This is Yang Jinqiao's second letter, only three days apart, so calculated, she almost just sent the first letter, immediately sent the second letter, you can imagine what kind of anxious mood she was in when the first letter was still on the way, she couldn't wait to send the second letter.

I hope to return early.

This time there are only three words, I hope to return early.

There is one word less than before, but everyone knows that this is not a clerical error, nor is it Yang Jinqiao's trouble, she is using the most direct and subtle method to tell Pei Yuanhao - the situation is urgent.

But even so, there is still no news from the capital.

What the hell is going on?!

Pei Yuanhao also felt that the situation was unusual, and he originally planned to go north and return to Beijing immediately after solving the problem of the victims, so after receiving Yang Jinqiao's letter, he immediately ordered to go down, and the state capital was busy again, he still did not release Hong Wenquan, but let the other two officials take his place, and after returning to Beijing to Emperor Ming, he would re-dispatch officials to Yangzhou.

The next morning, before it was fully light, we got up.

The carriage was still parked outside the state capital, everything had been brought with them, and the accompanying soldiers were already waiting aside, Pei Yuanhao waved his hand at them, and those people immediately turned over and got on their horses, ready to set off at any time.

Yangzhou in the early morning was still a little cold, plus there was an illness yesterday, although I used good medicine, and also used some methods that could not be declared to reduce the fever, but in the end it hurt my vitality, standing at the gate of the state capital is still a little embarrassed, Pei Yuanhao walked to the carriage and looked back at me: "Come here." ”

I walked up silently, and he had already stretched out his hand to me: "Get in the car." ”

It was already rumoring outside, and I really didn't have the strength to care about anything anymore, so I carefully grabbed his hand, and his body temperature immediately came from my fingertips, and for some reason, that temperature made me feel a little painful.

Just as he was about to help me into the carriage, there was a sudden sound of gongs and drums on the avenue ahead.

When the sound of Dangdang spread quickly in the empty streets in the early morning, many people who were still asleep were woken up, and they all came out to look sleepy, and some people opened the door and walked out with their clothes on, and my hands that lifted the curtain paused in mid-air and looked at the end of the long street.

"Urgent, urgent!" A figure hurried from the front, shouting, "There is a plague, a dead man!" ”

Epidemic disease?!

My heart jumped suddenly, and at this time, Pei Yuanhao's hand holding me had already loosened.

As soon as he turned around, he saw that his face had also changed drastically, standing there motionless, waiting for the person who was in a hurry to come over, and the two acting governors of Yangzhou Mansion hurriedly stepped forward: "What's the matter?" What a plague, say it clearly! ”

"Return, Lord Hui, a large number of victims were feverish yesterday, coughed for a long time, and several died in the middle of the night, and the doctors in the house went to see them, but they didn't find the root of the disease, and the doctors who returned to the medicine shop came over there this morning, saying that there was a plague!"

The plague, the two words that made everyone talk about the tiger's color, I listened to it, and I only felt that the sound was like a thunderbolt, piercing my ears were buzzing, and a sharp pain suddenly burst out from the cuffs, I couldn't hold back any longer, covered my mouth, and coughed violently.