Transmigrated into a seven-year-old child, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens.

Liu Yu suppressed a laugh: "You have quite the nerve, girl, to speak to the general like that!"

Zhao Lian's eyes widened: "And who are you? Are you perhaps the general's lackey? Does he really think he'd kill me? If he were truly the general, he wouldn't be so petty, would he?"

This guy is tall, has a good build, and is decent-looking, but he's still not as good as the guy from before.

Liu Yu was stunned, truly at a loss for words, never expecting that he, a dignified subordinate general, would become such a lackey.

Seeing Liu Yu's expression, Song Wenjie almost burst out laughing. This guy was gloating just now, but now that it was his turn, he couldn't laugh anymore.

"Alright, just say what you want. Why did you call me out?" Zhao Lian was starting to lose her temper, seeing that many people had finished checking their household registrations and were already heading to the prefectural government.

With so many people, we already had to queue. If it takes any longer, it will get dark soon.

Song Wenjie said with a serious expression, "Miss, please don't be impatient. I just want to ask you a few questions. May I ask if you are from Changting County?"

Zhao Lian looked puzzled: "So what if it is? The government issued a notice, and we followed the magistrate's instructions to go to Hengnan Prefecture. Could it be a mistake?"

Song Wenjie kept a cold face and gestured to Liu Yu beside him, indicating that he should speak.

Liu Yu understood immediately and waved his hand, "No, no, no~ You're not wrong! We're just asking you about someone."

What? Zhao Lian could hardly believe her ears. So this guy was looking for someone.

Changting County is neither very big nor very small, and many of its villages are remote mountain villages. Under normal circumstances, finding a person would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Moreover, everyone is fleeing for their lives, and countless people have died or been injured along the way. It's uncertain whether the person he's looking for will survive to reach this point.

Liu Yu took out a scroll from his pocket, and as he unfurled it, he said, "Girl, take a close look. Have you seen this person over there?"

Zhao Lian was taken aback when she realized the other party had opened a portrait.

What surprised her even more was that she recognized the person in the painting at a glance—it was none other than Eunuch Gao Lian'an.

Although the portrait is not very realistic, it is still easy to tell at a glance that it is definitely Eunuch Gao.

"Girl, have you seen this person before?" Liu Yu asked again when Zhao Lian didn't speak.

Zhao Lian's mind was racing. She didn't know who they were, whether they were friends or foes, or why they wanted to see Eunuch Gao!

However, since Eunuch Gao is already dead, let's keep this matter to ourselves and not tell anyone.

Zhao Lian shook her head violently: "Never seen him before, who is this person?"

Song Wenjie carefully observed Zhao Lian's reaction. He was certain that he had just seen a hint of panic in Zhao Lian's eyes.

Song Wenjie's intuition told him that the girl in front of him had definitely met Eunuch Gao before, and the reason she dared not admit it was because she was afraid of getting involved in something.

It seems we shouldn't alert them!

Song Wenjie spoke up: "Since you haven't seen her before, then we won't disturb you any longer. Please let her pass!"

Sun Shangxiang and the others had already finished checking the household registration and were just waiting for Zhao Lian, but seeing the two people talking to Zhao Lian, they didn't dare to go forward.

Seeing Zhao Lian turn around, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Zheng Xiuzhen was genuinely curious: "Zhaolian, what did that person ask you just now?"

"It's nothing, he just wants to know someone."

"Oh~"

Zheng Xiuzhen drawled out her words, she wasn't quite convinced. If they really wanted to find someone, why didn't they ask them?

Putting everything else aside, we should at least ask Zhao Di, but Zhao Lian is unwilling to say, so there must be a reason for that.

Seeing that Zheng Xiuzhen seemed unconvinced, Zhao Lian quickly took her hand: "Second Aunt, don't say so much, it's getting dark soon, let's go!"

Watching Zhao Lian's retreating figure, Song Wenjie looked thoughtful.

Seeing Song Wenjie staring blankly, Liu Yu waved his hand in front of him: "Hey~ General, that person has already gone far away, what are you still looking at?"

"Let's go!"

At this moment, Song Wenjie came to his senses.

Liu Yu winked and said, "General, you wouldn't happen to have taken a fancy to that girl, would you?"

Song Wenjie narrowed his eyes dangerously: "Liu Yu, you're talking a bit too much today."

"Hehe~" Liu Yu scratched his head and laughed awkwardly: "General, I was just joking with you, don't take it so seriously."

Song Wenjie frowned: "Let's get down to business. Follow this girl and see where she lives. I have a feeling she knows something!"

Upon hearing that they were getting down to business, Liu Yu immediately stopped smiling and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."

……

Hengnan Prefecture

Hengnan Prefecture was unusually bustling during this period, with a constant stream of disaster victims coming and going every day.

The prefectural governor specially set aside an office in the main hall of the prefectural government, where the clerk, scribe, and registrar worked together.

Of the three, the clerk was responsible for registering the personal information of the disaster victims, while the secretary was responsible for listing the situation in each county and village and submitting it to the prefectural governor for review.

Finally, the state governor decides which county and village they will be assigned to.

In addition, the registrar recounted the land in each village and distributed some of the idle land to the disaster victims.

Right now, the queue for registration is incredibly long, and everyone is waiting anxiously. It's getting dark, and everyone is worried that they won't get a turn and will have to wait until the next day to queue again.

Seeing that the queue had nearly a hundred people, Zhao Lian frowned.

There are still dozens of people ahead of me. At this rate, it might not even be my turn until dark.

If we keep queuing up tomorrow, more disaster victims will join us, which is unacceptable!

There were nearly ten of us in the group, all queuing together. Even if we registered one by one, it would still take quite a while.

"Second sister, you stay here in line, I'll go ask someone."

After saying this, Zhao Lian walked out of the group without waiting for Zhao Di's reply.

"Hey~ Zhao Lian, where are you going?" Sun Shangxiang was anxious. Zhao Lian always did things unpredictably.

Zhao Lian tried to approach the clerk at the registration desk to ask him a question, but some other people mistook her for trying to cut in line and started shouting.

"Hey~ What are you doing? Don't even think about cutting in line, go to the back of the line."

"Exactly, we've been waiting for ages!"

The clerk in charge of registration also noticed this and quickly waved to Zhao Lian: "You girl, hurry up and go to the back of the line."

"Sir, I need to discuss something with you. Your efficiency here is terrible. Some families of ten are queuing up, taking up a lot of space. It's completely unnecessary. Actually, each household only needs the head of household to truthfully report the situation, and that's enough."

The clerk's eyes lit up. This was a great idea! How come he hadn't thought of that!