After another two months, the capital became more and more crowded.
The demons have already occupied one-third of the land in the southern region, and more and more refugees are coming to the capital.
The eight gates of the capital have been closed, and countless refugees cannot enter, so they can only settle hastily outside the capital.
Zhou Lihua sent someone to persuade them to continue to the Nanjue Mountains, but unfortunately there were still a small half of the refugees who were unwilling to leave.
Some of them are old and frail, bumpy all the way, and can no longer walk, and some have eaten up all the food, and I am afraid that they will not be able to go very far... Or they also think that the capital city should be safer.
Just this small half of the refugees, the number has reached more than 100,000, and they are gathering more and more.
More than 100,000 refugees gathered together to form many small camps. Zhou Lihua was forced to have no choice but to send soldiers to maintain order in the camps every day.
Zhou Lihua changed her outfit and walked out of the palace with a light face.
After turning a few corners, before reaching the street, I heard the hawker shouting: "Meat buns~ delicious hot buns~ hot buns just out of the way~ come and buy them~"
Hearing the yelling, Zhou Lihua felt very helpless... What time is it!
Walking onto the street, she was shocked to find that the capital seemed to be still bustling...
Vendors on the street, aunts setting up stalls, and old men with birdcages idling around... There are even more pedestrians on the street than usual!
"What's going on here?" Zhou Lihua turned around and asked Qingyan, "Why does it feel like there are more people!"
"Some are people who escaped from outside the capital!"
"How many locals in the capital have left?"
"Maybe half of it!" Ye Qingyan thought for a while and replied.
Zhou Lihua glared at Qingyan, and saw two old men sitting under an ancient banyan tree not far away, playing chess on the stone pier, so she walked over directly.
"My lord, why are you still playing chess? Didn't the court say that the demons are coming, and they want us to flee to the Nanjue Mountains?"
One uncle looked at the chess game seriously, as if he didn't hear Zhou Lihua's words. The other uncle took a look at Zhou Lihua and felt that she was not bad, with a noble temperament. people?"
"Yes, I escaped and came to the capital!" Zhou Lihua nodded, "I heard that the imperial court ordered us to continue to the Nanjue Mountains!"
"Don't listen to their nonsense, the capital is the safest with His Majesty around!"
"We're all old, why run away!" Another old man who was thinking hard said in a low voice, "Anyway, I can't walk anymore, and I don't plan to walk, and I can't walk very far. Dragging... It's better to die here!"
"The capital is the safest place. With Her Majesty the Queen in charge, anyone who escapes is a fool. Anyway, I'm not going anywhere!"
"Who do you call a fool?"
"What's the problem with your son and your son-in-law's family?"
"I tell you, I made them leave!"
"..."
Seeing that the two old men were fighting, Zhou Lihua quickly said: "Okay, okay, you're both getting old, what's the fuss!"
"Today, I will save face for this girl and stop arguing with you!"
"Can you quarrel with me?"
"..."
Zhou Lihua left the two old men dumbfounded, but she could tell that the two old men had a very good relationship, so they shouldn't be able to fight.
Qingyan said softly: "Many people think that the place where His Majesty is is the safest!"
"You mean, it's not good for me to stay in the capital?"
"This subordinate doesn't mean that!"
Zhou Lihua thought for a while and said, "I'm going to leave tomorrow too!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
In the palace, most of the truly valuable things have been taken away long ago!
The reason why Zhou Lihua stayed here was because she was reluctant.
She was born in the palace and grew up in the palace. When she was a child, she hated everything in the palace!
In her dream, she wanted to escape!
But now, she is about to lose her country, and even her country may be gone... She still couldn't help but feel sore in her heart.
In the past few months, she has hardly slept well!
On the second day of Zhou Lihua's private visit on Weibo, news spread that Her Majesty the Empress had left the capital for the Nanjue Mountains!
Many people saw with their own eyes that the empress left with hundreds of thousands of troops.
Many people who were still sticking to the capital were shaken!
Even the emperor has run away, what's the use of them staying here
So most people packed their bags and left.
Qingyan stood in the empty hall, looked around the dragon chair, looked around again, and then sat down on the dragon chair!
"It feels very ordinary!"
"You feel normal because you just sat on your butt... your heart didn't sit on it!"
Ye Qingyan turned her head abruptly, and saw Zhou Lihua beside her!
"Your Majesty!" She quickly jumped up, "Didn't you just leave?"
"I forgot something, come back and get it!"
Seeing that Zhou Lihua didn't intend to pursue it, Qingyan hurriedly asked, "What is it?"
"This is it!" Zhou Lihua pointed to the dragon chair...
"Clam?"
"On the way, I always felt that I missed something. After walking for more than ten miles, I realized that I missed the dragon chair!"
Qingyan watched Zhou Lihua take out a dagger, pried the four legs of the dragon chair out of the floor tiles neatly, stuffed them into the space ring, and couldn't help but pouted!
When the main hall was built, the dragon chair was fixed.
For thousands of years, every emperor of Zhou State sat on this chair.
"I am definitely the most incompetent emperor in the history of the Zhou Kingdom!" Zhou Lihua stood up and looked at the empty hall with a smile, "In the history of the Zhou Kingdom, no foreign enemy has ever been able to invade the imperial city... I just ran away!"
Qingyan didn't speak.
Zhou Lihua walked down the steps slowly, gently stroking the dragon-carved jade pillars, then walked along the main hall to the main entrance of the main hall, looking at the resplendent palaces, she suddenly didn't want to leave!
On the day when the capital was destroyed by the demons, Zhou Lihua didn't even dare to look at it.
On the day when the capital was destroyed, Zhou Lihua was already in the Nanjue Mountains, and the Chuan Guo Yuxi had a hole in it.
She didn't say much, she just drove everyone out of the palace!
Zhou Lihua always thought that her heart was as hard as a stone, but now she realized that she still cared about something.
When it hurts, it still feels heart-piercing.
About three days later, Zhou Lihua heard a loud noise coming from Yu Chuai.
"Who is making noise outside?"
"Your Majesty, it's the heads of those aristocratic sects, and they want to see you!"
Zhou Lihua lifted the curtain, Qingyan looked up at her outside Yu Huan, and quickly pointed to her head: "Your Majesty, your hair!"
"hair?"
"Forget it, let me do it!"
Qingyan jumped onto Yuzhu, closed the curtain and said, "Your Majesty, your hair is messed up!"
(end of this chapter)