Chapter 57 Assassination Attempt
"Can you leave the city?" Zheng Nianru asked, knowing that Nanmen Yu could leave the city. But at this moment, she should ask to appear normal.
"I’m not in the Harem, so it’s not as strictly managed." Nanmen Yu told the truth, aware that doing so could expose himself, but he couldn’t help trusting the Zheng Nianru in front of him.
"That’s good, you leave the city tomorrow. There’s a refugee site on the outskirts, which I saw when coming back from the Traveling Palace. There were children with stark protruding spines, pitifully thin. Go and search for them. I only remember there were two children, about five or six years old, not hard to find. One of them has a brown serpentine birthmark that goes from his forehead to the tail of his eye," Zheng Nianru said, taking out a silk purse. Inside was a hefty bag of Silver, enough for Nanmen Yu to accomplish the task.
Nanmen Yu was momentarily stunned. Refugees... But he had seen her kill, she didn’t seem like someone with compassion.
Zheng Nianru stuffed the silk purse into the young man’s hand, she of course did not pity those people.
Instead, when she saw the refugees outside the city today, it reminded her of something. After she became the Empress Dowager, there was a rebellion, led by a man who had originally been a refugee. A brown serpentine birthmark on his head had been exaggerated into a divine dragon among the masses. This had brought great harm to Nanzheng State and to her. Zheng Nianru calculated that at this time, that man would’ve been a mere child, a toddler. Although later defeated, that man in his twenties faced death unflinchingly, with vigor and boldness, fearless of death. He spat and cursed her with glee.
"I’ve thought of some places to go. I feel like buying shops or tea houses in the city to provide a living would work, giving them food to eat, a place to live." That should prevent another rebellion, shouldn’t it?
Nanmen Yu was silent and couldn’t brag about not needing her money. He lacked Silver, and the bag of Silver she provided could do far more than what Zheng Nianru had suggested.
"Just save those two children?" Nanmen Yu asked.
"Yes, if they have family, take care of them too."
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