"Phantom Lian is right, now is indeed not the time for me to meet him, it is better to say goodbye, maybe it is the best choice. I hope that when he returns from a year of travel, I have found out the murderer of the queen mother, and I can clear my grievances! At that point, he and I will be able to sit down and have a good talk. Yanyu said approvingly, but when it came to the back, there was an indescribable sense of depression in his heart.

She really hates this kind of indifference that she wants to meet at this moment, but she has to pretend to be a stranger, and secretly sighs that life is sometimes so sad!

"Princess, this General Lin is guarding there, and we can't get out of the city smoothly. Even if she goes out, if she can't come back at the time she made with Xiangling tomorrow, and fails to wake up Xiangling's deceased husband Gufeng in time, I'm afraid it will disappoint her, and it will inevitably shake her determination to kill the soul-devouring poisonous ants by raining heavily for three days and three nights. Phantom Lotus looked at General Lin, who was dutiful in the distance, and said with some concern.

"Yes, princess, if you want to go in and out without alarming General Lin, I'm afraid it's difficult to do it, right? And in case during our absence, Village Chief Mo and the others have problems that are difficult to solve, and they can't find you to discuss, I'm afraid they will also delay the completion of all the tasks of killing poison and insects tomorrow night, right? Meng Ling also felt inappropriate and said.

"Then let's do it, today we don't go out of the city, let's walk around the city, first, to find out whether the matter of the Mo village chief and their mobilization of the people to make the antidote is smooth, and second, to observe the people's feelings, and help Your Majesty understand the real thoughts of the people since the establishment of the New Lotus Kingdom, it is worth the trip. Let's go, go over and say hello to General Lin, and by the way, ask him to send someone to inform the guards of Yuqin Mingju, just say that we will have a private visit in the village, and if there is any emergency, immediately send someone to the village center to inform us. Yanyu thought for a while and said.

"Yes, Princess." Phantom Lotus and Meng Ling replied respectfully.

Then, under the leadership of Yanyu, the three of them continued to wear veils and walked towards General Lin who was guarding the city gate.

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Because there are many more soldiers guarding the city gate at this moment, as well as soldiers patrolling back and forth, there are also many ordinary people who linger near the city gate after reading the official notice, and they are reluctant to leave for a long time.

Therefore, even though there are no ordinary people entering or leaving the city gates, it still looks very lively.

Of course, most of the soldiers were dutiful, guarding against anyone sneaking in or out of the gates. There are also some soldiers who are bored and want to take advantage of the opportunity to make some benefits, but instead take the opportunity to take the people in and out of the city privately to earn some pocket money.

After all, some people are doing business abroad all the year round, and their wives and children are not around, and this sudden plague also locked their families out of the city gates.

As soon as these merchants learned of the outbreak of the plague, they began to travel to their hometown in the northwest, hoping to pick up their families and flee the plague area.

However, due to the long distance, when I finally arrived at Yuqin Village, I found that the city gate had been closed.

And if you want to return to your hometown in the northwest, Yuqin Village is the only way to go, and it is also the safest route.

If you take a detour and cross the windy and sandy, inaccessible barren mountains and mountains to go home, not to mention those ferocious beasts will kill them, even if you get lost and die of thirst on the road, it is also a common thing.

Therefore, these merchants miss their families and often prefer to give more money to those soldiers who are greedy for money than to take a detour to the barren mountains and mountains to return home.

As for the soldiers, after receiving the benefits of the merchants, they would find a set of soldiers' clothes for them to change into, and then take them out of the city gate and return to their hometowns without knowing it.

Sometimes, among the people who fled from the plague area outside the city gate, the wealthier ones would also give money to these soldiers, and they used the same way to sneak into the city gate, and they successfully entered Yuqin Village.

Then through Yuqin Village, you can rush to all parts of the country.

So Yuqin Village, which seems to be peaceful at the moment, has actually been mixed in by the people infected by the Soul Eater Poisonous Ants. There are even some people who have just been infected and have not yet felt unwell, but they have already passed through Yuqin Village and gone to other towns or villages in the Lotus Kingdom.

Once these people die in other towns and villages, the soul eater ants in their bodies will leave to find new living people, and then parasitize in their brains and continue to harm people.

Or if they can't find a living person to parasitize for three days, they will be temporarily dormant, mixed with the dust, and drift around in the wind, until another living person happens to suck them into their lungs, and they will wake up again.

Later, as they suck more and more souls, they will multiply, and eventually when they reach a certain number, they will deal with a similar plague crisis again.

In other words, Yanyu's plan to close Yuqin Village and strictly prevent the plague from spreading to towns and villages outside the northwest actually had a loophole, and the culprits of all this were those soldiers with bad intentions.

These soldiers often use patrols to find people who are anxious to get out of the city, and after negotiating a price, they quietly take them out of the city.

In fact, this kind of practice of taking advantage of the opportunity to cheat money has been done by the soldiers guarding the city gate in Yuqin Village since ancient times.

After all, sometimes there is a major event in the village that is vital to human life, or a famine breaks out outside the city, or even a war, the city gate will be closed for a few days, and Yuqin Village is the most important village in the northwest, and it is the only way to enter and exit the northwest, so such things can be regarded as repeated prohibitions.

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Just when Yanyu took Phantom Lotus and Meng Ling to the direction of the city gate, he happened to meet a few such soldiers, and these soldiers saw that they were three weak women, and they were wearing veils, and they didn't look like they were too poor, and they walked towards the city gate, so they were naturally full of joy, and they took the initiative to greet them without hesitation, to see if they could make a good profit.

It's just that when these soldiers came to Yanyu and the three of them and blocked their way, they felt that although these three weak women were veiled, they had an extraordinary temperament, and they still had a strange fragrance on their bodies.

I just want to coerce and lure the three of them to a place where no one is around, and enjoy them, as long as they are obedient, it will be a big deal to send them out of the city afterwards.

Fifteen years ago, they were the soldiers guarding the city gate in Yuqin Village, and they had met many times similar to women with young children who were eager to go out of the city to find their families, and they were taken to a secluded place, threatened by the children's lives, and promised to take their mother and son out of the city safely.

If it were just those women, they might still fight to the death to save their honor, but for the sake of their children, no mother could watch her children die in front of them.

Usually they acquiesce in tears, and wait until they go out of the city to deliver the child to their family, and only after they feel that the child is safe, they will die, so as to completely end their future life of pain and guilt.

Or simply keep it in their hearts, keep their mouths shut, and continue to raise their children to grow up, and they usually don't tell anyone about all this, even if they decide to die, they won't tell the truth, after all, such an unspeakable experience, how can they see people after they say it?

Therefore, when these soldiers saw that no one reported them, they became more and more emboldened.

"Who are you? Didn't you see the Empress Dowager's decree that you should not leave the city? Why are you still wearing a veil? I think the three of you must have ill intentions, intend to resist the will, and even have the intention of murdering the Queen Mother. Come, brothers, take them down for me and bring them back for strict scrutiny! When these soldiers surrounded Yanyu and the three of them, one of them, a man who looked fierce and sinister, pointed a knife at Yanyu and said.

"Presumptuous! How dare you ...... to Tai" Phantom Lian hurriedly pointed at Yanyu with a knife and asked, but was interrupted by Yanyu in the middle of speaking.

"Phantom Lotus, it's okay, let me tell him, maybe it's just a misunderstanding." Yanyu gently pulled off Phantom Lotus's hand, shook her head slightly, and motioned to Phantom Lotus not to reveal her identity, after all, she still wanted to make a private visit to Weifu next, once her identity was revealed, even if she persuaded these soldiers, it would alarm the people nearby, and she would not be able to secretly visit and observe the people's feelings.

"Yes." Phantom Lotus also instantly understood the meaning of Yanyu, so she had to obediently step aside.

"Hmmm! If you know the general thing, then come with us, right? When we investigate clearly, if it is really just a misunderstanding, we will naturally let you go quickly. If you don't obediently follow us, then even if you don't admit it, I have a way to make you sit on the charge of murdering the Empress Dowager. Hum! The soldier who pointed the knife at the smoke and rain continued, but a pair of eyes were already greedily looking at the smoke and rain, and even licked his lips slightly, obviously a little too much to wait.

After seeing the obscene expression of the soldier in front of her, Yanyu naturally guessed the other party's thoughts, and understood that the other party obviously had bad intentions, but she didn't want to scare them away by revealing her identity immediately, but wanted to test it to see what their intentions were.

"Oh? Are you saying that I will murder the Empress Dowager? Maybe you make up something out of nothing, and you will succeed in framing anyone, and it will be difficult for the other party to defend themselves, but it is a big joke when used only on me. If you don't believe me, you can ask them. Yanyu asked calmly.

He pointed to Phantom Lian and Meng Ling beside him, indicating that they could testify to her words.

"Poof...... That's right, I, Phantom Lotus, dare to swear to the sky, too ...... Oh, she would never murder the Empress Dowager. Phantom Lotus couldn't help but smile and said.

When mentioning the Queen Mother, I almost missed my mouth.

"Haha, that's right, if you frame me, maybe you have a much greater certainty, why don't you tell me about the purpose of your framing us, and the reason you rely on, if I think it's really not something that a weak woman like me can resist, I'll just go with you." Meng Ling said with a laugh.

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