The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 64 The Empress Dowager's Nightmare

Since the death of the little emperor, the empress dowager has been unable to sleep all night, and her hair has fallen out in large quantities. People in their 40s have more than half of their hair gray. The nanny who combed her hair wiped away tears: Her poor lady, what would she do without her grandson?

It's not that she wasn't sleepy, but when she closed her eyes, she saw her grandson crying to her: "Ancestor, I'm in pain, my mouth hurts, and my acne is itchy.
After a while, she could still see her brother waving to her, his face covered in blood, telling her to go back quickly, and her nephew who lost his head, whose head was on the ground and opened his mouth to call his aunt.

Like an old monk entering meditation, the Empress Dowager sat on the futon for three days and two nights without eating or drinking.

The old nanny who had served her all her life, faced the risk of losing her head, found a vigorous maid, carried her back to the house, and poured half a bowl of ginseng soup.

"Madam, the old slave is overstepping, but if you continue like this, you will collapse before Uncle Guo comes back. The more you do this, the more you will not be able to fall. If you fall, the Xu family will still have more There are hundreds of people, the old lady at home can't stand such a fright."

That's right, she has never lived for herself. The mission of the family, the glory of the family, these are engraved in the bones, the responsibility of the descendants of the Xu family, so what if there are no sons and grandchildren, any son of any family has to respect her For the Queen Mother.

It's time to take a look at those women locked up in the royal temple, hold them in your hands, these bastards are not obedient one by one, the Great Xia Dynasty can tolerate the emperor who has to be filial.

No one knew the real situation in the capital. The King of Shu had spent a lot of money and influence in the past few years to bribe a few nuns from Ganye Temple to take care of Concubine Taigui in private. There was nothing he could do except to keep in touch with her.There are thousands of soldiers guarding such a small nunnery.

The scouts sent out by the king of Shu finally found the island where Cuihua and the others stopped before they disappeared.The government officials near the coastline were called together, and the fishermen near the sea were rewarded heavily, and only then did they get some news: It is said that someone's son escaped from an island thousands of miles away.

When the scout pioneer rushed to the village with the officials, he found the man who had been captured by pirates and worked on the island for eight years.

The man recalled what happened in those years, and he was not very embarrassed: "The pirates are not simple. They have lived on the island for many generations. There are pirates and pirates. However, they mainly make a living by cooking salt. I heard that the island There are gold mines on the sea, and they are all fat and oily, and ordinary merchant ships don't look down on them."

"The captured slaves of us are basically working in the saltworks. There are also black slaves in the saltworks. They are very rare for black slaves. They work very quickly, and they can just stutter. No one wants to run away."

"How did you escape?" the scout vanguard was curious.

"I had a high fever. They threw me into the sea to feed the fish. God bless me. I grew up by the sea. I'm very good at holding my breath when diving. Then I caught a piece of driftwood, and I don't know how much it floated. One day, I just arrived at a deserted island, and I became savages on the island, so I was picked up by the fishermen who came to the deserted island to fish."

"After going ashore, it took more than two months to find my home. My poor old mother, I think I'm blind from crying."

After listening to the information, the scout quickly reported the discovery to the King of Shu.

The king of Shu was surprised when he received it. Saltworks and gold mines are very rare to him.Now the salt fields in the south of the Yangtze River are all in the hands of those aristocratic families, and he also has salt wells in Shu, but the country is so big, who would dislike more income?

I ordered my brother-in-law Gao Huaiyu, brought [-] soldiers and horses, and bought ten large ships from Jiangnan Shipyard. The king of Shu has never had a navy configuration. This time I ordered my brother-in-law to train a team that can fight on the water.

He is not someone who only thinks about gold mines. After all, he has invested more than 500 million taels of silver in ten large ships, which are simply the most expensive things he has bought in the past few years.

Gao Huaiyu raised his eyebrows when he heard about the gold mines and salt farms that his brother-in-law had informed about. How could he make some money by the way?I no longer dislike going to war to save a village woman and cub, the main thing is not to lose Mr. Fan, a celebrity, well, that's it.

At the same time, the king of Shu also sent a message to Mr. Yuan Qian, telling him to build a cement factory with peace of mind. They had received the news that his wife was missing before, but they had already found clues and sent their brother-in-law to lead the army to rescue Yunyun.
Hei Wa twitched when she saw it: Just to save his wife, 1 people were sent, tell me, do you believe it?Anyway, I believe it!

Changed hands and put it on the desk in the study, how could Cuihua have time to go in and read the letter.

How many times have shieldfish islands been turned over? Even in the end, the big masters still guessed the process from some traces of moss at the exit of the cliff, but what they couldn't figure out was that hundreds of tons of sea salt, [-] catties How did the gold and those weapons and sea goods get stolen?

Monkey Island and Yellow Fish Island are near Shield Fish Island. If a large ship passes by, it is impossible for thousands of people to miss it. Therefore, they are sure that these things have not been transported away.

"Brother, do you think the ancestors on our island dug other basements?" Wu Dang's mind was more open.

"That's right, brother, so many things, how many people are needed to carry them, and there is no secret way, who can carry them away? You can bring all the people on my island here, and you can't get them out in one night!" With his head in his head, he just doesn't like to use his brain, what the elder brother and the others say is what.

"Then call the brothers, let's search carefully in the basement, dig around, and see where these things can go!" The head finally made a decision, and he still refuses to believe that his old background has been taken over by others. .

This is really going to dig three feet into the ground and dig through this island!
Except for the aborigines on the island, all outsiders were concentrated and isolated, and they were raided and severely interrogated from time to time. The women and cubs were fine and were not greatly affected.

The workers in the saltworks became the main interrogation targets. Even the honest boss Li was beaten several times, and the air on the island became anxious.

In the capital, the Empress Dowager, who had just gone to humiliate the women in the Ganye Temple, received the bad news. Her nightmare came true. Her brother, her natal nephews in the north were all heroic.

The energy she had just recovered from humiliating those women collapsed again, God really gave her a dead end, all the men in her natal family died, and not a single one of her children and grandchildren remained!
The old nanny did a good job, and the empress dowager died. Fortunately, it didn't take long, and she was quickly hugged down.

Seeing the dying and lifeless Empress Dowager lying on the bed, the old mother wished she could die for her.

The granddaughter of the Xu family, 14-year-old Xu Wan'er was taken to the palace to serve her aunt's illness, and the old birthday star of the Xu family also suffered a stroke and collapsed on the bed.

(End of this chapter)