Reborn to Become A Queen: The Real Heiress's Comeback-Chapter 363 Provocation

When several people rushed there together, they saw yet another breach in the dam, Dugu Yan, Huang Gun, Zhan Hui, as well as the soldiers and village soldiers formed a human wall and were transporting sandbags.

If it wasn’t for the upstream water already discharging floods, the human wall could not have held the breach.

Assistant Minister of War, Chen Zi, joined them.

Zhan Lan rolled up her sleeves and joined in, Mu Yan initially wanted to stop her, but, thinking it over, he let his Lan’er do whatever she wanted!

Zhan Lan, while in the water helping with the sandbags, heard Dugu Yan shouting, "Everyone, move faster!"

The village soldiers, one by one exhausted, passed the heavy sandbags, and a village soldier beside Zhan Lan glanced at her, his pupils suddenly trembling with excitement.

"Main... Main General!" He was so excited that he was at a loss for words, Zhan Lan made a silencing gesture and then passed him the sandbag she was holding.

The village soldier was thrilled inside, not expecting to meet his Main General, the Brave General, here.

As Zhan Lan passed the sandbags, suddenly someone beside her wiped the sweat off her forehead, Zhan Lan turned and saw Mu Yan in the water.

"You should get up, your body..." Zhan Lan expressed her concern.

Mu Yan passed her the sandbag, smiling lightly, "It’s fine. Quicken the pace, we’re about to block it."

Zhan Lan did not dare delay and continued transporting sandbags.

While everyone was busily engaged, suddenly, many onlooking disaster victims arrived.

Zhan Lan roughly glanced, there were at least a few hundred disaster victims.

Zhan Lan thought they were there to help, but the next moment, she realized she was wrong.

Because among the disaster victims, someone took the lead and shouted: "You officials, are you even capable?! Can the dam be properly repaired, can it hold, we are all homeless now!"

Zhan Lan looked at that person, then people around him shouted, "We live outside every day, while you officials stay in warm houses, we want to live in houses too!"

Someone complained, "Where has the Silver given by the court gone? Why don’t we have a place to stay!"

Someone roared, "You folks talk nicely every day, but really don’t care about the life and death of us commoners!"

The voices of these people were very loud, some of the onlooking disaster victims were stirred up by them, and some felt that they shouldn’t have come.

If things get stirred up, how can the common people oppose the government!

Mu Yan said looking towards Zhan Lan, "Some are trying to stir up trouble."

Zhan Lan nodded. These disaster victims have lost their homes, it’s natural that they are anxious; the houses for settling the disaster victims in the county are already filled with the old, weak, women, and children.

It was understandable for those who couldn’t move in to have complaints.

However, those few who were leading the complaints were either provoked or deliberately causing trouble.

Assistant Minister of War, Chen Zi looked towards the disaster victims, he got out of the water, walked to the shore and said, "Stay quiet, the housing issue will be resolved by the court one by one!"

Among the disaster victims, someone sneered, "Sir, don’t just say nice things. The weather is getting colder, we might freeze to death outside!"

"Yeah, either let us stay in the houses today, or we will all file a royal complaint!"

This statement frightened some of the disaster victims. Although they were living outdoors, they still had bedding and stoves, and it wasn’t to the extent of filing a royal complaint yet.

Suddenly, among the disaster victims, someone emotionally threw a rock at the soldiers.

The soldiers instinctively thought it was a riot by the disaster victims and picked up their weapons aiming at the people.

"Back off!"

Instantly, the situation became extremely tense, and upon seeing this, Chen Zi immediately intervened, "Put down the weapons!"

The crowd of disaster victims became restless, and a few troublemakers continued to shout from within the crowd: "Look, the government wants to drive us to extinction!"

"Yes, they’re using weapons now, if they kill us all, they can keep all the disaster relief Silver for themselves!"

This instigating speech left the disaster victims in utter chaos.

"Silence!" Chen Zi felt for the first time that being unable to resolve a problem with force was an unpleasant thing.

In the past, when he fought in wars, he just needed to follow the Main General’s orders to relentlessly pursue and annihilate the enemy.

But now, he was facing disaster victims, what could he do?

Mu Yan said to the disaster victims: "Someone is inciting you, open your eyes and look at those who were just speaking. Do you recognize them? Don’t be misled!"

His words resonated powerfully, and in an instant, the disaster victims also seemed to realize something – they looked at the people around them who had just raised their voices.

"Is this person from your village?"

"Do you know him?"

Zhan Lan continued: "Everyone from each village stand together, and the instigators will be caught red-handed!"

The villagers understood Zhan Lan’s words; they had come with people from their own villages after all, and they immediately gathered together.

Seeing that the situation was turning against them, the few people stirring up trouble tried to run.

Chen Zi, with his quick reflexes, together with the officials, immediately subdued the people.

In an instant, everyone understood that these few were not disaster victims at all.

"Speak, who sent you!" Chen Zi kicked the leader of the group to the ground.

The leader stubbornly refused to speak.

Chen Zi waved his hand and ordered: "Kill one first!"

"Wait, sir, I’ll talk!" someone shouted.

"We are relatives of the County Magistrate, because County Magistrate Wu was wronged, we couldn’t accept it, so..."

Chen Zi said coldly: "Wronged, huh."

He looked at the villagers and loudly said: "Three years ago, the Wu Family, while constructing a reservoir, embezzled and cut corners. They have now been detained by the officials and are en route to Ding’an City with solid evidence. Where’s the wrongful accusation in that!"

The villagers discussed among themselves, "So it was really like that, no wonder!"

"Lucky that all those from the Wu Family were captured, the imperial court really has removed a great scourge for us common people!"

"Truly a righteous official!"

Chen Zi glared at the troublemakers and angrily declared: "You people, inciting the villagers to create chaos, each will receive fifty heavy beatings. If the crimes of the Wu Family are confirmed, then await the extermination of your clans!"

The faces of the troublemakers changed drastically, and they knelt on the ground begging for mercy: "Ah! Sir, mercy, please!"

"We will not dare again!"

As they knelt and kowtowed, Chen Zi remained unmoved and continued: "The Wu Family attempted to assassinate the Regent King and the Regent Princess Consort. The Prince and Princess personally apprehended the Wu Family and found the evidence."

Zhan Xincheng also took the opportunity to assert his presence, shouting: "You just asked where the disaster relief Silver went? It’s all here! You don’t know; the disaster relief Silver was the Prince and Princess’s betrothal gifts and dowry!"

The villagers looked at each other, the common folk unaware of these matters.

A middle-aged man exclaimed in shock: "What! The Regent King and the Regent Princess Consort have come to our place!"

"The Regent Princess Consort is the Prince Zhenbei, the Brave General!" Zhan Lan’s reputation among the villagers was still quite distinguished.

A woman said: "So the imperial court really values us disaster victims this much, the Regent King and Princess even took out their dowry and betrothal gifts to help us, and we were just talking about them!"

"We are ashamed!"

Dugu Yan, with her straightforward personality, shouted: "You are really confused! Look how much the imperial court values you, besides the three Vice Ministers acting on orders, the Regent King and Princess, the Young General of the Zhan Family, and the Chief of Staff’s daughter, all voluntarily came to aid you, and yet you were misled by villains. Don’t be foolish again next time!"

An elder from the village, a respected older figure, urgently asked: "Where are the Regent King and Princess? I want to thank them in person!"

Huang Gun wiped the mud from his face and pointed towards Zhan Lan and Mu Yan: "The Prince and Princess are over there!"