Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Perilous Journey

For two months in a row, there was no rain, and the crops gradually dried up and died without rainwater irrigation on farmland and arable land.

The emperor decreed that every arid place should be repaired with the nearest canal, and immediately sent people to bring water to the farmland, but it was still a drop in the bucket.

The bubonic plague broke out in Jizhou, the closest to the imperial city, which simply added fuel to the fire of this great natural disaster.

The emperor saw that the plague was serious, and if he was not careful, it would affect the imperial city.

Since Jizhou is only more than 100 miles away from the imperial city, it only takes three days to travel by car, and if the plague continues to spread, it may threaten the imperial city at that time.

A month ago, the Seventh Prince, Shen Yunhan, who had been hostage in Xidi, returned to China.

In order to make up for the debt to him, the emperor decreed that he be named the king of Nancang and gave him a fief and Nancangzhou.

There is a river in Cangzhou, called Canghe, which divides Cangzhou into north and south, and the north belongs to the Nine Emperors, so the title of Shen Yunxun, the Nine Emperors, is called King of Beicang.

Seeing that the disaster was getting more and more serious, in order to appease the people of Jizhou, the emperor issued an order to let Shen Yunhong go to Jizhou to check the disaster.

Then, he issued an order and sent Shen Yunche to Changhe County to check on the disaster, which was the most drought-stricken area.

On this day, Shen Yunche returned to the palace and saw Su Miaojing sitting in the courtyard with a big belly.

Looking at the sunlight sprinkled on her bright and gorgeous little face, his mood was inexplicably good.

Since last month, she has not been to the hospital again, because her belly is getting bigger and bigger, and she feels inconvenient, so she takes a long leave to wait for the baby in the house.

At that time, he was very happy when he heard her decision, after all, she was not willing to have this child at the beginning, and she was willing to stay because she threatened her. He didn't expect that she would be willing to make such a big decision for the sake of the child, after all, curing diseases and saving people is her favorite thing! It also took a lot of courage for her to be able to give up for a few months.

In fact, Shen Yunche didn't know Su Miaojing at all, as a modern person, since she decided to give birth to this child, she had to be responsible for the child, and as a mother, she would never let him have any mistakes. Because she is not only her own child, but also her own hope. So no matter how much she loves medicine, she can't match the importance of her own children.

Shen Yunche slowly walked to her side, blocking the dazzling light for her, and he looked at Su Miaojing gently, "Jing'er, how do you feel today?" ”

Shen Yunche looked at her already prominent belly, his heart was full of love, he loved the woman in front of him, and he also loved the child in her womb, because it was the child between her beloved woman and herself.

Su Miaojing's soft eyes glanced at him, with a loving smile on her face, "The little guy just kicked me, and he really didn't stop for a moment." Incidentally, he said a word of disgust.

Shen Yunche squatted down and approached her stomach, but he heard a sound inside, and his face was full of joy, "Jing'er, he moved, he actually moved." "There was a lot of surprise on my face.

Su Miaojing looked at Shen Yunche, who was a first-time father, with that kind of unspeakable ecstatic gaze, she thought, if she gave birth to him, he should love him well!

Shen Yunche thought that he was going to leave for Changhe County tomorrow, so he was reluctant to leave, he just wanted to stay with Jing'er now, waiting for the child in her womb to be born slowly, but this was his father's will, and he had no right to disobey at all.

Shen Yunche looked at him with reluctance, "Jing'er, tomorrow I am going to Changhe County, you are alone in the mansion, you must be careful, if you want to go out of the mansion, send a few more guards to follow you, you know?" He instructed with a worried face.

When Su Miaojing heard that he was leaving, there was finally a trace of worry in her eyes, "Hmm! Got it! You can go with confidence! Stay safe on the road! Remember to come back early, and you still saw your child born? ”

In the Weiwang Mansion here, Shen Yunhong also packed his bags and prepared to go to Jizhou.

Although Shen Yunhong didn't want to go, he couldn't go against his will, so he had to bite the bullet.

That's the plague! If you accidentally get infected, you will die directly.

Su Miaojing here heard that Shen Yunche was going to Changhe County, she was pregnant, and she couldn't travel tiringly, otherwise she could accompany him.

However, she wrote a disaster relief plan overnight, in which she introduced that after the disaster, the most important thing is to prevent and control the occurrence of the plague. She wrote down what was going to happen and handed it to Shen Yunche for him to watch on the road.

When Shen Yunche and his entourage took the relief grain allocated by the emperor for half a month, they finally arrived in Changhe County.

The disaster in Changhe County is more serious than the one reported in the report, and the collusion between local officials and businessmen has caused countless deaths and injuries to the people of Changhe County, and some have chosen to flee.

After Shen Yunche arrived, he first appeased the local people, and then summoned the local county officials and several nearby squires to discuss the disaster situation.

The county commander thinks that the emperor is far away, and once what he does is exposed, he will definitely die, and he has to strike first.

The county officials and local businessmen were afraid that their embezzlement of official grain would be exposed, so they plotted to kill Shen Yunche.

The county magistrate sent someone that night to inform Cai Zhong, a businessman who was in trouble with him, to invite a first-class master in the rivers and lakes to go to the post station to assassinate Shen Yunche.

Shen Yunche here had already realized that he had already arranged everything, and he was waiting for the people sent by the county order to come and kill him, and he would catch them all.

Shen Yunche knew from the beginning that the journey to Changhe County must be extremely dangerous.

As soon as he left Yining City, someone assassinated him, and he was assassinated three times and poisoned twice along the way.

In the first assassination, as soon as he left Yining City, he was chased by a group of unknown people.

The second time he was hunted down, it was the remnants of the queen's party who were not dead and sent people to chase and kill, but they were all killed by themselves.

The third time he chased and killed, it was Shen Yunhong who sent someone to kill him, he wanted to kill himself on the road, and then put the blame on the crown prince Shen Yunze.

If it counts this time, it will be the fourth assassination.

As for the two poisoning incidents, they have yet to be clarified.

Shen Yunche, who was resting at the post station at the moment, was waiting for the assassin to arrive in the room, only to see him sitting in a precarious position, and ordered unhurriedly, "Jing Yi, pour wine!" ”

Jing Yi immediately walked behind him, picked up the wine jug, and filled the small wine glass.

Shen Yunche took a drink, and then picked up his chopsticks and prepared to pick vegetables.

Between the lightning and flint, I saw a group of masked people wearing black night clothes appear outside the door, holding long swords in their hands, and they all made ruthless moves, attacking Shen Yunche.

Jing Yi pulled out his long sword and blocked it in front of Shen Yunche, and suddenly more than a dozen black-clothed people who were also masked appeared in the air, only to see them standing on Shen Yunche's side together, in a protective posture, these people were the secret guards who protected him all the way.

The Assassin and his guards fought fiercely, and the two sides fought fiercely.

At this time, I only heard that Shen Yunche's face was extremely calm, and his tone was extremely ruthless and cold, as cold as the moon, "No one is left!" ”

Shen Yunche said as he picked up the wine jug, poured it full of wine himself, and took a sip.

I saw that he easily crumpled the cup into pieces, and then, with a light internal force, he gently threw the broken cup in his hand towards the killer, and several killers were all hit, and the fragments were directly inserted into the assassin's neck, as well as the assassin's eyes, and those people immediately fell to the ground, blood continued to gush out, and the death was unbearable.

After a while, all the assassins were killed, and Shen Yun's clear and cold gaze and faint voice commanded, "Clean up!" Ben Wang gets up tomorrow morning, hoping not to see a drop of blood. ”

Then, stepping on their corpses, he walked out of the room and went to another room to rest.