Recently, Old Man Qin combed his hair in a simple bun, inserted a peach wood hairpin on his head, did not apply powder on his face, and had a few wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

Old Madam Qin's facial features are dignified, and between her eyebrows, you can see the beauty and atmosphere of the past.

She was dressed in plain clothes, with her eyes closed, chanting scriptures in her mouth, and was kneeling on the futon to worship the Buddha, when she suddenly heard a knocking sound on the windowsill.

Old Madam Qin opened her eyes all of a sudden, she never let outsiders in front of her on weekdays, even Ji Lian was guarding outside the house, and she could only push the door in when she called someone.

Old Madam Qin's eyes showed a slight strangeness, and she reached out to support the ground and stood up, a stabbing pain in her knees.

She closed her eyes and endured the stinging, sat down on the chair next to her, and then whispered: "Come in~"

The window was suddenly opened from the outside, and a shadow guard dressed in black and wearing a mask propped up the windowsill and rolled into the room.

He respectfully saluted Old Madam Qin, who fiddled with the tea bowl on the table and said, "Did you find out anything?" ”

Ying Wei lowered his eyes and said respectfully: "Back to the old lady's words, not yet, but the Lu Mansion has already received the exact letter, Princess Qin is out of danger and is on her way to Huaibei City." ”

Old Madam Qin hummed softly, a smile appeared on her face, and said, "That's good, that's good, so I'll rest assured, you go check it again, ask clearly, understand?" ”

"Yes~" Ying Wei hurriedly responded, Old Madam Qin waved, and Ying Wei quietly retreated.

Mrs. Qin has been pampered all her life, her parents spoiled her when she was a child, and when she grew up, she had a wishful husband and a gentleman, and she didn't suffer anything.

The biggest suffering in life is probably that not long after she was pregnant with a child, she heard news from others that her husband was dead and died on the battlefield.

She cried, but she still had hope, with Feng'er.

This time Feng'er traveled, she had a faint feeling of unsteadiness in her heart, and both Feng'er and Lu Yue made her feel a little relieved.

Ji Lian outside the door waited for a long time, but she didn't wait for Old Madam Qin to call her in, as usual, this Buddha ritual should have ended a long time ago.

Ji Lian thought that recently, Old Madam Qin was a little uneasy, and she had a nightmare last night, and she was scared awake.

A flash of worry flashed on her face, and she walked to the door and called the old lady a few times, but she didn't hear anyone in the house respond for a long time, and she was even more worried for a while.

Ji Lian pushed open the door and glanced inside the house, but she didn't see the figure of the old lady Qin, could it be that the old lady was still in the Buddhist hall?

She walked over quickly, turned the screen, and saw Old Madam Qin's entire body slumped in the chair, her eyes half-closed, and the expression on her face could not be seen clearly.

"Old lady?" Ji Lian exclaimed, walked over in a few steps, and grabbed Old Madam Qin's arm with both hands.

"Huh?" Old Madam Qin's eyelids moved, and she hummed softly in her mouth, and Ji Lian's hanging heart fell.

After a while, Old Madam Qin opened her eyes, the expression on her face was sluggish, and the whole person seemed to have woken up from her dream, Ji Lian held Old Madam Qin's hand, "Old Madam, you really scared me to death." ”

Old Madam Qin's eyes didn't move, and she rolled her eyes for a long time, looked at Ji Lian, her eyes flashed, and her eyes instantly moistened, "Ji Lian, I dreamed of Feng'er~"

The crying voice startled Ji Lian, and she found that Old Madam Qin's palms were sweaty and cold.

When she raised her eyes again, there were fine beads of sweat on the old lady's forehead.

"Old lady? It's okay, don't worry, it's just a dream~" Ji Lian suppressed the panic in her heart, forced calm comfort, lightly soothed Old Madam Qin's back, and quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe the beads of sweat on Old Madam Qin's forehead.

Old Madam Qin didn't speak again, her lips were pursed very tightly, and there was an unspeakable sadness on her face.

In her dreams, she was like a ghost, a dilapidated and desolate city, the sound of wailing, and the shouts of drumming to kill the enemy, she actually dreamed of Feng'er's father, wearing silver and white armor, vermilion, holding a spear, majestic.

Before she could make a call, she saw that the sky was full of yellow sand, and in the blink of an eye, the person had fallen to the ground, pierced by tens of thousands of sharp arrows.

Before she could exclaim, the person who fell suddenly became her Feng'er, and she listened to Feng'er's screams, and she was simply terrified and cried.

"Old lady~" Ji Lian called, Old Madam Qin came back to her senses and stared at Ji Lian for a long time, as if she was looking into the distance through Ji Lian.

After a long time, Old Madam Qin's lips moved slightly, and she sighed lightly and seemed to murmur, "It's a dream~"

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Tianfu City is still as lively as in the past, with streets and alleys, people coming and going, and the cries of hawkers are endless.

After Qin Mufeng and Lu Yue left one after another, a small thing happened in the court, the three princes and the five princes were all canonized as Prince Kang and Prince Gong, and they were given mansions respectively.

Originally, the two of them were going to move out of the palace after the crown, and the palace took pity on the third prince's weak health, which has dragged on for so many years.

Prince Gong's Mansion, the vermilion gate, there are two mighty and domineering stone lions at the door, and the red silk flowers on the plaque have not been removed, with a bit of festive taste.

Suddenly, a horse turned around on the corner of the street, and the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and when they arrived at the door of Prince Gong's mansion, "Hoo", the horse was strangled suddenly, and the person on his back stepped off the horse, and several guards standing at the door had seen that it was a messenger, and hurriedly stepped forward to lead the horse.

The visitor nodded and greeted the guard at the door, and trotted all the way into the palace, and the little maid in front led the way, until he reached the door of the study and knocked on the door.

"Your Highness, the letter from Huaibei is here." The little guy bowed.

"Come in~" Gu Changheng's voice came from inside the house.

The servant gave the courier a place out of the way, and the courier quickly pushed the room open and entered the door.

"I've seen His Highness~"

Gu Changheng's thick eyebrows were raised slightly, his eyes were a little playful, the bridge of his nose was slightly straight, and he was turning a folding fan in his hand, looking suave and talented.

He was dressed in a moon-white and dark-patterned regular dress, with a white jade gilt buckle on his waist, and a folding fan tapping on the table.

"Arise, where is the faith?"

The messenger immediately presented it with both hands, Gu Changheng took the letter, and the messenger stepped aside to wait for the order.

Slender fingers swiped over the sealed letter, tore open it with a few clicks, quickly took out a thin page of paper inside, opened it and swept it quickly.

After a long time, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Gu Changheng's mouth, and he said to himself: "Sure enough, it's a miracle doctor, amazing...."

Mu Feng said in the letter that he was going to look for the rare medicinal materials in the near future, and I believe that it won't be long before they can come back, right?

In the morning, he had already received the news that the princess of Qin had also been found and sent to Huaibei City, and the two of them would be able to reunite well.

Gu Changheng touched his chin, a trace of inexplicable emotion flashed in his eyes, he really hoped that Qin Mufeng could come back soon, seeing the storm and clouds rising in this court, Mu Feng's return would be a great help for him.

Gu Changheng pondered for a moment, then immediately picked up the brush and replied to Qin Mufeng.

When he had finished writing, he waited for the ink to dry, folded it in an envelope, and handed it to the messenger.

His eyes were sharp, like a sharp arrow, and he said, "You must send this letter to Huaibei and hand it over to Lord Qin." ”

"Yes, Your Highness~" the messenger bowed.

Gu Changheng watched the messenger leave, his eyes slightly distracted. After a long time, he sat down with the table and took out a letter from the secret cabinet under the table, which came one by one to the charges of Lin Zhiwen, the prefect of Huaibei City, but unfortunately now Mu Feng only found part of the evidence, and he couldn't uproot Lin Zhiwen and the people behind him.

"Bang~" Gu Changheng slammed his fist on the table, his eyes were sharp, one day he would clean up these moths of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

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A carriage was speeding down the road, driven by two brothers, surrounded by a dozen men in dark suits, all with weapons, looking fierce and vicious, not easy to mess with at all.

There were occasional people on the road, and they stared at the flashing carriage, and they couldn't help but guess with some curiosity that they didn't know which rich boy or official lady was sitting in the carriage.

Near noon, the generals of the defending army on the gate of Huaibei City watched a carriage galloping from a distance, and there were more than a dozen people next to the carriage.

Suddenly, the soldiers on the city wall looked vigilant, holding bows and arrows in their hands, and their eyes were firmly fixed on the carriage not far away.

Soon the carriage arrived at the city gate, and Chen Er, who was guarding the side, led the people to drive forward, and a loud voice came from the city wall, "Who are you?" ”

Chen Er raised his cold and hard face, and said in a deep voice: "We are the subordinates of the prince of Qin, and we went out of the city to find the apprentice of Doctor Zhu on the order of the prince of Qin, and now that the person has been found, let us in, we will go to return to the prince." ”

The defenders on the city wall, you look at me, I look at you, look a little hesitant, and do not answer.

Chen Er frowned, and raised his voice: "Find you Lord Guo~"

The people on the city wall looked at each other a few times, and one of them said, "Do you have a token with you?" ”

Chen Er glared angrily at several people on the city wall, and took out a ink-black boxy token from his arms.

The soldiers on the city wall looked at it several times before giving the order to open the city gates.

"What's going on today? I feel a lot more vigilant than usual. A whisper came from behind Chen Er, Chen Er glared back, and the little guard suddenly shut up.

The city gate was wide open, and a thin soldier ran over, with a smile on his face: "It turns out that Master Chen, this is disrespectful and disrespectful~"

Chen Er swept his eyes away, didn't see Guo Cheng, raised his eyes and glanced at this somewhat familiar soldier, and recalled it vigorously in his mind, this person seemed to be Guo Cheng's subordinate.

"What about you Lord Guo?" Chen Erdao.

The smile on the soldier's face suddenly faded, his eyes flashed around, but he didn't look at Chen Er's eyes, he swept around the fierce and vicious person, and his body suddenly trembled.

Stared at by Chen Er's cold gaze, Xiao Bing shrank his neck in fright, and dropped a sentence dryly: "Guo... Mr. Guo has military affairs. ”

After saying this, the little soldier slipped away.

Chen Er stared at the man who had run away, his eyes were gloomy, and the rest of the horses snorted impatiently.

"Let's go~" Chen Er said in a deep voice, kicking the horse's belly with his legs and running.

Lu Yue quietly lifted the curtain, only to see that there were few people on the street, the shops, wine shops, teahouses, etc. were all closed, and some of the plaques at the door were smashed down and discarded on the ground at will.

Looking at the devastated Huaibei City, a trace of desolation flashed in Lu Yue's heart, hey, it was all caused by this plague, which displaced the people in this city, and they couldn't return to their homes.