I married the crippled queen and became the most favored queen in the capital

It was night when they returned, and in order not to waste time, they planned to find a few horses in the city and ride into Beijing.

However, the county town of Lin'an looked extremely desolate, as if it were a wasteland that had been uninhabited for a long time.

Seeing this scene, the four people in the group were a little surprised.

Leng Yiyan frowned in confusion and muttered to himself:

"What happened here?"

Luo Nianxi returned,

"I don't know. Why are there no people on the once bustling streets?"

Seeing that a pharmacy was still open, Su Yi went in to ask around. When she came back, she shook her head sadly.

"I heard that there is a plague here, and all the survivors are rushing to the capital to seek medical treatment..."

plague?

"If these people go to the capital, will the capital still be good?"

She couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"Husband, let's go to the capital immediately."

Su Yi said again:

"This drugstore has two horses. I said I would pay a high price for them. The boss went to the backyard to tie them up. Let's squeeze in!"

It would be good if they had horses, but if not, they would have to walk to the capital.

Luo Nianxi really didn't expect that such a big thing would happen in Pingyang Country after only half a year away from home.

I don’t know how Jinjie is doing. I wonder if he will be overwhelmed when dealing with this matter.

They traveled for a day and a night, and on the way they met many people who were sick and were rushing to the capital.

Many patients died on the way. It is no exaggeration to say that the official road from Lin'an County to the capital was littered with corpses and wailing sounds.

This was generally the case for people of this dynasty. No matter if there was a disaster or an epidemic, they had to go to the capital, as if the imperial doctors in the capital were gods who could save them.

They met too many patients on the road and could not take care of them all, so they simply ignored them and decided to go to the capital first!

When they were about to reach the city gate, they saw from afar that the gate was closed and many victims of the epidemic were gathered outside the city.

They walked closer and looked at these people worriedly. Some of them were lying on the ground, some were lying on the ground, and some were sitting on the ground. Some children were curled up in their mother's arms with dry mouths. Their pitiful appearance made Luo Nianxi really unbearable.

Standing under the city wall, Leng Yiyan shouted towards the top of the wall,

"Is anyone there?"

Hearing this shout, someone on the city wall poked his head out, took a look at them, frowned, covered his mouth, and replied on the city wall,

"What are you shouting for? Go back to where you came from. The capital has been under martial law for the past few days."

Hearing this, Leng Yiyan's anger instantly rose.

He, the emperor emeritus, was stopped from entering the city?

But at this time, he couldn't reveal his identity, otherwise, he would be besieged by these epidemic victims.

"We have important business to attend to in the city. Let your leader come out and speak."

"Who do you think you are? You want to talk to the leader? Why don't you say you want to talk to the emperor? Go somewhere cooler."

"You little bastard."

Leng Yiyan hadn't said a bad word for more than half a year. Today, he was irritated by this little soldier on the wall.

The soldier glared at him hatefully.

"Why are you cursing? You guys often sneak into the city and bring the diseases you carry with you into the city. Now most of the people in the capital are sick in bed. If I let you in again, won't the capital be destroyed?"

"you……"

Leng Yiyan was so angry that he almost died. Seeing this, Luo Nianxi comforted him softly:

"My husband, I'm coming."

To prevent him from getting angry, she stopped him from continuing the conversation with the soldier.

She looked up at the soldiers on the city gate.

"Who is your gatekeeper now? Or, what is the name of the official in charge of you?"

The soldier looked down and saw that she was a woman. He frowned and replied:

"You have so many questions. I see that you don't look like people who are infected with the disease. I advise you to go back to where you came from. Don't go back and get infected with the plague. It will be too late to leave."

After saying this, the soldier didn't want to talk to them anymore and didn't look down again.

This situation is really frustrating.

Su Yi rolled up her sleeves and said angrily:

"I will rush to the city wall and let these soldiers who have been defiled take a good look at who you two are."

Luo Nianxi hurriedly shook her head to stop him.

"No, if we act recklessly, it will only cause more panic among the people in and outside the city. We have to calm everyone down and not create panic again."

"What should I do?"

"Suyi, Bailan, go and count how many infected people there are here?"

Bai Lan hurried back,

"I just roughly calculated that there are about 200 people infected with the virus gathered here, and more are coming here one after another. The number of people here will only increase."

She nodded solemnly.

"Since we can't get into the city, let's set up camp outside the city and settle these people first."

Bai Lan looked at her suspiciously.

"But how are we going to accommodate so many people who are infected?"

She rolled her eyes at her.

"Have you forgotten that we have a pharmaceutical factory and we can travel between the two places?"

This sentence reminded Bai Lan and Leng Yiyan.

He nodded hurriedly.

"My lady is right. Let's settle the people outside the city and those who want to enter the city first, and control the epidemic first. It won't be too late to enter the city after the epidemic is under control."

As soon as they finished speaking, they saw the patients who had just been resting there suddenly attack the city gate. Together with the infected people who kept coming, the city gate was surrounded in an instant.

Even though the city gates were tightly closed, they kept banging on them. It was obvious that they were very emotionally unstable.

"Open the door, open the door, Your Majesty, can't you see these people outside? We are all your people."

"Your Majesty, you are such a tyrant. You only care about enjoying yourself in the palace and don't care about the lives of the people. You want to ignore us!"

"Dog Emperor, open the door, open the door."

"..."

The crowd's verbal abuse became louder and more intense. Luo Nianxi, Leng Yiyan and others shouted at them from behind to stop making trouble, but there were too many people on the other side and their voices were too loud, so no one paid any attention to them.

In a hurry, she returned to Bao'an Hall, found a loud speaker in the security room, went to the city gate, turned on the tweeter, and shouted:

"Everyone, stop arguing. What's the point of continuing to argue like this? Can your flesh and blood withstand this iron wall?"

The sound of the horn attracted everyone's attention.

Everyone looked at the strange-looking trumpet in her hand and stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

Seeing that everyone finally quieted down, she continued:

"You are suffering from the disease and you may die at any time. You are worried. I understand your feelings at this moment, but even if you can enter the city, will it be useful? Other than letting the disease spread in the city, what else can you do?"

"We can go find the imperial physician. The imperial physician in the palace is omnipotent and can definitely cure our illness, but the city gate has not been opened..."

"Yes, Your Majesty, do you want to disregard our lives?"