Shengjing Noble

"Just now...just now...I was so angry...Third Master, you don't know...I..."

Zhang Bo was so angry that he couldn't even speak clearly, and his chest was heaving up and down.

Seeing this, Fu Wuyang quickly helped him back home.

"Uncle Zhang, please have a cup of tea first. I told you to arrange a few servants for you. Just tell them to do anything you need."

Uncle Zhang recovered after taking a sip of water. Thinking back to what happened just now, although he couldn't swallow it, he didn't want to cause trouble for Fu Wuyang.

So he shook his head and sighed, "Third Master, I am just an old servant beside your mother. You said that a person like me is not worthy of being served by servants! You are embarrassing me."

"Before my mother died, she told me that you had been loyal to her for half her life and that you were the one who had truly shared her hardships. In her eyes, you were not a slave, but a relative."

Zhang Bo's eyes were red for a moment, he held back his tears and said, "Ah, Third Master, please don't say anything. I'm used to being alone. If there are more people around me, I will feel uncomfortable. Please don't worry about me. Besides, isn't it good for me to stay in Qiu County alone for so many days?"

Fu Wuyang's eyes flashed with emotion: "You just want to guard my mother's grave. Even though she is no longer in this world, you still care about her."

"Your mother is most afraid of being alone. If I could be closer to her, maybe she wouldn't be afraid. Recently, Qiu County has suffered from a famine, and there are refugees everywhere. The world is in chaos. I haven't been to your mother's tomb for a long time. How about we go and see it together in a few days?"

"Okay, but I have more important things to deal with right now. I will definitely accompany you when I'm done."

"Okay, by the way, I almost forgot that food will be distributed at the city gate today, I can't miss it."

As Zhang Bo was about to stand up again, Fu Wuyang quickly stopped him: "I have prepared enough food for you, so you don't have to join in the fun."

"How can I do that? I won't refuse a free gift. Besides, if I don't go to claim it, my neighbors will get suspicious. What will I do if someone who is desperate and desperate breaks into my house?"

Seeing that what he said made sense, Fu Wuyang stopped trying to stop him and could only follow behind to protect Zhang Bo's safety.

As soon as the two of them reached the door, they saw a secret guard coming to report something.

"Your Majesty, the information you asked me to investigate has yielded some clues."

Fu Wuyang calmly asked the attendants around him to accompany Zhang Bo away, while he returned to the room with the secret guard.

"Go ahead."

The secret guard knelt on the ground and reported: "Your Highness, according to my investigation, nearly half of the people in Qiu County have fled the county. The few Su families left behind do not have daughters of the same age as you described. Only the daughter of the new county magistrate Su Yongcheng agrees."

"Su Yongcheng?"

"Yes! Su Yongcheng has two daughters, the legitimate daughter Su Lanxin and the illegitimate daughter Su Lanyin. However, he only brought his legitimate daughter with him when he went to Qiu County to take up his post this time. So I infer that the person the prince is looking for is most likely Su Lanxin."

"Then where is she now?"

"I just saw Su Lanxin and her mother Liu Ruyan heading towards the city gate."

"Okay, I understand. Please leave now."

"Yes!"

The secret guard left the room, and a hint of coldness flashed in Fu Wuyang's eyes.

"Su Lanxin? Oh, that's interesting!"

……

The gate of Qiu County.

When Su Lanyin arrived, some people were arguing about steamed buns.

"One per person is the rule, why do you take more?"

The person distributing the steamed buns was a woman named Ye Wan who had been rescued by Su Lanyin in prison before.

She had her hands on her hips and looked angry, staring at a tall, thin man in disheveled clothes.

The man refused to give in and shouted angrily, "I am a man, how can I compete with them? I eat more, so naturally I should get an extra bun. Why don't you give me one, you stinky woman? Besides, it's not your bun, why are you so distressed!"

Ye Wan stood in front of Mantou and pointed at him and shouted, "Impossible! Not to mention that you are a man, even if you are a man, it won't work!"

"Why are you swearing like that? Are you looking for a beating, bitch?"

As he spoke, the tall and thin man was about to hit someone, but Su Lanyin gave a look and A'mo, who was standing next to him, immediately stepped forward and kicked him away.

"Hey hey..."

The man lay on the ground and wailed in pain, then shouted to the people behind him: "You hit me, you got angry because you couldn't afford the steamed buns!"

There seemed to be an accomplice of the man in the crowd, who quickly responded: "If you can't afford to give out steamed buns, then don't pretend to be so high and mighty. What are you pretending for!"

"That's right, it's so hypocritical. Beating someone up over a steamed bun is just too much!"

"These people must be trying to fool us, just to win credit from their superiors. Giving each person only one steamed bun is not enough!"

……

Gradually, some ordinary people who did not know the truth began to waver.

"Yeah, one steamed bun per person is really not enough, and children, women, and the elderly can't eat the same as men, right?"

"You're right. Not to mention men, even an old woman like me can't even afford one steamed bun!"

"Oh, I'm so hungry. Even if you're just pretending, please give us a few more buns!"

……

The people complained for a while.

Seeing this, Su Lanyin hurried forward and explained loudly: "Everyone, it's not that we don't want to give you more food, it's just that the quantity is limited. In order to ensure that everyone can eat food, we can only distribute it like this for now..."

Before she finished speaking, the tall and thin man stood up and loudly refuted her.

"You're talking nonsense! I think most of this food has been embezzled by you guys!"

One stone can cause a thousand ripples. The disaster relief grain previously distributed by the court disappeared, and the people are already sensitive to such things.

Now that the old story is brought up again, I am even more excited.

"Not only did you embezzle the grain, but you also only gave us this little. Why?"

"That's the food that the court gave us, the common people. Hand it over! Hand it all over!"

"Yes, that's right! Give the grain to us and let the people divide it among themselves!"

……

The crowd was outraged, and Su Lanyin was overwhelmed for a moment.

Fortunately, there are still ordinary people who believe in her.

Especially the women who were responsible for distributing food. They had been saved by Su Lanyin and believed in her from the bottom of their hearts.

What's more, they had handled these grains, so they knew that the quantity was not large.

Especially Ye Wan, she took a step forward with determination: "Have you said enough? You are such an ungrateful person! If it weren't for them, how could we have rice porridge and steamed buns?"

The others also agreed.

"That's right, you just listened to this idiot's nonsense and forgot that they didn't have to give us food in the first place!"

"This girl and her brother are not from the imperial court. The food they were given was all collected by themselves!"

"If you want to eat, eat it. If you don't want to eat, get out of here. Don't slander our benefactor here!"

……

The girls' voices were loud and clear, and all the cowardice in the dungeon disappeared.

Instead, there was a brave spirit to protect the benefactor.