Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 216

The old man said with guilt, “I am ashamed. I have been lying down for a long time, and I have thought about it for a long time. I don’t know how to help Your Majesty to win the hearts of the people. I just thought of a way that can be used as a last resort.”

“How?”

“Desperate measures for desperate situations,” Old Master Wen said with difficulty.

The two sentences did not match his usual thoughts, but Emperor Longqing immediately understood and smiled, “The old man is really on my side, and has the same thoughts as me!”

Old Master Wen closed his eyes, thinking that the rebel was right. Emperor Longqing was really going to do something that was worse to pigs and dogs! (vile)

Fortunately, he didn’t take the fake death drug.

At that time, he planned to take it, but later after hearing that Gu Yin was also involved, he stopped. He really regarded that girl as his granddaughter, and he was also the one who told Gu Yin to stay still in the town. How could he see her involved?

Thinking that he had to get her out anyway, the old man hesitated, and the assassination of Emperor Longqing later gave him no chance to take Gu Yin out, so he dragged the matter and didn’t take the medicine.

If there was no hesitation, he would be a dead person, and no one could contain Emperor Longqing.

“But the old minister also wants to ask Your Majesty for grace. After all, Hanshan Town is the old minister’s hometown. Can we change it?”

Emperor Longqing rubbed his chin, and asked someone to get the map.

Hanshan Town was the largest town in that county, so it was naturally the best choice for a slaughtered town to frame the rebels. He had already quietly arranged it before, thinking he would hide it from Old Master Wen. But if he did it behind his back, he could naturally guess that it was very likely that the friendship between the monarch and his minister would be broken.

And Old Master Wen finally gave him the verdict that he would help him recover his country, and he still wanted to use his way so it was not impossible to give him face. Anyway, in his opinion, which town to slaughter and which clothes to wear were no different. They were small matters that would not affect the overall situation.

“Then let’s choose Chunshui Town,” Emperor Longqing took it easy and pointed to the town to which the hilltop they were currently located belonged to.

“Your Majesty is magnanimous!” Old Master Wen endured his disgust and thanked him.

Since that day, Old Master Wen had “recovered” and was by Emperor Longqing’s side every day.

Three days later, Gu Yin found that there were more people on the mountain – also heard from the guards who came to eat, saying that some of them were assigned to perform tasks before, so their patrolling was so hard, but now they could finally relax.

When the young man came to help in the kitchen, he also brought good news, saying that the elite guards around Hanshan Town had withdrawn to the mountain.

Gu Yin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and her tears kept streaming down unconsciously. She still had pot ashes on her face, and there were two white marks where the tears rolled.

The young man couldn’t help smiling, and then reached out to help her wipe it, but before touching her face, he retracted his hand.

Gu Yin took out a small mirror and took a look, and she couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

When Eunuch Shangshan came to spread the word, he saw them standing opposite each other, both of them facing the door. If one didn’t look at their appearance, but just looked at their body shape, they were a well matched couple.

The young man stepped forward to salute him, just to completely block the petite Gu Yin behind. She immediately touched and smeared the ashes of the pot on her face.

“Old Master Wen asked for you, saying that the freshly baked slate grilled last time was very good, and let you go to bake it again.”

After a “suggestion”, Old Master Wen said something else against his will. He seemed to be the first person under Emperor Longqing, who had no one around him – it was ironic to say that in the past, he was dedicated to the country, the people and the Emperor, and ended up like that. And when he had to speak some false remarks against his conscience, that made Emperor Longqing treat him more affectionately.

After his status had risen, Emperor Longqing was no longer restrained by him. Of course, he still couldn’t leave the bandit village at will, but summoning a cook and a deaf and dumb helper to cook in person was not worth mentioning. The palace servants had learned from the past, and they would not bother Emperor Longqing with such trivial matters.

That time, no one was watching the room every step of the way, and they all retreated to the door consciously.

At the same time as the chopping wood sounded, the old man said first, “Your news is right, I have already tried to make that person let go of Hanshan Town… But he turned his head and pointed at Chunshui Town.”

Emperor Longqing was stubborn. Now that the old man followed him, and he got his good face, but he couldn’t persuade him to change his mind – if he really listened to the persuasion of the old man, he would have been a good Emperor, let alone fall to the end with subjugation of the country.

“In a few days, he will let people go down the mountain to buy food in Hanshan Town,” the old man told them another piece of news.

Emperor Longqing and his party fled in a hurry, and the food they brought was naturally not enough.

The purchase of food that time also indicated that the guards were about to move forward, and they were about to destroy Chunshui Town at the foot of the mountain.

After telling the news, both Old Master Wen and Gu Yin’s eyes fell on the young man.