He's just a stand-in

It took three days and three nights to travel by carriage from the capital to Changbei, but fortunately Liu Huaiqiu felt tired from riding the carriage, so he asked Gu Lichuan to take him to the horse again, and it didn't feel too tiring.

There is actually a kind of joy of going out to play.

Perhaps because of Gu Lichuan's reputation, no bandit dared to hijack the car, and he arrived in Changbei County safely all the way.

This kind of joy lasted until they entered the border of Changbei, Liu Huaiqiu couldn't be happy anymore.

The border of Changbei is full of refugees who have fled, and some children are dying in the arms of their parents.

The farther you went to Changbei County, the more oppressive the atmosphere became. Liu Huaiqiu opened the curtain and took a few glances, but couldn't stand it any longer.

"What's wrong? Feeling sad?" Gu Lichuan hugged Liu Huaiqiu's shoulder to comfort him, "Natural and man-made disasters, there's nothing we can do about it, aren't we here to help the disaster? Don't feel bad. In a few days, the imperial court will allocate funds, although It may not be possible for these refugees to live the life they used to in the near future, but they should not starve to death."

Liu Huaiqiu let Gu Lichuan hug him without saying a word, and there was silence in the carriage.

Suddenly, the carriage shook and stopped, and there was a lot of noise outside, and there were even heart-piercing cries of children.

Liu Huaiqiu and Gu Lichuan lifted their spirits instantly.

"You just sit in the carriage and don't move, I'll go out and have a look." Gu Lichuan pressed Liu Huaiqiu's body, got up and walked out.

Seeing the carriage carrying food, many refugees rushed over without hesitation, surrounded the carriage, and shouted to the officials to save them.

However, those soldiers did not dare to chase them away, so they could only try their best to prevent those refugees from colliding with Gu Lichuan, but this way the carriage could not move forward for a long time.

After Gu Lichuan understood the situation, he immediately lowered his face and shouted to the soldiers: "If anyone dares to step forward, stab them to death."

The refugee was stunned when he heard this, and just about to shout, Gu Lichuan said again: "This king was sent by the imperial court to help the disaster, and all the food in the carriage behind him belongs to you."

"It's just that if you keep surrounding the carriage so that I can't reach Changbei County and see the county magistrate, none of you will be able to eat a single grain of rice, and you'll all be waiting to die of starvation."

"You give way to this king as soon as possible, so that this king can reach Changbei as soon as possible, the food can be distributed as soon as possible, and your children will not starve to death because of your stupidity."

When the refugees heard Gu Lichuan's words, they froze for a moment.

Gu Lichuan had a reputation for being cruel by nature, even if the refugees dared to make trouble, they were all scared back in front of Gu Lichuan.

Those refugees, you look at me, I look at you, all retreated.

Just when the carriage was able to pass normally, a woman holding a child suddenly knelt down in front of the carriage, crying bitterly: "My lord, please save my child, the pariah is not afraid of being stabbed to death, the pariah only begs you Can save my child."

"He hasn't eaten for several days, and he's about to starve to death. Even if he just gives me a little alms, I only have this one child."

Hearing that refugee's cry made people feel heartbroken. All of a sudden, those refugees who had just stopped all knelt down again, and all of them burst into tears.

"My lord, please save us."

"My lord..."

……

Liu Huaiqiu couldn't sit still in the carriage, and walked out directly.

"Qiuqiu?" Seeing Liu Huaiqiu frowned, Gu Lichuan stretched out his hand to push Liu Huaiqiu back into the carriage, "Go back to the carriage first, I'll take care of it right away."

"I won't go." Liu Huaiqiu pushed against Gu Lichuan, arguing with Gu Lichuan: "I heard it just now, the other refugees can leave it alone, but that child is still young, we still have some snacks in the car, I'll go get them give him."

When the refugees heard that Liu Huaiqiu was going to get some snacks, they all cheered, "Thank you, Mr. Guan."

"Thank you, sir."

……

When Gu Lichuan saw this scene, his face turned cold, and he glared at Liu Huaiqiu angrily and said, "No! You just stay in the carriage honestly. If you dare to mess around, I will throw you down immediately!"

Then he said to the soldiers who stopped the refugees: "Don't understand what I said? If you dare to make trouble again, I will stab you to death."

After finishing speaking, he directly pushed Liu Huaiqiu into the carriage.

"Gu Lichuan! Let me go! You have no heart!"

Liu Huaiqiu was held hostage by Gu Lichuan, unable to move at all, he could only listen to the heart-piercing cries of refugees outside the carriage and the indifferent scolding of soldiers.

Liu Huaiqiu blushed immediately, all the previous changes towards Gu Lichuan disappeared at this moment.

He glared at Gu Lichuan and said angrily: "Gu Lichuan, I really misunderstood you, you really have no sympathy, you are a cold-blooded animal, I hate you!"

"A child, he's just a child, you don't even want to give up a little snack!"

"Why? Isn't he a citizen of this world? Aren't they all your people? Why are you so cruel?"

"Doesn't your conscience hurt?"

As Liu Huaiqiu spoke, his voice was trembling.

Gu Lichuan didn't speak, and let Liu Huaiqiu scold him.

The carriage has started again, and the heart-piercing cries of the refugees are getting farther and farther away.

Liu Huaiqiu didn't look to see what happened to those refugees, whether they were actually stabbed to death by Gu Lichuan's order.

There is no way to see it.

But he knew that as long as Gu Lichuan dared to say it, he could really do this kind of thing.

Angrily, Liu Huaiqiu directly lowered his head, and bit down on Gu Lichuan's arm with all his strength.

When Liu Huaiqiu's teeth pierced into Gu Lichuan's flesh, Gu Lichuan didn't even move his eyelids, allowing Liu Huaiqiu to vent.

It wasn't until the salty taste seeped into Liu Huaiqiu's mouth that Liu Huaiqiu raised his head belatedly.

The anger in Liu Huaiqiu's heart had already been vented, and he turned his face away resentfully, and stopped looking at Gu Lichuan.

The blood on Gu Lichuan's arm was still oozing out, but Gu Lichuan didn't care.

He glanced at the sulking Liu Huaiqiu, and said, "Are you still angry?"

Liu Huaiqiu didn't speak.

"I know you hate me now for being lacking in sympathy. You feel that I am indifferent by nature and regard human life as a straw. From the very beginning when you came to the mansion, you told this king."

"I never thought of changing your mind about me, because you are right, this king is the kind of person you said."

Liu Huaiqiu snorted coldly, the disgust towards Gu Lichuan in his eyes became more obvious.

Gu Lichuan continued: "But today you did something wrong."

When Liu Huaiqiu heard Gu Lichuan's words, he quickly turned his head and said angrily, "What did I do wrong? I wanted to save someone, so was I wrong?"

"It seems that in the eyes of the prince, it is wrong to want to save people. Heh, I and the prince really do not agree with each other. When we return to the mansion, the prince will let me go back."

Gu Lichuan didn't answer Liu Huaiqiu's words, sighed softly, and continued: "Of course you are right in saving people, but you can't say in front of so many refugees that you want to give that child some snacks."

"There are so many refugees, we only have a little snack, where can we get it?"

"You only gave that child, what do you let other refugees do?"

"That child is human, aren't other refugees?"

"If I really asked you to teach the dim sum to that child, I'm afraid that the dim sum would have been snatched by those refugees before it reached the child's mouth."

"A dispute ensued. There were so many people fighting each other for a bite of food. Let alone whether the last snack could go to the stomachs of those refugees. When the dispute broke out and a trampling incident occurred, how many people would there be?" Die in this trampling."

"I asked the soldiers to drive those refugees away in order to reach Changbei as soon as possible, and let the Changbei county magistrate distribute the relief food, so as to save more people's lives."

Gu Lichuan earnestly explained what he did just now is similar to Liu Huaiqiu's explanation.

However, Liu Huaiqiu couldn't listen to it, he had already preconceived that Gu Li Chuan had no sympathy, and completely thought that Gu Li Chuan was just making excuses.

Gu Lichuan saw that Liu Huaiqiu didn't move and didn't speak anymore, so he turned his head and picked up the book and read it seriously.

The wound on Gu Lichuan's arm bitten by Liu Huaiqiu has stopped bleeding.

Liu Huaiqiu leaned against the car window and fell asleep.

The atmosphere in the carriage suddenly became extremely heavy.

The carriage was still going on, the more it went to the city, the more depressed it became, Liu Huaiqiu had long since lost the courage to lift the curtain to look.

An hour later, the carriage finally stopped.

"My lord, we're here." A soldier's voice came from outside the carriage, Gu Lichuan glanced at Liu Huaiqiu, put down his book, and walked out.

The county magistrate of Changbei has been waiting outside the carriage for a long time. After seeing Gu Lichuan and dozens of carts of grain, he was so excited that he was about to cry, "I finally hoped for the prince to come. Changbei is saved."

Just as Gu Lichuan was about to speak, Liu Huaiqiu suddenly got out of the carriage and said coldly: "The magistrate, don't be so excited, your prince is not as kind as you think."

"If it wasn't for the emperor, he wouldn't have come to save these people. He wished that all these people would die."

The county magistrate looked up at Liu Huaiqiu in astonishment, not daring to speak.

Gu Lichuan showed no expression. He jumped on the carriage and said to the county magistrate, "I heard that there is a temple in Changbei, right? You order people to build more sheds, hire people to cook porridge, and distribute all the porridge."

"The temple has also started to take action, and all the people must be given porridge today."

The county magistrate quickly nodded and agreed, "Hey, good, good, I will do it now."

Then he began to order the gates of the yamen to move the food, and the soldiers brought by Gu Lichuan were also busy.

Gu Lichuan stood there watching those soldiers busy, Liu Huaiqiu glared at Gu Lichuan, wanting to get off the carriage.

Gu Lichuan saw it, and wanted to step forward to hug Liu Huaiqiu, but Liu Huaiqiu turned sideways to avoid Gu Lichuan's extended hand, and jumped down directly.

It's impossible for him to be a man who can't even get out of the carriage. In the early stage, he deliberately let Gu Lichuan hug him in order to avoid Gu Lichuan's misunderstanding. Now that Gu Lichuan touches him, he feels disgusted.

Seeing Liu Huaiqiu's movements, Gu Lichuan didn't speak, but withdrew his hand and stared at Liu Huaiqiu at the side.

After the county magistrate of Changbei finished his work, he walked up to Gu Lichuan again, and said courteously: "The imperial envoy's mansion has been cleaned up, and the prince can go there now."

"It's just that I don't know that this lord is coming, and I haven't had time for this minister to arrange a residence. I need to trouble this lord to wait a little longer and let the servants clean a room and come out."

"No, he lives with me."