“Aunt said, Uncle was thinking about his cousin Zhou Xia and wanted to see her one last time,” he said.

When I was leaving, my aunt chased me out and asked me to give a message to my cousin Zhou Xia, asking her to come back.

A trace of sadness crossed his face. He sniffed and, holding the teacup, buried his head and drank deeply.

Yang Ruqing let out a soft sigh.

"A message? How could Xiangyang王府 possibly get a message in?" she said.

Even if we could get messages to Zhang Liangyu and Young Master through them, sending letters and waiting for Zhou Xia to return would take at least a month.

“A month, your uncle can't wait that long. Besides, your cousin Zhou Xia is now the Snow Dance County Princess; she might not even want to come back,” she added.

Luo Fengtang raised his head and looked at Yang Ruohong.

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"Qing'er, I want to discuss something with you."

"What's up? What do you want to say?"

"I want to go to the capital city and find Zhou Xia. Whether she wants to or not, I will take her back to Zhoujia Village." he said.

“I’m still saying what I said before, your uncle can’t wait that long. You also said he should just do it tonight.” She said.

Luo Fengtang said: "My uncle loved Zhou Xia, his only daughter, all his life. She was destined not to see him for the last time."

“As for funeral rites, observing periods of mourning, and things like the seventh day after death, she definitely wouldn't be able to keep up.”

"But no matter what, for this debt of life I owe her, I'll pull her back and have her kowtow before my uncle's grave!"

"But..." She had just opened her mouth when he cut her off.

"This is my thought, and should also be my uncle's, in his whole life, the last, only wish."

"Qing'er, I know what you want to say. Actually, my uncle wasn't bad to me before."

"I remember when I was little, I used to go to his house. Back then, there were no oxcarts, let alone horse-drawn carriages."

My uncle-in-law is carrying a basket on his shoulder, putting things in it while also packing me.

"As long as I pass through town, he'll still buy me a steamed bun."

"Later, my aunt didn't want to move around anymore. My uncle came back to Yucun Village one time to work for a household and secretly slipped me three copper coins to buy candy..."

"Alright, Tang Yazi, you don't need to say any more," Yang Ruohong suddenly raised her hand and interrupted Luo Fengtang's words.

"You're going to the capital, I won't stop you. I'll go with you." she said.

"What?" Luofengtang widened her eyes.

“I'll go myself. I’ll ride alone. My horse is fast, you just stay home.” He said.

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Yang Ruoqing wryly smiled, "You see this, this time I absolutely have to go to the capital myself."

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She handed the letter in her hand to Luofengtang and walked back to the bedside, sitting down.

As her fingertips lightly tapped the edge of the bed, Luofengtang had quickly scanned the contents of the letter.

This time, it was his turn to be surprised.

"What's going on here? Our ingredients are carefully selected, there's no way our customers could have food poisoning." He said with absolute certainty.

Yang Ruqing nodded. "The dishes from our own kitchen, of course I trust them. From the procurement of ingredients to the chef's cooking and the waiter serving the dishes."

“All I chose were trusted confidants for this, there's no way anyone could have set a trap.” She said.

"However, Yunniang made it very clear in her letter that some customers, after dining at our brothel under the watchful eyes of everyone, foamed at the mouth and trembled all over."

"This is irrefutable evidence, so the authorities have temporarily sealed our brothel and detained Sister Hua."

"With this kind of situation happening, I, as the host, can't possibly command things from thousands of miles away, right?"

"So, this trip to the capital is unavoidable!" she said.

Lu Fengtang frowned: "Alright, then when do we set off for the capital?"

"Of course, the sooner the better."

Luo Fengtang said, "Let's clean up today. We'll set off tomorrow morning..."

"Take me with you early tomorrow!"

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A voice came from the doorway, and immediately, a figure in blue robes, Mu Zi Chuan, hurried into the room.

"Zichuan?" Yang Ruohua raised an eyebrow.

“You haven’t even had time to settle back home before you're stirring up trouble again?” she asked.

"Just a moment ago, I also received a letter sent by my master, Zhang the Elder, via express rider."

"My master told me in a letter that there has been great chaos in the capital city," he said.

"Huh? What's going on?" Yang Ruqing asked in surprise.

I thought to myself, how did all these things end up happening at once?

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Mù Zǐchuān said: "Qíng'er, do you still remember the people who died from a strange disease in January and February that I told you about yesterday?"

Yang Ruqing nodded quickly: "Remember, remember."

Mu Zi Chuan said, "Master's letter this time is mainly about this matter."

“My master wrote in his letter that this strange illness is getting worse. The number of people infected in the capital is rising steadily.”

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"Hiss..."

Yang Ruqing took a sharp, cool breath.

This season is a high incidence season for hand, foot and mouth disease.

Could this be it?

There's also avian influenza and SARS, oh my gosh, could it be that in this era we already have these diseases that ancient people would find very strange and unusual?

Beside him, Luofeng Tang also had a grave expression.

"Without further ado, let's each prepare for the journey. We depart for the capital early tomorrow!" he said.

Since Mu Zi Chuan was going too, and he couldn't gallop like Yang Ru Qing and Luo Feng Tang, he could only prepare a carriage.

If they were to prepare a carriage, then naturally, Matsu and Xiao Yaxue would have to come along as well, so they could look after each other.

The next morning, two carriages stopped on the road outside Yang Ruqing's house.

The car in front was driven by Luo Fengtang, with Yang Ruoqing and Xiao Yaxue sitting inside the carriage.

That day, the carriage hurried along behind. It carried Mu Zi Chuan.

Two carriages dashed away in the misty dawn.

This trip back to the capital, I brought enough dry food to save time on roadside supplies.

Day and night, I'm almost always on the road.

All the way north, day and night without rest, changing horses along the way, finally creating a miraculous record of reaching the capital in ten days!

"Goodness gracious, is this truly at the foot of the imperial city, in the heart of the capital? Why is it so desolate and deserted?"

The carriage entered the South City Gate, looking down at the street. People hurried along the road sparsely and in a rush.

Seeing those shops half-open and half-closed again, Xiao Yaxue couldn't help but mutter.

Yang Ruqing was also looking outside, feeling no different from Xiao Yaxue.

Remember a few times I came to the capital city before, the bustling and lively scene was amazing.

There are so many fun and interesting things on the street that you won't have time to experience them all.

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The hawker's cries were deafening.

Even quite a number of merchants from other countries, or diplomats, could be seen strolling down the street.

But now?

The desolation and bleakness were self-evident. The sky above the entire city seemed shrouded in an invisible layer of gloom, giving people a suffocating sense of panic.