latelenovela Chapter 364 The Beggar Killed Song Siyao
Chapter 364 The Beggar Killed Song Siyao
The disaster situation requires immediate attention.
Upon receiving the order, Shen Pei and Shen Jing immediately set off.
"Father, beggars in the capital are causing trouble. Please allow me to go and handle this matter," Song Siyao pleaded.
"Alright, Yaoyao, be very careful," Emperor Changlong instructed.
"Yes, Father."
As soon as Song Siyao finished speaking, Yan Wei and Qin Yunchu's voices rang out simultaneously.
"Your Majesty, I request permission to go and assist the Crown Princess."
"Your Majesty, I request permission to go and assist the Crown Princess."
Yan Wei is Song Siyao's apprentice. Since Song Siyao is pregnant, it is perfectly reasonable for him to help her.
Qin Yunchu was Song Siyao's student, so it was only natural for her to help Song Siyao.
But for some reason, the fact that the two of them said those words at the same time has sparked a lot of speculation.
One was a handsome young nobleman, and the other was a talented and beautiful young lady from a prestigious family.
For a moment, the atmosphere inside the hall became somewhat subtle.
Everyone's eyes darted back and forth between Yan Wei and Qin Yun Chu.
Yan Wei remained calm and composed, his expression unchanged.
Qin Yun Chu appeared calm, but her cheeks, flushed red by the sunset, betrayed her inner thoughts.
In an instant, her secret, which she had kept hidden deep in her heart, was revealed to the public.
"Lord Yan is skilled in martial arts, and Miss Qin is a master of medicine. You two must protect the Crown Princess well." Emperor Changlong agreed.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Yan Wei and Qin Yun Chu accepted the order.
The situation was urgent, so the three set off immediately.
Jiang Yu stared at Song Siyao's retreating figure, her eyes practically bleeding with hatred.
Why is it that, even though they are both pregnant with imperial grandsons, the one in her belly is the eldest grandson of the emperor, and Emperor Changlong always treats Song Siyao differently?
She needs someone to protect her when she goes on a mission!
Song Siyao, you just wait. Once I give birth to the eldest grandson of the emperor, your child will die in the womb, and all your glory will belong to me.
With the disaster looming, Emperor Changlong had no heart to continue the banquet, and it ended there.
Song Siyao led Yan Wei and Qin Yunchu out of the palace and headed straight for the place where the incident had occurred.
"What's going on with the beggars causing trouble?" Song Siyao asked the guard who came to report.
The guard replied, "Your Highness, because tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival, wealthy families are giving out more food, and the curfew has been extended, the number of beggars on the streets has suddenly increased. They are frantically grabbing food, and if they can't get any, they start fighting."
Upon hearing this, Song Siyao said, "Let's go straight to where the accident happened."
"Yes, Your Highness." The guard led Song Siyao to the place where the incident occurred.
The incident occurred in front of the home of Hu Dashan, a philanthropist in the west of the city.
Hu Dashanren was a well-known philanthropist in the capital, who would distribute porridge at the city gate on the first and fifteenth of each lunar month.
"When the philanthropist Hu saw that there were many beggars, he ordered his servants to bring out more food to distribute. As a result, when the beggars saw the food, they frantically grabbed it. In the process of pushing and shoving, they pushed the philanthropist Hu down and knocked him into a stone pillar. The philanthropist Hu died on the spot."
When the philanthropist Hu died, the neighbors and passersby were enraged, since many of them had received his help. They started beating the beggars, but there were just too many beggars today, and the fighting escalated, resulting in even more injuries and deaths.
We reported it to the authorities, and when the officials arrived, they tried to stop it, but they were also seriously injured..."
Listening to the guard's account, Song Siyao roughly understood what had happened.
Soon, Song Siyao and his group arrived at the door of Hu Dashanren's house.
Upon alighting from the carriage, Song Siyao witnessed a scene of chaos: shouting, cursing, and wailing...
Deafening!
"Stop!" Yan Wei shouted, and the surrounding noise stopped abruptly.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and Yan Wei continued, "The Crown Princess is here. Who is causing trouble?"
"This humble official greets the Crown Princess." He Shi came over and bowed to Song Siyao.
The others also knelt down, saying, "Greetings, Crown Princess."
Song Siyao looked at He Shi and saw that he had a bloody head and hadn't even had time to bandage it. He had been maintaining order here, so the situation here must be terrible.
"Please rise, Lord He."
He Shi stood up, and the others followed suit.
Song Siyao shouted sharply, "Did I tell you to get up?"
The rioting civilians and beggars stood up but quickly knelt down again.
Looking around, there were two or three hundred beggars and more than a hundred ordinary people, not counting the injured and dead on the ground.
"Yun Chu, treat Lord He's wounds," Song Siyao instructed.
"Yes, sir." Qin Yun Chu went over.
"Who started this? Step forward!" Song Siyao demanded.
Everyone looked at each other, but no one spoke.
"Since no one has admitted it, Yan Wei, take all these people back and interrogate them one by one. Find out who instigated the trouble and show no mercy!" Song Siyao said coldly.
"Your Highness, I am innocent." A woman holding a child crawled up to Song Siyao.
She cried to Song Siyao, "My child hasn't eaten for three days and three nights and is dying. Please, Your Highness, save my child."
Song Siyao looked at the child in the woman's arms, whose eyes were closed, whose breath was weak, and whose life hung by a thread.
"Yan Wei, get some food for that child," Song Siyao instructed.
"Yes……"
Before Yan Wei could finish speaking, some people shouted angrily, "We can't give them food! People like them, so heartless and cruel, deserve to starve to death!"
"Yes! Absolutely not! We must not give them any food, not even food for the dogs!"
"They killed the philanthropist Hu, and now they're starving them to death!"
"A bunch of worthless lives, they deserve to starve!"
……
The insults came like a tidal wave, overwhelming and suffocating.
The beggars, not to be outdone, had been suppressing their anger for too long and were finally going to explode; they too began to fight back.
"Why should we starve to death? Aren't we human beings?"
"You're just a little luckier than us, you're so snobbish!"
"These things weren't given to us as charity, so why can't we have them?"
"Since we're all going to die anyway, let's all die together instead of starving to death!"
"Kill one to get enough money, kill two to earn one!"
"If the water doesn't give us anything to eat, we'll kill it!"
……
The more the beggars started making noise, the angrier the people became.
"Kill them!"
"Kill to death!"
……
The conflict, which had just subsided, was about to erupt again, and the two sides began fighting once more.
Song Siyao had already realized that the people who were making the most noise were not ordinary people, and the beggars who were making the most noise were not ordinary beggars either.
This was a premeditated act of mob rioting.
But what's the point of simply exploiting disputes between ordinary people and beggars to escalate conflicts?
Song Siyao pushed forward with both hands, releasing his inner force, which instantly stunned the troublemakers.
"Anyone who dares to step forward and stir up trouble again will be dealt with first!" Song Siyao said sternly. "Everyone, please calm down. I will not let a bad person go unpunished, nor will I wrong an innocent person. I will thoroughly investigate this matter today, and those who are guilty will be punished without exception!"
"Your Highness, I beg you, please save my child!" The woman knelt before Song Siyao and kowtowed frantically.
A guard had already brought over some porridge, but the child refused to open his mouth, and the porridge wouldn't go down.
"I'll do it." Song Siyao squatted down, took out the silver needles, and decided to save the child first.
Otherwise, the child might die before the porridge is even fed.
As the silver needles were inserted into the child's acupoints, a vicious beggar suddenly rushed up, wielding a dagger, and plunged it into Song Siyao's abdomen.
Instantly, blood flowed freely!