After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1182 Becoming a Historian
It was only because the two senior doctors, Gu and Su, wanted to protect themselves that they told Gu Chengyong about Gu Xuan's excessive consumption of the "divine tea," which had harmed his body and mind.

If we don't tell them, it will be seen as deliberately concealing the truth, and then we'll never be able to extricate them from this mess.

Not long after, chaos broke out in Gu Xuan's courtyard again. Gu Chengyong ordered that a group of servants who served Gu Xuan be beheaded.

They were chopping right there in the yard, and there was blood everywhere.

The third steward didn't die; he was protected by Gu Xuan, but he fainted twice from fright.

Gu Chengyong also took his anger out on the two old doctors, Gu and Su, scolding them: "Old fools, you knew about the harm of the divine tea, why didn't you report it sooner? You killed my son, you deliberately harmed my son!"

The two senior doctors, Gu and Su, knelt before Gu Xuan's bed, silent and looking as if they were ready to be executed.

But Gu Chengyong won't kill them; Gu Xuan still needs their superb medical skills to survive.

They were indeed alive.

But Gu Chengyong gave them a difficult order: "Heal Xuan-ge'er and restore him to the state he was in before he drank the divine tea. If you fail to do so, your entire family, including your grandchildren, will be buried with my son!"

"...Yes." The two elders, Gu and Su, responded, feeling contempt and anger in their hearts. Young Master Xuan only learned about the Divine Tea and started drinking it because of you. Now that something has happened, you're blaming us?
And then there are those that are incurable.

If this could be cured, mentally challenged children would have been able to take the imperial examinations long ago.

But the two elders, Gu and Su, were not very afraid, because they saw the Gu family's fate in the Gu family's actions.

So don't rush, don't be afraid. Let them go crazy. When the enemy army is at the city gates, that will be the time for them to use their medical skills to save the soldiers, earn merit, and escape from the Gu family with their families.

After that night, Gu Chengyong's hair turned even whiter, and he looked much older.

Seeing this, Qu Tongzhi's determination became even stronger, and he secretly sent his trusted troops to protect the female relatives of the Xue and Li families, and to protect Liang Zhi at the plague isolation point in the west of the city.

Madam Sun and Qi the Angel were also doing these two things, so the women of families in the city who were on good terms with the Qin family, as well as Liang Zhi, were relatively safe.

Liang Zhihui went deep into the plague quarantine point in the west of the city for two reasons: first, to find out the real infected people; and second, to use himself as bait to lure out the people who wanted to kill him.

……

Outside the capital city, the Assistant Magistrate Zeng conveyed new orders to the deserters and civilians from various places who had fled to the Dongfu Town camp.

"Provincial Governor Yan has ordered that all deserters and civilians from Wei outside the city be relocated to empty villages in Dongfu Town according to their county status, in order to prevent and control the plague!"

"The officials and soldiers of each county, along with the villagers under their jurisdiction, shall cut down firewood, dig traps, and lay sharp weapons to hinder and kill the enemy!"

"The officials and soldiers of each county shall take good care of the patients. Those with high fever and chills, even if they have no lumps on their bodies, shall be detained in a centralized place!"

The Dongfu Town camp received several orders.

The county magistrates got busy, carrying out preparations for war, such as settling the Wei people and having them dig traps, in accordance with the official documents from the Provincial Administration Commission.

Master Qiong also led the students to help... but Zheng Qianjia, Lu Qian and other students were privately persuading their classmates to enter Su Qianhu's camp in advance, so that there would be too many Wei people in ten days and they would have to delay entering the city for several days.

"The situation on the battlefield can change in an instant. Even if we delay entering the city by a few hours, let alone a few days, the situation will be completely reversed."

This?
More than two hundred students, each with their own ideas, and many of them took these words to heart.

Simply because they were still young, they had not yet entered the capital to serve as officials, and they did not want to, nor could they, be buried in the frontier.

……

However, in the distant capital, the atmosphere was surprisingly good, unlike the nationwide war preparations seen in the northeastern provinces.

Even the major streets and families in the capital are busy preparing gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival and discussing what to eat this year.
"Lord Yicheng, you and your son have just arrived in the capital and haven't attended the Autumn Festival Banquet yet, have you? Will you attend this year's Autumn Festival Banquet?" At the entrance of the Imperial Academy in the capital of Great Wei, a young classmate deliberately asked Yan Xiaosi.

Before Yan Xiaosi could answer, they said apologetically, "Lord Yicheng, please don't be offended. We forgot that your family is still in mourning... However, Mr. Rong is just your elder brother. Does a younger brother not need to observe three years of mourning for his elder brother?"

“Since ancient times, it is true that a younger brother does not have to observe three years of mourning for his elder brother. Observing for twenty-seven days or observing vegetarianism for a year is enough. However, the elder brother of the Marquis of Yicheng is Mr. Rong, a righteous man of the world. He also received Mr. Rong’s title. If he does not observe three years of mourning, wouldn’t that be unfilial?”

Hahaha.

These children, the youngest being six years old and the oldest no more than eleven or twelve, surrounded Yan Xiaosi, chattering away.

Even some children said...

"What kind of righteous man? He committed suicide before the Eastern Desert army even attacked, forced people to open their granaries and donate grain, and even deceived the court into granting him a marquisate. If the Eastern Desert army hadn't attacked, the Marquis of Yicheng would probably have been punished."

"Shut up, Little Sixteen! Mr. Rong is a righteous man of the world, how dare you interfere? Go home and kneel in the ancestral hall for an hour!"

When Zheng's sixteenth son was scolded, his lips trembled and tears welled up in his eyes.

He was even younger than Yan Xiaosi, just a six-year-old boy. Even so, Yan Xiaosi, and even the censor, couldn't hold a grudge against a child's few innocent words.

"Yes, waah waah waah." Zheng's sixteenth son agreed to be punished by kneeling, but he cried louder and louder. Finally, he burst into tears. Anyone who didn't know the situation could think that Yan Xiaosi was bullying him because of his status as a marquis.

In reality, their family members resented Kang Rong for betraying the aristocratic alliance, and subsequently had their young children verbally bully Yan Xiao Si.

Didn't Kang Rong plead with the world to treat his mother and brother kindly before he died?

Then they ruined his brother!

This caused Yan Xiaosi to die in despair, made Kang Lishi experience the pain of losing her son again, and made Kang Rong die with her eyes wide open in disbelief!

This kind of bullying was something Yan Xiaosi experienced every day from the moment he entered the Imperial College.

They always surrounded him, saying things that seemed plausible but were actually misleading.

However, Yan Xiaosi's eyes remained clear. After they finished making a fuss, he looked up at them and asked, "Do any of you classmates have anything else to say? If not, I'm going home."

All classmates, young and old: "..."

"Yan Xiaosi, can't you understand human language?"

"You think you're a marquis? Wake up! If the Eastern Desert people don't attack, your family will be accused of deceiving the emperor, your marquisate will be revoked, and you'll be thrown into the imperial prison... becoming a eunuch."

Just like the Duke of Yan back then!
Yan Xiaosi looked at them, patted the book bag on his back, and said to them, "This is the book bag my brother used. My brother left me a lot of things, not just the title of marquis."

“I’ve been reading history books every day when I go home lately. They were written by my great-grandfather, Li. The history books say that many, many people die in wars. Wars are very brutal, with men and horses being torn apart. Do you know what those four words mean?”

"When I first read it, I didn't know it either, so I asked my mother, and she told me."

"In war, when two armies clash, it is rare for a person to be left with a whole body. They are usually cut off, their hands, feet, and heads are severed, and they are even chopped into pieces... The same goes for horses. This is what is meant by the destruction of both man and horse."

"Yan Xiaosi, are you out of your mind? You can't beat us, so you try to scare us with these scary things? There's not even a trace of the Eastern Desert army, we don't believe we'll fight!"

Yan Xiaosi shook his head and said very seriously, "I'm not trying to scare you. I just want to say that war is bad. Many people will die. So if the Eastern Desert army doesn't attack, I'd be happy to have my title taken away."

He added, "I like to hear you tell the truth because I want to be a historian in the future and record all the truths and events."

Many classmates said, "No, Yan Xiaosi, are you really sick? You're talking nonsense."