After rebirth, the Queen of Madness has gone against the will of Heaven

This thought flashed through Yu Qingli's mind, but before she could think about it carefully, the roof of the car suddenly made a "bang" sound as if something heavy had fallen.

Xiluo didn't make any movement outside the curtain, and Yu Qingli knew who the visitor was. She sighed in her heart and planned to have a good talk with Xiluo another day. Her loyalty was commendable, and her consistent attitude towards Murong Yanhui should also be praised.

While he was thinking, Murong Yanhui's face appeared in front of him, and in the blink of an eye, he squeezed next to him.

"Lili, where are you going so early in the morning?" Murong Yanhui smiled brightly. "I'm very familiar with Jiangnan. How about I take you there?"

Yu Qingli glanced at Murong Yanhui and said coldly, "The young emperor's uncle has been ordered to come here to treat the epidemic in Jiangnan. It's better not to distract him for a woman like me. Besides, when it comes to Jiangnan, I'm probably not inferior to the young emperor's uncle."

Murong Yanhui smiled without any concern, "Yes, how could I forget this? Lili is more familiar with Jiangnan than I am. Didn't we first meet here?"

Yu Qingli remained silent, but then heard Murong Yan reply: "Lili, since you are so familiar with it, why don't you take me out to play?"

"Play? Did the little uncle forget his mission?"

"Hey, what are you afraid of? If anything goes wrong, your nephew will take care of it. With Murong Feng and Murong Cheng, what are you worried about?"

"The young emperor uncle is really open-minded. It makes me wonder if the 'God of War' who loved his people like his own children is really the young emperor uncle now."

"Lili is so smart, how could she believe those rumors?" Murong Yanhui obviously didn't want to talk about this topic anymore and immediately changed the subject, "Lili, where are you going?"

Yu Qingli didn't answer, just looked out the window.

Murong Yan looked back at her, only to see sadness between her brows, as if she was remembering something long ago. Her expression moved and frightened Murong Yan, as if Yu Qingli was already an old man with over a hundred years of vicissitudes of life, feeling inexplicable emotion when facing the land she once lived on. At that minute, Murong Yan suddenly felt that Yu Qingli was not like the person he lived with. There seemed to be a ravine between them that could not be crossed. The ravine was deep and far, making him unable to reach it.

Murong Yanhui panicked and subconsciously grabbed Yu Qingli's elbow, "Lili, don't go!"

The words blurted out suddenly woke up the two people. After a brief moment of embarrassment, Murong Yan instantly regained her cynical look, "Lili, please don't leave me alone, I will be very lonely."

"Really? The young emperor's uncle is as thick-skinned as a city wall, and his romantic style is second to none in Canghe. How could such a person even know how to write the word loneliness?"

Murong Yanhui chuckled, reached out and dipped her hand in Yu Qingli's tea and wrote the word "loneliness" on the table stroke by stroke. Then she looked at Yu Qingli and smiled, "Look, is it written correctly?"

Yu Qingli was immediately annoyed and amused by Murong Yanhui. Knowing she couldn't argue with him, let alone change his decision, she could only say, "I'm planning to go check out my properties in Jiangnan. They're all left by my mother. I haven't come to take a look for many years."

"Okay. Lili, I'll accompany you. After we finish watching, can you accompany me to visit Jiangnan?"

"Little Uncle, does it make any difference? If you want to go shopping, why not let the Governor arrange someone to accompany you?"

"There is a difference, of course there is a difference. The people arranged by the governor must be slick and will only take me to some messy places that are neither elegant nor beautiful. The place Lili takes me to is different. It must be a very elegant and beautiful place."

Yu Qingli sighed in her heart, feeling that she was reaching the limit of her inability to communicate with a deaf person. She simply stopped talking, closed her eyes, and let Murong Yan go back to talking to herself.

Changkong flipped over from the roof of the car and sat next to Xiluo, nudging Xiluo with his shoulder. "Tell me, how long can the master talk this time?"

Xiluo rolled his eyes at him and said nothing.

Changkong was annoyed and leaned against the car frame with his hands behind his head. "Xiluo, ever since you followed your new master, your temper has become more and more like his."

The carriage was bumpy all the way. Yu Qingli closed her eyes, but her mind did not pause for a moment. She was thinking about the letter sent by Sha Qianli yesterday. It seemed that there were no victims within a radius of fifty miles with the governor as the boundary. In addition, some of the workers in several industries in Pei County were also infected. This was why Yu Qingli decided to leave the main force.

What could he gain by following Murong Feng to the Governor's Mansion? Hadn't he seen enough in his previous life? He deceived his superiors and subordinates only to protect his official position.

Yu Qingli was just thinking when the carriage suddenly stopped. Murong Yanhui was the first to lift the curtain and saw that a teahouse outside the carriage was crowded. Two waiters with their faces covered were carrying several people who had suddenly fallen down and throwing them away.

The so-called "elsewhere" was just a deep pit about a hundred meters away from the teahouse. There was a foul smell in the pit, and it was obvious that many people were buried there.

The two guys skillfully searched the people and found some small change, copper coins and the like, then threw them into the pit. Without caring whether they were dead or alive, they poured in a large bucket of lime, then clapped their hands and turned back.

Murong Yanhui frowned and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Is this Pei County?"

Xiluo nodded, "The county seems to have been sealed off."

Murong Yan looked back and saw that the gates of Pei County were indeed closed. Outside the gates, many refugees were displaced, some sitting and some lying. Most of them were starving and their clothes were tattered.

The moans came one after another, but they were so faint, not as faint as the sound of the wind passing through the dome, or the pine rhythm flowing among the pines.

They lay in the mud after a night of rain, but didn't care about the dirty water and bent down to lick the water in the puddles.

"What... is going on?" Yu Qingli's voice trembled. She had thought about seeing dead people and people covered in wounds, but she had never thought about seeing such a situation.

A young man dragged his seriously ill body and grabbed a stone and knocked on the city gate desperately. The city gate was heavy and only a low echo was made.

"Open the door, open the door... My mother, my mother is still in the city..." The young man knocked with all his might, but his voice was like a mosquito's hum. Perhaps he had been knocking for too long, and a soldier on the top of the city wall lost his patience and poured a bucket of water down, cursing: "Knock, knock, knock! I let you out of the city to give you a chance to live. Stop causing trouble for me! Get out!"

Yu Qingli's eyebrows jumped when she heard this, as if she had found the crux of the problem.

Murong Yanhui had already winked at Changkong, who leaped off the carriage and arrived at the city gate like a flash of light. "Open the gate, my young master wants to enter the city!"

Changkong was so imposing and murderous that the soldier on the city wall didn't dare to neglect him. He just glanced at Yu Qingli's carriage in the distance and said, "Young man, it's not that we won't let you go. The governor has issued a notice. I'm afraid you can't come in or out for the next few days."

"The epidemic in Jiangnan is serious, and Pei County is not included. Why don't you help neighboring counties and not allow people to enter?" Changkong said loudly, and the little brother holding the stone laughed when he heard it.

"Big brother, you said Pei County is not within the scope of the epidemic?" The little boy sat against the city wall, as if he couldn't sit up straight otherwise.

"Pei County is the worst-hit area in Jiangnan due to the epidemic," the little boy said, his eyes reddening. "If it weren't for this, how could we have been driven out?"

"Kick out? Why?" Changkong was puzzled.

"We are lucky to be driven out. Those who are weak are not allowed to leave the city for fear that they will spread the disease. For us, to put it nicely, the county magistrate is giving us a way to survive, but to put it bluntly, he is just letting us fend for ourselves. Poor grandson of mine, he was only born a month ago." An old man started crying as he spoke.

Changkong frowned and looked up at the top of the city wall. The soldier on the top of the city wall said with a smile: "My dear, you'd better go somewhere else. It's unlucky here now, and your master won't be affected by it."

Changkong had no choice but to turn around and return to the carriage. Murong Yanhui and Yu Qingli remained silent after listening to his report.

After a while, Murong Yanhui said, "Xiluo, find a secluded place to rest for a while."

Yu Qingli said, "I'll go take a look around."

"I'll accompany you." Murong Yanhui followed closely. Yu Qingli was about to stop him, but when she turned around, she saw that Murong Yanhui was unusually serious, with a frown on his face, a dark face, and a pair of eyes that seemed to contain a hint of anger. For a moment, Yu Qingli had a little illusion that this was Murong Yanhui's true self.

He blinked in disbelief, and when he looked back, Murong Yanhui had a playful expression on his face again. "It's so chaotic here, and Lili is so beautiful and talented. I've offended such a beautiful woman."

Yu Qingli rolled her eyes and felt that she was simply crazy. She actually thought that the serious Murong Yanhui was his true self. It seemed that this kind of cynicism was his true nature.

Yu Qingli stopped talking and started walking outside the city gate with her skirt lifted.

"Lili, what are you looking for?" Murong Yan asked after following for a while.

Yu Qingli suddenly remembered something and turned around and said, "Little Uncle is so smart, why don't you guess what I'm looking for?"

Yu Qingli spoke lightly and playfully, and Murong Yanhui was delighted. He briefly observed the situation in Pei County and suddenly smiled and said, "Lili, are you looking for a way into the city?"

"Why do you say that? Aren't the city gates already closed?" Yu Qingli asked back.

Murong Yanhui smiled upon hearing this. "According to what the people say, Pei County is the worst-affected area in Jiangnan. Although the city gates are closed, the moat is clear, indicating there's no widespread pollution within the city. Since the epidemic is the worst, yet the water source hasn't been contaminated, there's only one explanation: the bodies within the city were handled well."

Murong Yanhui continued, "Back when I led my troops on the Western Expedition, even if the bodies of ten people were not properly handled, it would have caused widespread pollution. The corpse water is extremely corrosive and polluting. But here, no such situation has occurred. Although there is a foul odor in the air, there is no smell of fireworks or corpses. It is clear that the patients of the epidemic in Pei County have adopted a different method of treatment."