Thetorrential rain over these past few days stopped, most of the injured were ableto walk around for a bit, go seek for their lost family. Gathering in thetemporary wooden house laughter gradually could be heard, even the burned andburied corpses in the ten li radiusstopped burning for two days, unable to see the dusty smoke rising in tightspirals.
The Huafamily’s carriage after leaving the city gates was unable to move, there weretents everywhere outside the city gates, the tops covered with pieces of straw,dried up branches and patched household clothes, there wasn’t a single roadwide enough for the carriage to pa.s.s through. The accompanying maids coveredtheir noses in distaste, the fragrance on their handkerchief mixed with thebody odour emitting from the victims, fragrant and smelly, even the wild dogsstruggling to survive felt that smell a.s.saulted their noses, even smellier andmore unpleasant than corpse.
The Huafamily’s carriage driver had been prepared at an earlier time, they prepared asedan chair, sitting inside the carriage was the family’s invaluable younglady, her beauty could not lightly be seen by the dirty common people. Notusing a carriage, then she’ll go forth in a sedan chair, the surroundingmarried woman still saw that tightly wrapped hat on that young lady’s head.
Because itwas November, the hat was adorned with the whitest rabbit hair, four or fivelayers of gauze, all were the colour powder pink, the young lady’s attire was ahoney peach double layer jacket and skirt, most of the white soft top of herbosom was covered by her hat’s gauze, a scarlet cloak wrapped around herbeautiful graceful body, only revealing a little bit of white which causedpeople to be lost in their wild and fanciful thoughts, making people drool. Shewas like a rainbow blossoming from the edge of the dusky horizon, it was indeedbeautiful, but ill-timed.
Xia LingMei had hurried here just a moment ago, the people of the court had alreadysent people to find w.a.n.g Yun Feng. She did not want to reveal her ident.i.ty, soshe waited with the ordinary people who followed here. So much supplies, itcouldn’t be said to be too much, it could definitely be said to be too little,it could only be given to the most scarce people.
The people who had come onthe road had already thought about it, first ask the person in charge Lord w.a.n.gwhat to do, if he couldn’t decide, or if it was unevenly distributed, then thesupplies voluntarily delivered by the people would be distributed by the peoplethemselves. Since ancient times, amongst the people there were always some whowere not loyal to the imperial court and imperial family.
Xia LingMei watched the top of that sedan chair pa.s.s by the worn and broken tents ofthe victims, turning the corner of where there was a concentration of woodenhouses, it looked like the entrance to a village, the officials of the imperialcourt also just now entered over there. Xia Ling Mei made a gesture, getting afew shadow guards to follow her, going in together.
It was lesschaotic here than by the city gates, it was much more orderly, many houses wereopen widely, a faint smell of strong medicine floated out from the houses, fromtime to time a person’s stuffy cough or moan could be heard, and there werepeople helping each other to walk around outside. Xia Ling Mei saw one of theXia family’s physician, guessing w.a.n.g Yun Feng should be around here somewhere,and not knowing what he was busy with, whether he had eaten properly and takenhis medicine, living amongst the victims outside of the city, he must not getalong with the officials inside the city, it seems like he could never getalong with the people of the court, just like a hedgehog, whoever gets closewill be injured, over time people would rather stay away from him, and not wishtheir bodies to be cut up by him.
She sawsome officials coming out of a large courtyard not too far away, and outside,that gorgeous sedan chair was also stopped at the doorway, the fragileinvaluable young lady was carefully supported in.
Xia Ling Meidrew in a breath, beginning to grind her teeth.
w.a.n.g YunFeng that immoral and despicable person, wherever he goes he always attractrubbish love interest, he needs a spanking!
Ai, that’snot right. That temper of w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s, it was useless for other people tolike him, he would only invest effort in thinking about people he loved, justlike Xia Ling Mei.
Before and after he liked her, w.a.n.g Yun Feng was completelyacting in two different manners. Maybe, this invaluable young lady had come onofficial business? Seeing those decorated clothes, it wasn’t a rushed manner ofan official’s young lady, instead it was only a conceited peac.o.c.k who doesn’tunderstand the way of the world and brought up in the lady’s private room,perhaps she is the daughter of some great family.
As she wasthinking, another familiar person walked in front of her line of sight, ai,isn’t it that Juan Shu who is more chatty than a crested myna?
Xia LingMei covered in dust had a rare smile since she had left Beiding city, totallyoblivious that inside the house w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s brows were about to crumble.
He did notthink, after sorting out that group of officials, the influential familieswould get
restless and start wanting to dig an escape route from within.
Even thoughthe w.a.n.g family was hundreds of years old, but because those who entered theimperial court were imperial censors, the position of imperial censor was a jobthat offended people, there were very few people they were friends with, therewere always some sort of contradicting view with those of the influentialfamilies. Thus, the w.a.n.g family was cleaner than clean, as a result was placedin an important position of the emperor even easier, of course, it was eveneasier to eradicate them.
Originallyeveryone thought w.a.n.g Yun Feng was the same as his father, an incorrigiblystubborn yet more stubborn old mule, therefore the officials distancethemselves from him, the influential families also didn’t want to have dealingswith him, watching him under pressure outside Zhuozhou’s gates. They didn’texpect, this person was fair and honest on the outside, but there was somemetal beneath the surface, unexpectedly sorted out the corrupt officials to usemoney to buy peace. The officials wouldn’t fish money out of their own pockets,naturally they wanted to force the influential families and merchants. Themerchants were in a powerless position, but the influential families were amixed bag, having found out about w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s status, one by one theypondered over how to pull him into this puddle of mud.
They becameaware, is easy to gain a reputation from disaster relief, disaster relief makesit easy to get people’s attention, the reconstruction after the disaster wasthe most important thing, it could turn a hen into a chicken farm.
Theinfluential families and merchants were staring at that piece of fatty meat, losingtheir minds one by one.
The biggestinfluential family in Zhuozhou the Hua family, not knowing whether the masterwas truly not at home or there were other reasons, everyone else who came wereall grandfathers, young masters or old men, and his family unexpectedly sentthis Lady Hua.
“Lord w.a.n.g,you can call me Bao Xia.”
At thattime, w.a.n.g Yun Feng was missing the crown prince so much. With that littleperverted dragon here, any witty woman would be dallied by the little pervertuntil she was too ashamed to face anyone. Sadly, the crown prince had leftafter w.a.n.g Yun Feng had dealt with the corrupt officials, after all he couldonly travel outside for a month, he must rush back to the Imperial city beforethe end of the year.
w.a.n.g YunFeng never knew how to reject women, back then he was like this to Xia Ling Meiwho chased after him, now confronting Hua Bao Xia he was also the same. Hecould only give a cold greeting to the other person then, give her the coldshoulder, afterwards without lifting his head he discussed matters with otherpeople who had come to handle affairs.
When XiaLing Mei came in carrying a bowl of medicine, Hua Bao Xia was just sitting at theside bored, and a group of people surrounding w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s desk was arguingabout something. There was no one who showed interest or provocation towardsthe appearance of this invaluable young lady, clearly people were already usedto it.
Xia Ling Meistood at the door, like a timid and cautious young wife, not daring to go inand interrupt their important matter.
“This isLord w.a.n.g’s medicine?” Hua Bao Xia reclining on the back of the chair, inquiredwith a bit of interest to the wife who had just entered.
Xia LingMei cautiously nodded her head, looking a bit wooden and lifeless.
“Carry itover to this young lady.”
Xia LingMei did not move, her mind was on w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s deep and hoa.r.s.e coughingsound. That person must not have rested well, his throat was already hoa.r.s.e,and while he was discussing with others his voice was neither high nor low, thehaughtiness beneath the surface of a scholar from time to time appeared alittle, unreasonably causing the people around to not be please. However, noone dared to slap the table and loudly argue, even the people who were so angrythey were red in the face would subconsciously look to a particular corner.
There was anot very big table, spread out on the table were many papers, it wasn’t certainwhat was drawn on those papers, piled everywhere in a mess, and there was awriting brush thrown on the table, no one had picked it up. Looking from thedoor, behind the table there was a not very wide couch, on the other end of thecouch a black head could be seen. Under the carelessly gathered bedding a bitof a blade was exposed, black hair fallen onto the face, the naked bladeagainst it looked like it had just been refined in the blacksmith’s stovewater, carrying a cold air.
They didn’tknow who it was behind that table, curled up he still made other people feelpanicky, not daring to recklessly do anything.
Xia LingMei’s eyesight probably wasn’t too good, she directly overlooked that couch to the other wall where it washung with weapons, swords, pikes, shuttles, concealed weapons, they filled thewall. When the rare sunlight of the winter came shining in, a person’sreflection could be seen shining on the sharpest edge of blade.
Before XiaLing Mei took a step, she saw an enraged maid come running in front of her,without the slightest hesitation with a lightening move of the hand shes.n.a.t.c.hed the bowl of medicine from her hands: “Do you not have ears? Did younot hear what my young lady said.”
Xia LingMei turned her head, and saw that bowl of medicine in Hua Bao Xia’s hands,then, that sweet and delicate young lady with an extremely gentle intonation,successfully cut through the numerous people surrounding w.a.n.g Yun Feng doingtheir work, again extremely kindly and bashfully delivered the bowl of medicineto w.a.n.g Yun Feng: “Lord, you ought to drink your medicine.”
Xia LingMei believed, the people in the house couldn’t help just now shiver.
w.a.n.g YunFeng didn’t even lift his head, “Put it down” maybe, he simply didn’tdistinguish whether the person who delivered the medicine was male or female,incessantly taking out another list of items, this was the checklist for thesupplies which had just been delivered, he should send someone reliable tocheck it.
Lifting hishead to look over, immediately seeing Hua Bao Xia and changing directions tothe numerous temporarily recruited inferior subordinates. Most of them werevictims who were scholars who had studied before, and there were some villageheads, compared to all of Zhuozhou’s local official, the victims knew even morewhat they needed to do themselves, that way they can do even better.
Hua Bao Xiain due course leaned her body, somewhat worried, somewhat complaining: “My Lord, evenif you’re busy you have to look after your body.”
Someonelaughed: “That’s right, my Lord drink the medicine first, if there’s something todo just arrange for us to do it.”
w.a.n.g YunFeng cast a glance at the man who had interrupted the conversation, thatfirst-rate brocade clothing, and the tablet hanging at his waist indicated theother person was a member of an influential family. w.a.n.g Yun Feng did not trustpeople easily, raising his head slightly, he yelled: “Juan Shu.”
“Reportingback to Lord w.a.n.g, Juan Shu has just been called away by a physician.”
w.a.n.g YunFeng again looked around once, indeed Juan Shu’s silhouette could not be seen,again lowering his head: “Call him over, just tell him there’s something I needhim to do.”
“Yes.”
w.a.n.g YunFeng paused, thinking this voice was somewhat familiar. He subconsciously
rubbed his temple, did he imagine it? It wasn’t enough to have his son by hisside, he still
imagined Xia Ling Mei to keep him company. Apart from the factthat it was not allowed for an official on a mission to bring his wife andchildren, Xia family wouldn’t allow Xia Ling Mei to come to the disaster areato impose on his reputation.
n.o.ble!
He shookhis head and opened his eyes, seeing that married woman slowly walk out of thehouse, why does that back look more and more familiar?
He suddenlystood up: “You, hold on!”
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T/N: Poor guy his wife is not going to be happy haha