The backyard of the Sixing Palace is where sundries are stored. It is no exaggeration to say that if it wasn’t for the rainy season, a few palace men would be sent over to collect water, and the door would not be opened even for ten days and a half a month. It's barren, the weeds are half the height of a person.

Su Beiliang and Su Mo rushed to the backyard in a hurry, and found that all the more than a dozen wooden barrels placed under the south wall were gone, so they hurriedly called the palace servants to inquire.

"Where's the wooden barrel that was placed here?"

The palace man in charge of guarding the backyard was terrified by the scimitar in Su Beiliang's hand, and said cowardly: "A carriage for food delivery happened to come this morning. The servant saw that it was quite spacious, so I asked him to put the food in the backyard. The waste was taken outside the palace for disposal..."

Su Beiliang's nose crooked when he heard this.

What a fucking coincidence, so much trash is piled up here, I haven't seen you move for seven or eight years, it just so happens that you are working hard today!

Su Beiliang endured the pain in his head, "Where did the carriage go?"

"Walking from Ximen, yes, should be going to Xiren Street..."

Hearing the tone of the palace man, he also looked uncertain. Just in case, Su Mo quickly ordered his troops to block the two streets outside the west gate. The team rushed to intercept.

Su Mo went to Xiren Street, while Su Beiliang went to Dongheng Street.

Su Beiliang rode his horse fast and fast all the way, and finally stopped the carriage loaded with wooden barrels before leaving the city gate.

The sixteen wooden barrels were placed on the car untouched, and the cloth curtain on them was lifted, and a rancid smell came over his face, Su Beiliang covered his mouth and nose and frowned.

The small dumpling is hidden inside, and it is estimated that it will turn into a stinky dumpling when it is fished out.He suffered so much for getting into trouble this time, let's see if he will have a long memory next time!

But when the sixteen wooden barrels were opened one by one, Su Beiliang was dumbfounded. Except for the sewage inside, there was no trace of small dumpling at all. Finally, Su Beiliang simply jumped onto the carriage and kicked all the barrels one by one. Kicked down, dark green sewage flowed out of the overturned wooden barrel with a bang one after another. There was no child, but four or five frogs jumped out and croaked on the ground.

Su Beiliang jumped off the carriage, stepping through the foul-smelling sewage, a little out of his mind.

How is it possible, could it be that Su Qiu's guess is wrong?Ma Wenran didn't hide Jin'er in the barrel at all?

He got on his horse and wanted to go to Dongheng Street as soon as possible to meet Su Mo and explain the situation here. Unexpectedly, the moment he turned his head, he saw a group of little beggars rolling in the grass not far away and grabbing a piece of green grass. Su Beiliang felt that the stone was very familiar. He led the horse and walked a few steps closer. When he saw the familiar red tassels, he immediately recognized that it was the unicorn jade Su Jin was wearing around his waist!

Su Beiliang hurriedly got off his horse, ran to those little beggars and asked, "Where did you get this jade pendant?"

The little beggars who were fighting for Zhenghuan were so frightened that they ran away when they saw Su Beiliang suddenly approaching them. Su Beiliang quickly grabbed the child holding the jade pendant.

The little beggar was terrified, obviously unwilling to cooperate, crying and struggling.

Su Beiliang leaned down, took out a few pine nut candies from his body, and stuffed them into the opponent's mouth, "Sweet or not? Uncle won't steal your things. Tell me where this jade pendant came from. I will give you all the pine nut candies on my body." How are you?"

Under Su Beiliang's persuasive temptation, the little beggar finally told him that the driver who was driving the carriage just now was buying pancakes at the biscuit shop at the intersection. At that time, a child suddenly crawled out of the wooden barrel on the carriage, with a wound on his forehead. There was a lot of blood on the collar, and he climbed from the carriage to the side of the road. This green stone fell from him.

At the end, the little beggar kept emphasizing that the jade was picked up by himself rather than robbed, as if he was afraid that Su Beiliang would drag him to the government.

Su Beiliang's face lost the gentleness just now, and he continued to ask: "Then where did he go?"

The little beggar held the piece of jade tightly: "Where could he go? He passed out in a short while on the side of the road, and there happened to be an ox cart pulling dead people passing by. The driver was drunk and thought the little The child also fell from his own car, and he was dragged away while still in the car."

"what!"

Su Beiliang only felt that something was wrong. At this time, most of the cars that pulled the dead were people infected with the star plague. I heard that there happened to be a place called Jiugou Lake nearby. All the corpses infected with the disease must be They were taken to the lake to be burned intensively.

If Su Jin was misunderstood as a sick corpse and burned...

Thinking of this, Su Beiliang didn't dare to delay for a moment, and immediately got on his horse and rushed to Jiugou Lake outside the city, galloping all the way, leaving the guards behind him far behind.

The leading guard watched Su Beiliang head straight for the epidemic area, and wanted to call out to stop him, but he didn't know whether he was walking too fast or turning a deaf ear. The sound of the horse's hooves became more and more urgent, and there was no intention of stopping at all.Until one person and one horse disappeared into the warning net surrounded by white silk cloth in front of Jiugou Lake.

The rest of the guards stopped, "My lord, this..."

The sword eyebrows under the armor of the guard who took the lead frowned slightly, "The imperial city has issued a ban, and the citizens of the imperial city are not allowed to enter the epidemic area without the approval of the court. He is looking for death by himself, no wonder we."

The guards behind him hesitated, "But he is also looking for the little prince. If His Majesty knows that we haven't tried our best to find the little prince, will he go back..."

"Shut up! Your Majesty just asked us to follow him to find the little prince, and didn't let us violate the prohibition to enter the epidemic area! Your Majesty is wise and will not blame us."

……

Su Beiliang's journey was bumpy, and his heart was about to pop out of his throat.He had never run so fast when he was chased by the neighbor's grinning dogs when he was a child. Although he ran on foot then, and now on horseback, he was exhausted to the same extent.

Seeing the black smoke faintly rising from the lake, Su Beiliang's eyes widened in horror, and immediately raised his whip and roared a few times, but by the vast lake, his voice was quickly drowned out by the surrounding noises .

When he ran up to him, he could hardly make any sound from his throat. He watched from the crowd, the grass by the lake had been cleared, and there were hundreds of corpses piled up in the middle, surrounded by bundles of firewood and hay , was drenched with pungent spirits, and the raging fire was igniting on the periphery, and soon it would ignite from the outside to the inside, bit by bit on the corpses piled in the center.

Seeing the cry of a child suddenly came out of the crimson flames, everyone around was stunned for a moment.

"Strange, why are there children crying?"

"I heard it too... Could it be that there are children who are still alive and thrown into the pile of dead?"

"Then hurry up and save someone!"

"What are you saving? It's burning like this, and besides being thrown into the pile of dead people, he must be infected with the disease and he will die if he is rescued. Just treat it as his fate!"

Soon the cries in the flames became louder and louder, but the discussions around them gradually became quieter.

Until a young man rushed out: "Quickly remove all the firewood and straw around! Otherwise, the fire will grow bigger and bigger!"

However, no one around him was willing to help him, and they were just following orders. These were all corpses pulled from the epidemic area. As long as any wound on the body was contaminated with the patient's blood, they would be infected with the Star Plague.

There are old and young among them, but they don't have the spirit of self-sacrifice, risking their own lives for a child they have never met.

Seeing that everyone was motionless and the fire in front of him was burning more and more fiercely, Su Bei blushed and shouted: "That child is not infected with congenital disease at all, and you all wear masks on your face, as long as there is no trauma on your body , without being contaminated with the patient's blood, even if you get close to it, there will be no danger!"

Seeing that these people are still indifferent, Su Beiliang's heart is completely cold: "Why are you so indifferent..."

Someone couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "It's not my child, why should I go, I want to go to you."

In full view, Su Beiliang took off his outer robe, threw it into the lake to soak it, quickly put it on his body, and rushed into the flames soaring into the sky. With the billowing thick smoke, he was quickly submerged into the sea of ​​flames.

Seeing this scene, the few people standing there looked at each other, feeling a little scared.

Such a big fire, not to mention someone else's child, even your own child, you have to weigh it carefully, and that person rushed in without blinking. If it burns inside for a while, there may be even bones left No more.

When Su Beiliang rushed out of the fire with Su Jin in his arms, the clothes on his body were almost scorched, while Su Jin, who was wrapped in a wet robe, was just a little frightened. Xiaotuanzi opened his eyes and looked at him in panic. Looking at the person who hugged him, tears fell down.

Su Beiliang was tormented by the burning pain on his body, cold sweat trickled down his forehead drop by drop, and melted gullies slowly flowed out along the mask on his face.Crooked and criss-crossed, like cracked rock formations.

Seeing this shocking scene, Su Jin was not afraid, he stretched out his little hand to touch those gullies, and asked him, "Does it hurt?"

Su Beiliang felt that the skin on his back had been roasted, and it was about to fall off from the flesh and stick to his underwear. He looked at the little dumpling in his arms, with a worried and frightened expression on his face, and suppressed a sharp laugh With a sound, he touched the gully that the mask melted, and tore it off from the side, "It doesn't hurt, it's just a mask."

Seeing Su Beiliang's real face, Su Jin was stunned. Back then, the queen mother had been lying in the ice coffin. No one had seen the queen mother's real face except the father, but in fact he had seen it too. He took advantage of the father's absence At that time, he stood on the chair and secretly removed the coffin lid to see the queen mother's face through a gap.

Although he didn't know the specific difference between a man and a woman at that time, that soft and beautiful face was deeply etched in his memory.

Looking at Su Beiliang, he held his clothes tightly with his two little hands, "You are the queen mother, then why didn't you tell me...I've been waiting for you for a long time...don't you like me...but Jin'er misses you so much I really like you..."

Su Beiliang was taken aback by this sudden confession, and even forgot the severe pain behind him for a moment.

Until Su Jin's little hand wrapped around his neck, she gave a big mouthful to his face, and the flesh on his cheek bounced.

Su Jin nestled pitifully in his arms, choked up and said, "I broke all your things and called you ugly, does the queen mother hate me? Jin'er didn't do it on purpose, Jin'er apologized... I will pay the queen mother all the things, and I will be obedient in the future, I will not eat the little meatballs, I will eat them all, the queen mother will not dislike me, okay?"

Hearing him yelling one after another, Su Beiliang couldn't laugh or cry.

How did you become a mother yourself?

I can't help but think of Su Mo's appearance back then, which made people both love and hate.Su Beiliang originally planned to get up and hug Su Jin up, but he didn't expect that as soon as he got up, he felt a white light flashing in front of his eyes, as if stepping on cotton, he staggered and fell back.

Looking up at Su Jin who was hugging him, and not knowing when the other party came, Su Beiliang suddenly looked at him with a smile on his face, "Why do you look like you're about to cry?"

Su Mo stretched out her hand to touch his flushed forehead, but it was only hanging above, her fingertips trembled slightly, her eyes were full of rippling emotion like water waves, she said to Su Jin in a deep voice, "Go down."

Xiaotuanzi finally found Su Beiliang, of course he didn't want to leave for a moment, but seeing his father's expression was so fierce, Xiaotuanzi could only be obedient and jumped out of Su Beiliang's arms.

Before Su Beiliang could react, Su Mo had already hugged him in his arms.

Su Beiliang's feet flew into the air, startled: "You are sick! What are you doing?"

Su Mo kept silent, and her anger was about to burst out uncontrollably. When passing by, he looked at the servants kneeling on the ground, and said coldly to the guards beside him, "Decision."

"Yes!"

Su Beiliang didn't know what he was doing again, so he slammed Su Mo on the shoulder hard: "What is it?! It's really hateful for them to refuse to save them, but they are not guilty of death. Besides, in the current epidemic, they are also risking their lives." You have made great contributions to death, how can you kill it as soon as you say it?"

Su Mo looked at Su Beiliang with tender eyes: "Okay, since Ah Liang doesn't want to, let's not kill them for now."

After walking into the carriage with Su Beiliang in his arms, he moved the corner of his lips to the guard next to him, and silently said a word: kill.

The dark guard's eyes froze, and he immediately took the order to leave. The carriage drove to a distance, and there was no shrill and piercing screams from the lake. Five headless corpses were thrown into the fire, and they were infected with the sick corpses. All into ashes.

The edge of Jiugou Lake was filled with billowing black smoke.

Seeing Su Mo carrying Su Beiliang back to the palace, the guards who left Su Beiliang and returned alone just now turned pale with fright.

Your Majesty is holding a man in his arms, what is the relationship between these two people?

Su Mo looked at the people who were hiding not far away with apprehensive faces, and then at the head of the guards, she smiled slightly, but there was no trace of joy in her eyes.Footsteps paused: "Zhang Ying, come forward."

The leader of the guards knew something was wrong, so he hurried forward and knelt down, pre-emptively said: "Your Majesty, I am guilty! But I think I have done nothing wrong, the epidemic area is already dangerous, if the subordinates and others break into the epidemic area without authorization I don’t know how many people will have to be sacrificed to return to the imperial city due to the epidemic. But the failure to find the prince is due to the dereliction of duty of the subordinates and others! I beg your majesty to punish me, I have no complaints or regrets!”

Su Beiliang's body was in pain, and he was in a hurry to go back to get some medicine. Seeing him kneeling here blocking the way, he said directly to Su Mo: "What he said was right, I was indeed the one who trespassed in the epidemic area, let him go down. "

Su Mo still smiled and agreed: "Since Ah Liang said so, then forget it."

He hugged Su Beiliang and turned around towards the direction of Ziyang Palace. The leader of the guards finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had escaped a catastrophe, but that night, an urgent order came from the Department of Punishment.

There is only a short line on it: Zhang Ying, the commander of the guards, disobeyed the emperor's order, punished him with corruption, demoted him to a lowly status, and became a slave for life.

Until he was dragged away by the Punishment Department, Zhang Ying never understood what was wrong with him following the emperor's order...

The author has something to say: Su Beiliang: Some people are really terrified when they think carefully...

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