The city gate of Dingxi City will be opened on time every day, and it will be opened for about an hour to provide porridge to the victims outside the city. Lin Sishen got up early in the morning and gave a handwritten letter to the officials of Guanyi. Then, he took Mo Zhu and a group of followers and walked straight to the outer city gate.

Originally, Sun Wenqian issued an order that when the city opened wide, no one was allowed to enter and exit the city gate. But when Lin Sishen and his group arrived at the city gate, the officers and soldiers guarding the city recognized Lin Sishen and were afraid of her identity as an imperial envoy, or had received the wind, they did not stop him at all. Instead, they respectfully sent Lin Sishen out of the city.

Lin Sishen and Mo Zhu sat in the carriage, while Meng Lin and other followers rode horses to follow.

There was a long queue in front of the porridge shed outside the city gate, all of whom were waiting for the porridge to be served.

Lin Sishen picked up the curtain and looked at it hurriedly for a few seconds, and felt something was wrong. Although these victims were all ragged and dusty, their faces were quite rosy and their expressions were a bit lazy.

Someone stretched his waist and yawned. When he handed the bowl to pick up the porridge, he glanced at it with his eyelids, thanked him and stepped aside. Someone muttered something to the people beside him.

And looking around, the large group of victims were all strong men, not even the elderly, weak, women and children.

Meng Lin rode a tall horse, tilted his head to look at the victims who were looking at them, and hurried to the carriage and whispered: "Young Master, something seems wrong with these victims."

Lin Sishen turned around and glanced casually when he heard this. He happened to see a man with a wooden stick in the crowd, secretly looking at him. After looking at each other, the man withdrew his gaze as if nothing had happened.

Look at his strong figure with a tiger back and bear waist and his thick arms that cannot be covered by his sleeves. He doesn't look like a victim who has been hungry for a long time. He is obviously a trainee.

Lin Sishen withdrew his gaze and said coldly without hesitation: "It's just a group of rogues who are mixed with fish. Don't pay attention, hurry up and hurry up."

Watching the carriage gradually disappear outside the city, a dozen strong men suddenly walked out of the group of victims waiting for the porridge. They looked cold and vicious. After throwing the broken bowl in their hands, they rushed to chase Lin Sishen and others in the direction of disappearing.

In the Dingxi City Protectorate, on the pavilion building with winding water on the lakeside pavilion, Sun Wenqian, wearing an official uniform, was standing under the vermilion eaves of the building.

He held a white jade bowl and looked at the group of fat koi that emerged from the water in the lake. He took fish food from the bowl and threw it into the water, causing the group of koi to wave their tails and squeezed forward to grab food.

Just as he was feeding the fish leisurely and contentedly, a man in green dress dressed as a scholar suddenly walked up not far away. He was Sun Wenqian's subordinate, Runzhu.

He quickly walked through the corridor, walked behind Sun Wenqian, stopped, and leaned over respectfully and said, "Master Qi, the Emperor's Officer has just left the city."

Sun Wenqian sneered when he heard this, and then handed the white jade bowl to the maid beside him, waved his hand to signal the maid to retreat. When he walked away, he turned around and said, "As I expected, Lin Sishen is not an Ansheng person."

Runzhu closed his eyes and smiled: "It's still a master who knows that he will definitely leave the city quietly, so he gave instructions early in the morning. Now it's easier. Before we can design to lead him out of the city, he will fall into the trap."

Sun Wenqian stroked his beard and pondered for a moment and asked, "Have you arranged the manpower?"

Runzhu replied: "Mizhi has arranged several groups of people to follow him, all of whom are desperate people who can fight for their lives for money. Just wait for the order of the adults, they will rise up and attack themselves, so they will definitely be able to make Lin Sishen's head and head different from each other."

Sun Wenqian nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Wait until they go far before taking action."

Runzhu respectfully accepted the order: "Since that's the case, then Huye should take people out."

A vicious cold light flashed in Sun Wenqian's eyes, and he stared at Runzhu straight: "You need to remember that you must not make any mistakes in this matter. After the matter is completed, those people will have to deal with it well. If something goes wrong in the middle of the matter and Lin Sishen escapes, you can't afford to take on it even if you have nine lives."

Runzhu's expression froze on her face, and then she hurriedly knelt down and said, "Don't worry, my humble position will definitely live up to your high expectations."

Sun Wen helped Runzhu up modestly, patted his shoulder with great respect, and said gently: "Runzhu, you are my right-hand man. As long as you do things for me with peace of mind, I will never treat you badly in the future. By the way, there is an unmarried little daughter in my house. You have seen her a few days ago. She seems to have some appreciation for you, but I don't know you..."

Sun Wenqian said this very bluntly enough, and Runzhu certainly understood what he meant.

There are countless people in Longyou who are coveting Sun Wenqian's mansion, this unmarried daughter. If she can get along with Sun Wenqian, marry his daughter, and become his son-in-law, her career will be smooth and unlimited.

Runzhu looked happy and bowed, "Sir, if the sixth lady who can be appreciated by me is lucky to have three lives."

Sun Wenqian glanced at Runzhu, suddenly turned around and left his hands behind his back, and said leisurely: "Your Qin family is also a famous family in Longyou, not to mention that you are knowledgeable and talented, and you are also a handsome and elegant person. When this matter is settled, you will invite your parents to Dingxi City. As for the marriage, you can discuss it at that time."

Runzhu couldn't hide his joyful smile at the corner of his lips. He bowed solemnly: "To repay the kindness of the great master, he must devote his duties to his humble duties until he dies, and eliminate all obstacles for the master."

Sun Wenqian didn't look back, but waved his hand and said lightly: "Go."

Runzhu slowly retreated, lowered her head and walked quickly out of the mansion, with a smug and gleeful smile on the corner of her lips. Not long after he walked far, he suddenly caught a short woman in pink in the corner of the house wall, hiding from a short and slightly messy hair.

A maid hurriedly ran out of the door, looked around and found the woman hiding. Then she breathed a sigh of relief and pulled the woman, whispering: "Miss Six, why are you hiding here? You scared me to death."

The woman in pink was pulled and turned her head, revealing a dark and ugly face. She smiled foolishly and tried to hold the petals in her hand to show the maid: "Flowers, look at flowers, beautiful."

This stupid and ugly woman is the youngest daughter Sun Wenqian mentioned, and the daughter Runzhu wants to cling to.

The stupid lady held a fallen flower and kept smirking and murmuring. The maid was a little bored when she saw this. She was about to have an attack but looked around carefully as if she had thought of something. She happened to find Runzhu standing not far away.

Her face changed immediately, and she grabbed the sleeve of the stupid lady and signaled her to see: "Miss Six, Mr. Qin is here."

When the stupid lady heard the three words of Mr. Qin, she suddenly became a little embarrassed and twisted. She followed the maid's gaze and saw Runzhu. She immediately trembled and the fallen flowers in her hand fell to the ground. She ignored the fallen flowers and lowered her head with a red face, shyly did not dare to look up again at Runzhu.

Seeing this, Runzhu raised a smile on her face, as gentle and gentle as the spring breeze. He slowly walked to the master and servant, leaned over and picked up the fallen flowers on the ground, put them in the lady's hand, closed her head slightly, and then turned around and left.

The lady was flattered and held the flower in her hand, staring at Runzhu's back, and refused to withdraw her gaze for a long time.

After Runzhu turned around, the smile on her face disappeared instantly. When she walked to the point where no one was around, he looked at the hands that touched the fallen flower in disgust, took out the veil from her sleeve and wiped it carefully several times. In the end, she didn't even want to take the veil anymore, threw it straight on the ground, and quickly left the Protectorate Mansion.

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Lin Sishen and his party drove their carriage to Pingliang City. Along the way, they saw deserted. The old house that had fallen on the road was shaking, with spider webs on the door. I don’t know if the owner had left his hometown or had died.

It was only a few dozen miles from Dingxi City that I saw people, but I saw bones lying on the ground and people who were still breathing on the roadside. They were tilted and sat blankly under the tree, as if waiting for death.

Even when they saw Lin Sishen and his group of people's carriages, they just looked up with all their strength, and they didn't even have the strength to go forward to beg for food.

Seeing this, Lin Sishen couldn't bear it, so he asked Mo Zhu to take off most of the dry food and water bags from the car and distribute them together.

Along the way, there were too many victims. Even Lin Sishen loaded a cart of dry food, but it was just a drop in the bucket. In the end, she couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so she could only put down the curtain and closed her eyes to rest.

Mo Zhu pursed her lips and said softly with some hesitation: "Young Master..."

Lin Sishen shook her head helplessly, and she sighed softly: "Mo Zhu, I know what you want to ask me. I can only tell you that the disaster in Longyou is actually not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster. If you want to save the millions of people in Longyou, you can't just check the account books."

Meng Lin outside the car heard Lin Sishen saying this and immediately said loudly: "Miss Mo Zhu, the young master is right. Now there is a big Pixiu in Longyou that is insatiable and can only enter and exit. If you want to save the people in Longyou, you must first pierce the belly of this Pixiu."

As the few people were saying this, the carriage suddenly stopped. Lin Sishen lifted the curtain and looked at it. He saw that there seemed to be a woman's body lying in the middle of the official road not far away.

Meng Lin immediately took a look. He leaned over and lifted the rag on the woman's body to check. Then he squatted there motionlessly as if he was stunned.

Lin Sishen looked at it a little strange, so he jumped out of the carriage and walked forward. When he walked to Meng Lin and looked down, Lin Sishen was also stunned on the spot.

The woman had been dead for several days, staring her eyes wide, her flesh and flesh were rotten and smelly. But what was shocking was that she was still nurturing a small baby in her arms. The child was lying on her chest and her eyes were closed, and she was still absorbing the juice of her dead mother.

But her mother died for a long time, and there was no juice left. The baby sucked clearly the mother's blood. In other words, after the mother died, the child survived by sucking her mother's blood.

Meng Lin was stunned by the scene in front of him. He looked at him blankly and did not come back to his senses for a long time. Lin Sishen quickly reacted. She took off her coat, squatted down and quickly wrapped the child in her arms.

Lin Sishen looked down at the baby in his arms with a serious expression. The baby left his mother's arms and suddenly struggled and started crying. Her lips were still stained with dry blood.

Lin Sishen glanced at the woman on the ground with complicated eyes, closed her eyes and said softly: "Menglin, bury this poor woman on the spot."

Although the baby survived with his mother's flesh and blood, he was extremely weak. After Lin Sishen got on the carriage, he hurriedly asked Mo Zhu to feed her some water, soak the dry food in water and crush it, and also feed her some.

After burying the woman, Lin Sishen continued to rush forward with the poor baby he picked up.

After rushing for a few days in a row, they finally arrived in a mountain not far outside Pingliang City. The terrain here is dangerously narrow, and if you are not careful, you will fall off the cliff.

After they finally found a flat open space, the sky gradually darkened. Although Lin Sishen Mozhu could still hold on, the baby could not hold on anymore.

Lin Sishen could only order to rest in the barren mountains for a night.

The most desolate thing on the mountain is dead trees. Meng Lin picked up a pile and lit a bonfire. Two guards patrol nearby, while the rest sat cross-legged and roasted the fire to rest.

The wind was a little cool at night. Lin Sishen even took out his official uniform and asked Mo Zhu to wrap the baby up so that she would not catch a cold in the wind.

Mo Zhu has been taking care of the baby these days, and she was so tired that Lin Sishen begged the baby to hold it in his arms, so that Mo Zhu can rest for a while.

As the fire flashed, Lin Sishen's little man like a porcelain doll in his arms refused to sleep. He stared at Lin Sishen's round eyes as black grapes, and looked at Lin Sishen curiously.

Lin Sishen raised his hand awkwardly to cover her gaze, and then asked Mo Zhu in a low voice: "Mo Zhu, how old does she look?"

Mo Zhu thought, "I have grown teeth, I should be one year old."

After hearing what Mo Zhu said, Lin Sishen wanted to see the child's teeth, so he moved his hand away. Unexpectedly, when his hand moved, the child suddenly tried hard to widen his eyes, waved his little arms in Lin Sishen's arms, and grinned and giggled happily.

Lin Sishen felt some interest when she saw this. She tentatively blocked her hand in front of the child. Sure enough, the child stopped laughing. When she moved her hand away, the child laughed happily again.

After repeated this several times, the child's tender and simple laughter made the rest of the people look out, and they couldn't help but smile at the slightest smile on their faces.

When a guard saw Lin Sishen making the child happy, he couldn't help but tease, "Young master has a way to tease the child, but I don't know... When will the young master and the princess have a big fat boy?"

The other two also agreed.

"Yes, it's time for the young master to add new members to our general's mansion, so as not to let anyone talk about the young master and the princess outside."

"That's right, the people outside are very chaotic, saying that if it weren't for the young master, or if the princess had a problem, she hadn't given birth to a child or a half of her daughter in just a few years."

These guards are all the five and most sturdy family members in the mansion. They have a good relationship with General Lin and Lin Sishen on weekdays. They talk every time they ask, and they discuss it all over the place.

After hearing what they said, Lin Sishen was stunned and the smile on his face disappeared little by little.

Seeing this, Mo Zhu hurriedly smoothed out the situation and whispered: "It's all in this situation, and I still have the intention to tease the young master. Let's take a rest and nourish my energy. I'll have to hurry up tomorrow."

Seeing that Lin Sishen's expression seemed something wrong, and was scolded by Mo Zhu, the people realized that they had said too much and did not dare to say anything else. They hurriedly shut their eyes and pretended to go to bed.

Mo Zhu looked at Lin Sishen worriedly and called out softly: "Young Master."

Lin Sishen shook his head and comforted him, "It's okay, you have to rest first. I'll take care of this kid first."

After saying that, Lin Sishen stood up and walked nearby with the child in her arms. She looked at the child who was gradually sleeping in her arms, and for some reason she suddenly felt a little irritated.

It would be fine if outsiders said she was, but she had never cared about it, but if she said Chen Qingwan, she would be a little unhappy.

Although Chen Qingwan and her are now, and they are in love with each other for life, she is a woman after all, and she can never give Chen Qingwan some things.

Just like this child in her arms.

Just as Lin Sishen was secretly worried about this, a slight sound suddenly came from the mountains and forests on both sides, as if someone accidentally stepped on a dead tree.

Lin Sishen looked around alertly, frowned and shouted: "Meng Lin."
To be continued...