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Gao Changgong laughed. He knew that Zhou Gongjin didn't usually speak so vulgarly. On the contrary, he had always had the reputation of "Prince Yushi" in the court. look like.

In the past, everyone gathered in the No. [-] Jianghu gang in Wudi. At that time, they were their families everywhere, happy to fight against bullies, and fell in love with courtesans. It's just that Zhou Gongjin always complained about the one who complained the most, because whenever Gao Changgong was present, Even the little ladies wandering in the street were not willing to put their eyes on him even for a moment, let alone the oirans of the various buildings in Jianye.

But now, they each have official positions. Gao Changgong alone supports the entire Jingwu military headquarters, while Zhou Gongjin, as the censor, monitors the Quartet. The two may not even see each other again during the holidays.

Zhou Gongjin put her arms around his shoulders, and the two of them walked side by side like brothers.

"When the news came, I thought it was someone who was so bold and dared to create such a big rumor to deceive me, but you actually came... Why, Jianye City can't accommodate you, the God of War of Jingwu? What are you hiding from? ? Do you have to escape so far to let the wind go?"

"Where am I running away? It's just that... Jianye City today really can't accommodate me, neither the gentry nor Wanling can accommodate me... There is nowhere to go left and right, so I just come to help you." Gao Changgong smiled and punched Zhou Gongjin in the chest. This blow almost made Zhou Gongjin spit out the throat pipe, but the two still looked at each other and laughed.

Zhou Gongjin glanced at the boats in the port from a distance, lowered his head and said with a smile, "You think I don't know? I heard that General Mulan will follow you all the way, even if the master tie you up with a rein and let you stay in Jianye City To preside over the overall situation, I'm afraid you have to sneak out, right?"

"Come on, tell me, what's the progress of you two this time? I'm waiting to drink your wedding wine. Although Mrs. Gao has asked me to keep an eye on those ladies, I've been thinking about it over and over again. , most of these women from Jing and Wu are as gentle as water, but you... are a masochist, if the mother-in-law and aunt at home can't beat you eight hundred times a day with a sword, I'm afraid you won't want to go home..." Zhou Gongjin's expression It gradually became a little narrow, and even the smile was a bit mischievous.

Gao Changgong sighed slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Come on. Don't meddle in my affairs... I was very upset when I was in Jianye City. If you also stand on my father's side, don't blame me for turning my face and denying others. "

Zhou Gongjin immediately raised her hand and swore: "What is this? I swear that I will never 'betray'. How could I stand on Mrs. Gao's side... Your father was in a hurry to go to the doctor, and he wanted to hug his grandson as soon as possible , I'm a few years younger than you, how can I know so many ladies... Besides, I know you have someone in your heart, tell me, how are you and General Mulan?"

Gao Changgong glanced at the port, and his voice became a little miserable: "How? How else..."

Zhou Gongjin looked at him and said in disbelief, "No way? After so many days, being alone and widowed... Bah, it doesn't count, but at any rate, it can be regarded as both hands on a boat on the river, and most of Jingwu have swum over. Didn't take the opportunity to do something? Hey, I used to call you a beast when we were drinking together in Hualou, but I didn't expect you to be worse than a beast this time..."

Gao Changgong raised one leg and put it quietly in front of Zhou Gongjin. Zhou Gongjin was busy chattering and was about to stumble, but he caught Gao Changgong immediately at the moment when he was about to fall forward collar, and then stood up straight with strength.

Gao Changgong was a little aggrieved when he couldn't see him throwing a dog and eating shit, and said with a sneer: "You think they are all like you? Seeing that the little lady is beautiful, I want to go up and strike up a few words, but the result is not all You're just flirting, aren't you married too?"

The corner of Zhou Gongjin's mouth twitched, and she said helplessly: "Then how can it be the same... If I have a girl I admire, I have to chase after her every day to let them see my sincerity? It's better than you, a piece of wood. Holding a Jagged Magnolia flower, it has not blossomed until today..."

"Hey? Listen to what you said... Do you have someone who can chase you after you?" Gao Changgong narrowed his eyes and asked in a protracted voice, "Which family is it?"

"Returning to a girl... Bah, she's not a lady, she's just a wild girl with a bad temper." Zhou Gongjin rolled her eyes, but a little tenderness flashed in her eyes, and quickly changed the subject: "Don't talk about this, you Surely it’s not because you miss me this time, right?”

Gao Changgong smiled and said: "Hey, what can I do to help, then I have to ask you, the supervisor... I don't care about political affairs, and I'm afraid I won't be able to use my skills in military training here, but there are still hundreds of people from Qingzhou Ghost rider, I should be able to arrive in a few days, I will follow your arrangement."

Zhou Gongjin nodded. When it came to business, his expression was calm and serious. Even he himself didn't know that there was a sense of majesty on him at this time, and he said, "Come with me."

The two walked slowly through the noisy crowd. The smell from the roast suckling pig had already driven the victims crazy. Even the little officials used their scabbards to stop them, but a large number of victims rushed to Anren.

Where have An Ren and those famous chefs seen such a battle?The victims in front of them had red eyes and roared like wild beasts. They were like a pack of wolves. Before An Ren could react, they were surrounded by the victims, and the roast pigs had been snatched by the victims. , Even if it has not been roasted yet, the victims still bite the part of the roasted pig in oil with their mouths, even if their lips are burnt, they will not slow down even a bite.

An Ren was swept away by the torrent of victims, and he felt dizzy all over. Even though he still had some energy and blood, the power of the torrent was so strong that he fell to the ground in a short time, with countless feet stepped on.

Gao Changgong was expressionless, and he and Zhou Gongjin entered the group of victims, reached out and grabbed the two of them, and then threw them vigorously, the two victims who still had raw meat in their mouths felt that they had ascended into the clouds, and they groaned again in an instant Screaming and falling down.

When they fell to the soft haystack, the two hanging hearts fell to the ground. At the same time, they hurriedly swallowed the meat in their mouths, for fear that it would be snatched away by others.

As more and more figures went up to the sky, many of them lost their color and fled to the open space. As a result, there were continuous ouching sounds, and several victims fell into the haystacks. Above, the expression is exactly the same as the previous one.

Gao Changgong and Zhou Gongjin wandered in the torrent of victims, but it was like no one was there. It didn't take long for the victims who looted the roast pigs to be thrown onto the haystack one by one, because there were too many people at the moment. , Many victims collided with each other and uttered several screams.

The scene finally settled down. Gao Changgong took a look at An Ren, who was lying on the ground crying after eating a mouthful of dirt, and couldn't help but chuckled. At this moment, the only young master of An's family had been trampled into bruises all over his body, with snot and tears all over his body. Together, they kept yelling "Mother, save me, father..."

Chapter 1 Forty The Plague

Gao Changgong stretched out his hand to pull An Ren up, and said to the servant who rushed over, "Take him back and take good care of him."

How dare the servants be negligent, let's not say that the person in front of them is the one in the legend, and this person who is full of hurt and crying is their young master. If the master sees it, he doesn't know how to punish them.

After An Ren was taken away, Zhou Gongjin said to the little official beside him, "Take someone to collect the remaining pork, cut it into pieces, and boil it into the rice porridge."

The little official took the order and went away, while Gao Changgong raised his voice to Qin Ke and Abu who were dumbfounded in the porridge shop, "Let's go, I will arrange other people to do everything here, you have other things to do later. manage."

Qin Ke and Abu nodded, walked out of the porridge shed, and followed behind Gao Changgong.

Gao Changgong and Zhou Gongjin walked in front, and the two talked softly, and every word they talked could point to the focus of the catastrophe.

Qin Ke and Abu walked slowly, and behind them, Zhang Fu, who had been silent since getting off the boat, kept her head down and kept pace. No matter the disaster in front of her or the chaotic looting just now, it seemed that she hadn't been disturbed by it. What an impact.

"The situation in Wu County is basically under control now, but there must be a major epidemic after a major disaster. Some of the victims have started to get sick a few days ago. The symptoms are almost all fever and vomiting. Later, they are tired, with yellow saliva and red eyes. , even bleeding to death from seven orifices.”

Zhou Gongjin took out a few white square scarves from her arms while walking, handed them to the four, looked at Gao Changgong and said: "Although I know your body is indeed very strong, but plagues are often as unpredictable as ghosts and gods. A little bit of prevention isn't necessarily a bad thing."

"Are ghosts and gods generally unpredictable..." Gao Changgong nodded, just as he no longer needed to use a bamboo hat to cover his face, and after covering his mouth and nose with a square scarf of just the right thickness, his appearance was not so conspicuous.

Not long after, since I saw the camp ahead guarded by countless masked soldiers, the sky was dark at the moment, and the torches were burning fiercely in the camp, illuminating the simple tents.

With the help of thaumaturgy, Qin Ke's eyesight can see far away at night, so he naturally saw someone in the camp carrying a stretcher covered with straw mats, and then neatly placed the corpses on it one by one. piled into a corner of the camp.

He had seen plague patients back then. When his parents took him halfway through the famine, many people on the road vomited yellow water, as if something had possessed them. Howling like a mad dog, his parents said it was caused by the plague god, and they didn't even dare to stay for a moment, so they took him and his sister and fled the village overnight, so they survived.

After studying with his master, he naturally understood that the plague was not caused by a plague god, but he still didn't want to see such a terrible thing again.

He felt a hot air pressing against his arms, and turned his head slightly. It turned out that Zhang Fu's body was leaning on his shoulders a little weakly.

"Are you scared?" Qin Ke said softly, that's right, after all, Zhang Fu is just a woman, and she probably won't have the opportunity to see such a tragic situation, so he said: "If you are afraid, just Don't follow us in, go to the post house."

Zhang Fu looked at him, shook her head firmly, but her voice was still a little trembling: "I'm fine, you just need to support me, I... I'm just a little tired."

Qin Ke looked at her with neither a smile nor a smile, thinking that you are so frightened that your legs are weak, what are you trying to do?If I get close to the camp later, I'm afraid the situation I see will be even more terrifying than now, so it's better not to cry.

But thinking so, he still stretched out his hand to support Zhang Fu. He could feel Zhang Fu's soft hand tightly holding his arm, as if it could relieve some of his tension.

"There haven't been many deaths these days, thanks to a girl from Qunfang Country who called herself Qiao Feifan. If she hadn't proposed to isolate the sick person first, I'm afraid the situation would be more troublesome." Zhou Gongjin mentioned This Qiao Feifan has a bit of relief and tenderness in his eyes.

Gao Changgong glanced at Zhang Fu. He clearly felt that the weak woman's eyes flickered when she heard the name, but her lips were still tightly closed and she didn't say anything.

Gao Changgong nodded slightly, and thoughtfully said: "A girl from Qunfang Kingdom? It's a bit unexpected..."

"The original war was a matter of Tang and Jing Wu's upper echelons. Qunfang is only a tiny place. The fact that Tang has not been wiped out for so many years is entirely due to the face of Mrs. Yang, right?"

Everyone knows that Yang Taizhen, the noble concubine of the Tang Dynasty who is favored by thousands of people, was born in the Qunfang Kingdom. It is rumored that her beauty is like a fairy, her dancing posture is astonishing, and when she gets married, there are hundreds of birds on the pilgrimage. There are thousands of phoenix instruments.

However, it is obvious that this pilgrimage of birds is a rumor fabricated by those literati in order to please Li Qiuhuang, the lord of the Tang Dynasty, but at least the description of Yang Taizhen's beauty is quite pertinent.

Perhaps because of this, it only took her a few years to monopolize Li Qiuhuang's harem, and even controlled nearly half of the Tang Dynasty as a woman. Disaster", but at the same time, I have to admire this woman's ability to manipulate people's hearts.

In the early years, the war between Jingwu and Tang was dominated by Yang Taizhen's faction. If Jingwu had Gao Changgong and Zhuge Wanling at that time, I am afraid that this huge Jingwu would become the shortest-lived country on this continent. .

"Are you afraid of what I think of her?" Gao Changgong smiled, raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm not... going to anger Qunfang Kingdom because of the war..."

Zhou Gongjin smiled awkwardly, knowing that she couldn't hide her thoughts from Gao Changgong, and continued: "In these days, I have transferred all the medicinal materials from the surrounding counties and counties. According to the prescription prescribed by Ms. Qiao, many victims with relatively mild disease It has gradually improved, but those serious...the situation is still not optimistic, and the medicine basically has no effect on them. What I can do is to try to make them less painful..."

"I have done a good job..." Gao Changgong could see the seriousness of the situation, and comforted him: "If other people come here, I am afraid that this plague will continue to expand. Once it becomes a trend, the entire Jingwu will even be destroyed. There may be chaos because of this, and if the Tang Dynasty takes advantage of the situation to invade, I really don't know how it will end at that time..."

Zhou Gongjin nodded, and was about to say something, when suddenly a commander in iron armor came rushing towards the camp, his naked eyes were full of anxiety, before he could get a firm foothold, he shouted: "Report ...Report to your lord! Something happened!"

He shouted so anxiously that he choked his throat and coughed violently.

Zhou Gongjin looked at him with a frown, and walked forward, asking, "What's in such a hurry? Talk slowly."

"I can't talk about it slowly. In short... Ms. Qiao, please go over, hurry up! There is a problem with the patient's condition..." the commander said anxiously.

Zhou Gongjin didn't ask any more questions, and quickened her pace to run to a tent in front. Behind them, Qin Ke and Abu followed closely, probably because Zhang Fu was wearing a female skirt and her body was so weak that it was impossible for her to run. So Qin Ke carried her on his back.

Zhang Fu, who was bouncing up and down on Qin Ke's back, blushed, suddenly felt that the fear in her heart dissipated completely at this moment, she lowered her head, and rested her chin on Qin Ke's shoulder.

"What's the situation?" As soon as Zhou Gongjin opened the tent, he saw three patients lying on a stretcher in the middle of the tent, their eyes were red, and yellow pus flowed from the corners of their mouths. Struggling, his eyes stared to an unbelievable degree, his eyes looked empty and terrified, as if there were some evil ghosts and nightmares in front of him, but he was powerless to escape.

Qiao Feifan covered her face, her eyes were as clear as lake water, she lowered her head, ignoring the madness of these patients, tightly holding one's wrist, feeling the pulse, her eyes were full of solemnity.

After feeling the pulse for a long time, she shook her head, stood up and said: "I don't know yet, these patients have improved after taking the medicine, but today, for some reason, their condition suddenly worsened, even worse than those of the previous serious patients. .”

Zhou Gongjin understood what she meant, and waved to a few subordinates outside, signaling them to carry these patients to the seriously ill area. In fact, this is equivalent to letting them fend for themselves, but the plague is so far, manpower is hard to recover , what he needs to consider is the safety of more people.

Zhou Gongjin asked: "Where are the other patients? Have you repeated it with them?"

"It's not too good..." Qiao Feifan's height was not high, even reaching Zhou Gongjin's chest, but she raised her face, and the words she said seemed to weigh a thousand catties, which made everyone's hearts sink.

She said: "Prepare for the worst..."

Chapter 141 The Art of Listening to the Wind

What is the worst plan?Everyone present was very clear that it was nothing more than the word "death", but how heavy the word "death" was!

The number of victims of the plague has now reached more than 2000, of which more than [-] are seriously ill. Zhou Gongjin struggled countless times in his heart before he made up his mind to give up the [-] seriously ill people when necessary.

But the current bad news is telling him that the remaining thousands of patients are also likely to lose their lives?

He couldn't help feeling a little sad in his heart, and he glanced at Gao Changgong inadvertently, and he found that the other party's eyes were also heavy, and they both thought about each other more than the people present. If they die in batches, the hopes that had been built up with great difficulty will turn into despair, and there is even no room for redemption. Those who are still alive for the time being will definitely not be willing to wait to die in this camp, I am afraid that there will be a riot.

Prior to this, Zhou Gongjin had specially mobilized [-] local garrison troops here, not really to prevent those rascals from jumping in line to make trouble in the porridge shed, but to prevent these patients from making possible actions after they knew they were helpless. irrational act.

You must know that this plague infection is invisible and intangible like a ghost. As long as one of them escapes by chance, the plague will be out of control. This is not only a catastrophe for Wu County, but also a catastrophe for the entire Jingwu.

Naturally, when that time really comes...these soldiers guarding the people will probably have to brandish their butcher knives to kill these seriously ill people.

Zhou Gongjin closed her eyes and asked herself—if the [-] victims in this camp were to make a scene, would she really be able to give that order?

But... as an inspector, he may have to face this kind of moral choice, even if his actions will inevitably be condemned by the historians, but for Jing Wu, for the common people...

He has no choice.

"Is there no other way?" Gao Changgong stared at Qiao Feifan, and said earnestly: "Miss Qiao, if the two thousand seriously ill patients really can't be rescued, they won't force it, but if the remaining four thousand people are also If you can’t survive, Mr. Zhou may find it difficult to explain to the court.”

Qiao Feifan also felt Zhou Gongjin's scorching gaze at the same time, and she avoided it subconsciously.

In fact, she didn't feel very good in her heart. As a doctor, watching the patients die one by one but being powerless, it was tantamount to slapping her face one after another.

"I'll look into the cause of the disease again." Qiao Feifan murmured ambiguously, "I just hope to find some clues..."

"Then please trouble me." Zhou Gongjin cupped his hands and said, "If you need anything, just ask, as long as I can do it, I will satisfy you."

The atmosphere in the tent was as solemn as a sticky thick fog, covering everyone's heart, but Qin Ke closed his eyes, as if he was perceiving something.

As the air flow softly flapped and shuttled around his ears, his wind vision technique gradually unfolded, the groans of countless patients around him, the footsteps of soldiers patrolling, the crackling of firewood burning in the kitchen stove... all seemed to be amplified several times Usually, it got into his ear.

He wanted to know more about the situation in the camp, so he subconsciously activated the wind vision technique, and when he actually activated the wind vision technique and expanded its range, the torrent of voices immediately filled his mind, leaving him almost no time to think.

With such a dense interweaving of voices, someone else might not be able to grasp the primary and secondary at all, and would only feel that his mind is complicated, but Qin Ke can feel that he is gradually grasping the thread, and then gently pulling, these voices After returning to their respective positions, an image appeared in his mind. Although this image was very blurry, he was able to clearly distinguish the sources and distances of various sounds.

"What are we eating today?"

"What else can I eat, cabbage porridge, maybe you still want to eat meat..."

As for Gao Changgong, maybe his hearing is also very strong because of his physical acuity, but he will never be able to achieve this level. This is a special ability only available to those who practice spirituality. There are not many practitioners, but if they are spiritual practitioners, with the same cultivation base, they will probably be stronger and more mysterious than Qi and blood cultivation bases.

Qin Ke does not practice spirituality, but since he came out of Ye Wangling that day, he has an unusual feeling, as if his spiritual cultivation is also increasing day by day. He tried this several times a few days ago. Only then did Fengshi confirm that he had been able to grasp this ability stably. Before, he definitely couldn't afford such power.

but now……

Zhang Fu leaned on Qin Ke's shoulder, and felt Qin Ke's abnormal state faster than others. She looked at Qin Ke carefully, and immediately covered her mouth. She saw a gleam of light on Qin Ke's chest. It flashed back and forth, as if something was about to burst through his chest, but soon fell silent again.

Qin Ke frowned, and listened carefully to the conversation between the two just now.

"Brewing medicine again? Cough cough... Bah, this medicine is like a pot of shit, it smells so bad... If I stay in this kind of place every day, I'm afraid I'll have to vomit three times a day."

It seemed to be the voice of the commander just now.

Then another deep voice said: "I have to endure it, so many people have died, I can feel someone talking in my ears when I sleep now, and I feel panicked when I go to a latrine in the middle of the night. It's Master Zhou ...and even dared to patrol the barracks alone, every time I saw him pass by my tent holding a torch, I felt more at ease."

The commander smiled wryly: "Don't, if you say that, I will light an extra torch when I go to the latrine tonight..."

Then he sighed, and said weakly: "Eight died yesterday, and three more died today. This day... when will it be big?"

"Hey, don't tell me, there seems to be no koi flowers in the medicine for the past few days... It really can't do without this medicine. You smell that the medicine smells a lot, and I don't know if those patients drink it or not. Gotta go down..."

"It should be nothing. Their lives are almost gone. Now even if they are told to drink urine to save their lives, they probably have to scramble to drink it. It doesn't matter that much. However, it really stinks, you have worked hard Let's go and have a look over there."

Qin Ke suddenly opened his eyes, and said in his mouth: "Koi flower? What is koi flower?"

Zhang Fu was stunned for a moment, and asked in doubt, "What?"

However, Qin Ke waved his hand at her, and at the same time strode towards Qiao Feifan, and said in a low voice, "Miss Qiao, could it be that there is something wrong with the medicine? For example, when it was boiled?"

As for medical skills, he has not dabbled too much. Even though people say that martial arts are three-point medicine, he only has some concepts about meridians and acupoints and bruises.

As for pharmacology and herbal knowledge, he didn't learn anything from his master.

Everyone looked at him, not understanding why he suddenly asked this question.

Qiao Feifan frowned, turned around for a few thoughts, and said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "Normally, there won't be any major problems. These herbs only need to be boiled for a long time, but..." She looked at Zhou Gongjin , a pair of curved eyebrows were twisted together, "It may not be impossible...Master Zhou, can I go and see the place where the medicine is boiled?"

"Of course." Zhou Gongjin looked away from Qin Ke, and suddenly seemed to think of something, forced a smile and said: "Just call me big brother, Miss Qiao, you are not my subordinate, what happened this time I have to thank you very much.”

Qiao Feifan looked at Zhou Gongjin's face and felt that it was not time to joke around, but he still said calmly, "Okay, Uncle Zhou."

This name...

It might as well be Mr. Zhou.

Zhou Gongjin's complexion changed several times, as if he was choking on a stone in his throat, after a while, he shook his head and sighed, "Let's go... let's go."

Normally, Gao Changgong would burst out laughing, but this time the situation was urgent, so he just shook his head and sighed.