Half blood

Li Xuan raised his eyes and saw several other thugs punching and kicking the unarmed and skinny victims. Li Xuan couldn't help being furious. Sweep off the legs.

The thin man fell to the ground in response, and a dog gnawed his shit. Several other big men rushed up and surrounded Li Xuan. The wooden stick turned out like a big knife, slashed and picked, blocked and slashed, and checked and balanced the attacks from all directions.

At this time, the arresters in the yamen rushed over, first suppressed the lean man who fell to the ground, and then took down the other three-on-one.Finally, the chief of the police came forward, saluted Li Xuan, and said, "I'm really sorry, they are a few ruffians in the capital who are used to doing nothing. You just came back from the south and they haven't heard of your name yet."

Li Xuan put away the wooden stick, and said coldly to the thin man: "Don't you want me to tell my master, to give my master some color? Let me tell you, my master is the current emperor, and he gave birth to me, the little boy." Bastard."

The thin man spit out a mouthful of bloody saliva with a bah sound, and said: "With something like you, Yujin Kingdom will be over sooner or later! It's over! Traitor, traitor!"

The skinny man was arrested and dragged away for a few streets, Li Xuan could still hear his hysterical howling: "It's over! It's over!"

Li Xuan let go, and the wooden stick in his hand rolled to the ground.These high-pitched accusations felt like a blow to his heart with a hammer.Is he wrong?Is it really wrong...

Li Xiuqi came out from behind the half of the table and walked to Li Xuan's side.Li Xuan looked up at him, stretched out his hand to pull Li Xiuqi's torn official uniform, and asked, "Are you hurt?"

Li Xiuqi shook his head, "Where is Your Highness?"

"No." Li Xuan replied, then squatted down and straightened the broken pot. Behind him, the cloth on the top of the porridge shop fell to the ground with a clatter. Li Xuan sighed and said, "Why is there such a big pot?" hatred? Did I really do something wrong? Should I really die? "

Li Xiuqi squatted down beside Li Xuan, stretched out his hand to pick up the firewood scattered on the ground, "Your Highness, you also heard the police say that they were originally small ruffians in the capital, and they were used to doing bad things. It's business, seeing that you can eat and drink for free when you open a porridge shop, but he can't keep up with such a good thing, so he was angry and came to ask for trouble."

"When I was in the palace, I also heard such words, because my mother's queen is from Qingzhou, everyone thinks that if I inherit the throne in the future, I will definitely bend my elbows to outsiders, so they are guarding against me. Do everything possible to ask me to go down. But I never thought about who, how things should be, just how they are. We built a water diversion dam in order to defend the south, which caused their current end, we should bear the responsibility This responsibility comes. Could it be that they deserve to die because they are not from Yujin Kingdom? What is the reason for this?"

Li Xiuqi said: "Your Highness, think about it. There is only such a big piece of cake. If you distribute it to the victims of the Qingzhou Kingdom, then the people of the Yujin Kingdom will get less. People are all selfish. Every family in this age does not care about it." Well, no one wants to give away what is theirs. You should have known it when you did it, no one will praise you for doing it, and you won't even leave a good name for posterity, Do you still want to?"

Li Xuan was silent, and in his ears, he recalled the man's sharp shout over and over again, it was over, it was over.Li Xuan's heart suddenly became timid. He wanted to be responsible for the people who were affected by him, even if they were not his own citizens, but if doing so would cause trouble to the people of Yujin Kingdom, then what would his original intention of treating people equally Isn't it fair to favor one over another?The steelyard in his heart has long been tilted towards Qingzhou, because the suppressed half of the blood in his body, all the ridicule and all the exclusion, have become the brown eyes of the unknown boy in his heart, which are his own eyes , a pair of wandering eyes that finally found their way home.

Li Xuan squatted on the ground, holding the broken pot in his hand.Li Xiuqi sighed, snatched the broken pot from Li Xuan's hand, and said: "Your Highness, this pot has broken like this, I will buy you a new one tomorrow."

Li Xuan blinked and said, "It's useless, and it's useless to buy any new ones."

Li Xiuqi said softly: "Your Highness is also tired today, you should think about it..." Then he got up and ordered the servants who followed him to go back to the house to clean up the mess.

The servant hurriedly went to the mansion and called a few servants, and quickly cleaned up the mess in front of Prince An's mansion.

A middle-aged man came over. He had the characteristics of a typical Qingzhou man. He had brown hair as thick as chopsticks, a beard that exploded on his lips, and a pair of brown eyes like an uncivilized beast.He squatted down beside Li Xuan, stretched out his hand to pick up the firewood spilled on the ground, and said to Li Xuan: "Little brother, you have a good heart. In fact, we people don't want to be like this... You say we are good at hands and feet, and we don't want to do it." I am willing to accept charity from others, if there is any work I can do, even if it is digging, I am willing. But... hey..." The man sighed softly.

Li Xuan turned his head and asked, "But what?"

The man went on to say: "But no one wants to hire us foreigners who have fled. After all, we don't have registered households here. Who would dare to hire us? We actually understand this. After all, we are foreigners. It is hard to guarantee that we will not do something. He took the money and ran away in two or three days."

Li Xuan thought slightly, and asked, "Do you all want a job?"

The man nodded and said, "Yes, it's almost winter, and I want to have a good year, I hope next year won't be so difficult."

Li Xuan raised his head, and saw that the disaster victims in the long line in front of the porridge shop all knelt down to help him clean up, some helped up the fallen pillars and stuck them into the ground, and some helped clean up the firewood scattered on the ground. The firewood burned out and turned into black charcoal, and the children followed the adults to sweep up the charcoal ashes with a small dustpan.Some people secretly put the dusty porridge on the ground into bowls and fed them to frightened children.

This scene made Li Xuan suddenly think of a small grass that he saw in the back mountain of the palace when he was a child. The grass emerged from the cracks in the stones and grew straight and straight, as if showing off his tenacious life.

Li Xuan looked at it, but he had bad thoughts in his heart. He deliberately picked a huge stone and pressed it on the grass, thinking how arrogant you can be when you look so small.He forgot about it later, until a long time later he accidentally saw a crooked grass growing under the stone, the grass was pressed into a straight line by the stone, crawling on the ground, climbing the stone Do everything possible to pop up.

At that time, a strange feeling rose in Li Xuan's heart, people's self-righteousness, human arrogance, all these expansions became pretentious and ridiculous in front of the tenacity of the little life.There are tens of thousands of lives in this world, and they are all working hard and persistently for their own survival, but what right does he have to despise their courage?

A pair of gentle little hands gently tugged at the hem of Li Xuan's clothes. Li Xuan lowered his head and saw a five or six-year-old girl holding an empty bowl with a chip in it. She raised her head and looked at him seriously. Brother, do we still have porridge to drink?"

Li Xuan stretched out his hand and patted the top of the little girl's head, and said softly: "Today is gone, come back tomorrow, okay?" The little girl nodded, her brown eyes bent into a pair of small crescents.

The granary in the mansion was about to bottom out, and the accountant took the bill and said to Li Xuan: "Your Highness, if you go on like this, the mansion will not be able to open the pot again. You must know that at this time, every household is collecting grain to prepare for the winter." , how can you take it outside so desperately."

The accountant paused, and then said: "I know, Your Highness, you have a good heart, but no matter what you do, you have to think about yourself and the whole Prince An's Mansion. There are dozens of people, all counting on His Highness, so that you can live a better life." What about a stable year..."

Li Xuan took over the book from the accountant and asked, "How much did you lose yesterday?"

The accountant took out an prepared abacus from his sleeve, flicked it, and fiddled with his hands up and down on the abacus, "The lost porridge, rice and the sweet potatoes sent by Mr. Li are about fifty taels in total."

"Then add a few pots, one pot has a hole, and the other two pots are also cracked, but it is not necessary to buy new ones, you can ask someone to repair it, but since your highness is a prince, it is better to buy new pots , This is another ten taels of silver."

The accountant waved his hands, and then said: "There are also firewood for the porridge shop, pillars, and canvas tents. There are more than a dozen or so in total. In addition, there will be rewards for the headhunters who come to help, at least We have to move another 20 taels."

"In total, 90 taels is a conservative estimate. The total will only be higher than this number, and it is impossible to be lower than this number."

After hearing this, Li Xuan thought for a while, and said: "I dropped the Jinji bakery, and there are a total of 300 taels of silver. Counting the expenses in Prince An's mansion, there is still a hundred or so taels left. Take it easy and keep the porridge shop open for another ten days. Then I have another way."

The accountant hurriedly asked, "What can your Highness do?"

Li Xuandao: "Don't worry about this, go to the rice shop with me today and buy some rice."

The owner of the rice shop is a kind person. He opened a porridge shop in front of the rice shop to help the victims, and the price of rice is very fair.Li Xuan didn't bargain, and bought the rice at the market price.

The owner of the rice shop recognized Li Xuan, and hurriedly stopped Li Xuan and said, "Hey, isn't this little brother who runs a porridge shop in Xicheng? Is the little brother here to buy rice today for the porridge shop? I heard yesterday Hou Qiang went and smashed your porridge shop? Oh, who doesn’t know the thin Hou Qiang, he’s just a little ruffian, and he feels uncomfortable if he doesn’t make any noise for a few days, little brother, don’t bother with him.”

As soon as Li Xuan came back from the south, another king went into the dungeon. The people in the city didn't know him yet, they only thought that King An was a mysterious guy, while Li Xuan was a kind-hearted young man.The accountant who followed Li Xuan was not happy, he couldn't stand his master being called by his little brother one by one, so he opened his mouth and shouted: "Who are you calling little brother!"

The owner of the rice shop was slightly stunned, but Li Xuan hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and said with a smile, "This is my family's accountant, and I'm a little grumpy, so don't see me being wronged by eating outside. Boss, don't argue with him."

The owner of the rice shop also smiled and said, "It's my fault. Calling someone a little brother is not taking advantage of others? How about it, I only need half of the rice you bought today."

Li Xuan hurriedly said: "Boss really doesn't have to be like this. You have worked so hard to make money by opening a store. The money didn't come from strong winds. You also opened a porridge shop to help the victims. It's a bodhisattva's heart. I'm really sorry."

The owner of the rice shop hurriedly persuaded him a few more words, and the two of them sat in front of the shop for a long time, and finally Li Xuan said: "Since the boss insists on this, then I can't refuse, so let's do it, then I will pay the same amount and buy more." Rice from the boss' shop."

The boss nodded with a smile, and asked someone to fill several bags of rice for Li Xuan.The accountant whispered in Li Xuan's ear: "Your Highness, it's good to come out with you, this rice is enough for us until the Chinese New Year!"

Li Xuan nodded the accountant's head with his hand, and said, "So when you go out to buy things in the future, put your mouth a little sweeter, and say a few nice words without losing a piece of meat."

The accountant smirked and said, "Your Highness taught me that."

At this time, the owner of the rice shop came over with a smile, and winked at the servant behind him. The servant hurriedly walked to the back of the rice shop, and a young girl came out after a while.