Liaozhai Great Sage

"Since your father is dead and you want to be buried in the ground, you should be cremated and buried in the ground. Otherwise, even if you bury it at this time, you will pop out of the coffin later. At that time, it will be called the real death. Peace." Li Xiuyuan said.

"Young master, what this young master said is correct. It is better to follow this young master's suggestion and cremate the master on the spot and forcefully bury it. Disasters will definitely happen in the future." A servant who was traveling with him said.

The pale man thought for a while and said: "No, it can't be burned. I must let my father's body be buried."

"Since you can't persuade me, don't blame me for offending. For the sake of other people's lives in the future, I will not let this evil thing go to the ground."

After Li Xiuyuan finished speaking, he jumped up from the horse and landed on the coffin board with a bang.

Grabbed it from the ghost king's bag, and took out the golden spear.

"A stranger, a stranger."

When the others saw that Li Xiuyuan took out such a big rod from a small cloth bag, they immediately opened their eyes wide in surprise.

Li Xiuyuan swiped his big gun, and a gap was torn open in the coffin board.

Through this gap, he could see an old man with a blue face lying inside, skinny all over, exuding a cold breath.

The other corpses had decayed by this time, but this corpse showed no signs of decay.

Stretched out a big gun, drew several strokes at the corpse, cut off the corpse's legs, arms, neck, and multiple bones, to ensure that the corpse would not be able to move even if it was a fake corpse. It can't hurt people anymore.

After the bones of the corpse were severed, the corpse shook a few times, as if it wanted to resist, but there was nothing it could do.

"If you don't want to be cremated, you can bury the corpse in a place facing the sun, which can ensure that the corpse will not do evil in the future." Li Xiuyuan said.

In a sunny place, the yang qi is heavy, and the yin qi of the corpse in the coffin will soon dissipate. Without the gathering of yin qi, the corpse will rot soon, and it will not become evil by then.

After doing all this, Li Xiuyuan jumped on the horse again, put away his big gun, called his guards and left immediately.

The pale-faced man was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly took a look into his father's coffin, and saw that although his father's body had a few scratches, it was at least a complete body.

But when he saw his father's body shaking non-stop, he was terrified, and hurriedly ordered others to repair the coffin boards, and then buried them in a sunny place.

"Young master, the corpse is evil, why not forcefully burn it on fire." The guard said; "We did a good job, we have a lot of corpses, and we will definitely become ghosts and evil spirits in the future, coming out to harm people."

"There's no time, didn't you notice that the man was pale and coughed continuously, and the female family members in the team were also sick. It's understandable for one person to have this kind of situation, but it's not right if so many people have this kind of situation. "

Li Xiuyuan looked up at Guo Beicheng not far away and said, "If I guessed correctly, there should be a disease in the city."

Sure enough, what I was most worried about happened.

Chapter 2 Coincidence

In the evening, Li Xiuyuan had already entered Guo Beicheng.

The city gates are wide open and no one is guarding them.

Walking along the street, there is no one on the street, but there is still smoke rising in the city and candles are lit, it can be seen that the city is not empty.

It's just that Li Xiuyuan felt a dead breath as soon as he entered the city.

This breath makes people very uncomfortable, it seems to be gloomy, there is a breath of death, and it seems that there is an invisible haze covering the whole city, making people feel a little breathless.

"This city seems to be... dead." Li Xiuyuan murmured.

"Young master, it's not that exaggerated. If there is an epidemic, wouldn't we be in a trap by coming here? Epidemics are contagious." The guard's face changed after talking.

As a native of the people, what they fear most may not be the disaster of swords and soldiers, the chaos of demons, but the disease.

The plague spreads and spreads, and it is unknown how many people will die, and if the plague is not cured, it will not stop.

A great plague can even affect the rise and fall of a dynasty.

"Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky. If you want to die, you will die naturally. If you don't die, why worry about a small epidemic." Li Xiuyuan said: "Don't make a fuss, go back to the mansion and ask Lu Bo first, and see the nearest city. what happened there."

"Yes, young master."

A group of people came to Li's mansion along the street.

At this moment, there was still candlelight shining in Li's mansion, but the gate of the mansion was closed tightly.

The guards knocked on the door, but Lu Bo opened the door quickly, and when he saw Li Xiuyuan came back, he was pleasantly surprised: "Master, it's great that you are finally back."

"It seems that a lot of things have happened in the city these days." Li Xiuyuan said.

"Isn't it? Hey, it's a long story." Lu Bo sighed and said helplessly.

"If you have anything to say, let's go in and talk." Li Xiuyuan said.

A group of people entered the mansion.

Lu Bo said: "Recently there have been a lot of things going on in the city. A few friends of the Eldest Young Master have been staying at the mansion for the past few days, and we are waiting for the Eldest Young Master to come back to discuss matters."

"Who is there?" Li Xiuyuan asked in a daze.

"There are Ning Caichen, Wang Ping, Zhu Yu, and several other scholars who were in charge during the disaster relief." Lu Bo said.

Li Xiuyuan nodded.

When he came to the lobby, he saw six or seven scholars gathered together, as if they were discussing something, but the result of the discussion was not good, each of them sighed in a low voice, looking decadent.

"Friends, why are you sighing?" Li Xiuyuan smiled slightly, and strode in.

"Brother Li?" Someone asked in surprise.

"Young Master Li." Someone was surprised.

When everyone saw Li Xiuyuan's return at this moment, they all showed joy, and one by one hurriedly got up to salute.

"We're all friends, so let's avoid these hypocrisy."

Li Xiuyuan said: "When I entered the city before, I saw that the city was lifeless. The people who entered and exited the city had pale faces, coughing constantly, and looked sick. At that time, I guessed that there might be a plague in the city. I don't know if I guessed wrong. ?”

Ning Caichen sighed and said, "Mr. Li is really astute. He saw the clues as soon as he entered the city. The incompetence of Wan Sheng and others caused the plague after all."

"After a catastrophe, there will be a catastrophe. It has been like this since ancient times. You have done a good job. Since this incident has happened, the top priority now should be to find a way to deal with it, not to sigh." Li Xiuyuan said.

Ning Caichen shook his head and said, "Thank you, Mr. Li, for your comfort, but the outbreak of the plague is indeed our responsibility. We failed to manage things well, which is why the plague appeared."

Wang Ping, who was standing next to him, said, "Brother Li, I'm afraid I don't know something. The reason why this plague happened is because people secretly dug up the corpses outside the city every day. The people in the city couldn't bear to bury their relatives so hastily. They all want to find the corpses of their relatives, hold funerals, and then bury them in the ground, but Brother Li, you also know that the corpses of people who have been drowned in water rot quickly. Once they are dug out, it can be said that the city is full of corpses. And just two days after this happened, the plague suddenly broke out, and people all over the city became ill."

"All the people in the city got sick overnight?"

Li Xiuyuan frowned: "It's impossible for the plague to spread so fast, and the people in the city fell ill overnight?"

"Although this matter is a bit strange, it is the truth."