Nan Yan sat in the side hall, and somehow had an inexplicable palpitations. She couldn't help but get up and walked to the door and looked out. Seeing her like this, Ruoshui immediately said, "Empress is worried about Your Highness the Princess? That servant goes over and take a look."

"she--"

Nan Yan was about to say something when he heard footsteps outside.

Immediately afterwards, Xinping rushed to the door.

"Mother!"

When she saw her coming back, Nan Yan immediately breathed a sigh of relief and squatted down to see if there was anything wrong with her daughter. As a result, when she saw Xinping's eyes were red, her nose was red, her face was clearly still tear marks, and she was still sobbing when she was at her. She immediately frowned and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"

Xinping said with tears in his eyes: "Mother, some people are hungry!"

"What?"

Nan Yan was stunned for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, a group of people trotted to the gate of the side hall. When they looked up, they saw that it was the little eunuch Delu and Shikong who had just led people out to find Princess Xinping, and the young monk Mingxin, who also brought a fat and strong monk with a glossy face. When they saw Xinping and the Concubine, everyone was a little panicked and hurriedly knelt on the ground and bowed.

"Empress."

Nan Yan frowned and said, "What's going on?"

Shi Kong and the others were still a little hesitant, but Delu dared not be negligent. He hurriedly knelt on the ground and told Nanyan everything he had just seen. Nanyan's face gradually calmed down when he heard it, and turned to look at Shi Kong: "Are there hungry people here?"

Monk Shi Kong could only kneel on the ground and said honestly: "Return to the words of the Imperial Concubine, yes."

Nanyan said again: "You hide them in the temple?"

Monk Shikong said, "Yes."

Nanyandao: "Where are the hungry people coming from? Why do you hide in the temple?"

Seeing this, Shi Kong did not dare to hide the situation, and could only tell it all. This year, the Huaihe River has flooded and several counties have suffered disasters. The people there can't survive and have to escape famine everywhere. Some people came to Jinling City.

If it were in previous years, the government would naturally transfer grain to provide relief to the victims. But strangely, this year, the government did not take out a single grain of food. Not only did it not provide relief to the victims, but after the news that the emperor was about to tour Jinling came out, the government even sent people to expel the victims from the city.

Some of the victims were driven out, and they didn't know whether they were alive or alive now. Some knew that they had no food to eat after leaving the city and had to starve to death, so they simply hid in various parts of the city, and could survive with just one bite.

The monks at Dacien Temple were compassionate and took in some of them.

However, Monk Shikong also knew that when the emperor came to Jinling City this time, he would probably have to go to Dacien Temple to pay tribute, so he calculated that these people were locked in the alley outside the second gate in the past few days, and did not allow them to speak. He only asked the kitchen to steam a bun for them one by one every day, and sent them out after the emperor left.

But unexpectedly, the princess discovered the existence of these people.

Hearing these words, Nan Yan's face darkened, but his anger rose. She paced back and forth for a few steps, really didn't know what to do, so she turned around and walked to the door and pointed at Shi Kong and said angrily: "You are so brave!"

Unexpectedly, even her mother was angry, and she was so scared that she opened her eyes wide like a frightened little rabbit.

At this time, the young monk Mingxin knelt on the ground, took two steps towards Nanyan, and kowtowed repeatedly, "Empress, it's not good for all the little monks. It was the little monk who took His Highness the Princess to see the hungry people. Master, he just pity those people, afraid that the government will expel them again, and these people will really have no way out. Please don't blame the queen. If there is any guilt, the little monk is willing to bear it."

Nan Yan said: "You have to bear it? How capable are you? What can you afford?"

“…”

"I thought you were a governor, but I didn't expect you to be so ignorant!"

Mingxin was so scared that she kowtowed repeatedly.

Although he was angry, it was not the time to get angry. What's more, Mingxin was once the princess's life-saving benefactor, and he couldn't settle the score any more. However, Nanyan is really worried now. You know, although Zhu Feng is generous, as long as he is an emperor, magnanimity has a bottom line. Every emperor has his own reverse scale, and their common reverse scale is hungry people and hunger.

How to deal with hungry people and how to manage hunger has been very sensitive throughout the dynasties. Whatever the governments below do, but letting them rush to the emperor is to slap the emperor in the face.

Today, Zhu Feng made a special trip to Dacien Temple to worship Emperor Gao and Empress Renxiao, and more importantly, his biological mother.

At this time, such a thing happens-

If he is really furious, then the people here will probably have to be covered in a layer of skin!

She took a deep breath to calm herself down, looked out again, and asked, "Where are those people?"

Monk Shi Kong said, "I am still outside the second gate, so I dare not let them walk around."

Nan Yan said: "Close the door and take care of your mouth!"

Shikong said: "Yes."

Nanyan walked out again. Fortunately, everyone around Zhu Feng stayed outside the Chongen Tower to wait, and there were only a few guards and eunuchs and palace maids accompanying him outside the side hall. Nanyan said with a calm face: "No matter what happened just now, if anyone of you dares to gossip in front of the emperor, I will hinge his tongue down and chop it up and feed it to the dog!"

Several people immediately knelt down and said, "Yes."

Nan Yan waved his hands at Shi Kong and the others again: "Go back and do what you should do."

With the imperial concubine as the guarantee, Shi Kong and the others were relieved and hurriedly left the side hall. Monk Buji also left.

In fact, Nan Yan knew in his heart that this matter could not be hidden. Just now, Chong Enta must have heard it. As soon as a few words spread, Zhu Feng must have asked. But at least, he should have made face at this time.

So she squatted down again to look at her tears and said, "No matter what she saw just now, you are not allowed to talk nonsense in front of your father."

He said timidly: "Why?"

Nan Yan said: "Because your father is angry, everyone here will be beheaded!"

Xinping shrank a little scared.

She thought for a while and said to Nan Yan: "Mother, why are there still so many people in the world hungry? Is it because my father is not doing well?"

Nan Yan's face suddenly turned a little blue.

But she didn't get angry. She just thought for a while before looking at her daughter's eyes tiredly and said, "Sometimes, it may not be that your father is not doing well, but-"

“But what?”

"But, your father—it's hard."

"Isn't my father the emperor? How could he be in trouble?"
Chapter completed!