Mikago

There is indeed a loquat—two days ago, the servant of the door entered the palace and mentioned the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River during the conversation.Lu You casually said "loquat is delicious", and the things were sent to the palace this morning.

Lu You knew that Zhao Yang might have another attack, but he still said calmly: "Lu You dare not be greedy, the loquat has been sent to the dining hall to make light and delicious sweet porridge, if the prince wants to eat it, I will order someone to bring some over now. "

Zhao Yang didn't want to eat porridge, he hummed, and asked again: "Among the people who came here these days, is there any one who is smart enough to see your tricks?"

Lu You calmly said: "When it comes to returning to the prince, Lu You has always been cautious and never dared to cause trouble to the prince. Please rest assured."

Zhao Yang hummed again, changed his position on the couch, and tapped the armrest with his fingers: "I heard that you accompanied Father to the Taimiao to worship ancestors and performed well, so did Father reward you with anything?

Lu You replied: "In reply to the prince, I rewarded you with a jade belt, a bucket of beads, and 100 taels of gold, all of which were put into your private treasury."

"Oh?"

Zhao Yang was overjoyed at first, but soon his expression darkened: "Then is there any maid who came here to flatter you as if I were you?"

"Lu You is already a middle-aged man, and he dare not have any unreasonable thoughts."

"Don't dare...then there is one?!"

Zhao Yang rolled his big eyes, and simply said: "Why are you so boring, didn't you do anything wrong today?"

Lu You pondered for a moment, then replied: "If you go back to the prince, I forgot to take the Ye Zige that the prince asked for."

"You stupid slave!"

Zhao Yang laughed loudly, kicked Lu You's right chest abruptly.Lu You took advantage of the situation and sat on the ground with his head lowered, as if in fear.

Zhao Yang shouted on top of his head: "Say, who is the real King Xuan?!"

"It's you, you are the real His Royal Highness Xuan Wang."

Similar cross-examinations and answers are performed every night as scheduled in this small secret room full of soup medicine and stale atmosphere.

After kicking Lu You, Zhao Yang seemed satisfied, coughed a few times and went to scratch his spots again.Lu You took advantage of the opportunity when the maid was applying the medicine for him, retreated out of the secret room, closed the door, and walked quickly into the courtyard.

The sun has set in the west, and the evening wind has blown away the sweltering heat in the house.Lu You raised his head and took a few deep breaths, then walked to the pool in the courtyard, took out a stack of leaf grids from his arms, and threw them into the pool.

It seems that there is still a long time before the two months that the imperial doctor said.

When Xun Feng came south, the wisterias that had just bloomed in the palace encountered a cold rain.

After the rainy and windy day, at dusk, Lu You stepped on the falling flowers, quietly left the Huiqing Hall, and came to the osmanthus tree inside the Tongming Gate.

He waited here for a long time, and finally found the person he was looking for when lighting the lamp.

The messenger came from Liuquan Li Palace, covered in a layer of wet rain and fog.He took out a bamboo tube from his bosom, and the letter paper rolled inside was still wet.

After appreciating the messenger, Lu You immediately took a few steps to hide in the Purple Orchid Pavilion, and leaned against the porch to take a look.

Just the day before yesterday, Zhou Zong mentioned in a letter that due to the raging epidemic, the price of medicines in Liuquan City had skyrocketed, and those who could not afford the medicines were dissatisfied with the Qin family who monopolized the medicine business.A servant in charge of purchasing in the Qin family was beaten up in a sack in the vegetable market. The Qin family reported to the officials, but they couldn't find the culprit of the beating.

Lu You naturally worried about Ye Yueshan's safety, and immediately wrote a letter, entrusting Lu Ying'er to send it to Liuquan City overnight.But until today, he has not heard from Ye Yueshan.

The letter just now was written by Zhou Zong, and it mentioned that, seeing the chaos in Liuquan City intensified, the Qin family packed up their belongings and hid in the villa in the mountains yesterday morning to avoid the limelight. At this moment, there were hardly anyone in the mansion.

It turned out to be like this, it seemed that Yueshan should have entered the mountain with the Qin family, so she temporarily lost contact.

Lu You managed to regain his composure, put the letter in his arms, turned around and returned to Huiqing Palace.He also wanted to write back to Zhou Zong, ordering him to find out the location of the Qin family's other business, and if necessary, be ready to take Ye Yueshan away at any time.

According to past experience, the messenger would have to wait for the gate of the palace to open tomorrow before picking up the letter paper, and it would not be too late to rush to Liuquan City.Zhou Zong took the order to find the Qin family's other business, at most one or two days would result - Lu You originally thought that the situation would not change much during this time, but after one night, he was completely panicked up.

The next morning, in the Hongwen Museum.

Even before it was time to teach, the doctor was nowhere to be found.Today, the students arrived in an unusually orderly manner, and they were whispering to each other, as if something serious had happened.

Lu You usually never interferes with other people's right and wrong, but today he is inexplicably more careful, and the first word he hears is "Liu Quan".

Something serious happened in Liuquan City.

About yesterday evening, around the first quarter of the unitary hour, a funeral family sent an elder who had passed away to a cemetery outside the city for burial before the city gate was closed.When the funeral was completed, it was already dusk and the sun was setting. According to the custom, the rest of the relatives dispersed separately, leaving only one dutiful son to tie a hut beside the cemetery to observe his filial piety.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was late at night, and the dutiful son was guarding the grave, just when he was falling asleep, he suddenly heard the sound of digging the earth, faintly carried by the wind.

He boldly looked outside, and saw a few dark "wild lights" floating in the wasteland to the northwest of the cemetery, accompanied by some voices that seemed human but not human.

... It's those ghostly witch doctors who are digging up the bodies of people who died of the plague!

The filial son hurried back to the city and told the neighbors what he saw.As the news spread, all the newly mourned people couldn't sit still, they didn't even care about the curfew, and they rushed to the cemetery outside the city with sticks and farm tools.When I went there, I found that the tombs of many families had been dug up secretly, and the remains inside were missing!

Like adding fuel to the fire, all the resentment accumulated for a long time finally broke out.

It was midnight when the moon and stars were scarce, but the entire southern suburb of Liuquan City was brightly lit with torches, boiling against the sky.Almost all the people in the city flocked to their graves.Those angry bereaved households surrounded the dilapidated temple where the ghosts and witch doctors temporarily lived, smashed doors and windows, and even set fire to the house.Yaowangyuan sent people to rescue them, but they also got burned and couldn't take care of themselves.

The ruined temple where the witch doctor lived was quickly razed to the ground, but no remains were found in the temple.

So the crowd flocked back to the city again, and rushed to several different places - Yamen, Liuquanli Palace, and Qin Mansion.