Chapter 816 - 816: The Empress Dowager Enters the City (1)

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“Hubby, do you feel good?”

“Be gentle.”

“Oh, how about this?”

“That’s fine.”

Ji Luo had just arrived at the couple’s room when she heard this conversation.

Ji Luo gasped. Did her daughter have to be so explosive?

Just as she was about to leave quietly, she saw from the corner of her eye that Xuanyuan Ce was walking unsteadily with a stick.

The sound of the stick hitting the ground was especially crisp.

Ji Luo’s eyelids twitched. She quickly walked over and grabbed Xuanyuan Ce’s collar.

Xuanyuan Ce staggered. “Ah, Ah Luo? Didn’t you go to deliver medicinal wine to that brat? Why are you out so quickly?”

“That brat is too weak. He’s even worse than our daughter.”

Ji Luo said, “Shut up.”

If she lost her grandson, she would not let this person off.

With this thought in mind, she quickened her pace.

Xuanyuan Ce was speechless.

When it was time for dinner, the couple did not come out.

Xuanyuan Ce instructed, “MO Yuan, call Jiajia over for dinner.”

Ji Luo coughed lightly. “There’s no need to go. I’ll heat up the food in the kitchen later and let them eat when they wake up.”

“How do you know they’re asleep? What if they’re reading in their room?”

Calculating the time, it had just turned dark.

Ji Luo froze. “Eat your food. Why are you so talkative?”

How did she know? Of course it was…

Ji Luo had completely misunderstood. It was true that the couple had fallen asleep, but the reason was because when Shen Yijia saw Song Jingchen’s dark eye circles, her heart ached for him. He had been so busy these past few days that he hadn’t rested well, so she dragged him to sleep with her.

At night, a thin black shadow quietly left the inner city camp after everyone rested. He limped into an alley in the south of the city and walked to the door of the third family. He reached out and knocked on the door in front of him.

Not long after, the courtyard door opened and a middle-aged man stuck his head out. When he recognized who it was, his expression changed and he hurriedly pulled her into the courtyard. He looked around worriedly to make sure that no one was following before closing the courtyard door.

“You’re looking for me at this time. Do you want to die?” The middle-aged man followed the thin man into the house and questioned him angrily.

With the help of the oil lamp in the room, the thin man’s face was revealed. It was none other than Jia Quan, who had just suffered 20 strokes of the cane in the day.

Jia Quan sat down carefully on the stool. The wound on his butt hurt so much that he jumped up. “Don’t worry, with the loot around, I’ve already been cleared of suspicion.”

Seeing him like this, the middle-aged man frowned and asked, “Are you injured?”

“I won’t die after taking 20 strikes.” Jia Quan waved his hand indifferently.

“Is everything ready?” he asked.

The middle-aged man glanced at him and took the shovel from the corner of the wall. He walked to a tree in the courtyard and started digging. Soon, he dug out a wooden box.

He used his sleeve to rub the dirt off it and placed the box on the table in the central room.

“It’s all here. They’re too strict on these dirty things. Everything has to be burnt before leaving the quarantine area. They even arranged for someone to check.

It’s not easy to bring them out.”

As the middle-aged man spoke, Jia Quan had already opened the box. There were two handkerchiefs covered in pus and blood inside. As soon as it was opened, a stench wafted out.

Jia Quan took a look and closed the box. “Throw it into the well. It should be enough.”

The middle-aged man nodded. “If everyone is infected with the plague and only that woman is fine, everyone will definitely ask her to bleed to save people again. It’s fine if Lord Jing’an and the Third Prince agree, but if they insist on protecting her, the city will definitely be in chaos. Then, we can stall for time.” As he spoke, he took an empty box and placed a handkerchief inside.

He handed one of the boxes to Jia Quan and said, “I’ll throw this into the well in the pharmacy. Go back to the inner city camp.”

“Alright.’

Jia Quan took the box. The two of them discussed for a while and prepared to split up. Unexpectedly, before they could leave the courtyard, a powerful aura came towards them.

Before they could react, they felt a pain in their necks and completely lost consciousness.

When the two of them woke up again, they were already in the prison. Xuanyuan Ziming and Song Jingchen were standing outside the cell, looking at them coldly.

On the first day of May, the entire Phoenix City was enveloped in a thin rain.

In the safety zone outside the city, Eunuch Wu had just read to Xuanyuan Qi the letter that Xuanyuan Ziming had gotten someone to send out early in the morning. Eunuch Yu was drenched and ran in anxiously.

“Your Majesty, bad news.. The Empress Dowager suddenly developed a fever!”