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Chapter 616 Conspiracy to Poison(1/2)

After the Anxi Army recovered Chang'an, Gu Qing never saw Princess Wanchun again.

After all, she was a princess, and no one cared about it during the war. On Li Longji's way to escape to Shuzhong, the princess lost several princesses. No matter how favored Wan Chun was, Li Longji, who was fleeing in panic, didn't care about her.

After the regaining of Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty court re-established, and all etiquette and rules were restored. The princess also returned to her original class and restored her original treatment. Since she was not married, she still lived in Xingqing Palace after returning to Chang'an.

As soon as he entered the palace, Gu Qing recalled that he hadn't seen Princess Wanchun for too long. When he met for the last time, the two parted in a bad mood. Princess Wanchun ran away sadly. Then the battle at Tongguan began. Gu Qing had no time to comfort her. Occasionally, he thought of her inadvertently in his spare time, and only thought she was a passerby in his life. This passerby had passed by him.

Unexpectedly, I met her again on the streets of Chang'an today, which surprised Gu Qing.

What’s even more surprising is Wan Chun’s dress today.

Her clothes are very ordinary, like a typical folk woman, and the fabric styles are very ordinary. A snail-like headscarf wraps her beautiful hair. Her jasper-like outfit cannot hide her delicate and beautiful face.

When Gu Qing saw her, he subconsciously pinched her face and her nose and chin.

He always had a very dreamy feeling. The woman in front of him was not like a princess at all, as if she was born as an ordinary girl. She was like all ordinary girls, hardworking and capable, frugal, and had no ambitions for the future, but had a beautiful little dream like poetry.

Gu Qing looked at her in disbelief. The little girl like a jassic Wanchun in front of her was much more pleasing than the princess. Well, the more she looked at her, the more she liked her. She always felt that she was not a princess, but Wanchun's twin sister. She was thrown away by Li Longji because of her bizarre life experience. She grew up among the people. Although she still looked the same, her temperament was completely different.

Wan Chun was so nervous that he was short of breath by Gu Qing, shy and angry, staring at him hard. He didn't look like a princess, and looked very cute with an angry look.

"Your father doesn't want you anymore? So you are wandering among the people, and the princess turns into a frog?" Gu Qing asked curiously.

"Your father doesn't want you anymore!" Wan Chun blurted out.

As soon as she said that Wan Chun suddenly realized that she had made a mistake. She had known Gu Qing's life experience for a long time. Gu Qing's parents left after leaving him in Shiqiao Village. Strictly speaking, this sentence happened to be right.

So Wanchun looked ashamed and said, "I..."

Gu Qing's expression remained unchanged and said indifferently: "I like you today, so I decided to forgive you."

Wan Chun snorted and said, "I need your forgiveness?"

Gu Qing looked at her again, laughed and said, "Are you planning to come to the folk to experience life today?"

"What is 'experiencing life'?" Wan Chun lowered his head and looked at his clothes, saying, "I... just wanted to do some effort for the refugees outside the city. They are so pitiful. I... have sent all my belongings, but it is still far from enough. I heard that Anxi Army had done some 'charity fundraising' in the city, so I thought about raising some money and food for the refugees."

Gu Qing praised: "Yes, I am loving, and finally I have the appearance of the princess."

Wan Chun said in confusion: "What does the 'the princess should look like'?"

"Princess, others can think of you as a golden branch and jade leaf, but you can't really regard yourself as a golden branch and jade leaf. As a nobleman of the Tian family, the princess also has to take many responsibilities, such as pouring wine to customers, ordering songs, sending fruit trays, changing ashtrays, etc...."

Wan Chun was stunned: "…………”

"No, it's confusing. I mean, the princess has a heavy responsibility. The gorgeous palace clothes, luxurious jewelry and ceremonial guards are not like princesses. Princess should love the people under your father and brother as much as they care about their family, care about their suffering, help them get out of poverty, and care about their food and clothing. Such a princess, even if she only wears a coarse cloth hairpin skirt and has a plain face, is the most beautiful woman in the world."

Wan Chun's eyes lit up and said, "Really? I am the most beautiful woman in the world?"

"If you care more about your people than your food, clothing and ceremonies, then, yes, you are the most beautiful woman in the world. The people of the Tang Dynasty will respect you very much. The history books a hundred years later will also set up a person and tell future generations thousands of years later that there was a princess who respected the world in the Tang Dynasty. She looked very embarrassed when she was busy for the people, but she was very beautiful."

Wanchun subconsciously stroked his hair, then gave him a blank look, and hummed cutely: "Do you care? I do whatever I want, and I don't care how others think of me."

Gu Qing smiled bitterly, OK, the most beautiful princess has been offline, and the arrogant princess is back.

Wan Chun had beautiful eyes and looked at Gu Qing and said, "Chang'an has been recovered, are the Zhang sisters back?"

"Here I'm back."

"Are you... going to get married?"

"It's almost done. After finishing the current affairs, I plan to find a good day to go to Zhangjia Nacai."

Wan Chun lowered his eyebrows, his eyes flashed with a glimmer of gloom, and he whispered: "It's great that they were not born in the imperial family."

"She is her, and it has nothing to do with whether the emperor's family is born."

Relatively speechless, silent for a long time.

Gu Qing sighed and said, "I'm leaving."

Wan Chun lowered his head and nodded softly.

Gu Qing suddenly turned around and looked at her and said, "By the way, you look beautiful today than ever."

Wanchun's eyes suddenly shone, like a candle suddenly lit in the dark world.

"Yeah?"

"Yes, especially when you scream for refugees, it's the most beautiful." Gu Qing smiled at her and said, "Stay on, every effort you put into them will be blessed."

Wanchun smiled and then raised her nostrils proudly, and snorted: "I don't care."

Gu Qing laughed and turned around and left.

Staring at Gu Qing's back, he stared at him disappearing into the crowd. Wan Chun's eyes turned red, then he raised his head and held back the tears that were about to burst out from his eyes.

The palace lady E, who was beside her, came over and sighed helplessly, and said, "Your Highness, the sincerity comes from, gold and stone are open. If you want to enter Mr. Gu's heart, Your Highness should not be the princess aired in front of him. He just said that Your Highness looks very beautiful today. Obviously, Mr. Gu likes not his highness's dress, but his appearance of doing his best for refugees. The princess might as well think about Mr. Gu's thoughts."

Wan Chun pursed his lips and shook his head and said, "If I do these things to help refugees to please him, it will go against my original intention of doing this. What I do is based on my original intention, not to please anyone, and Gu Qing can't do it."

He looked into the box, and the box was half full.

Wanchun's beauty finally played some role. Passers-by on Chang'an Street saw this beautiful woman calling for donations at all. Those who had some spare money were willing to donate a few or dozens of yuan. The harvest was quite good throughout the day.

But this amount of money is still far from enough.

Wan Chun blinked and said to Wu'e: "Send a few palace maids from the palace to stand here and call on passers-by to raise funds. I will visit them at the princes and princesses's houses. We will finally express our views on the Li family. We should not ignore the poor refugees."

After saying that, Wanchun turned around and left.

…………

The snow in Chang'an City is getting heavier.

In the biting cold weather, the living conditions of refugees are becoming increasingly worrying. Every day, bodies are carried out to be buried. Gu Qing ordered the soldiers of the Anxi Army to cut firewood nearby and send them to refugee camps to keep their lives warm. Dozens of porridge sheds were also built to provide hot porridge for refugees.

It is a very heavy responsibility to have food and clothing for tens of thousands of people. Gu Qing did his best, but he could only ensure the basic living environment of refugees and try not to freeze and starve to death.

A few days later, the refugees finally got a batch of food through various channels. Among them, Li Siye led his army to rob the harvest of various official warehouses in Chang'an, and there were also money and food collected from the streets of Chang'an City.

After Gu Qing praised her for her beauty, Princess Wanchun went crazy for some reason and stared at the princess and powerful people in Chang'an City. She took turns to visit her every day. When she met, she asked for money and food. If she didn't give her, she would be cold-hearted and scolded them for being shameless and immoral, despising the sufferings of the people, and not worthy of being powerful and powerful people, etc. The more she scolded her, the more she became, the more ugly it became.

The powerful and powerful people in Chang'an City seemed to not know Wanchun, and treated her like they were avoiding snakes and scorpions.

What about the nightclub queen who loved nightclubs, singing, dancing, and drinking back then? Why is she so pissy now?

The image has changed and the character has collapsed, but the harvest of Wanchun is really not small. In the past few days, I have obtained a lot of money and food from the powerful people in Chang'an City.

There was a huge gap between the rich and the poor in the prosperous era, and the resources of this world were gradually concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. Wan Chun could see the essence of this society at a glance and directly asked these small number of people to attack, but she actually got two thousand stones of food.

Gu Qing breathed a sigh of relief when the grain was sent to the Anxi Army camp.

Huangfu Sisi and Zhang Huaiyu went to the south to get food. There was no news yet. Unexpectedly, Wanchun was the one who solved the urgent problem for him.

Gu Qing finally looked at the arrogant princess with admiration.

A woman who has never experienced the wind and rain, and has only grown up in a greenhouse since she was a child, although she is just a delicate peony, has the courage to face the wind and rain.

A batch of food was temporarily allocated from the Daying, and the official warehouse that Li Siye robbed, the money and grain raised by Chang'an City, and the grain obtained by Wanchun. This batch of food could probably last for a while.

So Gu Qing ordered the food to be transferred urgently to the refugee camp outside the city.

The food crisis is temporarily resolved, but we cannot control the fullness. I don’t know when the next batch of food will be obtained. Gu Qing could only order two rice porridge per day for refugees, and spent money to buy a batch of meat, carrots, lotus roots and other dishes from merchants. They chopped them and mixed them into the porridge, trying to ensure that the refugees can also take into account the nutritional balance in addition to filling their stomachs.

For these refugees, Gu Qing has been exhausted all these days and has not been so hard to command the battle.

What made Gu Qing feel disappointed was that the monarch and ministers in the court did not respond much.

I don’t know if it was because of Li Heng’s resistance, but the court officials noticed Li Heng’s emotions and were silent about the issue of helping refugees.

As the emperor, what Li Heng resisted was not to provide relief to refugees, but Gu Qing took over the power.

This kind of contradiction is irreconcilable, and there must be someone to do it. When Gu Qing communicated with Li Heng, Li Heng's attitude was neither salty nor light, and he was very negative. Gu Qing really didn't dare to joke about the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, so he took over the refugee food chore.

This way, Li Heng was unhappy.

People’s hearts cannot be considered. If you peel off the skin and look at the essence, the more you look at it, the more you feel chilled.

…………

On the afternoon of the late winter, Gu Qing finally slept in the mansion and did not get up until the evening.

When he was sleeping comfortably, Gu Qing stretched his waist and subconsciously called Huangfu Sisi. He suddenly realized that Huangfu Sisi had left Chang'an for many days and went to the south to raise food.

There were servants and cooks in the mansion, but Gu Qing was not very satisfied with the cook's skills, so he decided to cook by himself.

Having just washed a piece of deer meat to be blanched and removed the fishy smell, Han Jie hurried over and said anxiously: "Mr. Master, something happened."

Gu Qing said lightly: "What's the matter?"

It was a cold weather, and Han Jie felt sweat on his forehead and said anxiously: "Nearly a hundred people died in the refugee camp outside the city."

Gu Qing's movements froze and turned his head to look at Han Jie: "What's going on?"

"A meal in the evening, each person had a bowl of rice porridge. The rice porridge divided into two pots made with C and D fonts on the south side of the refugee camp was killed. Nearly a hundred people died. The doctor checked it and said that it was poisoned."

Gu Qing's face suddenly became ugly: "Someone is poisoning?"

Han Jie nodded: "It must be someone who poisoned him. This man was too cruel and he actually attacked the refugees. The Song Gong of Jingzhao Prefecture has already rushed to the refugee camp with his bad coach to investigate."

Gu Qing said with a cold face: "Is the poisoned murderer a good idea? What is his purpose? Or is it against me or against refugees?"

Han Jie sighed and said, "The incident happened only once. The prefect Song is investigating. The grandfather, the grandfather thinks it is a conspiracy. At this moment, the refugees outside the city are very angry. Many people have already shouted that the grandfather should come out and explain why they were trying to murder the refugees..."
To be continued...
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