In the evening, Bei Chenling stayed in Yuyan Palace and ate dinner with Lin Aoxue and Yunyan. When she left, she smiled at Lin Aoxue, her eyes were full of meaning, even though Lin Aoxue was stern, her face felt a little hot.

Lin Aoxue stayed in Yuyan Palace for one night, and was woken up by Yunyan early the next morning. Yunyan urged Lin Aoxue. She didn't dare to go to bed too late at night. Although she got up early in the morning, she was in good spirits.

Yunyan didn't cook every day either. This morning's breakfast was prepared by Yunyan's instructions to the cook in the imperial kitchen. However, in order to restore Lin Aoxue's body, Yunyan asked the cook to make a medicated meal according to her instructions.

The cooks in the imperial kitchen were a little overwhelmed at first, because they had recipes specially prepared for the Empress, but Lin Aoxue gave an order that everything in the harem should be arranged by Miss Yun. Only then did these cooks and palace servants understand that they were The Empress has some unusual preferences.

Yunyan was favored, and came and went in the palace, no matter where he went, no one dared to stop him.

Lin Aoxue and Yunyan had breakfast together, and then went to Xuande Hall early. She came earlier today, and when she arrived at Xuande Hall, some courtiers were not seated.

Seeing Lin Aoxue arriving so early, the courtiers panicked, and those who arrived later were even more frightened and trembling.

However, Lin Aoxue didn't say anything, and when the time was almost up, he let the courtier beside him announce his court.

Although the Prime Minister and Lin Aoxue had a very unpleasant talk yesterday, he still arrived at the court on time today and was not absent. Lin Aoxue looked at the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister also looked back at her and bowed his head to her.

Lin Aoxue was relieved, although the Prime Minister said that he was going to return home, he was not really angry with her.

In the early morning, everything was the same as usual. No one mentioned the matter of establishing the emperor's husband to Lin Aoxue, but no one took the initiative to ask the empress's arrangements. Lin Aoxue brought up some important matters from the memorial presented yesterday. , after discussing with the ministers, he said again:

"Do you have any other affairs to do, Ai Qing?"

For a time, the court officials looked at each other in dismay, they did not dare to offend the empress, but these people were still brooding about what Lin Aoxue said before going to court yesterday. .

Therefore, after Lin Aoxue's voice fell, no one said a word for a long time.

The prime minister obviously knew the concerns of these ministers, but he didn't stand up. Lin Aoxue understood his attitude, he just wouldn't say anything to stop her, but whether she could persuade the courtiers in the end, and what kind of means, he didn't want to interfere.

After a long silence, a civil servant named Yang Yu stepped forward, bowed to Lin Aoxue, and then said:

"Your Majesty, I have something important to announce."

Lin Aoxue raised her eyebrows. Seeing her solemn expression, she nodded and replied:

"you say."

Yang Yu bowed again and said:

"Your Majesty, Bian Nan suffered a plague of insects, destroyed a number of fertile fields, and also had a plague. Now the disaster is serious, and there have been victims who died."

Lin Aoxue frowned slightly, her face showing surprise. She thought that Yang Yu was going to object to what she said yesterday about marrying Yunyan, but she didn't expect her to be over-hearted, but after hearing what Yang Yu said, Lin Aoxue's face changed. Gotta get serious:

"Insect plague? Plague?"

Yang Yu nodded, took out a memorial from his arms, and continued:

"This document recording the disaster was only obtained this morning by the minister, please take a look at your majesty."

"Bring it up."

Lin Aoxue's face was serious, and the palace servant immediately walked over to take the book from Yang Yu and handed it to Lin Aoxue. Lin Aoxue took the memorial and opened it. Soon, the expression on her face became more and more serious. Later, her eyes showed shock, and she said angrily:

"How could this be?!"

Biannan's insect plague was strange. People who had seen the insect plague described that the insects were black and strange in appearance, and looked like witchcraft. These insects not only wanted to eat crops in good fields, but also hurt people.

After being stung by a bug, he died, but it brought extreme panic to the people in Biannan, because anyone who was stung by a bug would suffer from a strange disease. At first, he was just a little confused, and then gradually changed his mind. He was insane, weak, and finally festered to death.

The most terrifying thing is that this kind of disease can still infect people, but in just a few days, many people in Biannan have already suffered from this kind of disease. Mutiny, as well as the witchcraft used by the people of Southern Borders at that time in the Golden Sparrow Tower in the capital and later in the battle to seize the throne.

Biannan is a place rich in water and soil, and it is very prone to insect disasters. During the previous period when the Beichen royal family was in power, Biannan was not without serious insect disasters, but most of those insects would not attack ordinary people. Famine, but not so smoky.

The imperial court also had its own way to deal with the insect disaster in Biannan, but obviously, the insect disaster this year was different from those recorded in previous years.

Lin Aoxue was furious when she saw the description in the memorial. When that sentence of poisonous insects appeared in front of her, she could not understand the purpose of Yang Yu's submission of this memorial because of her savvy. Angry, looked up at Yang Yu and asked:

"Master Yang, when did the Biannan worm plague start?"

Yang Yu bowed his head and answered truthfully:

"About ten days ago."

Ten days!

Lin Aoxue was furious, the timing was really precise, it was the day that Lin Aoxue led the troops to suppress the southern border and brought Yunyan back. Lin Aoxue gritted her teeth, she had already expected what Yang Yu would say, and sure enough, without waiting for her to ask, Yang Yu stepped forward and bowed to report:

"Your Majesty, as far as Wei Chen knows, the stinging poisonous insects that appeared in this plague are very similar to the witchcraft controlled by Doctor Yun three years ago."

"What's more, in the past three years after Dr. Yun left Ning, Ning was in good weather and the country was peaceful and peaceful. Why did Dr. Yun come here, so there was such a change? Ten days ago, it was the day when His Majesty led the troops to bring Dr. Yun back. Wei Chen thought that , these two things are too coincidental."

Lin Aoxue was furious, and the moment Yang Yu's voice fell, she slapped the table with a slap, and a bang resounded throughout the Xuande Hall. In the court hall, all the ministers were startled, and at the same time, they bowed and bowed without thinking, knocking their heads on the ground, trembling, and shouting to His Majesty to calm down.

Yang Yu also knelt down and kowtowed, but did not show the cowardice and cowardice of other courtiers.

He came prepared, and deliberately led Bian Nan's insect disaster to Yunyan, and wanted to take the insect disaster against Yunyan, not allowing Lin Aoxue and Yunyan to get married, and not allowing Lin Aoxue to make Yunyan the queen.

Lin Aoxue's eyes flashed with fire, but she couldn't justify Yang Yu's crime, and she couldn't act rashly to seal the mouths of these courtiers, otherwise, she would definitely have a bad reputation of not distinguishing between right and wrong.

His methods are much more clever than Wang Desheng and Chen Rui.

Lin Aoxue was trembling with anger, but everything related to Yunyan could always take away her sanity, but she had to force herself to calm down, forcibly suppress the raging fire in her chest, suppress her anger, and try her best to keep it down. calm down.

She has been in a high position for a long time, and she knows that the more irritable she is, the more easily she is led by the nose by the enemy, the easier it is to lose her position, so that these courtiers who are secretly planning how to oppose her will catch the handle.

She took a deep breath, and there was a dim light in her eyes. She finally calmed herself down. She looked at Yang Yu with a cold face, and tried to make her tone as calm as possible:

"Master Yang, you can eat rice indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense! This seems to be a coincidence, but it has not been verified yet. There have also been insect plagues in Biannan in previous years. No matter what, it should be proved by facts. The most important thing now is To investigate the cause of the insect plague, to appease the affected people, and to send an imperial doctor from the palace to suppress the epidemic, instead of speculating about the insect plague and blaming the innocent!"

Lin Aoxue said something serious, and Yang Yu didn't argue any more. He bowed his body and replied respectfully:

"Yes, Wei Chen shouldn't speak indiscriminately and make random guesses."

But what he said just now is enough to attract the attention of other ministers in the court. He just came out to remind, so, at least until the matter of the Biannan insect disaster is resolved, Lin Aoxue does not dare to mention the matter of taking Yunyan as a concubine again. .

Lin Aoxue snorted coldly, but did not say that Yang Yu would be directly responsible for the matter, but only said that she would send an imperial messenger to Biannan to investigate the disaster, and then she would give the ministers a reply.

After that, the atmosphere in the lobby was very solemn. No one mentioned that Lin Aoxue wanted to marry Yunyan. As for the relationship between Bian Nan's worm plague and Gu worm, no one dared to speculate.

There were no other incidents, and the palace servant announced that the court would be dispersed. After Lin Aoxue came down from the Xuande Palace, she was in a very bad mood. She returned to the imperial study and slapped the book on the table in anger.

With a clatter, the palace servants outside the imperial study knelt on the ground, but Yun Yan's puzzled voice came from the door:

"What makes Your Majesty so angry?"

Seeing Yunyan coming, Lin Aoxue had to put away her temper, but she couldn't hide the anger in her eyes. With a livid face, she handed the memorial that Yang Yu handed to her in Yunyan's hands, and said patiently:

"Yan'er, take a look."

She didn't want to hide these things from Yunyan. She is not someone who can hide her words. With Yunyan's smart temperament, even if she doesn't say it, Yunyan can know that she has something in her heart. Knowing the truth, she simply told Yunyan about the plague of insects calmly, and let Yunyan come up with ideas together with her.

After Yunyan took the fold, she opened her eyes and frowned, and her eyes were full of doubts. She blinked, and said strangely:

"Insect plague? Or Gu insect?"

Lin Aoxue was furious, she sat down on the chair in front of the case, let out a long sigh, and said through gritted teeth:

"That's what Yang Yu said, but no one can be sure whether it is a Gu worm or not. He also said that the time of the outbreak of this worm plague is similar to the time you returned to Ning Country, and the two are too coincidental, hum, I was thinking about it secretly. It's a good idea to frame you!"

Yang Yu's meaning in these words is not to say that the insect disaster in Biannan was caused by cloud and smoke. Even if it is not a man-made disaster, it is a natural disaster. Yunyan is a demon girl from the southern border. How can a person of Eru be the queen of the empress?

Ever since Yang Yu presented this book to the court, Lin Aoxue had been holding back a rage in her heart and had nowhere to vent it. If she was not the king of a country, she would have cut Yang Yu's head with one knife!

Moreover, after Yang Yu talked about the plague of insects today, the court officials were obviously more hostile to Yunyan. Under this circumstance, Lin Aoxue insisted on marrying Yunyan, so there might be something wrong.

Lin Aoxue hated her so much, but these things were not something that she was brave enough to solve by pressing courtiers.

Lin Aoxue fulfilled the reputation of disregarding the life and death of the common people, disregarding the good advice, and destroying Zhongliang. Water can carry a boat and capsize it. No matter how she gets up, she will dismount.

Yunyan finished flipping the book, and then placed it on the table again, looking at Lin Aoxue with a smile on her face, and said:

"I'm so angry? Have you figured out what to do?"

Lin Aoxue gritted her teeth and shook her head helplessly. To say that this matter was really coincidental, she insisted that this matter had nothing to do with Yunyan, instead it seemed that there was no silver in this place.

The only thing she can think of now is to send someone to investigate first. The insect plague must have nothing to do with Yunyan, but how to convince the people and the courtiers that this matter has nothing to do with Yunyan is a headache.

Seeing Lin Aoxue frowning, Yunyan smiled and shook her head, walked up and sat down on Lin Aoxue's lap, then put her ear to the latter's ear, and said with a smile:

"What's the matter with the insect disaster? Your Majesty has never seen it, and neither has the concubine body. I just heard what Yang Yu said. According to the concubine body's opinion, it is better for your majesty to lead the concubine body to Biannan to see if the insect disaster can be eliminated. The concubine is not sure, but the concubine still has a way to deal with the plague."

Lin Aoxue heard the words, the anger in her heart gradually subsided, and there was a little light in her eyes. She tilted her head to think about it. , Lin Aoxue is not too worried, she believes that her smoke can suppress any kind of plague.

What the disaster is like, seeing it with your own eyes is more accurate than hearing it from other people's mouths.

Lin Aoxue patted Yunyan's hand in surprise and said with a smile:

"Yan'er, you are really my brain, just follow what Yan'er said."

As for the insect plague, Yunyan knows the art of witchcraft, and she must know more about insects than others. Even if the insects causing the insect plague are not the same as the bugs that refine witchcraft in the southern border, Yunyan must have her own unique way to deal with it.

Lin Aoxue made a decisive decision, immediately called Beichenling to the imperial study, and then told her that he was going to Biannan in the next few days. Beichenling was shocked. I just heard that there was a plague in Biannan today, and Lin Aoxue was going to Biannan. She didn't understand what Lin Aoxue was doing, but it was too dangerous. When Lin Aoxue's voice fell, Bei Chenling retorted:

"No, Sister Xue, it's too dangerous. How can you go to Biannan in person?"

Lin Aoxue waved his hand and explained:

"Ling'er, you must know what Yang Yu said in the court today."

Bei Chenling understood, but did not understand, she frowned and continued to persuade:

"Ling'er is aware of Sister Xue's concerns about her, but Ling'er firmly disagrees with this matter. Sister Xue should send someone to investigate, but she shouldn't risk her own life."

Lin Aoxue was extremely helpless. Bei Chenling was worried about her safety, so she was not allowed to go to Biannan, but if Yunyan wanted to go, of course she would go with her, so she only had to confess to Bei Chenling:

"I'm not alone..."

Before she could finish her words, Bei Chenling had already grabbed a sentence:

"Not even with a guard!"

Lin Aoxue leaned back on the chair and turned to Yunyan for help.

Yunyan laughed, seeing Lin Aoxue's pitiful appearance, she couldn't bear it, so she could only say:

"Ling'er, I let her go."

Bei Chenling stared at him in disbelief and at the same time very puzzled. In terms of caring about Lin Aoxue, Bei Chenling admits that even she is far inferior to Yunyan. Lin Aoxue's safety is undoubtedly of great concern to Yunyan. Why did Yunyan take the initiative to call Lin Aoxue in danger this time?

Facing Bei Chenling's confused and questioning gaze, Yun Yan kept smiling and explained:

"I asked Mu Xue to go to Bian Nan, of course it was not for nothing, and I would also go with her. Since the adult said that Bian Nan's insect plague is like a witch, then I, a person who is good at witchcraft, don't go and see what happens. Okay? Besides, with me here, Ling'er doesn't have to worry about what the plague will do to Mu Xue, we'll be back soon."

Bei Chenling suddenly didn't know how to refute.

Yunyan made a lot of sense, she couldn't think of anything to refute, and she couldn't persuade Yunyan the way she persuaded Lin Aoxue.

Bian Nan's insect disaster was not a very serious matter at first, but when Yang Yu brought Yunyan up to the court, he intentionally involved Yunyan, and the matter became serious. Yunyan was the biggest victim, and Lin Aoxue and Yunyan were going to To verify the truth, Bei Chenling had no reason to stop him.

She pursed her lips silently, her expression solemn, but she heard Lin Aoxue say to her:

"Ling'er, we will be back in about five or six days from here. In the past few days, I asked Ling'er and the old prime minister to take care of me. They said that I have caught the cold and will be raised for a few days, so I will not see any guests."

Seeing that Lin Aoxue and Yunyan had made up their minds, Bei Chenling had no other way but to help them turn this lie away. In the end, Bei Chenling sighed helplessly, with a wry smile on his face, and compromised:

"Sister and Sister Xue must come back unscathed. If you don't come back, no wonder Ling'er ran to Bian Nan to find you."

Lin Aoxue was helpless, she knew that Bei Chenling would do it when she said it, so she promised two more words before she forced Bei Chenling to feel at ease.

On the same day, Lin Aoxue ordered people to secretly prepare a carriage and horses, took Yunyan out of the palace, and went straight to Biannan. There was news from the palace that Lin Aoxue was ill from the cold and needed to rest for some time, so Zaochao was temporarily closed for a few days.

Biannan is not far from the capital, and the carriage takes about a day's journey on the official road, otherwise the disaster of Biannan would not have spread to the palace so quickly.

After Lin Aoxue ascended the throne, she took a batch of her former soldiers and trained them to become secret guards and confidants. This time, she led Yunyan to Biannan, and she brought more than a hundred confidants to follow to protect Yunyan's safety.

Lin Aoxue made a private visit this time, so she disguised herself again and did not change back to men's clothes, but she was wearing a light-colored skirt for the first time, with a half-silver mask covering her face.

Yun Yan's eyes lit up when she changed into this dress, she leaned over and kissed Lin Aoxue's neck, leaving a trace of kissing.

Lin Aoxue was so ashamed that she subconsciously tugged at the front of her clothes, trying to cover the hickey on her neck, but Yunyan half-covered it to be more charming, as if they were about to travel not to the dangerous disaster area, but to travel in the mountains and waters. Enjoy the scenery.

The carriage swayed all the way to Biannan. When it was still ten or twenty miles away from the main city of Biannan, there were disaster victims on both sides of the road. They were people who had not contracted the plague. They were walking in the opposite direction of the carriage. To leave Bian Nan.

The closer we got to Biannan, the more victims there were on the road. On the way, Lin Aoxue lifted the curtain of the car and glanced out. The people on both sides of the road stopped and walked. Some of them had not eaten for several days and looked very weak.

Lin Aoxue frowned and muttered:

"It seems that Bian Nan's disaster is very serious."

Yunyan nodded, thoughtfully:

"Is the disaster in Biannan like this in previous years?"

Lin Aoxue shook her head:

"Although there is a record in the book in the palace that there are insect plagues in Biannan from time to time, but how long it will take to appear, and how serious it is, there is no conclusion. This is the first time I have seen it."

"In this way, we can only see the situation after entering Biannan."

Yunyan looked out the window and said.

Lin Aoxue's carriage quickly arrived at Biannan. There were guards at the gate of the city. Because of the serious disaster in the city, they did not allow any outsiders to enter the city. Only the people who were confirmed by the city doctor to be not infected by the plague could leave the city.

The dark guard who was driving took out a token from his arms and the imperial decree written by Lin Aoxue, to the effect that the imperial envoy was sent to Biannan to verify the source of the plague, and the imperial doctor in the palace was invited to control the disaster.

The guards guarding the city immediately bowed down and kowtowed, calling out "Your Majesty the Imperial Commissioner", and then stopped blocking the path of Lin Aoxue and the others.

The car drove all the way into the city, and walked around Biannan City along the road in the city. There were people infected with the plague everywhere on the streets of the city. There were the most people in the medical hall and the broken temple, and a large part of them were dying. The skin is festering and pus, hanging with a life, and it is possible to die at any time, it looks extremely miserable.

Lin Aoxue sat in the car the whole time, with a solemn expression on her face. They didn't see the protagonists of the insect plague in the downtown area—those poisonous insects. Lin Aoxue ordered the dark guard to drive the car to the farmland in the suburbs.

The horse-drawn carriage never ran over the narrow dirt road, and the fields and villages appeared in Lin Aoxue's field of vision. Most of the crops planted in the spring were eaten by insects. Those insects died soon after the bite. Not much is left, but some traces can still be seen in the fields.

In the middle of the journey, Yunyan suddenly signaled the carriage to stop. When the carriage stopped on the edge of a field, Yunyan lifted the car window and reached out. A black bug flew over and landed on her fingertips.

Lin Aoxue was terrified, lest the bug would bite Yunyan, and called out in shock:

"Smoke."

However, Yunyan turned her head and made a silent gesture towards her. Lin Aoxue closed her mouth, but seeing that the black bug vibrated its wings twice and stopped at Yunyan's fingertips, it didn't mean to sting Yunyan.

The eyes of the poisonous insect are cyan, the transparent wings have mesh patterns, and there is a tail needle under the abdomen. It looks like a poisonous bee with hanging feet, but it is different from the ordinary poisonous bee. Look at it. It looks weird.

"It's a venomous bee."

Yunyan sighed softly, rubbed a handful of white powder with the other hand, and sprinkled the insects on the fingertips, the powder stuck to the poisonous insects, and the poisonous insects quickly became unstable and slipped down from Yunyan's fingertips. Falling to the ground motionless.

"How do I remember that the poisonous bee is not like this?"

Lin Aoxue looked puzzled, Yunyan turned to look at her and smiled:

"This is a poisonous insect of a different species. It is indeed similar to the poisonous insect brought by the wet nurse from the southern border. I am afraid it is indeed related to the group of poisonous insects three years ago."

Lin Aoxue was very surprised by Yun Yan's words, her brows became tighter and tighter, and she couldn't understand:

"Why is it related to Gu worms?"

Yunyan did not answer the question:

"Aren't all the people who died in that war cremated?"

Lin Aoxue did not expect that Yunyan would suddenly ask this question, she thought about it carefully, and then answered:

"It seems that after some bodies were claimed by relatives and friends, they were not burned."

Yun Yan sighed when he heard the words:

"That's where the problem lies. It's not entirely unreasonable to say that this insect disaster was caused by me. I was negligent at the beginning. It's time to make it clear to you that all those corpses must be burnt, otherwise there will be trouble later."

When Que Rong died because of that war, Yun Yan was too sad, so he only cared about placing Que Rong, and forgot to tell Lin Aoxue about it. If those soldiers who died because of Gu worms were not burnt up, their blood would contain Gu worms. The poison will leave hidden dangers.

The blood soaks into the ground, and the plants that grow from absorbing the blood will also be affected, and the common bugs that grow from these plants will become weird.

And the blood of the person who casts the gu is also poisonous, so is Yunyan, and so is Que Rong, which is why, Yunyan will cremate Que Rong's body at the first time, and put the ashes in a jar.

"The reason why the insect plague broke out after three years is because this subtle change takes time."

Lin Aoxue was stunned. She could never have imagined that the plague of insects had started like this. She took a deep breath, turned to look at the farmland outside, and muttered:

"Then what should we do now?"

It was really said by Yang Yu that this insect disaster was caused by clouds, although the reason was different from what Yang Yu said. Three years ago, Yunyan's Gu worm played a vital role in the war for power, and it was not Yunyan's fault that the work of cleaning the battlefield was not done well.

Yunyan is still calm, now that he knows the root cause of the outbreak of the insect plague, he only needs to prescribe the right medicine. The trouble is not these insects, but the people who are infected with madness.

The author has something to say: I wrote a long chapter today~ Yo West

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