Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Rumble! ! !

Dazzling purple thunder and lightning pierced the sky, flickering in the thick dark clouds, and constantly making frightening loud noises, as if there was a giant beast that was about to die in the clouds, trembling and terrifying.

Feeling the trembling majesty of heaven and earth in the sky, Xiao Yun, who had just arrived at the Tianmen River Dam not long ago, gradually became dignified on that beautiful little face.

"so……"

With her hands clasped behind her back, the gentleness of the past could not be seen on her face. Instead, there was a daunting majesty, and her whole person exuded a capable and decisive temperament.

"After Huaiyu knew the ins and outs of this matter, he gave up his original plan to come here and let you come here on your own, and he rushed to Yuzhou City with the Xuanji Guards to preside over the overall situation?"

"Yes, Lord Xiao."

Zhang Shiping bowed slightly, cupped his fists and said: "After the Governor and I separated, he took the rescued people and rushed towards Yuzhou City. With strong feet, it is estimated that we will be able to reach Ping County, which is about 600 miles away from Yuzhou, tonight."

"Really……"

After listening to Zhang Shiping's narration, a layer of worry gradually appeared in Xiao Yun's eyes.

She wasn't worried about Lu Chen's safety.

Not to mention anything else, just Fu Yu, the commander of the Xuanji Guard who she can't see through, can basically ensure Lu Chen's safety, not to mention there are more than two hundred Xuanji Guards accompanying him.

The defense around Lu Chen was impeccable from the outside, so there was nothing to worry about.

What she is really worried about is the result of Lu Chen's upright and strong personality, who is supreme to the people and who is jealous of evil, plus the extreme sword in his hand, which represents the supreme imperial power and has the privilege of "cut first, then strike". , It’s not as simple as one plus one.

Yuzhou's officialdom can be seen from this incident.

When she first came to the dam area, she saw more than 2,000 emaciated "servants" standing there as if they were waiting to die. It took only a moment for her to realize something unusual.

After all, if he really wanted to quell the flood, he wouldn't let these overwhelmed people come and waste food.

But now, in the whole Yuzhou, including King Yu, except that she can use the thin face she gained from helping Lu Chen gain a firm foothold in the officialdom many times in the past, and can slightly prevent Lu Chen from acting out of his will, no one can stop him from holding the emperor. He with the sword.

What's more, he also has peerless guards such as Fu Yana around...

"Things are starting to get troublesome..."

Xiao Yun murmured softly, with a troubled look on her face.

Now that the Empress is in charge of the dynasty, although she has the support of the Holy King, her foundation is shallow after all. At present, she only completely controls the Sili area, and her authority has not yet penetrated the whole world. If Lu Chen's officialdom in Yuzhou is turned upside down at this time... …

However, even though she was aware of this, she had no choice but to write a letter to Lu Chenxiu.

She is charged with the task of flood control, and she must not leave until the flood is clearly severe.

Otherwise, in the event of a flood, the provinces on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Qingjiang River will become a flooded country overnight, and the consequences will be more serious. In severe cases, the ruling foundation of Daxia will even be shaken.

So, faced with the current situation, she could only smile wryly, shook her head, suppressed the worries in her heart, and then played to Luo Jing while writing a letter to Lu Chen, then turned around and began to devote herself to water control. thing.

………………

While Xiao Yun was making orderly arrangements for the Yuzhouwei and Suizhouwei who were gradually rushing to the dam area to repair the embankment, arrange a large array, dig canals and discharge floods, Lu Chen and the others, as Zhang Shiping expected, met in the dark. At this time, we came to the boundary of Ping County.

The official road from the Tianmen River Dam to Yuzhou City passes through Ping County, so it is a good idea to come here.

However, Lu Chen was not in a hurry to go to Ping County, but sent the people back to the village first.

However, when he escorted the cheerful Li Wei and other villagers of Gou'er Village to the entrance of the village, and watched their backs running towards the house impatiently, he suddenly felt an uncomfortable cold air around them.

At the same time, Fu Yu's eyes were fixed, and she stared at the quiet village not far away with serious eyes.

"It's death!"

While speaking, her face became more and more cold.

"Only in a desolate place where all living things are lost, can there be a dead air."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but frown.

"That is to say..."

Fu Ye nodded silently.

"There were no living people in this village before we came here."

In the next second, as if to confirm Fu Yu's judgment, a very sad exclamation suddenly sounded from a farmhouse not far away:

"mother!!"

Immediately afterwards, as if toppled dominoes, there were mournful cries from the surrounding farmhouses——

"father!"

"Grandfather!"

"grandmother!"

"Mother! No!!!"

"..."

The exclamation came and went, and it took a while before it gradually subsided.

Lu Chen obviously realized something, and his face became more and more serious.

"Let's go."

He slowly rode forward and walked towards the nearest house.

Xuanjiwei followed closely behind.

Walking to the house with the door wide open, Lu Chen got off his horse and walked in with heavy steps.

And when he walked through the small courtyard and came to the back room, the moment he saw the scene clearly, even though he was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

But he saw that under the dim and shabby house with air leaks everywhere, Li Wei was holding a dead body tightly and crying loudly.

"Mother! Didn't you say that there is still food left at home, so you let the child take the rations and leave without worry? Why..."

"Why are you lying to the child!!"

There was an uncomfortably putrid smell in the air.

At this time, the corpse that Li Wei was holding had completely lost its human appearance.

There is no flesh in the whole body, either skin or bones, the limbs are actually thinner than a rolling pin, the extremely shriveled chest shows a very clear outline of ribs, the position of the head, in the two deep hollows, exudes a horrible feeling. breath.

That is the appearance of a person who is extremely hungry.

She was starved to death!

It was the first time I saw such a miserable scene in the real world, several times more miserable than the so-called horror movies on TV, Lu Chen couldn't react for a while.

pat...

After recovering, he took a deep look at the corpse, then turned and left the house.

At this moment, he didn't know what to say.

But know what to do.

After leaving Li Wei's house, Lu Chen brought everyone to the dry valley field and waited quietly in the rain.

About a quarter of an hour later, the villagers came out of their lifeless homes one after another.

They were extremely thin and easily hugged the corpse of their dead relative who didn't even weigh twenty catties. They came to Lu Chen and the others, knelt down slowly, and then fell heavily on the muddy and puddle-filled ground. Kowtowed his head, very sad

"My lord! Please make the decision for us!"

Lu Chen didn't speak immediately, but turned his head, looked at Fu Yu and Fang Yu who had set up a spiritual shield to protect him from the rain, and said lightly, "Remove the spiritual shield."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head slowly under the puzzled eyes of the two, looked at the extremely miserable corpses in front of him, even more miserable than Li Wei's mother, and then spoke slowly.

"I want to see how cold it is in Yuzhou."

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I feel a little uncomfortable, let's start with another chapter...