On the rest of the journey, Master Xie did not look for any familiar place to stay, but instead directly paid money to get somewhere, so their journey was very fast. Twenty-five days later, they arrived at Jicheng, a city in Jizhou close to Qiongdao, which is the nearest big city to Qiongdao.
The person in charge of this city is a prince from another family. He followed Taizu to conquer the world. After the founding of the dynasty, he retired from the army and handed over his military power. He was willing to come to the desolate land of Jizhou and became a city lord. He even never returned to Jinling in his life. In addition, he had only one legitimate child in his family. He was sick because of some unknown poison. This prince had been looking for a miracle doctor to cure his son.
After all, he was over fifty years old and had only this one child. He must have raised her like a treasure and even went to Putuo Temple on the outskirts of the city to have her fortune told. If the girl of destiny did not appear, it was estimated that the man would only live to the age of twenty, so it was best to make plans early.
Now the Lord of Jizhou City is looking for his true love every day. He even asked about the Crown Princess, but she has no good fate and cannot support the young Lord of the City.
Because of his son's illness and the constant persuasion from the elders in the family, he simply gave up the idea of taking power. The emperor also completely let down his guard against the city lord, leaving only a few people to keep an eye on him and letting him go.
Therefore, his family was able to save the lives of all the young and old because their elders had foresight and withdrew from the political stage early. The current lord of this city is surnamed Yu. Until now, they can still see various notices posted at the city gate looking for miracle doctors. They are even posted all over the city wall for fear that they will be invisible.
Wang Shiyu didn't know about the situation in the city, nor did she know about the pursuers behind her. She was being dragged by Zhou Qingyun and had no way to do anything else but watch.
However, Master Xie did not want to get into any trouble, so he did not go directly into the city with his men. Instead, he arranged for his men to go into the city to purchase some supplies, and then left directly in the direction of Qiong Island, intending to deliver them to the destination in the next few days. He did not want to cause any more trouble, so they did not see the appearance of Jizhou City.
The name Qiongdao is quite nice, but to be honest it is just an island, a small island with scarce supplies. There is a small town on the island called Qiongdao Town, which is simple and easy to remember.
As for the old man and his men, their goal was the Qiongdao Town, which was a lawless area. Although it was sparsely populated and vast, the land was barren and it was impossible to grow any good crops. Even if crops were grown, most of them were saline-alkali land and would not sprout. Therefore, the imperial court would basically not send troops to guard the place, and even the officials were unwilling to go there. The saying that poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people was not an exaggeration. It took City Lord Yu more than ten years to clean up this place, and those places that harbored filth and dirt finally saw the light of day.
Therefore, there are often bandits causing chaos there. No one knows why the old man chose this place, not even Wang Shiyu. Because before meeting the Zhang family's team, the old man had already made up his mind to come to Qiongdao, and he was even very decisive. You know, they have seen many prosperous towns on the road, but the old man did not stop and came straight here. No one knows what the old man is thinking.
After leaving the boundaries of Jizhou City, the boards on Wang Shiyu and his companions' carriage were also removed. Now the weather in Jizhou is very hot, and it feels like burning. However, the people here seem to have gotten used to such temperatures and don't take it to heart. Moreover, it is different from the sunlight that caused them to be burned by ultraviolet rays before. It seems that such high temperatures are only caused by the special weather here.
So sometimes they would open the curtains to ventilate a little when they felt stuffy, otherwise sitting in the carriage would feel like sitting in a steamer. Since entering the territory of Jizhou, the temperature has been getting hotter day by day, even to the point of being scary. Wang Shiyu once secretly took out a thermometer to measure the temperature, and it was already 42 degrees, which was simply unbelievable.
After entering Jizhou, Zhou Qingyun finally put his mind at ease. He knew that as long as he entered Jizhou, those who were chasing him would no longer follow him.
Because those people here don't have such long arms, especially the City Lord Yu of Jizhou, who will not allow people from the court to extend their paws here, because he is a staunch royalist and only listens to the emperor's orders. So even when many princes wanted to intervene on the coast of Jizhou to make some money, they were all rejected by the City Lord Yu.
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