Chapter 115
Inside the Zichen Hall.
"Why did the dam suddenly burst?!"
Emperor Chongzhao threw the memorial to the ground and angrily said, "The dam was reinforced just a year ago, but it can't even withstand a single impact?! Minister of Works, you come and explain!"
The Minister of Works saluted and said, "Your Majesty, this matter has little to do with our Great Zhou. It was the Nanning dam located on the border between the two countries that was destroyed first. The flood rolled down and rushed into the Great Zhou. Even if the Xianghe dam was strong, it would certainly not be able to withstand it."
Xie Jingshan frowned, "That's true. The impact of the flood discharge is so sudden, and the pressure surges instantly. The possibility of the dam breaking will greatly increase."
Fang Taifu closed the memorial, his face serious, and said: "Both dikes have been completely destroyed. The Great Zhou has reported that three counties have suffered. The Nanning dike has also been destroyed. According to the momentum of the water flow, many Nanning residents should be washed into the Great Zhou territory. This is a matter between the two countries."
While they were discussing, Eunuch Bao came in and said, "Your Majesty, the Seventh Prince is here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qu Dubian strode in. Without a word of nonsense, he bowed and said, "Father! Your son, please go to Xianghe!"
Master Fang: "No!"
Emperor Chongzhao: "This is simply nonsense."
He slammed the table and said, "The three counties near the Xiang River are in such a bad state now. You can imagine what it is like to die if you go there."
Qu Dubian raised his eyes and said, "My mother is in Xianghe now. There has been no news so far. Father, how can I not go?"
Emperor Chongzhao was shocked for a moment, and after a few seconds he said, "No way! There is no room for negotiation on this matter. I will send someone else to Xianghe. You stay in the palace obediently!"
Qu Watanabe: "Dad!"
"How can your body survive? You've been riding day and night without stopping. How many lives do you have left?"
Emperor Chongzhao lowered his voice and waved his hand, "It's no use calling you father. Come, take care of the Seventh Prince in the Prince's Residence. You are not allowed to go out without my order!"
Two guards took Qu Dubian away.
The "weak" body that allowed him to avoid many disputes has now become the biggest obstacle preventing him from going to Xianghe River.
No matter how anxious Qu Dubian was, he remained calm.
Emperor Chongzhao obviously knew how troublesome his youngest son was. He was afraid that he would run away secretly, so he sent four guards to watch over Pingguiyuan.
Qu Dubian stood in his own small courtyard. Ye Xiaoyuan walked up to him silently: "Your Highness..."
Qu Watanabe whispered, "Can you contact Xiaochun?"
Ye Xiaoyuan nodded.
Qu Dubian: "He should know someone in the transportation inspection office. Tell him that I will leave the palace from the north gate tonight and leave the capital."
He looked at Ye Xiaoyuan and said seriously: "Banban, don't stop me."
Ye Xiaoyuan shook his head: "I can't, but I'll go with you."
"Okay," Qu Dubian patted his hands, "They'll look at me, but they won't stop you. Go out of the palace later to find your uncle and ask him to send a message to Uncle Le Tian in the south, asking him to secretly transport a batch of medicinal herbs, precious wine, and food to Xianghe County."
Ye Xiaoyuan wrote them down one by one.
Qu Watanabe: "On my way back, I passed by the Imperial Hospital and called Doctor Yang and Doctor Qiu over. I told them that I was sick and asked them to come and treat me."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Ye Xiaoyuan left Pingguiyuan, using the excuse that Qu Dubian was hungry and wanted to have some snacks.
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Hostage.
Yu Ruo also received the news that two dams had burst and some of the people of Nanning were washed into the territory of Da Zhou.
Gu Xin looked at his Highness's cold expression and was quite puzzled: "Your Highness, Nanning suffered little damage. The one who suffered more damage should be Da Zhou. Why are you so anxious?"
Yu Ruo: "The dam was destroyed and the two countries suffered. We should negotiate how to solve the problem. Do you think that father will be the kind of benevolent king who will use money to support the few people who were washed away to the Great Zhou?"
I'm afraid they will simply abandon these people who have suffered from the disaster.
Gu Xin curled her lips and said, "We don't care anyway. The Great Zhou will also deal with the disaster. Consuming them will only make us stronger."
Yu Ruo suddenly turned back coldly.
Gu Xin shuddered: "I'm sorry, Your Highness! I said the wrong thing."
Yu Ruo said slowly: "I'm going to Xianghe."
Gu Xin: "The Great Zhou Emperor will not allow it."
Yu Ruo: "Wu Ying."
A figure appeared in the room.
Wu Ying and Gu Xin were the two guards who came from Nanning.
Yu Ruo: "Wu Ying pretends to be me, Gu Xin, you stay with him. After I go out disguised as a servant, you find a chance to come out and look for me."
Wu Ying: "There are secret guards from the Great Zhou outside the palace. Within a day, they will find out that Your Highness has left."
Yu Ruo: "Behead them first and report later. When they find out, you can submit a memorial and tell them that I am worried about the people of Nanning who were washed into the Great Zhou territory by the flood. The Great Zhou emperor will turn a blind eye."
Gu Xin was still upset about what she had just said, and upon hearing that, she quickly said, "Then I'll go get you some clothes!"
Wu Ying: "Which city gate do you plan to leave from, Your Highness?"
Yu Ruo thought for a moment and narrowed his eyes: "I think I am not the only one who will secretly leave the capital. If I were him, I would seize every opportunity to rush to Xianghe River as soon as possible and wait at the city gate closest to Xianghe River."
"wait?"
"Just wait and see."
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Dusk is falling.
The rain curtain decreases.
Ye Xiaoyuan walked in the rain, smelling damp, and came to the prince's residence with Imperial Doctor Yang and Imperial Doctor Qiu.
The Seventh Prince was often ill. The four guards guarding the door were all aware of it. They were thinking in their hearts that it was a good thing that the Seventh Prince did not go to Xianghe, otherwise he might really have died in Xianghe County as His Majesty said.
Qu Dubian was wearing a dark-colored outfit, which he often wore when practicing martial arts. At this moment, he was sitting at the table in the room.
Doctor Yang wondered: "Your Highness doesn't look sick."
Ye Xiaoyuan closed the door of the house.
Qu Dubian smiled slightly, stood up and walked to the two imperial doctors. Under their puzzled and unguarded gazes, he suddenly attacked each of them with a knife.
Plop.
Both men fell to the ground.
"Six six."
Yi Twelve appeared: "Your Highness, except for the four guards outside the courtyard, there are no people secretly following you, just avoid the patrols."
Qu Dubian raised his hand and said, "Go ahead. I'll leave the four outside to you. Make sure they stay unconscious for a while longer."
Yi Twelve nodded and walked out the door.
Ye Xiaoyuan: "Your Highness, the transport vehicles are ready. The North Gate Inspection and Transportation Office will be replaced in a quarter of an hour. We are very short of time."
"Um."
Soon, Yi Twelve came back. He dragged the four guards outside into the small courtyard and asked Dianbai to look after them.
Yi Twelve carried the two unconscious imperial doctors and stuffed them into the transport vehicle, and Qu Dubian also hid inside.
Ye Xiaoyuan drove the cart to the north gate.
The current Wu Chief Steward of the North City Gate smiled at them and said, "Would you like to change the dishes?"
Ye Xiaoyuan lowered his head and said, "Yes, even if it rains, we dare not delay the fresh vegetables for the nobles in the palace. The road is not easy to walk on, so we have to go early."
"Be careful on the road."
"Of course I saved it," Ye Xiaoyuan pulled the cart out of the palace gate.
A young eunuch whispered to Chief Steward Wu, "Sir, don't you want to check it?"
Chief Steward Wu glanced at him and said, "Just pretend you didn't see what happened today. If you delay the adults' work, you may not see the sun tomorrow."
The young eunuch rubbed his arms.
"Don't worry."
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The vegetable barrel cart was replaced by a horse-drawn carriage.
Qu Dubian put the two imperial doctors away and asked Ye Xiaoyuan to dress up as a woman and also get in the carriage.
He himself wore a bamboo hat and drove outside.
When the carriage arrived at the south gate of the capital, it was stopped for routine inspection.
The officer asked, "It's so late, are we leaving the city?"
Taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers didn't recognize him, Qu Dubian lowered his voice to make himself sound older. He said sadly, "My father and uncle are seriously ill and are dying. I don't know if they are possessed by evil spirits."
"I heard that a highly respected monk had come to Myokong Temple outside the city, but was detained in the temple due to heavy rain, so I wanted to take my wife, father, and uncle to visit him."
Upon hearing that there was a woman inside, the officers and soldiers did not rush in to check rudely, but instead lifted the curtain and took a quick look.
After discovering that there were indeed two bald middle-aged men and a woman wearing a veil, he lowered the curtain.
The officers and soldiers consoled him: "If you are sick, go see a doctor. A monk may not be able to help."
Qu Dubian sighed: "If the doctor was helpful, we wouldn't have to go to the temple for help."
The officers and soldiers were speechless for a moment: "Well, you go."
Qu Dubian clasped his fists and said, "Thank you very much."
Fortunately, the capital is not under martial law now, and the inspection is lax, so it is easy for him to get away with it. If his cheap father finds out that he has escaped and orders martial law in the capital, he will probably be unable to escape.
The carriage drove all the way to a pavilion twenty miles away from the capital.
Qu Dubian saw someone in the pavilion. Xu Tingfeng was waiting for him there.
“Oh—”
The carriage stopped.
Xu Tingfeng pushed a wheelchair over, accompanied by five thugs and four fast horses.
"Xiao Qi."
Qu Duanbian jumped out of the car, "Uncle."
Xu Tingfeng responded: "Since you have made up your mind, your uncle will not stop you, but you need someone by your side."
Qu Watanabe: "I have one by my side."
Xu Tingfeng: "The one in the dark?" He shook his head, "One is not enough."
He threw a bronze warrant to Qu Watanabe, which had a bird engraved on it.
"Xue Letian has a team of guards around him. The warrant can be used to dispatch them. When you arrive at Xianghe, he should be there too. If you are in a hurry, ride fast first. The people around me will help you protect the people in the carriage."
Qu Dubian held the token with mixed feelings: "I thought my uncle would persuade me to go back."
Xu Tingfeng leaned forward and patted his arm. "Concubine Xuan has raised you for many years. The grace of raising you is greater than the grace of giving birth to you. If I don't ask you to go, and something happens to Concubine Xuan, you will regret it for the rest of your life."
"You have the blood of my Xu family in you. It's a good thing for a son of the Xu family to be loyal and righteous. How could your uncle stop you? But you..."
Qu Watanabe: "Don't worry, uncle. I'm in good health."
Xu Tingfeng looked at him. When they first met, the child was just a baby. Now he has grown into a teenager with a pair of bright and tough eyes.
"Come back safely."
Qu Watanabe: "Definitely."
Ye Xiaoyuan changed his clothes and came out.
Yi Shier appeared, and he and Qu Watanabe each rode a horse, with two empty horses following them so that they could take turns riding when the horses got tired.
The two mounted their horses.
Qu Dubian looked at Ye Xiaoyuan and said, "Banban, you follow the carriage. When the two doctors wake up, tell them the truth. Be sure to take them to Xianghe County."
The medical skills of these two men are among the best in the Imperial Medical Bureau. Although it is unethical to kidnap them like this, the situation in Xianghe County is unclear and a doctor is needed to accompany them.
When he arrives at Xianghe River, he will formally apologize and offer compensation.
Ye Xiaoyuan nodded: "It won't be too late for you, Master Liuliu, please take good care of His Highness. If he feels unwell, stop and rest immediately."
B Twelve nodded.
After finishing the instructions, Qu Duanbian and Yi Twelve rode away on horseback.
Heading south.
Not far away, on a low cliff.
Yu Ruo looked at the two figures riding fast horses past below and was not surprised at all.
He turned around, "Let's go and catch up with them."
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