Just as Song Xuan was about to say something, he heard a voice coming from beside him: "Second brother, why are you here?"

Everyone looked back and saw that it was Song Mi who walked over from the study room.

Mrs. Song hurried over: "Husband, we just heard about it-"

"What have you heard? Don't hear anything!" Song Mi interrupted his wife with a stern face: "You forgot what your father said, don't ask more questions and think more about women. This is not what you should ask and think about."

The young lady was snatched by him for a while and could only lower her head softly.

Then Song Mi walked to Song Xuan with her hands behind her back and said, "Why did you come here? Didn't your father ask you to go to the study? Which servant said it?"

Song Xuan hurriedly said, "Brother, it's not their business. I hurriedly ran here when I heard something happened. I only remember that you were all here to listen to the opera, but I didn't pay attention to them. Dad was waiting for me in the study. Let's go, don't delay, hurry up and don't let Dad wait any longer."

After hearing what he said, Song Mi did not have another attack, and bowed to me politely, and then the two brothers turned around and left together.

I stood there, without saying anything for a moment. The young lady sorted out her emotions and then walked over with a smile.

"Miss Yan, I'll accompany you back and rest."

"Why."

She took me back to her room and wanted to accompany me for a while, but seeing that I was not in good spirits and looked sleepy, she told the maids to wait outside and not quarrel at me, and then she turned around and left.

I lay on the bed, heard the sound of the door closing, and slowly opened my eyes.

The sentence always echoed in my mind, and at this time it seemed to have become a little deafening.

People began to die in Cangzhou City.

What Song Xuan said just now shocked me even more - I thought they should have used some method, epidemics, poisoning, and even some more cruel methods, all of which were passed in my mind, but Song Xuan said that they had never had anything, and the Cui family did nothing.

According to my observation these days, the Song family has indeed not sent any troops or soldiers to make any moves. The other side of Cangzhou City is as quiet as a dead city.

Since nothing has been done, how could Cangzhou City start to have a large number of dead people?

If it was because of the food shortage in siege, people starved to death, then they had been surrounded for so long before, and this should have happened long ago. Why did it not happen until now?

Which of the problems happened?

My breathing was rapid and my heart beat violently. At this time, I couldn't lie down on the bed. I stood up and walked around the room, and listened to the sounds outside. Except for a few little maids whispering their own whispers outside, there was no sound.

I was anxious in the room, and walked to the door a few steps and opened the door.

The chilling wind outside immediately blew onto his face.

The maids guarding outside hurriedly surrounded him and said carefully: "Miss Yan, do you have any instructions?"

"What should Miss Yan eat? Let's prepare it for Miss Yan."

"Do you want to call the doctor, Miss Yan?"

“…”

I stared at them blankly, and suddenly a light flashed in my mind.

Seeing that I didn't say a word, the maids only looked at them in a daze, and didn't know what was going on, so they looked at me carefully.

One of them whispered: "Miss Yan..."

"fine."

After I said these two words simply, I took a step back and closed the door again.

My hands were still on the door frame. I heard the little maids outside looking at each other in surprise and whispering "What's going on?" Although the ground dragons in the room were very hot, the cold wind just now calmed down my mind.

Song Xuan just made it clear that the Song family has not taken any action these days, and the Cui family has not done anything. In other words, people in the city did not die because of epidemics or poisoning, but because of the current "normal" cause.

Starved to death!

Before, when the city was besieged and attacked, there were no dead people in the city.

Now, without attacking the city, people are starting to die in the city.

In other words, the key to the dead is not the siege, but the attack.

But it was not because of siege that people died. Instead, there was a situation of siege that no one in the city was starved to death.

In other words, if you attack the city, you won’t starve to death!

Could it be...

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In the next two days, Song Huaiyi and the others still did nothing, but from that day on, the father and son talked in the study until very late, they rarely accompanied us to watch operas and have fun in the garden. However, the young lady of the Song family, whether because of her mood or was greeted by someone, she rarely came to me again, so my life became quiet.

However, the news from outside has not stopped coming in.

There have been people dying in Cangzhou City.

Even at noon on the fourth day, I stood in the corridor of the small building and saw a pillar of black smoke rising from the city of Cangzhou and soaring into the sky.

After experiencing the relief of disaster victims in Yangzhou City, I knew very well that it was burning the bodies.

Even though I heard so many reports before, I was awakened by the tragic situations that came before me when I closed my eyes and came to my eyes every quiet night. However, no imagination or words can compare to the scene that appeared in front of me.

The thick smoke rolled, and from a distance it looked like a black dragon rushing into the sky and kept swelling in the air, as if countless unjust souls were wrapped in the smoke and dust, struggling and roaring.

They are accusing.

No death is more painful than starving to death, and it makes people feel the sadness of being born human.

Seeing me standing in the corridor, looking at the dark smoke, with a heavy expression on my face, Xie Feng slowly walked to my side and said softly: "Miss Yan, please go back to the house to rest."

I turned to look at him.

He said: "There are some things that cannot be changed by Miss Yan alone. Since it cannot be changed or accepted, it is better to simply ignore them."

"So I don't see you?" I smiled bitterly, then looked at the black smoke that soared into the sky: "Can you disappear?"

“…”

"Mr. Xie," I did not look at him, but continued to look at the tragic situation above Cangzhou City, and slowly said: "I don't know why you came to him for the sake of grudges, love and revenge, and did these things for him. But--"

"But what?"

I raised my hand and pointed at the black smoke: "How many are there in that one, grudges, love and revenge?"

"..." This time, he was silent for a long time, and the black smoke seemed to have stained his eyes, covering up the original clarity and inspiration. After a long time, he slowly said: "People live by generations."

“…”

I was stunned by his words.

After a while, he smiled faintly: "Yes."

After saying that, he turned around and walked away weakly. When he saw that I was about to go down, he hurriedly followed: "Where is Miss Yan going?"

"I feel uncomfortable and want to meet Mrs. Zhang."

"Old Mrs. Zhang is sick."

"What?"

I was stunned and looked back at him.

He said: "I have been sick for two days."

Have been sick for two days?

I have been worried about the deaths in Cangzhou City these two days, and I have spent too much effort to figure out the problems. I have never dated other people in the Song family. In addition, Xie Feng is staring at me everywhere, which makes me feel very constrained, so I simply didn't go out, and I didn't know that Old Lady Zhang has been ill for two days!

It's really inappropriate!

I hurriedly said, "I'll go over and take a look."

Seeing that he could not stop me, he could not stop me, so he followed me all the way to the garden of Old Lady Zhang. After a while, he arrived at the door. Sure enough, he saw that there were still a few servants who were serving Song Huaiyi and others who were close to me. When he saw me coming, he hurriedly took possession and saluted.

I asked, "What's wrong with Mrs. Zhang?"

One of the servants whispered: "Our ancestors are more energetic today, but they are still confused."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Song Huaiyi's voice coming from inside: "Who is it?"

I glanced at the servant, he nodded, hurriedly went in and replied. After a while, a sound of footsteps came. Song Huaiyi walked out of it and saw me standing under the steps, and hurriedly came up: "Ms. Yan."

I asked with concern: "What's wrong with the old lady?"

"Ms. Yan was worried. I took the medicine today and I was much more awake."

"Me, can I go and see the old man?"

"Of course it's good. It's just that Miss Yan is so worried, it's really-"

"Don't say that to Mr. Song."

As we spoke, we walked in. As soon as we entered the door, we saw the old lady lying on the bed, looking very haggard, and even her mouth opened wide when she was breathing, feeling like she was incoming and not coming out.

I felt uncomfortable all of a sudden, and hurried over and whispered: "Old lady..."

Hearing my voice, the old man's narrow eyes opened, his eyes flashed, and he said, "Daughter-in-law?"

“Yes… it’s me.”

"Why haven't you come to see me these two days?"

I was speechless and could only say dryly: "It's my fault."

She smiled and said, "I know you are good, but you feel uncomfortable."

“…Old lady.”

"Why isn't the old woman's heart uncomfortable?"

When she said this, Song Huaiyi, who was standing beside him, couldn't stand it anymore and his voice became hoarse: "Mother..."

Hearing his voice, Old Mrs. Zhang said weakly again: "Huaiyi, tell my mother, when will we go back to the capital?"

“…”

"Wu Niang wants to go back and see when will she go back?"

“…”

"Withoutiao, do you still have to wait?"

Her words made Song Huaiyi almost burst into tears. A deacon of the Song family was powerless to do anything about his mother's small request when she was seriously ill. This feeling obviously made him very painful.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be sad, your son will not let your mother wait any longer."

“…”
Chapter completed!