Prime Minister Zhou Xi returned to his mansion, sat on the bed, closed his eyes and rested.

He is actually not old. He entered the court at the age of 27 and became the prime minister at the age of 40. Now he is 45 years old. Judging from his political career, he is in his prime.

However, in the past two years, he has become increasingly unable to do so.

Especially recently, after Taishi Xiao left the imperial capital, he had to make decisions on all matters inside and outside the court, which left him with almost no time to rest.

"Master, have something to eat."

The door of the study room was knocked twice, then pushed open, and the familiar footsteps came in gently, followed by the sound of a tray placed on the table.

He didn't have to open his eyes to know that what he came in was his wife, Wang Lingzhi, who was born in the Wang family in Taiyuan.

"Yeah." He responded slightly. Mrs. Wang knew that her husband did not want to be disturbed at this time, so she sighed softly and turned to leave the study.

The silence in the study room returned to its original state. Zhou Xi rested for a while, forced himself to cheer up, opened his eyes and looked at the food on the table.

A bowl of steaming porridge and two dishes of side dishes that I like, the lady really knows what she wants to eat.

Only then did he feel that his stomach was indeed empty, after all, from the early morning to the afternoon, he had almost no drip in.

However, his lack of energy was not because of his busyness.

He recently discovered a big event that made him frightened and worried, so he couldn't swallow his food and couldn't sleep. But this matter could not be discussed with anyone.

Even if you have a wife, it won't work.

This is not a question of trust or not, but once this matter is leaked, it will be the end of the family scout and extermination!

...

"Sir, these things really don't seem to be coming down..."

In Zizhou City, Su Ming, the magistrate, was hiding nervously in the government office, looking into the sky through the porch.

Surround him were officials of all sizes and big and small, and the outermost layer was soldiers gathered together, holding swords and alert.

Hearing his colleague's words, Su Ming felt a little relaxed and nodded in agreement.

In other words, he also hopes that the message he received before will be correct.

He had done everything he could do at this time. After he sent people to comfort him, the people in the city hid in their houses. There were only occasional cavalry on the street to convey messages back and forth.

The merchants' residences have closed their windows and doors. If someone can look down from a high altitude at this time, the huge Zizhou City is like a ghost creature in the empty city, without any popularity.

Compared with Zizhou City, Wuzhou City is a completely different situation.

After all, for the people of Wuzhou, their lives have changed dramatically in the past two days.

First, there was a violent explosion outside Wuzhou City, followed by chaos in the city. When the riots were the most powerful, a terrifying sea of ​​insects flew past the sky, and natural disasters gathered together. Wherever you see, the crowd of people crying and robbing the sky and looking sad was like the end of the world.

Like the magistrate Su Ming, Li Qingrong was also carried back to the government office by soldiers at this time, and everyone hid in the government office and stared at the sky worriedly.

At this time, the effect of the spiritual poem that was temporarily blessed by them had faded away, and these soldiers were just city guards who had been living for a long time. At this time, facing the demon insects in the sky, they were no different from ordinary people, and they would not think of organizing the people to hide or something.

Li Qingrong thought of it, but at this time he had not many people, and it could even be said that he had almost no one.

All he could do was call on everyone to speak and spread the news he received as much as possible. Then he could only hide in the government office and remain silent.

After all, it was just a subconscious reaction to these people around him now. If he really gave orders to them to take the risk of rectifying the city defense, he would probably be thrown out the next moment.

Given the current chaos in the city, he was just a living corpse without hands and legs. It is hard to say whether there would be a red-eyed thief who snatched his belongings and stabbed him.

The human heart is the easiest thing to change. When the order was in order before, these soldiers could fight for him because of their responsibilities.

But at this time the law and discipline were gone, and everyone's mentality had changed. They gradually didn't care about Li Qingrong.

After all, after all, they were the garrisons of Wuzhou City, and Li Qingrong was the magistrate of Zizhou City.

Although the level is indeed much higher than theirs, the county magistrate is not as good as the current management, let alone a useless person at this time.

They got together and listened more to the opinions of two of them, one of them was their captain Liu Renyi, and the other was Sun Fei, who was smart and good at investigating cases.

"Tao Liu, do you think these bugs really won't come down?" someone asked in a low voice.

Liu Tou frowned and looked at the sky, shook his head slightly and sighed: "It's hard to say that there are too many bugs, dense. If there are really two or three, we can still deal with one or two. If there are ten or eight, I think we will have to wait to die!"

"I think that news may be right!"

Sun Fei interrupted, unconsciously refuting Liu Tou's face, but stared at the demon insects in the sky and continued: "Look at these insects, they are indeed flying northeast like flowing water. At their speed, I guess they have already arrived at Yuyang Pass..."

"Since there isn't one that comes down so far, I don't think it's coming down!"

After he finished his final judgment, everyone nodded subconsciously and breathed a sigh of relief.

Even Li Qingrong, who was behind the crowd, nodded slightly. The young man was right. These insects have their own purpose, not to harm the place.

Otherwise, they would not need to fly in the sky at all, and they would be directly paved on the ground and flooded one by one, and no one could escape.

This situation has not happened now, which proves that the purpose of these bugs is not to destroy the city at all, at least for the time being.

In the North...what exactly is there that these bugs must pay attention to?

Thinking of his current situation, he had planned to take the opportunity to recover Wuzhou City, and it seemed that there was no hope at this time.

Thinking of this, he felt that all his previous efforts were burned out, and everything became meaningless, but instead felt that he had relaxed.

The Li family was originally a big family, at least before Xu Lie inherited the throne.

Just because Xu Lie returned to Beijing alone and took office with the support of the Grand Tutor, in order to shock all forces, he needed to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys, and the Li family happened to become the killed chicken.

Of course, there are also factors that make the Li family commit suicide, but at this time the entire family is almost gone, so Li Qingrong naturally would not think it was his own problem.

His brother's view on this was contrary to him, and he believed that the Li family was purely responsible for it. Since only their brothers survived, they should live a good life.

Because of this, the two brothers became more and more cold. Unexpectedly, their attitude has changed now, but the brother and his family have already...

Li Qingrong sighed, feeling boring, so he simply closed his eyes and stopped paying attention to everything.
Chapter completed!