Li Qinghuan

Chapter 32

The little boy said his name was Ah Ying.

Ah Ying was single-handedly raised by his mother.Later, his mother was seriously ill and passed away. He himself was young and couldn't find any way to make a living, so he wandered around begging. He was so hungry that day that he thought of stealing.

After Song Li asked the reason clearly, he asked him to apologize to Liu Zijian in person. Liu Zijian was pampered since he was a child, and he had never seen such a miserable person, so he naturally forgave him.

Later, among the three of them, the one who treated Ah Ying the best was Liu Zijian.

A child's world is clean, and disgust and joy come and go quickly.

Since Song Li could remember most of the time, he spent most of his time in the city with Liu Zijian, Li Zhuxuan, and Ah Ying. People always call Ah Ying Mr. Ah Ying.

The four of them later rescued a bruised little boy on the street and asked Ah Ying to bring him back to the palace, but for some reason, Ah Ying said that the little boy ran away by himself.

Song Li trusted Ah Ying, so he didn't ask any more questions.

As a child of the royal family, Song Li was supposed to study with his master when he was ten years old. He could only play for a while, but a ten-year-old child is at the age of restlessness. Where can he sit down? play outside.

The master was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at him every day to go to Emperor Wanxi to complain, and Emperor Wanxi doted on his young son very much. Simply saying a few words about Song Li would be nothing, but when Song Li was 12 years old, his father The emperor passed away, and his eldest brother Song Duan came to the throne, and Song Li's good life came to an abrupt end. Song Duan was much stricter to Song Li than his own father, and every time his wife went to sue, he would give Song Li a severe beating.

In this way, Song Li finally read books for three years in peace.

In the late autumn when he was 15 years old, Song Li overheard chatting with the guards in the palace, saying that a new sweat horse from Xiliang had arrived at the Yudu Racecourse.

Song was very itchy, hesitated for a long time, and took Ah Ying to skip that day's class.

Song Li didn't expect that this was the most regretful thing he had done so far. Song Duan happened to be at the racetrack that day, and Song Li ran excitedly to meet Song Duan.

For some reason that day, Song Duan's face was like sinking water, his face was terribly gloomy.

Just when Song Li thought he was going to be beaten again, Ah Ying stood up and said, "Your Majesty, it was not His Highness King Yu's intention to skip school, it was the servant who urged King Yu to come down to the racecourse."

Song Li: "Ah Ying! What are you doing? Brother Huang is not..."

Song Duan, who was riding on a horse, looked down at the two of them, very angry: "Shut up! Did I let you speak?"

Song Li leaned down: "My brother knows his mistake."

Song Duan's face was dark: "I will pass on my will, and this lowly slave, Ah Ying, will encourage His Royal Highness King Yu to drop out of school, shake the foundation of the Great Wei, and make a decision."

Song Li panicked when he heard this, and rushed forward to grab Song Duan's clothes corner: "Brother, I know my mistake! Brother, I really know my mistake! Please let Ah Ying go, brother! Brother! I really I got it wrong, Brother Huang! It wasn't Ah Ying who led me out, it was I who led him out, it wasn't Ah Ying who encouraged me! It wasn't him!"

Before Song Li finished speaking, Ah Ying's blood had already splashed all over his body, dyeing Song Li's white clothes into a red robe.

Song Li looked at the blood on his body, then at Ah Ying who was already lying in the pool of blood, his eyes darkened, and he passed out.

……

Song Li was extremely calm, and said lightly: "At that time, I didn't know why things turned out like that. It was just a peaceful, ordinary day that couldn't be any more ordinary. I didn't know why Brother Huang wanted to kill Ah Ying, and I didn't know why. I didn't dare to ask, I was afraid that he would kill other people around me in a fit of anger."

Song Li paused when he said this, and took a deep breath.

"After Ah Ying's death, I fell ill and almost died. Later, my mother told me that Brother Huang beheaded several imperial physicians, which frightened the old men in the imperial hospital, and finally rescued me with great difficulty. After I woke up, my emperor brother kept holding my hand and apologized to me, saying that he had disputes with the ministers because of some court affairs that day, and asked me not to blame him and forgive him."

Ji Qing didn't speak, just listened quietly.

"I forgave him, but I couldn't forgive myself. A beating would have saved Ah Ying's life, but because of my timidity and cowardice, I watched Ah Ying die in front of me. I couldn't understand why the same It's human life, he can try his best to save me, but he can't let Ah Ying go. It's all my fault, if I didn't go to the racetrack on a whim, Ah Ying would not have died."

After Song Li finished speaking, his face was still calm, but his eyes were full of imperceptible self-blame and sadness.

Ji Qing calmly put his trembling hands into his sleeves, suppressed the emotions in his eyes, endured and endured, and finally raised his hands to embrace him in his arms, lowered his head and whispered in his ear: "It's not yours!" wrong."

Song Li didn't say a word, and buried his face into Ji Qing's shoulder. He didn't make any sound, but his eyes gradually became wet, his whole body trembled, and Ji Qing's clothes were wet with tears, and the shoulder was wet.

After Ah Ying's death, Song Li's clothes never appeared white again.

Even his whole body is a little bit against white. That time in Zhuyuan was Song Li's first time wearing white clothes since he was 15 years old.

One was that he was not familiar with Ji Qing at that time, so he was embarrassed to bother Ji Qing, and the other was that the smell on the clothes made him feel at ease.That day was the first time since he was 15 that he did not dislike white.There was Ji Qing's smell on that dress, which was inexplicably reassuring, so that he didn't have to worry about sudden blood splashing on it, so reassuring that he almost forgot that it was a white dress.

His calm demeanor even made Empress Dowager He, who had always remembered this matter, think that he had let go.

15 years old is like a hurdle for him, he can't say it, he can't pass it.

Song Li took several deep breaths in his arms, and suppressed that emotion back to the bottom of his heart again.

He took a step back, looked up at Ji Qing, and forced a smile: "He Ming, I talked too much today, thank you."

Ji Qing was still a little worried about him: "It's okay, Ah Li, are you okay?"

Song Li shook his head: "This is the first time I've told anyone about this, so it's inevitable that I'm a little sad, don't take it for granted."

Ji Qing frowned slightly, and said with concern: "If you have anything, don't hold it in your heart, you can tell me."

Song Li rubbed his face vigorously, and forced a smile: "Okay, Heming, it's getting late, so I'll leave first."

Ji Qing looked at him rather worriedly: "Then be careful yourself."

Song Li nodded: "OK"

……

It's been two years, and Song Li didn't expect that the first time he told this story was with someone he had only known for half a year. Strange to say, Song Li felt that the more he got along with Ji Qing, the more he felt that Ji Qing was familiar with him.

There is something inexplicable about him that attracts Song Li to keep getting closer and closer.

In the two years after A Ying's death, Song Li often dreamed of him. In the dream, A Ying had a huge wound on his neck, standing in front of him covered in blood, and said to him with a smile, "Your Highness, I'm leaving. Take care of yourself."

After speaking, he turned and left without hesitation.Song Li was left alone crying and shouting for him not to leave.Song Li fell asleep quietly and woke up crying.

Ah Ying's death was like a huge stone, and he was almost out of breath under the pressure.Now, it seems that the stone has finally been removed, because he was told that it was not his fault.

……

Amidst the overwhelming sound of firecrackers in Yudu City, Dawei ushered in a new five years of Xuande.

It is said that auspicious snow heralds a good year, and it snows heavily at the end of every year in Yongzhou. There is auspicious snow every year, but there are not many in good years.Especially this year, the snow in Yongzhou was abnormally heavy, and it fell for a long time. After the Lantern Festival, the snow still had no intention of falling down.

People in Yongzhou, who were celebrating the New Year half a month ago, began to worry. The overwintering wheat planted in many places was crushed to death by the heavy snow, and many people's houses were crushed by the heavy snow.

Seeing that there were more and more refugees in Yongzhou, the imperial court also began to worry, but the heavy snow was a natural disaster, and the imperial court had no other way except to send Qin Tianjian to pray for blessings and distribute relief food to the refugees, so they had to wait until the weather changed. As it warms up, the situation will naturally improve.

Unexpectedly, after the half-moon blizzard, strong winds blew up again, destroying houses in many places and leaving many people homeless.

At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, there were more and more refugees in Yongzhou, and it was out of control. Only then did the court realize the seriousness of the situation and became ants on the hot pot.

The weather in the Great Wei has been good all these years, and even some small disasters can be subsided quickly, so when the governor of Yongzhou reported the disaster at the beginning, the officials in the DPRK and China didn't pay much attention to it, but they didn't expect the matter to be so serious.

However, the house leaks coincided with continuous night rain. In recent years, major government decrees and reforms have continued, and the state treasury has been depleted year after year.Song Duan handed over the coordination of disaster relief to Li Ze, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Li Ze, who was worried, had very little hair left.

Two months later, Li Ze did not do a good job in disaster relief. He knew that he was not competent, so he asked to resign as a punishment.For a while, the refugees from Yongzhou scattered and blocked the gate of Yudu City.Hundreds of officials were arguing red-faced at the court meeting.

"Your Majesty, my minister please play. According to my view, the refugees can be dispersed to various states and counties, and the gentry and wealthy businessmen of each state and county are called on to resettle them."

"My minister seconded that the victims of the flood in Yuzhou last time were resettled by a businessman himself."

"Your Majesty, I don't think this method is advisable. Let's not talk about whether those gentry and rich businessmen are willing, how to bring the refugees to the states and counties, and what to do in case of public riots? How will the court deal with it? Is there any force to suppress it? "

"My minister seconded, not all wealthy businessmen are that kind of people, not to mention whether they have such great ability, who is willing to spend their own money to settle some irrelevant people? Sun Shilang, are you willing?"

"The minister also agrees, this method is not advisable. If the refugees are sent to other states, what will happen to Yongzhou? The hundreds of thousands of refugees in the entire Yongzhou have all gone away, so what about Yongzhou? Will the fertile land become wasteland? It is simply nonsense!"

Sun Shilang blushed and said, "Then what do you think should be done? Come up with a solution."

There was a moment of silence in the hall, and another person stood up:

"Sun Shilang's method wastes people's money and money, I think it is not advisable!"

"The minister also agrees!"

"Enough! This is in the court! It's not your family! What about the rules?" Song Duan was furious, and stopped the quarrel among the ministers: "Whoever quarrels again, drag it out and be punished for twenty! If you can't think of a way, you will know the second decision ! I don’t know what’s the use of raising your trash!”

There was an instant silence in the hall of hundreds of people.

"Brother Huang, would you like to listen to my younger brother?" A clear voice came from the hall where the needle drop could be heard.

Song Li had been listening in secret all the time. He was really upset by their quarrel, so he couldn't hold back his mouth.

Song Duan suppressed his anger: "Say it."

The ministers who had just stepped out of the queue hurriedly retreated as if they had seen a savior.

Song Li cleared his throat and said, "The people of Yongzhou must not leave, but the national treasury is empty and the expenditure is too high to support the autumn harvest. This is the biggest problem. The hundreds of thousands of refugees are different from the scale of the flood in Yuzhou. A little mishandling is very likely to cause large-scale turmoil. At that time, internal and external troubles, no matter how powerful the imperial court is, it will at least be overwhelmed for a while. Fortunately, there was a snowstorm in Yongzhou, and the houses were only destroyed by strong winds. , there is no need to evacuate the victims.”

Song Duan asked: "Then what do you say?"

Song Li said without hesitation: "The imperial court directly distributes silver subsidies, and various vegetation and materials for repairing houses, etc., and the government supervises the work, so that the people can rebuild houses on their original land and clean up the wasteland."