Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 130
The heavy rain poured down, and Beigong was covered with a thin layer of rain.

The dense rain was like thousands of sharp arrows, shooting at the envoys from various countries waiting outside the palace gate.

A long line of more than a hundred people waited in front of the palace gate in an orderly manner. Although the eaves of the North Palace were very wide, no one dared to go underneath to shelter from the rain.

The vermilion sharp corners stretch out in all directions like sharp claws. From a distance, it looks like a glutton with its bloody mouth open, waiting for a feast from afar.

In the past two months, disasters have continued in various places, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of people in many countries.However, the tributes offered by various countries to the Zhou Dynasty are still indispensable.

"Xuan... the envoy of Baoguo enters the palace!"

Hearing a soft call, the old man at the front of the line was overjoyed, and hurriedly urged his followers to carry a large box of gold, silver and jewelry into the palace.Before entering the palace, the old man tidied up his white hair that was soaked by the rain, glanced at the long line behind him still waiting in the rain, and snickered secretly.

At this time, a man and a woman were waiting at the end of the line, it was Su Ji and Li Rumei.

Su Ji wore a bronze fox mask on his head, and was drenched, with rain running down his hair in strands.

Li Rumei held an oiled paper fan by herself, her beautiful eyes slowly swept across the bronze mask on Su Ji's face, and she said softly, "After all, the pavilion master has figured it out."

Su Ji looked at the one-foot-square wooden box in his hand, and said flatly: "I will return this mask to you after the tribute is delivered."

Li Rumei's pretty face suddenly darkened, "That Miss Lin, is it really worth your risk?"

"She saved me sincerely. Now that she is in trouble, I can't sit idly by."

"I heard that she offended the emperor and was executed in public. How can you be sure that she is still alive?"

Su Ji didn't answer, but looked at the wooden box in his hand, frowning tightly.

After a long wait, the two finally came to the front of the line.

"Xuan... the envoy of Shen Guo enters the palace!"

The little eunuch shouted the last sentence in a hoarse voice, and immediately smiled in relief. Today's work has finally come to an end.

Su Ji clenched his fists, and there was a killing intent in his reddish eyes...

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Ji Gongyu couldn't help shivering.It was the first time for him to challenge Xibo Jifu fiercely like before.After escaping from the Imperial Study just now, it suddenly rained heavily outside, and now he had no choice but to hide in a nearby pavilion to avoid the rain.

As the saying goes, seeing the mountains is exhausting.Ji Gongyan looked at it at a glance, and although the Beigong seemed close at hand, at least two squares had to be crossed to walk there.If you wait for the rain to stop before going, you will definitely miss the tribute ceremony of Shen Guo. In this way, Ji Gongyu's previous skipping class becomes meaningless.

Today, the servants in the palace were all busy entertaining the envoys from afar. The entire imperial city seemed extremely deserted, with only a few guards sticking to their posts.The most unlucky ones are the guards in the center of the square.They let the heavy rain wet their bodies, but they still could only stand still.

Looking at the guards standing guard in the rain, Ji Gongyan's immature lips couldn't help but let out a soft sigh like an old man.He has never been exposed to rain once since he was born.To the pampered him, getting rainwater on his clothes is like urinating when he urinates, and he absolutely cannot do it.

At this moment, Li Hongxi, who was drenched all over, rushed into the pavilion and shouted:

"I'm afraid the rain won't stop for a while! Let me carry His Highness on my back!"

Ji Gongyan glanced at the pouring rain outside, and sighed: "Forget it, anyway, the treasure will be seen sooner or later. When the rain stops, I will go to apologize to the Grand Master, and I will also beg for mercy for you by the way."

Li Hongxi stroked his shiny bald head and asked puzzledly: "Your Highness... are you so afraid of rain?"

Ji Gongyan curled her lips and said displeasedly: "I am the crown prince. My body does not belong to me alone, but to the people of the world. The grand master once taught me to do things with the people in mind, absolutely not presumptuous."

Li Hongxi smiled and said: "Your Highness, didn't you just be willful just once? So what if you simply willed again?"

"I've already missed it once, and I can't make it a second time."

Li Hongxi touched his bald head again, and said with a confused face, "...don't understand."

"Actually, I don't really understand." Ji Gongni lowered her head and said in a deep thought: "The Grand Master once taught me that only those who care about the world's subjects are qualified to be a monarch."

Looking at Ji Gongnier's regretful expression, Li Hongxi asked: "If Your Highness only cares about the world, then who will think about His Highness's affairs?"

"My business?" Ji Gongnie shook her head, snorted, and said, "You only think about yourself in everything. That's why your father is a minister, while mine is a king."

Li Hongxi was choked back by a sentence, and his two huge eyes kept turning left and right, as if he was thinking about something.

Ji Gongyan sat in the pavilion and looked to the north, staring blankly at the palace that had been shrouded in rain and fog and was almost invisible.

"Your Highness, wait a moment, I'll be right back." Before Ji Gongyan could react, Li Hongxi had already plunged into the rain.

"Big bald head! Where are you going?"

Ji Gongzhen's voice was overwhelmed by the sound of rain, so he could only shake his head in the direction where he disappeared.

After a while, the heavy rain showed no signs of stopping, and Li Hongxi did not come back for a long time.

Beigong may have already left.Just as Ji Gongyan was thinking this way, he suddenly heard the sound of running rapidly approaching. Li Hongxi, wearing a bamboo hat, came in front of Ji Gongyan with an extra coir raincoat on his body.

Looking at Li Hongxi who came in the rain, Ji Gongyan couldn't help showing a moving smile.

Li Hongxi also smiled, because he knew he had made the right decision.He took off his coir raincoat, revealing his naked body wet by the rain, and said eagerly:

"Only found one. Your Highness try to put it on as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late."

Ji Gongyan hesitated for a moment, took off his brocade robe, and held it in front of the shirtless Li Hongxi.

"Big bald head, you put this on."

Li Hongxi looked at the little brocade robe that was much smaller than his body, he chuckled, and patted his chest, "I have rough skin and thick flesh, it doesn't matter."

"No joke! Now I order you to wear it. This is the king's order!" Ji Gongyu said firmly: "If the king doesn't care about his subjects, why should the subjects support him?"

Li Hongxi was slightly stunned, and stared straight at Ji Gongyan, completely unimaginable that such a sentence came from the mouth of an 11-year-old child.Li Hongxi was both moved and gratified, thinking that if such a virtuous little gentleman could inherit the throne, the revival of the Zhou family would be just around the corner.

"Your Majesty obeys." Li Hongxi put the little dress on his body symbolically, and put his legs into a horse stance, "His Royal Highness, sit still!"

Ji Gongyan put on the coir raincoat, jumped onto his back, lowered the brim of the hat, and said solemnly:
"When it's just the two of us, don't call me Your Highness anymore, call me Gong Yan. This is also the king's order!"

"Alright Your Highness. No... Gong Yan, let's go!"

After saying that, Li Hongxi carried Ji Gongyan on his back and went straight to the North Palace in the pouring rain.

(End of this chapter)