Cloaked in a cloak and holding a cup of hot tea in her hand, Lime stood in front of the window, looking thoughtfully at the people shivering in the cold wind on the street who were still struggling for a living.

She has been away from Su Yan for more than a year, and she has traveled to many places in the past year, she has been to the desert, to Xiaoyue City, and to Shuochu quietly.

She practiced medicine and did good deeds all the way, treating the poor for free, and was only willing to accumulate more good virtues for the country.

During this time, Su Yan was not calm, the wind was surging, and the power changed.

Princess Mengya married far away from Ximo, and soon after Fang Han died violently, leaving a message on her deathbed to be buried with Concubine Xiao Guifei, who was killed on the day of Xiao Shiqian's rebellion.

At the same time, Fang Han left an edict pointing out that King Xuan Fang Lu was the next monarch, and King Fang Mujin was named regent and assisted the new emperor.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, he immediately increased the taxes of the people, built a large number of imperial tombs for himself, regardless of the filial piety of the first emperor, a large-scale draft, and recruited folk beauties of appropriate age to fill the harem, and even occupied the first emperor's Shurou concubine.

The advice of the ministers was suppressed, and many old ministers advised them to die, and a few elders directly crashed to death in the Taihe Hall to die Mingzhi.

The new emperor was tyrannical and unreasonable, emphasizing women's sex and fun, and ignoring the government. Favor the eunuchs and alienate the courtiers. To the eunuch dictatorship, the great eunuch Zhang Jian proclaimed himself 9,000 years old, the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, used power for personal gain, plotted to kill Zhongliang, and many courtiers defected, formed their own faction, and aided and abetted.

However, the disaster does not go alone, Suyan has been dry for a long time without rain, and eventually becomes a locust plague.

When the locusts came to cover the sun, the crops and plants were exhausted, and the people had no harvest. The treasury is empty, the food for disaster relief is scarce, and the pockets of officials at many levels are filled.

Merchants made heavy profits, grain prices rose several times, the people were hungry and cold, and they were fed by their children, more than half of the refugees were exiled, and the hungry people gathered in the mountains and forests.

The regent was kind-hearted, could not bear to starve all over the wilderness, and the lives were ruined, and repeatedly directly admonished the disaster relief and the disaster of the eunuchs, which finally aroused the suspicion of the new emperor, and cut his title and placed him under house arrest in the palace for the crime of disturbing the court.

As soon as the regent fell, he fell like a tree and scattered, and no one dared to admonish him.

The new emperor is happy to enjoy, and since then he has no earlier dynasty, Zhang Jian is powerful, insatiable, selling official beards, filling his own pockets, and looting the people's fat and people's ointment, so that Su Yan and the opposition are mourning all over the country.

In less than a year, the livelihood of Suyan has withered, and the people have no livelihood.

Uprisings broke out among the people, and although they tried their best to suppress them, the uprisings intensified.

One day, the border pass was in an emergency, Shuo Chu increased his troops by 100,000 outside the pass, and the flying arrow passed a letter of war advice. When Su Yan came back to his senses, many guards were martyred, and the five border provinces were all included in the enemy's pocket.

In a hurry, the new emperor issued an edict to restore the book to Xiao Shizhi, and he moved his filial piety to be loyal, personally gave half of the white robe, and immediately rushed to the border, Dai Xiao went out to fight and regain the lost land, and there must be no mistake.

The cold breeze was blowing in front of the window, and the hot tea in Lime's hand was also half cold.

Counting the days, it has been three months since my brother went to the border, and he used his soldiers like a god, retreated from the enemy several times, and recovered the lost land in the three provinces, which was praised by the people.

"Miss, it's cold and windy, don't catch a cold." Jing Chuchu stepped forward and closed the window for Lime.

"Chu Chu, how is the battle situation on my brother's side?" Lime asked.

"Everything is going well in Shizi's place, don't worry, Miss." Jing Chuchu changed a cup of hot tea for the lime, and she asked, "Seeing that Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, can the young lady go to the Suyan border to reunite with Shizi?" ”

"Nope." Lime replied, "The more times like this, the more I can't take it lightly, and I can't disturb my brother's heart now." ”

"Then will we stay in Xiaoyue City for the New Year this year?" Jing Chuchu asked.

"Let's go to Jinnan." Lime said slowly, "I've been to many places, but I haven't been to Jinnan yet. ”

Jinnan is his place, if he goes, he will definitely be found, I haven't seen him for a long time, and I don't know how he is doing.

Lime shook her head, erasing the handsome face from her mind. Today is the last day of her free clinic in Xiaoyue City, there is already a long queue in front of the door, the time has come, it is time for her to open the free clinic.

A few days later, Lime and Jing Chuchu arrived at Licheng, the capital of Jinnan.

Because of the excavation of gold mines, Jinnan's national strength has developed very rapidly, the people are rich and the army is strong, and the capital of Jinnan is also a prosperous scene.

Lime got out of the carriage and walked with Jing Chuchu in the downtown on foot, looking for an inn to settle in. The filial piety period of the national prince has not expired, and for more than a year, Lime has been dressed in white and covered her face with a white veil.

Suddenly, the sleeve of her dress was ripped off, Lime turned around, and a dirty little beggar was holding her snow-white sleeve tightly, looking at her with a look full of begging, "Sister fairy, I haven't eaten for a few days, sister, give me a steamed bun to eat." ”

Lime frowned slightly, she squatted down, ignoring the dust on the hem of her skirt, she gently stroked the little beggar's soiled forehead.

This child is really pitiful, he is the skinny and skinny of the age of the long body.

Sure enough, no matter how prosperous the place is, there are always a group of people struggling in the corners that the prosperity cannot reach.

"What about your parents? Where are they? Lime asked.

"My father died, and my mother was sick and couldn't get out of bed." The little beggar replied.

"Take my sister to see your mother, okay?" Lime asked softly.

"Okay, can my sister save my mother? But we don't have any money for my sister. As he spoke, the little beggar's hand on the sleeve of the lime tightened again.

"My sister doesn't want money." Lime Road.

"Okay, sister, you come with me." The little beggar took Lime's hand and said happily.

"Chu Chu, you go buy some dry food, and then come to look for me." Lime got up, held the little beggar's rough little hand, and said to Jing Chuchu.

"Yes, miss." Jing Chuchu glanced back, there was a pastry shop not far behind her, she looked at the surrounding environment, still a little uneasy, when she first entered Jinnan, everything was still based on caution, she said to Lime before leaving, "Miss, don't go far, I'll come to you right away." ”

"Hmm." Lime nodded, and followed the little beggar in the other direction.

The little beggar led her into an alley, shook off her hand, and ran away without a trace.

Lime was slightly stunned, and then realized that this was a trap, she turned around and wanted to leave the alley, but saw a man appear behind her at some point, with a mouse-eyed roe deer and a lewd face.

The man raised his hand and sprinkled a handful of white powder over the lime.

As soon as the lime blossomed, a strange fragrance came to her nose, and she quickly took a few steps back and quickly held her breath.

This is an inferior incense, if it had been before, it would not have been able to charm her. But now it is different from the past, she has self-styled internal strength, and the poison caused by the flowers on her body has not been solved, although it cannot be said to be weak, but it is no different from ordinary people.

At this time, a man also walked out of the alley, different from the person just now, this person was tall and looked strong and powerful, but on his face, he still looked obscene.

Seeing that * didn't work for Lime, the two rolled up their sleeves and pressed towards Lime. Fortunately, although Lime sealed the internal force, her fists and feet did not fall, and she took a few steps back and leaned against the wall.

"Big brother, this little lady is really a water spirit, and she will definitely be able to get dozens of taels of silver from that old bustard." The tall said.

"I can't bear to be so smart." The short one said, his greedy gaze almost glued to Lime, "Little lady, come and play with our brothers, how about I send you to a good place?" ”

"Then it depends on you, whether you have that ability." Lime smiled suddenly, a soul-stirring smile in her rolling eyes.

The two of them were in a state of flux, not aware of the danger in Lime's words, and the short man stretched out a hand to tear off the white veil from Lime's face.

Lime's eyes lit up, and she quickly raised her hand to pull out the crescent moon hidden in her hair, and just as the hands were about to touch her veil, a sword light flashed, cutting off the arm alive.

The severed arm fell to the ground, and the short man was almost unconscious from the pain, and he fell to the ground, blood flowed from the severed arm, and he didn't even see who hurt him, he shouted, "Ah! My, my arm! Who is it, who is it! ”

The tall one, however, saw everything that had just happened, and he was shocked, ignoring the big brother who was shouting loudly on the ground, turned around and fled to the end of the alley.

As soon as Lime was about to make a move, he saw a steamed bun flying out of thin air and smashed straight on the man's head, and the man stumbled and fell to the ground.

When he turned around, a long sword was hanging in front of him, and it was a handsome woman in black who stepped on his legs, making it difficult for him to move.

"The heroine spares her life, I don't dare anymore, the heroine spares her life!" He cried and shouted, and begged for a long time, but the woman was not moved.

"Miss, are you alright?" Jing Chuchu exerted a little more force on his feet, and the pain instantly made the man scream.

"Nothing." Lime took out a handkerchief from her bosom, wiped the crescent moon clean, and inserted it back into her hair.

"Miss, what do you do with these two people?" Hearing Lime's answer, Jing Chuchu was relieved.

Lime looked at the shivering little beggar in the corner not far away, and frowned slightly, they must have used this little beggar to deceive many young women, and they must not be spared. But now after all, it is in Jinnan Licheng, if she disposes of these two people privately, maybe she will cause some trouble, she thought for a while and said, "Send it to the official." ”

As soon as the little beggar in the corner heard Lime say that he would send him to the official, he was so frightened that he ran away, and Lime said, "Chu Chu, leave the dry food for that child, he was also persecuted." ”

"Yes, miss." Jing Chuchu threw the bag of dry food he was carrying on the ground on the side, put away the sword in his hand, lit acupuncture points for the man with the broken arm to stop the bleeding, and carried the two men out of the alley.

Out of the alley, Lime and his party attracted many onlookers, and in the discussion of the people, Lime learned that these two people were famous scoundrels here, and Lime removed one of his arms, which can be described as very happy.

After Lime explained to everyone that she wanted to send the two to the official and wanted to find someone to guide her, everyone's reaction was unexpected, everyone was silent, and some people even persuaded Lime to let her forget it.

"Girl, don't get into trouble the first time you come to Licheng." An old man passing by persuaded, "These two people have also been sent to the official before, and the crime is not serious, and they were released after a few days. These two are not easy to mess with, girl, forget it. ”

"These two have done a lot of evil, I don't know how many ignorant girls have been harmed, and keeping them is a threat to everyone present." Lime said, "Today, the two of them dare to kidnap and abduct women from good families, and tomorrow they dare to kill people and set fires!" Such a man who is inferior to a beast should be punished by everyone! Dare to ask if there are people who know the reason, dare to send these two people to justice with me! ”

As soon as Lime's voice fell, a strong man stepped forward and said aloud, "The girl said well! I'm not afraid of the two of them, I'll go with you. ”

"Okay." Lime satisfiedly made way for him, "Strongman, please!" ”

The strong man stepped forward, easily took the two men in his hands, and strode towards the official mansion.

Along the way, many people were paying attention to Lime and his party, and when they arrived at the official mansion, they had already formed a large group of people who saw the excitement.

Xiuyi, I'm here, and see if you're well-informed.

The corners of his lips under the lime veil were raised, and there was a smile in his eyes.

There was a crisp sound in shock, Fu Yin straightened up, and after looking at the two people kneeling in the hall, Fu Yin's complexion changed a few times.

He served in the capital of Jinnan at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the official worship was the fourth grade, which was one grade higher than the governor Yin of other states and counties. This sounds enviable, but in reality it is a constant fear of the day.

Who are the people in this city? Imperial relatives, important ministers of the imperial court, any person on the street may have a huge background; Any case is likely to be wide-ranging.

Therefore, in this position, he is walking on thin ice, cautious, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault. He didn't expect himself to be promoted to the ranks, he just hoped that he could live in this position until he returned to his hometown.

The two people kneeling in front of him today, others only know that they are two scoundrels, but he knows that these two people once saved the second son of the Prime Minister's Mansion by chance, and formed a brother with a different surname with the second son. If this is not handled well, it will cause you to get into trouble.

Fu Yin looked at the bloody wound on the broken arm, his brows furrowed, and his face was full of sadness.