The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 735 It's all your own fault

The prefect of Huaibei was still talking. He directed the officials around him and said, "Go outside and deal with the bodies. Buy coffins according to the number of people. When the snow is lighter, take them outside the city for burial." Alas, there were originally fifteen people rescued, but some of them were too seriously injured. In addition, the wind and snow were strong, and they could not hold on and died halfway.

We really tried our best and even wanted to take off our clothes to cover them, but unfortunately we still couldn't save too many lives.

You all must bear witness to this government, and when His Majesty the Fourth Prince asks you about this in the future, you must tell the truth."

The officials who came back with the rescuers all expressed their opinions: "We will tell the truth, please rest assured, sir."

The people who were saved were reborn and thanked the Huaibei prefect for saving their lives. The prefect immediately waved his hand and said, "No need to thank me. The one who saved you was His Royal Highness King Chen. I just lent a hand. When you have recovered from your injuries, kowtow a few times in the direction of the capital!"

Some people started crying because although they were saved, their relatives died in the river and even their bodies could not be salvaged. Others questioned: "Since we have such an important person on the ship, could it be that those people in black were targeting the important person? I saw them besieging them and we were all implicated. How can we thank him? It is obvious that he caused our family to be destroyed. Are the lives of innocent people like us really worthless?"

One person took the lead, and the others followed suit. The prefect of Huaibei was helpless when he saw this scene. He wanted to scold these people for talking nonsense, but the problem was that they really didn't talk nonsense. He wanted to comfort them, but that was equivalent to indirectly admitting that it was the Fourth Prince who harmed them, which gave him a headache. After thinking it over again and again, he finally said loudly: "This government will definitely find out what happened. There is no evidence now to prove that those people came for the Fourth Prince. After all, there have been pirates on that river for a long time. The government has suppressed them countless times, but the pirates are cunning and no one knows where to hide."

"What evidence do you need? This is not the first time we have taken that water route. No matter how many pirates there were in the past, there were only a dozen or twenty of them. But sir, do you know how many men in black there are this time? There are hundreds of them! They are so dense that the water can hardly accommodate them. They are not pirates at all, they are clearly an army! We ordinary people don't think we are that capable of having an army come to send us to our deaths. Only big men like the Fourth Prince can withstand such a scene!

Of course, it’s useless for us to say anything. You can’t do anything to His Highness Yichao. You can only let us accept our fate. Okay, we accept it, but we can’t kowtow to him after we recover from our injuries! Poor my five-year-old grandson, he’s gone just like that! Woo…”

People started crying again, and this time the crying was even louder, because many people were crying and calling for their dead relatives, and soon everyone was infected.

Ye Wenyan saw a child who was not crying. He was about three or four years old and was sitting on the ground, holding a jade pendant tightly in his hand. She walked over, squatted beside the child, stretched out her hand to pinch the child's arm, and found that the clothes were cold and covered with ice.

She quickly said to the officer, "Go find a thicker blanket and change the child's clothes. He will freeze if he wears wet clothes any longer. He is too young to bear it."

The officers also felt sorry for the child and hurried to find a blanket. Another officer told Ye Wenyan, "The child's father died in the river. The mother was alive, but unfortunately she didn't make it to the end. The snow was too strong and the road was all mountainous. Our car overturned twice and even an officer died. There was really nothing we could do."

He also felt sorry for the child, so he took off his cloak and wrapped the child in it. When his companion brought a blanket over, he took the initiative to help Ye Wenyan undress the child and then wrapped the child tightly in a thick blanket.

Ye Wenyan noticed that the jade pendant in the child's hand was in the shape of a fan. She had seen Quan Qinghua hang this jade pendant around his waist. So she asked the child, "Did a handsome uncle give you this jade pendant?" The child was stunned for a moment and nodded, "The uncle said, give it to me to play with. I want my mother, I want my father, where is my father?"

The child burst into tears and Ye Wenyan was at a loss as to what to do. Fortunately, the old doctor who had learned medicine from her came and took the child away and went to the back hall to check on his injuries.

A woman recognized Ye Wenyan and became anxious at that time - "You are in the same group! I remember you, you have always been with the Fourth Prince, you are all in the same group! You are a bunch of immoral people, it is you who caused my family to be broken up, I will fight you!" As she said that, the woman pounced on him and was about to grab Ye Wenyan's hair regardless of anything.

Unfortunately, as soon as she raised her hand, before it fell, it was grabbed tightly by someone and she couldn't move at all.

Ye Wenyan stared blankly at Shi Liyuan approaching him, grabbing the woman's wrist and pushing her back hard. The woman fell far away and hit the chair with a bang. Everyone was shocked and no one dared to act rashly. Even the prefect of Huaibei stared at Shi Liyuan in a trance and felt a chill on the back of his neck after a while.

"When you boarded the ship, you wanted to take advantage of it and insisted on squeezing onto the ship we spent three thousand taels to charter. Didn't our people tell you that you would take all the consequences on board? Why, now that something has happened, you want to put the blame on us? Don't you think about it? If there were no risks, who would pay three thousand taels to charter that ship? This time you are in danger, I am saving your face by not saying that you have brought it upon yourselves. If you continue to push your luck, don't blame me for being rude!"

As he spoke, his eyes swept over all the people who had been rescued. Those people were not that bad, but they shivered involuntarily when his eyes swept over them. Someone wanted to say that you were rude, but what could you do? Now they dared not say a word.

Shi Liyuan helped Ye Wenyan up, and while he straightened her dress as if no one was around, he said to her, "Don't blame yourself. This is our own disaster. Some people insisted on squeezing in and dying. We couldn't stop them. Who can we blame? If we want to blame someone, we should blame them for saying that we spent three thousand taels, which can't be considered as chartering a boat! So people should be reasonable. If they are unreasonable, they will easily suffer losses and even lose their lives. Not all advantages are easy to take. I hope they can remember this in the future."

Ye Wenyan laughed and wanted to say that the most unreasonable person in the world is you, the Emperor. How dare you say that others are unreasonable? However, he did not say it. Instead, he turned his head and asked the officer who came back to rescue people: "When you arrived, the Fourth Prince and his entourage were still there, right? How many people were there? Are they men or women?"

Now the officials knew that Ye Wenyan was in the same group as the Fourth Prince, so they could not help but be respectful to her. Her question was answered personally by the prefect, who even bowed to her before saying, "To answer this young lady, when we arrived, we only saw the Fourth Prince guarding the river, and the young man that the prince sent to ask for help, there were only two of them, both men. I wonder how many people were there when the young lady followed the Fourth Prince out? Did anyone get left behind? We will send someone to look for them right away."

"No need." Ye Wenyan took a deep breath, "It took you five or six days to go back and forth. What else can you find if you look again?" She looked at the people who were rescued, thought for a moment, and said, "I ask, you answer, for every question you answer, I'll give that person ten taels of silver. If you want to earn this silver, answer my questions. If you don't want to earn it, I won't force you."

When they heard that there was money to be made, the people who had just criticized her instantly became excited. They stopped talking about who was implicating whom and quickly nodded, "Girl, ask us, we will answer what we know. As long as you give us money, we will tell you everything."

Ye Wenyan snorted lightly. Shi Liyuan was right. He was still the same person.

So she asked those people, "Have you seen a woman with the Fourth Prince? The one other than me."

When this question came out, some people started to feel confused because they didn't notice it. But someone else immediately answered her question: "I saw it. She was with the Fourth Prince when she fell into the water. Later, they separated and I didn't see that girl after that."

Someone else remembered some details: "Were there two other people traveling with you? Both men? I saw that the two men seemed to be fighting after they got ashore. One was pushing the other, and the other kept saying something."

The third person provided more accurate information: "They didn't fight, but one of them wanted to hit the Fourth Prince. I vaguely heard a few words saying that you lost her. I don't know if the "she" was referring to that girl."

Ye Wenyan's mind was buzzing. Feng Zhaolian was missing? How could Feng Zhaolian be missing? Quan Qinghua and Yun Xiao failed to protect Feng Zhaolian? And what about Tianya, Jiduo, and Jirong? So many people failed to take good care of Feng Zhaolian?

"Not only those two, there are two more, a man and a woman. I don't know which woman you are asking about, but I remember there were three women in your group, but one of them was obviously dressed like a maid."

Ye Wenyan casually threw four pieces of silver over, one for each of the four people who spoke to him, totaling ten taels each.

They were very happy. "Miss, what else do you want to ask? Keep asking!" Ye Wenyan thought for a moment and asked again, "Since you know there are eight of us, why did the prefect only say that the Fourth Prince had an attendant when he came to pick you up? Where did the others go?"

"I know!" Someone raised his hand. "The one who wanted to beat the Fourth Prince ran away, and the other man and woman also left after a few words. Then the Fourth Prince said something to the remaining person, and that person also left. But that person came back later and brought government officials to rescue us. Then the two of them did not follow the government officials and went to the mountains."

"There's one more thing!" A little girl suddenly spoke up, "I heard them say that they were coming for some princess."