Chen An went all the way to the east, preparing to return to Beijing by means of the northern ancient city. The North Ancient City is an extension of Gangnam Province in Fuzhou, and it is the northernmost city on Gangnam Province, where refugees flow from time to time. Even the government has no choice but to set up many roadblocks to put in people who have road guidance certificates, and there are no displaced people to stop them.

These displaced people were different from the previous famine displaced people, and no one could guarantee whether they were healthy or would carry the plague, so the government also sent a large number of people to drive them to the south, away from the northern old city, and left them to fend for themselves. At this time, the Fuzhou government was heavily guarded, mainly to defend against the plague pathogens, and the remnants of King Wu were not so concerned. However, it is true that Haizhou at this time has been completely abandoned, and ten rooms and nine empty rooms are a great disaster that has not been seen in a hundred years. There is a poem: "When you go out, you can't see anything, and the white bones cover the plain." ”

When Chen An came to the outside of the North Ancient City, he saw such a scene. Tens of thousands of refugees gathered in the southern suburbs of the North Ancient City, their faces were yellow and their abdomen was swollen, and their young children had grass mustard sticks on their heads, looking at the pedestrians in fresh clothes and angry horses on the official road, their eyes showed a trace of expectation. There were also sporadic people rummaging in the open land, and from time to time they found a stalk of grass, which they happily stuffed into their mouths and chewed desperately. Others were devouring some fine white flour dug out of the ground. But Chen Anxin knew that it was definitely not flour, how could flour be dug out of the ground. He had heard that there was a kind of mud called eel mud, and swallowing a small amount could relieve hunger, but not too much, otherwise the hands and feet would be swollen and full to death. Even if it is to relieve hunger, it is just to deceive one's stomach, this thing will not be digested at all, what is eaten in it, and what is pulled out.

A boy with a swollen belly like a pregnant woman, lying next to the official road, with dead gray eyes, looked at Chen An who was passing by. The empty eyes looked at Chen Anxin, and he was sour. He never felt that he was a good person, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with him doing anything to survive better. But at this time, when I saw the scene in front of me, I felt a sense of emptiness in my heart. Is this what regret feels like?

He was just thinking about how Mu Qing and Qin Rong looked together, and he was quite angry, and he did it as soon as his mind was hot. But I just think that at most it will be a scourge to Jiangnan Province, who would have thought that it would break into this monstrous disaster.

There was a voice in his ears that kept saying to him, you didn't do anything wrong, if you let Wu Wangfu calmly mobilize the army, it will be a dead end. It is also the fault of this world, the inaction of the Wu Wangfu and the inaction of the imperial court are the fundamental reasons why the plague has spread so far.

He knew that this was just an excuse, Haizhou was ruined, and whatever the reason, it didn't matter if it was right or wrong.

If possible, Chen An felt that he would never set foot in Haizhou again in his life.

Even he didn't want to go north at this time, he was afraid of seeing Mu Shaoping and seeing that eager look. The old man has been hanging pots all his life to help the world, and there are countless living people, and when he is old, he naturally hopes that Chen An can inherit his mantle and cure diseases and save people. Chen An still remembered the disappointment in Mu Shaoping's eyes when he knew that he had joined the Dark Division, the satisfaction in his eyes when he discussed medical pharmacology with him all night, and the relief in his eyes when he watched him sit in the hall for consultation.

He really couldn't imagine what the old man's expression would be if he knew that he had killed more people than he had saved in his ten lifetimes.

But the road will always be finished, as soon as he entered the city, he was discovered by his subordinate Hawkeye, from Hawkeye's mouth, he learned that there are many subordinates, distributed on the border of Fuhai and Haizhou, looking for his whereabouts. As for Mu Shaoping's family, they have been escorted to Jiangcheng further north by Sikong Cheng, Zhang Xia and others. Now that the plague is raging, Tongnan City is so close to Haizhou, it is really not complete.

Chen An gave Hawkeye the order to close the team, and then went to Jiangcheng alone again, and it took two days to arrive.

Jiangcheng is the capital of Fuzhou, at this time it is close to the cold winter wax moon, but it is still a prosperous scene, compared to the south thousands of miles away, there is a difference between heaven and hell.

Chen An stepped onto the Jinshui Bridge, crossed the Mo River, and entered the inner city. This Mo River is not to say the color of the water quality, but on both sides of it is the largest Goolan tile shop in Fuzhou, at night, the flower boats sway, dotted among them, like the Milky Way pouring bright and dazzling, the bright color is boundless. Every year, it attracts many literati and elegant guests, who chant poetry and dance here, hence the name.

Chen An was obviously not a vassal and elegant person, and he didn't like to join in the fun, so he didn't stay here for long, but walked directly to the inner city.

Walking into the inner city, he met Hawkeye, who had already received the news of his return.

The "Hawkeye" was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, with rough hands and feet, and at first glance he was the most ordinary country farmer. He clasped his hands in the torn jacket, and he leaned over to Chen An's side and whispered a few words, and then left quickly.

Leaving Chen An's face to change suddenly, he immediately turned over and got on his horse, regardless of the fact that it was in the middle of the market, he whipped his horse and galloped towards a big mansion in the city, knocking over countless vendors and pedestrians along the way.

Half an hour later, Chen An stood in the lobby of the house, looking at the calligraphy and paintings in the hall, silent. This mansion is quite strangely built, and naturally there is nothing wrong with it from the outside, and even if you walk in, ordinary people only feel unwell, but they can't tell what the way is. But those who really look closely will see that there is very little vegetation in the gardens, and there are many tiled houses, and they are very closely arranged and orderly. If you're not familiar with the road, it's easy to get lost.

There is an air of murder everywhere here, and the only similar buildings are military camps. This mansion is pinned on the name of a wealthy man in Jiangcheng, but it is actually the property of the dark division. Chen An had made an appointment with his subordinates to meet here, but now Zhang Xia was the only one who remained here.

At this time, Zhang Xia stood behind Chen An, dressed in purple, still dressed with her hair covering half of her face, but half of her face was exposed, without half of her blood, and her shoulders were wrapped in thick white gauze, obviously seriously injured. She looked at Chen An's back, and she didn't dare to come out. This oppressive atmosphere has lasted for a while, and she almost wants to go crazy. But her heart is quite complicated, the little boy in front of her has only been seen for a while, and the momentum on his body is so strong that she really doesn't know what he has experienced.

Just as she was thinking wildly, a faint voice came from her ears, and she couldn't hear joy or anger.

"So my uncle and Sister Qing were taken away by the people of the Blood Division?"

"Yes...... Yes. Zhang Xia was excited, sweating on her forehead: "My subordinates are derelict in their duties, please give me my sins." ”

"Sikong Cheng is dead?" Chen An continued to ask as if he hadn't heard her words.

"Yes......"

"They left me a message, replacing people with Yujue, but they didn't make it clear what it was?"

"Yes......" Zhang Xia felt that her answer of "yes, yes, yes" was stupid, but under Chen An's unquestionable tone, she didn't know what else to say, so she could only respond by inertia.

"Wait. Chen An sighed and said this strange sentence.

As he exhaled this breath, Zhang Xia felt that the airflow in the entire space was much smoother, and the pressure around her body was also relaxed, but she didn't dare to be careless at all, and still stood with her hands down, without extra movements.

I don't know how long later, an obese figure flashed into the hall, it was another golden-scaled guard Zhu Qi, he stood beside Zhang Xia, saluted Chen An's back, and said at the same time: "My lord, the people of the Blood Division are in the mansion of a gentry in the south of the city, and that gentry is the outer gate of the Blood Division. ”

"Who is here?" Chen An's voice was still tepid, but it made Zhu Qi's heart tremble, after living together for so many days, he knew the relationship between the Mu family and Chen An. As the saying goes, the dragon will be angry when he touches the scales, and it is not an exaggeration for the Mu family and daughter to say that it is Chen An's scales, but since Chen An learned the news, he only ordered a few orders to go out, and he stood here without saying a word, and there was no fierce state of being captured by his close relatives at all. But this situation is even more terrifying than its violent thunder and immediately leading the team to save people.

Zhu Qi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "It's the director of the department, Zhongxu, the Dutong Mu Sundial led the team, a group of sixty-two people, and some are the family members of the gentry, the number of people is more than 100, compared to ...... More than us. ”

Then there was silence again.

Zhu Qi didn't have to reply, so he had no choice but to stand awkwardly with Zhang Xia.

Zhang Xia is a woman after all, her mind is sensitive, she felt that the suppressed momentum was slowly condensing, so she forced her head and said tentatively: "My lord, aren't we going to save people?"

After not replying for a long time, Zhang Xia had the courage to ask again, "My lord, what should we do?"

And so on. ”

Zhang Xia and Zhu Qiju were stunned, and now the situation is obvious, either according to the requirements of the Blood Division, use that jade Jue to exchange, or force the attack to meet the real chapter with his men. What are you waiting for? Do you wait until it gets dark and then try to rescue him? But it's not realistic, the intelligence of the Blood Division is much better than the Dark Division, and it is natural to know the identities of himself and the others, rather than waiting until it gets dark and the other party is more heavily guarded, it is better to act now, and it is too late to attack him by surprise. It's just that Chen An has been accumulating power for a long time, and even if the two of them don't think so, they don't dare to refute it.

It was another two hours, and it was already the beginning of the lanterns. A few silver candles in the hall illuminated Chen An's figure strangely, like a ghost. Zhang Xia and Zhu Qi's mood did not relax a little with time, but became tighter and tighter, almost suffocating.

"My lord, the capital is urgent. Suddenly a hoarse voice broke the strange atmosphere,

The three people in the hall didn't have any strange expressions, obviously not surprised by this.

Chen An stretched out his hand and calmly pulled out an envelope from the shadow beside him, unfolded the letterhead in it, and read it carefully, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

For a long time, he took the letterhead into his arms. lightly instructed Zhang Xia and the others: "Go out and save people." ”