Mind reading, I used the concubine system to become the empress

The prefect was trembling with fear and held the other person's fingers tightly with his hands.

Fighting for a chance to catch your breath.

He squeezed out of his throat, "I'll ask someone to do it right now."

The masked man then loosened his fingers.

The prefect fell to the ground, breathing heavily.

With a horrified look on his face, he shouted, "Go, ask them to go to Songfeng Town to get some information."

On Shen Xi's side, most of the patients have recovered, leaving only three with more serious symptoms.

Prepare to show these three people to the spies who sneaked in.

Jiang Shiyuan ordered: "Don't let your guard down in the next few days."

"All the places that need to be blocked are blocked."

“Make sure they can only come in from where we want them to come in.”

The imperial guards all agreed.

At night, the only sounds on the streets were those of patrol officers.

There are guards standing guard every few steps around Songfeng Town, and the patrols are extremely frequent.

Anyone who wanted to come in and check had no idea where to start.

I can only look around the periphery, trying to find a place where no one is paying attention.

After he circled the outskirts of the town several times, he actually found a dog hole in a hidden place.

Not only that, there are bushes blocking the front of this dog hole.

This is simply the chosen cave.

He was already feeling anxious because he had no idea where to start, and now seeing this extremely hidden dog hole, he didn't care about anything else and just went in.

There is also a bush inside, but the smell is really not very good.

He turned around and his face suddenly turned dark.

The place where he came out happened to be next to the toilet.

It stinks, no wonder no one has set up defenses here.

Just as he was about to crawl out of the stinking bushes, he heard a series of violent coughing.

Then he saw someone staggering towards him.

As the man got closer, he could see more clearly.

The man had dark circles under his eyes and was coughing incessantly, with such a heart-wrenching sound that it seemed as if he was going to cough out his lungs.

Not only that, but consciousness also seems unclear.

The people following behind this man were wrapped in three layers of clothes.

If it weren't for the need to see the road, I'm afraid even my eyes would be blocked.

He looked at the person in front of him cautiously, his eyes full of disgust.

It seemed as if he wished to stay eight feet away from the patient in front of him.

The spy squatting in the bushes felt a sudden pang in his heart.

I'm afraid it's true that Songfeng Town is sick.

When a man wrapped like a dumpling walked past him, he suddenly jumped out and knocked the man unconscious.

He followed the patient, knocked him unconscious, and reached out to touch the patient's forehead.

Just as the prefect had said, it was extremely hot, and even the air exhaled from this man's nose was much hotter than that of an ordinary person.

He wanted to leave on the spot, but he remembered the prefect's order that he had to visit a few more households, otherwise his family's lives would be in danger.

He gritted his teeth and walked towards the surrounding houses.

I passed several rooms and heard shrill coughing sounds everywhere.

His heart sank as he heard this.

Just then, a patrol officer wrapped tightly in a bag came over for inspection.

In order to avoid being discovered, he could only push open a house.

The room was very small. As soon as he entered and took two steps back, he had already retreated to the patient's bedside.

The old man on the bed coughed violently, his body tilted, and a mouthful of blood spat out on him.

Some of it fell to the ground and splashed onto the surface of his shoes.

After the old man vomited, his body tilted and he fell back.

There was a loud sound in his throat, and he looked like he was about to collapse.

His whole body was covered with hair and he wanted to take off all his clothes right then and there.

He looked at the old man with hatred, and finally reached out and touched the old man's forehead.

It's also too hot.

He listened to the noise by the door, and when he heard no more footsteps, he pushed the door open and walked out.

In the small room around him, the coughing sounds one after another were like the sound of death, making him feel cold all over.

He didn't dare to look any further, so he returned the same way and went out despite the stench.

As soon as he ran out to a safe place, he immediately bent down and vomited.

He just felt unwell all over and felt that he was also infected by those patients.

He suppressed the nausea in his heart and hurried back.

Unexpectedly, when he was halfway back, he met many people holding torches in the distance and pointing bows and arrows at him.

"What's going on in Songfeng Town?"

He heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the voice of the person asking the question.

They are their own people.

He reported truthfully: "Every household is coughing violently and has a high fever."

"I'm afraid that it won't be long before Songfeng Town no longer exists."

The visitor chuckled, "You did a good job. Change your clothes quickly when you get to that place, so as not to get sick."

"Change into clean clothes and come back with us."

The spy chuckled. He didn't expect the prefect to actually keep his word. It seemed that there really was an antidote.

A set of clothes was thrown to him from a distance, and he subconsciously reached out to catch it.

But I found that the clothes were wet and very greasy.

He couldn't help but lower his head to identify it, and just after realizing that the clothes were all covered with oil, he immediately raised his head with disbelief in his eyes.

Just as he looked up, he saw a flash of fire flying towards him.

It was so fast that it pierced into his flesh and bones in just a moment.

The flame on the arrow burned more fiercely when it met the oil.

In just a moment, he was surrounded by flames.

He wanted to walk up to those people and ask them why, but he fell down halfway.

The prefect's men took their men back when they saw that the spy had stopped moving.

At this time in Songfeng Town, the elderly had already been properly resettled.

The two people who were knocked unconscious were also taken back to the house to rest.

Jiang Shiyuan looked at Shen Xi, speechless.

"That spy circled the town several times. He was really bold."

"For those who are night blind, he really can't see at that distance."

"But for us imperial guards, it's just strolling under our noses."

"We have to pretend not to see him. It's really hard for the brothers of the Imperial Guards."

Shen Xi also laughed out loud.

"It's a good thing he's stupid, otherwise our people would have to work harder to tip off the news."

"In this case, they should believe that we all have the plague."

Jiang Shiyuan nodded and said, "Almost, but maybe a little short."

"It's the traces of burning corpses."

"This disease is so severe that it would be unacceptable if we don't burn the body."

Shen Xi's eyes lit up, "That's easy to say, many of them are just recovering from a serious illness."

"Let's kill chickens and sheep to celebrate, and burn the rest that are hard to handle."

"There is one last batch of patients who will recover soon. We can burn the clothes worn by those patients to prevent them from infecting other people."

Jiang Shiyuan agreed, saying that this would buy more time.

The next day, a fire was lit in Songfeng Town, and clouds of black smoke rose.

When the prefect's men saw the black smoke, they were overjoyed and hurried back to report the good news to the prefect.

"Sir, people have started dying over there."

"Today, Songfeng Town was filled with billowing black smoke."

"It looks like a lot of bodies were burned."

The prefect's eyes lit up, "Okay! Go and notify those bandits and tell them to attack Songfeng Town."

"As long as they both suffer losses in the fight, it doesn't matter if they don't die. As long as the bandits are also infected with the plague."

"After a while, they will all die without us having to do anything."

"When His Majesty's men come, there will be no evidence. We can just blame it all on the bandits. The most we will get is a demotion and a few scoldings."

"There will definitely be no danger to life."

The prefect was very pleased with himself after he finished speaking, and everyone below praised him, saying, "Your Excellency is wise!"