Yan Luo's calculations were correct. Although Su Ruojin was anxious, she wouldn't risk her health.
Now that the baby is quite far along, she can't ride a horse. She can only ride in a carriage with her mother, and ask the driver to speed up. They don't rest when they pass through the city; they just travel day and night.
By the time Xiao Yanchu received the news, Su Ruojin had already left the capital, and it was impossible for him to stop her.
Moreover, Xiao Yanchu knows Su Ruojin's temper better than anyone else. In the current situation, even if he were in the capital, it wouldn't make a difference. At most, he could only accompany Ajin to Xiaoyue.
Just as Su Ruojin had predicted, Xiao Yanchu was not someone who couldn't distinguish between what was important and what wasn't.
He dares not leave Mo Han now, otherwise what if Bei Li sends out demon soldiers to attack Mo Han?
Even without sending out demon soldiers, just getting some mutants out of the villages near Mo Han and Bei Li would be enough of a headache.
However, Ah Jin told him that she had taken all ten bodyguards with her, which was some consolation.
Su Ruojin was on her way, but the number of mutants on Xiaoyue's side was increasing.
Yuan Hong kept sending people to kill these mutants, even using explosives, but these mutants split too quickly, and anyone bitten would mutate.
Some mutants went to relatively remote villages, only to find that by the time they were discovered, the entire village had already mutated and fled.
Even if Yuan Hong could send people, the number would always be limited, resulting in a situation where one problem is addressed only to create another.
In just over half a month, Bei Li broke through the border of Xiao Yue and captured Liuzhou.
The memorials on Yuan Hong's desk were piled up like a mountain, all written by ministers lamenting the impending doom of the moon, yet not a single one could offer a real solution.
Yuan Hong was so angry that he wanted to swear. Everyone knew that Xiao Yue was in crisis, and that a bunch of useless people only knew how to yell all day long, but none of them were of any use when it mattered.
In the last court session, they took turns "reporting to His Majesty," and then began to ramble on, urging Yuan Hong to take the Xiaoyue crisis seriously and come up with a solution as soon as possible.
When Yuan Hong asked them what their best ideas were, they all cowered like quails and remained silent.
Not only that, but now some people are taking the opportunity to spread rumors that Yuan Hong is not actually the late emperor's child, which has angered the heavens and brought such a disaster upon Xiao Yue.
Yuan Hong felt incredibly frustrated.
If it were up to his previous temper, he would have really wanted to drag all those old guys in the court out and give them a good beating before discussing anything else.
Sister Kejin told him that governing a country is like cooking a small fish; one must not be impatient.
Getting impatient or losing your temper won't help.
Only Prime Minister Lu privately suggested to him that he seek help from Princess Taikang, but Yuan Hong dared not do so.
Sister Jin is pregnant. If she knew about his situation, she would definitely come over.
The journey from Da Chu to Xiao Yue is long and arduous. If something were to happen to Sister Jin along the way, Yuan Hong would feel guilty for the rest of his life.
Looking at the memorials in the imperial study, since he couldn't hit anyone, he took his anger out on them. He ordered a eunuch to bring in a brazier and burned the various nonsensical memorials one by one.
"I'll teach you to talk nonsense! I'll teach you to talk nonsense!"
At this moment, a eunuch at the door announced, "Your Majesty, Commander Liu requests an audience."
Yuan Hong stood up. "Let him in."
If we're talking about people Xiaoyue trusts, Liu Jing is one of them.
When Liu Jing came in and saw the memorials burning in the brazier, he roughly knew what the emperor was doing.
How could he not know that these past few days, those ministers had been racking their brains, unable to come up with any solutions, and had only been pressuring the emperor?
What a bunch of useless trash!
However, Liu Jing was also well aware that the ministers were not acting unreasonably; they knew the truth perfectly well.
With such a major incident occurring in Xiaoyue, as a court official, one cannot simply do nothing.
They couldn't and dared not deal with those mutants, so they had no choice but to come out and make a show of their existence, demonstrating to the emperor that they were also contributing.
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