Liaozhai Great Sage

Zhu Yu shook his head and said, "For the past few days, the imperial government official who was lucky enough to provide disaster relief was an official who was in charge of the affairs. He immediately confiscated the corpses of the people in the city and went out to burn and bury them. This prevented the further spread of the plague."

Li Xiuyuan asked: "The imperial court ordering the disaster relief is here? Which adult has such courage?"

"It's the Minister of War of the imperial court, Fu Tianchou, Lord Fu." Ning Caichen said.

"The Minister of War?"

Li Xiuyuan said: "It seems that the imperial court is more worried about the disease here than the plague, and sent the Minister of the Ministry of War. By the way, is this lord in the city now?"

"It's gone, only a sick civil servant is left to manage affairs in the city." Wang Ping said.

However, Zhu Yu was a little dissatisfied and said: "The minister of the Ministry of War is probably also a person who is afraid of death. He ran away when he knew there was an epidemic in the city."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "It's good that he can come to Guobei City, and hasn't he cleaned up the corpses in the city? Now the plague is still happening, and he can't do anything. Staying here is like waiting for death. If I didn't guess If it's wrong, Lord Fu Tianchou should go to Jinling City."

Zhu Yu said; "Brother Li is right. This Lord Fu really went to Jinling City. Brother Li is really good at predicting things."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said with a smile: "Where is the predictability of things like a god, just calculate it. You must know that there is a military camp near Jinling City, and there are at least [-] soldiers stationed there. This plague is already terrible enough. If there is another mutiny, the whole south will be in chaos, and the south is a rich land, where the country's taxes are, once there is chaos, the consequences are unimaginable..."

The faces of all the scholars changed drastically when they heard the words, and they all exclaimed in surprise.

Hearing Li Xiuyuan break it down a bit, I just realized the seriousness of this matter.

Compared with the survival of a Guobei City, Jinling City is obviously much more important, so it is no wonder that the imperial court's Minister of War will go to Jinling City.

"From this point of view, the disaster relief is false, and the stabilization of the situation is real. That's why the imperial court sent the Minister of the Ministry of War, not the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, or a certain prince to come to rescue the disaster." Ning Caichen said with wide-eyed eyes.

"No matter how stupid the imperial court is, there are still smart people who can see through the situation at a glance." Li Xiuyuan nodded: "So we have to find a way to deal with the plague."

"The plague has spread, how can it be cured?" Wang Ping asked.

Li Xiuyuan asked: "What about the short-term workers I recruited before? Where did they go?"

"Brother Li, don't mention it. The next day after you left, someone yelled for wages, but they couldn't find you. They all felt cheated and almost rushed into your house to empty the house. Fortunately, the court officials Master Fu arrived in time to stop the riot, and distributed some food and a little money to everyone to quell the riot." Zhu Yu smiled wryly, "We are really useless scholars, we are powerless in the face of the riot."

Li Xiuyuan frowned and pondered, he felt that this matter was a bit strange.

As soon as I left, all kinds of things happened, such as digging up corpses, wage troubles, riots, plagues... and when I came, the overall situation was settled, and there was only a lifeless Guobei City in front of me.

Coincidence, too coincidental.

It seemed that these kinds of things were waiting for him, and they would explode together when he left Guo Beicheng.

At first glance, everything is very normal, but if they are smoked together, it is not normal.

Although I left for a few days, it was not long.

After thinking for a while, Li Xiuyuan suddenly raised his head and said: "It's getting late, everyone go back to the guest room to rest first, let me think about the countermeasures, and discuss the matter tomorrow. You can stick to the city when the epidemic occurs, which is enough to see you all." With the heart of sacrificing one's life for righteousness, here, Li Xiuyuan thanks."

After finishing speaking, he stood up and bowed solemnly to his friends.

The plague spread all over the city, not everyone has the courage to live here, it requires great determination.

Everyone knows that once infected with the plague, it is very likely to die.

"Brother Li's words are serious."

Everyone's complexion changed, and they hurriedly stood up and returned a salute: "Brother Li is the one who is benevolent and loves the people. He used his own efforts to relieve the disaster of a city. I just waited for some extra effort. Besides, this epidemic was caused by our poor management. "Brother Li's worship is not embarrassing to us."

After the disaster relief, everyone was convinced and admired Li Xiuyuan.

It wasn't Li Xiuyuan, the casualties in the city were more than that, now that there is a plague, they feel ashamed, they just blame themselves for being careless, otherwise how could the good situation in the city become like this.

"Let's not talk too much about being polite. It's already late at night, everyone go back to rest first, and we'll talk tomorrow if we have anything to say." Seeing that everyone was in a bad mood, Li Xiuyuan said again.

After arranging for his friends to go to the guest room to rest, he went to the backyard with a somewhat tired body.

Instead of going to rest, I went to meditate with my eyes closed in the gazebo to recover my energy.

"The thing about the plague is weird. You have to ask the ghosts and gods to be sure. Is this a real plague or is there a demon at work." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

Tomorrow he plans to go to the Temple of the City God.

Tieshan, the ghosts and gods such as the green-faced Yin soldiers and the black-faced Yin soldiers are still entrenched in the Temple of the City God, so they should have a little understanding of the things in the city.

And my uncle Mu Taoist, I don't know if the catastrophe has passed.

There were too many distracting thoughts, and it became difficult for him to even enter meditation. It took a while to get rid of distracting thoughts and start practicing against the bright moonlight.

The moon accepts the clear light, the sun accepts the rainbow, and the dragon and the tiger form their own knots.

It was originally the method of cultivating immortals and the way of longevity, but in the hands of Li Xiuyuan, it has always been a substitute for sleep.

Chapter 2 Rooster

"Oh, oh oh~!"

It was just dawn when a rooster crowed on the roof of the mansion.

But I saw a strong and burly rooster with vermilion feathers standing on the cornice, and it croaked loudly against the early sun.

This cry seemed to be heard throughout Guobei City, awakening people from their sleep.

Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting in the gazebo, woke up when he heard the crowing of the rooster. After he opened his eyes, he subconsciously looked in the direction of the crowing.

When he saw the big rooster standing on the cornice of the roof, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

"It's Thunder God Swallowing Ghosts..."

This big vermilion rooster is exactly the same as the 99 big roosters that were turned into after God Swallowing Thunder went down to earth that day. The whole body is vermilion, burly and strong, it should be two or three times bigger than ordinary roosters, and its size is close to that of an ostrich. up.

There are some curiosity and doubts in my heart.

After washing up, he asked Lu Bo for a question.

"Lu Bo, when did this rooster in the house appear?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

Lu Bo thought for a while and said: "Back to young master, this rooster should have escaped from young master's study a few days ago. At first, the old slave thought it was a mistake, but later when he was cleaning young master's study, he saw it. The shell of an egg shattered all over the ground, thinking that the rooster hatched from the egg shell, the old servant also found it unbelievable that a rooster could expand so big not long after it hatched, probably due to the Taoist priest’s magical way Let's do it."

"That's it..." Li Xiuyuan looked in the direction of the study, and then remembered.

After Thunder God Swallowed Ghosts came down to earth that day, he left behind a scarlet egg.

He didn't know what it was useful for, so he put it in the study as a decoration.

Unexpectedly, within a few days after I left, the egg actually hatched.

Then this rooster should be transformed by the thunder god in the sky, or it should be the descendant of the thunder god... But can a rooster lay eggs?