In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

"..."

The emperor came out in a daze.

Manager Zhang followed him all the way to the imperial study. He had no idea what the emperor and the empress had said in the palace. Why did he suddenly become so dull? He was like a pool of stagnant water, without a trace of life in him.

The emperor had already walked to the imperial study, but did not go in.

"Your Majesty," Chief Steward Zhang asked tentatively, "Your Majesty... I'll bring you a cup of Imperial Longjing tea. Would you please rinse your mouth to refresh yourself?"

Hearing this, the emperor suddenly came back to his senses.

He shook his head and said, "No need..."

"Today...I will not be in the Imperial Study reviewing memorials."

"If there is anything important, please ask the ministers to come to the Imperial Study and approve it themselves."

Having said that, the emperor turned around and left.

He actually went back to his bedroom to rest and fell asleep immediately.

Manager Zhang is so nervous!

Seeing the emperor in this state, he muttered to himself.

What on earth was going on? Why did the emperor suddenly fall asleep?

Could it be that Your Majesty has been too tired recently?

And the queen is about to die, so the emperor is unhappy?

Well, the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

Steward Zhang waited outside the door until dark when the emperor woke up.

He put on his clothes and said to Zhang Zongguan outside, "Zhang Zongguan, do you remember that the Marquis of Anguo once brought a bottle of medicine to the Queen?"

"I remember!" Steward Zhang nodded quickly and said with a smile, "Our Marquis of Anguo is kind-hearted. He specially got medicine for the Empress, fearing that she might not be able to hold on."

"What a pity..." The emperor shook his head and said, "Even if we give her medicine, her body will eventually fail."

Manager Zhang's smile faded, and he didn't dare say another word, for fear that he might say something wrong and anger the emperor.

The emperor looked at him and said, "It's a pity that the medicine that Marquis Anguo gave the queen was of no use at all. Her health is getting worse day by day."

"When Marquis Anguo was here, he was able to at least nurse the Queen back to health..."

The emperor's eyes gradually became hot, and he instructed Zhang Zongguan: "You personally take a team and make sure to bring the Marquis of Anguo back quickly."

"Tell her not to go anywhere else when she comes back, and to come to Kyoto as soon as possible to treat the Queen!"

"Also, have the Imperial Hospital do their utmost to protect the Queen until Marquis Anguo returns!"

"If the Marquis of Anguo doesn't return now, the Queen will be gone... Don't blame me for taking their lives!"

"Everyone in the Imperial Hospital must be buried with the Queen!"

"Yes!" When Manager Zhang heard this, he was so frightened that his legs almost went limp. He immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the emperor, and quickly passed this urgent news to the Imperial Hospital.

The people from the Imperial Hospital were woken up in the middle of the night, and then they hurried to examine the queen.

They were completely confused and had no idea what the queen had said to the emperor that made the emperor suddenly pay so much attention to the queen and insist on curing her.

Didn’t you wish the queen would die immediately before?

It would be fine if Marquis Anguo came back, but if he didn't come back...tsk tsk, I really don't know what will happen to all these people in the Imperial Hospital.

But in this situation, how can Marquis Anguo come back?

The doctors from the Imperial Hospital treated the empress during the day, and at night they would pray silently at home: "Marquis Anguo, you must come back! All this depends on you!"

"Marquis Anguo, Marquis Anguo, please, please come back soon!"

"If you don't come back, we'll all die here!!!"

......

Zhaozhou.

The time goes back to a few days ago, when the magistrate of Zhaozhou had just set out.

He left overnight, and Bai Lu and the others didn't know about this.

At night, Bai Lu deliberately looked up at the moon in the sky, closed her eyes and prayed silently.

I hope my children can grow up safely and happily in Qingzhou.

She had experienced so many hardships and dangers in Zhaozhou. She was willing to do anything, even if it was a little hardship, as long as it was for peace in the world and for the children to live in a harmonious environment.

If I have gone through so much and my children still cannot live happily, then all this will be meaningless.

As long as my children are happy, I can endure any hardship as a mother.

I guess only those who have become mothers can understand what their mothers are thinking.

And this time, she must save the people of Zhaozhou from the water and fire.

It is not only to save myself, but also to save my children!

Bai Lu closed her eyes and when she looked up again, a person suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the room.

This man has a baby face and looks adorable. He gently waves his folding fan, showing the demeanor of a handsome young man.

"Are you finally willing to call me out?"

Bai Lu glared at him and said, "Stop talking nonsense and get down to business. Everything from now on depends on you."

"Don't worry, I understand, and I will definitely help you get this done."

After saying this, his figure suddenly disappeared.

If he and Bai Qi were to act, it would probably not work, because both he and Bai Qi were being guarded and could not get out at all; but if the system came and transformed into a human form to help him, then there would be no problem.

He can appear in front of the crowd when he wants to, and become invisible when he doesn't want to. Even if he is discovered, he can hide quickly.

Bai Lu confirmed with the system again: "When the time comes, just say you are my friend. Everyone calls you Master Xi. I have entrusted you to make the people in the city pretend to be in pain after taking the medicine."

"I'll also mix some fake-death potion in it. After they take it, they'll become weak and fall to the ground like dead people, but they won't be truly dead. This way, the people will know for sure."

"Don't worry!" The system patted its chest and reassured her, "I will definitely help you rescue all the people in Zhaozhou."

"By then, I will also be a system with merit."

Bai Lu looked at the system that suddenly disappeared and took a deep breath.

I am still confident in the system's ability to do things.

Not long after, the system swaggered into the city.

If there were guards patrolling ahead, he would immediately disappear into the darkness.

A team of guards walked into the street and didn't realize that the man next to them was Mr. Xi, who was picking his nose.

Young Master Xi looked them over and curled his lips: "Hey, these guards look really strange, and there are even Turks among them."

He thought that the Turkic Khan might have already planned this in Zhaozhou while he was fighting in Qingzhou.

He brought a large number of Turkic soldiers to Zhaozhou, so not long after the Zhaozhou prefect left, he could directly replace a large number of soldiers here with Turkic soldiers.

Young Master Xi frowned, and soon walked from the outer city to the inner city in a swagger.

The inner city gate was not locked?

Hmm...that's really weird.

He opened the door and just walked in when a man rushed towards him from the opposite side!

He slashed at him with a knife.

Young Master Xi was startled and quickly dodged, only to find that this was not a Turkic soldier, but an ordinary citizen.

When the common people saw that Young Master Xi was dressed so luxuriously, and was obviously not a Turk or an ordinary soldier, they were stunned at first and then asked in a low voice.

"Who are you?"

Young Master Xi frowned and knocked him unconscious with a backhand knife.

I don’t know whether this guy is good or bad, but it’s definitely the right thing to do to knock him out today so as not to delay my plan.

At this time, Master Xi saw a dozen people in front of him!

They all held knives in their hands and had ferocious looks on their faces.

When they saw Master Xi knock someone unconscious, they all rushed forward with knives to chop him, "Who are you?"

Young Master Xi recognized that one of them was Bai Lu's friend Xu Maochun. He breathed a sigh of relief and said to Xu Maochun, "Doctor Xu, stop!"

"I'm Bai Lu's friend, my last name is Xi... She might have mentioned me to you before,"

"Just call me Master Xi."

Xu Maochun thought about it carefully and suddenly said, "Oh, she really mentioned it!"

He nodded immediately, hurriedly asked everyone to stop, and said with a smile: "It's you?"

"Then what brings you here?"

Young Master Xi made up an excuse: "Bai Lu said there was a plague here, so he asked me to go out and see what the situation was."

"I originally lived in seclusion, but now the world is in chaos. How can I stay away from the world? So I came here to help."

"But the mountain where I live is too far from here, so I was delayed for a while and arrived later than all of you!"

"I just found out that you were all locked up. It took me a lot of effort to find Bai Lu. She asked me to pass on some words to you."

As he spoke, Master Xi quickly closed the inner city gate and said to them, "What's going on here? How come you guys were able to get out? The door is still unlocked."

Seeing Master Xi close the inner city gate, everyone did not stop him and hurriedly said, "This is not the place to talk now. Come on, let's take you to a place first, and then we can talk properly."

By the way, they dragged the unconscious civilian away. Master Xi, Xu Maochun and others came to the cellar of a hidden hut.

There was definitely nothing wrong with this place, except that the cellar could only accommodate ten people at most. After several people went in, their feet were touching each other, but no one cared about that.

Xu Maochun whispered, "We originally wanted to... take these people from the inner city and rush out. After all, our plague is cured!"

"We're stuck in the inner city. It won't be long before the food runs out. We can't just sit here and wait until we run out of energy and starve to death, right?"

"Besides, Bai Lu is still outside. We are really afraid that those people will do something to her, so we think we have to go out and rescue her quickly..."

"So we sent doctors to contact the people door to door, and many strong laborers were willing to rush out to rescue Bai Lu! This would also help us...find a way to survive..."

The people all nodded.

They are among them, and four or five of them are doctors.

Xu Maochun continued, "We started off pretty smoothly... We also found out exactly how many defenses there were. After dealing with the few remaining Turks in the city, we discovered a fatal problem..."

"Although we understand the deployment, what we don't know is that the deployment here has been changed today. It has been replaced by many Turks!"

"The inner city's guards have increased from 500 to 2,000. They're all elite soldiers, armed with so many weapons. How can we possibly defeat them?!"

The people all nodded, and their faces didn't look very good.

Xu Maochun added, "However, we already took action at the beginning. We have already knocked out the guards at the city gate and seized their weapons. It's useless to talk about this now!"

"We decided to take all the blame on ourselves, exculpate the civilians, and say it was us who killed the guards!"

"So... we went to the city gate just now not for any other reason, but to die."

Young Master Xi looked at them carefully, frowning: "Are you stupid?"

Xu Maochun shook his head and sighed, "There's nothing we can do. We can't defeat two thousand elite soldiers."

"They are all Turks, tall and strong, and have undergone so much training. They are raised on cow's and goat's milk and eat meat every meal. The people here have just recovered from serious illnesses. Even if they are strong laborers, ten of them are lucky to be able to replace one."

"Even if the people here can rush out, they will definitely suffer heavy casualties. It's better to wait a little longer..."

"Alas, it's all because we have let the people down!"

The system smiled and said to them, "Don't worry about it. Leave the city gate matters to me."

"When the time comes, just blame everything on me and I'll help you."

"???"

Xu Maochun and others were stunned, their eyes reddened, and they said with emotion: "You are truly a benefactor!"

"But forget it." They waved their hands, "We can die, but we can't take you with us."

"After all, you didn't do anything. How can you die at such a young age?"

The system laughed: "Who said I will die?"

Xu Maochun and the others were stunned: "If we are caught by the Turks, won't we die?"

The system smiled and shook its head: "Don't worry, my martial arts skills are very strong, not inferior to Bai Lu, I will definitely not die."

Then, the system said to them: "However, let's not talk about anything else for now, let's talk about something important first."

"I came here this time to tell you what Bai Lu said!"

When they heard Bai Lu's words, everyone immediately focused their attention on the system, "Go ahead!"

Then I heard the system slowly say: "Bai Lu told me that she will give you a medicine next."

"This medicine won't cause any problems to your body. It's a tonic, but it will just make you feel a little uncomfortable."

"But after you get through that, you'll feel as if your whole body has been cleansed and your bones have been sharpened, and you'll feel very comfortable."

"It's just that you have to pretend to be extremely uncomfortable, as if you are about to die."