After leaving the court.
Yunchu summoned a group of confidants to discuss matters in Kangning Palace.
Chu Hongyu was obediently attending class in the Imperial Study Room, and the class ended in half an hour.
Ouyang Ye has always been like this when teaching. He only teaches for half an hour, leaving more time for students to think and comprehend.
"You guys, all come here." Chu Hongyu hooked her fingers, "How about sneaking out of the palace?"
Upon hearing this, a group of half-year-old children all became excited.
Last time they followed the little emperor and sneaked out of the palace to play at the Minister of Industry's house every day. They thought they would be punished if the adults found out, but they never expected that they were all praised because the things they researched after following the emperor were actually used by others. It was used on the battlefield of Dongling Kingdom and played a great role.
They also want to follow suit and do something big.
"Your Majesty, where should we sneak away?"
"What are you going to do this time? Tell me quickly, Your Majesty."
"I'll go and tell my father first to ask the imperial guards not to stop us from leaving the palace."
A group of children gathered around and kept mumbling.
Not long after, there were nine more young eunuchs in the palace, pushing carts carrying vegetables and going out from the side door of the palace.
As soon as they arrived outside, several people climbed into the carriage that had been prepared and put on coarse cloth clothes. If their faces were not too pale, they looked like ordinary people.
Chu Hongyu touched his hand on the ground and blackened his face.
The other eight attendants immediately followed his example.
The group of people walked to the city gate, but found that the city gate was closed.
Lin Dongdong patted his chest and said, "I know the man guarding the city. He is also from our Lin family. I asked him to..."
Chu Hongyu shook his head: "We are traveling in secret. The less people know about it, the better. Come with me. I know a place to leave the city."
The nine people walked to the west of the city, where relatively poor people usually live, and it seemed a bit messy. Many people gathered on the street to discuss.
"When will the city gate open?"
"We ordinary people just want to drink nectar. Why does the court do this?"
"It would be great if the Goddess could fly. She would fly into the city and give us nectar."
“……”
Lin Dongdong asked Chu Hongyu in a low voice: "Does the Emperor also want to drink nectar?"
Chu Hongyu shook his head.
He knew what the nectar was, and he came out of the palace specifically to test the effectiveness of the antidote to make sure it was foolproof.
He led the people to the edge of the city wall, which was covered with lush plants. He pushed aside the weeds and walked in, and then he saw a short dog hole.
"Oh my god, there is a small door here."
"How did the emperor know there was an exit here?"
Chu Hongyu coughed and said, "I discovered it accidentally."
In fact, when my father was still a prince, he sometimes wanted to sneak out of the capital to play, so he secretly dug this dog hole and blocked it with a few bricks, so that no one would be discovered at all, and even if he was discovered, The hole is so small that even adults can't crawl through it.
He said: "Lin Dongdong, please move the bricks away."
Lin Dongdong immediately squatted down, raised his butt and pulled out the bricks one by one.
Then, he climbed over first, and the others immediately followed.
The last waiter behind the break also stuck out his butt and put the bricks back into their original places. The weeds blocked the bricks and no difference could be seen at all.
After getting out, it was the western suburbs of the capital. There were trees everywhere, and several children could not tell the direction. Chu Hongyu had been here before, and he led a group of attendants to the main entrance of the capital with a familiar road.
The children's footsteps were too slow. Fortunately, Chen San knew that he had a village here, so he went to borrow a carriage. It took him half an hour to reach the place where King Cheng stayed.
The large tent was full of people. The adults stood numbly and didn't know what they were doing. The children played in the mud together in small groups.
Chu Hongyu held her chin in her hand and said, "You guys, try to trick those kids over."
Lin Dongdong's eyes widened: "What does the emperor want to do?"
"I brought so many snacks here, so of course I gave them to them." Chu Hongyu smiled, "These are my people, so I have to treat them better."
Among the eight attendants, there were two older children, one of whom was carrying a bag full of various snacks.
Chu Hongyu asked the imperial kitchen to make these overnight last night. When the imperial kitchen was busy, he secretly sprinkled the medicinal powder into the flour. Now, it was time to verify.
Not long after, the attendant came over with more than twenty children.
Those children came all the way from Ningzhou, and the clothes they wore were in tatters. Their parents had already finished the dry food they brought with them. They drank only a bowl of nectar every day, and there was no food on it. I have been digging wild vegetables to eat every day for the past few days, and I am so hungry that I feel dizzy...
When they saw Chu Hongyu taking out a bag of snacks, the children's eyes all lit up, and they couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
"You all come here." Chu Hongyu waved with a smile, "I will ask you a few questions. If you can answer them truthfully, I will give you snacks."
The children nodded immediately.
"Why did you follow me to the capital?"
"have no idea."
"What do your parents and so many people do every day?"
"have no idea."
"Did King Cheng tell you what to do next?"
"have no idea."
Chu Hongyu: "..."
No matter what he asked, these kids didn't know.
Chen San whispered: "They are just a group of stupid people who were bewitched by the Goddess of Heaven and followed them."
His father suffers from headaches at home every day. There are so many people who cannot be driven away or beaten, which has become the most difficult problem for the court at present.
Chu Hongyu couldn't ask anything, so he asked everyone to pass out the snacks. Each child received five or six yuan, and some were reluctant to eat it and hid it in their clothes.
After eating the snacks, the children's eyes changed obviously. They were dull and confused before, but now they gradually become clearer. They looked at the surrounding environment and seemed to be wondering why they were here.
"Next, I have something I hope you will cooperate with." Chu Hongyu stood with his hands behind his hands, looking at the people in front of him and said, "Help me secretly spread a message among the crowd. Starting tomorrow, someone will be giving porridge in the west of the city."
When the children heard that someone was giving porridge, they couldn't help but lick their lips. They hadn't eaten rice for a long time.
After finishing these things, Chu Hongyu was ready to return to the palace. He wanted to give instructions on this matter quickly. As long as everyone can drink porridge, it will be detoxified, and King Cheng will naturally not be able to confuse these people.
Just as he was about to enter the city, he heard a voice behind him: "That's not the emperor... ugh!"
He turned around and saw Xie Xian having her mouth covered by Aunt Jiang, and beside her was Aunt Jiang's adopted son Xu Ti.
When Aunt Jiang saw Chu Hongyu wearing ordinary people's clothes, she knew that the little emperor was here for a private visit incognito, so naturally he could not reveal his identity.
She looked a little anxious and said, "Can we talk alone for a while?"
Chu Hongyu nodded and read to the attendants beside him: "You guys go over there and wait for me."
