After becoming a concubine, she lived a miserable life every day.

Chapter 62: Bandits in Xiaoliangshan

King Rui had no choice but to take the person over.

He didn't have time to stop the little woman just now, so he was frightened. "Still watching?"

Qiao Rongjin swallowed and said nothing, but his expression said it all.

"I will go down and take a look first. You stay in the carriage for a while."

"Yes, Your Highness, please go ahead." Qiao Rongjin said perfunctorily in a daze.

The main reason is that the scene just now was too bloody. As a modern person, to be honest, I have never seen such a bloody scene, not even in TV dramas. What's more, this is not a TV drama, but real deaths.

Qiao Rongjin felt that he needed to slow down.

As soon as Prince Rui went down, he saw Xiao Quan was already organizing the guards to carry the wounded, and two imperial doctors were also bandaging the wounds of the injured guards.

Seeing Prince Rui getting off the carriage, Xiao Quan bowed and said, "Your Majesty."

King Rui nodded.

Soon, a guard came to report to King Rui the number of casualties in the battle.

After he finished speaking, King Rui's face darkened. Although only three or four people died on their side, this discovery still made him angry.

Along the way, their spies had already set out, and the situation ahead had been reported long ago, but this group of bandits seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

King Rui frowned, and a cold look flashed across his eyes.

Suddenly, screams were heard.

After a while, Jiang Liu came over.

"Master, according to these people, they are bandits from Xiaoliang Mountain in the neighboring county. Originally, their number was not so large, but in the past two months, the number of refugees gradually increased, and their leader lured nearly 500 people to join him with food, so they have grown to what they are now, and there is a trend of continued expansion. I asked them how they knew we were going to pass by here, and they said that their leader received a letter from a mysterious person, saying that a group of people were coming from here with countless food and medicinal materials, intending to provide disaster relief, and even said that our number was almost the same, and then they planned to rob a big group."

As Jiang Liu finished speaking, King Rui's eyes became more profound.

Xiao Quan, who was standing not far away, naturally heard it as well.

Xiao Quan raised his eyebrows. It was obvious that such a clumsy trick came from one of the people in the palace. He just didn't know who it was. He looked up casually and signaled Han Zhou beside him. Han Zhou understood immediately and went down without saying a word.

King Rui: "Send people to Xiaoliangshan to investigate. If the situation is true, go directly to the local officials to resolve it. And as for that mysterious person, find out who he is carefully."

"Yes."

Prince Rui could imagine that these were probably his good brothers trying to disgust him.

He thought that his brothers would not be so stupid as to target him on the way forward. At the very least, they would wait until he completed the task assigned by his father. After all, this was disaster relief, and what they carried along were life-saving food and medicine. If it was found out who had stopped this, his father would surely be furious. But he did not expect that there would actually be someone so impatient and so eager to die.

Seeing such a clumsy method, he already had someone he suspected in his mind.

After recovering from his shock, Qiao Rongjin lifted the door of the carriage and looked outside. He wanted to go down, but was afraid, so he just stayed in the carriage and did not go out.

Then Zhu Yun's voice was heard.

"master?"

Hearing the voice, Qiao Rongjin lifted the curtain and saw Zhu Yun standing at the edge of the carriage looking at him with a worried look on her face.

"Master, are you okay?"

Zhu Yun felt that she needed to ask. Generally speaking, people like her master had never seen blood, so it was inevitable that she would be afraid.

"I'm fine, why are you here?" Qiao Rongjin asked puzzledly.

She saw Wang Fuyang called several maids and nannies over. They should have gone to assist the imperial physician in bandaging the wounds of the injured. Why didn't Zhuyun go?

Zhu Yun said, "Eunuch Wang, just ask me to come and serve you. You don't need to go over there."

"I don't need to be served, you go and help." Get it done earlier and reach the destination earlier.

If her status did not allow her to do so, she would have gone down to help.

Hearing this, Zhu Yun said, "Yes, Master."

After a while, they were all bandaged. Those who were seriously injured were sent to the nearby county town for treatment. After they were recovered, they went to Dingjun Prefecture.

The rest of the group continued forward.

The journey became increasingly turbulent. We encountered more and more refugees on the road, and there were many people who died in the wilderness. It was a horrifying sight to see along the way.

Finally, the group stopped in Minyang County, the county closest to Dingjun Prefecture.

Because according to the spies, the road ahead was blocked by water. The further you go in, the deeper the water becomes. You can even see collapsed houses everywhere, various furniture and even corpses floating on the water.

This is the case throughout Dingjun Prefecture.

The scene described was so shocking that Qiao Rongjin's heart ached when he heard it.

Even now, the rain is still falling. It is said that such rain has been falling for nearly two months. Before, it was pouring rain and people did not dare to go out. All the crops in the fields were completely destroyed and there was nothing left. There shouldn't be any more heavy rain after this, right?

All the rescued people of Dingjun Prefecture were basically resettled in several counties of Nanyang Prefecture. Among them, Minyang County had the most disaster victims because it was closest to Dingjun Prefecture. The rescued people were generally temporarily arranged here, and then separated and arranged according to the situation. After all, there were still a lot of people in one prefecture.

Because of the flood in Dingjun Prefecture, all the grain from the granaries in several nearby counties had been dispatched here. After several months, there is nothing left. The county magistrates of several counties and the prefect of Nanyang Prefecture are now extremely worried, and blisters have appeared at the corners of their mouths due to anxiety.

If the rain keeps falling and the flood never recedes, their Nanyang Prefecture will also suffer. There are so many refugees that it takes a lot of energy to manage them every day. It is a time of disaster, and stealing chickens and dogs are considered minor matters. There are also people who eat their own children. The refugees will do anything to avoid starvation. It is a mess, and it is impossible to control it. Now the food is almost gone. Thinking that there will be no rescue from the court, the prefect of Nanyang feels that he is not far from death. With so many refugees, it will be easy for them to turn the whole Nanyang Prefecture upside down.

Just when he was worried and terrified, Prince Rui and others arrived. He had never been so excited about these people in his life, and he went out to greet them without stopping.

He had been stationed in Minyang County during this period. Of course, the prefect of Dingjun Prefecture and several county magistrates who had escaped were also there.

"Your humble servants and others pay their respects to His Royal Highness Prince Rui!"

"Greetings, Master Xiao!"

The Nanyang prefect and several others bowed to the two men with extremely respectful expressions.