"Greetings to the Emperor!"
After the person left, Aunt Jiang and her two children quickly saluted.
Chu Hongyu waved his hand to let them level up: "No need to be polite, what do you have to say?"
Aunt Jiang got to the point: "Your Majesty, the lady that day is Aunt Tao from the Xie family!"
Chu Hongyu's little nose wrinkled. He couldn't remember Aunt Tao for a moment, but he knew about the Xie family.
"She is Xie Shikang's biological mother!" Xie Xian added, "I remember the smell on her body, she must be Aunt Tao!"
Chu Hongyu's fingers suddenly paused: "Thank you very much, please don't make any announcement about this matter. I'm going back to the palace first."
He turned around and left, followed quickly by eight attendants.
The group of people returned to the palace as they left the palace, and arrived at the palace before evening.
Chu Hongyu went to Kangning Palace to find Yunchu. After shooing away all the palace people, he said, "Mom, that goddess of heaven is Aunt Tao of the Xie family!"
"What?" Yun Chu was startled, "Is this true?"
Chu Hongyu told her about sneaking out and meeting Aunt Jiang.
"You..." Yun Chu looked at him and said, "Did mother tell you last time that you are not allowed to sneak out of the palace again? In these troubled times, whether you fall into the hands of the regent or the king, I won’t eat your good fruit without you, and you won’t be allowed to do this again in the future, remember?”
Chu Hongyu stuck out his tongue: "I understand, mother."
Yun Chu's expression became much stern: "Next time, don't call me mother."
"I really will never sneak out of the palace again!" Chu Hongyu raised her hands and swore, "If there is another time, then..."
Yun Chu held his hand and said, "Okay, Brother Jue has been looking for your brother for a long time. You go in and play with Brother Jue."
Chu Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ran into the inner room to play with his younger siblings.
Yun Chu called Qiu Tong in: "Arrange people to rush to Jizhou for eight hundred miles, tie up all the Xie family members, and ask them to hand over Xie Shikang. If the Xie family members resist, there is no harm in killing a few first. They will definitely We must use the fastest speed to bring Xie Shikang back to the capital!"
Qiu Tong held up his hands: "Yes, I will make this trip myself!"
Yunchu gave her a token and asked her to take a hundred secret guards to Jizhou.
Jizhou is not far from the capital. It usually takes a day to ride a carriage, and only half a day to ride a horse. If the eight hundred miles is urgent, we will set off and reach the place before Hai hour.
At the same time, Yunchu asked the people in the court to prepare food overnight to make porridge, and added the antidote to the porridge.
As soon as the day broke, many tents were set up at the gate in the west of the city, and porridge began to be given out in an orderly manner.
Yesterday, Chu Hongyu asked a group of children to spread the news about the soup kitchen. Although those people were mentally affected by drugs, eating, drinking and diarrhea is human instinct. I heard that there was a soup kitchen in the west of the city, and many people came to line up with their families. Receive porridge.
Yun Chu stood on the wall of the west gate of the city.
After most of the people had finished their porridge, she appeared and said, "Common people, please be quiet."
As soon as she appeared, everyone's eyes were focused on her.
Not to mention her gorgeous outfit, her peerless face is enough to attract everyone's attention.
"Who is that woman?"
"You don't even know this. The young emperor has just ascended the throne, and the most noble woman in the Jin Dynasty is the only queen mother."
"God, the Queen Mother is too young."
"Everyone, you are all people from around Ningzhou." Yun Chu's voice was gentle, like gurgling water, "You have your own family business, land and foundation in Ningzhou, why do you come to Baili County?" Where is the capital outside?"
When asked, everyone present was confused.
Yes, they were living a good life in Ningzhou, so why did they follow them to the capital for no reason?
And along the way, they had already eaten up all the dry food they had brought with them. They dug wild vegetables and gnawed tree bark every day. They didn't know how they persisted in such hard days, let alone why they were willing to take their whole family far away from their homeland. To come so far away...
Looking back carefully, I can't figure out why.
"No matter why you came here, you should go back." Yun Chu sighed, "Look at the children around you, they are thin from hunger, and the old people around you are getting sicker... That so-called nectar water can really Can you get rid of all kinds of diseases...You have come all the way and drank nectar water every day. After drinking so much, are you really free of any diseases?"
Everyone looked down at themselves, they were all in rags and tatters.
Even the poorest people at the bottom among them have never been so slovenly.
There are still many people who are coughing and runny nose. If the nectar water is useful, they should not cough anymore...
"If you still stay in the capital, your house in Ningzhou will be occupied by others, your fields will be taken away, and all your foundations will be destroyed..." Yun Chu looked at the crowd and said, "People are still alive. It’s just food, clothing, housing and transportation. Now you don’t have enough food, clothing and nowhere to live. Is this the life you want?”
Everyone woke up as if from a dream.
It's obviously the simplest truth, but why do you feel like lard has clouded your mind these days?
"Let's go, let's go back. I still have three pigs in my pigsty. If I'm not around these days, they must have escaped!"
"I also have a bunch of chickens at home. Oh my god, someone must have stolen them."
"I seem to have forgotten to lock the door when I went out. My house goes west into the big courtyard...Quickly, let's go back!"
"I have a neighbor who is still waiting for the nectar. I have to go with her."
"Yes, yes, my eldest brother is still over there..."
He said loudly to the adults: "Everyone has been hungry for so long. Before we leave, let us have a bowl of thick porridge so that we can have the strength to go home."
After a while, the people gradually dispersed.
However, there were not many people who came on the first day, only about 5,000 people.
On the second day, about seven to eight thousand people came.
Yun Chu used the same method to persuade the people to return to their place.
After drinking the porridge, everyone's judgment returned. Without any further persuasion, they returned immediately with the whole family...
"The emperor and the queen mother are using this method well." Li Shoufu said with admiration, "In this way, within ten days, all the people will be dispersed, and the king will have nothing to fear."
However, at this moment, the guard hurriedly came to report: "The Queen Mother, it's bad, countless people from Chengtian Gate are crashing into the city gate!"
Chengtianmen is the main gate of the capital. More than 200,000 people brought by King Cheng were stationed outside Chengtianmen, and the Queen of Heaven also gave nectar there.
Yun Chu lowered his eyebrows.
She got on the carriage and arrived at Chengtianmen in less than half an hour. Chu Hongyu also came after hearing the news.
The mother and son climbed up the stairs and reached the top. Looking from a distance, they saw all the people outside the city wall.
About two to three thousand people held round pillars and rushed towards the gate of the capital. The people who bumped into the gate were divided into several groups and bumped one after another. No matter how strong the city gate was, they could not withstand such a collision.
