Xi Wen didn't answer his brother's words, his eyes stared at a few red bumps on his face, and then walked quickly to the bed, and as expected, his wife also had red and swollen pus on her neck.

"You and Rou'er were also bitten by flying insects?!"

"Yes! The day after you left, a lot of white moths flew from outside the city, and the guards on the city wall were the first to be bitten.

Then he flew into the city, and at first everyone didn't pay much attention to it, just thinking it was an ordinary bug.

It's just that later, the place where everyone was bitten was abnormally itchy, and as soon as I scratched it, I got red and swollen bumps, and slowly formed a thick pack.

At this time, someone went to the hospital to find a doctor for treatment, and the doctor treated according to the usual prescription for mosquito bites, and finally found that the bite was not only not cured, but also slowly began to fester. ”

Xi Wu saw that his brother was not bitten by insects, and asked curiously, "Big brother, how did you know that we were bitten by flying insects?" ”

"Well, I'll talk about it later, there's a guest in the front hall."

Xi Wu saw that his brother was about to wake up his wife, so he stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "But Rou'er, the place where she was bitten by flying insects itches very much, and she just fell asleep for a long time~"

Xi Wen couldn't bear to wake up his wife who had just fallen asleep, but thinking of the guests in the front hall and the current situation in Nanning City, they all needed to discuss a solution as soon as possible.

He hardened his heart, but still gently pushed his wife, "Zhirou, Nujun An is here." ”

Jiang Zhirou, who had a big pustule on her forehead, heard someone call her, she just fell asleep, and she was a little unhappy when she was woken up.

However, the upbringing engraved in her bones, even if she had the air to get up at the moment, she only frowned and opened her eyes.

"Rou'er, that An Nujun in Zhushan County, is waiting for you in the living room now!"

Jiang Zhirou, who was still a little confused and impatient, opened her eyes wide and saw clearly that the person in front of her was her Erlang Jun Xiwen.

“… How did you get back?

Who did you say was waiting for me in the antechamber?! ”

“… An Nujun is here. Xi Wen said.

"Xiao Xia Xia is here!" Jiang Zhirou hurriedly got up and got out of bed.

An Chuxia drank the subordinate who Xi Wen shouted, and the tea brought was waiting for Jiang Zhirou.

Mu Tan looked at the person who had just delivered the tea, the red pimple on his neck, and knew that Xia Xia had not guessed wrong, the Gu master in the Lingnan Army released these Gu worms mainly to let the people in Nanning City.

In the case of unbearable hunger and festering all over the body, they opened the city gates themselves, and they did not need to spend a single soldier to strategize the city.

Hearing the voice, An Chuxia looked at the door and saw Jiang Zhirou walking in hurriedly with the two husbands.

"Xiao Xia Xia, you are finally here, if you don't come again, I am afraid that you will never see me again in this life."

Jiang Zhirou said this a little cheaply, but she was really scared this time.

As the chief official of this city, she could not leave the people of this city with a clear conscience and flee in advance.

But in the city, Zhao Jing'an, a father and son, held the military power in their hands, and acted recklessly, and the enemy army stopped the city gate outside the city, wanting to trap them here.

Jiang Zhirou knew that if there was no miracle, Nanning City would not last long.

Either the city gate was opened by the enemy, or the people who were hungry, oppressed, and unbearable, and finally the soldiers of Zhao Jing'an and his faction were killed.

No matter what the outcome is, it is not the people of Nanning City who are powerful, but the Lingnan army outside the city.

As long as Nanning City makes trouble, the first thing to bear the brunt is her, the prefect, and she can't stay out of it no matter what, can she not be afraid?!

Jiang Zhirou touched her shriveled belly.

To use Uncle Ge's classic line, "The landlord's family has no surplus grain." ”

Zhao Jing'an's personal soldiers have already begun to rob the people's grain, and how much surplus grain does Jiang Zhirou have in the prefect's mansion.

It's just that when he learned that the reserve grain in the city was getting smaller and smaller, Shen Mingxuan, who managed the inner house, instructed the people in the family to save if they could, and everyone could eat thin food, and try not to eat thick food.

But even if you save more, you won't even be able to drink it these days.

"Out of breath!" An Chuxia took a sip of the tea in his hand, glanced at it, and sneered.

When Jiang Zhirou faced An Chuxia, her face was unusually thick, and she didn't know what shame was.

"Xia Xia, Nanning City is now starving to death, I have no one in my hands now, no food, and I am still shackled by Zhao Jing'an and cannot move.

If I hadn't waited to see you one last time, I would have had the heart to die. ”

Seeing that there were several pustules on the back of the hand that grabbed his sleeve, An Chuxia didn't make a move and slapped Jiang Zhirou's restless paws away.

"Goo!"

This time, even if someone was thick-skinned, he made a big red face, covered his stomach, silently walked to the chair next to him and sat down, lowered his head, and didn't dare to look at the others in the living room.

Xi Wen walked to Jiang Zhirou's side distressedly, turned his head and glared at his younger brother, he had only been away for a few days, and his wife went to bed hungry at night.

"Brother, it's not that you don't know that there is no food in the whole city now.

Even if there is still food, they are all tightly hidden by each family, for fear of being robbed by Commander Zhao's group.

Even if I wanted to buy it with money, no one would want to sell it at this time. Xi Wu said aggrievedly.

He didn't want his wife to go hungry, but he really couldn't buy food, so when he ate at night, he pushed half of his bowl of gruel to his wife.

But Jiang Zhirou only ate her bowl of gruel, pushed Xi Wu's bowl back, and left to go to the study to deal with things.

An Chuxia saw Jiang Zhirou, who hadn't seen her for a while, and she had lost a lot of weight, and the cheekbones on her cheeks were exposed, and she couldn't help but sigh.

Turning his head to Ling Feng, who was standing aside, he ordered: "Go back and bring someone to send a few bags of food, go and go back quickly, be careful, don't let people find out, and it will be troublesome to deal with it when the time comes." ”

"Yes, sir." Ling Feng was ordered to leave, and Xi Wen was afraid that he was not familiar with the road here, so he also followed.

After being shy for a while, Jiang Zhirou, who had recovered, heard that there was food, looked at An Chuxia with bright eyes, and said with a flattering face: "Xia Xia, I think you are not only in the mouths of the people, their heavenly blessings, you are also my lucky star."

If it weren't for you and I who couldn't get into the Jinshi exam at the beginning, even if the Jiang family had some connections in the imperial court, it would be impossible to become the prefect of a city like now.

Now that I'm in trouble, and you're there to help me, I don't even know how to repay you. ”

Jiang Zhirou's already charming eyes looked at her ambiguously.

An Chuxia shook the goosebumps on her body, and felt that her next sentence was going to shatter people's three views, so she wanted to open her mouth to stop it, but it was still too late.

"Nanning City doesn't seem to be a place to stay for a long time, or you take me to drill the dog hole that I dig out by the city wall and elope!

People say that there is no way to repay the grace of saving lives, but I can only promise each other with my body, and I will repay your great kindness by doing this. ”

"I don't think you're repaying your kindness, you're taking revenge!"

"What kind of grudge do I have with you, what kind of grudge, what kind of enmity, you want to harm me with such a plan." An Chuxia raised her eyebrows, looked at her teasingly, and said.