Eunuch Liu bent down and said, "Your Highness, please don't worry. We have only been on the journey for five or six days. I saw the young doctor and the prince a few days ago. I guess they left in the past two days."
"Just now I remembered that Xiao Shunan was not with Master Xiao. He must have left first with the two children. A man with two children couldn't have walked far even at his fastest pace."
"Your Highness, why not send someone after them now? Xiao Qinbei asked Xiao Shunan to bring the young doctor and the prince back to the capital. He was so pressed for time that he certainly didn't send many people with him. Just now, I observed that he didn't even take the few secret guards that Prince Jin had sent with him."
"There will definitely be times when the guards are not adequate along the way. Besides, the journey back to the capital is long, so it's easy for us to send people to follow."
Prince Qing glanced at him, took off the token from his waist, handed it to Eunuch Liu, and said, "Then do as you say."
While everyone was resting, Eunuch Liu sneaked out and called out all those who were secretly guarding Prince Qing.
"His Highness is not feeling well, so he sent this eunuch to order you to immediately chase the young doctor who is heading to Bian Jing and bring him back." Eunuch Liu took out a jade pendant from his sleeve and showed it to the secret guards.
The group of people standing in front of him saluted Eunuch Liu, then jumped up the tree. After the branches shook a few times, they disappeared from Eunuch Liu's sight in a short while.
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At this time, Ruanruan was sitting in the back of the SUV, sleeping soundly with Zhao Chengqian, head to head.
The roads in Gan Country were difficult to travel on, so Xiao Shunan could only walk along the carriage aisle. However, a car was much faster than a carriage, and in two days, they had already traveled most of the distance.
"If a highway were built here, it would only take one or two days to drive from Qingzhou to Bianjing, and we would have arrived long ago." Ruan Jingye sat in the driver's seat, and Xiao Shunan sat in the passenger seat looking at the road ahead.
We took turns driving these two days.
Except for the northern part of Qingzhou, the snow in Gan State has not melted yet. As they went south, the snow on the ground had melted, but it was still as cold.
Ruan Jingye was driving in Ganguo these two days. When he saw the road conditions in Ganguo, he felt that everything was new at first. Ganguo was like a mountain nest, a pure mountain nest and wilderness.
After driving for a day or two, I felt that this place was inconvenient everywhere. It was too wild. The road was not easy to drive on, full of potholes, and the place was desolate.
"I haven't seen many people in such a long time." He was bored looking at the desolate mountains and wilderness all day long.
Xiao Shunan glanced sideways and saw several civilians standing in the dry bushes outside the car window. They were looking at the car they were riding in in horror, kneeling on the ground and kowtowed several times.
"I'm going to the bathroom, you stay here for a while." Ruan Jingye parked the car on the side of the road, then got out and walked behind the stone.
Xiao Shunan took out a box of mint-flavored chewing gum from the box in front of the co-pilot, opened the lid, poured out a few pieces and put them in his mouth. He chewed them for a few times and looked up at the rearview mirror.
Ruanruan tilted her head back, opened her mouth, and her eyelids moved. She opened her eyes and looked at Xiao Shunan in confusion, "Where are we?"
Xiao Shunan pulled out a map from his sleeve, looked at the markings on it, and said, "It will be soon. It will only take two or three days at most."
As the two were talking, they heard voices and footsteps outside the car window.
"What on earth is this? I just saw it sprint over here, and I could only see its shadow moving."
"This behemoth is so huge and moves so fast, it must be a creature sent by God!"
"Our country has been frozen for so long, and the snow has finally thawed, but now the plague has come again. It must be that God has sent down to earth to give us a miracle to save us from the sea of fire. Please ask God to save us."
"I heard that Youzhou and Qingzhou are protected by gods. The plague is now gone in Youzhou and Qingzhou. It would be great if we could also be blessed by gods, so we don't have to travel far away!"
Just as they were talking, Ruan Jingye came out from behind the nearby rock. He saw that they were wearing ancient costumes and had hunched backs. There were old and young people, women and men among them, and they looked more like a big family.
The family opposite was also looking at Ruan Jingye. Seeing the man in strange clothes walking to the side of the magical object, they seemed to suddenly understand something.
They suddenly knelt in front of Ruan Jingye and shouted loudly: "God... God, you must be a god!"
"Please God, save our family!" The old man in the lead knelt on the ground and pleaded.
Ruan Jingye curled his lips and said in panic: "I... I am not the god you are talking about. Get up quickly."
"No...you must be. Please save us." The old man and the people behind him spoke up.
Behind him was an old woman, a woman wearing a headscarf, and a baby. Next to him was a young man in his teens who was holding a dying child.
"Uncle, what's wrong?" The rear window opened and Ruanruan looked inside.
"They seem to have encountered some difficulties." Ruan Jingye said.
Ruanruan got out of the car and glanced at them. "You should be the people coming out of the nearby city."
"Yes, please God save us."
The man holding the child spoke up, "We were wealthy merchants in Jizhou City. Due to famine and poor harvests, all our shops closed down. We wanted to dismiss our servants and try to make ends meet, but our child fell ill again. We heard that the plague could be cured in Youzhou and Qingzhou, so we planned to take our child there. But just as we were on the road, he became seriously ill and in critical condition."
Ruanruan walked up to him, looked up and said, "Then Ruanruan, help it take a look."
The man lowered his head and stared at Ruanruan with a slightly stagnant expression, "She knows medicine?"
"Yes, don't worry, Ruanruan is a very good doctor." Ruanruan patted her chest.
The man leaned over and held the child to his soft side.
Ruanruan glanced at the pale, weak-breathing child and frowned. "He has what you call the plague. He's still too young, and he has a lung infection. This is a serious condition. If he doesn't get treatment, he'll die before tomorrow."
The woman behind the man heard this and her eyes turned red with anxiety. "Please save my son."
"Little fairy, please save my son... I only have this one child, and his father is Zhan... This child must live." The woman hurriedly grabbed the soft hand and cried.
"Don't be afraid, we have Ruanruan here, nothing will happen to it."
"Second brother, give me the bag next to my little brother." Ruanruan said to the people in the car.
Everyone thought there were only two people in this divine object, but they didn't expect there were others.
Xiao Shunan reached out and took a bag from the back seat. Just as he was about to open the door and get out, Zhao Chengqian also woke up.
"Prince, are you awake?"
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