Chapter 66
"Your mistakes cannot be easily forgiven, come here!"

As the emperor finished speaking, several eunuchs walked in quickly.

"Take the fifth prince out to beat the [-] big boards hard, and then send him to Qingxin Zhai to face the wall and think about it for a month!"

"Yes!"

The two eunuchs hurriedly set up the fifth prince and walked out.

"Royal father! Royal father! My son is wronged, my son is wronged!" The fifth prince cried loudly while staring at Wang Xue, as if he wanted to eat her.

But Wang Xue was not afraid at all, and looked at him with an expression that my old lady is here, and you will eat her if you have the ability.

The angry fifth prince rolled his eyes and almost passed out from the anger.

And after the fifth prince was taken away, the emperor turned around slowly, looked at Wang Xue, and said in a deep voice: "My son made a mistake, and I have already punished him, so girl, do you think you are wrong?"

Immediately, Wang Xue knelt down on her knees and said loudly, "I know my mistake!"

The emperor turned around, walked back to the desk, sat down, opened the folding fan, "Tell me, where did you go wrong?"

"My lady. My lady made a mistake for not reporting before doing a good job. Before helping someone, I didn't ask if they have someone else to help them. My lady made a mistake."

"Enough." The emperor laughed angrily, closed his fan, and nodded Wang Xue, "Where do you even half-know your mistake? It sounds like I deliberately picked on you?"

"My daughter dare not! My daughter is just telling the truth."

"Tell the truth? Then I ask you, do you think you are at fault for this matter?"

"Your servant is right." Wang Xue leaned over, neither humble nor overbearing.

The old prince's face changed, and he was about to speak, but the emperor stopped him with his hand, and he asked again: "Tell me why you think you are right?"

"If my daughter really said it, you won't be angry, Your Majesty." Wang Xue asked cautiously.

"No, I told you to say it, just say what you think in your heart."

Wang Xue straightened her body, but still hung her head. After considering her words, she said slowly, "Your Majesty, do you dare to ask me if you have seen poor people?"

The emperor was startled, then shook his head, "I've never seen it before."

"Then you must have never seen a picture of people who can't even afford clothes and can only wrap themselves in hay."

The emperor didn't speak.

Wang Xue continued: "Then you must have never seen the picture of poor people fighting for food with wild dogs on the side of the road because they can't afford food."

"But these ministers have seen it, and not only that, but also the child who starved to death in the woman's arms because he couldn't afford to eat, and the child who was frozen alive because of the cold weather, no quilt, and the air leaking in the house." dead old man."

"You have never seen any of these, or at most you have only heard of them from other people, but these are all things that actually happened in that slum area, and it is a parting of life and death that is performed almost every day."

After a pause, Wang Xue suddenly choked up, and then continued to say in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, those are all your subjects, all your people. They starved to death and froze because they didn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes." When you die, you may still be reading a book by the lamp in the royal study, and you may still be eating the precious fruit flavor from the tribute. When the weather is cold, you still have a stove to warm your body, and when your hands are cold, there is a hand stove to warm your hands and heart. , but what about them? What can they enjoy at that time?"

"I'm afraid they can only curl up in a corner, wrapped in ragged quilts, enduring the biting cold wind penetrating through their skin until their bodies are frozen, and that night may be the last day they live in this world." Last night."

Speaking of this, Wang Xue's voice became more choked up, and tears slid down her cheeks and dripped onto the ground.

The old prince was moved.

The emperor was also silent.

I just heard Wang Xue continue trembling and said: "These tragedies could have ended a few years ago, when you, the emperor, planned to govern that slum area, but...but you chose to put this kind of matter that is about human life Handed it over to the Fifth Prince."

"Please forgive the crime of my daughter's nonsense. If the fifth prince doesn't have that kind of heart, he can't help those people out of the sea of ​​suffering. So until now, after a few years, those people are still living in dire straits. Things that can be easily solved by the prince moving his fingers, but it didn't happen."

"But now that I have done it, and I have done a lot of things, I realized that what those common people actually want is very simple, just a meal, a quilt, and a nest."

"A big steamed bun worth two pennies, a quilt worth tens of pennies, a house that can shelter from the wind and rain, that's all, but such a simple need can't be met, how can this be the fifth prince's opinion?" What's so difficult? But he just wanted to put the money in his pocket, that's all."

"But the courtiers did it. The courtiers spent money and effort to help them and help them solve their crisis. It was the courtiers who gave them food, clothing and shelter, so even if the courtesans robbed the fifth prince's errand , so what’s wrong? Is a mere so-called merit so important compared to thousands of human lives?”

"Or, in your eyes, the emperor, the face of the royal family is more important than the lives of the common people?"

"Presumptuous!" The old prince was so frightened that his back was in a cold sweat, and when he heard Wang Xue say such rebellious words, he immediately stopped him.

But Wang Xue raised her head with tears streaming down her face, looked at the emperor sitting there frowning, and continued to say neither humble nor overbearing: "Your Majesty, in the hearts of my ministers, you have always been a wise king! Fair, fair, selfless, absolutely You will not disregard the lives of the people for the face of the so-called royal family, in the hearts of the courtiers, you are a sage monarch! You are the sun in the sky, illuminating all directions, and you are the moon in the sky.”

"Okay." The emperor waved his hand, and tapped Wang Xue with a fan, dumbfounded, "You girl, you just hurt me once, so don't give me a high hat, and slap a sweet date. It's useless to me."

Wang Xue shook her head immediately, and said firmly: "No! Just now what the minister said, every sentence is heartfelt, every sentence is sincere! Every sentence"

"That's enough, why are you going on forever, girl?" The emperor was really angry and funny.

This girl didn't expect that she doesn't look very smart, but she can speak very well.

"Okay, I know what you mean. Indeed, I am only in the temple and cannot see the suffering below. This is my fault. I admit that what you girl said just now is very correct. The people actually want it very much." It's simple, it's just a meal, a quilt, and a bed, but I can't satisfy such a simple request. To move me with emotion, you really have a lot of eyes."

Wang Xue hurriedly leaned back on the ground, hey, the emperor saw through her daring feelings, what an old fox.

 I have something to do today, that's just one chapter.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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