"Because of Concubine Zhang?" Ye Shuyun asked curiously, in fact, she had always wanted to ask, but she was afraid that she would die from many problems, so she suppressed her emotions, and since he mentioned this time, she naturally kept asking.

"It's just a side concubine, and my father doesn't need to be angry because of her." knew what she was thinking, but Chu Xuanting just deliberately didn't say it, fishing for her appetite.

"If it's not for that, then what's the matter?" Sure enough, as soon as he said this, Ye Shuyun became even more curious.

"Father asked, when will we have children." Chu Xuanting deliberately put his head on Ye Shuyun's shoulder and said close to her ear.

Ye Shuyun could also think with her toes what Chu Xuanting wanted to do now, but when she heard the word heir, she was still very resistant in her heart.

She can be his princess, but she doesn't want to have his children, so that if she wants to leave one day, she won't have to worry.

"Shu Yun, give me a baby."

At this time, Chu Xuanting raised his eyes, turned Ye Shuyun sideways, and looked at him face to face, this was also the first time he called Ye Shuyun's name.

"Chu Xuanting, I can do things with you as a man and a woman, I can be your wife, and I can allow you to have other women, but it is absolutely impossible for us to have children directly."

Ye Shuyun replied very decisively.

Chu Xuanting's eyes were full of anger, and he punched the shelf on Ye Shuyun's side.

"Ye Shuyun, you hate me so much, so unwilling to have my heir?"

"Yes, even if I don't want to, if you want an heir, everyone who is like flowers and jade outside can line up to give birth to you, why do you suffer for me?" Ye Shuyun's eyes were still calm like a puddle of lake water.

She understands that if you don't talk about some things, you will only make both people live in deception.

And Chu Xuanting didn't talk to her anymore, picked up Ye Shuyun by the waist, turned around and threw him on the bed, and bullied him.

This night, Chu Xuanting was like an angry lion, and then she swore her sovereignty, the more she said that she didn't want to have his heirs, the more Chu Xuanting didn't know how to control herself.

When Chu Xuanting woke up, he couldn't help but raise his hand to touch Ye Shuyun who was still with tears on his cheeks when he saw Ye Shuyun next to him, but when he thought of her determination yesterday, a chill came to his heart again.

Ye Shuyun, you are the one who is really ruthless, without emotion, there will be no pain? Then why are you crying again?

When Ye Shuyun got up, she felt that her whole body was not her own, and Chu Xuanting's madness last night made her want to escape even more.

"Princess, you finally woke up, the prince went out early in the morning, saying that he was going to disaster relief, and he would not come back this month, and Miss Tang Tang also left the medicine she had made, and she also went out early in the morning, saying that she would come back after March."

Hear Takehide's words. Ye Shuyun is much more relieved, at least this month, she will be fine.

Ye Shuyun was having breakfast when a woman in simple and capable clothes walked in.

"Qingyue has seen the princess." As he spoke, he saluted Ye Shuyun.

"No need to be polite, are you the new director that the prince said?"

After finishing speaking, Ye Shuyun carefully looked at the woman in front of him, seeing that she was only in her early twenties, but the aura exuded from this body made people feel very stable

Peace of mind, this should be the same kung fu as Qingwu.

As soon as he thought of Qingwu, Ye Shuyun's eyes dimmed a little, but in the blink of an eye, they returned to normal.

"Exactly, if the princess is in need in the future, or if Qingyue has any shortcomings, please ask the princess to speak out."

At this time, Qingyue looked at Ye Shuyun with curiosity in her eyes, the prince actually asked her to be a housekeeper, just to protect her, and I don't know how much fun she has.

"Most of the things in this house are cumbersome, and Miss Lao Qingyue is concerned."

Frankly speaking, Ye Shuyun's first impression of this new director was good.

Since Ye Shuyun herself has not been very careful, after Qingyue saw her, she went directly to the small leaders in each region to understand the situation.

In another place, Chu Xuanting and Chu Jinshi were rushing to Shunzhou non-stop, this time Chu Xuanting took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the disaster relief, but more importantly, there was something else.

Shunzhou is the junction of Southern Chu and Cangwu, this time there is not only a flood, but also an outbreak of plague, its area is relatively remote, if the imperial court does not send important officials to comfort the people, there is a strong possibility of riots in the local area.

It also takes about ten days to travel non-stop, and the emperor asked him to return to the imperial city within a month to resume his life, naturally because he wanted him to make a meritorious achievement for the civil and military officials.

Five days later, Chu Xuanting and Chu Jinshi arrived in Shunzhou.

As soon as they entered the city, they saw that the people in the city were infected with the plague scattered in all corners, and they came to greet General Li, who was stationed in Shunzhou, and handed the veil to the two of them as soon as possible.

The people were displaced, the city was dirty, the doors of the merchants were closed, and the only place where there were many people was the pharmacy, looking at the long queue, Chu Xuanting's brows furrowed, the situation here was much more serious than he imagined.

"The situation counted by the last general when he wrote the book is much better than now, but this Shunzhou is too far away from the imperial city, and the two princes of Rao are coming non-stop after receiving the letter, and the situation here is also several times worse than before."

As a general stationed here, how can he not be sad to see this scene of the people's misery?

"Brother Huang expects that the disaster will be much more serious than what you reported, but the situation here is really unexpected, the disaster relief materials that came with us are far from enough, and now I am afraid that the letter will return to the city, I am afraid that it will only be far from the water to solve the near fire." Chu Jinshi couldn't help but be anxious when he looked at this situation.

"Has General Lee ever identified the source of this plague?"

Chu Xuanting asked the point concisely and directly.

If the source of the plague is known, it is only necessary to eliminate the source body, and then isolate the people who have been infected with the plague, and then use the medicinal materials of all the pharmacies in the city for treatment, which can minimize casualties.

However, General Li did not give a satisfactory answer: "Back to the prince, this plague seems to have broken out overnight, and these days my subordinates have investigated everything from diet and livestock, but they still don't have a clue. ”

"And how is the contagion?"

General Li just sighed slightly and shook his head: "This plague came inexplicably, what we can do now is to try not to walk outside, and the food can only be medicated2."

In order to find out the source, Chu Xuanting and Chu Jinshi planned to stay with the victims and observe their symptoms and state at the time of the onset. In the past few days, the number of infected people has been increasing, but as General Li said, they seem to have been infected for no reason.

However, the two of them stayed in the pile of victims all day, and still did not get infected, where did the problem come from?

There must still be some detail that they overlooked.

After nightfall, Chu Xuanting and Chu Jinshi stayed in the room to discuss the situation encountered in the past few days, the infected people are not divided into genders and ages, the old, the weak and the young, when the disease occurs, it will be accompanied by convulsions, loss of consciousness, foaming at the mouth, the situation is similar to food poisoning, but the interval between its attacks is not too long, and the two of them have not been infected, so it is possible that the source of the spread of the large-scale plague was originally hidden in their bodies, but it only slowly broke out with time, and now two-thirds of the people in the entire city have already developed this symptom, If the cause is not found, the people of this city will lose their lives.

Chu Jinshi called General Li over again at this time and asked the people in the city if they had any special local customs.

They observed that not only the two of them, but also General Li and the troops stationed in the imperial city were not infected with this strange disease, and it was the ordinary people in the city who were infected with this strange disease, and now rumors have spread in the city, some say that the gods are doing strange things and want to accept this Shunzhou, and some say that the imperial court wants to treat them as outcasts and deliberately poison them, otherwise why only the people in the city suffer from this.

General Lee, of course, understood the urgency of the current situation, but he still couldn't think of the inhabitants of the city and what made them special.

This is the maid who poured tea for them and said on the side: "The slave maid is also a person from Shunzhou, and the people in our city have a habit that every year on the seventh day of the fifth month, the eighth day and the ninth day are the days of our sacrifice." ”

"Sacrifice? What's so special about it? ”

Chu Xuanting motioned for her to continue.

"This sacrifice is different from ordinary sacrifices, all the people in the city, men, women and children have to go, the scene is very lively, after worshipping the gods, we will drink a bowl of holy water."

"But this sacrifice is what they have every year, and there has been no outbreak of plague in previous years." General Lee took her words and said.

"What's so special about this holy water?"

Chu Jinshi motioned to General Li to let the little girl continue.

"This holy water is in a forest on the outskirts of the city, backed by a stone mountain, there is only a small stream of holy water, but it has never been broken, but after last year's sacrifice, one day the right side of the stone mountain suddenly collapsed, and no one cared about it at that time, until a month before this year's sacrifice, the people in the city organized a team of strong men to repair it."

According to this maid, it is possible that there is something wrong with this holy water spring, and the only way to find out what is going on is tomorrow morning.

In the early morning of the second day, Chu Xuanting and the others found the spring under the leadership of the locals, and the place of the collapse is still very obvious, just looking at this water, Chu Xuanting and the others can't see anything, but they feel a little strange, how can there be a water source in this stone mountain, according to them, there must be an undercurrent hidden somewhere in this stone mountain.

Chu Xuanting and the others separated to look for clues around this stone mountain, and when Chu Jinshi walked to the shade of this stone mountain, he obviously felt that this place was very wrong.

It stands to reason that the vegetation in the sunny place of the mountain often grows much better than the place where the mountain is in the shade, but the vegetation in this area is much more lush than the sunny vegetation of the mountain, and the growth rate can be so rapid in the absence of sunlight and water, then this land contains nutrients to nourish the vegetation at a time, Chu Jinshi found a vacant land and dug a layer of soil on the surface of the skin, and found that there are many plants and trees in the soil that have sprouted with the seeds that have fallen with the season.