The Fulang's Modern Young Husband Chapter 437 Part 2

The walls outside the yamen were covered with drawings.

There were corpses abandoned by the roadside, rotting and covered in flies. There were people holding children, sitting under trees, their eyes full of bewilderment and helplessness.

There were villages that had met disaster, burned to ruins.

There were men lying on the ground being savagely cut down by enemy soldiers, the enemy surrounding them laughing—but now, in the eyes of the common people around, those faces looked as hideous as demons from hell.

The Fulang's Modern Young Husband Chapter 437 Part 1

Chapter 437

Fang Zichen couldn't sleep or eat properly, living in constant anxiety. Even in the dead of winter, he felt hot, coughing constantly while fanning himself without pause.

Zhao Ger saw the blisters on his mouth. Since returning from Jizhou, Fang Zichen had fallen ill. He rarely got sick, but he'd been running nonstop since coming back from the south—his body simply couldn't take it anymore. Even Xiao Feng stayed shut in his room, not coming out. Dragging his sick body, Fang Zichen summoned a dozen county magistrates overnight, gave a pile of instructions, and assigned all the Qin family soldiers he'd brought back to Yang Mingyi.

The Fulang's Modern Young Husband Chapter 436 Part 3

Xiao Feng heard Lu Zhengren cursing inside—he sounded furious. He was clearly wary of the Qin family, so he didn't name names, but he was clearly aiming his words at someone.

How could Fang Zichen not catch that? He stood outside the tent with his hands on his hips, yelling right back at him.

Xiao Feng: "..."

Uncle Fang really does offend people wherever he goes.

The Fulang's Modern Young Husband Chapter 436 Part 2

When Tang Zhiming saw Fang Zichen arrive, he hurried to pack his things and follow.

Fang Zichen saw him sitting in a wheelchair, with a dozen or so children standing behind him—the oldest about nine, the youngest not even two. The place they lived wasn't much either. They were probably poor—no wonder he needed someone to escort them.

Fang Zichen's mouth went dry. He pointed at the gaggle of children behind Tang Zhiming: "These... these are all your kids?"

Tang Zhiming said: "Yes and no."

Fang Zichen: "..."

The Fulang's Modern Young Husband Chapter 436 Part 1

Chapter 436

Fang Zichen didn't dare delay. As soon as he entered Jizhou, he headed straight for Jihe County. That area hadn't fallen yet, but the enemy had already reached Xinghe County, and the three armies were currently battling there.

Any later, and Fang Zichen feared Xinghe County would fall too. He rode hard the whole way, refugees fleeing outward lining both sides of the road. Fang Zichen gave them a casual glance, then his gaze suddenly froze.

He thought he must be seeing things.

The Fulang's Modern Young Husband Chapter 435 Part 3

As soon as Fang Zichen returned, he sent people to Jizhou to gather information. Within a few days, news came back.

The entire Luohe County area had fallen.

Jizhou was now in chaos.

The common people had probably figured out that the Northwest Army was useless. Seeing two counties fall one after another, with over a dozen villages below them massacred clean, panic spread. Those who were timid and couldn't stay any longer all fled from Jizhou.

With more people, grain naturally became tight.

The Fulang's Modern Young Husband Chapter 435 Part 2

In this era of inconvenient transportation, even an eight-hundred-li urgent message would take nearly a week to go and return. Waiting for court relief—that probably wouldn't work either.

A few years ago, there was a disaster in Huaijiang. He'd heard about a thousand people dying.

At that time, Fang Zichen was still working in the Hanlin Academy and had heard about it.

The court had clearly already released grain for disaster relief. Why did so many still die?