"I'll assume you're worried about me." Xie Chongning smiled lightly, and he didn't mean to pursue it.

Due to the emperor's illness, even if they arrived in Nanying, they didn't have time to stay, so they set off directly and walked back, sitting in the carriage, Mu Yu hurriedly glanced at Nanying, which had become desolate, and was very emotional, but he could only pray that the emperor was fine.

Xie Yu suddenly stepped forward and broke the peace in the carriage, "Young Master, it's not good, now that the epidemic is raging in Mingzhou City, we can only take a detour." ”

"Plague?" Xie Chongning's eyes were sharp. Originally, it would take about ten days to return to the capital from Nanying without stopping, and if they made a detour, it would only take longer, and when they returned to the capital, they were afraid that the capital would change.

"What the hell is going on?"

Xie An replied cautiously, "This epidemic spread from a small mountain village, and everyone who came into contact with it would be covered with blisters all over their bodies, and finally bleed to death in the seven orifices, and those who came into contact with corpses would also be infected." ”

Mu Yu and Xie Chongning glanced at each other, "Brother Xie, do you remember those beggars we met in Mingzhou City?" One of them said that his village had a strange disease? ”

Xie Chongning's eyes darkened a little, and he said in a cold voice, "What about the doctor?" ”

"The doctors I have come into contact with have all died, and now there are no doctors in Mingzhou City, and ......" Xie Yu glanced up hesitantly.

"And what?" Xie Chongning's tone was a little impatient.

"And the young man we brought out of the valley has all been infected by my men." The more Xie An spoke, the quieter his voice became, and he had no confidence.

Without a doctor, no one can develop a medicine to save lives, and the people in the city will only die! Mu Yu, a modern person, naturally knows the horror of the plague, "Ah Yun is also in Mingzhou City?" ”

Xie Yu nodded, "When they passed through Mingzhou City, it was fine, but overnight, there was an outbreak of epidemic in Mingzhou City. ”

"There can be no detours." Xie Chongning said flatly.

Xie Yu was embarrassed, "Young Master, this epidemic is serious, you must not risk it!" ”

"Brother Xie, Xie Yu is right, there is no doctor in the city, you must not take risks, it's a big deal that we can make a detour day and night, and we can also chase back time."

Xie Chongning glanced at Xie Yu calmly, and took out the token of Dali Siqing on his waist, "Seal Mingzhou City and set fire to the city." ”

"Your Excellency?" Xie Yu took the waist card with a puzzled expression, and Mu Yu also thought that he had heard it wrong, "Brother Xie, what did you just say?" ”

"I order you, as the secretary of Dali Temple, to set fire to the city." Xie Chongning said coldly.

Mu Yu looked at Xie Yu's back as he was about to leave, "Wait, Brother Xie, do you know what you're talking about?" ”

Xie Chongning glanced at Mu Yu lightly, and there was no wave in his eyes.

He knew that he was going to burn the city, Mu Yu blinked absurdly, "That's a city!" There are not 10,000 people in Mingzhou City, there are also 1,000 people, Brother Xie, you are going to set fire to the entire city? ”

"Without a doctor, if they run out, they will lose not a city, but the entire Qing Dynasty." Xie Chongning said calmly.

In Mu Yu's view, Xie Chongning is not calm, but cold-blooded, "If you invite doctors from other cities without a doctor, you may be able to save ......"

"If not, maybe?" Xie Chongning asked rhetorically.

Mu Yu bit his lip, "There are always no sick people in that city, you are killing everyone with a rod." ”

"I can't take that risk." Xie Chongning waved his hand at Xie An and asked him to leave.

No, how can it! She is not the Holy Mother, but the lives of thousands of people are between Xie Chongning's words, she can't accept it, everyone has the right to live, they are indeed innocent people.

And she thought of Ah Yun, a few days ago, the child was still begging for praise around her, that silly appearance was very cute, but now a fire is going to leave him in Mingzhou City forever, how can she be worthy of Ah Yun?

"Xie Chongning! You don't call it decisive, you are cold-blooded. ”

Xie Yu originally felt that the young master was a little ruthless, but after Mu Yu finished saying that Xie Chongning was cold-blooded, he refuted for his young master angrily, "Miss Mu thinks that the people in Mingzhou City are innocent, but the people outside the city are also innocent, young master, he has done nothing wrong." ”

Xie Chongning suddenly chuckled twice, and smiled at Mu Yu nonchalantly, "I'm just cold-blooded." ”

Mu Yu watched Xie Yu leave, feeling weak, she didn't want to say such hurtful words, she just felt that there must be a better solution, "As long as the city is closed and the epidemic is not allowed to rage, it doesn't hurt to delay it any longer." ”

"I don't have that much time."

Mu Yu covered half of his face, buried his head and stopped talking. At this time, she was in turmoil, the emperor was seriously ill, and she could understand the urgency of time, but at the cost of so many lives, those people were innocent after all.

But she actually understands that there is no doctor in Mingzhou City, and the people here will not be treated, and they will eventually become the source of infection of the epidemic.

What qualifications does she have to judge what Xie Chongning did right or wrong, but she can't accept Xie Chongning's solution, "Maybe you're right...... But I can't understand it. She lowered her head and smiled bitterly, and neither of them spoke again for the rest of the day.

The carriage drove through the burned city of Mingzhou, and before they arrived, the people of Dali Temple had already come to Mingzhou City to clean up the corpses.

The emperor was seriously ill, and Dali Temple only obeyed Xie Chongning, even if the city was slaughtered, no one could evaluate Xie Chongning's rights and wrongs.

One by one, the guards wore heavy white cloth covering their mouths and noses to prevent infection, and they wore gloves made of cowhide on their hands, and all the missing bones were burned again.

In addition to an intact city wall in Mingzhou City, it was a mess as far as the eye could see, and they were also wrapped in good condition, so they didn't stop in Mingzhou City and left directly.

The pitch-black charcoal was all over the ground, and the patches on the ground were all black, but the terrifying thing was that there were pieces of land in some places, which were still intact, and the shape that was left behind just took on the shape of a human.

How the people in the city used to struggle, and now what kind of torment it is to see these Mu rumors, she patted her chest, and resisted the feeling of nausea, even if she wore a heavy veil, the smell of burnt air could still penetrate the white veil and enter her mouth and nose.

Xie Chongning leaned over and pulled down the curtain beside her to prevent her from seeing the situation outside.

Mu Yu lowered her eyes, what she saw just now, she was afraid that she would never forget it for the rest of her life.

While the carriage was still moving, Xie Chongning would receive letters from the capital from time to time, Qin Xu's appearance did not stabilize the overall situation in the court, but caused chaos in the cabinet, and many marquis were also ready to move, and had different intentions.

After Xie Yu sent them out of Mingzhou City, they returned to Nanying, but the people from Dali Temple also rushed to the south to pick them up.

Mu Yi, who was worried about her sister, naturally would not miss such an opportunity, and rushed to join the team, and finally joined her sister.

"Rumor, I heard that you were chased and fell off a cliff?" Mu Yi didn't care about any etiquette, grabbed Mu Yu's shoulder, and carefully checked whether his sister was intact.

At this time, Mu Yu's smiling little face was extremely haggard, and since he fell into the valley, he had never eaten well, and his delicate little face showed a delicate jawline.

Mu Yi was extremely distressed, and she could see her sister's listlessness, and swallowed back the words when they came to her mouth.

Xie Chongning got up coldly, "Brother Mu is sitting in the carriage to accompany the rumor." ”

Seeing that he was about to get off the carriage, Mu Yu thought about it and pulled his sleeve, and said detachedly, "You have an injury on your back, so you should sit in the carriage." ”

Xie Chongning was injured to save herself, she couldn't be ungrateful, "If my brother and I have something to say, just go back and say, brother, you say yes." ”

Of course, Mu Yi saw the abnormality between the two, he glanced at Xie Chongning, answered, lifted his robe, and got on a horse in a dashing manner, trying to maintain the same speed as them.

Mu Yu leaned against the wall of the carriage and said nothing.

"What happened to you, how did you fall off a cliff for no reason?" Mu Yi couldn't help but ask.

"There was an assassination." Mu Yu said weakly, "Big brother, don't worry, the person who assassinated us, Master Xie will take care of it." ”

Xie Chongning's eyes flashed, and he returned to his expressionless appearance, unable to see his mood.

"Assassination?" Mu Yi's hand holding the reins kept exerting force, and the horses screamed, and then they relaxed the strength in their hands, "How could you encounter an assassination?" ”

"Maybe it's bad luck." Mu Yu replied unintentionally.

My sister is obviously not in the state, and Xie Chongning is a stuffy gourd who doesn't say a word, how did he provoke his sister? Mu Yi was full of questions, but he couldn't ask because he didn't have the opportunity.

At night, Mu Yi wanted to talk to her sister, but was rejected by her sister on the pretext that she had already slept.

Mu Yi had no choice but to go to Xie Chongning, but Xie Chongning only listened quietly in the face of Mu Yi's indiscriminate bombardment, without any response.

There was no result on either side, and Mu Yi was also angry, okay, don't say one or two, then he doesn't ask.

In the capital, Mu Yu and Xie Chongning completely parted ways, and the moment she left the carriage and stepped into the mansion, she lowered her eyes and sighed, she and Xie Chongning had different views, she simply thought that Xie Chongning was a childish and cold temperament.

But in fact, Xie Chongning is an extremely decisive and cold-blooded person, maybe at this juncture, burning is the most effective solution, but Mu Yu can't agree, and there is also a feeling of sadness for the rabbit and the fox.

The lives of thousands of people are just a word to Xie Chongning, so what is he to him? Is it also something that does not matter.

She was moved for a long time for Xie Chongning to jump off the cliff with her, and even began to feel that she could influence him and soften him, but with such a cold person, could she do it? Can she change Xie Chongning? She didn't have that confidence in herself.

But she didn't want to erase Xie Chongning's kindness to herself, and she was afraid that one day Xie Chongning would treat herself like Mingzhou City, so don't talk about feelings, everything is fine.