noffsinger Chapter 541 Doing something you know you can’t do
Chapter 541 Doing something you know you can’t do
The development of events completely exceeded Yu Jiusi's expectations.
Li Shiyuan was an excellent doctor, and he could even cure the pestilence in Jimu Village. This gave Yu Jiusi confidence when he first heard about the epidemic in Xingning Prefecture.
But now, his confidence was like a punctured sausage casing, deflated all at once.
So is Lu Sichu.
His visit to Changnan Prefecture was a loss of both his wife and his army. He failed to tell Yu Jiusi what had happened and was about to give himself up.
"Sir..." The confidant held his arm, his upper and lower teeth chattering: "Young Master must be trying to scare us... Our people have been dealt with cleanly a long time ago, how could they be infected with smallpox?"
He even handled the matter personally and watched the whole process.
How could there be any mistakes?
"Don't touch me!" Lu Sichu turned a deaf ear to his words. Instead, he was extremely disgusted by his touch and pushed him to sit on the ground.
Lu Sichu looked down at him, his eyes red and his expression crazy: "From today on, don't come near me!"
“My lord!” The confidant climbed up and looked at his hands and said, “My lord, there is no way I can be infected with the virus!”
"You don't have the final say!" Lu Sichu avoided him like a plague god, and fled back to the main hall. His voice came from the main hall: "I will be responsible for your daily life. From now on, you are not allowed to take a single step into the main hall."
A trace of hurt flashed across the face of the confidant, and he asked stiffly: "What if the young master and the doctor teamed up to defraud us..."
"Impossible!" Lu Sichu interrupted him, "This is smallpox! Let's not talk about whether Yu Jiusi is crazy or not. Xingning Prefecture is a hundred miles away from Changnan Prefecture. No matter how smart Yu Jiusi is, it will take time for him to find out the news."
The last glimmer of hope in Qinxin's heart was extinguished. He squatted down helplessly and stared at the ground blankly.
Is this what you are doing?...
In the main hall, Lu Sichu's fingers turned white as he gripped the arm of the chair.
He didn't understand why he had come to this point.
It was clear that a day ago, he was still strategizing and thought that if he could send Yu Jiusi to Xingning Prefecture, then everything would return to dust.
After fighting with Yu Zhengqing so many times, both openly and secretly, it’s time to decide the winner, isn’t it?
But in just one day, the changes were earth-shaking, and it was he, Lu Sichu, who became the defeated general at the hands of Yu Zhengqing's eldest son?
How could he accept this? How could he accept this?
No!
There were dots of light in the hall. Lu Sichu was stunned, but he began to think about how to escape.
The higher-ups don’t know yet, the six ministries don’t know yet, and Your Majesty doesn’t know yet. Everything still has room for maneuver!
Amidst the complete silence in the second hall, the sound of armor suddenly came.
Lu Sichu knew who was coming without even looking up.
"Lord Lu." Although Yu Jiusi still called him "Lord", his tone was much more impolite than before: "Hand over the governor's order."
Lu Sichu looked up suddenly.
Yu Jiusi stood at the door of the main hall against the light. His expression could not be seen clearly, but the pauldron on his shoulder reflected the light, which made Lu Sichu's eyes hurt.
"What are you going to do?" he asked in a hoarse voice.
"What?" Yu Jiusi grasped the hilt and slowly drew out his sword. "You will die anyway. If you don't cooperate, I will kill you with my own sword and then come to take it myself."
"You!" Lu Sichu breathed rapidly and gritted his teeth and said, "The governor's order is of vital importance. If General Yu doesn't tell me, I won't give it to you."
The Governor's Order is a symbol of the Governor's identity. He can supervise all local officials and has the power to dispatch materials from various prefectures and handle government affairs on behalf of local officials.
Most local officials also recognized the orders rather than the people - there were so many officials in Beijing that some local officials might never have been to Beijing in their entire lives, and it was even more impossible for them to recognize those high-handed governors. So in most cases, the "orders" had more say than the "people".
If the governor loses the order, it will be a serious crime!
“You won’t give it to me?” Yu Jiusi laughed, a cold light flashed, and his sword came out of his body. “Then I will have to come and get it myself!”
After saying that, he stepped forward quickly, and in a flash, the sword tip collided with something, making a crisp clanging sound.
"Are you crazy?!" Lu Sichu held up the governor's order, his palms numb from the shock.
Yu Jiusi didn't hold back at all this time, he really wanted to kill him!
Yu Jiusi looked at Na Ling and raised his sword again without saying a word.
"Here you go! Here you go!" Lu Sichu threw the torn governor's order to Yu Jiusi, who caught it steadily.
At this time, Lu Sichu's fear of death was even greater than his fear of contracting the epidemic.
The latter still had a chance, but the former didn't even give him a chance to react and just raised his hand to chop!
——Or you can hold Yu Jiusi and take a bite.
Lu Sichu suddenly had an outrageous idea.
If he really had contracted smallpox, Yu Jiusi would be finished with him after this bite, let’s see how he can be so arrogant again!
Yu Jiusi took the governor's order away through the cloth.
"I didn't want to answer you just now." He said suddenly, "But now, I suddenly want to answer you."
"What?" Lu Sichu stared at the sword in his hand, unable to understand what he said.
"What do I want to do with this order?" Yu Jiusi took two steps back, still facing the light, "Do you think, Governor, that I want you to hand over the order in order to remove your power?"
Lu Sichu asked back: "Isn't it?"
"Ha..." Yu Jiusi bent over and laughed as if he had heard a big joke. He pointed his sword at Lu Sichu's nose and said, "Even if you, Lu Sichu, have the governor's order in hand, you still can't leave this house."
He picked up the cloth wrapped around the governor's order with two fingers and sneered, "Even though you have this order in your hands, what did you do when an epidemic broke out in Xingning Prefecture? You didn't dispatch medicine or doctors, and you were still scheming to take my life."
Yu Jiusi just sat outside the door thinking for a long time, still very confused.
Could it be that in Lu Sichu's eyes, his life is worth the lives of millions of ordinary people?
Should he also be grateful and thank Lu Sichu for thinking so highly of him?
"You, Lu Sichu, are not worthy of being a governor." Yu Jiusi put away his sword and walked out the door. "Perhaps you should thank me. The token is in my hand. You are only responsible for throwing the token away, and I am the one who is responsible for the people."
Lu Sichu was shocked and looked at Yu Jiusi.
The young man stood tall and straight, walking towards the light.
Yes.
Lu Sichu suddenly laughed.
He understood what Yu Jiusi was going to do.
——Another attempt to take on too much.
Lu Sichu held onto the arm of the chair and laughed wildly.
Is this the nature of young people? They know it is impossible but still do it, just for the sake of fighting with passion, and end up with a bloody head, and they are "without repentance".
So, wasn't it a good thing for Lu Sichu that the governor's order was taken away by Yu Jiusi?
Let's wait and see.
Lu Sichu wiped the tears from his eyes. He wanted to see how Yu Jiusi could live up to the people and deserve the appreciation of His Majesty.
That's smallpox.