The beautiful woman in the quick transmigration novel has been targeted by the male lead again.

After nightfall, the outside of the room was brightly lit, but the inside was pitch black.

Chang Ning took out all his gold and silver treasures, touching them one by one. His stomach rumbled. These things were good, but unfortunately they couldn't be eaten.

The people outside were determined to trap her inside.

Chang Ning turned the teapot upside down and poured it out vigorously; there really wasn't a single drop of water left inside.

A person doesn't know how long they can live without food and water.

She sat at the table, and just as she was drifting off to sleep, a noise suddenly came from the window, "Hey!"

Chang Ning jolted awake. The voice was very low, like a cat's meow, but Chang Ning still recognized it as Wei Wufeng!

Sure enough, a figure silently slipped in: "What's going on outside? Why are there so many people gathered here?"

He closed the window, leaving a crack, stood there observing for a moment before walking up to her, then froze, stammering, "Wh...wh...what's wrong?"

The swift and elusive thief's arm no longer felt like his own; it was suspended motionless in mid-air.

This was because the woman suddenly rushed over and hugged him, as if she were clutching a lifeline, and cried incessantly in his arms.

"You...cough!"

He wanted to say that men and women shouldn't touch each other, that this was inappropriate, but after a long pause, he just gently patted her shoulder and asked, "Um, what exactly happened?"

Chang Ning wiped her tears on his clothes: "Waaah, please save me, they're going to kill me!"

Her voice was heavy with sobs, and she spoke incoherently. Wei Wufeng only caught the gist of her words, but he realized the seriousness of the situation. He pulled her away and asked her questions one by one.

Finally, he said, "Pack your important things. I'll come find you after midnight and I'll figure out a way to get you out then!"

Chang Ning, with tears in her eyes, said, "You must come and find me..."

Wei Wufeng turned to look at her: "Don't worry."

Then he climbed out of the window.

Chang Ning stood there wiping away her tears for a while before finally getting to work. She didn't dare light a lamp, and stumbled and bumped into many things. She packed all her possessions into a box and stuffed all the things she liked into a bundle.

What followed was a long wait!

This feeling is unbearable; the wait is agonizing, and one can't help but let their mind wander.

What if Wei Wufeng doesn't come?

After all, the two had only met a few times, and he didn't need to take that risk.

But there was no other way but to wait. Unlike Wei Wufeng, she didn't have such agile skills, able to come and go silently.

As the appointed time approached, the outside had quieted down, but Wei Wufeng still hadn't arrived. Chang Ning's heart sank, and her whole body began to feel cold.

After waiting for another fifteen minutes, no one appeared. Chang Ning sat in the darkness, slowly despairing, motionless like a stone.

"Hey!"

After an unknown amount of time, a familiar voice appeared.

Chang Ning slowly raised her head like an old, broken machine, and in the light from outside, she saw a person standing in front of her.

Wei Wufeng was carrying a large bundle, the contents of which were unknown. He immediately spoke with displeasure: "What are you still sitting there for? Get moving!"

As her body gradually warmed up, if she could see clearly now, Chang Ning felt that her expression would be very strange. Her weightless body felt as if someone was pulling her up. Chang Ning got up and said "Oh".

He brought out his luggage: "I've already packed. How are we leaving?"

Wei Wufeng looked at the huge pile in front of him and gave a speechless look: "Do you think we're moving house? We're running for our lives. Why are you bringing so much useless stuff?"

Both of them spoke in hushed tones, as if whispering. Chang Ning blushed for a moment: "I... I just think they're both quite important..."

Silks, satins, porcelain, and antiques are all quite expensive.

Wei Wufeng: "...Apart from silver, nothing else is allowed!"

In the end, Chang Ning only took that box of gold and silver jewelry with her.

"How do we escape?" Chang Ning asked in a low voice.

Wei Wufeng said, "Wait a minute."

He took something from his bundle and walked around the room, then threw the bundle on the ground and ignored it. Chang Ning asked him what he was doing, but Wei Wufeng told her not to ask such questions.

Just after midnight, a servant suddenly shouted, "Fire! Fire!"

At midnight, a raging fire broke out in the main courtyard of Chunhua Courtyard. The servants rushed to fetch water to put out the fire, but to no avail. Soon, flames soared into the sky.

"What should we do? The Second Madam is still inside..."

Wei Wufeng had already taken advantage of the chaos to run away with Chang Ning, and soon they reached the high wall behind the Marquis's mansion.

Chang Ning, clinging to his back, thought he was going to leap over and was looking forward to seeing something amazing, but then he heard him say, "Get down."

Chang Ning froze: "Then how am I supposed to get there?"

Wei Wufeng found a direction, walked towards it, moved the stones that had been piled up there, and said, "Crawl through."

Chang Ning: "...I thought we were flying over, but it turns out we're crawling through a dog hole."

Wei Wufeng said irritably, "Do you think you're so light? Hurry up and crawl in!"

When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Chang Ning hummed a few words. She was petite, so it wasn't difficult for her to squeeze through.

After receiving her box, she saw Wei Wufeng also baring his teeth and crawling over, and couldn't help but say, "So you can't fly over by yourself either? What about the previous times you came to the Marquis's mansion..."

"Why are you talking so much? Do you even want to leave?"

A carriage was parked in the alley outside the Marquis's residence. After the two got in, the horse started moving on its own.

Chang Ning's tense mind finally relaxed after a whole night, and she fell asleep holding the box in no time.

Wei Wufeng glanced at it and snorted, "Money-grubber!"

Then I went outside and lay down on the bike frame. The moon was really nice tonight.

When Chang Ning woke up again, the city gates were already wide open, and there was a lot of noise outside. Wei Wufeng drove the carriage out of the city gate and headed southwest.

On the other hand, Shen Yanzheng quickly quelled the civil unrest after arriving in the south.

The severe drought in the south this year has already reduced grain production. The subsequent locust plague caused widespread crop failure and many people to starve to death.

Local officials not only did nothing, but also colluded with local landlords and powerful families to levy exorbitant taxes, causing many people to sell their children, or even their entire families, into slavery.

When the people couldn't afford to pay their grain taxes, the government sent people to their homes to confiscate them, which led to widespread public resentment.

After Shen Yanzheng arrived, he first investigated the facts, then publicly executed the corrupt official, opened the granaries to distribute grain, and then wrote to the court to request disaster relief.

The common people do not like war, and as long as there is a glimmer of hope for survival, they will behave themselves. Seeing the Marquis's actions, the civil unrest was quickly quelled.

However, the number of people affected by the disaster was very large, and the local granaries were limited. The imperial court ignored the suggestion of disaster relief. The south had always enjoyed favorable weather and had only suffered a disaster in one year. Why should the capital send grain?

The people naturally resented this. The Marquis was a good Marquis, but the current emperor was not a good emperor!