It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Late at night on November 27, the 13th year of Jianguang's reign, the tranquility of the governor's mansion was suddenly broken.

After the two side doors opened, the guards filed out, quickly carried Governor Fang and his entourage, who were tied to their horses, down from their horses, and trotted them into the front yard.

The governor's wife and the court physician had been waiting anxiously in the courtyard. Even Cheng'en Pavilion, which was located in a secluded corner of the backyard, could hear the noise from the front yard, so they called Jiang Yan and Chunying to go and find out what was going on.

The gate of Jinjiao Courtyard was ajar, and only an old nanny and two little maids were guarding it. When they saw the two of them, they thought that the lady had gone to the front yard.

Jiang Yan and Chunying walked towards the front yard again. When they were approaching the hanging flower gate, they were stopped by Qiuyu, the personal maid of the governor's wife. She just said that it was the governor's wife's order and asked everyone to go back to the yard and wait and not to walk around casually.

The lights in the governor's mansion were on all night, and several famous doctors in the city were called in overnight for treatment. After receiving the news, Governor Lu also came to visit secretly.

Although Governor Lu was on the surface distant from Governor Fang and had privately mocked Governor Fang as a sycophant to his close friends, he also sent a team of guards to cooperate with Governor Fang's actions on this trip.

Now, no matter what the situation is, he needs to know and respond as soon as possible.

After entering the mansion, General Lu strode into Governor Fang's bedroom despite the governor's wife's dissuasion. Even though his hands were covered in blood, he was still frightened by the wounds he saw.

It’s not that the wound is particularly hideous, but just one glance is enough to tell that Governor Fang’s future is hopeless.

After exchanging greetings, the people present immediately continued with their work.

Commander Lu asked in shock, "What is this?"

Governor Fang was lying unconscious on the couch, his exposed face covered with dense black spots. In the light of the candlelight half-raised by the guards, several doctors were holding knives and tweezers, carefully peeling away the skin and flesh bit by bit to remove the foreign objects.

A doctor replied without even looking up: "It looks like coal slag." He really didn't know what it was exactly. After the people from the governor's office called them in, they either didn't answer their questions or were very vague, and just said to treat it first.

They had to twist the foreign object they had taken out, and their hands were stained with black and gray, so they came to this guess.

Commander Lu was led by his servants to the guards' rooms. Most of them were in the same condition as Governor Fang, but a few were in particularly serious condition. Not only were the black foreign objects larger, but their hands were also damaged.

He received a report that Governor Fang brought forty guards with him on this trip, half of whom were private guards sent out by himself.

As for those who came back alive, he counted them several times, and including Governor Fang, there were only thirteen people in total, and most of them were unconscious.

I wanted to torture them to find out what happened, but the four guards who were still awake were in a very bad mental state. They kept vomiting while holding the spittoon and couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

Commander Lu's face turned pale. Although it was confirmed that ten of those who came back alive were his own private guards, and the loss was very small compared to that of Governor Fang, this result was like being slapped hard in the face in public, making him lose all face.

Regardless of the information reported by Governor Fang or myself, there were only five individuals with unusual behavior sneaking into the area around the mine. No matter how they used conspiracy tactics to prevent the guards in the mine from spreading the news, the forty people who arrived later would be more than enough to wipe them out...

Commander Lu paced quickly around the courtyard, his hands behind his back. He waited until the chill in the air cooled his rage a little before returning to the house and questioning the doctors treating Governor Fang: "The Governor's face is ripped open, why hasn't he woken up from the unbearable pain?"

Several doctors looked at the governor's wife who had been sitting in the house waiting, waiting for her signal.

Commander Lu also looked over there.

The governor's wife twisted the silk handkerchief in her hand and thought for a while before saying, "The doctor said that my husband has also been poisoned by fire. Whether he can wake up depends entirely on God's will..."