After the Anxi Army regained Chang'an, Gu Qing never saw Princess Wanchun again.

She was a princess after all, and no one cared about her during the war. On Li Longji's escape to Shu, several princes and princesses were lost. No matter how favored Wanchun was, Li Longji, who was running for his life in a panic, could not care about her.

After the recapture of Chang'an, the Tang court was re-established, all etiquette and rules were restored, and the princess returned to her original class and treatment. Since she was not married, she still lived in Xingqing Palace after returning to Chang'an.

As soon as he entered the palace, the palace was as deep as the sea. Gu Qing recalled that it had indeed been a long time since he had seen Princess Wanchun. The last time they met, the two broke up on bad terms. Princess Wanchun ran away sadly, and then the Battle of Tongguan began. Gu Qing

He had no time to comfort her at all. Occasionally he would think of her inadvertently during his free time, just treating her as a passer-by in his life. This passer-by had already passed him by.

He didn't expect to meet her again on the streets of Chang'an today, which really surprised Gu Qing.

What's even more surprising is Wan Chun's dress today.

Her clothes are very ordinary, and she looks like a typical folk woman. The fabrics and styles are very ordinary. A colorful headscarf wraps her cloud-like hair. The Xiaojiabiyu-like dress cannot hide her delicate and beautiful face.

After Gu Qing saw her, he subconsciously pinched her face, her nose and chin.

He always had a very dreamy feeling. The woman in front of him didn't look like a princess at all. She seemed to be born into an ordinary girl. Like all ordinary girls, she was hardworking and capable, frugal and took care of the family. She had no ambitions for the future, but she had a poetic personality.

Beautiful little longing.

Gu Qing looked at her in disbelief. The beautiful Wanchun in front of him looked much more pleasing to the eye than the princess. Well, the more he looked at her, the more pleasing he looked. He always felt that she was not a princess, but Wanchun's twin sister. Due to her bizarre life experience,

He was abandoned by Li Longji and grew up among the people. Although his appearance is still the same, his temperament is completely different.

Wan Chun was so pinched by Gu Qing that she felt flustered and short of breath. She was ashamed and angry. She glared at him hard. She didn't look like a princess and looked very cute with her angry look.

"Your father doesn't want you anymore? So you live among the people and the princess turns into a frog?" Gu Qing asked curiously.

"Your father doesn't want you anymore!" Wan Chun blurted out.

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Wan Chun realized that she had made a mistake. She had known about Gu Qing's life experience for a long time. Gu Qing's parents left him after abandoning him in Shiqiao Village. Strictly speaking, this sentence was exactly right.

So Wan Chun had a look of shame on his face and said calmly: "I..."

Gu Qing's expression did not change, and he said nonchalantly: "I find you more pleasing to the eye today, so I decided to forgive you."

Wan Chun snorted and said, "I need your forgiveness?"

Gu Qing looked at her again, smiled and said, "Are you planning to come to the private sector to experience life like you are today?"

"What does 'experience life' mean?" Wanchun looked down at his clothes and said, "I... just want to do something for the refugees outside the city. They are so pitiful. I... I have given up all my belongings."

I sent them all out, but it was still far from enough. I heard that the Anxi Army held some kind of 'charity fundraiser' in the city, so I thought about raising some money and food for the refugees."

Gu Qing praised: "Yes, she is caring, and she finally looks like a princess."

Wan Chun asked doubtfully: "What is the 'what a princess should look like'?"

"Princess, others can treat you as a golden person, but you can't really think of yourself as a golden person. As a noble of the Tian family, the princess also has to take on many responsibilities, such as pouring wine for guests, ordering songs, delivering fruit plates, changing ashtrays, etc.

…”

Wan Chun was stunned: “…………”

"No, I'm confused. What I mean is that a princess has very heavy responsibilities. Gorgeous palace clothes, luxurious jewelry and ceremonial guards. These are not what a princess looks like. A princess should love your father as much as she cares for her family.

The emperor and the people under his brother's rule care about their sufferings, help them escape from poverty, and care about their food and clothing. Such a princess, even if she only wears a coarse hairpin skirt and has a bare face, she is the most beautiful woman in the world."

Wan Chun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "Really? I am really the most beautiful woman in the world?"

"If you care more about your people than your own food, clothing, and honors, then yes, you will be the most beautiful woman in the world. The people of the Tang Dynasty will respect you extremely, and a hundred years later, you will be singled out in the history books.

I will tell future generations a thousand years later that there was once a princess in the Tang Dynasty who was respected by the whole world. She looked very embarrassed when she was busy serving her people, but she was beautiful."

Wan Chun subconsciously stroked his hair and temples, then rolled his eyes at him and hummed cutely: "Is that rare? I can do whatever I want, and I don't care what others think of me."

Gu Qing smiled bitterly, okay, the most beautiful princess has been offline, and that arrogant princess is back again.

Wan Chun's beautiful eyes were filled with affection as she stared at Gu Qing and said, "Chang'an has been recovered, have the Zhang sisters also returned?"

"came back."

"Are you... getting married?"

"It's almost time. After I finish my current affairs, I plan to find a good day to go to Zhangjia to do some shopping."

Wan Chun lowered his eyebrows, a hint of sadness flashed through his eyes, and said softly: "It's great that they...were not born into an emperor's family."

"She is who she is, and it has nothing to do with whether she was born into an imperial family or not."

Relatively silent for a long time.

Gu Qing sighed and said, "I'm leaving."

Wan Chun lowered his head and hummed softly.

Gu Qing suddenly looked back at her and said, "By the way, you look more beautiful today than ever before."

Wanchun's eyes suddenly became bright, like a candle suddenly lit in a dark world.

"Yeah?"

"Yes, it is the most beautiful when you scream for the refugees with all your strength." Gu Qing smiled at her and said: "Keep it up, every bit of effort you put in for them will be rewarded."

A smile broke out on Wan Chun's face, and then he raised his nostrils proudly and hummed: "I don't care."

Gu Qing laughed, turned and left.

Staring at Gu Qing's back and watching him disappear into the sea of ​​people, Wan Chun's eyes turned red, then he raised his head and held back the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes.

The palace maid on the side, Nu'e, came over and sighed helplessly, saying: "Your Highness, sincerity leads to gold and stone. If you want to get into Mr. Gu's heart, Your Highness must not act like a princess in front of him. He just said that Your Highness

She looks very beautiful today. Obviously, what Mr. Gu likes is not the way His Highness is dressed, but the way he does his best for the refugees. The princess might as well try to figure out what Mr. Gu is thinking."

Wan Chun pursed his lips, shook his head and said: "If I do these things to help refugees just to please him, it will violate my original intention of doing this. What I do is only based on my heart, not to please anyone.

Neither can Gu Qing."

I looked into the box and saw that it was already half full.

Wanchun's beauty finally had some effect. Passers-by on Chang'an Street saw this beautiful woman shouting for donations. Those who had some spare money were willing to donate a few or dozens of coins. After a whole day, they gained a lot.

Not too small.

But this amount of money is still far from enough.

Wan Chun blinked his eyes and said to Fu'e: "Send a few maids from the palace to stand here and call on passers-by to collect donations. I will go visit the princes and princesses at their houses. After all, everyone has to show their respect for our Li family.

For a moment, we cannot turn a blind eye to the poor refugees."

After saying that, Wanchun turned around and left.

…………

The snow in Chang'an City is getting heavier.

In the bitingly cold weather, the living conditions of the refugees became increasingly worrying. Bodies were carried out and buried every day. Gu Qing ordered the soldiers of the Anxi Army to collect firewood nearby and send it to the refugee camps to keep them warm. Dozens of porridge shacks were also built.

, providing hot porridge to the refugees.

Feeding and clothing tens of thousands of people is a very heavy responsibility. Gu Qing tried his best, but he could only ensure the refugees' basic living environment and try not to let them freeze to death and starve to death.

A few days later, a batch of food for the refugees was finally obtained through various channels. Among them were the harvests from various official warehouses in Chang'an led by Li Siye and the money and food collected from the streets of Chang'an City.

After Gu Qing praised her for being beautiful, Princess Wanchun went crazy for some reason. She set her sights on the princes, princesses and dignitaries of Chang'an City. She took turns visiting her every day. When they met, she would ask for money or food, and if they didn't give, she would give them a cold face.

They were scolded for being shameless and immoral, turning a blind eye to the suffering of the people, being unworthy of being powerful, etc. The more they were scolded, the uglier they became.

The dignitaries in Chang'an City seemed not to know Wan Chun and treated her like a snake or a scorpion.

What about the nightclub queen who loved nightclubs, singing, dancing and drinking? Why has she become so aggressive now?

The image has changed and the persona has collapsed, but Wanchun's gains are really not small. In the past few days, he has obtained a lot of money and food from the powerful people in Chang'an City.

In the prosperous times, there was a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the world's resources were gradually concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. Wanchun saw the essence of this society at a glance, and went directly to attack these few people, and she actually got two thousand shi of food.

The food was delivered to the Anxi Army Camp, and Gu Qing let out a long sigh of relief.

Huangfu Sisi and Zhang Huaiyu went to the south to get food but there was no news yet. Unexpectedly, it was Wanchun who solved his urgent problem.

Gu Qing finally looked at that arrogant princess with admiration.

A woman who has never experienced wind and rain and has only grown up in a greenhouse. Although she is just a delicate peony, she has the courage to face the wind and rain.

A batch of food was temporarily allocated from the camp, plus the official warehouse robbed by Li Siye, the money raised from Chang'an City, and the food obtained by Wanchun, this batch of food can probably last for a while.

So Gu Qing ordered an emergency transfer of food to the refugee camp outside the city.

The food crisis was temporarily resolved, but it was still not enough. He didn't know when the next batch of food would be available. Gu Qing could only order two meals of rice porridge for the refugees every day, and spent money to buy a batch of meat, radishes, lotus roots, etc. from merchants.

The vegetables are minced and mixed into the porridge, trying to ensure that the refugees can not only fill their stomachs but also have a balanced nutrition.

For these refugees, Gu Qing has been extremely busy these days, both mentally and physically. He has never been so hard as commanding a battle.

What chilled Gu Qing was that the monarchs and ministers in the court had no reaction at all.

I don't know whether it was because of Li Heng's resistance, but the court officials were aware of Li Heng's mood and kept silent on the matter of relieving the refugees.

As the emperor, what Li Heng was opposed to was not the relief of refugees, but Gu Qing's monopoly of power.

This kind of contradiction cannot be reconciled. Someone has to do the work. Gu Qing communicated with Li Heng at the beginning, and Li Heng's attitude was neither salty nor indifferent, and his behavior was very negative. Gu Qing really didn't dare to joke with the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, so

He took over the task of providing food for the refugees forcefully.

As a result, Li Heng felt unhappy.

The human heart cannot be scrutinized. If you peel off the surface and look at the essence, the more you look at it, the more chilling you will feel.

…………

In the mid-winter afternoon, Gu Qing finally slept through the night in his mansion and didn't get up until evening.

After a comfortable sleep, Gu Qing stretched out and subconsciously called Huangfu Sisi. He was shocked to realize that Huangfu Sisi had left Chang'an for many days and went to the south to collect food.

There were servants and a cook in the house, but Gu Qing was not satisfied with the cook's skills, so he decided to cook himself.

Just after washing a piece of deer meat and preparing to blanch it in water to remove the smell, Han Jie came over in a hurry and said anxiously: "Master, something happened."

Gu Qing said calmly: "What's the matter?"

On a cold day, Han Jie had a layer of sweat on his forehead and said anxiously: "Nearly a hundred people died in the refugee camp outside the city."

Gu Qing's hand movements froze and he turned to look at Han Jie: "What's going on?"

"For a meal in the evening, each person had a bowl of rice porridge. The rice porridge dispensed from the two porridge pots of size C and size T on the south side of the refugee camp killed people. Nearly a hundred people died. The doctor checked it.

He was said to have died of poisoning."

Gu Qing's face suddenly turned ugly: "Is someone poisoning?"

Han Jie nodded: "Someone must have poisoned him. This person was so cruel that he actually attacked the refugees. The Yin of the Song Dynasty in Jingzhao Prefecture has rushed to the refugee camp with the bad commander to investigate."

Gu Qing said with a cold face: "Does the murderer who poisoned me have any clues? What is his purpose? Is he targeting me or the refugees?"

Han Jie sighed and said: "The case took place only an hour ago. Song Fu Yin is investigating. My father-in-law, I think this is a conspiracy. At this moment, the refugees outside the city are very angry. Many people are already clamoring for my father-in-law to come out and explain in person."

To murder refugees..."

Gu Qing sneered and said: "It seems that you are here for me, haha."

Han Jie was so angry that he stamped his feet and said angrily: "These refugees don't know what's good or bad. If it weren't for my father-in-law who was busy getting food, they would have starved to death outside the city. Now that there is a murder, it is obviously a conspiracy, but they are ungrateful."

, but I want to seek justice from the father-in-law, they deserve to starve to death!"

Gu Qing said calmly: "Before the matter is investigated clearly, there is no need to speak so harshly. Whether those clamoring people are refugees or people with ulterior motives are involved, it is hard to say now."

Han Jie whispered: "Master, what should we do now?"

"Leave the investigation to Song Gensheng, he is the governor, and this matter is his responsibility." Gu Qing said with a smile on his lips and said with a sneer: "Calm down, don't panic, nearly a hundred refugees are dead, this matter is not over yet.

, if it’s a conspiracy, it won’t stop here. If nothing else happens, there will be noise in the court in the next few days. Let’s see who jumps out first.”

Nearly a hundred refugees were poisoned to death, and the incident quickly spread throughout Chang'an City.

The case quickly escalated, and the angry voices in the refugee camp became louder and louder. Tens of thousands of refugees were secretly incited by unknown people, and they all demanded an explanation from the court for poisoning the refugees for no reason. This matter was not a good thing.

Among the many angry voices, the direction of the wind gradually became wrong.

All the voices finally pointed to Gu Qing, because Gu Qing was the person responsible for raising food. The food was poisoned, and Gu Qing could not escape the blame. Until the murderer was found, Gu Qing could only bear the blame.

Different from the many voices among the people, the court hall was surprisingly quiet.

The emperor and his ministers seemed to know nothing about this matter, and no one mentioned it at all in the daily court meetings, as if the lives and deaths of nearly a hundred refugees were not worth mentioning in court.

The wind direction became more and more strange, but Gu Qing remained unmoved.

This is obviously a conspiracy, and at the end of the conspiracy, someone will eventually jump out. Now this conspiracy is obviously not mature yet, so don't rush it, just wait for it to slowly ferment like fertilizer in a septic tank.

In the next few days, Gu Qing continued to eat and sleep as usual, and food was allocated to the refugee camp every day, which was no different from usual.

The incited refugees in the refugee camp made angry accusations against Gu Qing, but Gu Qing ignored them.

The people are ignorant. This is a fact that has to be admitted. Most of them only know how to follow blindly. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, as long as someone incites people, the people will stir up troubles and foolishly follow in condemnation and abuse.

The truth is in the hands of those with the loudest voice. There is justice in numbers, regardless of whether the person involved is innocent or not.

Is it ridiculous? Is it foolish?

More than a thousand years later, with widespread education and developed Internet information, everyone has healthy and correct universal values. However, once someone incites and fabricates fabrications, countless people still get hot-headed and join in condemning and abusing them, and innocent people fall under the curse.

I felt like crying without tears, but the truth came out later, but the innocent people still couldn't wait for an apology.

You deserve it if you get into trouble.

Gu Qing was obviously in trouble.

It was useless to explain, and it was even more useless to send troops to stop those people's mouths. All Gu Qing could do was live his life as usual every day, and let those abusers waste their saliva in vain.

A few days later, there was finally a sound in the court.

There was a supervisory censor named Chen Ping who took the lead in submitting a memorial at the censor station, impeaching Gu Qing, the governor of the Western Jiedu of the Public Security Bureau of the Shu Kingdom, for ruining the imperial authority, failing to understand the affairs of the government, and committing dereliction of duty.

The memorial described in detail the poisoning of nearly a hundred refugees in a refugee camp outside the city, and also recorded the angry public sentiment of the refugees in detail. What is interesting is that the supervisory censor intentionally or unintentionally ignored the poisoner. From his remarks,

From the above, it seems that this major case must be entirely attributed to Gu Qing's dereliction of duty.

What's even more interesting is that Li Heng became furious after seeing this memorial. In front of all the courtiers in the palace, he threw the memorial to the ground, pointed at Chen Ping's nose sternly, and scolded him for seducing the enemy and framing the hero.

After scolding, Li Heng very seriously and seriously recounted Gu Qing's achievements with the courtiers, from entering the Pass to quell the rebellion, to the Battle of Hangu Pass, the Battle of Yingshui, and finally the Battle of Tongguan, as well as the recapture of Guanzhong and Chang'an, etc.

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