Magistrate Su wanted to cry but had no tears: "Your Majesty, please understand! Lord Wu is all-powerful and has the support of Magistrate Wu. I, a small county magistrate, dare not say anything about what he wants to do!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the noise in the main hall stopped abruptly and it became eerily quiet.

Magistrate Su also came to his senses and seemed to have said something he shouldn't have said.

"Please spare my life, my lord. I am afraid too!"

Sheng Jing sneered: "Even if you didn't get involved in the disaster relief grain and silver, as the county magistrate, you failed to supervise properly, so you should be punished with the same crime!"

"In addition to escorting the disaster relief food, I have also received the order from my brother to investigate this matter strictly!"

"Do you really think you are safe if you stay away from the emperor? Magistrate Wu has had his property confiscated and is waiting to be escorted back to the capital to be beheaded in public!"

"At the same time, all those involved in this case will be convicted of the same crime!"

Magistrate Su collapsed to the ground instantly.

Same crime?

Will he also be beheaded in public?

"However... this refugee riot is an opportunity for you to redeem yourself from your crimes."

Magistrate Su's heart was in his throat again. Seeing that there was hope, he immediately began to kowtow.

"I will definitely handle this matter! I will make amends for my crime! I hope Your Majesty will show mercy!"

Sheng Jing raised his hand slightly: "Go down, you know what to do!"

Magistrate Su thanked the emperor repeatedly, then ran away crawling.

Only Sheng Jing and Shen Zhiyan were left in the main hall.

Sheng Jing looked tired and exuded a decadent air.

His handsome face was full of worry.

Shen Zhiyan also lowered his voice: "Is the eldest sister okay?"

Sheng Jing sat back and rubbed his brows with one hand.

"I'm just worried about her. Your elder sister's health is getting worse and worse."

"That child has become her obsession. She can't sleep at night and she's not feeling well."

"Even Yu Bai can't make her come out."

Sheng Jing's voice was deep and painful.

Shen Zhiyan could tell that the child was the pain of both his elder sister and his brother-in-law.

All I knew was that it was a girl, and without even taking a look at her, I was told that she died young.

"It's not the eldest sister's fault. After all, she didn't see it with her own eyes, so no one would believe it."

"Don't even mention my eldest sister. I don't believe that the child is gone just like that! Even if he is gone, it must have been done by the Xu family!"

"The Xu family has always regarded the eldest sister as a thorn in their side. If that child is really gone, the Xu family will be the culprit!"

It was no secret in the capital that Prince Jing's wife gave birth to a girl, but she died prematurely.

After she returned to Beijing, the entire Prince Jing's mansion was immersed in grief.

Apart from the visit from her mother's family, the Duke of Zhenguo, everyone else was tactful and didn't bother her.

Only the Xu family!

On the second day after Princess Jing returned home, the Xu family came to visit her with lots of luggage.

Under the pretext of visiting, he ended up making the princess faint with anger, and was thrown out of the palace by the prince, losing all face.

"Zhi Wan also said that the child is still there and she can feel it, but I saw it with my own eyes..."

Sheng Jing's eyes were red and his voice was a little choked.

Shen Zhiyan was stunned.

"I haven't told anyone about this, and you shouldn't tell Zhiwan either."

Shen Zhiyan didn't expect that his brother-in-law witnessed the death of the child with his own eyes.

How painful that would be!

"Brother-in-law..."

Sheng Jing's eyes were filled with murderous intent: "Xu family, I won't let them go!"

"It's just that I can't move temporarily, but I don't say I can't move forever!"

"I will avenge all the suffering that Zhiwan has endured and all the revenge that child has endured!"

Shen Zhiyan felt the pressure from Sheng Jing and knew that he was really angry.

Sheng Jing restrained his emotions and looked at Shen Zhiyan: "This time I went to Yanmen Mansion to train you. The Huns are watching covetously. Putting down the foreign chaos also proves that you can inherit your father's business."

"Be careful and be safe. Zhiwan can't stand any blow right now."

Shen Zhiyan nodded, he knew what he was going to face.

"I will!"

"By the way, where is my sister-in-law? Isn't she with you? Before I left the capital, Empress Xian and Duke Dingguo repeatedly told you two to be careful."

Shen Zhiyan remembered that Qiao Shuyuan was pregnant, and after thinking about it, he decided to hide it.

"Shuyuan went to help evacuate the villagers. She should be with the villagers of Yujia Village now."

"Yujia Village is the village where the child who was testing drugs at Jirentang lived. Shuyuan is also in their home."

Sheng Jing raised his eyebrows and smiled: "What a coincidence? If so, it's good. You pacify the refugees, and she comforts the people. This is what we call a husband and wife working together."

Shen Zhiyan also smiled from the bottom of his heart.

-

At this time in Baishan, Youyou felt very bad.

She started to feel anxious for no apparent reason.

"What's going on? Is something going to happen?"

"Is the situation of the refugees bad? Or has something happened to my brother?"

Zhang and Yu Lin's hearts were instantly gripped.

Brother Feng is in Songyang City, facing tens of thousands of refugees!

At this time, the person who was trying to find out the situation came back and brought bad news.

"Just now! Just now I met soldiers at the foot of the mountain, and they were followed by the doctor from Jirentang!"

When they heard the word Jirentang, the Yu family members gathered around immediately.

"Which doctor from Jirentang?" Yang asked anxiously.

"It was the young man from Jirentang. He brought soldiers and said he wanted to burn down the village. Except for our Yujia Village, people from other villages did not leave. When the refugees came, countless people were killed and injured!"

The crowd was in an uproar.

The Yu family breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn’t Brother Feng.

That means Brother Feng is still safe in the city.

What they didn't know was that Yu Feng, who was now testing the medicine on himself, had already been to the gates of hell several times!

The man hadn't finished speaking yet: "Not only have countless villagers been killed or injured, but even the refugees have been infected with the disease. In order to prevent the disease from spreading, all the living people must be rounded up and managed. As for the dead..."

“Burn them all!”

"What? Burned everything?"

"Isn't this a death without a complete body?"

"You can't even bury him in peace? Isn't this too cruel?"

The crowd immediately started to make noises, totally disagreeing with this approach.

Youyou couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"What do you know? What do you know?"

"Don't you know what the plague is? There's no other way to stop it except by burning it!"

"You're still buried here, and you don't even know which one to choose, life or death?"

"Everyone, be quiet!" Taoist Xuantian spoke at the right time.

"If we don't burn the source of the disease, it can't be stopped at all. It will just attach to the corpse and infect the living even after it's buried. Do you still think burning is cruel?"

Patriarch Wang asked, "Is it really that scary?"

The villagers are all honest farmers. How could they have seen such things?

Subconsciously, I feel that the dead are the greatest and that the dead should be buried in peace.

But I never thought that some things are not that simple.

Qiao Shuyuan cleared her throat and said, "I've read some books that record several large-scale epidemics in history, all of which were ended by fire."

"It's even more cruel than this. There is no medicine for the disease. Even if a living person is infected, he will be burned to death!"

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