In the fourth update, the night was dark, and the remaining lights that had not been extinguished all night in Jiankang Palace shone out all night, and the tired faces of the palace people who had been in the middle of the night.

At this moment, the magnificent Jiankang Palace with thousands of palaces can no longer see its former solemnity and solemnity.

The people inside were carrying bags, carrying the cages, hurried in and out, and even accidentally collided with each other.

After a moment, the emperor and the empress were about to leave the palace, and with the officials, they left Jiankang.

Gao Yongrong didn't sleep all night.

Tiredness and bad mood made her face gray and her eyes swollen.

Bad news comes one by one.

Wuchang County has been captured by rebels from Jingzhou, and the rebels are coming towards Wangjiang County, which Gao Qiao has deployed. Once Wangjiang County is also captured, Jiankang completely lost the westward barrier. The rebels are fighting, which is just around the corner.

Not only that, the Tianshi Cult riots, who had already been suppressed with their snowball-like expansion momentum, took advantage of the opportunity of the imperial army being transferred and their defenses being weakened, and took the opportunity to counterattack.

The news just sent was that Kuaiji County, an important county in the southeast, was also lost. The county magistrate was arrested on the way to escape and beheaded on the city wall.

What's even more terrifying is that it is rumored that the Tianshi Sect Wu Cang and the Xuancheng rebels had colluded together. Before the Jingzhou rebels arrived, they were ready to move and agreed to join forces to attack Jiankang again soon.

The army of Dayu is divided into three types: central army, foreign army and prefectures and counties in various places.

The central army was Jiankang's Suwei Army and Duwei Army, which were under the command of the emperor. Now the number of people has expanded compared to when Emperor Xingping, but the two armies combined are less than 10,000. The proportion of soldiers in the prefectures and counties in various places is also very small, and they are almost useless.

The entire court relied on the Guangling Army, the Jingzhou soldiers before the rebellion and other foreign troops that were held in the hands of the gentry and powerful ministers.

Now, the only one available troops in Dayu is Gao Qiao's Guangling Army.

A burst of news came from outside the hall, and all officials had arrived outside the palace and respectfully invited the emperor and empress to travel.

Gao Yongrong took back his eyes that fell in the dark night sky outside the hall, calmed down, and was about to go out, a close-knit palace servant hurried over and whispered: "Empress, the prison lady passed the message, Gao Xianggong ordered the prison officer to transfer the prisoner to Stone City. Shaw Brothers asked for advice, asking the noble man to release her..."

The palace servant looked around and attached himself to Gao Yongrong's ears, and said a few words.

A hint of disgust flashed through Gao Yongrong's eyes and said coldly: "Tell her that brother, I have asked someone to get it back from the exile halfway! Tell her to stay in me now! In extraordinary times, no trouble can happen! When this level is passed, I will solve her when it needs to be used in the future!"

The palace servant should have left in a hurry.

Gao Yongrong glanced at the palace behind him and stepped out.

Gao Qiao and Feng Wei and the officials accompanied him, saw the emperor and empress, and the prince and his group out of the palace and kneel down to greet him.

The emperor caught a cold last night and fell ill. He was depressed and covered in fatigue. He was brought into a carriage and placed in a carriage.

Gao Yongrong did not board the carriage directly, but came to Gao Qiao and said, "Uncle, Your Majesty is too worried and becomes sick. He is in a bad spirit. He asked his niece to pass a message to his uncle on his behalf, and Jiankang gave it to his uncle. Everything depends on his uncle!"

Gao Qiao said: "This is the duty of a minister."

Gao Yongrong helped him up from the ground, and asked the rest of the people to flatten him. Then he turned his head, looked at the Suwei Army lined up in the distance, and said, "Uncle, Your Majesty has discussed with me. Although you cannot stay and advance and retreat with Jiankang, the Suwei Army does not have to go there. It is enough to just lead the left and right second battalions, and stay all the rest of the people to help my uncle resist the rebels and defend my imperial city!"

The ministers looked at each other. Gao Qiao immediately said, "No! The guards have been left, and the guards are already responsible for protecting His Majesty's safety, let alone this time they are moving. Never mind!"

Gao Yongrong said: "The niece knew that the people left behind were just a drop in the bucket. It was useless to fight against the enemy. However, it was the intention of Your Majesty and Niece. Please be sure to incorporate it and let it be called!" Then she ordered people to convey the imperial edict to the Guards.

Gao Qiao looked at his niece, and a darkness flashed through his eyes, and finally said, "In this way, I thank His Majesty and His Highness for the people of Jiankang. Please get on the car and prepare to start the journey."

Gao Yongrong nodded and turned around and got on his own car.

...

In the suburbs of the west of the city, soldiers escorted a group of prisoners and walked on the way to Stone City.

There were not many female prisoners, only about ten, and they were already in the back. One of them seemed to be unable to walk anymore, and he walked slowly and fell a distance ahead.

This female prisoner is Shao Yuniang. The prison woman who is specifically responsible for guarding her is impatient and keeps urging her around.

Shao Yuniang held up her hands wearing shackles and chains and begged: "Mum, okay, can you unblock the chain for me? This is too heavy, I can't walk."

Her face was pale because she had not seen the light of day for a long time, and she was panting when she said a word. She looked really pitiful.

The prison lady said coldly: "Others are still wearing shackles. The prison officer has left you empty. It is already preferential. Where do you get so many verbal words? Hurry!"

Shao Yuniang had no choice but to grit her teeth and chase after another section of the road. She gradually walked to a roadside with dense weeds. She stopped and held her stomach in her hand and said she wanted it to be convenient.

The prison woman slapped her mouth and asked her to squat over.

Shao Yuniang smiled and said, "Good nanny, I ate bad food in the prison last night. You know that my stomach is not good this morning. It's not Xiao Gong, but Da Gong. It's inconvenient to tie his hands. If it gets smelly, the nanny will be by my side sooner or later, for fear that it will get mad. Please open the lock for me, so I'll wear it back."

The prison lady knew that she had a stomachache in the morning and frowned. She looked at her left and right and left, and it was flat and there was no place to hide. She was afraid that she would really get dirty and smoke her. She frowned, took out the key, and opened a lock for her.

Shao Yuniang thanked her for being grateful. She hung an iron chain in one hand and covered her stomach with the other. After touching a clump of weeds in the field, she squatted down.

The prison lady followed her and stopped for a few steps, waited for a long time, and urged her several times, but she still didn't get up. She walked over angrily, but saw her lying on the ground, her eyes closed, and she fainted. She was shocked and squatted down to pinch her. Seeing that she had no reaction, she was about to get up and call the person in front of her. Suddenly, Shao Yuniang, who was on the ground, opened her eyes, grabbed the iron chain hanging on one of her wrists, swung it around, and then tied it up, and then tied it up, and the chain strangled her neck.

The prison woman was tall and tied to her neck tightly by Shao Yuniang, but she couldn't break free. She slumped on the ground, kicked her legs, and kept whimpering in her throat. At first, her hands were still trying to grab the chains desperately, trying to break free.

Shao Yuniang gritted her teeth, tightening the tighter and tighter, and the iron chain penetrated deeper into the flesh.

Gradually, the old woman's hands and feet were loose, and she was completely motionless, and she was finally cut off from her anger.

Shao Yuniang let go of the iron chain, sat on the ground, took a few breaths, took the prisoner's key, opened the other shackles on her hand, and then dragged the woman's body into a ditches, buried it with grass, looked around, and walked quickly towards Jiankang.

...

On the third day of the evacuation order, the emperor and the empress and the ministers who accompanied him had already gone to Qu'a, and more than half of the residents in the city had left.

The genius is bright. The thin morning mist is like a piece of gauze, covering the hills and fields far away from the eastern suburbs of Jiankang, outlining a faint curve in the morning light.

The fields in front of you are so quiet. If it weren't for the war reports from all over the place that flew over day and night like snow, it would be hard to imagine that in the near future, all this in front of you might have been broken by war chaos.

There was a noise from the city gate, and a group of people who had just left the city, including men, women, young and old, dragging their families. A man walking behind pushed a wheelbarrow and a woman holding a doll in the car was sitting in the car. The woman's eyes were dull and there was a bag at hand.

Gao Qiao stopped looking, turned around and got off the city wall and returned home.

Xiao Yongjia was ready to take the imperial physician, midwife, Aju, and four or five other serving people selected to wait at home.

Gao Qiao took his wife and placed her in an ordinary blue felt carriage with thick pads. A group of people quietly left the south city gate and headed towards Jurong.

Near Jurong, there is an unknown Qinglong Mountain. There is an unknown Taoist temple hidden in the middle of Qinglong Mountain. Not many people know it. The owner of the temple is an old friend Gao Qiao met by chance in his early years and then got to know it.

Gao Qiao sent Xiao Yongjia here to wait for delivery.

After a long time of travel, the place was convenient. The bluestone steps leading to the mountain were hidden under the dense cap of the mountain trees. It was extremely hidden. If you didn’t walk closer, it would be difficult to see it. What’s even better is that you have to go to the Taoist temple and walk a plank road between two hills. Even if there is any accident at the foot of the mountain, at the last moment, as long as you destroy the plank road, the passage will be broken, which can be described as a natural barrier and solid.

The host of the temple came to pick up Xiao Yongjia and welcomed him up the mountain.

The Taoist temple was not big and the environment was quiet. Xiao Yongjia was placed in a yard at the back. Gao Qiao left a team of guards with enough manpower and ordered them to guard the intersection of the mountain, the plank road and the Taoist temple. If you have any questions, you will come to Jiankang to report it. After getting settled, you will say goodbye to your wife.

Xiao Yongjia urged him to reply: "This place is very good, I am very satisfied. You have been with me for a long time. Come back quickly, don't worry about me."

Gao Qiao was reluctant to leave, and knew that there were so many things waiting for him in Jiankang City that he had to leave. He shook his wife's hand, told Aju and others to take good care of her, and asked him to tell him when he gave birth, and said that he would come to see her when he had time. After that, he turned around and left.

He stepped out of the door, but heard Xiao Yongjia say behind him, "Wait a minute." Then he stopped. Seeing her coming, he smiled and tidied up his clothes for himself, and whispered: "No matter how difficult it is next, remember that you must be good. My child and I are waiting for you."

Gao Qiao felt warm in his heart.

He is introverted and self-reliant. No matter when he was young or now, even if he was close to Xiao Yongjia, he would not have any intimate actions in front of others.

But at this moment, he couldn't help but hug her in front of Aju and other servants, and hugged her hard, responding, then let go, turned around and left in a hurry.

Xiao Yongjia leaned against the door, watched her husband leave, held her waist, was caught by Aju, and turned back into the house.

The days in the mountains are pure, and compared to the chaos outside at this moment, it is like being in a dream.

Xiao Yongjia lived here for seven or eight days, but Gao Qiao had never visited her.

She knew that the situation must be tense. She could only barely suppress her anxiety, walk around the Taoist temple during the day, go to bed early at night, and wait for the birth date to arrive.

Unexpectedly, the wildfire started to burn in the second half of the night.

The fire broke out was a guard who was vigilant. Seeing the fire point, he immediately woke up the people in the Taoist temple.

By early winter, the mountains are covered with yellow grass and withered branches, which are easy to ignite. It has been cleared for many days. The fire and the mountain wind assists the situation, it will soon spread widely and cannot be extinguished.

The Taoist temple is located at the lower vent. Seeing that the fire is getting closer and closer, people are in the house, not only can they feel the heat, but they even seem to hear the beeping sound of forest fires burning through the branches and leaves of trees.

The Taoist temple will soon be engulfed by the fire.

The people in the entire Taoist temple, the master of the temple, several disciples, Xiao Yongjia, and the guards had to retreat from the mountain.

There is no place to stay near the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, the viewer said that there was a wild village ten miles away, and there were several families living in it, so that he could go there. The guards carried Xiao Yongjia with the carriage he had just taken down and searched all the way.

The village was indeed as the master said, only a few families lived in. The houses were sparse and spread along the terrain. They were all simple and simple by planting a few acres of mountain fields and hunting. Because the two places were close, they knew the master. Seeing him leading a group of people, the woman was stooled, and the rest looked like her followers. Although the situation was difficult, they must have a background. They were solemn and immediately vacated the largest house with a yard.

Aju led the servant to clean up the place and finally barely settled down. At this time, the blazing tongues of the forest fire had swallowed almost half of the mountain. The fire light shone nearby like daytime, and even here, you could see the fire.

Everyone looked out from afar and was frightened.

Xiao Yongjia was supported by Aju and rested on the simple bed of the hunter's house.

She knew that her husband must have a lot of things. Seven or eight days have passed since she went up the mountain, and the situation outside was not known how it had become. She had not planned to disturb him by giving birth, but unfortunately tonight, something like this happened and there was no way to beat someone back to Jiankang to report the news to Gao Qiao.

It was already dawn.

After struggling for a long time, she was fine. Seeing that the rest of the people looked tired, she asked someone to borrow some food from the villagers first. Several families sent food to stock, including millet and wild vegetables. The servant cooked a large pot of vegetable porridge and invited everyone to eat.

The guards were busy in the middle of the night and came out of the fire again, and they were all over. Seeing that there was a small well for villagers nearby, they had already gone to drink water. At this moment, they were hungry and just sent porridge. They stood there and finished drinking a few sips. The leader divided the people into the shift and ordered half of them to rest for a while. The rest continued to stand guard, waiting for news from Jiankang.

When Xiao Yongjia met the imperial physician, midwife, and servant, all of them were dry and their eyes were dry. He asked him to eat something and go to rest first.

Aju took the porridge without regard for her hunger and thirst, and put it in the house, sat in front of Xiao Yongjia, and whispered: "I feel wronged as the princess, I'm about to give birth, but I'd expect that such a thing would happen..."

Seeing her eyes flushed, Xiao Yongjia knew that she felt sorry for her and laughed. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly felt a faint abdominal pain. She pressed it with her hand and said, "It seems that she is about to give birth."
To be continued...