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Pretty soon, Xu Zhouzhou came breathlessly, "Jing Kong, where did you escape to?"
Little Jing Kong ran out of the room, put his hands on his hips and shook his head, "Just admit that you can"t catch up to me, bleh!"
"Who is he?" Xu Zhouzhou"s father was a court official, but he had never seen the Emperor.
"He is Chu Yu"s father." Little Jing Kong introduced.
"Oh." Xu Zhouzhou greeted the other party politely, "h.e.l.lo Uncle Chu!"
Father Xu only told Xu Zhouzhou to play with Chu Yu, but didn"t say that Chu Yu was, in fact, an imperial prince. Xu Zhouzhou naturally didn"t know that Chu Yu was actually surnamed Qin.
The two children didn"t know Qin Chuyu"s ident.i.ty. Thinking that his son seemed to have made real friends, the Emperor"s expression became less severe.
The three children played for a while until Qin Chuyu"s palace maids came to bring him back to the palace, and several people were scared to death at the sight of the Emperor.
The Emperor didn"t say anything and planned to take Qin Chuyu back himself, but suddenly a few women"s piercing wails came from outside the small courtyard.
The Emperor frowned, "What"s going on?"
Little Jing Kong sighed, "It"s the patients’ families. Today, many patients that suffered serious injuries arrived at the medical hall. Their families were very sorrowful."
Many patients?
An ominous premonition flitted across the Emperor"s heart. He cast a meaningful glance at Eunuch Wei.
Eunuch Wei got his message and went to the front lobby to inquire.
Without asking one was ignorant, but once one asked, it was a shock. This Miraculous Hands Hall unexpectedly admitted the blacksmiths as well as a few bailiffs who had an accident in the yamen of the Ministry of Works for treatment. There were dozens of them and the upstairs and downstairs were both full.
The Emperor sent the three children into the room to eat.
After listening to Eunuch Wei"s report, the Emperor"s face suddenly sank. When Minister Zhao gave him a report on the accident, he didn"t mention that there were this many injured, "Isn"t there only a dozen, and most of them are not seriously injured? It is said that there are only two people with grave injuries, both of which have received appropriate placement."
This was precisely why the Emperor traveled incognito to Jiangnan. In order to keep the official’s hat on their heads, those officials would filter their reports before handing it to him.
When the ruler of a country was blinded, he would make wrong decisions.
Eunuch Wei dared not reply.
As early as Minister Zhao made his report to His Majesty, he already guessed that the casualties were more than a little, and he reckoned that His Majesty also had the same guess. But neither he nor His Majesty expected that Minister Zhao had concealed so much.
This number was simply excessive.
"I"ll go see for myself!" The Emperor said with a heavy voice.
"You shouldn’t, Your Majesty——" Eunuch Wei hurriedly stopped him. The sight of those injured people made an eunuch like him tremble in fright. His Majesty was an Emperor of a country and must not lay his eyes on that kind of scene!
However, despite Eunuch Wei"s obstruction, the Emperor strode out of the small courtyard, but just as he crossed the threshold, he met a strong figure by chance.
"Commandant Gu?" The Emperor was surprised.
Gu Changqing came to see Little Jing Kong and Gu Chenglin. It was a tense situation in the ward and Gu Chenglin was transferred to Gu Jiao"s small courtyard. It was just that he had only been lying in his room and never came out, so even Little Jing Kong didn"t know he was in the courtyard.
Gu Changqing was also surprised to see His Majesty. Why did he run into the Emperor here?
Gu Changqing quickly cupped his hands in obeisance, "Your Majesty."
The Emperor"s eyes rested on his left hand wrapped in bandages and asked, "Did you also go to the scene of the accident?"
Gu Changqing answered truthfully, "Yes, this subject had heard the news halfway, so I took a group of people there."
The Emperor nodded, a.s.suming that he showed up here because he escorted the victims. The Emperor added, "How is your hand?"
Gu Changqing said, "It’s nothing serious, just a little skin injury."
The Emperor looked at him fixedly, "You were at the scene of the accident, then you should know the situation at that time. Tell me honestly, how many casualties were there?"
Gu Changqing was a soldier from the military camp and didn’t take part in the affairs of the six ministries. According to reason, he should avoid this subject. However, thinking of the injured and Gu Jiao who almost risked her own life in order to save them, he ultimately made up his mind and said without any adulteration, "Six people are in critical condition, thirteen are seriously injured, thirty-seven with minor injuries, and one... It is unknown if he can be saved. If he cannot be rescued, then there will be one death."
The Emperor only saw darkness in front of his eyes.
Although he expected that the situation would be a little more serious than Minister Zhao"s report, he still didn"t expect it to be this serious!
The patient who was currently being rescued was a man who was labeled with black cloth strip by Gu Jiao. He was judged to be of no rescue value, but he still didn"t die until everyone had evacuated from the scene.
Other medical halls dared not accept him, but Gu Jiao did.
After all six critically ill patients were out of danger, Gu Jiao began to rescue him, and it had been three hours now since his rescue began.
Whether there would be death or not, the nature of the accident was totally different.
Everyone waited anxiously, including the Emperor and Gu Changqing.
The Emperor was worried about human life while Gu Changqing was worried about both human life and Gu Jiao"s body.
Gu Changqing was carrying a water bag in hand.
The Emperor gave him an odd look.
It was unknown how long had pa.s.sed when the door finally opened.
Gu Jiao came out.
She was drenched with sweat, leaving no dry place.
Gu Changqing stepped forward, "How are you?"
"His willpower is so tenacious that it saved his life for the time being, but he hasn"t completely pa.s.sed the danger…" At this point, Gu Jiao realized that Gu Changqing was asking how she was. She said after a pause, "I"m fine."
Just a little hungry.
Gu Changqing pulled out the cork of the water bag in his hand and handed it to her, "The food is ready, go and get something to eat."
Gu Jiao went ‘en’, grabbed the water bag and took a sip.
The Emperor on one side looked at Gu Jiao and was completely dumbfounded.
He never expected to see her here. Wasn’t she——
"Huh?" Gu Jiao noticed the Emperor, but she didn"t recognize the other party. Seeing that the other party had a stupefied look on his face, she asked, "Are you the patient"s family?"
The Emperor was so stunned that he forgot to answer.
Gu Changqing knew that the Emperor was traveling incognito, but he didn’t know how to explain it.
Gu Jiao continued, "He’s still in an unstable condition and has to go through a three-day critical period."
The Emperor finally found his voice. That’s right, he was wearing a veiled bamboo hat at that time, so this little girl didn"t recognize him.
The Emperor said, "I’m not a family member of the patient."
"Oh." Gu Jiao thought for a moment and asked, "Are you from the yamen who came to get statements about the accident?"
Without waiting for the Emperor to speak, Gu Jiao nodded, saying, "If you have any questions, you can ask me directly, or you can ask Physician Song, Physician Chen and Physician Li. All of us have been to the scene."
She didn’t say discouraging remarks such as investigation was useless, or that officials never made decisions for the common people anyways and so on, nor did she inquire if answering truthfully would get them into trouble.Raz P."s Thoughts
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