Chapter 103: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell (Part I)

Yin Yina has been watching this alley for two days in a row, but whenever she sees the woman dressed in green appear in front of the gate of Pufu, she always turns around and runs away in fear.

She was confirming something, but she was deeply afraid in her heart, if this woman was really Jia Rennan, who they had been looking for in Chujiazhai for two whole years, what would her Fengniang sister do!

Therefore, she still didn't dare to go up and talk to Zhao Ruoxin.

Seeing this, Zhao Ruoxin didn't pay attention to it, but just glanced at the end of the alley and pulled Xu Zong away.

Since the fate of Chujiazhai has ended, there should be no more intersections, everyone is as good as strangers, they have never met, how can they say goodbye.

The green willows on the street are the same as the five big locust trees in the yard, only decaying willow branches, and not a single leaf in sight.

Chen Xing has been busy like a dog these days, to drive away the refugees who have mixed into the capital, to maintain the security of the capital, and to put out fires in the east and west of the city.

It was only early in the morning, and Zhao Ruoxin saw from a distance that Chen Xing was already busy sweating and busy like a spinning top, but there seemed to be a lot more helpers around him than yesterday.

Hearing the discussion of the people next to her, Zhao Ruoxin knew that these veterans who had returned from the Northern Desert couldn't look at it, so she spontaneously sent people from her own family to help Chen Xing.

Zhao Ruoxin couldn't help sighing, it's still a veteran, the banks of the Darong River are all dead, and they don't know how to hate Li Hongyi, at this time, the Li family doesn't care, they also spontaneously came to help.

Zhao Ruoxin greeted Chen Xing: "General Chen, it's early enough, in my opinion, the locusts in the capital don't need to be extinguished anymore, now the leaves have been eaten, and in a few days, they will naturally all starve to death."

"Ruoxin girl be careful"

Chen Xing looked at her, but as soon as he turned around, he suddenly became anxious: "Be careful of the carriage behind"

With Zhao Ruoxin's ear, she naturally heard the carriage coming at a gallop behind her, and she just pulled Xu Zong to the side, and then let the carriage that galloped past her.

Seeing Chen Xing walking towards her, ≠±dǐng≠±diǎn≠± Xiao≠± said, .2♀3.o★s_(); Zhao Ruoxin immediately asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?" Isn't the selection of the crown prince's concubine already started today? The capital is under martial law, how can anyone dare to ride horses in the capital"

Chen Xing said with a look of embarrassment: "Miss Ruoxin doesn't know, today's capital is not as good as before, and now almost all the officials from various states and counties have come to the capital, including many important officials such as vassal kings, festival envoys, and local state capitals, and among their heirs, there are naturally many gentlemen.

To say that these are the emperor's courtiers, there is nothing, but the envoys from various countries are not easy to deal with, these days they are wantonly injuring people in the capital, and even worse, they directly beat people, simply ignoring the law of my Darong Dynasty."

"Oh" Zhao Ruoxin's main concern these days is whether Zhang Rui and they have escaped from the encirclement of the capital, and they really don't care much about the things in the capital.

She thought about it, and then heard Chen Xing say again: "It's strange to say, a few days ago, I heard Lord Wei say that the Northern Hu Kingdom first had 100,000 Chen soldiers in the Northern Desert Prefecture, and then the Prince of the Hu Kingdom went to the capital in person to ask for it, our Darong Dynasty has been fighting with the Northern Hu Kingdom for decades, and the two sides have already been on the same page, and I don't know which one of the Northern Hu Kingdom is making trouble."

In the past, whenever an envoy from the Northern Hu Kingdom came to our capital, he always had to make trouble and make trouble, and he looked like he couldn't be beaten, but this time it was an unusual anomaly, not only did he not run the streets, but he also did not oppress the people, but the envoys from some other small countries who had never even heard of the name were unusually domineering."

As everyone knows, when Zhao Ruoxin heard Chen Xing's words, a pair of good-looking eyes lit up suddenly, and the gene chip in her brain had already come to the analysis result: This can only show that the Northern Hu Kingdom has not yet fallen

"Hehe, General Chen, you're busy with yours, I'll take Xuzong for a walk"

Zhao Ruoxin said goodbye with a smile, she just smiled at the result of the gene chip analysis in her brain, such a big thing should be concerned by the Li family, and it is not something that ordinary people like her can care about at all.

When I came to Jinling Lane, there was still a long, long queue of people who came to sell locusts, and half of the shops in the alley were now full of locusts.

Hundreds of ten bandits in Yinzhou disguised as miscellaneous servants went in and out, there was a shop in the middle of the smoke, and I saw You Xiaojiang picking up his hat and wiping his sweat and wandering around this room, muttering in his mouth: "Ma, the charcoal is gone, go buy some more, these can all be dried before they can be put into storage, otherwise it will be moldy and rotten, Ge Laozi, this ghost weather, the sun is still so hot, I have to touch a dog to come back tonight, Lao Tzu has not had a tooth sacrifice for several days"

A young man in Mai next to him quipped: "Where is the need to go out and touch it at night, where does the boss not have one, tsk that guy, he is big, fat enough, and the taste must be no worse."

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You Xiaojiang waved a big black hand, turned around and patted the head of the man in sackcloth, and said, "Don't say that my brother didn't remind you, if you dare to beat Ruoxin's dog's idea, I guarantee that you will be better off than dead."

Hearing that the two were discussing how to sentence the black tiger to death, Zhao Ruoxin had just walked into the alley, and her pretty face immediately pulled down.

You Xiaojiang walked over with a smile: "Ruoxin, you're here."

Zhao Ruoxin had a straight face, and there was a bit of sternness between her words: "How is Zhang Rui doing over there?" But got the news? ”

You Xiaojiang said: "Xiaodouzi came back early this morning, saying that Brother Deng and they had already touched all the places within a radius of 100 miles, and the result was exactly the same as you guessed, the main roads around have almost been blocked, and they are not allowed to enter or exit, in addition, Brother Deng They also found that there are at least 200,000 people in the army hidden in the mountains around."

"What? Two hundred thousand! ”

Zhao Ruoxin was shocked, this number was nearly ten times different from the number he had heard before, "Then Deng Xuliang has opened a way out of the capital?" ”

You Xiaojiang shook his head helplessly: "Ruoxin, you have diǎn to embarrass Brother Deng and them, surrounded by 200,000 troops outside, it is almost impossible to escape from the encirclement quietly, Brother Deng said, they only have to fight tunnels now, and it will take about a month to escape from a small mountain in Kas Mountain in Dongcheng."

"A month!"

Zhao Ruoxin was moved, and suddenly her face became complicated: "We have three days left at most, perhaps, the time is not a day!"

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Stand up, don't sleep, hold on a little longer and you'll get the money to buy something to eat, if you sleep, you'll never wake up again."

As he spoke, suddenly, an urgent shout came from behind him.

Zhao Ruoxin's frightened body trembled, hurriedly turned around, and immediately saw a refugee woman holding a basket in her arms at the corner of the alley less than a hundred steps away from her, leaning limply against the wall, and a kind man next to her was calling her up.

Perhaps it was the fact that these days the people who sat and sat in the streets and never got up again were numb, and when they heard this urgent cry, the people around them just looked back numbly and ignored it.

However, Zhao Ruoxin was different, her body was trembling, she saw it, the thing she was worried about still happened, others may not have paid attention, but she clearly saw the dead woman's face, neck, all festering abscesses, as well as her swollen cheeks on both sides, and yellow pus liquid flowing from the corners of the eyes of this woman who had closed her eyes.

"Quick, quick, quick, twenty steps away from her, or you'll all die"

Zhao Ruoxin screamed as if she was crazy, trembling all over, as if she had seen a demon!

Suddenly, another person fell without warning, Zhao Ruoxin's heart was gamden again, and the streets began to be chaotic: "Come on, come on, come on, where are the people from the City Defense Division, come and get these dead people away"

"It's really ****** bad luck, you died in front of Lao Tzu's house early in the morning, you are going to die sooner or later, why don't you find another place to die"

"Get out of the way, doctor, what about the doctor to tell you, this is the old lady of the military department, if you can't cure it, Lao Tzu will give you this medicine shop to diǎn"

In this way, it seems that the time has been agreed, and people keep dying and people are sick

Zhao Ruoxin knew that at this time, it seemed that Li Yong had already brought the group of missing people who had been cultivated as the source of the disease into the capital at least ten days ago.

For a time, the sound of whimpering was loud, and the whole city was full of wailing.

Zhao Ruoxin stood in place stunned, as if her soul was frightened.

The Black Death, the nightmare she was most worried about, finally happened, Li Yong is starting to clear the city, it seems that the calculation of the gene chip is correct, there are three days at most, and Li Yong's army will definitely come to the city.

Zhao Ruoxin's lips trembled constantly, and some words that no one could understand at all were said by her intermittently: "Three days are only three days, Emperor Li Hongyi, Li Hezheng, Li Qiong, Li Zhenguo, Gu Chip, Song Yi, Wen Hou, Zhu Tingju, have you not noticed it?" Why hasn't there been a response yet? Are you still thinking about the beauty of marrying a daughter-in-law? ”

Her eyes were sad, and she glanced at the fallen people one after another, and then muttered to herself helplessly: "I'm sorry, please forgive me, please forgive me, although I have a way to save you, but I don't have so much chloramphenicol in my hand, I can't save every one of you, I still have 5,000 people in Yinzhou to save, I can't let the people who followed me Zhao Ruoxin die and please forgive me."

Zhao Ruoxin was thinking about the Black Death, but she still ignored a very important issue, that is, as the princess and princess personally given by Li Hongyi, it was only three days before the wedding, but she never saw a person from the palace arrive, which was simply unreasonable.

However, at this moment, compared to the dead people who can be seen everywhere in the capital, the palace is also ice and fire, and the prince's contest to choose a concubine is carefully arranged by the Ministry of Rites in the Tianxiu Palace, and the contest is divided into five programs, female red, etiquette, poetry and books, Qin Se, and finally the prince himself made a pass.

Yesterday was a female red, and today is etiquette, and the outside of the Tianxiu Palace has already been crowded with people.

Zhao Wanyu is dressed in red and enchanting, as amazing and noble as ever, especially the crested hairpin she specially inserted today is particularly eye-catching.

At this moment, she seemed to be dazzling for a moment and was obviously surrounded by many warblers and Yanyan, and a woman with a red mole at the center of her eyebrows next to her glanced at another group of people who were also surrounded by everyone and said disdainfully: "Hmph, the slut surnamed Jiao has already lost to our Wanyu County Lord yesterday, and she still has the face to participate today."

"Hehe, yes, they are all surnamed Jiao, maybe the queen will look at it differently, and it is not impossible to open a back door to the slut surnamed Jiao and the surname Nian, after all, their father is the same as the lord of Wanyu, and they are all feudal kings"

Hearing that someone compared her with Nian Yi and Jiao Lanlan, Zhao Wanyu was already angry in her heart, but her face was still smiling like a flower, the corners of her mouth were slanted, and she said very confidently: "If they don't come to participate, then the selection of this princess will be too boring, and they must have their ignorance to show the excellence of the county lord."

Fang Cheng hurriedly patted his ass: "That's it, it's their arrival, it's the Wanyu County Lord who stepped on as a stepping stone."

A fat and very coordinated woman next to her answered: "You might as well sue sù you, my father has already sued me, the crown princess must be the lord of Wanyu County, the emperor has already made a decision three months ago, the reason why the emperor wants to make such a procedure for choosing a concubine is not to go through the motions, so that the slut surnamed Nian and surnamed Jiao have nothing to say, really, they don't pee and take pictures, just like them, they are crooked melons and cracked dates, even if they are embarrassed to covet the position of the crown princess, it is really a shame for our women"

Fang Cheng and Bai Sleeves were in harmony, but Zhao Wanyu was about to float, only to hear Zhao Wanyu say very usefully: "Miss Bai, since they want to be embarrassed, then the county lord will fulfill them, in this world, there must always be some cats and dogs who come to make people happy."

Compared with the atmosphere of the aristocratic ladies who participated in the selection of concubines on the side of Tianxiu Palace, a rather hidden courtyard in the depths of the palace was extremely heavy at the moment.

Li Hongyi had been standing outside the courtyard with a black face for a day and a night, and the personal eunuch who had been inseparable from him had already contracted the same disease as Gu Chip the night before and died.

And this disease is like a plague, not only Gonggong Cai, but also eunuchs and palace maids have been dying in the palace.

From this point of view, compared to the illness in the city, the palace is even stricter, if Zhao Ruoxin can see it at this moment, she must know that this must be the result of Li Yong's special care in the palace.

At this moment, a young eunuch who had just been promoted to become Li Hongyi's personal eunuch respectfully came over and said: "Your Majesty, eight more have been burned, and up to now, there are already 397 palace maids and eunuchs in the palace who have died of the plague."

(Happy Dragon Boat Festival, everyone, if you have a monthly pass, enjoy a monthly pass, two-in-one~~~) (To be continued.) )