"Not now." Su Mengyan shook her head. "You have to wait until you recover."
Su Mengyan comforted him for a long time until he was no longer as scared as before, and then she placed him next to her.
Looking at the shabby inn and the shopkeeper huddled beside it, Situ Yao took the silver and put it on the table, "This is compensation."
This place is no longer habitable. We must find a place where Wang Shouli doesn’t know where to live.
The shopkeeper came out trembling, took the silver with trembling hands, and asked cautiously, "Who are you?"
He had originally agreed to let Situ Yao and his friends stay because they were wealthy and well-off. Who could have known that this would lead to an enmity with the government officials and bring disaster to his inn?
Situ Yao was incredibly skilled, and within a few hours, he had found a secluded courtyard. Even as he was led into the courtyard, Su Mengyan stared at him with suspicion.
Situ Yao felt a little uncomfortable staring at him, and he feigned anger and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Didn't the young master really snatch this courtyard?" Su Mengyan remembered that due to the plague in the city, many of the houses were empty due to the death of their owners. "I wondered if Situ Yao had moved in without telling anyone."
Situ Yao sneered, "Is this the kind of person I am in your heart? One who oppresses the people?"
Su Mengyan felt a chill on her neck, and then she saw his meaningful look. She immediately shook her head, "No, the young master is as bright as the moon, how could he be that kind of person?"
Situ Yao coughed awkwardly, "Alright, hurry up and clean it up."
Meanwhile, Situ Yao's letter finally arrived in the capital ten days later. However, it was intercepted by the Bai family and never reached the emperor.
After reading the contents of the letter, Bai Qi laughed strangely with satisfaction.
The guests were all surprised and curious about what was written on it.
"When are you happy, sir?" Finally a retainer asked.
"Our people stumbled upon a letter from the Crown Prince back to the capital." Bai Qi said mysteriously, "Guess what's written on it?"
"We are stupid, please tell us, sir." The retainer naturally couldn't guess.
"He said there was a plague in Chu City, and he actually ran there alone. Then he wrote back to ask for His Majesty's help." Bai Qi placed the letter on the candle and burned it completely. "He is seeking death. No one can save him."
"Sir, be careful with your words." The retainer stopped Bai Qi from speaking out loudly and said worriedly, "If it really is a plague, do we have to hide it too?"
"If it was a plague, someone would have reported it long ago. Why would we have waited until now?" Bai Qi interrupted him impatiently. "It's probably something our Crown Prince made up."
"Just pretend this never happened." Bai Qi glanced at them one by one, "If anyone dares to leak it, don't blame me for being rude!"
Because the letter was intercepted by Bai Qi, the people Situ Yao sent back to the capital were killed on the way, and they did not wait for the imperial physician in Chu City.
Lord Gu was overwhelmed by the workload, and the city doctors didn't trust them, and no one was willing to help. The plague-stricken people in the refugee camps couldn't be saved, and the death toll kept rising.
When Su Mengyan and Situ Yao went there, they saw a group of people questioning the guards who were guarding there.
"Didn't you say you would save people?"
"Half of the people are dead now. They are our relatives. Why should we burn them?"
"You tricked us into coming here, and in the end, they died without even a trace of their remains. Don't you feel guilty about that?"
"We need to get out of here."
There were voices coming one after another, all wanting to leave. Su Mengyan sighed softly, "If there were no prescription, they would actually just be waiting to die in another place."
Wang Shouli was delighted to see this kind of scene. He listened to the yamen runner's report with great pride and laughed, "He's just a man who doesn't even dare to reveal his true identity, yet he still dreams of becoming the savior of the people of this city. How ridiculous!"
"Sir, the girl we captured yesterday has woken up." The housekeeper said outside, "After she woke up, she said she wanted to see you."
"No!" Why would Wang Shouli go to see the hostage? The reason he kept her was to threaten Situ Yao in the future.
"But she said that if the master doesn't want to see her, she will bite her tongue and commit suicide." The housekeeper was also in a difficult situation. Cui Mixue was tied up tightly, but he still thought of this trick.
"Let's go and take a look." Wang Shouli wanted to know what she was going to say.
Cui Mixue's hair was disheveled, but when she saw Wang Shouli come in, she smiled faintly, "Master Wang is here after all."
"What do you want to say?" Wang Shouli said impatiently, "If it has nothing to do with Si, then shut up as soon as possible. This way you can live two more days."
"What I want to say to you, sir," Cui Mixue's pale lips curled into a smile, "You have arrested the wrong person, sir. The young master has never taken me seriously."
"Do you think I'll believe you?" Wang Shouli snorted coldly, "You think you can get away with just a few words?"
Cui Mixue laughed miserably, "I never thought of running away."
"I sincerely advise you, sir, that arresting me is useless." Cui Mixue paused and continued, "If you valued me, you would have come to rescue me long ago. How could there be no news until now?"
"Have you forgotten that the young master has a beloved younger brother?" Cui Mixue's eyes were filled with desperate madness. "She is the most important person to the young master. If you can catch him, everything will be solved."
"Why should I trust you?" Wang Shouli stared down at her and said, "You'd better behave yourself and stop trying to get away with this."
Ever since he was deceived by Su Mengyan and the others last time, Wang Shouli increased the number of yamen runners in the prefectural government office. There were guards in every place, and the entire mansion was surrounded as tightly as an iron barrel. Not even a fly could fly out.
The two Xu brothers tried every possible way but failed to escape.
Wang Shouli asked someone to lock the door again, and when he returned to the study, he called in a man in black.
The candlelight flickered, and Wang Shouli's strange face was sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and his narrow eyes were full of shrewd calculations.
"Wang Shouli hasn't taken any action yet?" Su Mengyan asked doubtfully. A whole day had passed, could he hold back?
Situ Yao shook his head. For some reason, he felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, as if something big was about to happen.
Su Mengyan and the others had just returned from outside the city. She was exhausted both physically and mentally, and lay on the bed without caring about her image. She was about to close her eyes when she suddenly heard a light laugh coming from the room.
Su Mengyan quickly sat up and saw Situ Yao still sitting there. She asked in surprise, "Why didn't you go back to the room, young master?"
"Where should I go?" Situ Yao was in a rare mood to tease her. "You are my concubine. What's wrong with staying in your room?"
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