Chapter 237: This child cannot be kept
On the banks of the surging river, a woman in plain clothes with black hair stood by the river, with 200,000 unarmed civilians behind her.
After arriving in Yangcheng, Su Zhenzhen immediately finalized the battle strategy with Chunzhi.
Chunzhi led 3,000 elite soldiers to lure away the powerful families' armies along the Yangtze River, while Su Zhenzhen took the opportunity to send 200,000 people from Yangcheng to the south.
The river is swift, and it is currently the flood season. Crossing the river by manpower would most likely result in a near-certain death.
Chunzhi told Su Zhenzhen that the commotion of 200,000 people boarding the ships was significant, and she could only hold off the aristocratic army for half an hour at most. If the situation dragged on, Yangcheng might be able to exploit the opportunity.
Su Zhenzhen didn't dare to delay for a moment. After Chunzhi lured the aristocratic army away, she immediately took out the small boat, no bigger than a palm.
"Use yourself to ferry souls across; your own body is a boat that can carry ten thousand people."
Su Zhenzhen made a hand seal and, in a few breaths, the small boat, the size of a palm, expanded into a huge vessel, large enough to accommodate 200,000 people.
The giant ship was anchored on the river, and only thanks to the pull of Su Zhenzhen's spiritual power was it not driven by the turbulent current.
The people were already prepared, and they all took out their iron grappling hooks and threw them onto the side of the boat.
The iron claws gripped the giant ship firmly. The young man tested his strength and immediately pulled on the ropes to climb onto the ship.
Before long, the youngest and strongest men boarded the boat. They lowered ropes and pulled the old people and children up.
The women helped each other and were able to slowly climb up the hull of the boat.
With everyone working together, it took a quarter of an hour plus the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, and finally everyone boarded the ship safely.
Su Zhenzhen lightly touched the ground with her toes and landed gracefully at the bow of the boat. She stood in front of the rudder and reached out to grasp the oar that she had brought with her.
"Everyone, sit still and don't look around, the ship is about to depart!"
Su Zhenzhen channeled a bit of power into the oars, propelling the boat southward.
When the boat had sailed twenty or thirty miles away from the shore, faint figures of people appeared on the shore.
Half an hour has passed.
Even without looking back, Su Zhenzhen knew that the people on the shore were so angry they were jumping up and down, wishing they could drown them with their spittle.
After all, the Jiang Dynasty's bows and arrows had limited range, and this ship was no ordinary ship. Once aboard, the people on land could no longer harm these 200,000 people in the slightest.
Now that Yangcheng no longer needs to worry about where the people will go, Chunzhi can act freely. With her abilities, she can show these powerful families that not everyone can fight a war.
Su Zhenzhen's mission is to bring all 200,000 people to the southern region without leaving a trace. Yunzhou has already sent people along the coast to meet them.
The Yangtze River is the true mother river of the Jiang Dynasty, with countless tributaries spreading across its north and south banks like blood vessels.
Farmers rely on river water to irrigate their fields for a good harvest, and people also depend on it for their daily drinking water and domestic water use.
Whether it's farming or making a living, the entire Jiang Dynasty depends on the water of this river to survive.
Su Zhenzhen still remembers that last year, during the dry season, she and Hensheng went south together to control the locust plague, walking directly across the riverbed.
In the past, this land in the south was plagued by natural disasters, but this year, long into spring, we haven't heard any bad news.
However, this place is truly strange. During the dry season, not a single drop of rain can be seen. The main river still flows ceaselessly, but the tributaries dry up completely, exposing their riverbeds.
After several rains, the tributaries became active again, and their water flow was no less than that of the main channel.
It is unclear where the tributaries are divided. If that dividing point could be broken, given the flow of the great river, even if it doesn't rain for a long time, the other tributaries would not dry up, and the south would not suffer from droughts from time to time.
The river was surging, but the giant ship remained remarkably stable, and the sound of its hull breaking the surface of the water was barely audible.
Su Zhenzhen has excellent eyesight and can already vaguely see the outline of the south bank of the Yangtze River.
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew by her side, and Jiang Sijin appeared in Su Zhenzhen's sight looking disheveled.
Su Zhenzhen frowned. To use a somewhat inappropriate adjective, Jiang Sijin looked like a delicate woman who had been... well, you know.
"What happened to you? Did you get attacked by zombies while tomb raiding?"
After saying that, Su Zhenzhen felt a jolt in her heart.
Zombie, Jiang clan.
It is important to know that at the beginning of humankind, there was no written language, and everything was passed down orally.
So, was the Jiang clan or zombies the ones who established the Jiang Dynasty?
Su Zhenzhen was startled by her own thoughts.
A light suddenly shone in Jiang Sijin's dull eyes. "Zombies... Hahaha... How come I didn't think of that? Aren't they a bunch of zombies? Zombies eat human flesh and blood, and they eat the flesh and blood of the women in their tribe."
Su Zhenzhen's heart sank further. Although Jiang Sijin was usually a bit crazy, she never said anything without basis.
Something must have happened to her.
Suddenly, Su Zhenzhen remembered the wooden box.
"Jiang Sijin, did you open that wooden box? What's inside? Is it related to the origins of the Jiang clan?"
Jiang Sijin avoided answering the three questions in a row, instead staring intently at Su Zhenzhen.
Su Zhenzhen felt uneasy under her gaze. "What's wrong? Say something. I can't read minds, so I can't guess what you're up to."
Jiang Sijin parted her red lips slightly and coldly uttered three words, "Come with me."
Su Zhenzhen:
What kind of domineering CEO quote is this? Normally, she wouldn't mind playing with the little monster, but now that she's gone, what will happen to these 200,000 people?
"It'll be over in a little while, about 15 minutes. You can find somewhere to wait."
Jiang Sijin, however, seemed to have been suddenly switched on and began to scream hysterically.
"Come with me! I said you have to come with me!"
After saying that, Jiang Sijin came over and pulled on Su Zhenzhen's arm.
Su Zhenzhen was trying to control the direction of the giant ship when she was suddenly pulled and stumbled, a sharp pain shooting through her abdomen.
“Jiang—Si—Jin!” Su Zhenzhen said, enunciating each word clearly. She was truly angry now.
Is Jiang Sijin blind? Didn't she see that her belly was already bulging? Didn't she really want to give birth to a child with Hensheng's bloodline and then seize the child's imperial destiny?
Jiang Sijin stared at Su Zhenzhen's stomach and suddenly vomited a mouthful of black blood.
The blood drifted down to Su Zhenzhen's face, blurring her vision.
Su Zhenzhen wanted to curse, but Jiang Sijin's face was ashen, and she belatedly realized that she had allowed the Celestial Master to secretly use a killing formation to take her life.
"This child cannot be kept."
"What?" Su Zhenzhen was even angrier. Probably no mother could tolerate someone cursing her child.
"Jiang Sijin, are you looking for a beating?"
Jiang Sijin was still spitting blood, but she kept staring at Su Zhenzhen's stomach and mechanically repeated the same sentence.
"This child cannot be kept."
"This child cannot be kept."
Jiang Sijin's words were like a curse, drilling straight into the depths of one's soul.
Su Zhenzhen's back was covered in a dense layer of cold sweat.
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