However, the despair Xie Hanying felt was only for a moment.

He quickly came back to his senses, looked at Lan Mo with burning eyes, and said, "Just now, how many children did you say got it? It wasn't the plague, but smallpox? And it was more than ten days ago?"

A trace of resentment and sadness also flashed in Lan Mo's eyes, and he said, "Yes. The imperial doctor said that smallpox has an incubation period, and the young lady and Dalang should have accidentally contracted smallpox when they were together more than ten days ago. And at that time...the plague had not yet spread to the palace."

Xie Hanying's eyes immediately turned fierce.

How smart is he?Hearing this, how can you not guess how many children have problems with this illness?

But there was only one person who was able to make his three daughters and only son suffer from smallpox together in the harem.

Little Gao.

No matter what, the Gao family would not want the child's own grandson and granddaughter.Especially this grandson is now Xie Hanying's only son.

The power of other concubines is not too great, and they want to hide it from everyone, and get personal items or skins used by people who have smallpox from outside, and then use various means to give them to several young ladies and young ladies. Mr. Lang, it is by no means an easy matter.What's more, the three young ladies are all concubines, and they are still women, so what can really hinder them?Even if they wanted to do something, they would definitely do it against the only young man. In this way, the degree of danger could be reduced a lot.

However, the person behind the scenes is all his children.

Xie Hanying didn't need any evidence at all to guess who the murderer was.

Qingning Palace.

Xie Hanying only asked Lan Mo to go and take care of a few children, and brought Xiao Gao back from the Empress Dowager's palace. Afterwards, without saying a word, he just looked at Xiao Gao coldly.

At this time, Xiao Gao rarely regretted it.

Her regret was not that she regretted what she did to the children, but that if she had done it a few days later, she could have used the plague to kill a few children. In this way, wouldn't her suspicion be cleared up more easily?

However, she is not so worried now.

After all, although the people who helped her at the beginning were all "coincidentally" infected with the plague and were moved out, and they all "coincidentally" died. She even sacrificed a maid who had served her personally for more than ten years for this.

In this situation, even if Xie Hanying and Gao Shi have doubts, what can they do to her without the slightest evidence?

Therefore, Xiao Gao's face turned pale for a while, and then showed a worried look, saying: "At this time, sir, do you have something to say to my concubine? If so, I can just listen to it; if not... Several children are still ill, and although my concubine has no talent or looks, she has taken care of the patients and is willing to take care of the children herself." Then she looked at Xie Hanying with affectionate eyes, "I don't ask for anything else, It's just that these children are all the children of the Lord. Since they are the children of the Lord, they are also the children of the concubine, and the concubine will definitely sacrifice everything to take good care of the children."

Xie Hanying only sneered and said, "Take good care of them? Or should they all be taken care of to death?"

Xiao Gao's heart skipped a beat, but he still forced a smile and said, "What does the saint mean? I don't understand."

Xie Hanying only looked at her coldly, and said, "You don't understand? I just watched, and you understand everything." Then she took a few steps forward, grabbed Xiao Gao's slender neck, and said in a cold voice, "I know What you think in your heart is nothing more than the matter that I forced the Gao family to make you drink infertility pills before you can enter the East Palace. Well, or, and that, you drank the messy medicine, It’s about losing the acquired freaks. That’s why you have such thoughts? You want to take revenge on me, don’t you?”

Xiao Gao panicked.She thought that she was childhood sweetheart with Xie Hanying, knew Xie Hanying's temperament, and even more knew that Xie Hanying was a gentle and elegant gentleman at any time, and rarely said serious words to women, let alone hands on.

But she didn't expect that after hearing the news, Xie Hanying didn't ask people to investigate at all, and didn't even think about finding any evidence, so he directly convicted her and used this method to force her.

Xiao Gao tried her best to calm herself down, and said: "I don't understand what the lord is talking about. Even if the lord wants to accuse him, he should have evidence. After all, the lord is a benevolent person, isn't he?"

"Heh!" Xie Hanying chuckled, grabbed Xiao Gao's neck even more forcefully, and said, "If I want to kill a person, where do I need evidence? As for Mr. Ren... I have never heard of it, and Mr. Ren does not kill people." Since you blamed all this on Zhen, instead of trying to kill Qingwan at the beginning, you would rather turn you into an infertile person. Later, you even knew the disadvantages of that kind of medicine, so you insisted on taking that kind of medicine The family that poured it into you...then just wait and see, whether your family will come to save you!"

After Xie Hanying finished speaking, she threw Xiao Gao out of the palace gate, and ordered in a cold voice: "Queen Gao is suffering from the plague and moved to Lixue Garden in the palace, and her feet are grounded."

Inside the inner hall, there was Xiao Gao's scream.

Unfortunately, that was of no use at all.

After three days, Xiao Gao from Lixue Garden saw his parents and brothers.She thought they were here to pick her up, but in the end, they were here to see her off.

It turned out that after Xie Hanying told Xiao Gao's father about Xiao Gao's fault three days ago, Gao's father knew that there was no room for change.Xie Hanying's only son and three favored daughters are suffering. Even if several children survive in the end, Xie Hanying may not let the entire Gao family go.

Therefore, Gao's father spoke to Xie Hanying, saying that Gao's family lied about Xiao Gao's birthday in order to marry a saint.Xiao Gao's fake birthday horoscope coincides with the sage, but the real horoscope, if he is an ordinary couple with the sage, he will be prosperous, but his horoscope has no fate and cannot be a queen.Once you become a queen, it will delay the prosperity of your husband's family.

Originally, the Gao family didn't believe in these things, so they thought it was all right.Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the case, and Xiao Gao made herself a queen, which really made things difficult for the sage.

However, the sage has a kind heart. Although he knew about this, he still treated the Queen Xiao Gao kindly.But Xiao Gao knew she was wrong, and she didn't want the world to suffer disasters because of her, and she didn't want the saints to bear too many sins because of her, so after suffering from the plague unfortunately, she burned herself and died.

Before he died, he shouted in the fire, begging the sage to take away his empress and first wife, so that the sage would have peace in the world.

Therefore, Xiao Gao's parents and brothers, after Xiao Gao drank a bowl of dumb medicine, set fire to Xiao Gao's yard in person - this was Xie Hanying's own request.

Xiao Gao's death was not in peace, and the Gao family pleaded guilty because of this, donated [-]% of their property, and led the clansman away from Chang'an, so that the children of the clan were not allowed to be officials within three generations, and were gradually removed from the aristocratic family.

As for the Gao family's rumors about Xiao Gao's horoscope fraud, Xie Hanying did not bring it up in the court, but only made people spread it around.

With this statement, the complaints of the common people towards Xie Hanying are indeed a little less.

After all, this time, thanks to Xie Hanying's vigorous action and the help of noble people, although many people suffered from the plague, most of them survived.

The plague started in September of the second year of Yonghe and lasted until February of the second year before it was completely stabilized.

Because of Gu Hongzi's reminder, Xie Hanying's response was appropriate, so this time the Daqing Dynasty only lost [-]% of the people, which is considered a blessing among misfortunes.

And Xie Hanying's prestige has also been further enhanced.

However, Xie Hanying's three daughters and one son did not survive the smallpox and died one after another.

Xie Hanying was on guard this time, so she didn't get the plague or smallpox, but she was still seriously ill. After recovering from the illness, her appetite became worse and worse. Occasionally, she would feel cramps in her stomach after taking more food. .

Therefore, in just a few months, his body became thinner and thinner.The body is getting worse and worse than before, and I often get sick.

Gao regretted it unceasingly.I only hate myself for being too confused at the beginning.If she hadn't disliked Qingwan and plotted against Qingwan because of Princess Luoping and because Qingwan is a person without father, mother, brothers and brothers, but had made him marry Qingwan as Xie Hanying wished, then Could it be that Xie Hanying won't lose four children in a row now?And with Qingwan by her side, will Hanying be much more cheerful, instead of getting worse and worse because of depression and confusion in her heart like now?

However, no matter how remorseful Gao was, no matter how kind and gentle she was to Qing Wan, Xie Hanying's original healthy body would never come back.

In the spring of the same year, there was another severe drought in the north.

In April, King Xian and King Ding joined forces to fight together, and King Jing also made some small moves from the north.

Although the old general Ouyang is old, he still has the ability and experience. He blocked many actions of respecting the king, and also made many people who were displaced by the drought settle down.

It's just that at Ningyuan Hou Jiangbai's place, Jiangbai barely resisted through the three plague cities that had been emptied, but he couldn't repel the two kings, so he repeatedly asked the court for support.

The two kings Xian and Ding have made up their minds this time—the three plague cities have been controlled for several months, and there must be nothing wrong with them.Therefore, the two kings Xian and Ding have already negotiated that once they capture it, they will divide the three cities into two, each occupying a stronghold.It is precisely because of this that the offensive of the two was extremely strong, and they did not give Ning Yuanhou any time to react.

Although Ningyuan Hou Jiangbai had combat experience, he only had 20 troops under his command, but King Xian and Ding launched an army of 30 to attack.

Jiang Bai hurriedly asked for help from his surroundings, but three days later, the reinforcements had not arrived. Jiang Bai hadn't slept for three days at this time, and two of his six lieutenants had already died.

Jiang Bai's face was ashen, and he got up suddenly and said: "If they want these cities, then give them to them!" Then, they ordered people to set fire in the three fearful cities, and then led the people all the way to the north, which is them The rich Jiangzhou that asked for help fled.

He didn't believe it anymore, he took people directly to Jiangzhou, that Jiangzhou general, how dare he not send troops!

When the news reached Chang'an, Xie Hanying was drinking medicine, and Xie Rongying was reading the scriptures for Xie Hanying. When she saw the scriptures about the plea presented by the Jiangzhou General, she immediately stood up.

Plead guilty?What's wrong with this please?

Because "my minister trusts Ningyuanhou's ability, knows that Ningyuanhou has always had a record of winning more with less, and knows that Ningyuanhou is the younger brother of King Jingfa's wife. Whether the matter is true or not, we have to decide whether to rescue or not, so the best time for rescue has been missed. Unexpectedly, Marquis Ning Yuan did not have the magnanimity of his youth this time, leading the army to win more with less, I feel very sorry in my heart."

Xie Rongying held this paperwork, her hands were shaking.

Ning Yuanhou does have the ability to win more with less, but if that is the case, it would be considered good if the 20 army under Ning Yuanhou's command can retain [-] in the end.

Even if Xie Rongying had never been on the battlefield in person, she knew that Marquis Ning Yuan must have wanted to win a big victory at the beginning, but the reinforcements had not arrived, Marquis Ning Yuan couldn't hold on, and many soldiers died, so he had no choice but to retreat Secondly, the three empty cities that were burned by the fire were given to the two kings Xian and Ding.

But such a simple truth, doesn't that Jiangzhou general know?How dare you say such things to fool the court?

Xie Hanying listened, but said: "Fortunately, this happened in the early stage." Then he asked Xie Rongying to write the imperial decree on his behalf, saying, "General Jiangzhou...is the Yue family? The Yue family delayed the military aircraft and caused the court to lose three times in a row A city, but still refused to repent and wronged others! The Yue family was ordered to confiscate the house, the adult males were executed, and the rest were treated as slaves!"

Xie Rongying paused while holding the pen, and looked at Xie Hanying, as if she couldn't believe that her brother, who was always gentle and friendly, would issue such an imperial edict.

Xie Hanying's punishment methods have not yet been finished, "The rest of the Jiangzhou generals and people in the state capital will also be ordered to confiscate their homes, their descendants will not be officials within two generations, and their generals and state capital magistrates will be executed! Write again , if anyone dares to delay the court's military aircraft, I will punish them severely!"

Xie Rongying was stunned for a long time after writing this edict, and finally realized belatedly that his elder brother had changed.

However, it was Xie Hanying's cough that came from his ear.

Xie Rongying hurriedly handed over a silk handkerchief, and when she took it again, the pure white silk handkerchief was already smeared with red.

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