Earthquakes are often followed by plagues, and the food problem has just been alleviated for the time being, but unexpectedly, the plague broke out in the city.

It may be that Xiao Junjue often visits the victims, and he doesn't know who he contracted from to contract the plague.

The fever did not go away, he was unconscious, the clothes he wore and the things he used had been taken and burned, the house was also lit with mugwort leaves to drive away the plague, and strong soju and boiling vinegar were sprinkled in every corner.

Rong Zhao glanced through the screen, and Xiao Junjue was lying there behind the curtain, losing a lot of weight in a few days. He was unconscious and unstable, coughing from time to time.

Rong Zhao did not come to his side to serve, claiming what if she was also infected. She is neither a maid nor a doctor, and it is useless to be by Xiao Junjue's side.

Therefore, the night owl dislikes her even more, and scolds her behind her back for being a woman with no conscience.

Inevitably, he was also infected, and everyone who came in and out wore veils, and Rong Zhao stood behind the screen for a while before leaving.

Nighthawk and Nightowl are busy now, and the prince has fallen, but they still need people to appease the victims, so they check the current situation of the victims every day instead of the prince, and take turns to take care of Xiao Junjue at night.

The disaster is not a one-way street, the disaster relief grain that should have been transported to Meishan early was robbed by the bandits on the way, and the government of Meishan County was gloomy and gloomy.

When I came back from Xiao Junjue's room and passed by a hand-copying verandah, I heard a maid whispering, "I heard that the Baifu tree outside the city is very effective, as long as you write your wish on the yellow cloth strip and hang it on the branches, your wish can come true." ”

"Is it really that effective?"

"Yes, my wish last year was to hope to meet Ruyi Langjun earlier, but I didn't expect to meet Brother Quan within a few days of hanging up, do you say that the spirit is not effective? Moreover, Brother Quan has proposed to my family, and we will get married next year. ”

"Wow, I'm going to hang it too. ”

"Well, the more you hang, the sooner your wish will come true. ”

Rong Zhao pouted as he walked, and wrote his wish on the yellow cloth and hung it on the tree to make his wishes come true, what a fool he was. If it really works, anyone can lie in bed and wait for the gold to fall from the sky.

She scoffed at the time, but turned her head and asked Qiushui to prepare the yellow cloth, wrote her wish for the night, and went out of the city early the next morning to find the hundred blessing tree to hang up.

The night owl was even more angry when he heard about it, if it wasn't for the nighthawk to stop him, he would have found Rong Zhao a long time ago.

The prince is sick like this, she is still in the mood to play with the wishing tree, is she just looking forward to the death of the prince.

Nighthawk can't understand Rong Zhao anymore, does she really don't care about the life and death of the prince at all, it's just that he is calmer than Night Stalker, but he is not as affectionate as before facing Rong Zhao.

It's just that on this day, Rong Zhao called him to the room.

"The princess doesn't know what to do with her subordinates?" The prince's illness is a stone in his heart, and he usually likes to laugh the most, but at this time he has no smile. With a solemn face, he frowned, but he treated Rong Zhao quite respectfully.

Rong Zhao was silent for a moment, just looking at him. He waited for Rong Zhao to speak for a long time before he raised his head, and said inexplicably: "Is there something wrong with the princess?" paused, "Or let your subordinates go to Linzhen to buy lily cakes?"

Rong Zhao doesn't mind that others think she is a heartless person.

"I think it's a bit strange that the disaster relief food was robbed by the bandits. ”

Nighthawk never expected the princess to ask him to come to talk about this, but when she mentioned it, he couldn't help but be interested, "How can the princess see it?"

Rong Zhao wanted to say that because she had lived all her life, she knew that this batch of disaster relief materials was swallowed by Fang Yude, the magistrate of Meishan County.

At this time in her previous life, she had also married Xiao Jinyu, and when she brought him soup that day, she overheard him outside the study instructing his subordinates to pass a book to Fang Yude Feige, and asked him to send a group of people to pretend to be bandits to rob the disaster relief grain.

There were hundreds of thousands of deniers of grain for disaster relief, and they colluded with local rice merchants to raise the market price and sell it at a high price.

Xiao Jinyu also used this money to dredge up in the court, bribe officials, and buy people's hearts.

But she couldn't say that.

So he made up a beautiful lie at random, "Because it was too coincidental, we came when the disaster was at its worst, but it was also unimpeded all the way." The disaster relief food came later, how could it be blocked halfway, and this is the imperial grain, all people and animals have to give way, why can't they get in. ”

Rong Zhao's reason became more and more compiled, "Besides, how bold is that bandit, even the disaster relief materials allocated by the imperial court have to be robbed." Even if they dare, but think about it again, although the thieves are thieves, there are rules on the road, and the poor cannot be robbed. If they rob even the food that they give to the victims, they are not breaking the rules of the road. ”

Nighthawk listened to her and believed it, "That's right, and this news is still after the prince fell ill, isn't this bullying us without a backbone." ”

"So, I called you here to find out about this matter, I have always seen that county magistrate Fang Deyu sneaky these days, you go and investigate him. Rong Zhao led the matter directly to Fang Deyu.

"Yes, my subordinates will go and check. "Nighthawk commands.

In the evening, when Nighthawk came back to restore his life, seeing his angry face, Rong Zhao knew that he had found out.

His subordinates followed Fang Deyu all the way and found that he had another family house in the city, and after some investigation, he found that it was a granary at all, with hundreds of thousands of deniers of grain in it, and the seal printed with the imperial court had not been torn off. ”

The subordinates also overheard that Fang Deyu was going to trade with the owner of the largest rice shop in the city at the third watch tomorrow night, which was this batch of relief grain. ”

Rong Zhao was confident, "Tomorrow night, you will quietly take someone to catch a thief on the spot, and catch a turtle in the urn." ”

cut off Xiao Jinyu's financial route first, caught Fang Deyu and said that he could still be implicated in this matter.

On the second day, Nighthawk took people with him at night, and he grabbed one by one, neither Fang Deyu nor the owner of the rice shop ran. The nighthawk who pressed the people and food beat the gongs and drums and returned to the palace, and the trial began that night.

The king of Chu was ill, but Rong Zhao went to court. In the name of beauty, now she is the biggest.

Sitting on the chair of Zhixian, Erlang's legs were cocked, and he was shocked, and Nighthawk Qiushui stood on both sides, Rong Zhao shouted in his heart, "Cool!"

"Who's in the hall, report your order!" Rong Zhao squinted, as if he had just seen clearly, "Yo, it turned out to be Lord Fang of Meishan County? What did you do? ”

Nighthawk almost couldn't hold back a laugh, Princess, didn't you ask knowingly. You ordered the people to be arrested, and you pretend to be stupid at this time.

was caught, where did Fang Deyu still quibble, and repeatedly supported two sentences, "Xiaguan, Xiaguan ......"

"What's Xiaguan?" Rong Zhao's voice raised, tilting his ears sideways, "What did Lord Fang say? This princess didn't hear clearly, you should be louder." "If you are a thief with a weak heart, you will speak in a low voice, could it be that Lord Fang is also a thief at night?

Nighthawk burst out laughing and quickly covered his mouth.

Rong Zhao glanced at him, cleared his cough, and said, "I saw that Lord Fang was caught in the neck by the shackles, so I thought he was on the guillotine, and I was afraid that my head would be separated as soon as I spoke." Since this is the case, someone will come and take away Lord Fang's shackles and let him speak well. ”

As soon as Fang Deyu's shackles were removed, Rong Zhao slapped the shocked wood fiercely and shouted, "Fang Deyu, why don't you recruit this princess from the truth!"

This sudden sound, not to mention Fang Deyu, even the nighthawk was startled, princess, can we not be so surprised.

Fang Deyu hurriedly kowtowed to the ground and begged for mercy: "The princess spares her life, the princess spares her life, the lower officials will be obsessed with their minds for a while, so they will embezzle disaster relief food, you spare the lives of the lower officials." ”

Although it was the middle of the night, there were many people watching the excitement, standing on the periphery to watch, at first they all felt that the princess's trial was fresh, and they should have never seen it in all dynasties. But when he saw that the prisoner was the magistrate, he muttered in his heart, and then heard the magistrate personally admit that he had embezzled the disaster relief food, and there was an uproar.

"Now that the city is full of victims, he is still greedy, doesn't this cost people's lives?"

"I heard that there was no rice in the granary of the government two days ago, and it was the money that the king of Chu took out to buy high-priced rice for the victims to eat. ”

"King Chu is really a good prince. ”

"Princess, you must seek justice for the people of Meishan County. ”

"We must punish this corrupt official!"

It feels good to be supported, Rong Zhao is a little fluttery. She waved her hand at the people, "Calm and quiet, this princess has done the most fair thing, this person owes you, this princess asked him to return it to you even with interest!"

"Oh, oh. The people below cheered again, "The princess is a thousand years old, the prince is a thousand years old." ”

"Shhhhhhhhh

The people really gave face, and they were silent in an instant, which made Rong Zhao a little uncomfortable.

"Fang Yude, tell me in detail what you have done, not a word is allowed to fall, I will slap you when you drop a word. Rong Zhao raised his eyebrows, he had the momentum of a prosperous man, and he was not angry and arrogant.

Fang Deyu recounted the whole matter word for word, how to collude with rice merchants, how to rob disaster relief grain, and even report more dead people to the imperial court.

"All the officials can recruit have been recruited, please ask the princess to spare the life of the lower officials, the lower officials will never dare to do it again!" Fang Deyu slammed his head on the ground and thought, he never thought that he would watch others kowtow to him every day, and now he also kowtows.

"Gone?" Rong Zhao suddenly asked.

Fang Deyu paused, "It's gone." ”

Rong Zhao compared his fingers to the candle, and the candlelight shone through her fingers, shining her fingers pink and tender, "You are just a magistrate, you have such a big courage, I don't believe it when you say it, is there someone behind it?" Rong Zhao was slow and meticulous, and deliberately lengthened his voice when he last "ah".

Suddenly, his voice suddenly rose up, and he knocked it again and shouted, "Say! Who is behind you?"