Chapter 218 You are all right, the fault is all mine

The woman lowered her eyes, seeming to feel very sorry for what happened.

"The queen came to see me yesterday and said those words. Naturally, I didn't believe them. But it's different for other people. We are in the capital and have no one to rely on. We can only rely on the court and the emperor. If the emperor and the court don't care about us, we really don't know what to do."

"The rumors are spreading rapidly, saying that the court doesn't want any of us to live. Everyone can't help but be scared when they hear this."

"Someone suggested that if the court really did such a thing, they would get out at the risk of their lives. Even if they really had to die, they would return to Qingzhou."

The woman suddenly thought of something and raised her head abruptly to look at Cheng Jin, "That man is the man who stabbed Lord Pei, but I remember that he is not from Qingzhou. He only came in later to treat us."

"Not from Qingzhou?" Cheng Jin also carefully recalled the man's appearance. He did not look like a native of Qingzhou, but he did not look like a native of the capital either.

Since he is not from Qingzhou, that means that the man sneaked into the Qingzhou people for only one thing, which is to sow discord between the people of Qingzhou and the court.

Cheng Jin turned his head and looked in the direction of Chu Chengye. Chu Chengye, who had not spoken, knew Cheng Jin's doubts, so he explained, "He may not be from Nanqi either."

Cheng Jin and the woman were puzzled.

Chu Chengye told her what happened this morning, "Qingzhou City has too many people who died of illness, and the guards at the city gates have also weakened. This morning, someone reported that many people from the Northern Frontier were found in the territory of Nanqi."

"Northern Frontier?" Cheng Jin couldn't help but exclaimed.

Who in the territory of Nanqi didn't know that Nanqi and Northern Frontier had been at odds for generations, but the two countries had reached a consensus at the same time before that they would not interact or fight.

Even though the two countries seemed to be at peace, they often competed with each other in secret, so the previous emperors of Southern Qi ordered that people from the Northern Frontier could never enter the territory of Southern Qi. If they set foot on the land of Southern Qi, it meant that the two countries were about to go to war.

The sudden appearance of the people from the Northern Frontier was a signal.

Chu Chengye nodded, "I have sent troops to Qingzhou to station there. Now the main thing is to find out the people from Northern Xinjiang hiding there."

"The man who stabbed Pei Yu has been controlled by me. Whether it is interrogation or torture, I must find out who instructed what happened today."

Cheng Jin actually had an idea in her mind, but because she was outside, Cheng Jin did not tell the truth first, but just followed Chu Chengye's answer: "It is true."

"Such a thing happened under the feet of the emperor outside the imperial city. We can't neglect it."

Cheng Jin and Chu Chengye did not stay here for too long. Pei Yu was still not awake, and there were more important things at the moment.

After settling the woman and Xiaomi, they returned to the outside of the city.

The people of Qingzhou outside the city were still in a state of panic. They were worried about losing their lives every day, and after listening to the man's words, they naturally didn't care about anything.

However, they really didn't expect such a thing to happen. Their original intention was just to seek justice for themselves.

When they saw Chu Chengye and Cheng Jin returning, everyone knelt in front of them. The murderer had been taken to the Dali Temple for interrogation, and the rest were the people of Qingzhou who were hanging their heads.

Those people knelt and found that Chu Chengye and Cheng Jin in front of them did not say anything, which made them even more panicked.

A brave man among them lowered his head and asked, "Has anything happened to Lord Pei?"

Chu Chengye snorted coldly and said, "If something happened to Lord Pei, do you think I would still be standing here talking to you?"

"If something happens to Lord Pei, all of you present here are accomplices. Anyone who can escape must go to the Dali Temple to rest in peace for two days." "

Sometimes I wonder if what I have done is wrong. I built homes for you outside the city and treated your illnesses, but in the end you all want to rebel in front of me one by one, right?"

"You believe everything others say. It seems that I should just leave you alone and let you fend for yourself."

The man felt relieved after hearing Chu Chengye's words, but when he heard Chu Chengye's latter words, he knelt on the ground tightly again, not daring to breathe.

Chu Chengye walked up to the man, grabbed the man's clothes and pulled him out.

The man stumbled and fell to the ground, then immediately got up and knelt on the ground.

"I know I was wrong."

Chu Chengye sneered, "You are right, you are all right, the fault is all mine."

The man's voice was trembling as he spoke, "I dare not."

Cheng Jin saw that Chu Chengye was so angry and scared him, so he immediately stepped forward and said, "Since you dare not, tell the emperor who instigated today's incident, maybe you can make up for it."

The man knew he was wrong, so he told everything that happened before.

The words were exactly the same as what the woman said before, but the man said a few more words when he was defending himself.

"If it was an ordinary person who said that, we definitely wouldn't be able to do it, but that man is related to the Imperial Hospital. He said that the information he got was true enough, and the Imperial Hospital had stopped giving us medicine. When we came today, we only saw this lady and Lord Pei, so we believed it and were excited for a while."

The man was still horrified when he mentioned Pei Yu's injury, "But we just want justice, and we don't want to or dare to hurt people. Who knows where that man took out a knife and hurt Lord Pei."

Cheng Jin didn't listen carefully to the rest of the words, but only carefully pondered the information about the Imperial Hospital in the man's words.

Cheng Jin has always known that the Imperial Hospital cannot be used. The previous Imperial Hospital has always been headed by Su Shen. After Su Shen retired and returned to his hometown for no reason, the Imperial Hospital became leaderless.

But even so, Cheng Jin never believed any of them. However, Cheng Jin originally thought that the Queen Mother disliked her, and she couldn't drag innocent people into it.

But now she thinks again, she was wrong. Those people didn't care about anything at all.

Cheng Jin and Chu Chengye looked at each other and understood where the problem was.

Although the people here are innocent, they did make mistakes. Things have developed to this point, and it is useless to keep it secret. Originally, they were afraid that if they suddenly told these people that they were not suffering from the epidemic, they would not believe that their emotions would get out of control and riot.

Now that it is discovered that the disease is not an epidemic this time, the mastermind knows that it will be too late to hide it, so he arranged people who deliberately stir up trouble among the crowd. Whether they tell it or not, what happened today will happen.

Cheng Jin told these people the truth in a few words. Although they regretted it, it had already happened and there was no regret