Chapter 1008 The Girl is Suspicious
Zhou Shiyue patted Lu Zhaoling on the back and laughed.
"My brother is not very smart. Even if I say it to his face, he may not believe it, not to mention that it has come from Subei so far away and has been passed on by so many people."
"He has always been suspicious. His suspicions about me are just like having too many lice and not being afraid of the itch. It's okay."
Can this kind of thing be described as having too many lice but not being itchy?
"Besides, now that the emperor can send messages in his dreams, he can just let him send messages in his dreams from time to time to tighten his skin."
Although Lu Zhaoling had never met the emperor, she couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for him.
Have you ever seen an emperor who was often visited by ghosts in his dreams?
Logically speaking, the true dragon emperor sits on that position and is protected by the country's destiny, so ghosts cannot normally come to him in his dreams.
But who made him the emperor?
Who made the emperor meet her again and give her such ability?
So, it was she who indirectly "harmed" the emperor. Lu Zhaoling felt that she was a bit bad.
"Then just keep calling me like that. It sounds nice to me, A-Ling. What's with the one, one, two, two? Do you think you're practicing?"
"It depends on my mood. I think being so formal is sometimes meaningless. If you are called a name for too long, you will become numb to it."
"You have a lot of crooked ideas!"
Zhou Shiyue chatted with her for a few more words and then told her to go wash up and rest.
He also went to wash up.
Halfway through, Qinglin came over and said that the prefect had arrived, and he calmly told people to continue waiting.
Zong Zhihong, the prefect of Subei City, was also a military officer at first.
The people of Subei are rather tough and the weather is rather bad, and the emperor was reluctant to let local officials who were born and raised there take charge. They were usually transferred from other places. So for a long time, the officials transferred to Subei were not able to adapt well.
After I came here, I was always sick and couldn’t get used to the food.
When the emperor first heard about these situations, he thought they were too fragile and had difficulty adapting. It was not until one of the officials died of illness within half a month after arriving that he began to take the matter seriously.
In fact, no matter how bad the environment is, you still have to adapt to it.
What's more, it is impossible that the officials sent to take office would only consider their physical fitness and whether they can adapt to the diet here, right?
But at that time someone recommended Zong Zhihong.
This man was good at martial arts and had a strong physique. By chance, he became a civil servant and was in a position where he was about to be promoted.
Being transferred to this position is considered a promotion.
So, Zong Zhihong came to Subei.
I have been in Subei for nearly four years now.
It is said that he did a pretty good job in the past four years, with no merits or faults, and only occasionally he caught bandits once or twice.
One year, there was a drought in Subei. He took the lead in asking the rich to donate, and the city got through the difficult time.
While bathing, Zhou Shiyue had already reviewed all the memories related to Zong Zhihong.
Zong Zhihong had been waiting in the front hall for almost half an hour.
He drank two cups of tea, but there was still no sign of King Jin.
Mr. Qiu was also busy and only came to meet me once.
Zong Zhihong brought a few officers over, and they were waiting on the side, getting so tired of waiting that they could hardly stand.
But this is the Qiu family, and the person they are waiting for is King Jin. Even though they are resentful, they dare not show it.
Yin Yunting and Lu Song also rested for half an hour, came out and took a walk, and saw the situation in the hall.
"Big Brother, do you know the prefect of Subei?"
"do not know."
"I have heard that he is quite good at martial arts. Sometimes he would personally arrest criminals." Lu Song said, "When I heard this, I had a good impression of Master Zong."
"is it?"
Yin Yunting shook his head. "Then I doubt it. Because the prince asked him to wait."
"Doesn't the King of Jin just want to show his power?" Lu Song was puzzled.
"Then why do you think the prince wanted to show his power to him?" Yin Yunting didn't mind talking to Lu Song a few more words, "Because when the prince entered Subei City, the people of the Qiu family went out to greet him, and Lord Zong couldn't have been unaware of it."
"But he still didn't come to see the prince right away."
Normally speaking, when a royal prince comes, the local official should at least come to welcome him. It is not surprising that he did not come to welcome him without knowing about it in advance. However, it is abnormal for him not to come quickly after the prince entered the city and stayed at the Qiu family.
"Perhaps, Master Zong doesn't know that the prince is coming?"
"Do you think that's possible?"
Yin Yunting didn't say much, "Let's go, let's go out for a walk."
This is what they should do.
The disaster relief supplies should have been transported into the city, and they need to investigate how many victims need these things.
When I came back before, I didn’t see many people on the streets, but there were quite a few people queuing outside the city.
Yin Yunting took Lu Song out.
They walked around outside and felt that the city was very desolate.
Under the pretext of wanting a bowl of hot water to drink, they knocked on several doors and inquired about the situation.
After hearing this, both of them felt a little depressed.
The situation in Subei City, as well as in the ten towns and dozens of villages outside the city, may be more serious than they imagined.
They also met Qingfeng and Qinglin who were also out doing business.
The supplies have indeed arrived.
They still asked the manager of the Sun family's business in Subei City for help.
Now the manager of Sun's Business has taken people out to help find out the number of people who need donations.
Several people met and told each other what they knew. They were about to split up and get busy again when Yin Yunting turned around and saw a girl walking out of a pharmacy on the corner of the street.
The girl had a basket on her arm. It looked like it was filled with a lot of things and the lid could no longer be closed tightly.
She turned around as she walked out of the door, and it seemed that she was obviously going to walk towards this side, but after seeing them, she turned around and went in the opposite direction of them.
Suddenly, Yin Yunting felt something was wrong.
He immediately said to Qing Feng, "Junior Brother Lu and I are going to go see that girl. If she doesn't come back in the evening, please tell my senior sister."
"Brother Lu, let's go."
Lu Song followed him quickly for some unknown reason.
They followed the girl at a distance.
There are really not many people on this street. You can only see one or two people occasionally. Maybe it's because the wind and snow have finally stopped, and they come out to do some business or see if there is anything to buy.
It's very quiet.
No one had cleared the snow on the road, so the snow was a bit thick. This was not the main street, so there were some footprints, but not many.
The snow crunched as they stepped on it, and Lu Song felt that they could not walk fast.
But he soon discovered something was wrong and instantly understood why the senior brother followed that girl.
Because they all couldn't walk fast, the girl walked very briskly, much faster than them, and looked very steady, not at all afraid of slipping and falling.
Even the footprints she left were straight and neat.
Can this be an ordinary person?
"Senior Brother, she..." Lu Song had just opened his mouth when Yin Yunting suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him hard.