Chapter 28 Temporary Calm

After sending away the chamberlain who came to announce the decree in the palace, Xu Jinghong and other people's faces were full of strange expressions. Because they really didn't expect that the emperor would give themselves such an imperial edict to ask Guoan to find out the person who spread the destruction of food. Is there anything more ridiculous than a thief going to the thief?

"Team Zheng, what should we do about this?" Everyone suppressed their smiles and asked, and now their worries were gone. At least now it seems that the emperor is not suspicious of them.

Xu Jinghong pondered a little. He looked at Sun Zaiyuan: "Mr. Sun, what do you think of this?"

"This is a good opportunity. Since the emperor asked you to check it, let's check it carefully!" After thinking about it, Sun Zaiyuan gave his attitude: "We also took this opportunity to stir up the muddy water in the capital!"

"You mean..." Xu Jinghong's eyes lit up and obviously guessed his intention.

"Now with the chaos of the people (river crabs), the capital has already been in chaos. If we attack some people at this time, the people in the court will have no time to interfere. This is a great opportunity.

"So in Mr. Sun's opinion, who should we do this time?"

"Of course, it was the people of the crown prince and King Yong. Their people have now occupied a large part of the court officials. Once these people are involved in this big event, the situation in the capital is bound to be more chaotic, and we will naturally get more benefits from it!" Sun Zaiyuan said without thinking.

Xu Jinghong also thought so. Since the two sides have the same idea, he made this decision: "Then send some people out for a long time, so that when we report this matter and arrest people for interrogation, we can also have a basis! Old dog, you and the old bear each take some brothers to the street and stay more near those officials' houses. But remember that there must be no conflict with the people!"

"Yes!" The two quickly took orders, and then went to select capable subordinates to work.

After arranging everything, Xu Jinghong came to the backyard, and there was another person he needed to comfort. Naturally, what Xu Jinghong can care about at all times is Chu Lian'er, who has just been cured from the poison. At this time, because of the healing and conditioning of Tianji Taoist, her body has slowly recovered, but her mood is very low.

This is also a very natural thing. Xu Jinghong just got rid of the remnants of the Chu family who had a close relationship with her, along with the remnants of other families, and she naturally felt uncomfortable. In this way, the remaining poison in her body could not be completely eliminated, but it made Tianji Taoist a little embarrassed. After several attempts to fail, Tianji Taoist had to say to Xu Jinghong: "The poison on the body is easy to get rid of, but the illness in the heart is difficult to cure. If you want Miss Chu to recover completely, you must first cure her heart disease. And this requires you, the source of the disease, to try it yourself.

For this reason, Xu Jinghong has talked to Chu Lian'er several times in the past two days, hoping to enlighten her, and promised that she would do her best to protect the Chu family. However, Chu Lian'er was not moved by his words and was still in a trance. Obviously, she was worried about her family.

At the beginning, when the assassins with the Chu family wanted to assassinate Xu Jinghong, Chu Lianer could save her for the sake of her love, because of love. And when she found that Xu Jinghong wanted to kill her family in turn, she naturally couldn't stay out of the matter. Unfortunately, now she doesn't have much ability to stop Xu Jinghong's behavior. In the end, she can only express it with this silent protest, hoping that Xu Jinghong can put her family in her face.

But Xu Jinghong now only expressed that he would forgive the Chu family, but did not let him go, which made Chu Lianer still unbelievable him. In fact, she can also think that within Xu Jinghong's ability, it is impossible to let people go. If he really does this, I'm afraid it will hurt himself. Naturally, Chu Lianer did not want to see such a thing happen. Because of this contradictory idea, Chu Lianer suffered even more and didn't know how to choose. This is also the reason why she has been uneasy and looks more and more ugly in the past two days.

At this time, Chu Lian'er was lying **, thinking nonsense in her heart. For a while, he was worried about how Xu Jinghong would face if he finally chose to benefit him and kill his family. After a while, he was worried that Xu Jinghong had done something for himself that was against the imperial decree. What should he do then?

Just as she was in a dilemma, the familiar footsteps sounded, and Xu Jinghong came to her again. After carefully looking at her complexion, a gentle voice sounded: "You are still so weak, don't worry about anything else. I promise you that I will not fail you or hurt your family. With that, Xu Jinghong held one of her hands in his own hand.

Chu Lianer did not struggle and let the other party hold it, and her heart also felt a little warm. But because of some kind of fear, I didn't dare to make a too obvious statement: "...Can you really protect my family?"

"Of course!" Xu Jinghong nodded: "Now they are still locked in the prison of Ansi in our country. If I don't nod, who can hurt them?" This time, Xu Jinghong stopped hiding it and told the truth.

"What?" Chu Lian'er was very surprised and raised her body. Although she knew that Guoansi waited for her to be held in the heavenly prison that day, she was injured and poisoned and unconscious, so she didn't know what happened to these people in the end, just as if they had been taken up by other government departments.

As for Xu Jinghong who took people to get the remnants of those families the day before, she naturally knew it. But Chu Lianer couldn't guess that after these people were taken, they would be taken to Guoan to watch and detained. In fact, these people should have been sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice today, so that the court would convict them and the family they had taken earlier. But who knew that such a thing happened in the capital today, so they were finally left in the National Security Department.

After a period of shock, Chu Lianer said in an uncertain voice, "I... can I meet them?" When she said this, she almost looked at Xu Jinghong with pleading eyes.

Xu Jinghong immediately nodded: "Of course. In fact, I think you are injured by a poison needle, and your family must be very nervous and concerned. Now that your body has recovered a little, you really need to meet them so that they can feel at ease. But..." Speaking of this, his words turned around: "After all, you are too weak to get out of bed for the time being and can't stand the wind. Not to mention walking from here to the dungeon over there.

"I... can get well soon." At this time, Chu Lian'er finally had an excuse and immediately said, "The poison has been almost cleared by the Taoist priest. Presumably in two days, I can fully recover."

"That's the best. I also hope you can recover quickly and return to the old you." Xu Jinghong smiled, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground. Because he saw that Chu Lianer already had the subjective will to take care of her body, her body would recover quickly.

After accompanying Chu Lian'er for a period of time, Xu Jinghong returned to the front to deal with more problems.

At this time, the chaos in the capital became more violent. The bold man had begun to attack the homes of some imperial officials. And the princes and ministers in the palace are still a little helpless about this matter, because they can't come up with convincing evidence to show that they don't have to worry about food and dare not really let the army take action. Because in this way, it is bound to cause greater disputes. At that time, the whole Song Dynasty may fall into a state of chaos, which no one wants to see.

"What do you think there is still a way to deal with the current situation?" The emperor whispered in a weak voice, but there was still a chilling flame in his eyes.

"This... I think it should be mainly persuasion." When other officials couldn't say why, Lv Zhonghe, the prime minister of the hundred officials, had to speak: "After all, the people only did such a thing because of a moment of urgency. In fact, they did not intend to be the enemy of the imperial court. Therefore, if the court can guide well and convince the people that the food problem will be solved completely, most people will be willing to listen to the court's intention to stop.

"Of course, there must be many people who want to take the opportunity to make things happen, which makes the court of the Song Dynasty unstable. You don't have to be too polite to such a thief with ulterior motives. As long as you find out, you will be killed!"

"Lv Xiang, your words are easy, but what can we do to convince the people? The grain brought from Shu has indeed been destroyed. Can we still produce millions of stones of grain? Also, even if we can really persuade them to go back this time, they will definitely get up again if they really run out of food in a few days. At that time, I'm afraid that the court will really have to watch them do the last thing to happen. Today's minister Cao Xuan immediately asked a rhetorical question.

These newly promoted top ministers of the imperial court are still deeply wary of the Lv Xu family. Even if he is the prime minister, he is also an enemy in their eyes. No matter what they can fight for, they will fight for it.

The emperor still had a glimmer of hope, but now when he heard Cao Xuan's words, he was a little gray: "Lv Qing, what do you think of this?"

"In fact, the surplus food among the rich and poor in Beijing is enough to support for a month. It is only because the grain is controlled by a few people that the people are so worried. So now I think the court should do something to take out all the food of those who still hide food and share it with the people, so that they can temporarily calm down.

"As for this month, I thought that with the wealth of the Song Dynasty, I could still mobilized a batch of grain from two lakes and other places to transport it to the capital for emergency relief. As long as this period of time, the crisis will naturally be resolved.

"What do you think of Lv Xiang's method?" The emperor's face became better because of Lv Zhonghe's words, and he looked at the other ministers with great expectation.

Those people are also sophisticated. They know that opposing at this time will only make the emperor dissatisfied, so they all praised them one by one: "Lv Xiang's opinion is the most reasonable. Let's do everything according to Lv Xiang's will."

"Then send people to each house to get food. There must be a lot of surplus food in several Aiqing's family, and there are also a lot of warehouses in my palace, so take them out and hand them over to Lv Qing for disposal!" The emperor left everything to Lu Zhonghe to deal with, and at the same time counted all the ministers.

Those ministers changed their color at first, but soon acquiesced in such a fact. They also understand the importance of things. They can't make the court really cause big problems by those people because of that little food, right? The only thing they are not happy about is that Lv Zhonghe has become the leader in this matter, which is really not conducive to their seizure of greater power in the future.

Therefore, at dusk, some officials in Daliang in the capital entered and out a lot of soldiers and took out most of the food hidden in their homes. I don't know if I don't do it. This search is really shocking. It turned out that there was not much grain in the capital, but in this search, nearly 100,000 stones of grain were found.

Although this grain still feels like a drop in Daliang, which has a population of hundreds of thousands of people, it still has a certain effect once it is taken out. Many people who had just robbed behind others were led to get food by the news. In this way, as soon as the people in the Beijing camp suppressed it, the chaos that began in the morning finally subsided.

After it was completely dark, the emperor in the palace got a message that made him feel relieved. The people in all the streets of the city have dispersed. Presumably, everything will be normal in the past two days. Of course, all this is normal and only temporary. The court must mobilized more food to Beijing as soon as possible to maintain this situation.

Faced with such a result, Xu Jinghong was a little surprised. He spent a lot of effort and planned to fish in troubled waters, but he didn't expect that the water would be calmed down so quickly, which really disappointed him. However, he is not worried about any trouble he will have. After all, the court still trusts him. As long as he exerts a little more effort on the key points, things will go in the direction he wants to see.

Now, what he is most concerned about is how to make Chu Lianer recover quickly. Presumably, after she has such a hope, her body will recover quickly, so that he will not have too many worries.

And the fact is better than Xu Jinghong's expectations. Early the next morning, Chu Lian'er's body was already healthy, and she could even get out of bed and walk around. In fact, the reason why she was so weak before was also because of psychological problems, and the residual toxicity could no longer be retained. After asking Tianji Taoist to use a needle on her again yesterday, she also excreted the last poison. In addition, she had some hope. In just one night, her health was fine.

Xu Jinghong is naturally very happy about this. On this day, he has always been by Chu Lian'er's side. Fortunately, the court did not chase Xu Jinghong to do anything in the past two days, and the intention to investigate the leaked news was not in a hurry, so Xu Jinghong had more time to accompany the beautiful woman.

Since Chu Lianer was seriously injured and almost died in order to save him that day, Xu Jinghong's feelings for her have changed greatly and has begun to regard her as his own woman. So when the two are alone, the gentleness and beauty also make them very intoxicated.

Some people say that love is the best medicine, which is true. It's just that with this day, Chu Lian'er's health has recovered better. So the next morning, when Xu Jinghong came to see her again, he was surprised to find that she was fully able to take care of herself.

"Jinghong, I want to meet my family." After the two were warm, Chu Lianer whispered her ideas, which was also something she had been thinking about for the past two days.

Xu Jinghong nodded: "I promised you that as long as you are better, you can meet them. Now that you are well, I will fulfill my previous promise. However, if something happens to you later, please believe me and I will protect them for you.

"Hmm! Naturally, I believe in you." Chu Lian'er nodded quickly.

So after noon on this day, Xu Jinghong took Chu Lianer to the dungeon behind. Looking at the deep environment here, Chu Lian'er's eyes turned a little red. She lived in a sunny and beautifully decorated house, but she let her family stay in such a place, which made her very uncomfortable. But she knew that there was nothing she could do, even because Xu Jinghong risked her to stay outside.

Finally, the two came outside the row of cells where the Chu family was imprisoned. Looking at those haggard families, Chu Lianer choked and said, "Five uncle, seventh aunt... are you... are you okay?"

Those people were sitting on the cold ground. They had been locked up here for many days and had been numb for a long time. They don't care about the people who appear outside. They just regard it as a prison head of inspection or food delivery. Now when they heard Chu Lian'er's call, they woke up and looked at it with surprised eyes. After a long time, they shouted one after another:

"It's Lian'er..."

"It's great that you're still alive..."

"Rian'er, why did you come here?"

Chu Lian'er talked to them one by one with tears, while Xu Jinghong stood aside silently. In fact, he has no hatred for these people and has to deal with them for a certain purpose.

At this time, the people inside suddenly saw the appearance of the person standing beside Chu Lian'er, and many people changed color: "It's you! Lian'er, why are you with such a person? He will kill you, just like he killed us!"