After the truth came out, they begged me not to die.

The little girl's eyes were urgent, and her voice sounded a bit pleading.

Chen Zun was touched deep in his heart.

That year, when he begged Mo Wu to treat Yun'er, he looked like this. He suppressed the fluctuations in his heart, forced a smile, and said softly.

"Your daddy is going to be fine."

Shen Ruoyan looked at Chen Zun's face, a little surprised.

After spending a few days together, Chen Zun's face showed no trace of emotion and was cold and cold. I never thought that he could be so good-looking when he was gentle.

"It would be nice if you were so gentle to me." Shen Ruoyan slandered, and then smiled sweetly at the little girl: "Big girl, you have been out for so long, your mother should be worried, sister will send you back."

The little girl named Da Niu thought of her sick mother and young brother at home, and struggled to stand up.

"My mother and brother need my care, and I want to go home."

After she said that, she hurriedly walked back. After taking only a few steps, her steps were heavy and her body was swaying.

Looking at the strong but anxious big girl, Chen Zun walked up and picked her up directly. She looked tall and thin, but she didn't have a few kilograms of flesh. She was so light that she could be lifted with one hand.

"Uncle, let me down. I can leave by myself." The big girl took her time and didn't want to trouble others.

"I'll take you back." Chen Zun only said one sentence, but although his voice was soft, it was domineering.

"Where do you live?"

Da Niu had no choice but to bury herself in Chen Zun's arms: "My family lives in Huangniupo Village."

She was afraid that Chen Zun would not know the way, so she stretched out her hand and pointed towards the back of the official road: "Walk along the main road for ten miles, then enter a small road, and you will arrive at my house in a short while."

Chen Zun remembered that there was a fork in the official road. He probably knew the direction and walked away.

Such a domineering man was too much for Shen Ruoyan's taste.

The more Shen Ruoyan looked at him, the more satisfied he became, and he became more and more certain that the husband he had chosen was right and full of advantages.

The only bad thing is being indifferent to yourself.

"When have you been so gentle to me? If you can hug me like this, I will be satisfied." Shen Ruoyan began to think wildly in her heart.

However, no one knows what she is thinking in her heart.

The four of them walked against the road and walked quickly, and soon they arrived at the Huangniupo Village that Da Niu had mentioned.

This is a scattered village. At a glance, the rice in the farmland is green. If there are no accidents, when the crops mature, it will be another bumper harvest.

Along the edge of the mountain, there are houses of different heights. Most of them are low mud houses, and many of them are huts built haphazardly with thatch.

Going further, cow dung and chicken excrement are everywhere, and the road is dotted with sewage pits. The sewage in the pits is black and smelly, with a dense layer of mosquitoes, flies and insects attached to it, making everything look extremely dirty.

When they got here, the girl asked to come down. She stepped on the ground with her bare feet, pointed to a low thatched hut, and whispered, "That's my home."

As she spoke, she led the way. Perhaps because she was anxious, she walked a little fast, almost at a running speed.

Chen Zun and Monk Wanfu sighed and followed silently.

Shen Ruoyan was a little confused looking at such an environment, but seeing that they were all far away, she was a little nervous at first, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet, hold up the hem of her skirt, stand on tiptoe, avoid the animal feces, and follow them carefully.

The more she walked, the more she regretted it. The air was filled with a strong smell that could make people breathless. So she simply covered her nose and held in her breath.

When he got to Chen Zun, he complained: "It's so dirty here. How can there be such a dirty place in the world?"

Chen Zun ignored her and walked for a while. Many people poked their heads out of the houses on both sides, their eyes full of curiosity.

After all, the three of them were luxuriously dressed and had an extraordinary temperament. They were as bright as three white cranes breaking into a flock of chickens. It was difficult not to attract attention.

Already behind them were several nursing babies with runny noses.

Not long after, the girl walked into her hut and shouted softly.

"Mom, I'm back."

Chen Zun stood at the door and looked inside.

It was pitch dark inside the hut, the air was a little damp, and there was a faint smell of mold and rot.

He was tall and bent down to get in, and the smell of decay in his nose became even stronger.

The inside of the thatched hut was extremely simple, with scattered pots and pans on the floor, and the air leakage areas around it were patched up with thatch.

There is a bed in the corner made of two broken door panels, and the four corners below are supported by several adobe bricks.

The door panel was covered with a layer of hay, and then a rotten straw mat was spread. A middle-aged woman lay on it, covered with a tattered black quilt.

The middle-aged woman's chest was rising and falling slightly, and her breath was unsteady. Looking from the door, she was completely hidden in the shadows, and her face could not be seen.

Beside her, a two-year-old baby was sitting on the bed, wearing patched crotchless pants, holding a black object in his hand, stuffing it into his mouth, making a black ball around his mouth...

This scene shocked Chen Zun and Monk Wanfu deeply in their hearts.

This place is not a home, it is simply a pile of rubbish. It is impossible to imagine that a family lives here.

The big girl trotted over and gently touched the doll's head, then gently pushed the woman on the bed and called out.

"mother……"

……

Outside the mirror.

"Are all mortals so miserable?"

"Well, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't imagine how miserable the people were."

"Looking at it like this, the Daqi Dynasty was also very harsh on the people, and even the people couldn't survive."

"It was said that the late Emperor Han Jinlun who took over the throne of the Qi Dynasty loved his people like his own son. Under his rule, every family would not close their doors at night, and no one would pick up lost things on the road. The people were happy. But now it seems that it is completely different."

The monks looked at the scenes in the Shuiyue Mirror and didn't know what to say.

They had never seen the lives of the people at the bottom, and now they were all shocked when they saw it.

Moreover, this is Daqi where the people are said to live and work in peace and contentment, and have a good old age.

The achievements of the last emperor of Da Qi were probably not blown away.

They couldn't help but look at Han Youjin, the current supreme ruler of the Daqi Dynasty.

Han Youjin was shocked when she saw that scene, with eyes full of disbelief. She muttered: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"When my father was in power, he implemented benevolent policies and the world was peaceful. How could the people be starved of food?"

But the picture reflected by the Water Moon Mirror will not be false, nor can it be false.

"Applying benevolent policies? These are the tragedies I have seen with my own eyes. You don't know how miserable the people of Daqi are."

Shen Ruoyan looked disdainful and said sarcastically: "It seems that you are incompetent as an emperor. You don't even know what the situation of your own people is like. You should step down from the throne of the emperor and experience what suffering is in the world." .”