Chapter 240

Xu Ran muttered to the group of people about the idea he had come up with, and then everyone got up and started to roll up their sleeves to work.

As for Baozi, he has been knocked out by the smoke.So Lu Qi took out a bottle，which no one knew what was inside , and he let Baozi smell it, then Baozi woke up. Xu Ran asked Liu Tong and Liu Shao Yu to look after him, then they went to work.

Du Xin was the most excited one among them, and his voice was very loud. Xu Ran didn’t want him to go, but he got really impatient and finally agreed reluctantly. He also reminded Lu Qi that he must take good care of Du Xin and Du Xin also promised that he would be obedient.

Xu Ran went to the kitchen with the oil lamp on his own. He lit a fire and poured water into the remaining rice in the pot and boiled it over a high heat.

Tangtang and Guoguo went to find a pen and paper and started writing after grinding the ink.

Xu Ran came up with all the ideas. He asked Lu Qi and the others to send them to the Yamen and sticked a few posters on them by the way. They’ve wrote down everything they had done on the posters. And they were going to put up posters around town, wherever it looked like there was going to be a lot of people.

They woulld leave at dawn, so they wouldn’t get caught even if there was a government official who would come to the inn to find them. Then they would be able to deal with the gangster inn and ensure their own safety at the same time, which is also a matter of Kill two birds with one stone.

However, the only bad thing was that they were doomed to not sleep tonight.

Xu Ran was cooking the rice milk in the kitchen, which would be used it to stick posters later. Tangtang and Guoguo gave the posters to Lu Qi and Gao Quan after they wrote everything down. They asked them to take these people to the Yamen and then continued to make on the posters to post them  elsewhere.

After they finished writing, all of them started to post these psters on the street.

When people started to set up the stall on the street, they finally finished their work and hurried back to pack up and leave.

It was dawn and no one had noticed them when they came out of the inn. Only after they left the town did they breathe a sigh of relief.

Lu Qi started to complain, “This is the first time I have been a wimp in my life.”

Xu Ran said jokingly, “How ould this be a wimp? I think it was right for you people of so called dignity to experience such things before you know the sufferings of the common people.”

Lu Qi waved his hand and didn’t want to talk to Xu Ran.

They rested on the ground yesterday for a while, ate some dry food, and then started to move forward.

And it could be that all the bad luck in the past has run out, and the road behind it has been smooth, and nothing has happened.

The only bad thing was that there are more and more refugees on the way.

Lu Qi had asked some people who had been arranged by the king Yan in the vicinity and knew that these people are refugees from the south. They had been here because of the flood and plague. They were lucky enough to have reached these places alive, but no one dared to take them in because they were afraid of being infected with the plague.

A full month has passed since they left Xu Village. Now there were still refugees walking this way, which means that the plague has not been cured.

If the plague was over, these people would probably be heading back. They were in rags and always starving all this way. There was no place for them to stay, and they were all thin and pale.They looked very miserable indeed.

The man arranged by King Yan was just a small official here, so he has no right to intervene in this matter.

These refugees had no choice but to continue wandering.

Lu Qi only said, “I guess the plague hasn’t passed yet. The old emperor should come to an end.”

Xu Ran didn’t understand why he said that, but he did in the next town.

Rumors began to spread among the people that it was the emperor’s incompetence that had resulted in the punishment of disaster from the God.

This was summarized by Xu Ran from many rumors. It happened in the South, but there were already rumors in the North, which has shown how serious the situation was in the South.

No wonder Lu Qi would say that. Without the support of the people, the emperor could not last long.

While they were resting in the town, Lu Qi got a letter from somewhere.

The letter had come from the capital, and it also described the situation of the capital.

The rumor was originated in the capital, and was spread rapidly among the people. The officials could not keep it a secret, so they reported it to their superiors. When the rumor reached the old emperor, he was so furious that he killed the official who handed the memorial to the throne. What’s more, he killed some people to make an example of others.

The old emperor didn’t like the prince, so he he left it to the prince to  do the killing part.

After reading it, Xu Ran understood why the Emperor had really come to an end.

Xu Ran asked Lu Qi, “Was it the prince whom King Yan supported?”

Lu Qi nodded. “Although it was not explicitly stated, the person King Yan supported was the prince. The prince was also a a man of ability. He could make a better emperor than his father. And it will be good for King Yan then. After all, the Yanzhou is not big and it is also cold.”

There were too many things in Lu Qi’s words. Xu Ran understood most of them and didn’t ask the rest. He handed the letter to Lu Qi and said. “What happened in the capital now is our business, the prince has the ability to handle these things. Tangtang and Guoguo are still young, so I can rest assured for a few years.”

Lu Qi put the letter away and said, “Let’s hurry to Yanzhou! Once this incident got serious, the Emperor would be dissatisfied or the people would be dissatisfied with it, and both of these situations are to our disadvantage.We won’t be safe until we reach Yanzhou.”

Xu Ran asked, “Why are you so sure that the people in Yanzhou will not be dissatisfied?”

Lu Qi said, “Because King Yan’s management over the years was not just a matter of wordsBesides, these refugees can’t reach Yanzhou. Even if they can, it would be winter and they would freeze to death in Yanzhou.”

Xu Ran agreed with him. In order not to get hurt, they took a day’s rest and then started to move forward.

The days passed away quickly from July to August, and then from August to September.

In autumn, it became cold in the North. Due to the endemic and the fatigue of traveling,, Baozi had a fever on the road.

Therefore, they had to stop and wait for Baozi to recover before they went on.

Fortunately, Lu Qi was a doctor and Baozi was just a little weak when he had the fever.

After a delay of five or six days, Baozi became lively again and they could finally continue on their journey.

Xu Ran was still very anxious on the road. Only when they arrived earlier could they be able to rest at ease. After two months of bumping on the road, they were almost dead.

Lu Qi said that they would probably be able to reach Yanzhou in November, which meant that they would have to spend two months more on the road. Xu Ran almost fainted after he heard that.

Xu Ran shouted angrily at Lu Qi , “Two months! Seriously, we’ve been on the road for two whole months.“”

Lu Qi answered. “It’s far from south to north, plus the Yanzhou is at the northernmost side of the Great Xia. We went so slowly that we lost so much time that the journey, which should have been three months, became four.”

It was true that they moved slowly and have wasted a lot of time. Xu Ran had to stop complaining.

He only said, “If that’s the case, don’t forget to buy some herbs. It’s getting colder and we might catch a cold. It’s better to pay attention to it.”

Lu Qi nodded repeatedly, “Don’t worry! I’ll buy it.”

Lu Qi had already prepared the herbs, but not much. After hearing Xu Ran’s words, he specially bought more and Xu Ran was relieved finally.

When they went out, they were dressed in summer clothes, and now they have skipped the autumn clothes and started to wear winter clothes. It was estimated that these clothes would not be able to keep them warm in Yanzhou.

In his first year, Xu Ran was already feeling very cold in winter. Who would have thought that autumn in the North would be as cold as the winter in the South.

And it was getting even colder and colder. By October, they had to stop to buy heavy padded clothes like those in the North.

It made them clumsy, especially when driving the carriage. Xu Ran tired for carry his hands all the time.

Xu Ran soon began to think of other ways. He felt that the first thing he had to do after arriving at Yanzhou was to change their clothes.

So he started to ask Lu Qi if they raised sheep in Yanzhou and what what they usually ate.

Lu Qi said, “Yanzhou is a desolate place so the grain was not very abundant, and there are only few cows and sheep. We grow wheat mostly in this place, so what we usually eat is cooked wheaten food.”

Xu Ran touched his head and said to Lu Qi, “If King Yan is really my brother-in-law, I will tell you a way to get rich and make Yanzhou the land of abundance.”

Of course, Lu Qi didn’t know what the land of abundance was, but he heard the word “rich”.

He wanted to fly to Yanzhou immediately to let Xu Ran meet King Yan and let him believe that King Yan was his brother-in-law.

Every day, I was immersed in the fact that I couldn’t write and didn’t want to write. Today, I tried hard to write three chapters, Come on!

By the way, there were so many flash-news on Weibo yesterday. It felt like everything happened in one day.

God bless Tianjin, and God bless China!