and will not blame you for the mistakes made by Envoy Guiyue."
"Miss Ye Si is very powerful?" Feng Zhaolian was a little confused about the logic.
Wu Fei thought about it and gave a more acceptable answer: "The Fourth Miss is the emperor's savior, and her father and grandfather are both generals with great achievements in the Northern Qi army, so the emperor and the Fourth Miss are very close."
"How good is it?" The person who was just thinking about her past and present lives has now turned into a gossipy person. She grabbed Wu Fei's sleeve and asked, "Eunuch, tell me the truth, are Ah Yan and the little emperor having an affair? Otherwise, why has Ah Yan always been very opposed to this marriage between me and the little emperor?"
Wu Fei really wanted to reach out and cover her mouth. This Princess Guiyue is really ignorant and fearless! How dare she say anything? What if the person in Yanhua Palace heard it? He didn't care what happened to Princess Guiyue, he would just consider whether the emperor was in danger.
Just because of the Emperor's temper at the palace banquet last night, he was unhappy and directly overturned the Fenghuang Yufei Palace. What if some rumors about the Emperor and Fourth Miss Ye spread out, the Emperor would have to overturn the entire palace!
Wu Fei almost wanted to cry, and he knelt down to Feng Zhaolian, "Princess, please be kind and don't say such things again. The emperor and Miss Ye Si have nothing to do with each other. Miss Ye Si is just the emperor's benefactor. The emperor recognized her as his sister, that's the relationship. You must remember, we are siblings, real siblings!"
Feng Zhaolian frowned, "It's not a big deal. As for kneeling, what are you afraid of? Also, what happened last night? Was our Guiyue's loser envoy really unlucky enough to be killed by a brick? How did the brick fly?"
Wu Fei regretted coming out to bring water to Feng Zhaolian. Fortunately, he saw Quan Qinghua walking out of the Temple of Immortals. He breathed a sigh of relief at that moment, and no longer paid attention to Feng Zhaolian. He stood up and crawled away.
Feng Zhaolian twitched her lips and rolled her eyes fiercely. Seeing Quan Qinghua approaching her, she raised her voice and said to him, "There is something fishy! You people of Northern Qi have something fishy going on! The collapse of the hall last night was unusual, and the death of our envoy was also unusual. Quan Qinghua, do you think I should settle this account with the emperor of Northern Qi? Otherwise, what should I say when I go back? If my royal cousin asks me why the banquet hall of Northern Qi collapsed, how should I answer?" Quan Qinghua frowned at her, "Don't tell me that you have been sitting here since I entered the Fairy Palace, from the afternoon to midnight. Feng Zhaolian, if you are not crazy, don't let me hear such an answer."
Feng Zhaolian chuckled, "I'm not crazy, but I did sit here for an entire afternoon and an entire night. But Quan Qinghua, I'm not waiting for you. I'm just looking at people, all kinds of people. This will make the environment I'm in seem vibrant and alive. Don't interrupt me, answer my question quickly, why did the banquet hall collapse, and why did I, the Guiyue envoy, die?"
Quan Qinghua remained silent for a long time, until Feng Zhaolian thought he would not speak and had stood up to rush into the Immortal Palace to find Quan Qingcheng to argue, he said: "I think, maybe your envoy said something that should not be said, made an idea that should not be made, and thus angered a person who should not be offended..."