The soft-waisted princess was pinched and pampered by the ascetic prince after her rebirth

Shen Ruzhou and Bei Xiuyan led soldiers to collect the bodies of the dead. After hearing Shen Ruzhou's words of "preventing the epidemic after a major disaster", some sensible people understood and took the initiative to hand over the bodies of their loved ones.

Of course, there were some who were unreasonable. No matter how Shen Ruzhou explained, they couldn't listen. The empress had no choice but to take strong measures and directly carry the body away. The unarmed people knew that they could not fight against the officers and soldiers, so naturally they could not cause any big trouble. movement.

The bodies were finally gathered together and burned.

Shen Ruzhou and Beixiu spent a whole day busy at the banquet, and finally disposed of all the corpses that could be found in Yongzhou City. They also called in the government servants to spread some lime, mugwort and other materials throughout the city to drive away evil spirits and prevent diseases.

After settling this important matter, Shen Ruzhou finally had a peaceful sleep.

On the second day, it started pouring rain again in Yongzhou. Shen Ruzhou was worried that Yongzhou City would be flooded again, so he decided to go to the river embankment with Beixiu Yan to have a look.

The two of them came to the river embankment wearing bamboo hats and felt relieved when they saw that although the river water had risen a lot, it did not cross the embankment.

The rain began to subside, and Shen Ruzhou was about to return to the city when he saw Bei Xiuyan squatting on the embankment, holding the gravel that had fallen on the embankment and examining it carefully.

Shen Ruzhou approached and asked in a low voice: "Is there something wrong with this stone?"

Bei Xiuyan was noncommittal and put the stone in his palm, "I read the documents from the Ministry of Works before and remembered that the hardest blue stone should be used to build the river embankment, but this stone is obviously not the same. The texture is very brittle and will break when broken. "

Shen Ruzhou was a complete layman when it came to stones. He picked up the stone in Bei Xiuyan's hand and looked at it again and again, but he couldn't see any clue.

"Let's ask people from the Ministry of Industry when we get back." Bei Xiuyan put the stone in his arms and helped Shen Ruzhou walk back on the muddy embankment.

After walking a few steps, I suddenly saw a village woman not far away shouting for help, "Help, help, my son fell into the water."

Beixiuyan looked far into the distance and saw a child struggling to float in the eddy in the center of the river. He immediately took off his rain-proof bamboo hat and plunged into the river.

Shen Ruzhou waited with the woman on the embankment. Not long after, Bei Xiuyan swam to the embankment with his child. The woman hugged the child and called the child's name anxiously, "Stone, Stone, wake up."

Bei Xiuyan put his arms on the embankment and gasped for air. Shen Ruzhou wanted to pull him, but heard him say: "Go save the child first, I can come up by myself after I take a breath."

Shen Ruzhou nodded, turned around and knelt beside the child, pressed his abdomen with both hands, and pushed out the river water he sucked in. The child spit out several mouthfuls of water before coughing and opening his eyes.

The woman happily took the child into her arms, knelt down and kowtowed to thank Shen Ruzhou.

When Bei Xiuyan saw that the child had been saved, he was about to go ashore, but unexpectedly a hand grabbed his feet and dragged him down quickly. The accident happened so fast that he had no time to make a sound and was already under the water.

Although Bei Xiuyan was highly skilled in martial arts, his water resistance was mediocre and he couldn't use his fists or kicks underwater. However, he was knocked unconscious by his opponent after just a few moves.

When Shen Ruzhou sent away the village women and children and returned to the embankment, there was no sign of Beixiu Yan anywhere.

Could it be that he was too exhausted to get up and was washed away by the water.

Shen Ruzhou was startled by her thoughts and hurriedly searched along the embankment. She shouted Beixiu Yan's name loudly, but did not get any response.

Shen Ruzhou searched all over the river embankment but could not find the Beixiu Banquet, so he had no choice but to run back to Yongzhou City to call for help. Qin Ming was instructing the waiters to distribute food. When he heard that the Beixiu Banquet was missing, he hurriedly ran to Shen Ruzhou to ask for details.

Shen Ruzhou explained what happened on the embankment in detail. Qin Ming looked solemn and said, "I will take someone to look for him again."

"The Beixiu Banquet was washed away by the river?" Xiao Chenyan came over at some point and confirmed with Shen Ruzhou the news he had just heard.

When Shen Ruzhou saw him, his eyes suddenly sharpened, "Did you do it?"

"What did I do?" Xiao Chenyan was confused at first, but then quickly realized, "Shen Ruzhou, don't talk nonsense. I have never seen the regent since I came here."

Shen Ruzhou disagreed, gritted his teeth, and said word by word: "Your Highness, in the face of a great disaster, please put the overall situation first."

The overall situation is important. These four words deeply hurt Xiao Chenyan, his eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he said coldly: "You acted without permission, rushed to Yongzhou first, and told me that the overall situation is the most important thing? If you take the overall situation into consideration, you should Leave the supplies to me for deployment."

Just after Xiao Chenyan finished speaking, Shen Ruzhou, who had been holding on for a long time, swayed and fell down with his eyes closed.

Xiao Chenyan hurriedly asked someone to send her to the government office to rest.

At noon the next day, Shen Ruzhou woke up. Xiao Chenyan came to see her. Seeing that her face was pale, he couldn't help but said: "The doctor said you fell into a coma due to overwork. You have been recuperating in the government office for the past two days. I will take care of the disaster relief." "

Shen Ruzhou didn't have time to argue with Xiao Chenyan about who would come to rescue the disaster. With the Beixiu Banquet in her mind, she forced herself to stand up on the edge of the bed, "I want to go find the regent."

Xiao Chenyan pushed her back to the bed with a palm, "You should have a good rest, Miao Zhizhou has sent all the government officials to look for her."

Shen Ruzhou knew that his current physical condition would only cause trouble if he went there, so he was wise enough not to object and lay back on the bed.

Seeing that she was so obedient, Xiao Chenyan felt very relieved. He gave a few more instructions before going to work on disaster relief.

Half an hour later, Qin Ming came over, "Miss Shen, I have checked all the people brought by the prince one by one. No one left the government office yesterday. The disappearance of the regent should have nothing to do with the prince."

Shen Ruzhou had calmed down at this time. She closed her eyes and carefully thought about what happened on the river embankment that day. Suddenly she thought of the stone mentioned in the Beixiu Banquet, and told Qin Ming, "Go and get a piece of the river embankment." Ask an experienced craftsman about the gravel on the ground, and remember to be careful and don’t let anyone discover it.”

Qin Ming was a little puzzled, but he knew that Shen Ruzhou was always very smart and had her own reasons for doing so, so he didn't ask any more questions and followed her instructions.