mountain and river oath

"As the saying goes, if a man is not a flirt, then a young man will be wasted, but Mr. Duan is still a flirtatious young man," said Zhao Jing.

Duan Zhenli's tense nerves temporarily relaxed, and he laughed, "Your Highness is joking, His Highness is just a young man with a bright future."

"Lord Duan is too much for the prize," Zhao Jing said.

"The two adults came from the middle of the capital. The journey was full of wind and dust. I spread a thin mat here and asked the two adults to rest here. Your Excellency pours the wine" Duan Zhenli said, turned around and ordered someone to set up a banquet, and asked Hong Yi to come down.

Zhao Jing didn't stop them, the two of them sat on the floor with a long table next to them, with fresh fruits and vegetables and a jug of wine.The red dress came in, she changed her clothes, put a little makeup on her face, walked over gracefully, picked up the jug, filled it up for the two of them,

"My lord, please drink." The red clothed eyes flickered, and looked at the two of them with winking eyes.

Zhao Jing picked up the wine glass and drank it down. Shu Zilan wanted to pick up the wine glass, but Zhao Jing snatched it and drank it down.

"Good wine" Zhao Jing said.

"I'm not overwhelmed by Your Highness yet," Duan Zhenli said hastily.

The red dress was going to be full for Zhao Jing, Zhao Jing waved and said, "No need"

Duan Zhenli looked at the red dress, who walked past delicately, holding the wine glass, and said, "Your Highness, would you like to have another drink?"

Zhao Jing looked at the red clothes, the red clothes had been through a lot of wind and moon, under such clear eyes, he just felt ashamed,

"Your Highness," Hong Yi said tenderly.

"Go down, we have something important to discuss with Mr. Duan." Zhao Jing looked at the red clothes and said softly.

"I..." Hongyi looked at Duan Zhenli in embarrassment, Duan Zhenli felt a little bit in his heart, but he knew it was inevitable, so he nodded slightly, Hongyi put down his wine glass, exited carefully, and closed the door.

Duan Zhenli looked at Zhao Jing, feeling uneasy. He had never been in contact with Zhao Jing, knew nothing about his temperament and preferences, and had no way to please him or get close to him. Duan Zhenli knew that he could not serve this master well this time. I'm afraid it's sad.

"Your Highness" Duan Zhenli knelt down in the tunnel.

Zhao Jing looked at Duan Zhenli who was kneeling on the ground and remained silent for a long time.

Duan Zhenli knelt until his knees hurt, but he gritted his teeth and dared not make a sound.

"Master Duan, it's cold on the ground, get up," Shu Zilan said.

Duan Zhenli glanced at Shu Zilan gratefully, seeing that Zhao Jing dared not move, Zhao Jing remained silent, Shu Zilan nodded, Duan Zhenli got up and sat down.

"Lord Duan, what is the situation in Rongyang now?" Zhao Jing asked.

"This..." Duan Zhenli was sweating profusely on his forehead. He had never asked about these things before. He knew nothing about the disaster, so he didn't know how to answer it.

"Has Rongyang taken measures to help the victims?" Zhao Jing asked.

"This..." Duan Zhenli didn't know how to answer.

Zhao Jing's face was gloomy, with an aura of dark clouds overwhelming Duan Zhenli's heart pounding in fright.

"Did Rongyang set up a porridge shed and open a warehouse to release grain?" Zhao Jing asked.

"Your Highness, the villain will do it right away," Duan Zhenli said.

"Immediately? There was a disaster in Rongyang four days ago. If you take action now, how many best rescue opportunities have you missed, and how many people died because of you?" Zhao Jing roared angrily.

Duan Zhenli lowered his head almost to the floor.

"Your Highness, instead of reprimanding Lord Duan here, why don't we act now, maybe we can save a lot of people?" Shu Zilan interjected in a light tone, relieving the tense atmosphere.

Zhao Jing stopped talking, Duan Zhenli heaved a sigh of relief, borrowed the slope and said, "Master Shu is right, the villain will go right away, and immediately open a warehouse to release food and set up a porridge shed to help the victims."

"Let's go," Zhao Jing said, he turned around and pushed the bead curtain aside, and walked out, Shu Zilan followed behind, Duan Zhenli's face was gloomy.

Zhao Jing sits in the Rongyang government office and presides over the disaster relief in person. He summons the chiefs of the government offices, and Shu Zilan takes the lead in drafting disaster relief documents all night and formulating specific matters for disaster relief. According to the disaster situation reported by various places, Jing uniformly arranged personnel to repair roads, clean up collapsed wood and bricks, and treat the affected people.For the past few days, the two of them have been resting in the government office, staying up all night, and the lights in the house are often on until dawn.

It’s just that the weather in Rongyang has been gloomy for the past few days, and the rain has been falling continuously. Although the rain is small, the damage is great. Some houses that have not yet collapsed have been continuously soaked by the rain. , or even casualties, Zhao Jing was anxious, he entrusted Shu Zilan with all the affairs of the government office, rode his horse, brought his attendants, went out to inspect, and did not come back until late at night.

Zhao Jing walked into the back hall, two candles were lit in the room, Shu Zilan was leaning on the pillow, holding the account book in his hand and looking at it carefully, he raised his sleeves and gently covered up the yawn at the corner of his mouth,

"I'm sleepy, let's take a rest." Zhao Jing looked at Shu Zilan's haggard face and tired expression, a green shirt wrapped around her thin body, and her crow-black hair was hanging down her shoulders.

"Not sleepy," Shu Zilan said, he has to carefully read the disaster situation reported by the people below, and decide on the distribution of supplies tomorrow. The relief supplies distributed by the imperial court are limited, and these supplies must not be distributed indiscriminately, and must be distributed to those most in need In the hands of people, rescue disasters, ease the plight of the people, and ensure that there will be no civil uprising in Rongyang.

"Go to sleep, I'll help you look at it for a while." Zhao Jing took the account book in Shu Zilan's hand and said.

"You're tired too." Shu Zilan looked at Zhao Jing, his eyes were red, and there were dark circles around his eyes, and his expression showed an unconcealable tiredness and despondency.

"Not tired, you can sleep for a while." Zhao Jing walked to Shu Zilan's side, sat down beside him, and the two of them sat leaning against each other.

"I didn't expect that the disaster in Rongyang would be so serious this time," Shu Zilan said in a strong voice, "More than 500 people died, 1200 houses collapsed, the roads leading to various places collapsed, horse-drawn carriages were impassable, and about 5 mu of land was destroyed. Yan, the people of Rongyang will have nothing to harvest this year." Shu Zilan couldn't hide her compassion.

"I will report to my father, please exempt Rong Yang from paying taxes for three years. Rong Yang has suffered such a catastrophe, and he will not be able to recover in two years," Zhao Jing sighed.

"How's the inspection going today?" Shu Zilan looked at Zhao Jing and asked with concern.

Zhao Jing took a long breath and sighed deeply, "No, there are not enough people. It has been raining continuously for the past few days, the houses have been infiltrated seriously, and some houses have collapsed from time to time. There are not enough people here at all."

"What should I do?" Shu Zilan asked with a frown.

"I want to mobilize the Rongyang defenders to participate in disaster relief," Zhao Jing said.

"How can this be done? The Rongyang defenders are only responsible for the safety of Rongyang, and have no responsibility for disaster relief. Besides, you have no right to mobilize the Rongyang defenders." Shu Zilan looked at Zhao Jing and said in surprise.

"We must do extraordinary things at an extraordinary moment. At this time, there is no military disaster in Rongyang, and there are 2 Rongyang defenders. With their participation, the progress of disaster relief in Rongyang will be greatly accelerated, not to mention that in a few days Maybe there will be a bigger rainstorm, we must speed up," Zhao Jing said worriedly.

"Okay" Shu Zilan said awkwardly, but he didn't have any confidence in his heart.

"Don't worry, I'll go find the general garrison in Rongyang tomorrow," said Zhao Jing.

"I'll go with you," Shu Zilan said.

"Okay" Zhao Jing said.

"Duan Zhenli has something strange," Shu Zilan said suddenly.

"You mean someone behind him?" Zhao Jing looked at Shu Zilan and asked.

"You noticed it" Shu Zilan said.

"Well, Duan Zhenli has served as the magistrate of Rongyang for many years. He plundered the people's fat and anointment, and the people complained a lot, but no one has ever exposed him for so many years, and his reputation in the capital is very good. What do you think is the reason?" Zhao Jing looked at him. Shu Zilan said.

"Someone is covering him," Shu Zilan said.

"Who do you think is behind him?" Zhao Jing asked.

"You ask me, isn't it obvious? Who else is there besides the prince?" Shu Zilan said angrily. Since Duan Zhenli is already in the team, he must be the most popular person in the capital, and he knows everyone around King Yu, so Duan Zhenli It must be the prince's person.

"The prince's people never knew that Duan Zhenli was actually the prince's man. It seems that the prince's power is not small," Zhao Jing said slowly.

"When the prince was 8 years old, he was appointed by the emperor as the prince of the middle palace. After so many years of hard work, how could he not have some supporters? It's just that Duan Zhenli's game is too hidden. He has never publicly supported the prince on anything. We have killed a lot of people, we have to be careful about this person," Shu Zilan said solemnly.

Zhao Jing nodded.

"We arrived suddenly and caught him in the flower building. Duan Zhenli must be thinking about what measures we will take," Shu Zilan said.

"It's not worth a thousand cuts for such a person," Zhao Jing said ruthlessly.

"He still doesn't know His Highness's temper, so he stands still for the time being and lets His Highness order. If His Highness is so jealous, maybe he would have done it long ago." Shu Zilan looked at Zhao Jing and said.

"I understand, we must be careful in what we do here," Zhao Jing nodded.

"Yeah" Shu Zilan agreed, and with a little huck, he raised his sleeves to cover it up carefully,

"You go to sleep, I'll watch over." Zhao Jing looked at Shu Zilan's troubled face and couldn't open his eyes, but still held on, his eyes blurred, swollen and glistening tears, a pair of beautiful eyes as if washed with water Generally, pretty and charming.

"Okay, I'll sleep for half an hour, and you call me when it's time." Shu Zilan was so sleepy that she fell limply on the side, maybe she was extremely tired, and after a while he fell into a deep sleep. Jing took a blanket and gently covered Shu Zilan's body, brushed her hair back with her fingers, picked up the ledger, and made marks while looking at it.

Shu Zilan opened his eyes, he blocked the glare of the light with his hands, squinted his eyes and slowly adapted to the surrounding environment, it was already broad daylight, he slept all night, Shu Zilan glanced over, Zhao Jing sat on the side, serious Really looking at the account book, he heard the noise, raised his head, smiled slightly and said, "Are you up?"

"Why didn't you call me?" Shu Zilan said angrily.

"I see that you are sleeping soundly, and I can't bear to call you. You have been looking at the account books day and night these days, and you are exhausted," Zhao Jing said softly.

"Is the distribution of supplies settled today?" Shu Zilan asked.

"Well, it's settled," Zhao Jing said, handing over the ledger casually, and Shu Zilan took it over. The things that need attention, as well as the quota and quantity allocated were neatly written on the ledger in bold and upright lower letters, and Shu Zilan wrote it one page at a time. Looking at the past, the ledger is well-organized, logical and easy to understand.

"Your Highness, the young master is awake." Wang Lu walked in with a basin in his hand. Zhao Jing stood up and stretched, and said, "You wash first, I'll go out and stretch my muscles and bones."

Shu Zilan took the towel handed over by Wang Lu to wash his face, and after brushing his hair, he changed into a moon-white shirt and walked out. The water dripped down bit by bit, converging into shallow water eddies one after another in the yard.The breeze with water vapor gently swayed, sending the moist fragrance of Sophora japonica, refreshing and refreshing. Shu Zilan took a deep breath, feeling that the tiredness of the past few days was sent away by the breeze, and she felt refreshed.

He raised his eyes and saw Zhao Jing who was dancing sword in the rain, his figure was agile and free, his sword moves were crisp and neat, without any superfluous tricks, the sword was going straight to the point, and he secretly admired Zhao Jing, who worked hard and made progress, no matter the wind or rain, Every day, if you can't be shaken by thunder, you must practice a set of sword moves in the yard.

Zhao Jing performed a set of sword moves from the starting position to the closing position. After one set, his whole body was drenched with sweat, and sweat ran down his forehead. Zhang Jun quickly handed over a towel. sweating, raised his eyes to see Shu Zilan, smiled brightly, and said, "Why did you come out?"

"Come out for a walk," Shu Zilan said.

"It's still raining outside, you go back quickly, be careful of the wind and cold," Zhao Jing said.

"It's okay, it's just light rain," Shu Zilan said indifferently.

Zhao Jing looked at Zhang Jun at the side. Zhang Jun took out an umbrella from his side and handed it to Zhao Jing. Zhao Jing took it in his hand and handed it to Shu Zilan, saying, "Rongyang's disaster relief now depends on Mr. Shu's mediation." , you can't be sick at this time"

Shu Zilan smiled and took it in her hand, stretched it open,

"I'll go wash up," Zhao Jing said.

"I'll wait for you, we'll have dinner together later," Shu Zilan said.

"Okay" Zhao Jing walked past Shu Zilan, leaving Zhang Jun to take care of Shu Zilan.

"I don't think I can touch Duan Zhenli, but King Yu can," Zhao Jing said while looking at Shu Zilan.

Shu Zilan lowered her eyebrows and remained silent.

Zhao Jing was dumb. They were just talking casually, but they talked about King Yu unconsciously. He knew the ability he had shown, which made Shu Zilan start to doubt his purpose of joining King Yu. The two of them were not in the same camp. It's just that during the days when they fought side by side, on such a dark night, he suddenly forgot.

"Rongyang is in ruins now, and it won't be effective without two or three months. After the disaster relief is over, what are you going to do with Duan Zhenli?" Shu Zilan asked.

"For the sake of his dedication to disaster relief, spare his life, demote him from the rank and rank, and demote him to a commoner," said Zhao Jing.

"Will he accept his fate?" Shu Zilan disagreed.

"Let's see what moves he wants to use. If it's harmful to the world, just kill him," Zhao Jing said with a serious face.

Shu Zilan turned to look at Zhao Jing. Under the dim light, Zhao Jing could hardly hide his tiredness, but he was still upright and heroic.

"I'm afraid it's not that easy," Shu Zilan said.

"There is a force behind Duan Zhenli," Zhao Jing said.