When we returned to Miaoshoutang, it was already dark.
When Xu Er saw Yunshang coming in, he quickly asked, "Madam, can you have dinner yet?"
"Never."
Xu Er hurriedly said: "Then I'll ask someone to prepare some food."
Xu Er went out to give instructions, and then went into the house again: "The things that the empress asked the subordinates to prepare, the subordinates have already prepared them properly, the ingredients for the chrysanthemum cake, chrysanthemum wine, and dogwood sachet are all written down by the empress. The list is prepared."
"Everything is placed in the study of the empress, and the empress can see it when she goes."
Yun Shang responded, and stood at the door and looked outside: "I don't know if it's my illusion, I always feel that in the past few days, the nights in the city seem to be getting quieter and quieter."
"At least, it's much quieter than when I first came here."
Xu Er smiled: "The weather is getting colder, and there are no more crickets, and the frogs don't cry too much. When the weather is cold, there are fewer pedestrians on the street outside. Naturally, the empress feels quieter."
When Yun Shang heard what Xu Er said, she just lowered her head and smiled, that's not what she said.
It's just that she didn't explain too much to Xu Er. As the time for the start of the big formation was getting closer, she was actually a little flustered in her heart.
This Wu'an city is the territory of the Wu people. Although she and Luo Qingyan have been lurking in this city for a long time without making a sound, there are really too few things that can be done.
Yun Chang pursed her lips, she was afraid that the life-changing formation was activated by the Wu people...
It's just because she really doesn't know what kind of effect the life-changing array will have.
The unknown is often what scares her the most.
"Ma'am, the food is ready." Xu Er asked someone to bring in the food and put them on the table one by one: "By the way, Madam just mentioned that it's getting quieter and quieter outside at night, but this subordinate remembered something. .”
"Huh?" Yun Shang sat down at the table: "What's the matter?"
Xu Er frowned: "Today I was chatting with the steward of the medical center, but the steward mentioned that the business of the medical hall has been getting worse and worse recently."
"Huh?" Yun Shang raised her eyebrows: "Why is this? Is it because the medicinal materials in the medical center are not enough?"
"That's not true." Xu Er shook his head: "Probably because fewer people have been sick recently. Anyway, the manager said that in the past few months, the number of people coming to the hospital to see a doctor has decreased month by month. It's a sudden drop."
"But it would be a good thing if there were fewer sick people."
Yun Shang's hand that had just picked up the bowls and chopsticks suddenly stopped: "There are fewer people who are sick?"
Yun Chang frowned, logically speaking, it shouldn't be.
Usually, when the weather gets colder every year, more and more people get sick. In autumn and winter, the weather is cold, and ordinary people do not have enough warm clothes and bedding, so it is inevitable to catch cold from the wind and cold.
Even the beggar she saw earlier was sick.
How is it possible that at this time, fewer and fewer people are sick
Although Yunshang was a little puzzled in her heart, it was just that this matter had nothing to do with her major events. Yunshang only nodded casually, but didn't take this matter too seriously.
In the early morning of the second day, the hidden guard came to report: "The subordinates have been staring at the house. Last night, they found people coming in and out of the house, and the number of guards in the house has increased. I don't know what they are doing inside." something."
Yun Shang nodded, thoughtfully: "Find a place closer to that house, buy a house, and dig secret passages."
The dark guard responded and stepped back to prepare.
As soon as the dark guard left, Xu Er came.
"Your Majesty, there is news from the Xia military camp outside the city."
Yun Chang took it over, unfolded it to take a look, and frowned again.
Seeing the expression on Yunshang's face, Xu Er asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, what happened?"
Yun Chang nodded: "Wang Jinhuan said that in the past two days, it was probably affected by the tide. There was a tide in the Qingyun Lake outside the city, and the tide was high."
Xu Er blinked: "Qingyun Lake? Is the tide high?"
"Isn't Qingyun Lake a lake? Will the tide still rise?"
"Although Qingyun Lake is a lake, it is not a lake of stagnant water. There are rivers and undercurrents flowing into the lake."
Xu Er nodded and understood, but he was still a little puzzled: "The high tide of Qingyun Lake has an impact on the army camp outside the city? Is the high tide affecting the safety of the camp?"
"That's not enough." Yun Chang pursed her lips: "Wang Jinhuan said that Qingyun Lake was high tide, and from the undercurrent in the lake, more than ten or twenty corpses were sent."
"Corpse?" Xu Er's eyes widened. "How could there be a corpse? Could it be because when the tide was high, the surrounding people didn't pay attention and were caught by the tide?"
Yun Shang shook her head: "No, since it is a high tide affected by the tide, it cannot happen suddenly, at least, it should happen every year. If this is the case, why don't the local people know? Now that they know, Should you avoid those places in these few days?"
"Is that someone from outside? Wu people? Rebels? Or our army?"
"Neither of them." Yun Chang's eyes fell on the letter: "It's ordinary people."
Yun Chang frowned, stood up, and walked back and forth in the room.
As she said before, if it is a local commoner, they should not be accidentally caught in the tide and die.
And because of the war, most of the people around Qingyun Lake have moved away, and there are no more people left.
Seventy-eight times out of ten, those corpses are not the people around Qingyun Lake.
It wasn't the people around Qingyun Lake, it should be just like Wang Jinhuan expected, it was a corpse rolled from the undercurrent in the lake.
Yun Chang paused, but Wang Jinhuan mentioned it before. Once, a Xia soldier was swept away by the undercurrent in the lake, and within a few days, the soldier's body was found in a canal in the city.
Therefore, some of the undercurrents in Qingyun Lake are connected to the canals in the city.
Since the corpses in Qingyun Lake can be swept into the canals in the city, is it possible that the corpses in the canals in the city can also be swept into Qingyun Lake due to the high tide of Qingyun Lake
However, why are there corpses in the canals and rivers in the city
And there are more than ten corpses, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like an accident.
Yun Chang was full of doubts, walking back and forth in the house, thinking about something, but heard footsteps in the yard.
Yun Chang raised her head, and saw that the shopkeeper in the medical hall was taking medicinal materials to the yard to dry.
Seeing Yunshang looking at him, the shopkeeper quickly explained: "Recently, there are few patients, and some medicinal materials have been stored, so I thought, take advantage of the sunny day today, take them out to dry, otherwise I'm afraid of mold."
Yun Chang's footsteps stopped, but her eyes suddenly darkened. There are few patients...