Chapter 49: A narrow victory and a fall
Chapter 49 is a narrow victory, and a fall
Leng Xuanrong calculated the time and hurried out of the alley with her head down. She walked straight ahead. Her footsteps were a little messy, but she kept sticking to the wall, looking careful not to attract other people's attention.
But the people on this street are kneeling on both sides. How can she not attract the attention of those walking in the middle of the road?
The attendous man saw a woman coming, and he secretly shouted bad in his heart. The leading government urgently asked his men to stop the woman.
The two government affairs quickly stepped over to stop Leng Xuanrong. Leng Xuanrong suddenly looked up and almost bumped into the opposite government affairs.
"Girl, step aside and kneel down! When the prince comes, are you dying?" The opposite governmentman scolded in a low voice, and suddenly said, "Miss Leng?"
Leng Xuanrong took a closer look, and it turned out that Zhao Hanwu came from the opposite side.
"Brother Zhao!" Leng Xuanrong called softly and stretched out her head to look at the prince Du Yilin and Mr. Dou who were coming. She hurriedly raised her hand and rubbed her eyes and whispered, "Brother Zhao, why did you come here... I went to the county government to find you a few days ago..."
Before she finished her words, Zhao Hanwu hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt her and said, "Let's talk about it later. Miss Leng, you should hide aside, or the prince will blame her later, and no one can afford it."
"Your Highness?" Leng Xuanrong made a surprised expression and stretched out his head to look at the opposite side.
Du Yilin and Mr. Dou have approached, but they are chatting happily and don't seem to find Leng Xuanrong.
Leng Xuanrong frowned and looked back at the Li family gambling house. The big man who went in hasn't appeared yet, and I don't know if they will come out.
It really depends on luck.
Leng Xuanrong was slightly stunned and was immediately pulled aside by Zhao Hanwu's arm.
Zhao Hanwu seemed to be really worried about Leng Xuanrong. He said anxiously, "Kneel down and kneel, don't look up!"
Leng Xuanrong had an idea and pretended to be panicked. His left foot tripped on his right foot, and his whole body ploped straight on the ground.
Even Zhao Hanwu, who stood beside her, did not react, and Leng Xuanrong fell down quickly.
Although she is small, her movements are too large, which attracted the attention of those kneeling people not far away.
Mr. Dou was talking to Du Yilin about the customs of Nayan County when he suddenly found that two county magistrates seemed to pull a young woman in the distance, and then the young woman fell to the ground.
Mr. Dou frowned and strode over and said to Zhao Hanwu with some dissatisfaction, "This road is for the people. It's okay for you to dissuade him. Why pull a girl..."
With that, Mr. Dou squatted down to support the woman lying on the ground and asked softly, "Girl, are you hurt..."
When Leng Xuanrong raised his face, Mr. Dou immediately took a breath of cold air.
"Miss Xuanrong!"
He hurriedly took out a snow-white sweat towel from his arms, gently wiped Leng Xuanrong's cheek twice, and then carefully helped Leng Xuanrong up from the ground. When Leng Xuanrong stood firm, he was busy checking up and down again, as if to confirm whether she had hurt anything.
"Dou...Mr. Dou..." Leng Xuanrong's words cried. She didn't expect that she could fall so hard.
"Bleeding..." Mr. Dou frowned and looked at the blood stains on Leng Xuanrong's sleeves. He didn't care about any men and women's incompetence, so he grabbed Leng Xuanrong's hand to check.
Sure enough, Leng Xuanrong's hands were scratched, and the dust and blood were mixed together, which made people feel painful when they looked at it.
At this time, Du Yilin also came over. He looked at Leng Xuanrong's palm, called the black guard behind him, and ordered, "Go and get some water to see if there is a doctor nearby."
The guard in black ran to find the doctor. Du Yilin walked to Leng Xuanrong and saw Mr. Dou's nervous look, and his eyes became cold. He turned his head and looked at Zhao Hanwu and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"
Zhao Hanwu and another governmentman were scared by the cold eyes, and they hurriedly knelt down and couldn't speak.
When Leng Xuanrong saw this, he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, don't blame these two government. They just asked me to kneel to welcome the prince. They all blamed myself for being careless and somehow fell down..."
Du Yilin raised his eyebrows slightly and nodded, "If that's the case, you two go back."
Zhao Hanwu and the two were pardoned, got up and retreated two steps and hurried back to the team. Zhao Hanwu went far away and looked back at Leng Xuanrong and found that she was talking to Mr. Dou and the prince fearlessly like an old acquaintance. Zhao Hanwu was really confused.
As soon as the two of them left, Du Yilin came over and whispered to Leng Xuanrong, "My brain is not bad, but my legs and feet are quite stupid."
Leng Xuanrong was a little surprised. She didn't expect the prince to speak to herself in such a almost joking tone, but it was not easy for her to hold back her tears now. She really didn't have the leisure to sigh about it.
Mr. Dou frowned and muttered, "It's still to blame those bad offices for doing something irritable..."
Leng Xuanrong was afraid that Zhao Hanwu would be implicated by this matter and hurriedly shook his head vigorously, "It's my own carelessness... I don't blame the government affairs brothers..."
Mr. Dou stopped, looked at Leng Xuanrong, took a breath helplessly, and then lowered his head to clean up the wound. While cleaning up, he whispered, "Don't blame those bad government, it's the prince. If you don't deal with those officials and rich people, you have to come to see the streets and walk this road, which makes you restless..."
" Haowei..." Du Yilin curled his lips and shook his head helplessly, "If you say bad things about me, you have to say it behind my back."
Mr. Dou didn't raise his head and said coldly, "It's not the work of a gentleman to speak ill of people behind his back. If you want to say it, you have to say it face to face."
Du Yilin pretended not to hear this sentence, turned around and frowned angrily, "How can it take so long to find a doctor to get some water!"
After a while, the personal guard in black came here with a basin of clear water. Mr. Dou meticulously helped Leng Xuanrong remove the soil from his hand. After waiting for a while, the doctor carrying the medicine box hurriedly came to treat the wound for Leng Xuanrong.
When the doctor treated the wound for Leng Xuanrong, Mr. Dou found that Leng Xuanrong's eyes seemed to be very red and swollen. He hurriedly comforted him, but Du Yilin seemed to see something and asked Leng Xuanrong why he came here.
Leng Xuanrong said the excuse she had just thought of. She lied that she had come here to find some sewing work, but the other party gave the job she had promised to someone else to do.
"Are you wronged?" Du Yilin asked.
Leng Xuanrong looked up at him and whispered, "It's not a grievance for survival..."
" lies."
That pair of eyes obviously cried, and the girl who didn't cry after falling down, why did she cry if she hadn't been wronged? The little girl must have fallen down because she was absent-minded.
Isn't it wronged? The mouth is still hard.
Du Yilin raised a smile at the corners of his mouth and lowered his voice, "I didn't expect you to be a person who can't lie."
Leng Xuanrong lowered her head and thought to herself, "Your Majesty, you are so smart that you have been mistaken for being smart.
Mr. Dou's face became more gloomy after listening to Du Yilin's words, but he seemed to be afraid of something and didn't say anything more.
When the doctor bandaged Leng Xuanrong's hands, Mr. Dou's heart was relieved. He took several small medicine bags from the doctor to treat the wound on Leng Xuanrong's hand, put them directly in his arms, and then said to Du Yilin, "It's getting late. I'll send Miss Xuanrong home. You can go back to the study by yourself."
Du Yilin was stunned when he heard the words, but then laughed again, "Okay, Haowei, you also visit Mr. Leng for me by the way and tell him that if there is a chance, I will see him in person."
Mr. Dou answered perfunctorily and called the two soft sedan chairs that had been following the team, making Leng Xuanrong get on one of them. He raised his leg and was about to get on the other.
Du Yilin looked at it and asked hurriedly, " Haowei! Wait! This is my sedan chair!"
Mr. Dou turned around and waved his hand at Du Yilin, with great impatientness, "It's not far away. Go back."
With that, he got into the sedan chair without looking back.
The two soft sedan chairs slowly left. Although Du Yilin had a cold face, he meditated on Mr. Dou's countless bad words in his heart.
He had no choice but to turn around and take the group of people behind him to walk gracefully and walk towards the dyeing dust study.
Both groups of people left, and the streets returned to their old ways.
No one noticed that behind the door of Lijia Gambling Village, a group of people shrank their heads and hid behind a person, and there was no sound.
The person squatting in the front is Li Duen, the owner of the Li family gambling house.
Li Duen looked at the prince's departure and recovered for a long time.
He sat on the ground with a plop and muttered, "Prince... King Xiaohan, that's the official prince, the red man in front of the emperor..."
A clerk beside him whispered, "Dear owner, don't you think we will have to worry about eating and drinking in the future if we can climb up to him?"
"Bulls!" Li Duen stared up and patted the guy on the head. After shooting, he seemed to be a little distracted again.
The guy's words were just in his heart.
If there is a chance for him to climb up to the prince... even if he is allowed to say a few words to the prince...
Try two words...
Li Duen suddenly frowned and clenched his teeth fiercely.
He saw clearly what happened here just now. The prince and Mr. Dou specially called a doctor for a woman. Such favors, not to mention ordinary people, even the ladies in the imperial city can't get it!
Mr. Dou looked at the woman's expression and was obviously very worried, and the prince did not seem to have the prince's air when talking to the woman. And the woman did not kneel down to the prince from beginning to end! And the prince didn't even mean to blame her! What a blessing!
What puzzled Li Duen most and gritted his teeth was that the woman was not someone else, but the girl of the Leng family, Leng Xuanrong!