"Several carts of steamed buns?"
Yu Zhu's eyes widened like copper bells. She suspected that the guard had misheard.
Although she knew that her young lady hadn't eaten or drunk anything since morning, she couldn't eat that much!
Did the Prince of Xian have a stomach as big as an ox?!
Seeing the same shocked expression on Yu Zhu's face as his own, Zhan Feng gritted his teeth. He thought that his master must have done this because of that woman!
It was that woman who had somehow bewitched his master and assigned him such a difficult task!
Zhan Feng looked aggrieved, but he also knew that he didn't have much time. He said to Yu Zhu,
"Do you want to come and help?"
Although she was a woman, at least she could be an extra pair of hands.
Yu Zhu looked around. Thinking that she was alone at the moment, she nodded.
Anyway, her young lady had been taken away by the Prince of Xian and she couldn't find her. Instead, she might as well follow the guard so that she could meet her young lady.
"Then stop dawdling!"
After Zhan Feng said that, before Yu Zhu could react, he grabbed her wrist and rushed downstairs at full speed.
"Who goes there!"
Qi Rong had just landed on the city wall with Yun Xi in his arms when the soldiers immediately drew their long knives and stood on guard.
"Ah!"
Seeing the glinting long knives right in front of her eyes, Yun Xi suddenly remembered the killed refugees and shrank into Qi Rong's arms.
"You dogs, see who I am!"
Qi Rong kicked out with his long leg and immediately knocked the weapons out of two soldiers' hands. Sensing the situation here, the city - guarding general immediately surrounded them. After seeing Qi Rong's face clearly, his eyes suddenly tightened and he scolded the soldiers to put away their long knives.
"Prince of Xian, what brings you here?"
Since the Prince of Huai was suppressed by the emperor, Qi Rong had become a favorite in the emperor's eyes. All the officials in the capital were kind and respectful to Qi Rong and didn't dare to neglect him.
However, the Crown Prince had just left in a fit of anger, and then the Prince of Xian came. The city - guarding general had to take it seriously.
If he offended this god of evil again, he might not only lose his official position but also his head!
Looking down at the general's obsequious expression, Qi Rong's face was cold. He glanced at the corpses still hanging on the city wall with a harsh look and sneered,
"I see it's quite lively at the city gate today. Your people really showed off! They dared to slaughter the unarmed victims in public and even hang the corpses on the city wall."
Looking at Yun Xi who was still trembling in his arms, Qi Rong gently patted her back and suddenly roared in a cold voice,
"Are you afraid that you'll live too long and want to see the King of Hell earlier?!"
As soon as Qi Rong said this, the general's face turned pale. He stammered three "no"s in a row and quickly ordered his subordinates to take down the refugees hanging on the city wall.
He desperately tried to excuse himself to Qi Rong,
"Prince of Xian, I was just following orders. I had no choice!
If these refugees enter the imperial city, they will surely cause panic among the people in the city. If they start burning, killing and looting for a bite of food, the consequences will be endless! Just now, the Crown Prince ordered me to isolate the refugees outside the city and not let them in."
The general exaggerated deliberately and glossed over the truth. He regarded the refugees as snakes, ants and stink bugs.
He just wanted to isolate them roughly outside the city and never thought about how to really solve the plight of these refugees.
Yun Xi poked her head out of Qi Rong's arms. Seeing the sallow - faced and emaciated faces outside the city gate, their eyes fixed on the city with a mixture of hope and despair. There were many women, children and infants among them. Their helpless looks made her heart ache.
"Qi Rong, what should we do?"
Thinking that she had always lived a life of plenty and wore gorgeous clothes, when had she ever suffered such hardships?
However, seeing this purgatory - like scene with her own eyes, she didn't know how to help them for a moment.
Since they didn't know the situation of the refugees outside and hadn't confirmed whether they had the plague, no one could let them into the city. Moreover, they should avoid contact as much as possible.
Only in this way could they cut off the spread of the plague and reduce the deaths of the people in the city.
Looking at the worry in Yun Xi's eyes, Qi Rong wrapped his robe around her and pinched her serious cheek,
"Don't worry. Later you just need to fill your own stomach."
Yun Xi was stunned. She punched Qi Rong in the chest angrily, pushed him away from her and turned around, not wanting to look at him anymore.
Qi Rong didn't care. He raised his voice and ordered the general,
"Now you go and prepare a table and two chairs immediately. I'm going to dine on this city wall."
The general looked stunned when he heard this. He couldn't help looking at Yun Xi, but Qi Rong blocked his sight and shouted coldly,
"Are you deaf? Do you want me to cut your ears off myself?"
Feeling the coldness in Qi Rong's eyes, the general trembled and immediately said,
"Yes, I'll go and prepare right away!"
After a while, there was not only a table and two chairs on the city wall but also a pot of freshly brewed Biluochun tea.
Looking at Yun Xi who was sitting there sulking with a solemn face, Qi Rong greeted her leisurely,
"Come and have a cup of hot tea to get rid of the cold."
"You can drink it yourself. I'm not that shameless!"
Yun Xi snorted. She was really angry. She pulled down the brim of her hat to completely cover her face.
She really couldn't understand how Qi Rong could still be in the mood to drink tea in such a situation.
Even though she had heard in her previous life that he was a ruthless killer and never took human lives seriously, since she met him, she didn't think he was as cold - blooded as the rumors said.
She originally thought that since Qi Rong had suffered a lot in the market, he should be more empathetic to the sufferings of these bottom - level people.
However, his actions today disappointed her greatly!
"Master, the steamed buns are here!"
Just when Yun Xi was sulking with Qi Rong and burying her head in her hat, Zhan Feng's voice suddenly came over.
Zhan Feng remembered Qi Rong's order clearly. In order to deliver the steamed buns quickly, he secretly mobilized a lot of manpower. He almost bought out all the steamed buns from the bun shops on the whole street and finally managed to gather two carts of them. He rushed them over in a hurry.
"Carry them all up!"
At Qi Rong's order, Zhan Feng and the others immediately took action. Qi Rong walked slowly towards Yun Xi who was squatting in the corner, wrapped in a fox fur and sulking. He reached out and pulled her hat.
"The delicious steamed buns are here. Do you want to eat?"
"No!"
Yun Xi held on to the brim of her hat tightly and struggled with Qi Rong. Her words were firm. She thought that even if she starved to death, she would never eat a single steamed bun from Qi Rong!
Seeing Yun Xi's stubborn insistence, the smile on Qi Rong's lips deepened. He directly picked her up from the corner, pulled off her hat and pointed to the two piles of steamed buns that suddenly appeared on the city wall,
"There are so many steamed buns. If you don't eat them, won't they all go to waste?"
"No!"
Her tone was even more determined than before. But when Yun Xi saw the number of steamed buns clearly, she was immediately stunned,
"Qi Rong, do you think I'm a pig?!"
She couldn't possibly eat all these steamed buns!
Qi Rong burst out laughing when he heard this. He flicked her forehead and glanced at the suddenly restless refugees below the city,
"Aren't there still them?"
Yun Xi was stunned for a moment. Her eyes suddenly lit up. She looked at Qi Rong in surprise: Why didn't she think of this good idea!