Han Yunshen raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and his eyes showed the look that he should have had for a long time. When the village chief saw the mark, he knew that they knew each other.
"Tell me about it, maybe I will let you go as soon as I am happy." Hearing this, the village chief was delighted.
An old and dull voice slowly said that they were villagers from a neighboring village who had fled together due to an earthquake.
The reason why they were able to persist here was because they met people from the Red Lotus Sect on the way. They formed a good relationship and carried out large-scale charity and rescued many victims.
The village chief thought that there could be such good things in the world. So he was somewhat wary of the Red Lotus Sect, so he had very little contact with them. Just the day before yesterday, he discovered that people in his team began to disappear mysteriously.
"This mark is new. Someone from the Red Lotus Sect asked them to make it." The village chief said with certainty. Su Yining and Han Yunshen also had doubts about this.
It seems that there is an inseparable relationship between the Red Lotus Sect and Huang Shang. The assassination happened after she investigated the corruption case.
Looking at each other, the two instantly understood what the other was thinking. The same mark was found on the bodies of the assassins killed by Phoenix. One of the marks was old, which also confirmed the village chief's statement.
Assassinating the prince is a serious crime. Even if Han Yunshen is merciful, it is impossible for him to do so. These victims will still be escorted to a nearby city, and the final punishment is nothing more than being sent to the border.
If these people were left alone, they would probably kill other villages directly, which would be irresponsible to other people. Of course, he also spared these people the physical pain and left them a way to survive.
After eating and drinking, we continued on the road. The atmosphere on the road became more solemn. More and more victims came along the way, and there were more and more cases of children being sold.
Some unscrupulous people will be even more cruel, selling the bodies of their wives and daughters for money, which makes people feel horrified. This world is like hell.
Robbery incidents occurred frequently. Even if a person died, they would immediately rush to the body. A group of people would strip the body of its clothes and put them on themselves. At night, some people even did devilish things.
"My child, my child is gone, who has seen my girl!" A crazy woman with disheveled clothes cried on the muddy road, her disheveled hair and face were so dirty that she could not see her appearance.
"Han Yunshen, this has already happened before we arrived in Yuncheng. I don't dare to imagine what the place is like." Su Yining was even more worried about the plague.
Every time after a major earthquake, the corpses of emergency rescuers who do not come will slowly decompose in such weather, and eventually become a plague.
There were countless people who wanted to rob the food along the way. If the food was distributed, it would be eaten by these people without waiting for the disaster area. These victims were just a small branch of Duliao County.
Han Yunshen looked solemnly at the victims outside the window and couldn't bear it. "It seems that the local area will be even more tragic. Those officials don't know what they are doing to make so many people leave their homes."
After traveling day and night, they finally arrived at Yuncheng, but they did not expect that there were tens of thousands of victims outside the city, a drop in the bucket compared to those they met on the road.
But the city gate was tightly closed, and the convoy led by Han Yunshen barely reached the city gate through layers of refugees.
"The regent has arrived, open the city gate quickly!" Leng Yi stood under the city gate and shouted loudly, but the soldiers on the city tower took a look and disappeared.
After waiting for a long time, the city gate still did not open. Han Yunshen's face was as gloomy as ink. These people are so bold!
Leng Yi had no choice but to shout again: "When the regent came to provide relief, the prefect of Yuncheng opened the city gate quickly!"
The soldiers on the tower raised their heads and shouted: "The prefect has ordered not to open the city gates. Who knows if you are genuine or not and want to enter the city and take out the imperial edict!"
Han Yunshen signaled his men to take out the imperial edict and hold it up high for the soldiers to see clearly. Unexpectedly, the soldiers turned a blind eye and said it was a fake imperial edict.
"How outrageous! You actually don't acknowledge His Majesty's imperial edict? Are you going to be able to open the city gate?" Leng Yi and the others were very angry. Isn't this deliberately messing around?
They wanted to continue negotiating with the soldiers on the tower, but they did not expect dozens of archers to appear on the other side. "If you are talking nonsense, you will be treated as a mob and retreat quickly!"
"Come back." Han Yun looked deeply at the towering city wall and the hateful-looking soldiers, his deep eyes were cold and he had already made up his mind.
You must know that he has a lot of soldiers behind him. Even though the five thousand soldiers are just dudes, the results of the training along the way will be seen soon.
Almost all the people outside the city are old or young, and the capable young people have already fled, so there is no time left for the old immortals like them.
"Stop shouting, they won't open the door. We have been here for almost two months..." A middle-aged man walked out of the crowd. His body was so dirty that no color could be seen, but his face and hair were...
Cleaned up meticulously.
Su Yining glanced at him. This man had a scholarly air and a bitter taste. He looked like he was a doctor or something.
"Why is the prefect not allowed to enter? It's not just the people outside the city who are affected by the earthquake, the city will also be affected!"
This is what she doesn't understand. The whole city is very strange. Do you want to sit back and have nothing?
Leng Yi hurriedly introduced: "You are still not polite when you see Princess Jiahe and the Regent!?"
Han Yunshen waved his hand indifferently, "Keep talking!" Li Chuan, who followed from the other side, and the imperial doctors had already begun to examine these people, and were preparing to set up pots to boil water and start cooking porridge for disaster relief.
The middle-aged man bowed his waist and saluted, "I'm strict, I am the official in the city and a senior official. When the earthquake occurred, the prefect of Yuncheng had already had the granary sealed and moved to the city. The government and businessmen colluded to drive up prices."
"Some time ago, suddenly a large number of people in the city were expelled from the city. Everyone's roots are here, so they are unwilling to leave at all costs." From Juren's description, it is possible that something big happened in the city.
Han Yunshen waved his hand and let people go down. He looked at the city gate alone in a daze. All this was too weird and the city gate was sealed. What's the use of asking for more money?
Su Yining came to him, her face a little tired from running all the way, "It's hard to say what happened. We'll find out when it gets dark and the secret guards go in to take a look."
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that there was a smell floating in the air. Because there were so many victims outside the city gate, it was difficult to tell where the smell was coming from.
People outside the city lined up one by one to wait for physical examination. Fortunately, there were no other illnesses except some malnutrition. At night, all the secret guards were dispatched. They were like ghosts in the night, as flexible as cats, flying over the eaves and climbing up the city wall.