Chapter 323: Natural Disaster

The queen shook her head in fear and trepidation, "I don't know."

"I will not sign the seal." Empress Dowager Xie said bluntly, "I will not do such a shameless and disgusting thing."

"You go now."

"I know your situation and will not make things difficult for you."

The empress, regardless of her status, knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowed, and cried, "I beg the emperor's sister-in-law to have mercy on me."

"Your Majesty has made up his mind. If I cannot fulfill your wish, you will punish me. I beg you, my sister-in-law, to grant me what I ask for, considering my respectful treatment over the years."

"Please have mercy, sister-in-law."

Empress Dowager Xie's expression was terrifyingly cold. She threw the beads in her palm fiercely at the empress, "How dare you!"

"Queen, do you know what you are doing?"

"Are you asking me to allow the emperor to rob women?"

"I don't make it difficult for you, but you force me on the contrary. It's really ridiculous."

"As the Empress of the Central Palace and the Mother of the Great Qian, you should know what it means to be a mother to the world, what it means to advise the emperor to be close to the virtuous and stay away from the treacherous, and what it means to do and not to do."

"If you can't do this job well, don't do it."

The beads happened to hit the empress's forehead, which suddenly turned red.

The queen gasped in pain, tears streaming down her face. She crawled to the Queen Mother Xie's feet and begged, "Sister-in-law, I have no other choice."

"I don't have my father or brother's family background to rely on, nor do I have any princes or princesses to support me. Although I am the empress, I am like a rootless duckweed in this palace. I can only rely on your majesty to protect me from the wind and rain and survive."

"I have been obedient for years and years and finally earned the title of virtuous and benevolent. If I anger His Majesty and disappoint His Majesty, I am afraid I will no longer have a place in the harem. Either I will be killed with a cup of poisoned wine and a three-foot white silk, or I will be secluded in the cold palace and end my life there."

"Sister-in-law, your majesty is the most noble person in Daqian. For the adopted daughter of Marquis Yongning, being taken into the harem is not necessarily a bad thing."

"If I could have a son or daughter with your majesty's favor, I would enjoy a life of wealth and glory."

"Perhaps, perhaps, the adopted daughter of Marquis Yongning would be happy with it..."

"Shut up!" Empress Dowager Xie interrupted the empress's incoherent words.

Lu Mingchao is Xie Yan's wife!

"Get lost."

"You don't have to step into Changning Palace again."

"Sister-in-law." The queen still refused to give up.

Empress Dowager Xie said coldly, "I am ashamed."

"Go tell Xiao Yao that if he doesn't want to sit on the throne, get off as soon as possible. This is really a disgrace to the Xiao family's ancestors."

The queen left Changning Palace, looking back every few steps.

There was helplessness, panic, envy, and resentment in his eyes.

Empress Dowager Xie stood by the window, watching the empress's leaving back. Her brows furrowed more and more, and her thoughts drifted further and further away. The more she thought about it, the more complicated it became.

Why did Xiao Yao insist on taking Lu Mingchao into the palace as a concubine?

Lust makes you lose your mind?

Deliberately testing?

Empress Dowager Xie became more and more angry. She waved her sleeves and swept the vase off the table under the window.

With a "clang" sound, it broke into pieces.

On the one hand, he despised Cheng'er's love for Long Yang, and on the other hand, he tried to force a commoner woman into the palace. Xiao Yao really has a big face.

Fortunately, we don't have to wait too long.

The wind and clouds in the palace did not affect Wanxing County, where it was raining heavily, for the time being.

The water in the streets was getting higher and higher, and the people put on their straw raincoats and moved to higher ground.

Under Lu Mingchao's reminder, Prince Duan sent servants and guards to repeat over and over again that people should not drink raw water, pick up items in sewage, or eat food soaked in flood water...

Minimize the chance of an outbreak as much as possible.

During the rainstorm, anyone who is short of food and clothing can seek help from Chaofu Trading Company.

At the same time, in a place where no one was around, Lu Mingchao prepared a large amount of disinfectants and basic items for epidemic prevention in advance.

In the streets and alleys with higher terrain where people gathered, medicine for preventing and treating typhoid was boiled in large iron pots used by the army, and every household could get it for free when the rain was lighter.

The same situation also occurred in Beiba County.

The flag of Chaofu Trading Company remained standing despite the storm.

It was like a rainstorm with a leak in the sky, very scary.

But when everything is in order and there is enough food and clothing, it is not that scary.

As predicted, heavy rains will continue for the next half month.

All they had to do was count on their fingers and make it through fifteen days.

When the mind is calm, there is peace.

At this time, Lu Mingchao and his entourage had already moved from Wanxing Posthouse to Wanxing County Government Office.

"Chao Chao, are you feeling better?" Lu Yao's face was full of worry.

It was raining heavily and the road was slippery. When Lu Mingchao was turning, he slipped and almost fell.

Liu Yue helped him in time, but he still had diarrhea in his stomach.

At that moment, Lu Mingchao's lower abdomen began to cramp, his calves became a little swollen, and his face turned as pale as paper.

Qingtang carried various pills for preserving the pregnancy in her medicine box. After taking two pills, Lu Mingchao gradually recovered.

"Brother, it's okay." Lu Mingchao still looked listless.

But, I’m not sick, I’m not scared, I’m just tired.

"How can it be alright!" Lu Yao said unhappily, his voice tinged with anger. "It's raining heavily outside, and the streets and alleys are flooded. What if..."

Lu Mingchao blinked.

Her space supermarket is stocked with all the medicines that might be needed.

Even if Liu Yue didn't hold her up, she could still use the space supermarket to relieve the force of falling to the ground.

Seeing Lu Yao's angry expression, Lu Mingchao did not argue or explain, but said gently and obediently, "Second brother, I will be careful."

"Everything has been arranged. Before the rainstorm stops, I will stay in the county office to take care of the baby. I will not leave the county office and will not let my second brother worry."

Lu Yao pursed his lips, as if he wanted to say something else, but the words turned into dissatisfaction with the emperor, and he murmured in a low voice, "Dog emperor!"

"How could an emperor in this world send a pregnant woman to a place where a natural disaster occurred?"

Lu Mingchao lowered his head guiltily.

She didn't dare to say that it was she who planned and asked the emperor to give the order.

Only her personal presence could save Wanxing County from the predetermined fate of being sealed off and massacred.

Only when she is around will there be a steady supply of supplies.

"It is indeed the dog emperor." Prince Duan came in a storm, holding a secret letter that was half wet from the rain in his hand.

Lu Mingchao frowned and looked at Prince Duan with a strange look in his eyes, "Your Highness, that is your father."

"If your father is..."

Prince Duan sneered, "You know my identity."

"See for yourself."

Prince Duan threw the secret letter on the table in front of Lu Mingchao.

"Even after days of heavy rain, the secret letter was still delivered." Lu Mingchao sighed, picked up the secret letter, took a look at it, and the smile on his face disappeared completely.

Take her into the palace?

What a bold idea!

"To be able to do such shameless and dirty things with such a righteous attitude is also a kind of ability. At least most people don't have such thick skin."

"Lu Mingchao, since the emperor has such an idea and asked the empress to persuade the aunt, it means that he will not stop until he achieves his goal. He will definitely find ways to make you surrender and take you into the palace."

"You must not take it lightly, or you may capsize in the ditch."

Prince Duan gave a serious reminder and warning.

It is said that no one knows a son better than his father. Similarly, if the father knows the son, how can the son not know his father?

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