After instructing Huangfu Ling, Ye Linchen looked around but found that he couldn't see those two people at all, and he didn't know where they went. Even the villagers who had gathered around the door dispersed, and after thinking about it, he asked a villager next to him who had not yet left. From his mouth, he learned that the two of them had already entered the village, and they should be under the ancient apricot tree in the village square at this time.

Hearing this, Ye Linchen thanked the villager and hurriedly walked towards the place that the villager said. When he arrived, he saw Xie Yaoguang standing next to a well, and there were several golden ginkgo biloba leaves on the hem of her skirt.

"Your Highness, you're here." Xia Fu turned his head and saw Ye Linchen standing not far from them, and hurriedly greeted him, and his voice was gentle.

"Hmm."

After hearing Ye Linchen's voice, Xie Yaoguang turned to look at him and shook his head and sighed, "Your Highness, please forgive Yaoguang for bluntly saying that you shouldn't let yourself go into danger. I still have to decide whether this was deliberate or if it was really the result of the plague. ”

"How many times have you invited me to take risks? This time it's nothing, not to mention that if I don't do it, I'm afraid they may not be willing to believe you so much. Hearing this, Ye Linchen raised his eyes disappreciably and chuckled: "You should have been here for a while, but you have found anything strange." ”

"Nope. Your Highness, you'd better inform Huang Fu Ling to summon the doctors in the city to prepare herbs for the plague, and then set up a few tents, if things change, we can also contain them. Nodding, Xie Yaoguang's gaze fell on the edge of the well. The eyes are deep, and I don't know what I'm thinking.

Hearing this, Ye Linchen responded with a slight bow, "Don't worry, I have already explained this matter to Huangfu Ling." Is there anything else you need there? ”

"Nope. There was Lord Rausa who went for a walk around the other people's houses in the village. Your Highness and I went around the village. Frowning and thinking for a while, Xie Yaoguang took out a palm-sized sachet from his sleeve and handed it over, "You take this sachet, this is what I saw from my medical skills, it was made by my predecessors for epidemic prevention." I think it can be of some use. ”

Stunned for a moment, Xia Fu reached out and took the sachet and knocked again to thank Yaoguang. After taking the sachet into his arms, Xia Fu turned around and went to the nearest house at the entrance of the village. After many inquiries, I learned that the man who died by the well this morning had been hiding in the most corner of the village all year round, and the villagers rarely saw him on weekdays. If it weren't for this accident, they wouldn't have known that there was such a number one person in the village, so they kept everything the villagers said in their hearts and waited to go back and report it to Ye Linchen to make a decision.

Because Xia Fu served as the head of the household department, he was at least very good at people's livelihood. picked a few key points that did not involve the secrets of the imperial court and were of special concern to the people, such as the follow-up plans of the imperial court.

More importantly, Emperor Li gave Xia Fu a clear decree that he would not riot, no longer starve to death, not only survive the winter safely, but also have food in winter, and in the spring of the next year, there will be no famine. It was Yinanhe Village who was also very willing to communicate with Xia Fu and talk about their problems together, and Xia Fu had already gotten a lot of information back and forth.

As for Xie Yaoguang and Ye Linchen's side, although they were patrolling everywhere, they didn't find a few useful clues, and the two stopped in front of the drum tower in the highest place in the village, and walked up the wooden ladder to the top. The entire Nanhe Village is in full view.

"Yaoyao, you insisted on entering Nanhe Village in order to find out what happened, right?" He and Xie Yaoguang stood side by side in front of the window overlooking Nanhe Village.

Hearing this, Xie Yao's eyes overflowed with a sigh, and he looked at the railing with a tired face, "Even so, Your Highness, your behavior is still too risky, not to mention Your Highness, I have assisted you for so long, and you are still so impulsive?" Even if your ideas and intentions are good. ”

Xie Yaoguang's question came from his ears, but Ye Linchen was not annoyed, but reached out and took Xie Yaoguang into his arms. The sound of long breathing passed by her ears, causing her body to shudder, and she closed her eyes to hide the panic in her eyes. But Ye Linchen's voice was extremely serious.

"You and I should go and end together."

His heart trembled slightly, and the moment Xie Yaoguang looked up at him, he evoked many memories of the past. There were tears in his eyes, and even his eyes were slightly red, and he sighed and swallowed the sour and helpless in his throat.

"Your Highness, you should have guessed what my purpose was in Nanhe Village this time, right?" Gathering his eyes and breaking free from Ye Linchen's embrace, Xie Yaoguang's tone was still soft, but there was a vague sense of alienation, "This plague happened too strangely, I always think that King Shou planned this matter, just now you also saw that there have been people in the crowd who have been stirring up the emotions of the people." That's why I want to personally enter the game and catch the people behind the scenes. ”

As soon as the words fell, Ye Linchen smiled helplessly, "I know." I can guess what you could have guessed when you were writing the word shou on my hand. But I don't think it's necessarily useful for you to enter the game alone, so it's better for me to join you. ”

"I remember that there is a sentence in the book of my predecessors, 'The people, the root of the country, should value their food and love their lives'. Your Highness has done a good job of it now. Fingers stroked the veins on the carved window of the bell tower, and Xie Yao had a faint smile on his face.

"Isn't that what I'm supposed to do? Mrs. Gu once taught me a sentence: 'For the way of the king, you must first save the people, if you damage the people to serve your body, you will cut your shares to eat your belly, and your stomach will be full and you will die.'" 'So......" When the words stopped here, Ye Linchen's voice suddenly paused, and then he raised his head and said: "There are many things I have to do in person in order to hold the people's hearts in my hands." ”

As the words fell, Xie Yaoguang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. She remembered reading this in her grandfather's notebooks, but she didn't like what her grandfather taught her at the time. Every time I met my grandfather and assigned homework, most of them were unfulfilled. Her grandfather hoped that she would be able to resist the great family's business...... It's a pity that until her grandfather died, the Gu family was destroyed, and she couldn't let her grandfather get his wish.

When thinking of this, Xie Yaoguang couldn't help but sigh. As far as the eye can see, the sunset is sinking, and the shadows cast by the sunset are eroding the land beneath their feet inch by inch.

The woods under the bell tower swayed in the wind, as if there were ghosts hidden under it waiting for an opportunity to move, which made people look at it and be afraid. I couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"Your Highness, it's getting dark...... It's a good time to kill people and sell more goods. As he spoke, Xie Yaoguang reached out of the window and held the last touch of afterglow in the palm of his hand.

At the moment when the afterglow was gone, every household lit up one after another, and even under the ancient apricot tree at the entrance of the village, the candle flame was suddenly lit. When the weary birds return to their nests, all things that have been dormant in the shadows will also take their place. The night has just begun.