Raising Wolves

Zheng Yao didn't dare to say anything.

Lu Qingze finally regained his senses from the shocking "looking at him", and couldn't help but look at Zheng Yao more.

Commander Zheng is well-known in the original book.

In the original book, Zheng Yao is described as "a vicious dog under the tyrant". In the capital, children can be scared so that they dare not cry in the middle of the night. Every household uses "Cry again and Commander Zheng will come and arrest you" to scare children. The appearance is not the same as this The description is also very consistent, with a burly figure, a fierce face, a windy walk, and evil eyes.

How short-sighted is Ning Guoguo to see the glances?

Lu Qing was very interested and didn't pay attention. The longer he looked at Zheng Yao with a smile, the colder Ning Juan's eyes became.

Under the tremendous pressure, Zheng Yao slowly shed a drop of cold sweat: "..."

Master Emperor, please stop looking at me! ! !

Lu Qing watched it for a while, feeling a little funny in his heart.

He can still joke, it seems that Ning Juan is not too angry.

He coughed lightly, put down his chopsticks, and calmly rescued Mr. Zheng, who looked very distressed: "Mr. Zheng came here specially, must there be something else?"

Zheng Yao is not an idiot, the interrogation has not yet come to an end, why do you want to get scolded.

Hearing this, Zheng Yao remembered what he was here for, and hurriedly brought up the matter: "It's like this, I just saw a pair of sneaky young girls outside, claiming to know His Majesty and Taifu Lu. Your Majesty and Taifu came here incognito. Why? Will there be someone I know? I feel suspicious and want to take them down, but I didn't expect that young man with strong martial arts skills, but he just can't speak..."

The more Lu Qing listened, the more he felt something was wrong: "What's the name of the little girl?"

"Called himself Yu Liuyue."

Lu Qing said complicatedly: "We do know each other."

It was the girl who led the victims in the cave.

The one who is strong in martial arts but can't speak is probably a dumb boy with extraordinary skills outside Lingshan Temple.

Zheng Yao: "..."

Is he going to be scolded again?

Ning Juan frowned slightly: "Where's the person?"

"It's locked... I'll let you go now!" Zheng Yao scratched his head, "Your Majesty, do you want to bring him up?"

Ning Juan was not in a hurry to give an answer. He glanced at Lu Qingze first, and tapped the table with his fingertips: "Is it hurt?"

If it is injured, and the whole body is bloody, I am afraid it will not look good.

It's better not to put it in front of the teacher, so as not to disturb him.

Zheng Yao breathed a sigh of relief, feeling thankful: "That's not the case. Before the fight started, the boy was stopped by Miss Yu, and he obediently followed us."

Only then did Ning Juan hum, and wiped the corners of his lips slowly: "Bring it up."

The two of them had almost eaten, and the subordinates came to take away the plates.

Hearing that no one was injured, Lu Qing felt relieved, poured a cup of tea habitually, held it in his hand, blew on the curling smoke, and guessed Yu Liuyue's intentions.

Ning Juan suddenly glanced at him and said with a smile, "Teacher forgot again."

Lu Qing was puzzled: "What?"

Ning Juan picked up the silver mask on the side, looked at the too eye-catching clear face, and said softly, "Don't let anyone else see the teacher's face."

Zheng Yao, Chang Shun, Chen Xiaodao.

These people who can look directly at Lu Qingze, and those who can be looked back by him, are already the limit of his tolerance.

The young emperor's voice was soft and gentle, as if he was just worried that his exposure of his disfigurement was a fake, but Lu Qingze's heart skipped a beat.

But before he had time to explore, his eyes were covered by a mask and he couldn't see anything.

When the vision recovered, Ning Juan smiled softly and innocently in front of him. It seemed that it was just an illusion.

Lu Qing touched the cold mask on his face, suppressing the doubts in his heart.

After waiting for a while, Yu Liuyue and Lin Xi were brought up by Zheng Yao.

Seeing Sishang, Ning Juan and Lu Qingze, Yu Liuyue quickly pulled Lin Xi down to kneel down, and bowed neatly: "Yu Liuyue, a girl of the people, has met His Majesty and Mrs. Lu. She was at the side of the cave before. The girl has nothing to say, but I still look forward to His Majesty and Tai Tuo Haihan."

Although Ning Juan was a bit fussy about Lu Qingze's affairs, he was always worried about these aspects: "It's okay, get up."

Seeing that Yu Liuyue was still a little hesitant, as if he was afraid that Ning Juan would just talk about it and still blame him in his heart, Lu Qing said gently: "We concealed our identities and came here to see Jiangyou's people's sentiments, don't worry , Your Majesty is magnanimous and will not care. Didn’t Mr. Zheng misunderstand you just now? It’s even, so there’s no need to worry about it.”

Lu Qingze's voice was clear and gentle, and there was a bewitching sincerity in his ears.

Zheng Yao's eyebrows twitched, but she was not deceived, but only felt a little melancholy.

Why hasn't he experienced His Majesty's generosity?

But he didn't dare to say that.

After listening to Lu Qingze's words, Yu Liuyue stood up, and Lin Xi shrank behind her again, a little embarrassed, as if he was afraid that there were too many people around, but he still remembered that Lu Qing could read Understanding his sign language, he showed a shy smile to Lu Qing.

Lu Qing nodded kindly at him.

Ning Juan took a sip of tea expressionlessly.

Seeing the dusty looks of the two, they must have rushed over as soon as they heard the news of His Majesty's arrival, but Lu Qing withdrew his gaze and said, "Sit down, don't be restrained. Your Majesty and I met outside Lingshan Temple. Mr. Lin, I didn't expect you two to know each other."

Ning Juan glanced at the attendants below, and quickly brought chairs for the two of them.

Lin Xi and Yu Liuyue sat down uncomfortably, and the girl nodded slightly: "Lin Xi is Minnv's younger brother."

Lu Qing chatted like a family and asked with a smile: "Huh? Do you take your father's surname and the other's mother's surname?"

His tone was unhurried, but it didn't give people the feeling of being contemptuous. On the contrary, it could make people relax unconsciously. Facing him, Yu Liuyue didn't feel so nervous unconsciously. After hesitating for a while , said bluntly: "Lin Xi is an orphan picked up by Minnv's father when he was walking the darts, but after so many years, he is no different from Minnv's own younger brother."

Lu Qingze still wanted to continue to inquire, but Ning Juan didn't have much patience to see Lu Qingze wasted with irrelevant people, and asked indifferently: "I came here specially, do you want to ask for something?"

When she was in the cave before, Yu Liuyue was a little afraid of Ning Juan, and subconsciously felt that this young man was very dangerous.

But she is the leader of the disaster victims. Even if she is afraid, she has to hold on and not show her cowardice. Now that she knows Ning Juan's identity... You Qi scolded him in front of Ning Juan, and she felt a little embarrassed when she met him: "Yes. There are two things I would like to ask Your Majesty."

Ning Juan said indifferently: "You two are credited for protecting the disaster victims, let's talk about it."

Yu Liuyue pursed her lips and lowered her voice: "The epidemic first appeared from Ji'an Mansion. After the outbreak, the government came to arrest people. We and our mother accidentally got lost. After that, we asked everywhere, and finally heard from the villagers that my mother She was taken to Lingshan Temple. The folk girl stayed to take care of other villagers. Lin Xi went to Lingshan Temple, but because there were too many people, she was not found... I heard that His Majesty is now counting the roster of victims of the disaster. Can someone help to check? check?"

It's not a big deal, Ning Juan nodded to Zheng Yao, and said: "The statistical roster is also used to find relatives and friends for the common people."

After a pause, his tone was indifferent: "But it may not be possible to find someone, you have to be prepared."

During the period when the victims were locked up in Lingshan Temple, Pan Jingmin would send people there every three days to take away the victims who were suspected or confirmed to be infected.

Ning Juan had actually guessed what would happen to the victims, but he still sent someone to torture the soldiers responsible for these things.

Just this morning, he received the whereabouts of those victims, but he didn't tell Lu Qingze.

Pan Jingmin ordered people to dig a deep hole at the foot of a mountain.

Those affected victims were deceived into taking them there, saying that they were taken for medical treatment, but in fact they were driven into pits like livestock, shot to death with random arrows, and then burned.

Pan Jingmin was still afraid that the ashes of these patients would spread the disease, so every time he did this inhumanely, he would cover it with a thick layer of soil.

When he went to check in person in the morning, the mutilated bones in the deep pit had already been mixed with the soil, decaying silently, and it was already hard to tell who was who.

Yu Liuyue's nose was sore, and her eyes were hot. She knew it was possible, but she kept thinking about it, she didn't dare to think about it, so she bit her lips: "The girl knows."

Lu Qing sighed silently, and his voice became softer: "There is one more thing?"

Yu Liuyue opened her mouth, her voice choked up: "Also... Please help me, Your Majesty, to find Minnv's father."

Ning Juan raised his eyebrows slightly.

Why do you have to mention looking for your mother first, and then ask him to help you find your father?

Seeing Yu Liuyue's uncontrollable sobs, Lin Xi patted her shoulder lightly, beckoning him to speak, and gestured quickly.

Lu Qing looked at it, his face became dignified, he pondered for a while, nodded and said: "I will tell your majesty in detail, you two brothers and sisters should go to rest first, and stay here for a while, and wait for a while. As a result, I will let you know."

Lin Xi made another sign language: Thank you.

When the two finally left with Zheng Yao, Ning Juan immediately withdrew his cold face in front of outsiders, leaned towards Lu Qingze, and drew Lu Qingze's attention back to himself: "Teacher, he just said What?"

Lu Qing recovered from his contemplation, turned his face to look at Ning Juan, and explained: "Yu Liuyue's father's name is Yu Zheng, and he is a headhunter in Ji'an Prefecture. He has excellent martial arts skills, and Lin Xi's martial arts skills are from him. Xi came here, but Yu Zheng disappeared before Jiangyou became chaotic."

Ning Juan nodded obediently: "Teacher's expression was very solemn just now, is there something wrong with Yu Zheng's disappearance?"

Lu Qing pondered and said: "Lin Xi said that a few days before Yu Zheng's disappearance, when he returned home, his face was very ugly, and then he simply resigned from the government and took the whole family back to Yu's village. He disappeared not long after. After he disappeared, people often wandered around his house at night, but they were beaten away by Lin Xi before entering the door."

Ning Juan said: "It seems that I have learned some secrets, got something, and I am afraid that it will bring death to the whole family."

"I think so." Lu Qing took a sip of tea, "It's just that after the flood, Lin Xi and Yu Liuyue fled the village with their mother, and they probably didn't have time to take away the things at home. You should be able to find clues along those things."

Lu Qing thought about it seriously, and looked up at Ning Juan: "Since we have agreed, let's send someone to Yujia Village to look for that thing."

There is no rush, at least until the flood recedes.

Hope things don't get washed away.

Seeing that Lu Qing was paying attention, Ning Juan naturally wouldn't refute his meaning: "I'll ask Zheng Yao to ask Yu Zheng's physical characteristics, and send someone to look around."

After speaking, he also felt dry mouth and wanted to drink some tea, but he stretched out his hand out of inertia, only to realize that no one poured it for him.

The outside world is no better than the Qianqing Palace, Jiangyou is still in the same situation, even if it is His Majesty the emperor, the treatment is no better than before, not to mention that the servants are not around.

Lu Qing saw that Ning Juan was obviously stunned for a moment, amused in his heart, picked up the teacup himself, poured him a cup of hot tea, and pushed it over with two fingers: "Try it, Lushan Yunwu, the people from Commander Zheng last night It was dug out from the government treasury, and I never thought that the tea in Zhao Zhifu’s mansion is no worse than the imperial tea in the palace—speaking of this, last night I checked the warehouse lists reported by various prefectures and made some statistics.”

Ning Juan took the tea that Lu Qingze poured for himself, and the displeasure just now disappeared: "How is it?"

"It's not so good. The floods submerged the crops, and some cities were constantly raining due to heavy rain. After digging out a lot of stored food, I found that it was damp and moldy, and there were too many victims, and there were even many victims who were hiding. I am afraid that the remaining food in the various prefectures will not last long." Lu Qing paused, "Your Majesty, how do you plan to solve the problem of food?"

Before going south to visit Jiangyou in person, neither Lu Qingze nor Ning Juan expected that the group of trash led by Pan Jingmin could make such a fuss about the wealthy Jiangyou.

Now that both water and land are difficult to travel, and it is two thousand miles away, it must be too late to pass the urgent report from Jiangyou to the capital, and then select the imperial envoy to go south to relieve the disaster. It will take nearly a month to go back and forth.

So before coming, Ning Juan arranged for people, and when the appointed time came, he arranged for people to pretend to be victims of disasters in advance, and spread the news of floods and diseases on the right side of the river in the capital, as well as news of urgent reports hidden by Wei Herong, which made Wei Herong lose power to intervene in the matter.

When the obstacles become lighter, Elder Feng Ge can push Fan Xingyan to be an imperial envoy, and the servant of the household department secretly prepares relief supplies. At that time, Fan Xingyan can immediately take orders and rush to Jiangyou with the relief supplies.

It's just that there are still a few days before the originally agreed time, and it will be half a month before Fan Xingyan arrives day and night.

"Don't worry, teacher. Last night I issued an imperial order to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to exert pressure," Ning Juan wrote lightly, "I am here, no matter how painful Li Xun is, I dare not not cut a piece of meat. In a few days, Changshun and Chen Xiaodao will be able to bring food from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so we can solve the urgent need first."

In this way, Jiang You can also survive the disaster relief from the imperial court.

Didn't you forget Changshun and Chen Xiaodao by the Daming Lake?

Lu Qing rested his elbows on the table, resting his chin with his hands, and tapped Ning Juan's forehead with his fingertips with a smile: "That's why you left Changshun and the knife over there?"

That bamboo-like slender finger stretched out, wafting a faint plum fragrance, just nodded casually, but Ning Juan's heart seemed to go numb after that, the stimulation like electric shock made him really want to do something , such as tightly clutching the long, thin, white hand in front of him.

The fingertips hidden in the wide sleeves were tightened and loosened several times before Ning Juan suppressed the sudden impulse and exhaled carefully.

He has forgotten since when, every time Lu Qingze approached, even a simple contact, would make him nervous and greedy.

He couldn't help but think that if it was Lu Qingze, even if he wanted to stab him in the heart with a knife, he wouldn't want to avoid it.

But how could Lu Qing treat him like that.

As soon as this idea came out, Ning Juan's eyes were stained with a bright smile, like a puppy wagging its tail begging for praise: "Mmm!"

Lu Qing didn't know why the young man seemed so happy suddenly, and reached out to touch the child's forehead inexplicably.

Are you not sick?

Putting down his hands, the boy's face seemed to turn a little red again.

Lu Qing was a little worried: "Did you cover your mouth and nose when you went to the resettlement house? I'll call the imperial doctor to show you later."

The transmission route of the disease has not yet been ascertained. Although the possibility of air transmission is relatively weak, otherwise all the people in Lingshan Temple would be infected, but we still have to be careful.

Seeing that Lu Qing took the initiative to care about him, Ning Juan did not refuse, and nodded casually with a smile: "Okay."

Zheng Yao just came back to report the news, seeing His Majesty's splendid appearance in front of the Emperor Teacher, felt sad again.

Obviously surrendered at the same time, why...

Although Pan Jingmin still bit him to death, he was not guilty of any other crimes other than ineffective control of the water, and he did not collude with courtiers, but the good news came quickly.

The next day, Yu Liuyue found her mother among the victims.

A few days later, the flood outside Ji'an Mansion receded slightly, and Yujia Village finally emerged from the flood and was able to see the sun again.

When the news came, Lu Qingze and Ning Juan happened to be returning from Hongdu Mansion, and they hadn't returned to the city yet. When they heard the news, they simply changed their way and went to the vicinity of Yujia Village.

Jin Yiwei had sealed off the surrounding area, and when they saw Ning Juan and the others coming, they all saluted.

The flood has passed, and the whole village is miserable. Many houses have been washed away, and the ground is in a mess, with everything in it.

Zheng Yao didn't dare to let Ning Juan and Lu Qing go down: "Your Majesty and Master Lu are waiting here, Mr. Lin will take us there to search."

Although Yu's mother was not infected with the epidemic, she also fell ill due to hunger and cold. Yu Liuyue took care of her mother in the official office, and it was Lin Xi who came to lead the way.

In the absence of her sister, facing a group of strangers, Lin Xi looked like a little rabbit waiting to be slaughtered. He quietly shrank his head, silently, trying to reduce his sense of existence.

It was also a young man who was about the same age as Ning Juan, but Lu Qing felt a little more compassionate, and touched the child's head: "Don't be afraid, Mr. Zheng will not kill you."

Mr. Lu, don't mess around!

Zheng Yao sneaked a glance at Ning Juan's face, sweating for Lin Xi's head. He is a martial arts practitioner, and he cherishes talents for a young man like Lin Xi who is so good-natured. Hurry up and cough Two voices: "It will be bad if the flood returns, Mr. Lin, lead the way."

The only person Lin Xi was not afraid of was Lu Qingze. After being comforted by him, he was not so afraid anymore. He nodded his head and led Zheng Yao and the others towards the house.

The flood in the distance still hasn't receded, and Lu Qing and Ning Juan are waiting on a high place.

The fields below are in a mess, the roads cannot be distinguished, and the property and crops lost are countless. When the flood completely recedes, the people will have to spend a lot of effort to rebuild their homes.

The dry, watery and muddy wind blew in from a distance, shaking the robes of the two of them.

Lu Qing stood with his hands behind his back, and said softly: "Your Majesty, I used to tell you about people's livelihood in the book, but this time I came to the right side of the river, and after seeing all this with my own eyes, what do you think?"

Ning Juan said: "What was written in the book is only one or two out of ten."

After a moment of silence, his voice sank: "Teacher, I want to be an emperor who can make the people live and work in peace and contentment, and make the world clean and peaceful."

He said "will", not "want".

The young emperor's voice has the clarity and vigor of this age, mixed with a bit of mature composure, every word is like gold and stone.

Lu Qingze's heart was hot, and the corners of his lips curled up: "Well, I believe in you."

Ning Juan suddenly turned to look at him, his eyes brightened slightly: "Teacher will always be with me, right?"

Lu Qing raised his eyebrows and teased casually: "Didn't Your Majesty think about hiding all the birds?"

Who would have thought that one sentence would not play a joke, but Ning Juan's face darkened instantly: "Who said such words to the teacher?"

Lu Qing was startled, and hurriedly said: "No one, just kidding."

Ning Juan really got angry, and stared at Lu Qingze angrily for a moment, then couldn't bear to lose his temper at him, gritted his teeth and swallowed his anger, waved his sleeves heavily, and refused to talk to him: "This kind of joke, Even the teacher can't open it at will! Next time, don't talk nonsense!"

Lu Qing was really dumbfounded for three seconds.

Really angry?

He never talked about the rules when talking to Ning Juan, and occasionally slipped out of his mouth... But it was indeed his fault for not caring about Ning Juan's sensitive mind.

Just as he was about to apologize, Zheng Yao, who was looking for things over there, came back: "Your Majesty! I found something!"

There were too many people and it was difficult to speak, so Lu Qing had no choice but to swallow his words back and looked at what Zheng Yao brought back.

It was a medium-sized ceramic bottle, tightly stoppered, and buried under the corner of the kitchen at home, so it was not washed away.

I don't know what is inside, Zheng Yao held the ceramic bottle and asked for advice: "Your Majesty, do you want to open it?"

Ning Juan glanced at the bottle with downcast eyes, and nodded coldly.

Zheng Yao took the ceramic bottle back a foot, stepped on the ceramic bottle, pulled out the long knife at his waist, and pulled the stopper.

Nothing flew out of it.

Zheng Yao straightened the bottle, looked down, his face suddenly became strange, bent over to grab the bottle, reached out to take out the contents, walked quickly to Ning Juan, bent down and handed it: "Please have a look, Your Majesty."

Seeing the contents in the ceramic bottle, even Lu Qingze and Ning Juan were taken aback.

Yu Liuyue's father, Yu Zheng, hid the thing that caused his death.

It turned out to be an account book with a letter written by me.

The two felt something was wrong for an instant.

Ning Juan opened the letter and glanced at it. His eyes deepened, and he didn't rush to read again. He raised his head and asked, "Where is Zhao Zhengde, the prefect of Ji'an?"

"Still in prison," Zheng Yao didn't know why, "Because of the shortage of manpower, I have been focusing on Pan Jingmin's family recently, and I haven't had time to interrogate him yet."

Too many people have been arrested, and a large number of people are queuing up for trial, and it is not Zhao Zhengde's turn yet.

Ning Juan nodded slightly, and said no more: "Go back to the official office."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Lu Qingze and turned around and got into the carriage.

Zheng Yao's mouth involuntarily opened up, and his eyes almost fell out of shock.

According to His Majesty's usual temper, shouldn't he help Mr. Lu into the carriage with his own hands?

What's the matter? This is, he just left for a while, and the sky changed?

The face of the young man in front of him was covered with a mask, so he couldn't see his expression, but the slightly pursed lips showed that he was not in a good mood either.

Hey, the sky is going to rain knives, isn't it? Your Majesty and Master Lu actually quarreled!

Zheng Yao really couldn't hold back his eager curiosity, and while Ning Juan was gone, he couldn't help but ask, "Brother Lu, what are you and Your Majesty?"

"..." Lu Qing rubbed his temples, "Stop asking, I'm being mean for a while. Your Majesty is angry right now, and he probably doesn't want to see me. Brother Zheng, take me on a horse later."

He didn't expect Ning Juan, who was always docile, to be so angry.

Communicating with him now would only make the situation worse.

Hearing this, Zheng Yao's resolute and rough face turned pale: "How can I do that!"

He will be slaughtered!

Lu Qing thought about Ning Juan's dog temper: "Your Majesty probably won't talk to me until night, you can't watch me go back, can you?"

Zheng Yao said complicatedly: "It's not that I don't want to take you, I mean, how could His Majesty let you suffer while riding a horse..."

Or ride with others.

His Majesty is angry, but not out of his mind.

And at first glance, Lu Qing made a mistake in judgment, and put His Majesty's standards for others on himself.

Can Lu Qing do the same?Your Majesty treats others the same way, but to Lu Qingze, he is sure that even if Lu Qingze doesn't try to coax him, he can calm down quickly by himself.

But these words are not easy to say, saying it is talking about the emperor, Zheng Yao scratched his head, turned his head and saw Lu Qing talking to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi helped dig the ground just now, but he didn't notice that his face was covered with mud marks, but Lu Qing found out, took out a handkerchief and handed it to him: "Wipe it?"

Lin Xi took the handkerchief, and shyly said "thank you" to him.

Zheng Yao's scalp went numb, and he subconsciously looked at the carriage.

Sure enough, I saw His Majesty's faint eyes looking over when the curtains of the carriage were blown away while the breeze was blowing.

Those eyes stared at the handkerchief that Lu Qingze handed over, and there was a chill in his eyes.

Zheng Yao: "..."

Commander Zheng felt that he had paid too much for loyalty.

He grabbed a few hairs, coughed, and shouted angrily: "What? Master Lu, you want to ride a horse? But there are not enough horses!"

Lu Qingze: "?"

Before he figured out what Zheng Yao was up to, Ning Juan jumped off the carriage neatly, strode over angrily and ordered, "Lu Huaixue, come here!"