Since Chaoge said so, Jun Yumo knew there was no room for rebuttal.
"You arrange for people to protect our courtyard and prevent anyone from taking advantage of the situation to break in. The safety of the young masters is your responsibility."
"The fourth brother and I will go to the courtyard to protect the young masters. Master and princess, you should also pay attention to your safety."
The sixth brother took the initiative to stand up, and the fourth brother followed suit.
They knew that although the most important thing now was to assist their master and princess and deal with the affairs outside first, the safety of their five young masters was even more important than anything else.
In this chaotic time, even if this was the Regent's Palace, there was fear of accidents. Chaoge nodded in relief when she saw that the fourth and sixth brothers were staying together.
Chaoge and Jun Yumo used their lightness skills to land at the newly set up checkpoint in the north city.
The soldier guarding the checkpoint looked at the two people who suddenly appeared and was about to be on guard, but when he blinked, he almost rubbed his eyes red.
"Regent? Princess?!"
Jun Yumo rarely shows up, but at this moment, he was holding another token in his hand and immediately stood in front of the leading officers and soldiers.
Upon seeing this, the leading officer hurriedly moved closer to take a look. When he saw the words on the token clearly, he was so scared that he immediately knelt on one knee and saluted the two men!
When the other soldiers who had already taken defensive stances saw their leader's posture, they quickly retracted their half-drawn swords and knelt down one after another!
"Greetings to the Regent, Princess Regent!"
The sound of salute rang out in unison among the crowd. Chaoge looked at the officers and soldiers stationed here with a frown on his face.
"Are all the people from North City inside?"
"Reporting to the princess, this checkpoint was only set up two quarters of an hour ago. Some people in the North City should have escaped in advance."
Hearing the words of the leading officer, Chaoge's expression became a little gloomy.
"Go in and take a look first. Guard the checkpoint well. No matter what happens inside, no one from the North City is allowed to come out."
Without a thorough examination, Chaoge was not sure whether it was an infectious disease, but she was very sure that the smallpox issue had come to an end. With so many excited people making trouble outside the palace, she had to be more careful, because this incident was directly aimed at her.
After all, he has made too many enemies, not to mention the Nan Yan family and Gongsun Jue, there is also the harsh words that Concubine Yan's son made when he left the Yun Mansion, and there is also An Linna.
However, if Anlina wanted to target me, this move would be a bit too big.
Hearing Chaoge's order, the leading officer hurriedly obeyed the order. Seeing Chaoge and Jun Yumo turn around and prepare to leave, the leading officer panicked and hurriedly stopped them.
"What else?"
Jun Yumo's voice sounded cold, and the leading officer didn't dare to look him in the eye. He lowered his head and said respectfully, "It is said that the people outside the North City are in chaos, and now the prince and princess don't have any subordinates with them, so I'd better send some people to follow them."
"good."
Jun Yumo agreed without thinking.
Then twenty officers and soldiers came out and led Chaoge and the others to the streets where the most civilians lived in the northern part of the city.
The deeper into the north city one went, the louder the mournful cries became. It had only been an hour or two since the incident broke out, but white banners had already been hung and mourning halls had been set up at the doorsteps of many homes. The streets, which had been reopened yesterday, were now closed before the hour of Xu, and the surroundings were gloomy and eerie.
Chaoge walked while using all his wood-related skills.
Sure enough, many families had deaths, and some even had several coffins parked directly in their yards. It looked very miserable.
Most of the people in the North City look listless and weak. Even if someone in their family has died, they just force themselves to be strong and go through the motions to put their deceased relatives in the coffin.
Jun Yumo stayed by Chaoge's side, holding Chaoge's medicine box in one hand and tightly holding her little hand with the other. Neither of them spoke, and their expressions were as cold as usual.
When the group passed the end of the street, Chaoge was suddenly attracted by the half-meter-high well and stopped at the same time.
Jun Yumo frowned slightly, followed Chaoge's gaze, and also saw the well.
"How many wells are there in this North City?"
"Reporting to the princess, there are five wells in the North City. This is one of them. There are several more in other directions of the North City."
"Five? So, no one has dug a well without permission?"
"Reporting to the princess, the people living in the North City are all ordinary people, without official titles. Even if there are, they are of a lower rank. Their families are not qualified to dig wells. These are all regulated by the government."
Hearing the report from the officers and soldiers around him, Chao Ge breathed a sigh of relief.
"If there are only five wells, it won't take much time to investigate them one by one."
"Madam, do you suspect that the cause is in this well?"
When I went to Dongxiang State with Chaoge before, a large number of people were poisoned. Such a large-scale poisoning could only be so uniform if the drinking water was poisoned.
When Chaoge's gaze fell on the well, Jun Yumo guessed her intention, but Jun Yumo was a little skeptical about the possibility of this situation.
After all, this is the emperor's territory. If someone really dares to poison on such a large scale, even death would not be so easy.
But this person is too courageous!
Chaoge nodded calmly, "Well, I just have this suspicion, because no one knows better than me whether the people of North City have been poisoned by me. The culprit who can poison tens of thousands of people overnight, except for tampering with the well water that everyone drinks every day, they simply don't have the ability to do it quietly, unless..."
Having said that, Chaoge looked at the guards around her. In order not to cause panic, she stopped what she was about to say and looked up at the guard standing opposite her.
"Send five of you to fetch me a basin of water from each of the five wells and take it to the empty yard where the smallpox patient was kept last time."
"yes!"
After saying that, Chaoge and Jun Yumo continued to go to the same courtyard without stopping.
"An San, go follow them."
When the people turned around, no one saw Jun Yumo's instructions.
An San had already disappeared into the already dark sky. After receiving the order quietly, he returned to the five soldiers who were fetching water.
When Chaoge arrived outside the same yard as last time, before entering, he vaguely heard a man's furious voice.
Chaoge strode directly up the stairs, stepped over the threshold, and rushed in immediately without paying any attention to the guards at the door trying to stop him.
Their appearance also made the man who was furious in the yard suddenly stop talking, and everyone looked towards the gate of the yard!
"Regent?!"
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