After resting in the town for two days, Xiao Jin ordered to continue his journey. The group left the town and continued to rush to Qiongzhou.

Everyone stayed in the open for two days before they met a small village. Xiao Jin brought people into the village. The village lived in the weak and the women and children. He heard that it was from the court, so he let go of his guard. An old man called the villagers to settle the group in the village.

Seeing the broken houses and orchids in the village, the people were living in a difficult situation, Xiao Jin asked the old man about the reason. The old man cried and said: "The official has no idea. Since the destruction of the Li Kingdom, the remnants of the area have been rampant. From time to time, evil people have come out to burn, kill and plunder. The young and strong people in the village have been killed by the thousand-killed remnants of the Qianli, and only these old and weak are left."

Xiao Jin clenched his fists hard, and the remnant glass would not be removed for a day, and the people in this area really had no good life.

A few old women brought a basket of coarse grains and cakes, and the old man gave them to everyone, "We have no labor here, and every family is too poor to lose money. All officials are just making do with it, just put on the belly, alas! I just hope that the court will send troops as soon as possible and completely destroy the sacred lime."

Mei'er saw a few ragged children, staring at the window with yellow and thin skin, staring at them. She broke the coarse grains in her hands and distributed them to the children. The children took them over and swallowed them in two hands.

Staying in the village for one night, Xiao Jin took his group to continue on the road in the morning of the next day. They had no dry food with them. They relied on hunting to satisfy their hunger along the way. Xiao Jin ordered people to distribute the remaining hunting meat to the villagers.

Fortunately, the wounded people who were pecked by the strange birds had recovered almost the same amount, and everyone rushed to Qiongzhou before dark.

Qiongzhou is a place of wealthy, but it is located at the junction of the Great Zhou and Li Kingdom. It has been deeply affected by years of war between the two countries. After the destruction of Li Kingdom, the remaining evils of Li were mixed up here. Although Qiongzhou is beautiful, it has become a barren land without leaving any birds and beasts.

The five cities in Qiongzhou were colluded with each other. Xiao Jin and his party arrived at Xingcheng on the border of Qiongzhou. It was at least a city. Although it was a little desolate, they finally saw the smell of fireworks.

Zhou Ping found an inn that looked pretty decent. Everyone entered the inn with dust. The first thing Mei'er, Aqu and Xianglan did when they went in was to find the bathroom and wash their faces well. Along the way, the beautiful girls all became rusty rats. After changing two or three basins of water, they washed the thick dust on their faces.

The dry food was dropped when it was attacked by birds and beasts, but fortunately the silver she had with her was still there. Zhou Ping took out a ingot of silver and handed it to the shopkeeper. After a moment, the store owner scurried to a table to eat. Although it was just simple coarse food, the people who slept all the way were eating and stormed the wind and the clouds were swept away.

Mei'er ate cornmeal steamed buns and ate them sweeter than the snacks made in the imperial kitchen. After eating three or four of them in one breath, she felt that she had a good stomach.

Everyone had finished their meal and was about to go upstairs to rest, a white-haired old lady trembled into the inn with a crutch and cried to the shopkeeper, "I said, shopkeeper, have you seen my Awang?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly walked out of the counter, "Why are you confused again, Aunt Wang?"

The old lady muttered, "My Awang hasn't been home for a few days, and I don't know where I've been. Go and find him for me."

The shopkeeper sighed and winked at the waiter who was running away. The waiter ran over and helped the old lady, "Auntie, I'll take you back."

"If I don't go back, I have to look for my Awang, son, where are you going? Son! I want to find my son!"

The shopkeeper looked at the old lady's staggering back and shook his head and said, "This bitch is really not a fucking thing."

When Li Tai heard this, he stared at him and shouted, "Shopkeeper, what's going on?"

The shopkeeper walked over with his waist and bowed to everyone, "You guys are from outside, don't you know that in Qiongzhou, those people came out to commit crimes every few days, specifically arresting young and strong men. Aunt Wang's son was captured by them last month. The old lady had only one son. Isn't that crazy?"

Mei'er asked angrily: "What are those glass men doing to catch the young and strong men?"

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper's expression suddenly changed. He leaned closer and lowered his voice and replied: "These people are simply crazy. I heard that they believe in the Red Flower God Sect. After arresting these young and strong men, they drank their blood and drank them for the believers. It is said that these believers will be invulnerable to the sword and gun after drinking the blood of these young and strong men."

"Isn't this damn nonsense?" Li Tai slapped the table in anger.

The shopkeeper sighed and said, "Who said no, there are countless young people who were secretly arrested in this area and died tragically. Alas! It's so miserable."

"Aren't there any defenders here?" Xiao Jin's face turned pale.

"The defenders can't control it. Those wicked men are elusive and are just taking advantage of the night to get some medicine into the well, and sometimes they are scattered into the house while they are sleeping. There are so many tricks that make people unable to guard against." As he said, he said with a frightened face and reminded everyone: "All of you are from outside. I advise you to close the doors and windows at night and never go out."

At night, Mei'er and Xiao Jin were lying on the bed in the inn. Mei'er saw Xiao Jin looking worried, "You feel uncomfortable?"

"Well, I didn't expect the people here to live so miserably."

Although he was a prince, he had a compassionate heart. Mei'er shook his hand, "Concubine Li was deeply favored by her father. If she hadn't taken advantage of Princess Jingchu's situation, you would have no choice but to worry about it."

Hearing Mei'er's comfort, Xiao Jin felt a little relaxed, "This time I ended Canli in one fell swoop, and I have to deal with some things after returning to Beijing."

"Can Concubine Li get up again?" Mei'er and Xiao Jin were in a close relationship. Even if he didn't explain some things, she could understand his thoughts.

"Yes." Xiao Jin knew very well that Emperor was too good. Since this woman got involved, she had become obsessed with the matter in Qiongzhou. The cabinet's request to send troops could fill a house over the years. It was not that he didn't know the suffering here, but he turned a deaf ear, for fear that he would hurt Concubine Li's heart and bewildered by a woman. What else could he not be able to do?

"Are you sure?" Mei'er knew very well about Emperor Yongxi's favor for Concubine Li. Otherwise, Empress Chen, who was born in a noble family and had a deep affection with the emperor, would not have died tragically at the hands of a princess who had a deep blood hatred with the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"Yes." Xiao Jin replied.

"I believe you." Mei'er hugged Xiao Jin and said firmly.
Chapter completed!