C81

It rained for four days. On the fifth day, the weather cleared up. When Zhuang Li walked out of the room, the young eunuch, whose Imperial Study had been in wait, had already started to clean up the water in the courtyard. Zhuang Li went to take a look at the pomegranate. After a few days of rain, the branches and leaves had all been beaten up, but the small pomegranate still managed to hold on. It hung on the branches with water dripping off its body.

All the flowers and plants had temporarily recovered from the torrential rain, letting out weak gasps.

Zhuang Li frowned as she looked around, and finally heard the faint chirping of a cicada from the elm tree above him. There was originally a bird nest on the tree, and after being struck by the torrential rain on the first day, it was picked up by the young eunuch to be reared inside the house.

The temperature was still extremely cold due to the torrential rain. Zhuang Li had the urge to raise the small carbon stove in the room that was only used during winter.

Since the day it rained, Imperial Study had removed the ice cubes. Instead of using the furnace, however, he changed the thin blanket covering the ground into a woolen blanket.

It was still in the middle of summer, so the temperature was only temporary. The weather would probably slow down soon.

As expected, in just two or three days, the temperature was able to rise rapidly.

In early August, the temperature reached its highest peak ever.

And as the temperature grew so high, so did the disaster …

Every July and August, when the amount of rain on the Great Phoenix was at its highest, it would naturally become the flood season for the major rivers in the territory of the Great Phoenix. Although preparations would be made every year from the beginning of July, manpower was still not enough to contend with the heavens.

Just after the flood season, every town's disaster covered the Emperor's desk like flying snow. If a county along the river didn't hand over the paper, that didn't mean that it didn't suffer the disaster. It was probably because the heavy flood had washed away the major roads, and now the paper that reported the disaster was stuck on the road …

It was said that this year's disaster was much more serious than any previous year.

One county town was almost completely flooded, with a quarter of the population dead and injured.

It was a disaster area this year. The imperial government had already sent out a large amount of troops to pay for their food, but emergency reports were still being sent to the imperial court. How to solve the disaster, and how to distribute the money and food, became the subject of the scholars' incessant debates...

There were so many and many people gathered at the Imperial Study, even Zhuang Li and Qing You were extremely busy serving tea together.

After all, the imperial court was arguing about the disaster from the very start, making a huge ruckus while the emperor was sitting in the Imperial Study all day, looking at the papers one by one.

Once again, Zhuang Li had been transferred to the Eunuch Li. She was only responsible for organizing the papers. She had to go through the papers before she could sort them out one by one.

Among them, the one who suffered the most was Huian County's Qing Qiao County. Those two counties were located downstream in the lowlands, so this time, the floods suddenly flooded the two counties.

Some ministers said that they needed to mobilize their troops to provide disaster relief. Others argued that a city had been flooded to such an extent that most of the buildings had been destroyed. It would be better to abandon the city and move the rest of the victims to another location to build a new city.

If they were to abandon the city, should they build a new city or should they let the residents scatter to the nearby towns that were less affected by the disaster?

The cost of building a new city was not small. If they were allocated to a nearby town, it would involve the redistribution of land and the like.

In short, it was extremely noisy. Seeing that they were about to pass the Mid-Autumn Festival, and that the disaster was so severe this year, the citizens who were guarding the Imperial Palace Banquet would have to pass the Mid-Autumn Festival as well. The entire country was still in chaos, so it was best not to let such a thing happen.

Zhuang Li arranged the papers that had not been answered and sighed. She turned her head to look at Wang Su who was sitting on the dragon throne.

"Your majesty, do you think we should move them or leave them where they are?"

"What do you think?" He did not even raise his head as he organized the things in his hands.

"The words of the ministers of the court all sound to be reasonable. With the Lord Yin Tai leading the party, Master Xiu's party hopes to not move. However, whether or not it was possible to move was something that no one truly understood. "The escape route from the disaster area has already been destroyed by the water, so we'll have to wait for some time to get the news. Aren't the officials from the court standing on two sides just waiting to watch the show …"

"Oh? I think you know very well. " The emperor stopped writing and looked at Zhuang Li as if she was researching.

Zhuang Li hurriedly lowered her head …

"Your Majesty …" I was just guessing... Conjecture... Just take it as if I'm talking in my sleep. "

Would the Emperor blame himself for trespassing? This damned mouth of mine... No wonder Eunuch Li is always blaming me … There is no right to comment on being a slave...

The Emperor did not let Zhuang Li go, he put down his brush and stood up, he even walked down the Dragon Stage.

"Although you're not completely right, you're not wrong either. The two groups of people fighting against each other turned red in the face. Naturally, their interests were implicated as well. The Lord Yin Tai wanted to move away, because he was in charge of the move. Although the money and food were not necessarily his thoughts, he could give them to the people below to buy what he wanted. As for Master Xiu, he understood even more clearly that he was in charge of the several prefectures near Qing Qiao County. If he dispersed the people from Qing Qiao County into the nearby counties, it would naturally cause pressure on the nearby counties. He doesn't want to get into that trouble. "

"That's why they are fighting while waiting?"

The Emperor did not respond to Zhuang Li's words.

"They can afford to wait, but the victims can't. After entering the West Cold, the Great Phoenix was already exhausted, and could not let the soldiers have a peaceful time in their hometown. You just wait for me in Imperial Study and don't go anywhere else until I return. " After Wang Su finished speaking, he pushed open the door and left.

Zhuang Li didn't know what Wang Su wanted him to do, but he obediently stayed in the Imperial Study.

Roughly half an hour later, Eunuch Li pushed open the door and entered. "Imperial Noble Lady Ya, the Emperor asked this old servant to come over and take you out."

"Go out? "Where to?"

"You don't need to ask. If you delay it, things will get complicated. Hurry up."

Until Zhuang Li sat on an extremely unremarkable palanquin that was stopped at the side of the palace gate … Wang Su wore plain white ordinary clothes. Zhuang Li instantly understood …

He was leaving the palace! Or should I leave the palace with the Emperor!

That palanquin didn't look like it was in the palace, but rather that the emperor had left it in the palace so it would be convenient for him to sneak out of the city gates. The Eunuch Li only sent her to the palanquin, and after exchanging a few words of tacit understanding with the Emperor, he walked along the wall and left.

A few eunuchs lifted up the palanquin, and young eunuch followed beside it. If he were to send the Emperor out of the palace, it would definitely arouse suspicion. When he arrived at the city gate, the young eunuch took out his order badge and showed it to the guard. After saying a few words, the palace door opened to let them out.

After a brief moment of excitement, she suddenly thought of another question … What about the morning assembly?

Although the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming in a few days and because of the recent flood, there were still a lot of ministers who came over every day to help with the Imperial Study! Thinking up to this point, Zhuang Li weakly asked Wang Su who was beside him.

"Your Majesty, what about the Imperial Study? Today, Lord Yin Tai said that he would come early tomorrow morning! "

"Eunuch Li knows how to trick them."

"Then, your majesty, where are we preparing to go?"

"Can't you guess?"

Zhuang Li carefully guessed.

"Qing Qiao County?"

It was not even the fifth fragment of the night yet, and the city gate had not even opened when the palanquin stopped in front of a large house. The curtain of the carriage was opened, and Wang Su walked in familiarly.

Since the emperor had gone in, Zhuang Li could only follow behind him in the clouds. The young eunuch beside him was suspicious, and explained, "This is the residence of the Imperial Tutor. After she returns to his homeland, he will leave this residence to the Young Master Wang. There's food and clothing all inside, you guys should rest inside for a while, when the city gates open, I'll send you guys out. "

Although the Emperor may not be able to come once a year.

When the servants heard that the honored guests had arrived, they hurriedly got up to boil water and cook. These servants were hired by the tutor before he left the capital, so they were told to wait in the mansion.

The eunuchs who approached them were personally taught by the Eunuch Li and had a tight mouth. The servants still thought that their master was the Imperial Tutor, but they had already secretly switched to the current emperor.

Zhuang Li rested for about four hours before she was called out to eat.

The food was simple but delicious, probably because he was hungry. Perhaps it was because the palace's food had been eaten for too long, but to suddenly eat such a common food made her feel that it was extremely fragrant and sweet. Raising his head, Wang Su sat across from him and ate his food with gusto.

From now on, Zhuang Li was going to call him Young Master Wang.

The gongzi walked past the entrance of the mansion, knocking on the bronze gong and shouting "Open the gate!". Zhuang Li had already eaten his fill and drank his fill, and changed into the clothes that the palace was supposed to be wearing. The clothes were prepared for her by the daughter of the cooking woman. Although they were coarse, they were carefully embroidered with a few small, fragmented flowers. What she did was extremely diligent. Wang Su also changed into a grey robe. It was even simpler than the cedar that was as white as the moon.

It did give off the aura of a young master from the Jade Tree, Ling Feng.

Zhuang Li secretly looked at him while blushing, thinking, if he was an ordinary family's young master, how great would that be, then I could get closer, a little closer …