Who Stole My Eggs?

Although Yuzhao and Wuzhao had been completely eradicated, the plague they fostered spread like wildfire throughout the southern region.

At first, the plague only raged in Yuzhao and Wuzhao. After timely treatment, the sick bodies were burned and buried, partitions were made, and the epidemic was considered under control.

It was only later that Xie Zuo discovered that this plague of resentment was different from the past. Even if normal people did not come into contact with patients, if they were depressed and had high emotional fluctuations, they would be infected by this plague of resentment.

As more and more people became infected, the fear and pain in the hearts of the people increased day by day. The more resentful they became, the faster the plague spread.

For thousands of years, the people of the Southern Kingdom had never lived a peaceful life for a few days. They were either fighting with one country or another. No matter what, they were the ones who suffered.

Yuzhao and Wuzhao committed such heinous crimes, killing countless innocent people and causing public resentment. Even if no one created resentment anymore, it was already too late. The entire Southern Kingdom had turned into a huge furnace of resentment.

Later, the plague was completely out of control, and large numbers of people were infected every day and died in pain.

Xie Zuo called on the world’s famous doctors and Taoist priests to find ways to resolve the epidemic, but they achieved little success. So far, no suitable medicine had been developed.

Xie Zuo was very busy recently and did not see Huo Yao for a long time.

The epidemic already spread to Yunzhao. A case was discovered in the palace yesterday. The patient died in pain in a short period of time, and the body was quickly taken away.

Mu Rong and others arranged for people to set up large pots in each palace and boiled some smelly herbs, saying they could prevent epidemics, and forced everyone to drink a bowl.

Xie Zuo looked at the medicinal soup Mu Rong sent in. It was slimy and green, like a ball of vomit, and he refused to drink it.

Mu Rong was extremely anxious, “Brother, you have to drink, come on, close your eyes, pinch your nose and swallow it down!”

Xie Zuo’s face almost turned backward, “Take it away, take it away, it’s disgusting!”

“Brother, I checked, and the sick little eunuch passed by your palace yesterday. What if you got infected?”

Xie Zuo slapped the table, “Then you will be the emperor! Originally, this throne should be yours.”

Mu Rong heard him say this every few days. From being frightened at the beginning to being calm, he was completely used to it.

“Drink quickly, the effect of the medicine will be gone when it gets cold!”

“I won’t drink—!”

Xie Zuo and Mu Rong were tugging, and suddenly a familiar voice came from the door, “If he doesn’t want to drink, don’t force it.”

Xie Zuo saw the person coming, his eyes lit up, “Huo Yao!”

Mu Rong was frightened when he saw Huo Yao, and he didn’t dare to persuade anymore, so he put down the medicine bowl and walked back three steps.

After not seeing each other for several months, Huo Yao had lost weight, and his tired look was obvious on his face, which made Xie Zuo heartbroken. He rushed over and hugged Huo Yao, “Why are you so haggard? Have you never slept?”

Huo Yao’s arms hugged him tightly. He lowered his head and rested his forehead gently on his shoulder, “I really need to recuperate and get some sleep.”

However, Huo Yao had always been a clean person. Even if he was extremely tired, he still had to take a shower first.

He must have been really tired from this long journey, so he fell asleep leaning on the edge of the bath while soaking in the warm water.

Seeing this, Xie Zuo waved away the others and sat down by the pool so that Huo Yao could sleep more comfortably leaning on his thighs.

Xie Zuo looked at Huo Yao’s pale face and felt a little uneasy. This was so unusual. Ever since he met Huo Yao, he had never seen him cry out that he was tired, let alone showing such fatigue.

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After the unification of the Southern Kingdom, Xie Zuo retained the original geographical division of the Sixteen Kingdoms and changed the original Sixteen Kingdoms to Sixteen Provinces. The original rulers were all continent leaders. He fully respected the status quo of each province, allowed soldiers to disarm and return to their fields, and adopted the national policy of recuperation and restoration.

Huo Yao led his troops out this time because of Yuezhao Province’s rebellion. Yuezhao was close to Wuzhao and was one of the first countries to submit to Wuzhao. It was also the area with the worst epidemic situation in the entire southern country.

The leader of Yuezhao Province was a strange person. He was very quick to kneel to Wuzhao at first, and later he was also the first one to betray Wuzhao and join Yunzhao. However, not long after he surrendered, he insisted on Xie Zuo coming up with the magic medicine to cure the plague. When Xie Zuo couldn’t get it, he started to fight for independence again, inciting the people in the province to save themselves, saying that Yunzhao had the medicine but refused to provide it, secretly using it only for Yunzhao’s people. For a time, all the provinces were in a state of chaos.

Xie Zuo had already been tortured by the plague. He didn’t want to care about him at first. He didn’t want to deal with this mess either. But according to the report from the spies, there was nothing that could be done about Yuezhao’s troubles. The plague in Yuezhao was so severe that when people in other areas got the plague, those in good health could linger for a while, but if they got infected, they would die immediately.

If possible, Xie Zuo really didn’t want to send Huo Yao out. They told people that they were quelling the chaos, but they were actually being forced to save people.

At the beginning, the Black Cloud Messenger used the plague to control the countries surrounding Wuzhao. Only those who surrendered to them could control the plague. Many people thought that Xie Zuo would get the prescription after defeating Wuzhao. In fact, the Black Cloud Messenger could not cure the plague at all. He dared to do so because he was the reincarnation of the Divine Envoy and would not get sick. He did not care about the lives of ordinary people at all. The so-called control meant that he used magic to draw away the accumulated disease energy from the patient but it could not eliminate the root cause and would relapse after a while.

Looking at the entire southern region, Huo Yao and Rain Deity Lin were the only two people who could control the epidemic. Huo Yao used the same method as the Black Cloud Messenger, extracting the plague energy and directing it to himself, and then using his divine power to resolve it. Because Xiao Lin had the constitution of a rain deity, clouds and rain gathered wherever he went, and he could help eminent monks and great sages sprinkle the mantra of clearing the heart and removing dryness to the earth through rain, temporarily dispelling the resentment in people’s hearts, thereby easing the patient’s death.

But these measures were far from enough; they had to find ways to eradicate the plague.