Chapter 220
"Someone is spreading rumors about you!"
Xiruo was very angry.
Lin Yunwan had already guessed that this would happen. She was not very angry and asked Xiruo calmly: "What did you say?"
Xiruo learned a few words, and the general idea was that what happened in the past few days was all Princess Huan's idea, and it was not Prince Huan's idea at all!
Cuiqin then frowned.
Xiruo said angrily: "Women cannot interfere in politics, but what time is it now? If you hadn't come forward to make the decision, would there be peace outside?!"
She was so angry that if her husband hadn't persuaded her to come back and report the news, she would have wanted to arrest a few people and beat them up.
Lin Yunwan smiled and said: "Don't be angry. Although the idea came from me, the people below did the work, and the credit cannot be attributed to me alone."
"Yamen servants, aristocratic families, wealthy businessmen, and those scholars are doing more things than me when they are soaked in the rain outside."
"Women cannot interfere in government affairs, and I did. What they said was also true."
She stood up, pressed Xiruo's shoulder and said, "Now is not the time to be angry. Let's wait until the victims outside are safe and well-fed... Justice is in the hearts of the people."
Cuiqin also came over and said, "Sister Xiruo, there is also the prince."
Xiruo nodded, most of the anger in her heart gone.
Lin Yunwan touched her cheek and said, "Looking at how hard you have endured, you have lost weight. Pregnant women outside the city need your help. Go back and get some sleep."
Xiruo went to the simple side room and fell asleep.
At noon the next day, there was still no news about Qi Lingheng.
"None of the people who went to pick up the prince came back?"
Lin Yunwan began to worry.
Several counties were located in remote areas, and Qi Lingheng was personally involved in danger. There was no news at all. She was afraid that something might happen to him.
Cuiqin shook her head, her eyes full of worry.
After holding on for several days, Lin Yunwan couldn't bear it anymore. Yesterday her lip color was fine, but today it's a little pale.
Cuiqin said worriedly: "Princess, your face doesn't look good. Please ask the doctor to take a look at you."
Lin Yunwan shook her head: "The doctors have all gone outside the city, and now they call me here because of my appearance. What does it look like?"
She knew that Cuiqin was worried, so she looked at the sky outside and said with a smile: "We agreed that I would leave as soon as the sun goes down. Wait a moment."
Cuiqin could only wait for the sun to go down.
The prefect has stopped sending people to deliver news here, not because he doesn't want to, but because he doesn't dare.
Colleagues were already making a fuss.
"My lord is confused, the princess is just a woman, how, how could you..."
The prefect was not stupid enough to admit it. He took out the paper with Prince Huan's seal and said: "This is all the prince's intention. It is written in black and white on the paper, and there is also the prince's seal."
Those people didn't buy it. They were hard-nosed and snorted: "Where is the prince? I have been guarding the victims outside for several days, but there is no sign of the prince!"
The prefect was in a dilemma, so he ordered the people around him: "Go and send a message to the people around the prince and ask him to come over and take charge of the overall situation."
"I'm going to see if you can invite the prince today!"
The prefect coughed twice and urged his attendant with a red face: "Hurry up and go!"
"yes……"
Then we went to the courtyard where Lin Yunwan lived temporarily.
Of course, Qi Lingheng could not be invited.
Lin Yunwan asked Qi Lingheng's staff to deal with it first, but those officials didn't buy it very much.
Not only that, but for some reason, some people on the victims' side were also quarreling over this.
However, it is not the victims who are dissatisfied, but the students of Qingou Academy and other scholars.
The victims only focused on filling their stomachs, and they did not care about who decided to give them the porridge.
After the scholars had eaten, they gathered together. They heard that Princess Huan was in charge of disaster relief and dared to order civil and military officials. Some people were dissatisfied.
"The princess is a woman, how can she be so public?"
"That's right, what do those officials in Jiang Qian's Yamen do for a living! They have to listen to a woman for things like disaster relief. What a shame! What a shame!"
After sighing, the scholar picked up the bowl of porridge and wanted to put it in his mouth.
He was exhausted from helping with disaster relief these days.
Xia Jin walked over angrily, took the bowl from the opponent's hand, and said coldly: "You don't deserve to eat!"
The scholar stood up and glared at Xia Jin: "Why did you steal my porridge? Give it back to me!"
There is no shortage of porridge now, but it takes half an hour to get a bowl of porridge. The porridge now is more expensive than gold!
Xia Jin sneered: "Is it your porridge? Open your eyes and take a look!"
There is a word "Huan" on the bottom of the bowl.
The scholar also knew that what he said was wrong. Someone laughed at him: "You dare to talk about Princess Huan behind her back. If you have the guts, don't eat the porridge from Prince Huan's palace!"
"That's right. Eat the food from the bowl and scold your mother when you put the bowl down. Has your book been read into the dog's belly?"
The scholar still said harshly: "I, I ate Prince Huan's porridge!" He didn't forget to fight with Xia Jin: "Give it to me!"
Xia Jin took the porridge and went to feed the sallow-looking child.
The scholar watched the porridge go into the child's mouth and was too embarrassed to grab it.
When he went to line up again, he stopped queuing at the porridge shack of Prince Huan's Mansion and went to line up at the Lin Mansion's porridge shack.
Someone laughed at him: "That's the porridge shed of the Lin Mansion, the princess's natal family."
When the scholars moved to the Su family, Xia Jin's classmates said with smiles, "The Su family is the family of the princess."
"I-I'm going to the Lu family's head office!"
His bookish face turned red and his neck was rough. When he arrived at the Lu family's porridge shack, he heard a servant of the Lu family say: "Uncle, please exclude other families. Our Lu family will not support those who slander the princess."
"You, you, you... are disgraceful to politeness! Disgraceful to politeness!"
“King Huan—King Huan is on the tower!”
There was a lot of excitement under the city tower. It was heard that King Huan was standing on the city tower, and everyone ran to see it.
Qi Lingheng was dressed in black clothes and a thin cloak on his shoulders. He had dark hair and beautiful face, and looked very dignified and handsome.
He stood on the tower and took a look, and saw someone kneeling down below and bowing loudly.
While he was away, his princess took good care of Jiang Qian both inside and outside.
"Afu, let's go down."
Qi Lingheng held back the turmoil in his heart and took Ah Fu to meet Jiang Qian officials for a while.
After traveling day and night, his voice became hoarse.
There is still a debate in the lobby about women's interference in government affairs, and people have already begun to criticize Lin Yunwan.
"This is women intervening in politics! I must participate!"
Qi Lingheng heard this sentence as soon as he entered.
He smiled coldly: "Who do you want to join?"
The officials turned their heads one after another and saw the handsome but gloomy face. The prince became angry!
"I'm going to pay my respects to King Huan."
There was a crowd of people kneeling in the lobby.
The prefect gave up his position, and Qi Lingheng walked over and said calmly: "The king is not feeling well. I asked the princess to seal the letter and send it out for me. Who is dissatisfied?"
There was silence below.
Qi Lingheng rectified Lin Yunwan's name: "I was worried about the disaster in Jiang Qian and couldn't sleep at night. The princess was pregnant and gave advice to me and the people of Jiang Qian. With my permission, I compiled it into a book and passed it down one after another."
"And you-"
"Not only does he not care about the people, but he also doesn't care about me. He is still spreading rumors and causing trouble here."
"Are you trying to slander the princess, or... are you trying to slander the king?"
He carefully brushed aside Lin Yunwan's responsibilities, and did not shy away from talking about her merits and intelligence.
Officials remained silent.
Who dares to accuse King Huan?
Once the prince dies, King Huan will become the lord of the world!
"I don't dare!"
More than a dozen officials said in unison.
Qi Lingheng glanced over coldly and was silent for a while before getting up and leaving.
The people headed by the magistrate were all sitting on the ground exhausted, breaking into cold sweats from fear.
"Where is the princess?"
Qi Lingheng was extremely anxious as soon as he returned to Lin Yunwan's temporary residence.
She was pregnant, dealing with these losers, and they dared to say something bad about her!
Mother Lu couldn't even keep up when she ran, so she could only use her voice to chase after her: "Your Majesty, the Princess is in the main courtyard, just past the corridor..."
Qi Lingheng really couldn't wait.
