The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 9 The first battle is won!

Nie Shen stood on a raised hill outside the capital city, looking down, there were rows of shacks for the victims below.

Nearly [-] disaster victims gathered outside the moat at the east gate of the city, forming a huge temporary living area.

He followed the princess and Ye Shenyan here, and saw that they hid their horses in a nearby grove, and then they went quietly to the shelter area of ​​the victims.

What is the purpose of the princess' actions tonight?

The night wind blew, gently lifting the corner of Nie Shen's robe.Nie Shen raised his head, the moonlight was still dim tonight, but the sky full of stars was extremely clear, like countless gemstones on black velvet.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that summer night many years ago.Also under such a night sky, the wind was blowing warmly, blowing the girl's soft hair onto his face, itching.

He said, Lianqing, come with me.

Her response was heavy silence, all night long.

That was the saddest summer night in his memory, and he never paid attention to the starry sky above his head after that night.

Never loved a woman so deeply.

Nie Shen lowered his eyelids and took a deep breath, remembering the last time they met.

He heard that she was seriously ill, so he sneaked into the palace to see her desperately, but he didn't expect that seeing her would mean goodbye forever.

At that time, her life was already hanging by a thread, but when she saw him coming, she still showed a gratified smile.

"I knew you'd come..."

Nie Shen turned pale with fright, and desperately channeled the zhenqi in her body into her meridians, but it didn't help her condition at all.

"Don't bother. I have nothing to worry about... except, my daughter..."

She held his hand, and said angrily: "Ruochen is only three years old, she... her eighth birthday is a hurdle, and there may be major changes... If she can get through it safely... ...you can keep your life safe..."

Protecting Yun Ruochen through the catastrophe of his eighth birthday is a promise he made to Lianqing.

That's why he tried every means to bribe the medical officers of the royal residence and let them send Yun Ruochen to the mountain villa for summer vacation before her eighth birthday.

When Yun Ruochen had a high fever and fell into a coma, he stayed outside the door almost all night, ready to give her his own energy as a last resort.

Fortunately, she got better the next day and woke up from the coma.

But Nie Shen soon discovered that Yun Ruochen who woke up was completely different from the timid and weak little girl before.She really changed, became... as if Lianqing had come back to life!

Nie Shen was both surprised and delighted.He didn't think the changed Yun Ruochen was very strange, because in his heart, Lianqing's daughter should be like this now!

When Nie Shen was immersed in the past, Yun Ruochen took Ye Shenyan around in circles around the shack area.

Ye Shenyan found that he really didn't understand what the princess was doing.For a while, he was told to climb a tree to hang a small mirror, and for a while, he was asked to bury him in the ground with copper coins.

However, will a "normal lady" take in him, a little beggar who steals chickens?

So Ye Shenyan continued to work honestly and did not dare to ask more questions.Whenever he showed an expression of wanting to speak, he would be stared back by the princess.

The princess is so fierce, woo woo woo... The sentimental little beggar was crying silently in his heart again, like a poor little dog.

"It's done!"

Yun Ruochen completed the last position arrangement, looked around with satisfaction, pulled out a gold hairpin from his bosom, and silently recited the formula to forcefully insert it into the soil in front of him.Under the soil, three copper coins were buried in the shape of "pin".

"start!"

Huh?
Following Yun Ruochen's short and powerful drink, Ye Shenyan seemed to see a few golden lights flashing around, like shooting stars.When he thought he was dazzled, he rubbed his eyes to see more clearly, but he couldn't see anything.

Is it really my own illusion?
But Nie Shen, who was on the mound, clearly saw the flickering light when a large circular formation was activated!
"Why...why did she set up camp in the disaster-stricken area?"

Nie Shen couldn't figure out what Yun Ruochen's intention was.

"go!"

Yun Ruochen saw that it was getting late, and they had to rush back to the villa, so it was right to retreat quickly.Just like when they came, the two returned to the foot of the mountain on the same horse, and then quickly sneaked back to the villa through the back door.

When Yun Ruochen returned to the room, the two maids, Yinqiao and Lianzhi, were still sleeping soundly, completely unaware of her departure.It was a piece of cake for Yun Ruochen to make the two little girls sleep more deeply.

Lying back on the bed, she only felt a little dizzy, panting slightly, and her hands and feet were feeling weak.

"hateful……"

Closing his eyes helplessly, Yun Ruochen felt a little unwillingness in his heart.The spells that could be used easily in the past, but now need to exhaust all the mind to do it, and the effect may not be very good.She felt like she was dancing in shackles, being dragged down by this dilapidated body.

After this time, she will have to recuperate for at least half a month before she can cast spells.I hope that tonight's action can really help my father recover from the decline!

Just as the courtiers overwhelmingly insisted on the importance of gathering the victims in one place for resettlement, and demanded that the autumn tax be levied in advance to purchase food for disaster relief, accidents began to happen one after another in the disaster-stricken areas outside the city.

At the beginning, some victims said they saw wild ghosts at night, and they said it vividly.After all, many people died of starvation and disease. It is not surprising that there are such legends. None of the disaster relief officials would take it to heart.

However, these legends intensified in just a few days. Many people said that even though it was summer, the shack area was full of gloomy winds at night, and people always heard ghosts crying when they slept, as if those dead companions were calling for their souls...

And there were three officials in charge of providing porridge and disaster relief, all of whom somehow returned to the city after get off work in the evening.The symptoms of the three people disappeared as soon as they were brought home, but they dared not go out of the city again.

If these are just trivial matters, there are new situations in the palace.

Emperor Yuan Qi heard Liu Yin, his most trusted eunuch and supervisor of ceremonies, say that recently there are rumors outside the palace that too many people died in the east of the city, and a evil formation has formed.Not only that, that direction is facing the life gate of the palace, maybe it will suck the dragon energy in the palace...

Emperor Yuan Qi was not afraid of heaven and earth, but he was afraid that he would not live long.For such absurd legend that others might laugh it off, he immediately treated it seriously, and also wondered suspiciously whether he had been sucked out of the dragon's energy because he was not sleeping well recently!
Emperor Yuan Qi immediately asked the Taoist priests in the palace to divination to see if there was an evil formation outside the east of the city.

As a result, the Taoist priests unanimously predicted that it was true!The yin energy outside the east of the city is now thick, and it has indeed become a natural evil formation...

"It's worth it!"

The old emperor was agitated, and immediately ordered the cabinet to start arranging for the evacuation of the victims, just... just follow Prince Jing's method, and there will be no other plan in a while, right?
If these disaster victims don't leave for a day, the old emperor won't be able to sleep for a day.After all the people are evacuated, he will let the Taoist priests in the palace do the practice field!

Everyone was dumbfounded by the emperor's decree.

Gu Yuan was worthy of being a bachelor who could ascend to the court to pay homage to the chancellor. He immediately seized the opportunity and rushed to make a more detailed plan overnight.Moreover, he also appointed a group of middle-level officials under his command as managers of this operation, took the opportunity to gain a lot of power, and also absorbed one or two more useful backbones.

Once in a thousand years, the emperor actually wants to use His Highness Prince Jing's plan to provide disaster relief.It would be foolish if Gu Yuan didn't work hard to play this card well.He will definitely seize this opportunity to spread His Highness Prince Jing's virtuous name far and wide.

It is said that on the very day when the decree was issued, King Cheng dropped his cup in the palace, and even his precious son was slapped for trying to act like a baby without winking.

However, Prince Jing was so happy in the suburban villa that he couldn't stop talking from ear to ear, he even treated Concubine Huang better, thinking that the son in Concubine Huang's belly brought him good luck.

But he didn't know that it was his seemingly innocent little daughter who really helped him turn the situation around.

Yun Ruochen naturally didn't care what Prince Jing thought.People in Qimen only seek results in their actions, and they have always been respectful and indifferent to fame and merit.Fame is very important to the world, but it is something they are afraid to avoid.

The more famous you are, the faster you die!Especially witchcraft numbers are the most taboo things in the royal family.Even if her father treats her kindly, she doesn't intend to let him know that she has this ability.

The formation she set up outside the east of the city is called "Taiyin Qimen Formation", which is a kind of phantom formation.Phantom formations refer to some formations that confuse the mind. The phantom formations are both real and illusory, and all kinds of illusions permeate them.

Low-level phantom arrays will restrain people's minds and produce all kinds of strange fantasies, which are often related to their recent encounters.The power of the high-level phantom array is a hundred times stronger than this, but now Yun Ruochen has no aura, so he can only use the evil spirit of the dead people in the shack to create the phantom formation.And her phantom array doesn't have much effect when the yang energy is high during the day.

Those victims who are hungry and sick will always "go to hell" at night, which is the hallucination produced by being trapped by the evil spirit of the strange gate formation of the sun.

As for those three officials, they heard the rumors of "Damn" during the day, and there was a gap in their minds. In the evening, it was the transition point of yang and yin. Evil spirit invaded.Those bearers, attendants, etc., eat more than the disaster victims, and they are all manual laborers, so they are not so easily deceived.

As for the most critical rumor of "sucking the dragon's energy from the evil formation", she ordered Ye Shenyan to infiltrate the beggar gang in the city and spread it in advance.Ye Shenyan has been working among beggars since he was sensible, and he is clever, so it is perfect for him to do this job.

A truly powerful warlock is not only good at spells, but more importantly, the use of "wisdom".Yun Ruochen had no vitality and could not display much strength, yet he was able to guide a result that was most beneficial to King Jing by virtue of his accurate deduction of the situation of all parties!
"Well... just barely."

Yun Ruochen, who was lazily lying on the Arhat's bed drinking calming tea, barely scored a passing grade for his first action in the Daqing Dynasty.

There is a long way to go, and she has to continue to work hard, and she can really breathe a sigh of relief when she can promote her dear father as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)