Royal Gold Magistrate

The two carriages drove slowly towards the outer city, almost reaching the edge of the inner city.

Guo Tianyang frowned through the car window.

After a few days of torrential rain, there will be some stagnant water in every square more or less. In fact, the water at the edge of the inner city has been neglected and the water has begun to deepen.

If you go to the outer city, the situation will be even worse.

But before entering the outer city, something worse happened, and the sky began to rain sparsely.

Guo Tianyang couldn't help feeling a little thankful that he had brought a lot of extra umbrellas.

Your Majesty will definitely get out of the car in a while, and it won't be good if you get wet by then.

Emperor Jing obviously also heard the sound of raindrops falling on the roof of the car, and glanced out the window, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, then he closed his eyes and began to fall asleep.

After arriving in the outer city, what Guo Tianyang was worried about finally happened.

The sky began to thunder, and the rain became heavier and heavier.

The seriousness of the stagnant water in the outer city is far from the understatement described in the memorial.

The stagnant water has even begun to spread over most of the wheels.

The outer city was repaired hastily, and the drainage system was not designed carefully. In addition, due to the lack of maintenance, most of the functions are still damaged. It can be said that it is dispensable in the face of such a heavy rain.

What is even more frightening now is that there are domestic garbage floating scattered on the stagnant water, and even human and animal excrement, and the stench is unstoppable for a while.

Emperor Jing slowly opened his eyes when he heard the thunder, and was stunned when he looked outside the car.

It is already a swamp country, and besides the garbage, there are also some wooden stools and other things floating on the water.

Emperor Jing looked from a distance, and felt vaguely as if he saw a piece of clothing, and ordered: "Go find someone to see what it is?"

The accompanying guards sitting outside the carriage received the order to jump out of the carriage, wading towards that position.

Not long after, he came back with the "clothes" in his hands, and said with a frustrated face, "Your Majesty...it's a child, he must have tripped over something and drowned..."

The thunder in the sky kept ringing, and Emperor Jing felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

Whose family's child is this, he should be a year or two younger than Yuan Zhao, and he just drowned like this?

Guo Tianyang was also like a thorn in his throat, no one in the palace knew Emperor Jing better than him.

With the growth of age in these years, His Majesty's heart has become softer and softer, especially when he saw a child who was about the same age as the prince drowned, he felt so uncomfortable.

The three elders in the car behind poked their heads out of the car window and saw the corpse floating in the water.

Everyone was silent, the world was already at peace, and such a tragedy happened openly in the capital.

The three couldn't help sighing in the carriage.

"The old man has often seen reports of drowning in heavy rains in the memorials these years, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes today... unexpectedly..." Zhang Dongxiang couldn't continue talking.

The words "horrible to see" stuck in his throat.

Zheng Qiao sighed: "Natural disasters are not determined by people...life and death are determined by God, this is fate."

Zhang Dongxiang suddenly blushed and became agitated: "This is not a natural disaster, it's simply the negligence of the officials! There can be no stagnant water in the palace and the nearby outer city, why not here?"

Li Yansong closed his eyes and fell asleep, thinking about it in his mind.

Tragedy has already happened, and it is meaningless to argue about it now, it is better to think of ways to solve it.

At this time, there were still some people on the street, some were holding children, some were carrying packages, perhaps their houses had collapsed and they were trying to find a way out.

The more the car travels toward the outer city, the more difficult it is to go, and it has become a slow speed now.

The coachman didn't dare to speed up. If there was a big rock or a big hole underneath, the whole carriage might overturn.

Emperor Jing couldn't sit still anymore, and asked, "How far is Dengjin Fang?"

Guo Tianyang hurriedly said: "Here we are, the front is, Your Majesty, why don't we find a place to rest when we get to the square, and we will go back to the palace when the rain stops, will the prince still go today?"

"I'm not going, since I've come out today, I'll go to Dengjinfang first, and then go to Banshanfang after the water recedes."

Guo Tianyang poked his head out to look at the street, and suddenly said pleasantly: "Ah, there is a pavilion on the side of the street, Your Majesty, it is tall and big and has not been flooded, why don't you go to the pavilion to have a rest first, and the servant will send someone here Go find Lord Yan."

Emperor Jing nodded.

Then the carriage drove hard towards the direction of the pavilion, and finally reached the side of the pavilion. Emperor Jing was about to get off the carriage, but the man who had just lifted the curtain of the carriage was stunned again.

I saw that there were not many people in the pavilion, but there was a circle of common people standing beside the pavilion.

There were old people and women with children in their arms, and the frail ones were shivering from the cold.

Emperor Jing stood on the carriage and shouted to the crowd: "Why don't you go into the pavilion! There are still many places inside!"

A group of honest people looked at this luxuriously dressed man and shook their heads one after another, then all moved closer to try to be warmer.

Emperor Jing was at a loss for words for a while, looking at the pavilion and at the people, he could walk directly to the pavilion by taking one step from the carriage.

Instead, Emperor Jing jumped directly into the water, swam and walked towards the people, and the guards followed.

Guo Tianyang and the three elders jumped into the water after seeing the panic, and followed the emperor.

Walking to the side of the circle of people, he shouted: "Why don't you go to the pavilion to shelter from the rain? Why are you standing in the water when it's windy and rainy here!"

An old man hurriedly pulled his sleeve when he heard him yelling loudly, and said nervously: "Stop shouting! Stop shouting! That pavilion is not for us to stay in. Don't you know that Master Juren is inside?"

"This..." Emperor Jing was at a loss for words for a moment, and his mind was a little lost.

What is this nonsense?If people stand in the pavilion, the common people cannot enter the pavilion?

The woman standing in the water tried her best to lower her head, for fear that the child in her arms would be splashed by the rain, but no matter how she could stop it, even she and the child were completely soaked.

The child cried loudly in the woman's arms, and the woman could only comfort her in a low voice with tears in her eyes.

Emperor Jing suddenly became angry!Turn around and walk towards the pavilion.

Guo Tianyang hurriedly ran back to the carriage and brought two umbrellas to the crowd, the old man took the umbrellas and helped the woman fight.

Emperor Jing walked to the pavilion full of anger, and before he went up, a man dressed as a guard appeared in front of him.

"You can't go up, it's full."

Emperor Jing turned his head and looked into the pavilion, where there were a few young men in brocade clothes, drinking tea leisurely.

Someone felt his gaze, smiled dismissively, and then drank tea.

Emperor Jing said with a blank expression: "It's not full. I see so many people crowded here that they can stand up. Where is it full?"

The guard folded his arms and said sarcastically: "Hehe, I said that it will be full when it is full! Is this a place for you to stand? Who are you?"

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