Chapter 151

At the end of winter in the fifth year of Yuanhe, the Qingzhou earthquake and Baizhou in Luozhou were felt. The three families of Wei, Chu and Song jointly issued the "Book of Requisitioning Grain" to the world to ask for food and disaster relief, and sent the Beifeng General Chu Yu to lead a team to collect those who refused to pay. Chu Yu killed Hou Yi of Huaiyang, Jiang Yong of Bincheng, and Chen Huai of Luohe within half a month, and the whole world was shocked. After that, no one dared to refuse the payment. During this time, Wei Yun sent troops to Qingzhou to take Qingnan and Qingbei; Chu Linyang took Xiejia Linyi, and Song Shilan took Wang's three cities.

The winter that year was very cold. The earthquake and severe cold combined to aggravate the disaster in Qingzhou. Fortunately, there was no major shortage of food, and Qingzhou finally stabilized.

On the day that Qingzhou’s stable Zhezi was sent to Huajing, Zhao Yue sat in the imperial study and asked the imperial physician to consult him.

He has been feeling fatigued lately. He is a careful person, so he has changed many imperial doctors to come to see him.

Next to him, Zhang Hui read to him the book from Qingzhou, and finally said: "Now to help Qingzhou, Wei Yun and the others have a higher and higher reputation among the people. They want food from the world, but they can't give much. Your Majesty, you want to Don't let us make a noise here, if anyone dares to give them food, we will beat whom?"

Wei Yun, Song Shilan, Chu Linyang, these hard bones are hard to bite, but it's okay to hit those small families.

Zhao Yue rubbed her head, closed her eyes and said, "Does Gu Chusheng plan to come back?"

"General Yao didn't say anything."

Zhao Yue replied in a low voice, and then said: "Qingzhou is Yao Yong's place after all, and it completely messed up Qingzhou. In the end, it was Yao Yong who was in trouble. Everything can't be done, they can save it if they want. However, write a The notice goes on, saying that Wei Yun robbed our food for disaster relief, and scolded him."

Hearing this, Zhang Hui was stunned for a while, and then he reacted.

After all, Zhao Yue was the imperial court, and Qingzhou was in trouble, and it was the imperial court that should relieve the disaster first. However, now the court has not allocated food, so Wei Yun is forced to rescue the disaster. If this matter is really set, the prestige of this court among the people will be over.

Now they are fighting back, saying that Wei Yun robbed the disaster relief food. First, they can show the people that they are also helping the disaster relief to save the hearts of the people. Second, they can describe Wei Yun's disaster relief as a show.

Zhang Hui understood what Zhao Yue meant, and laughed: "It's still your majesty."

Zhao Yue didn't speak. He felt that his brain hurt too much, so he said, "Did you just say, which village in Baizhou is plagued?"

"It's just relying on a village called Dongjia Village in Qingzhou. This plague is very serious. Now there is also an epidemic in the village next to Qingzhou. General Yao is dealing with it."

"Bring me the map."

Zhao Yue opened her eyes, a little tired. Zhang Hui went to get the map and pointed it to Zhao Yue: "Your Majesty, look, this is the place."

Zhao Yue stared at Dongjiacun for a long time, and then said slowly, "It seems that it is next to Nanjiang."

The Nanjiang River is a long river that runs through Baizhou and Huazhou. It originates from Baizhou and enters the sea in Huazhou. It is the main river in Huazhou.

Zhang Hui didn't understand what Zhao Yue meant, but said, "Yes, Jiang Baicheng is right next to it."

After hearing this, Zhao Yue did not speak.

He stared at Jiang Baicheng, and after a long time, he suddenly said: "Immediately deploy troops to support Yao Yong, regardless of all consequences, take down Jiang Bai!"

"His Majesty?"

Zhang Hui didn't understand what Zhao Yue meant. Jiang Bai didn't want land, and he didn't have special supplies. He couldn't understand why he had to take down Jiang Bai with heavy troops.

"Another 200,000 troops will be dispatched from Yanzhou," Zhao Yue tapped on the handrail and continued: "Bypass Niucheng and approach Bailing."

"Your Majesty," Zhang Hui frowned, "If you don't attack Niucheng, go directly to Bailing, then Wei Yun will lead his troops back and attack Bailing with Niucheng's troops, I'm afraid it's inappropriate."

"Don't stop after capturing Bailing," Zhao Yue rubbed her head: "Take Wei Yun's family away."

Only after saying this did Zhang Hui understand.

This emperor is not a person with military talents, but he is more constructive in ruthless power. Fighting for a city is never because it is a military important place, and what kind of materials he has, it is just because there are people there who will care about the other side.

Back then, he let Bei Di win the Wei family in Baidi Valley, taking advantage of Yao Yong's cowardice and the Wei family's integrity, and now what he wants to do is still the same.

Zhang Hui took the order and arranged it.

After Zhang Hui walked out, Zhao Yue opened his eyes and looked at the imperial doctor who was kneeling on the ground beside him to give him a pulse, and said, "Teacher Gao, is there any result?"

"Your Majesty..." Imperial Physician Gao said with some trepidation, "You are probably thinking too much..."

"I've been feeling exhausted lately."

"You are indeed too tired."

Zhao Yue was silent for a moment, then he finally stood up and walked into the palace of the eldest princess.

When he went, the eldest princess was instructing people to dig soil under the plum tree.

Now most of the plum blossoms have fallen, and only a few are left, scattered in the woods. He looked at the eldest princess from a distance, and saw her calm expression instructing people to dig up the soil, and then put a few jars of wine in it.

Zhao Yue remained silent. After the eldest princess buried the wine, the person next to her reminded the eldest princess, "Madame, Your Majesty is there."

The eldest princess raised her head and saw Zhao Yue standing by the tree. Seeing that she had found herself, Zhao Yue walked up to her, tidied up her clothes, and said gently, "What are you doing?"

"Buried a few jars of wine." The eldest princess laughed: "When next winter, you can dig it out and drink it."

Zhao Yue reached out and held her hand. Her hand seemed to be on ice in the winter. Zhao Yue wrapped her hand and said with a smile, "The child will speak out next year. I will accompany you to drink."

The eldest princess smiled and didn't speak. Zhao Yue took her into the palace, and said tiredly, "The world is in chaos now, and none of Wei Yun, Song Shilan, Chu Linyang...is worrying."

He took the eldest princess and sat in the room, and asked someone to bring hot water over, wiped her handkerchief with his own hands, and whispered, "But don't worry too much, I'll pack everything up and wait for our children to grow up. ," Zhao Yue raised her head, looked at her and smiled: "I will give him a stable throne."

"You will be the queen, and the queen mother in the future," Zhao Yue raised her hand and put it on her hair with a gentle and solemn expression: "You will always be the most honorable woman in the world, and you will not suffer any grievances. ."

Hearing this, the eldest princess trembled slightly. She lowered her eyes and looked at her hand. After a long time, she finally replied in a low voice, "Yeah."

"His Royal Highness," he leaned lightly on her shoulder, relying on her as he did in the Princess Mansion: "What I do is for you and the child, don't blame me."

The eldest princess didn't speak. She felt the temperature on her shoulders. He was getting worse and worse recently, and occasionally his eyes were dark and blurry.

She knew why, she felt his weakness and was clearly aware of the loss of his vitality, she brought rare tolerance, held his hand, and said slowly: "Ayue, people are all about good luck in their lives. , accumulate some virtue for me and the child."

Zhao Yue leaned against her, and after a long time, he said slowly, "Don't worry."

He hugged her and smiled softly: "I'll go to hell, you and the child will be fine."

"Ayue..." The eldest princess held his hand tightly: "Why..."

"Chunhua," Zhao Yue felt her unease, he raised his head and looked at the eldest princess with bitterness in his eyes: "There are some roads I walk up, but I can't look back. Wei Yun won't let me go, you Understand?"

The eldest princess stared at him blankly, Zhao Yue suppressed her emotions and said with difficulty: "From the moment I killed the Wei family for revenge, I can't look back."

"Between me and Wei Yun," Zhao Yue slowly calmed down: "One must die. But don't worry," he held her hand and said with certainty, "That person won't be me."

When Zhao Yue's order was passed down, Wei Yun had just taken Qingnan. He first returned to Bailing, and after making arrangements, he contacted Shen You again, and planned to join forces to attack Yushui. Once Yushui was taken down, It is just around the corner to settle down in Qingzhou.

At this time, Chu Yu had just arrived in Yuancheng, and the news that Wei Yun had taken Qingnan did not arrive in Yuancheng. Sun Yi was sent to be the guard of Yuancheng. Chu Yu asked Sun Yi to write back and asked what Wei Yun was doing now.

Sun Yi was a little strange, and said, "General, why don't you ask yourself?"

Chu Yu was a little embarrassed and waved her hand: "If you want to ask, just ask, where do you come from so many questions?"

While writing a letter according to Chu Yu's request, Sun Yi said: "You are really strange, it stands to reason that whether it is the identity of the main general of this war or the identity of the lover, it is only natural for you to write to the prince. You are here. What are you shy about?"

"Where am I shy?" Chu Yu finally said, "Isn't this for his sake?"

"For your own sake?" Sun Yi was a little puzzled, Chu Yu sighed, sat cross-legged on the table, propped her chin and said, "As soon as I write a letter, he must know that I miss him, he knows that I miss him, and so does he. I don't have to think about coming to see me at night? I want to see me with all my heart, how do I fight this battle?"

Sun Yi was stunned by such straightforward words. He couldn't recover for a long time, but Wanyue's voice came from outside: "Miss, someone outside is asking to see Mr. Gu."

Chu Yu was stunned for a while, Gu Chusheng has been away from Yuancheng for many days now, who else will come to him?

However, Chu Yu didn't think much, stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go take a look."

Chu Yu led the people out of the door, and saw a woman standing at the door. The woman looked very young, wearing a rags and holding a child. Chu Yu looked at the woman up and down, and went up to respectfully said, "Are you looking for Master Gu?"

When the woman saw Chu Yu, she came up to kneel, and Chu Yu hurriedly carried her. After the two chatted for a while, the woman said, "To tell you the truth, it's not that the concubine is looking for Master Gu, but someone told the concubine that Master Gu is looking for me."

"you are?"

Chu Yu frowned, and the woman sighed: "My concubine is the wife of Li's family. I heard that Master Gu was looking for my father-in-law Li Le, so she came up."

Chu Yu didn't quite know what Gu Chusheng wanted to do with Li Le. She thought about it, she hadn't seen Wei Qingping and Gu Chusheng for a long time, and she didn't know where they were and what the disaster was like. Now that all the food has entered Qingzhou from Yuancheng, she thought about it, and let people know Sun Yi, and she led the woman into Qingzhou by herself.

At this moment, Gu Chusheng and Wei Qingping are doing disaster relief in a small town called Quanyong.

Chu Yu took the woman on a five-day journey before arriving at Quan Yong.

On the way, Chu Yu talked to this woman, only to find out that her name was Chen Jiu'er, the Li Le that Gu Chusheng was looking for was her father-in-law, and she was the wife of Li Le's third son.

Li Le's family has two sons and one daughter. He was recruited earlier, and the eldest son went to the battlefield and never came back. Later, the tax was too heavy, and Chen Jiu'er's husband couldn't pay the tax as required due to the poor harvest that year. He was beaten by officers and soldiers and died in his hospital bed. The last youngest daughter sold herself into a wealthy businessman's house as a slave because of her family's poverty. Now she doesn't know her whereabouts, so she left Chen Jiu'er to take care of the remaining three children.

However, the army was in chaos, and there was an earthquake. Two of the three children became ill. In the end, she was left with her youngest son, who was born soon, and she didn't know how many days she would last.

When he met Chu Yu, Chen Jiu'er had run out of milk, and the child just drank some rice soup from disaster relief. That is, on the way to Quanyong City, Chen Jiuer ate meat and finally had milk.

Quan Yong City is the last disaster relief city.

In fact, Quan Yong was severely affected, but the officials did not report it. By the time Gu Chusheng knew, it was too late.

When Chu Yu arrived at Quanyong City, she saw the ruins and broken beams, and the body was pushed out by a car, and had to be dragged out and cremated according to Wei Qingping's instructions. Different from other cities, the whole city of Quanyong is very quiet, with a kind of gloom that needs no words, which makes people feel dull inside.

Chen Jiu'er followed behind Chu Yu with the child in her arms, and said timidly, "Sir..."

"It's okay."

Chu Yu said indifferently, "Just follow me."

With that said, Chu Yu asked the officers and soldiers to lead the way and escorted the food over.

There were very few people in Quanyong. When Chu Yu arrived at the place where the grain was stored, no one even came to help unload the goods. Chu Yu could only unload the goods in person, and then searched for someone, and asked where Gu Chusheng lived.

According to the instructions of passers-by, most people are now in the medical house. Chu Yu led Chen Jiu'er to the medical house. When they approached the medical house, they heard mourning, crying, and panicked voices.

When Chu Yu walked into the medical room, she saw rows of patients lined up, and many people shuttled among them. Bandage them and give them medicine.

Chu Yu saw a red figure from a distance. His hair was covered with a cloth crown, and his clothes were dyed with mud. He was wearing a white medicine skirt and holding a medicine bowl in his hand. He hurried to the front of an elderly man. . At the beginning of the period, he was patient enough to give the other party medicine, but he didn't know what was wrong, and the other party began to cough rapidly, and blood flowed out of the other party's mouth. Gu Chusheng panicked and began to cry like crazy: "Wei Qingping! Wei Qingping! "

However, there were too many patients, and Wei Qingping was still giving another needle on the other side.

Gu Chusheng skillfully and tremblingly pulled out the needle, stuck it on the acupoint that Wei Qingping had treated for him, grabbed the medicine sent by the doctor next to him, and stuffed it into the other's mouth.

"You hold on..." He trembled and said: "Master, hold on, your son will be back soon, you must hold on!"

He seemed to be flustered, Chu Yu walked over slowly, watching him desperately trying to rescue the old man who was vomiting blood.

However, in the end, the person slowly lost his breath. Even though Gu Chusheng tried his best, he still closed his eyes.

Gu Chusheng knelt on the spot and stared blankly at the old man.

After a long time, Chu Yu raised her hand and patted him on the shoulder.

"Master Gu," she said softly, "the person has left."

Gu Chusheng turned his head slowly, and he looked up at the woman beside him.

She was dressed in black clothes, with a leather whip hanging from her waist, her hair tied up high, and she looked capable and flamboyant, but her smile was filled with the gentleness and tolerance unique to the years, and her expression contained a little comfort: " Master Gu, take a rest."

Gu Chusheng listened to her words, and it took a long time for him to recover.

He smiled slowly and called out her name: "Ayu."

Saying that, he raised his hand and stood up with the help of the medical boy beside him. The others had already come over to deal with the old man. Gu Chusheng didn't look at him, turned his back to the corpse, and said to Chu Yu, "Long time no see."

"Um."

Chu Yu looked at him up and down for a moment, then gave way: "I heard that you are looking for Li Le, this is Li Le's daughter-in-law, I will bring it to you to meet."

Gu Chusheng's eyes fell on the woman holding the child behind Chu Yu. The other party lowered his head and did not dare to look up at him.

Gu Chusheng just glanced at her, and he already knew what happened roughly.

He clenched his fists tightly. After a long time, he took a deep breath and said with difficulty: "Is there anyone else at home?"