Chapter 3411 Is there no food in Jinling City?
"I'm saying the mantra, Jiedi Jiedi, Pila Jiedi, Pila Monk Jiedi, Bodhi Savah."
Another passage of Heart Sutra has been recited.
Mingxin clasped his hands together and recited the Buddha's name low. His small, still a little childish face slowly became solemn and solemn. Obviously, chanting the Heart Sutra to a little princess in the harem was no different from chanting in the Buddhist temple.
However, there was an extra heart peaceful around me who was lit with his head on his face and was about to fall asleep.
But at this moment, Concubine Yi, who was sitting on the chair beside the bed, suddenly opened her eyes wide and said, "Yongping?"
Xinping woke up suddenly, but she was a little confused. She opened her eyes wide and didn't know what was going on. Instead, Mingxin and Concubine Yi walked to the bed together and saw Princess Yongping who had been sleeping all the time slowly opening her eyes at this time.
Concubine Yi laughed happily and said, "My son, you are finally awake!"
She couldn't wait to pounce on her and picked up her daughter. Yongping had been burning for almost a whole day and had nothing to eat. When she was held in her mother's arms, her whole body was soft and weak.
At this time, Xinping happily threw herself onto the bed, touched Yongping's face and said, "Sister, do you still feel pain?"
Princess Yongping shook her head.
At this time, she seemed to have come to her senses a little. The faint blush on her face that was caused by a low fever dropped a lot, and her eyes were bright, and she suddenly saw Mingxin.
Suddenly he grinned at him.
Mingxin said: "Amitabha."
At this time, people outside also heard the movement and came in one after another. Monk Mingxin stepped aside. The palace maid and eunuch below immediately called the imperial physician. After checking, Yongping had actually subsided his fever and was completely awake. He knew he was hungry. Concubine Yi was overjoyed and immediately sent someone to send some light meals.
During this process, Yongping kept looking at Mingxin with wide eyes and laughing at him.
Concubine Yi also came to her senses, turned to look at Mingxin, and said, "You are not bad."
Although she was also very grateful, she was a concubine in her identity and could not be grateful to such a young monk. Mingxin still clasped her hands together and said respectfully: "The Empress is a mischievous. Since the little prince is already safe, the little monk will take his leave first."
Hearing him say this, Xinping turned around and looked at the sky outside the window and stuck out his tongue.
“It’s so late.”
Concubine Yi finally calmed down at this time and said, "It's so late, you should go back too. If the concubine is a little later, you should worry. Come and send Princess Xinping back to Yikun Palace."
Xinping touched Yongping's face again and said gently: "Sister, be good, have a good rest, and I will come to see you tomorrow."
Yongping nodded obediently.
After saying that, Xinping slid down from the bed and walked with Mingxin.
When they walked to the door, Yongping suddenly shouted loudly again: "Brother!"
Mingxin looked back at her, closed her hands and recited the Buddha's name, but turned around and left. Concubine Yi patted her daughter gently and said, "Don't shout, your brothers are all in the capital, one is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the other is His Royal Highness the King of Han, where do you get the other brothers?"
As he said that, he clicked her little nose.
"Let your father hear it and scold you."
Yongping opened his eyes widened and said "Oh" and nodded obediently.
In the Yikun Palace on the other side, Nan Yan had not noticed that it was too late, and Xinping and the monk Mingxin had not returned from Jianfu Palace. She just frowned and looked solemn. She was silent for a long time before she said to Zhu Feng: "Hungry people outside the city robbed the food of the court?"
Zhu Feng's gloomy face showed a murderous intent that had not been seen for a long time.
After a while, he let out a heavy "um".
Because of this heavy sound, the entire Yikun Palace seemed to be shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere. The people in the imperial kitchen were about to bring in, but at this time they were all careful. Under Ruoshui's command, they arranged the dishes and retreated one by one with their breaths in hand.
After that, Ruoshui looked at this place again.
Nan Yan waved her hand only, and Ruoshui didn't say much, and bowed and left Yikun Palace.
In the huge palace, there were only two of them.
Nan Yan looked at Zhu Feng carefully and felt a little nervous. Although hungry people rob food, they are not rare. What can’t be done when people are extremely hungry? It’s really not necessary to get angry about such things. At worst, they can send troops to the outside of the city to retrieve food, catch those hungry people who are causing trouble, and punish them as much as they should.
However, Zhu Feng's expression today seemed to be not that simple.
If it were so simple, he would not have taken Chen Xuan and the others to discuss it in the imperial study room for most of the day.
And the thing that puzzled Nanyan the most was that when hungry people entered the city this time, why didn’t even take out a piece of food in Jinling to provide relief to the victims? If there was no food here, what was the food that was robbed by the hungry people?
But seeing Zhu Feng's gloomy face, Nan Yan didn't ask much, and just said softly: "Your Majesty, let's use something first. It's not too late to think about things after eating."
Zhu Feng had a calm face. After a while, he sighed heavily.
He and Nan Yan walked to the table together. Nan Yan served a bowl of porridge and gave it to him with both hands. Zhu Feng took it, but he just held it in his hand for a long time without taking a bite.
Nan Yan also knew that now he must be struggling with many things, so it would be better for him to do it.
So he said softly: "Your Majesty, why didn't a single grain from Jinling come out to provide relief to the victims this time? Is Chen Xuan so brave?"
Zhu Feng glanced at her.
After a while of silence, he said stiffly: "A good cook cannot cook without rice."
"Cook without rice?"
Nan Yan frowned, and seemed to understand something in his heart: "There is no food in Jinling City?"
Zhu Feng didn't say anything.
But this is obviously a default.
Nan Yan gasped in his heart - there was no food in Jinling City? How could this be possible?
Jinling was the southern capital of the Great Yan Dynasty, a hometown of fish and rice. It was the richest place in the entire south. How could it be without food?
Hearing her say this, Zhu Feng seemed to smile bitterly and said, "Think about it again."
“…”
Nan Yan frowned and thought for a while, then he slowly came to his senses. She remembered that when the prince was married a few years ago, she and Zhu Feng counted the cost of the court for how to do things. In fact, at that time, the money in the treasury was a bit stretched. In addition to spending a lot of money on the Western Regions, Ye Zheng's expenses for going to sea were also borne by the court. Most importantly, after a big chaos in Zhu Chengjin, Jinling City was almost completely destroyed.
After that, the city was rebuilt, including appeasement of the people, tax exemption, etc.
Chapter completed!