Xia Han only thought that Lu Zhiyao was comforting him, so he nodded in agreement and continued to embroider what he was doing.
Time passed quickly in leisurely time. Lu Zhiyao did not leave the house all day long. When it got a little dark, she volunteered to go to the kitchen to cook for everyone, but what she cooked was disappointing.
The faces of several people looked uglier than the last.
The dining table was filled with five or six dishes. Lu Zhiyao glanced at the faces of Ling Yi and Bai Lixuan, frowned at their strange expressions of silence after eating the dishes.
"Isn't it?" Lu Zhiyao slowly picked up the chopsticks and prepared to taste it himself. "Although it is my first time to cook, it shouldn't be so unpalatable, right?"
Ling Yi had just tried hard to swallow the food stuck in her throat, and quickly stopped Lu Zhiyao and said, "Master, you'd better not eat it."
"What, are you afraid that I will drug myself to death?" Lu Zhiyao glanced at Ling Yi, took a big mouthful of food and put it into her mouth without caring. In full view of everyone, she chewed the food and didn't know what it was.
The green vegetables tasted delicious, and the chewing movements became slower and slower. In the end, before the vegetables were chewed to pieces, they were all swallowed hard.
Lu Zhiyao didn't say anything, and those few people couldn't say anything. They just watched Lu Zhiyao taste the dishes one by one, then put down his chopsticks, sighed lightly, and said in a very small voice: "How about
, let me go out and buy some vegetables for you."
Lu Zhiyao sighed very softly. If he hadn't been paying attention to her, he wouldn't have noticed it at all. Ling Yi and others wanted to laugh when they saw Lu Zhiyao's high-spirited appearance from the beginning to now, but because of the main reason
They had no choice but to hold back. They had a bad feeling about these dishes from the first time they saw them. However, it was the first time Lu Zhiyao cooked and no one dared not eat them, so now
These people are very lucky that Lu Zhiyao can realize how good her craftsmanship is. Otherwise, if the Eighth Princess becomes addicted to cooking and cooks for several days in a row, their stomachs may not be able to bear it.
"I'll go." Zhan Yulong stood up voluntarily, "I have gone out to buy them these days, you just wait."
Zhan Yulong strode away, and the remaining people did not sit around the dining table, but chatted in twos and threes, until Lan Ruoling opened the door and walked in.
Lan Ruoling glanced at the food on the table, then looked at Lu Zhiyao and the others, and asked curiously: "Why don't you eat?"
"Waiting for you." Ling Yi accepted Lan Ruoling's words, "It just so happened that Yulong was out on business, so you can sit here."
After saying that, Ling Yi patted the chair next to her and kindly called Lan Ruoling over. Lan Ruoling had been hungry all day, so she didn't think much about it, walked over and sat down, picked up her chopsticks and started eating.
After a busy day, she didn't even have time to see the reactions of Lu Zhiyao and others, so she just vomited out the food she had just eaten.
"Who did this? Salt comes for free, right? Put so much?!" Lan Ruoling's unintentional words made Lu Zhiyao's face turn from white to red. Only then did Lan Ruoling realize,
Something is not quite right.
Lan Ruoling slowly turned her head to look at Ling Yi, and saw the smile in Ling Yi's eyes clearly. Lan Ruoling stepped on his foot hard, and she guessed who made this meal. But she said
Everything has been said, and there is no way to take it back, so Lan Ruoling can only bite the bullet and go see Lu Zhiyao. Fortunately, Lu Zhiyao is not the kind of spoiled young lady, otherwise Lan Ruoling thinks, she will
Life will not be easy.
Lu Zhiyao didn't speak. Lan Ruoling thought she was angry because of her words. Just when she was about to admit her mistake, she heard Xia Han over there ask: "Sister, are you angry?"
"No!" Lu Zhiyao shook his head quickly, then looked at the other people beside him, and explained with an awkward smile: "I was just thinking, Yudie and I did the same steps, so where did we go wrong."
"Don't think about it now, I'm here to tell you something." Lan Ruoling breathed a sigh of relief, sat up straight, and remembered the real reason why she came here. "Many people in the city have been sick these days.
, many people have died. The cause of the disease has not been found out yet. You should all pay attention and don’t go out if nothing happens."
"Many people died?" Lu Zhiyao looked at Lan Ruoling doubtfully, "The weather has been going well recently, it can't be the plague, right?"
"It shouldn't be." Lan Ruoling shook her head and said, "I saw several corpses today and asked their families. These people are all street vendors. They ranged from uncomfortable to coughing to dead, but
For almost half a month, there was no particularly serious or obvious reaction, so no one thought about going to the doctor. They just went to the pharmacy to grab some medicine and even took it. As you know, those vendors get up early and stay up late.
I'm used to it, and my health is usually good. No one expected that things would turn out like this."
"It seems that the matter is really serious, otherwise the court would not have intervened." Lu Zhiyao also felt that this matter was a bit strange, "Did you find a corpse for an autopsy? What did you say?"
"We haven't found him yet. The officials were afraid that they would be infected, so we ordered the bodies to be burned." When Lan Ruoling said this, her tone became a little cold. Although she was Lin Yinan's subordinate, she was in the Yamen after all.
She was just a small detective, and she didn't want to use the name of the Eighth Prince to interfere in anything, making others think that she was taking advantage of others and embarrassing Lin Yinan. But sometimes Lan Ruoling felt that for those sitting in her position
But those who do nothing will never be able to deal with them without using some means.
Lu Zhiyao knew something about Lan Ruoling, and knew that she had grown up on the streets without any relatives, and was brought back by Lin Yinan. She worked so hard for the court, in addition to wanting to prove that women are no worse than men,
Lu Zhiyao thought that maybe she really understood what kind of state those powerless people were living in, so she went to help them. Now that something like this happened, Lan Ruoling saw it before her eyes
Seeing how the court treated the people, she would definitely not be happy, and Lu Zhiyao didn't think this matter would end so easily.
"Do you want my help?" Lu Zhiyao said softly, drawing everyone's attention to her. "With so many of us here, we will find some useful information."
"No, I'm just here to remind you. I may be busy recently and won't come here again, so if anything happens, just ask Ling Yi to find me." Lan Ruoling immediately rejected Lu Zhiyao's proposal.
, no matter what, Lu Zhiyao is the master and the eighth imperial concubine. Once she does something bad, how will she explain it when Lin Yinan comes back?
"Okay." Lu Zhiyao didn't say much. He just wanted to wait for two more days to see what the situation was in Beijing before making any plans. But the speed of development exceeded everyone's imagination. In just a few days,
, more and more people are coughing and sick in Jingzhong. Everyone doesn’t know whether they are just suffering from a common cold or have a fatal disease. So for a while, the pharmacies in Jingzhong became busy, and there were even some unlearned and unskilled people.
A charlatan appeared and defrauded many people of their money.
Lu Zhiyao listened to the news brought back by Ling Yi and Zhan Yulong every day and became uneasy. "Do you think someone is deliberately causing trouble?" Lu Zhiyao asked the question that had been thinking in his mind and looked at him.
Looking at the two people's gazes, she lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then continued: "Yinan told me before that Nangong Lingfeng came back this time to help the prince ascend. I am afraid that this commotion will be caused by the Nangong family.
Caused by people.”
"It's not impossible to think so." Ling Yi's eyes flashed, "Master, what you mean is that in a few days, people from the prince's faction will come forward to deal with this matter?"
"So many people have died. It can't be settled by just them standing up and saying a few words. The Yamen have been refusing to conduct autopsies. I don't know if they are really afraid of death or for other reasons. How long have you not seen them?
Ruo Ling?"
"I haven't seen her since she came that day." Zhan Yulong asked Lu Zhiyao in a low voice, "How about I go find her now and ask?"
"Go and ask, I'll wait for your news."
Lu Zhiyao signaled Zhan Yulong to go back quickly. After Zhan Yulong came back and said something, Lu Zhiyao clenched his fists with gloomy eyes, gritted his teeth, and squeezed out a few words.
"It's too much."
Zhan Yulong met Lan Ruoling, and Lan Ruoling said that the government had examined the corpses and found out why those people died. However, they could not find the suspect for a while, for fear of causing public outrage.
It was said that the government was not doing its job well, so it had to drag things out, making everyone think it was a plague.
"There are such dog officials in Xia Lai, so why worry about it?" Lu Zhiyao sneered twice, feeling more and more that this was a joke. "I really don't know what the emperor would do if he knew about this."
"Do you want the emperor to know about this?" Ling Yi and Zhan Yulong looked at each other, wondering what Lu Zhiyao wanted to do. She is a secret in the capital now, and it would be bad if the emperor knew about it.
"So many innocent people have been poisoned to death, but there has never been an explanation. Even if we don't tell them, people are not fools, and they will notice something sooner or later. I just want to make sure now whether the Nangong family did this.
If so, how do they plan to end it?"
Such indifference to human life reminded Lu Zhiyao of the corpses of young women she saw at the border. This kind of thing that repeatedly affected the lives of innocent people made Lu Zhiyao feel angry. Didn't she lose something?
Relatives will never experience the heartbreaking pain, so they have no fear and will kill whoever they want?!
"How many people have died now?" Lu Zhiyao tried hard to suppress his emotions, but Ling Yi and Zhan Yulong still felt her anger.
