Chapter 379: Prepare for a rainy day
Chapter 379 Prepare for a rainy day
When Ji Yue woke up again, the sky was already dyed red by the sunset.
After a good night's sleep, the little guy regained some energy. He smelled the vegetable lump soup cooked by Ye Anlan himself. The little guy had a rare appetite and offered to eat.
Ye Anlan brought the easy-to-digest pimple soup that she made from the old hen soup that skimmed off the oil slicks, added shredded vegetables and diced lean meat to Ji Yue's bed, and after a short sleep, she came back to watch her son's peace. Concubine Kangjun immediately took the bowl and porcelain spoon, and began to feed Ji Yue bit by bit.
Ji Yue is a sensible child. When he saw his mother's eyes were red, he immediately held the hand of Princess Pingkang who was holding the bowl with his small hand, "Mother, Yue'er has recovered. It's fine. Don't worry." .”
The princess of Pingkang County was so coaxed by him, the tears that had not shed before suddenly burst out.
She turned her head away and asked the maid to wipe the tears off her face, and then took the spoon to scoop up the little gnocchi left in the bowl.
Seeing this scene, Yang Xiaotao couldn't help feeling sorry for the mother and son. She took the initiative to go over to replace Princess Pingkang, and continued to feed Ji Yue spoon by spoon.
Ji Yue opened her mouth obediently, chewed, and swallowed, while patting her mother's big hand with her little hand, silently giving her support and comfort.
Pingkang County King, who prided himself on being a man who never shed tears, saw this scene, and two tears welled up in his tiger's eyes involuntarily.
He turned his head and tried to force the tears back into his eyes, but he began to quickly think about how to solve the current predicament, how to keep his mother, first wife and youngest son when the death of the eldest son and eldest daughter was uncertain.
Thinking of his helplessness in the face of the Queen Mother's orders, Pingkang County King couldn't help secretly regretting his family's obedience and obedience over the years.
They took the initiative to put themselves in the cage of Pingkang County Prince's Mansion, turning themselves into tigers without claws and claws, in order to ensure the safety and prosperity of the whole family.
At first, this method really worked, but as time went by, their Pingkang County Palace became weaker and weaker, while the empress dowager who killed his eldest son and daughter became more and more powerful. Next, isn't the other party no longer paying attention to them?
At this time, no matter how good or weak they are, others will not regard their regression as knowledgeable, but will completely treat them as harmless rabbits.
Pingkang County King regretted that he hadn't realized this problem earlier. Of course, what he regretted was that he didn't secretly leave the capital, a place of right and wrong, with his mother and his wife's natal family.
If at that time he could resolutely let go of his last thoughts about the Great Zhou royal family and the so-called blood relatives, and secretly leave the capital with his family members with the help of his natal family and wife clan, how could his family members suffer misfortunes one after another? ?
Remorse has been fermenting in his heart for a long time, but he doesn't know who else he can turn to for help now.
He looked up at the sky, and sighed softly involuntarily, but Ye Anlan, who had sharp eyes and ears, could keenly capture his worries.
Ye Anlan narrowed her eyes slightly, and began to think about whether the plan of relying on strength that Li Jing said before was feasible.
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After the most difficult night passed, Ji Yue finally had a complete fever.
In the morning, Ye Anlan prepared a small bowl of shredded chicken and vegetable porridge, a small bowl of steamed eggs with milk, and a small dish of radish and yam cakes for him.
Three small bowls and dishes were lined up on the table, and Ji Yue took the spoon and chopsticks by herself, and ate very sweetly in small bites.
Pingkang Junwang and his wife saw that their son had energy and appetite, and they also felt good mood and appetite.
They ate their first full meal since their daughter was named "Princess".
As for Ye Anlan, she declined the kindness of the Pingkang County King and his wife to stay. On the day when Ji Yue's fever completely subsided, she left Ji Yue with follow-up recuperation prescriptions and a few precautions, and then took Li Jing and others together. The people returned to an ordinary second-entry house that they had bought in advance.
The main purpose of Ye Anlan's trip to Beijing this time was to save people, but Li Jing wanted to bury all the nails in along the way, so on the surface they were just the leaders of the caravan of hundreds of people, but secretly there were a large number of them with various reasons Subordinates who enter the capital can be dispatched.
Some of these people came to Beijing alone, and walked the streets and alleys to inquire about news openly and squarely as medical women, wandering doctors, peddlers, Taoist nuns, and blind fortune-tellers.
Some disguised themselves as scholars, officials, squires, merchants, escorts, craftsmen. It was reasonable to bring servants or family members into the city.
They set up strongholds all over the capital, spread their hands out, and when the business started, all the people in charge of walking the streets and alleys also started to move.
Under the premise of being as unobtrusive as possible, they began to use various means to buy low-level officials of the Great Zhou court, recruit beggars and gangsters who wandered around the capital, and approach the generals and powerful officials of the Great Zhou. important information.
In addition, they also bought a Zhuangzi outside the city and kept some people to facilitate the delivery of news and emergency situations.
In order to be busy with this matter, Li Jing and Ye Anlan have recently started to work on their own. Many times, even having a meal with each other has become a luxury for them.
Only when Xie's spies around the capital and the Northwest region received important information, the two would meet urgently to discuss the next course of action.
After being so busy for about ten days, the little beggar leader Ye Anlan had subdued before quietly approached her.
The head of the little beggar is Erniu, a clever little ghost who came from a county in the suburbs of Beijing to beg for a living in the capital. He is fourteen years old and has no relatives in the capital. He forced a group of little beggars around his age to gather around him.
When Ye Anlan saw him for the first time, in order to protect his little friend, he risked his life to fight to the death with the young and middle-aged male beggar who came to find fault.
The male beggar has all limbs and is tall and big, but he is lazy and only wants to beg rather than work.
Before Er Niu came to the capital, he and a few of his accomplices, taking advantage of their height and strength, always robbed old or young beggars of food that they managed to get.
This was originally a common phenomenon in the circle of beggars in the capital city, but Erniu's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. For a bite to eat, he risked his life to defeat the first young male beggar who attacked him.
However, if there is one, there are two. The young male beggar was beaten to the ground by Er Niu, but many of his accomplices stood up aggressively.
Erniu, who had just arrived for the first time, had only three younger and weaker friends than him. In order to protect these three little ones, he could only bite his teeth and fight hard.
(end of this chapter)