Chapter 297: Benevolent Lord
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In the direction of the voice, two or three people ran over happily and shouted,
“The people from Prince Kang’s Manor just found a child.”
“The child escaped!”
The street was as noisy as a pot of boiling water. Passersby spontaneously passed on the good news.
Although he didn’t know how the other children were doing, at least now it was a good sign.
At the end of the street, a thin man in green rushed out of an alley with a girl in a blue floral jacket. The man stumbled and staggered.
Not far behind him were two tall and strong guards with long sabers at their waists, in a guard posture.
“My Lady, isn’t this Scholar Zhang just now?” Juan Bi looked out of the window and squinted at the scholar in green, who was at least 80 to 90 feet away from them.
The person who rushed out with the child was indeed Scholar Zhang.
At this moment, Scholar Zhang no longer held the portrait that he treasured.
He hugged the girl tightly with both arms, his expression excited and agitated. His face was covered in tears, as if he was afraid that someone would snatch the child from his arms.
Juan Bi was a little far away. She could only vaguely see that the girl’s face was dirty and her body was covered in injuries. Her jacket was even stained with dazzling blood. The girl’s thin body was curled up uneasily in Scholar Zhang’s arms.
The two guards settled them at the tea stall and left, saying that they were going back to report to Kang Wang.
The enthusiastic commoners around them hurriedly surrounded Scholar Zhang and his daughter. Some asked them to go to the tea stall on the street and sit down, some brought tea, some volunteered to run to the nearby medical center to get a doctor, and some rushed forward and asked the girl, ‘Young lady, have you seen my child? He has a big mole on his right eyebrow. ‘
“And my grandson. He has a round head and is easy to recognize!” “My daughter has a birthmark on the back of her right hand...” Those who had lost their children were all burning with anxiety. They wished they could pry open the girl’s mouth and make her tell them everything she knew.
A group of people surrounded Scholar Zhang and his daughter, forming an invisible pressure.
The girl shivered like a frightened rabbit and buried her face in her father’s chest, unable to speak.
Scholar Zhang frowned, his face filled with anger. His eyes were burning with anger as he gritted his teeth and said, ‘My daughter just escaped from the palace!”
“The eldest princess in the palace is seriously ill and needs a child’s heart blood to treat her illness.’
“They kidnapped many children and brought them into the palace. My daughter had to go through all kinds of hardships to escape. Fortunately, the guards of Prince Kang’s Manor found her in time.”
The more Scholar Zhang spoke, the more afraid he became. His arms that were hugging his daughter kept trembling, and his face was still pale.
If not for the fact that Kang Wang’s guards had found his daughter in time, how far could a weak child like her escape? She would have long been captured by those evil people in the palace.
Scholar Zhang’s words were like a thunderclap that exploded in the sky, shaking everyone until their bodies trembled and their eyes widened in disbelief.
“Shangqing Spiritual Master...” The girl in Scholar Zhang’s arms raised her head, trembling. Her voice was trembling. “It’s Shangqing Spiritual Master.” The girl’s face was as pale as paper as she wailed.
Everyone was even more shocked and couldn’t help but gasp. Their expressions changed.
The person who treated the Eldest Princess and refined the Heart Pill for her was actually Shangqing Spiritual Master!
In other words, was the matter of taking the child’s heart blood true?! Juan Bi was also shocked when she heard this. She pointed at her heart and said to Gu Yanfei, “Miss, could this heart blood be...”
“Opening a hole in her heart and getting a bowl of hot blood,” Gu Yanfei said calmly. She even pretended to cut Juan Bi’s heart.
Juan Bi’s eyes widened, and the color drained from her face. ‘Then wouldn’t taking the blood of the heart kill those children?”
Gu Yanfei didn’t say anything else and slowly drank her tea.
Juan Bi felt a chill in her heart.
In the tea shed below, an old man muttered, ‘The Emperor is a benevolent ruler and has always been benevolent to his subordinates.”
“That’s impossible!”
There were also a few people around who frowned or stroked their beards with hesitation.
To Scholar Zhang, who was filled with righteous indignation, this doubt was like someone pointing at his nose and saying that he was spouting nonsense.
Scholar Zhang felt that he had been greatly insulted. His slightly sallow face was flushed red as he said angrily, “Everything I said is true! If I’m lying, I’ll be struck by lightning! ‘
When Scholar Zhang said this, most people believed him, even if they had a trace of doubt before.
Those who had lost their children knelt on the ground in shock. Some wailed as if they had lost their parents, some pounded the ground repeatedly with sorrowful expressions, and some shouted their children’s names in a daze.
If their child was really captured to refine pills for the Eldest Princess, what else could they do? They couldn’t rush to the palace to ask for their children back.
The commoners present were all infected by this sadness. Just think about it, if their children were captured by the nobles in the palace and had their heart blood dug out, they would also feel heartache, resentment, and unwillingness.
The street was getting noisier and noisier.
A middle-aged woman who was crying on the ground suddenly wiped her tears and got up from the ground. She said angrily, “No, I’m going to find my Shuan Zi. That’s the only child I’ve finally given birth to after being pregnant for ten months.”
“I’ll beg the Emperor. Even if I have to pay with my life for my Shuan Zi’s life!”
When she said that, everyone couldn’t help but look touched.
She really had the heart of a parent.
Scholar Zhang felt the same. In order to find his daughter, he was willing to sacrifice his life.
There was actually such lawlessness under the Emperor’s feet!
Scholar Zhang gritted his teeth and said, “I’ll go to the right gate of Chang’an to lodge a complaint. I want to ask the Emperor if all the other children deserve to die to save the Eldest Princess. Do we, the children of commoners, deserve to be medicine catalysts for nobles?!”
“I’m going to beat the drums!”
“Nan Nan, I’ll bring you along to beat the drum and seek justice for you!”
Emperor Taizu had set up a drum at the right gate of Chang’an. Anyone who had been wronged could strike and hear the drum. However, those who struck the drum had to be punished with 30 sticks before this case could be accepted and heard.
Scholar Zhang looked at his daughter with red eyes, his chest surging with anger.
The girl grabbed Scholar Zhang’s lapel tightly and sobbed non-stop. Her tears drenched her father’s lapel.
The middle-aged woman wiped her tears with her sleeve again and said firmly, “I’ll go with you!”
Scholar Zhang stood up with his petite and disheveled daughter in his arms and strode in the direction of the palace with an indomitable determination.
The commoners looked at each other in confusion.
Some people hesitated, some were angry, some were at a loss, and more chased after Scholar Zhang...