Prince Boring and Concubine Qiao Ai

The prosperity of the capital of Ning Kingdom is famous in the Six Kingdoms, and the temple fairs and markets are even more lively. There are huge crowds of people. From a distance, there are only people's heads surging, but no legs and feet. Xiaolu, Zhao Ling seriously suspected that they would not be able to get in at all.

If His Royal Highness Ningguo Prince insisted on asking everyone to taste the so-called delicacies, the small eyes filled with anticipation made people unable to bear to refuse, and the cold air of Prince Zhuang next to him made people dare not refuse, they would definitely turn around and leave.

If you don’t eat snacks, you won’t starve to death. After returning home, you can fill your stomach with just a little bit, but if you go to the temple fair, if you are a little careless, you will be squeezed into a pie.

Zhao Ling and Zhao Qi walked behind, and behind them, there were the brothers and sisters of Lord Zhuang and Princess Lin.As the four of them walked, they separated a certain distance from the people in front of them.

On the other side, Zhao Ling liked lively places the most. When Xuanwu Pavilion was studying art, he often climbed the wall and wandered around.But today's Zhao Ling is not interested, he shrugged his head like a sunflower, although he knew Liang Guo was not as good as Ning Guo, but he didn't expect the gap to be so big. Now it seems that he is short-sighted and watching the sky.

Ningguo, under the protection of the Futian formation, has not had any wars for thousands of years. They have continuously plundered from the five kingdoms, and then turned them into their own use. It took many years of accumulation to create such a prosperous and prosperous world.

Prosperity has never been a magnificent building, nor is it a heroic one that spends a lot of money.Instead, everyone is walking on the road, wearing the most plain clothes, talking about their parents, and then buying whatever they need without hesitation.Just like Wujia Family Precepts No. [-] said: Prosperity and merchants, no worries, wealth can be circulated to the maximum extent.

Zhao Qi stopped suddenly, grabbed Zhao Ling's arm, Zhao Ling raised his head and looked around, the five of them had already been thrown away by Ning Qiumo who was alive and kicking in front of him.

No one in the front row noticed, and the five people left behind.

"Be careful." Zhao Qi turned sideways, fending off a few rampant children.He is the closest to Lin Yueru, and he can do it with a little effort.

Lin Yueru nodded slightly, her ice and snow face remained the same.

"There are few people over there, let's go." Zhao Qi pointed to a dark alley not far away, a few lanterns, and a few merchants vaguely, but he didn't go to ask about the business.

Prince Zhuang seemed to want to say something, but the four of them turned around and ignored him.

After finally being able to catch his breath, Zhao Ling's stomach growled several times in disbelief. He was not embarrassed, a man is like iron and steel, and he would feel hungry if he didn't eat a meal.

Looking around, it seems that none of the vendors sell food.

"Here." Lin Zhuweng bought some pastries earlier and handed them to Zhao Ling. Lin Yueru said angrily, "Brother, what are you doing for him!"

Lin Zhuweng said with a smile, "Anyway, you hate sweets. I took these back and fed them to Xiao Ji."

At that time, Zhao Ling didn't know that Xiao Ji was a parrot raised by Prince Lin.

He thought that Xiao Ji was a maid, and thought that the Prince of Yan had seduced a little maid from Ning so quickly, and his tricks were really clever.He felt very sorry for stealing the little maid's snacks, and there was a small shop selling jewelry, so he went closer to see if there was anything nice to give to Xiaoji.

As soon as he stepped up the steps, he was startled. The woman selling the goods had a sullen face, holding a rope, and a little girl was tied to the rope. She was five or six years old, with slap marks on her small face and torn clothes. Tattered, kneeling beside the stall.

"Boss... this..." Although it was a foreign country, Zhao Ling couldn't just sit back and watch the situation.

The little girl kowtowed obediently, and the boss next to her saw Zhao Ling's eyes staring at the little girl, and thought that Zhao Ling was interesting, "My daughter, Xiao Yin, is very obedient, hardworking and capable, I don't want a lot of money. , just give it a little."

Look at it?

Human trafficking?

The voice of Lin's daughter came from behind, "She is your biological daughter, don't you feel sorry for her?"

"Can I not feel sorry for the meat that fell from my body? But... but my family owes gambling debts. If I don't sell my child to a rich and noble family, even if I am the lowest servant in the family, it will be worse." In order to repay the debt, my family sold it to a brothel to receive customers and accompany wine." The boss said, crying.

"In our country of Yan, human trafficking is prohibited, and offenders will be executed promptly."

Prince Lin exchanged glances with his younger sister. The younger sister was upright and more daring, and said that there was a lack of order in front of the royal family of Ningguo. He saw that Prince Zhuang was not displeased.

"You don't need to make a fuss, human trading is normal in Ningguo." Prince Zhuang threw a silver coin and said, "I bought this child."

The boss picked up the silver, heavy, smiling from ear to ear.

Lord Zhuang said, "Go home."

"There are carriages and shortcuts, why didn't you tell me earlier?" The corners of Zhao Ling's mouth twitched, as everyone was vomiting blood just now.

Lord Ning returned to everyone, you didn't ask me, what right do you have to blame my unspoken eyes.

The few people walked a few steps, but Lin Yueru still couldn't calm down the resentment in her heart, "The boss is not short of money at all. Look at such a big store, how can you pay off your gambling debt?"

cough cough.Prince Lin coughed halfway, motioning his sister to stop talking.

Although the money was spent, Lord Zhuang didn't seem to have the intention of taking it for his own use. The little girl was urged by the boss to get up and follow, because she had an injury on her leg and couldn't stand up several times. Lin Yueru wanted to help her out He was stopped by Prince Lin.

For the money spent by Lord Zhuang, the only one who has the right to deal with the little girl is himself. There are no good people in Ningguo. Who knows if the cold Lord Zhuang is a pervert?It's hard to say whether the prince is going to do something shameful when he buys a little girl back.Prince Lin did not want his sister to cause more trouble.

Lin Yueru hesitated for a moment, then saw Zhao Ling grabbing the little girl's hand and pulling her up firmly.

The little girl stood firm and gestured with both hands.

It turned out to be a mute!Lin Yueru couldn't understand sign language, but she could see that the little girl seemed to be in a hurry to tell something.

"Wait," Zhao Ling stopped. He could understand sign language. The little girl made messy gestures, but kept repeating the meaning, "She wants us to go somewhere with her."

"Why do we go with her?" Prince Lin asked.

"She has...brown spots on her hands." When Zhao Ling held the little girl's hand just now, he found two brown spots on the rough hands. The reason why he wanted Qiu to go with the little girl was also the same. .

There were few people, only Zhao Qi was shocked, he stepped forward two steps, grabbed the little girl's hand, there were really two obvious spots on the palm.

"Are you really the daughter of this family?" Zhao Qi asked the little girl.

The little girl couldn't speak, but she could understand what others were saying. She nodded and shook her head again.She was a little scared, she just wanted to go home and see her father who was seriously ill and bedridden before becoming a servant of another family.But for some reason, the man stared at her hand with a solemn expression.

"Don't be afraid." Zhao Ling said comfortingly.

Lin Yueru also saw brown spots, "It's just a birthmark."

"It's not a birthmark, it's a sign of illness." Zhao Ling and Zhao Qi looked at each other, and quickly had an answer in their hearts.

Lin Yueru had learned medical skills, so she thought Zhao Ling was talking nonsense again, "The little girl suffered a skin trauma, her pulse is stable, and she has no symptoms."

If it can be seen through ordinary consultation, this disease will not be so terrible.

There are a lot of miscellaneous books in Xuanwu Pavilion, he doesn’t read many, but he knows a lot, most of them are transcribed by Master Gong for violating that rule, before giving Xiao Nasty, he will browse the first few pages of the book, if he is interested Just read it by the way.Among them, there are one or two books that list several tragic catastrophes that occurred in the history of Liang Guo after the founding of the country.

It is recorded in the book that a plague 300 years ago lasted for 18 years. In the end, tens of thousands of people in the Liang Kingdom died, only tens of thousands survived.Afterwards, several highly respected traveling doctors recorded the state of the plague, insomnia and dreaminess, which was the initial stage and rarely found, and brown spots on the palms, which was the middle stage of the disease.When the pulse becomes disordered, he is already dying.

No one could have expected that after 300 years, this symptom appeared on a little girl in the busy city of Ningguo.

If this plague spreads, there is no need to think hard about how to break the Tianfu formation. The disease alone can destroy Ningguo, at least half of the population of Ningguo can be killed.As long as they let Prince Zhuang take the little girl back to the mansion, pretend that they don't know about it, and pay more attention to it, they can wait for the civil strife in Ning.

Ningguo was destroyed by natural disasters, which has always been a project that must be prayed to the gods during the Five Kingdoms Festival, but when it came time to realize it, Zhao Ling couldn't bear it.Even if the country is destroyed, it shouldn't be at the cost of so many living people's lives.

Zhao Qi and Zhao Ling thought in the same way.

Although he is not a citizen of one country, he is a citizen of the world.

But they said, who would believe it?Xuanwu Pavilion's classics are not circulated, and Ningguo has no such detailed records of symptoms.From the perspective of ordinary medicine, unless it is in the terminal stage, the disease has no possibility of life-threatening at all.

As the mother and concubine said, one thing more is worse than one thing less, but he couldn't pass the hurdle in his heart.

"Master Zhuang, I want to go and have a look with this girl." Zhao Ling didn't have many worries. He always made a decision to the end, and he didn't look back when he hit the south wall.

Prince Zhuang raised his eyebrows and said, "No."

"It's urgent. I have to confirm the plague. I'm delayed. Maybe the Ning Congress will destroy the country." Zhao Ling had to convince Lord Zhuang that he could break through with someone else, but the problem was that he couldn't beat Lord Zhuang.

"You said... the plague... destroying the country?" It was the first time that Prince Zhuang had heard such rebellious words from birth to now.

Zhao Ling didn't give in, exuding a compelling aura all over his body.

Maybe it was because heaven didn't want Ningguo to experience the horrific pain of the disease, so Zhao Ling found out about it by accident, and was very lucky to meet Ningzhuang.Prince Zhuang and his party followed the little girl to her home. There was an old father who was sick in bed at home. Lin Yueru was proficient in medical skills. He knew at a glance that this person was seriously ill and had reached the terminal stage. Medicine and stones were difficult to cure, and he could only live for a few days.

Although it is impossible to determine the cause of the disease, Zhao Qilu has already explained it thoroughly with Prince Zhuang. It is recorded in the book that the epidemic was transmitted through water sources and spread very fast.

Zhao Ling asked the little girl carefully, the little girl gestured for a long time, and finally told the reason why she was betrayed.

Sure enough, she was not a local, but escaped from a small village in the mountains and forests in the south of Ningguo.All the people in the village suddenly got a strange disease and died one by one, leaving only him and his father.The father remembered that there was a younger sister in Ningdu, and he took his daughter to join her. Unexpectedly, on the way, the father also found out that he was sick, and when he arrived in Ningdu, he was too sick to speak.

The younger sister's family disliked the patient and felt bad luck, so they drove the father and daughter out.The father and daughter had no one to rely on, but fortunately they brought enough money, rented a house in the city, and invited famous doctors to see them.But it seems that no one knows what the disease is, and it is only an incurable disease.After going back and forth, the money of both of them was spent.The father was unable to recover, so the little girl begged her aunt to sell herself for some money to bury her father.

Knowing the cause and effect, Prince Zhuang immediately ordered his subordinates to close all water sources along the way from Guolin in the south to Ningdu, and the people are not allowed to approach.Quickly draw a portrait of the disease and circulate it across the country. If a suspected patient is found, he will be detained and isolated immediately.A big reward for calling famous doctors to Ningdu for consultation and discussing the treatment of diseases.

"My lord, what should I do in the imperial capital?" The two found out in Ningdu that they were most afraid that they had brought the disease here.

"I will enter the palace tonight to report the matter to the emperor, and pass on my order. All members of the imperial army are on standby. Starting tonight, we will conduct house-to-house investigations." Prince Zhuang glanced at the old man and the crying girl lying on the bed, "They ... dragged away and burned."

"She still has help!" Zhao Ling and Lin Yueru stopped her with one voice.

"What do you think you are! Allowing you to leave the mansion is already a great favor of His Highness the Crown Prince. The plague is our state affairs in Ningguo."

Zhao Ling blocked the little girl, "There is a cure for the middle-stage disease, you can't kill innocent people indiscriminately, and treat human life like a fool!"

"Is she innocent? Do you know how many cities and villages they passed through from their home to Ningdu, and how many people would lose their lives because of the pathogen they brought? She killed her! She didn't intend to harm anyone, but she deserved her death!" Ning Zhuang was calm on the face, but his heart was like adding fuel to the fire, and it happened that Zhao Ling was causing trouble for him, so he turned his anger on Zhao Ling.

"A Ling..." Zhao Qi stopped the two of them with one hand, and said, "Master Zhuang, what I just told you, the method of curing the disease may be a little off. This little girl will do a test to see how the prescription is curative, and then invite famous doctors to discuss it and think about a surefire plan."

Zhao Qi's words worked, and soon the soldiers surrounded the house.

Lin Zhuweng rubbed his chin and said in a low voice, "You guys are nosy, you helped them, they may not thank you."

"I'm not helping Ningguo, I'm helping ourselves." Zhao Ling was afraid of getting into the carriage, and they were ordered to return to the house quickly, and they were not allowed to go out until the danger of the plague was lifted. It is also uncertain whether the plague will cross the western border and poison Daliang, or your country."

"Excuses." You clearly have a compassionate heart, and you don't want to see innocent people die in vain.Lin Zhuweng helped his younger sister into the carriage, and found that there was a slight smile on the corner of Lin Yueru's mouth.

His sister, actually... actually... laughing? ? ?

For a moment, he thought he was wrong. He grew up with Lin Yueru as a childhood sweetheart, and he could count his sister's smiles with ten fingers.

He glanced at Liang Guo's two princes, one was gentle and mature, and the other was young. It seemed that his game of chess had to be rearranged.

……

In less than half a month, the princes of the Five Kingdoms, who grew their hair fast at leisure, ate and slept every day, played with parrots, and played cards with great proficiency, received an imperial decree from Emperor Ning.

Dinner tonight.

But what is the purpose of this belated welcome banquet? They discussed for a long time, but they didn't reach a consensus.

"Even if he wants to take the opportunity to embarrass us, we have to go." Lin Zhuweng put away his fan next to him, "There is Lao Aling looking after the house. If we have any accidents, remember to collect the corpse for us."

Only the name of Prince Zhao Qi was not written in the imperial decree.

Several people laughed, but Zhao Ling and Lin Yueru were too far away to hear them.The two were fishing in a competition. A few days ago, Zhao Ling made two fishing rods out of wooden sticks to pass the boring time.Whoever catches it first wins, and the loser has to promise the winner one thing.

Zhao Ling originally thought that he would win, but Lin Yueru is also a good fisherman, but because the two of them caught too much, the fish in the pond became less and less, and now there is only one fish left.

And this fish is particularly clever and always refuses to take the bait.

Zhao Ling and Lin Yueru sat on the bridge, unable to fish left and right, chatted to relieve boredom, "Lin girl, do you really want to be the princess of Ningguo?"

"I don't want to." Lin Yueru has answered countless times.

"Then you are considering being my sister-in-law?"

"..." I was too lazy to answer.

Zhao Ling took a deep breath, "Brother is very dedicated. If he likes you, he will only like you for the rest of his life. Being born as a prince and princess is the fate of marriage. How rare it is for two people to be happy. I think that brother is right You're interesting, you really don't think about it?"

"Hooked!"

"What!" Zhao Ling quickly looked down at the hook.

"I lied to you!" Lin Yueru flicked the fishing rod, and the water surface was rippling with clear waves.

"..."

This girl has learned from him badly.

"I have a boy who is very good at fishing. Every time we fish together, we catch the biggest one. Once I couldn't compare with him, so I jumped into the lake to catch one. When he was not paying attention, he hung on the hook and caught the biggest one. I beat him once." Zhao Ling recalled that when he was fishing with the prince of the Luo family, for some reason, the fish didn't like to bite his hook, but they only saw Luo Yi's hook to bite.

He has been in Ningdu these days, and he doesn't know if the little friends in Xuanwu Pavilion are doing well.

"Your injury..."

"It's been fine for a long time." Zhao Ling played a set of punches, and the wind swished in his palm.

Lin Yueru set up the fishing rod, "Today's invitation card, just without you, it's just as good as this one, Ning Bo, he can't be provoked, he can hide."

"Are you afraid of him?"

"Not afraid! I'm afraid he will trouble you."

The whip wounds on Zhao Ling's back were all thanks to the second prince of Ning Bo. This time, Ning Zhuang helped him again by removing his name from the imperial decree, so as to avoid the possibility of their rivals meeting each other with jealousy some terrible things happened.

In just half a month, Zhao Ling had already offended Ningguo's second prince.He doesn't look for trouble, trouble always comes to him consciously.It is his character to block the water and cover up the soldiers, not to mention the poor character of the second prince who deserves to be beaten.The eldest brother said he was impulsive, but he knew it well, the mere second prince of Ningguo, his mother's family was not a big shot, and the concubine who was favored and promoted repeatedly because of her beauty would at most beat him to vent her anger, but did not dare to hurt his life.

"If I didn't make a move last time, what would you do?"

Lin Yueru lowered her head and remained silent.

What will happen to her?That day, Prince Zhuang's Mansion held a banquet, and Ning Bo was invited as the guest of honor.Prince Zhuang seemed to want Ning Bo to get acquainted with the princes of several countries, and he did this purposely.Ning Bo looks gentle, and looks more like a king than the prince Ning Qiumo, but no matter what, people can't like him.Ning Moqiu has a little more sincerity, which is the most rare and precious.

Due to Lord Zhuang's face, everyone is entitled to accompany wine, laugh and chat.At the banquet, Ning Bo drank too much and went out to the toilet.On the way back, I happened to run into Lin Yueru, hugged the beauty and pushed her up a tree, wanting the fast pace of doing things on the spot.Lin Yueru wanted to fight, but because of this person's identity, after hesitating for a moment, Zhao Ling had already smashed the second prince Ning's head with a stick.

After this smashing, people are fine, and the wine is sober.

Ning Bo was furious, and immediately wanted to find someone to skin and dismantle Zhao Ling and throw him into the fish pond to feed the fish.Later, Lord Zhuang who came to the scene took down his whip a few times, and finally calmed down the turmoil temporarily.

It was just a few lashes, which was nothing to Zhao Ling. When he was a child, every time he climbed the wall and came back from the palace, he was caught by his mother and concubine. The lashes he suffered were much more painful than this.Prince Zhuang deliberately released the water and called the second prince. He saw that the skin was bruised and bruised, but in fact the wound was very shallow and there was no injury inside.

It's just that Princess Lin made a fuss and sent medicine to greet him every day, as if he had been beaten to death.

On the other side, everyone playing cards was also talking about the second prince.

"The plague is over, and the water sources are under control. Because it was discovered in time, and there is a rudimentary form of the healing prescription given by Prince Jingrui, there is almost no loss." Kuang Chengzong said.At that time, he followed Mr. Chu and his party, and was finally relieved after being crowded in the dark. When he came back, he saw the elite soldiers on the third floor outside the mansion, and thought that the prince had escaped and was arrested. Later, he found out that there was a plague. Listen to what Zhao Ling said.

"I heard that Prince Zhuang's mansion handled the plague properly, but Lord Zhuang gave all the credit to the second prince's mansion. The emperor's impression of the second prince Ning Bo is even better. The second prince is likely to catch up with the prince. Momentum, to be honest, I quite like that prince of Ningguo, don't change it." Kuang Chengzong started gossip again.

God knows, where did he get all his gossip.

Prince Ningguo often came to play, sometimes playing cards together, and getting close to several people.They were not fools, so they naturally happily accepted His Highness the Crown Prince's sincerity, thinking that when he ascended the throne in the future, the Five Kingdoms' resentment towards Ning Kingdom should not be as deep as it is now.

The second prince, Ning Bo, was different. He was a very scheming master. Like his father, he felt that the Ning country was superior and that the Five Kingdoms deserved to be oppressed. He didn't take the Five Kingdoms seriously in his bones.

"Prince Zhuang can be regarded as a person with both civil and military skills, but when it comes to the crown prince, he prefers the second prince instead of the crown prince. It's a pity, a pity!"

"I heard that when Ningzhuang's mother and concubine passed away, the new emperor happened to be on the throne, and no one in the palace cared about him. He was only three or four years old. When he was dying alone in the cold palace, it was Ning Bo who rescued him. He took his life and told his mother and concubine that the little emperor's uncle was about to die of illness. Later, Ningzhuang sent him to the mountains to learn martial arts, but he hadn't seen him for many years. Ningzhuang always remembered this kindness, so he helped the second prince in many things. But he also had Bottom line, do things for the second prince, but you won't embarrass the prince because of it." Kuang Chengzong began to spread his gossip again.

Zhao Qi said, "But the prince has the backing of the Chu family. If the Chu family does not fall, there is no suspense about the position in the East Palace."

"Yes." Everyone agreed.

After hearing Mr. Chu's talent and learning several times, several people admired him and thought that it would be great if he lived in his own country.

In the evening, everyone took a carriage to the Ningguo Palace, leaving Zhao Ling alone at the palace.

He climbed up to the roof and counted the stars one by one. The sky of Ningdu is more beautiful than his Liangdu's. Liangdu is often foggy and cloudy, and it is rare to be able to see it so clearly.

For half a month, nothing happened.

He tried the Futian Formation of Prince Ning, and he was sure that Ning Qiumo really didn't know.Chu Di seemed a little suspicious of him, and from a certain day on, he no longer let the prince talk to him alone.

Because of the plague, Ningzhuang didn't allow them to go out, and he didn't even have the slightest clue.

What's even more strange is that the soldiers in Prince Zhuang's Mansion actually used the drill method of Xue's army. Vice General Fang also trusted this junior too much. When did he learn it!

He closes his eyes, the future is long, there is always a chance.

There is ample time……

Counting carefully, there are many interesting things in memory.People whose life is as short as his for more than a dozen years, and whose death is so tragic, can still say that they want to be saved, let alone those ordinary people who are doing nothing, the weather is calm, and they died peacefully.

"Little Lord!"

???

"Little Lord!"

Zhao Ling looked up and saw Fang Jing hanging upside down from the beam like a bat, calling him eagerly and softly.

He believed that his men were fine and would join him sometime.After the turbulent river washed away the people, no, Fang Jing slipped in while Ningzhuang was dealing with Prince Lin.

The author has something to say: Memories are over, Lord Luo returns (*^▽^*)