Princess of Nongmen

Chapter 1890 The Escaped Prefect

Although Gu Shangqing is still worried, but he also knows that once Liu Ya's meaning is decided, there will be no change, and in the end he can only compromise.It was just a lot of exhortations.Liu Ya nodded and agreed one by one.

For her elder brother's concern, Liu Ya will never be too much or bothered.She is also worried about Gu Shangqing, because the dead in the city are easy to deal with, but the living people on the hill are not easy to appease.

The ancients valued corpses the most, and paid attention to burying them safely.If you let them know that the bodies of their relatives in the city will be burned, they will definitely not give up.

After making the arrangement, Liu Ya asked Gu Shangqing to take people to the top of the mountain to surround the people, so as not to cause trouble when they were doing things in the city.

Then Liu Ya asked Feng Zhongjing to explain the situation of the streets in the city in detail, and then divided Pingjin City into several areas, and each area had corresponding soldiers to sort it out.

After dividing the responsible personnel in each area, Liu Ya asked everyone to take out the gauze scarves prepared in advance, wrap their heads and faces tightly, and put pigskin gloves on their hands.

Because she knew that there might be continuous epidemics along the way, Liu Ya had prepared a highly transparent and finely woven gauze scarf for everyone.After soaking with special liquid medicine before departure, it can most effectively prevent inhalation of viruses in the air within a certain period of time.

After taking simple precautions, Liu Ya directly led people into the city, and then immediately dispersed them according to the area, to transport all the corpses to a remote corner of the city for centralized incineration.

Liu Ya is on the alert, in case something unexpected happens in any direction, so she can temporarily transfer assignments.

Fang Lei led his men to follow behind Liu Ya, and they only had one mission to protect Liu Ya's safety.

According to Liu Ya's instructions, Feng Zhongjing led his men to dig a big pit on the ground, and collected a lot of dry and flammable firewood to pile on the edge of the pit.

The corpses are constantly transported over, because there may be a risk of disease, so no one can leave any relics of anyone at all.

They were busy until dusk, when all the soldiers assigned to the various areas returned and reported that the city had been searched carefully, and there was no human or animal corpse left behind.

Liu Ya nodded, and ordered Fang Lei and others to light the fire.After dozens of torches were lit, they were thrown at the piles of firewood together.

As the firewood burned, the burnt corpses gave off a strong stench, and the fat "cracked" with sparks, and a puff of black smoke billowed up, rushing into the air together with the raging flames.

Liu Ya ordered everyone to retreat, leaving some people watching the burning fire, and she led the people around the city for the last time.In order to prevent anyone from missing any corners, you can only feel at ease after checking it yourself.

While checking, Liu Ya also asked people to sprinkle the quicklime prepared in advance all over the streets and houses.Quicklime has the effect of disinfection and sterilization after it meets water. The city has just been soaked in big water and is wet everywhere, so this method is simple and the effect can be guaranteed.

When I came back after the inspection, I saw that the fire was almost burnt out.

Feng Zhongjing had already ordered people to prepare a lot of long bamboo poles, one end of which was tied with a wide plank, and two people carried a bamboo pole and pushed the blackened "things" into the pit after the fire.

Finally, the soil was covered, and the big hole was filled, and finally a big mound was raised.

This is a completely helpless move. If you don't do this, the plague will rage, and the whole city may die.

Liu Ya let out a breath, took off the scarf wrapped around her head, and took off her gloves.Then he got off his horse and bowed deeply to the huge mound.

She used to be a killer, but now she is bowing to ordinary people she doesn't know. This is not ridiculous, but it makes Liu Ya feel that this is a cycle of cause and effect.

The people behind Liu Ya also bowed along with her, this moment was very solemn.

In fact, at the very beginning, the thousand imperial guards sent by the emperor were quite critical of Liu Ya's actions.

They have never seen any concubine of the royal family do such a thing, even if they once protected the empress to sacrifice to heaven, it was just a formality.

But now the princess actually came to such a place and did this kind of work with corpses herself. It was really more painful than being a coolie.

Gradually, the touch of death and the helplessness of the disaster made them express deep sympathy for the suffering people and the dead.

So now, they also respect Liu Ya's actions.From the original complaining and puzzlement, to the current activeness and obedience.

After Liu Ya bowed, she turned to everyone and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Then everyone got on their horses and followed Liu Ya out of the city.When the last group of cavalry left the city, Liu Ya waved her hand and shouted loudly: "Close the city gate and seal the city for a month."

The heavy city gate was closed and sealed.

As soon as the seal was pasted, a group of people came running over.The leader was a middle-aged man, dressed in official uniform but in a mess, the mud soaked his boots and the hem of his official robe.

"Princess Concubine. I'm late. Please forgive me." The man ran to Liu Ya's horse and knelt down with a "plop".

Liu Ya looked down and asked, "Who are you?"

"My subordinate, Wu Cheng, the prefect of Pingjin City. Just because of the torrential rain for several days, the flood in Pingjin City is raging. I, I... I just..."

"You ran away?" Liu Ya frowned and asked, "This has become an empty city, and the water in the city has receded for about two days. But I haven't seen a single officer here. I thought it was to appease the people on the mountain. But I didn't expect that you, the parent official, would escape first."

At the beginning, Liu Ya really thought that the officers and soldiers here should be appeasing the common people on the hill.After all, the living are more important than the dead.

But after Gu Shangqing arrived at the top of the mountain, if the officials had heard the news of the arrival of the Crown Princess, they would have arrived long ago.

But Liu Ya and the others have been busy for more than three hours. After they finished their work and sealed the city gate, the guard ran over in a hurry. It can be seen that he was not with the people, but had fled to Where.At this moment, I rushed over after hearing the news.

Without further ado, Liu Ya winked at Fang Lei.

Fang Lei understood immediately, rushed over with his men, tied up the prefect of Pingjin City, Wu Cheng, and a few of his followers.

Wu Cheng was so frightened that he repeatedly begged for mercy, but he also knew that he had done something that abandoned the people, so he didn't dare to cry out when he begged.

(End of this chapter)