The general will eat grass

It would take five days at the fastest to go from Kyoto to Songzhou. On the way from north to south, Zhao Yuansong and the others passed through places where dead bodies were strewn all over the place.Doctor Bai was sitting in the carriage, holding medical books to search for ancient prescriptions, while Zhao Yuansong was thinking about how to meet Li Yuanxing when he arrived in Songzhou.

Before he left Beijing, he got the latest news from Songzhou from the doctor Yushi. The uprising there had been upgraded to a large-scale and organized uprising.They shouted: "The sage is not benevolent, the punishment of heaven is sudden, let me prosper, do justice for the sky, eradicate Beixuan, and save the common people." They set up strongholds in Jingzhou, Lianjiangxi, Pingnan Wang's fiefdom, etc., and now Changlong- The rebel army besieged Songzhou Mansion and asked Tai Ling to give an explanation.

Li Yuanxing was imprisoned by the patrol envoy, if the prefect of Jingzhou wanted to avenge his personal revenge, Li Yuanxing would be in danger!

Zhao Yuansong and the others can be regarded as traveling day and night. In this trip, in addition to bringing Deng Mian and ten government soldiers on the surface, he also mobilized Ma Hong and four other secret guards. Those four people have been hiding in various places in the capital. I haven't seen them before, but it's Ma Hong who has been connecting with them all the time.

To be honest, Zhao Yuansong wanted an official position but no official position, and no identity, so he was not sure of rescuing Li Yuanxing at all.But out of brotherhood, he is still willing to take such a trip.Now he only hopes that Doctor Bai can quickly find a cure for this plague. Only by eliminating the common enemy of mankind can the people's hearts be appeased.

"I don't know that the one in front is Zhao Yuansong who is engaged in driving?"

The carriage was stopped suddenly, and when Zhao Yuansong heard Deng Mian approaching to inquire about the situation, he lifted the curtain and looked out, only to see a general in front of him wearing a mountain headband, black and red light armor, and a black veil In the middle of the road.

People from the inspector's office?

Is it true?The person who appeared in Yingyue Lake Town was a fake.

Zhao Yuansong sat in the carriage calmly, only listening to the human said: "Zhao Zong, my surname is Yu, this time I went to the south to secretly escort His Royal Highness the Second Prince back to Beijing. I learned that you brought a doctor with you when you left Beijing this time, so I would like to invite the two of you to step up and go with me to check on the second prince's condition."

The second prince went to relieve the disaster and fell ill within a few days. It has been about half a month now. From the onset of the plague to death, the shortest time is ten days, and the longest is only one month. The second prince can survive until now because of his good health.

Zhao Yuansong: "General, how can you prove that you are really from the inspector's office? If you are really from the inspector's office, you must have heard that someone deliberately pretended to be you?"

The man was unequivocal, directly took out a unicorn gold token from his arms, and threw it at Zhao Yuansong. "I have heard a little about this matter. Zhao Zhengzheng has entered the inspector's office before, and has seen this token with his own eyes. Compared with the fake gold order, in addition to the front pattern, every spies of the inspector's office have his token on the back of the golden order." Official position and name code."

Zhao Yuansong turned it over and saw that the back of the golden order in his hand read "Kirin Zheng Er Xin Chou Jiazi". Most people who get this token really don't understand what is written on it.Zhao Yuansong brought in what this person said, "Qilin Zhenger" means his official position, so he is an official of the second rank, and he is really a general worthy of the name.And if "Xin Chou Jiazi" is a name, does it imply his birth horoscope?No, wait, if he remembers correctly, the first year of Jianping was the year of Xin Chou, and Jiazi can represent the biggest one at certain times.

Zhao Yuansong was stunned, and looked up and down the general surnamed him. Although he couldn't see his real face, it was not difficult to see from his temperament that he was very similar to the general who had interrogated him.Zhao Yuansong narrowed his eyes: "Has the general ever met a lower official?"

General Yu nodded generously, "I am fortunate to have been ordered to invite Zhao Zong to sit in the yamen for a while."

"Please lead the way." The corner of Zhao Yuansong's mouth twitched, and he threw the golden order back into the general's hands.Well, it turns out that this is really the big boss in the Inspector's Mansion, the number one loyal dog of His Majesty the Emperor.He was also very fortunate to have been interrogated by this person himself!

Regarding the epidemic, Dr. Bai already has several sets of plans in mind, and he needs to find patients to verify one or two.Li Yuanxing's situation is very critical, but there is no way to solve the plague, so it is difficult to save him smoothly. Besides, the person he met is the second prince, and there is a big boss in the inspector's office. No matter how courageous Zhao Yuansong is, he can't just leave Of course.

Zhao Yuansong patiently followed General Yu to see the second prince. He was one of the ten heroes of Beixuan who was very handsome in the past, but now he is sallow and emaciated, leaving only skin and bones.He lay on the incense wagon with a thick blanket under him, yellow with the filth he had vomited.The second prince was served by two personal eunuchs, and covered with incense, so that his whole body was not surrounded by stench and corruption.Seeing that he was unconscious, Zhao Yuansong only gave him a slight salute, then got out of the luxurious carriage and replaced Doctor Bai.

For two days and one night, Zhao Yuansong was awakened by excited shouts outside the carriage. He climbed down from the carriage and asked Deng Mian, "What happened?"

Deng Mian grinned and showed a row of white teeth, "The second prince is saved, Doctor Bai has found a cure for the plague!"

Zhao Yuansong's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself: After being a miracle doctor, it really saved my life!

The second prince had woken up, he didn't have the strength to speak yet, his complexion obviously improved a lot, but he could eat some rice porridge, General Yu was very happy with Doctor Bai's prescription.

Doctor Bai's prescription for the second prince contained precious medicinal materials such as red ginseng and ganoderma lucidum, which were obviously not suitable for the general public.Zhao Yuansong took a look, pulled Doctor Bai, pointed to some of them and asked, "Can you change them? It's too expensive."

Dr. Bai came from the common people, not as old-fashioned as the imperial doctor, so he changed a few common herbal medicines, "Floods in the south, this water is very important, the water for decocting medicine needs to be filtered with grass ash such as mugwort leaf charcoal, and some white ash should be used in the living environment of the people. Bury or incinerate the waste."

"Okay, as long as there is a way." Zhao Yuansong was very happy.

Just at this moment, a fast horse came galloping, and it looked like a spy from the Inspector's Office.The young general rushed over and whispered directly in the general's ear, and the general's body dropped several degrees in an instant, "It's unreasonable, what a Jiang Dao inspector, what a Pingnan king!"

"What's the matter?" Zhao Yuansong walked over and asked because it was related to the patrol envoy, probably related to Li Yuanxing.

General Yu knew the purpose of Zhao Yuansong's trip, and he didn't hide it. "A spy from our inspector's office has evidence of the collusion between King Pingnan and Jiang Dao inspector. They found out that he was directly put in prison. Tomorrow, Jiang Dao inspector He and Li Yuan's baggage Tailing were handed over to those rebels."

Zhao Yuansong's face turned extremely ugly in an instant, "What is General Yu's plan?"

General Yu paused, turned around and looked at the second prince's frame, and sighed helplessly: "This general, this mission, can only escort the second prince back to Beijing safely."

Zhao Yuansong heard that he couldn't bear the arrested subordinate in his tone, and raised the corner of his lips and said: "Then if General Yu can trust the subordinate, the subordinate can rescue the general for the general."

"Oh, really?" General Yu knew that Zhao Yuansong was very smart and could do things that ordinary people could not do.But he was still very curious, as a fifth-rank official, how would he lead these people to compete with the inspector and the second-rank official?What's more, there are a bunch of mobs and rebels outside Songzhou Mansion.

Zhao Yuansong pointed to the young general beside General Yu, and said with a smile, "I want to borrow your unicorn gold order, and your subordinates, and some fast horses."

"Then?"

Zhao Yuansong looked at the young general, and said in a mysterious way: "The next thing, I think it would be better for you to wait for this subordinate to report."

Seeing his confident expression, General Yu thought for a while and said, "Okay. But it's not him, but this general. I will go with you personally to see if you can save people, and this Doctor Bai will stay Now take care of the second prince."

"That's better." Zhao Yuansong raised his eyebrows and planned to leave immediately. "I heard that there are many pirates in Nanyuan. They ran to the north bank of the Lianjiang River and stationed at the ferry."

General Yu nodded, "Yes, why do you ask them?"

"Hey." Zhao Yuansong took the reins of the horse handed over by Deng Mian, turned on his back, and said with a wicked smile: "Borrow a soldier, drive!"

General Yu: "..."

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At noon, a group of people came from Hengsha Ferry. The leader was a young man named Black Grape with big eyes.It's just that he was followed by a group, all of whom were powerful Kong Wu, and they didn't seem to be easy to deal with.

Mo Ergou is the boss of the Hengsha Ferry area, leading more than [-] water bandits, and patronizing the rich families in the towns and villages of Songzhou Prefecture, only to get a skinny housekeeper dog.He was staring at his men skinning the dog, for fear that someone would steal his mouth.When he saw someone coming, he immediately drew his knife and stood up, "Who are you a thief?"

The young master didn't reply, and threw a purse directly.

Mo Ergou caught it, tore it apart, and said, "Ehhhhh, darling, snow melts silver!" His subordinates around him saw the white silver, and their eyes shone brightly.Mo Ergou slapped away a hand that was stretched out to touch, raised his head and said to the young master: "Forbearance is not allowed to go to the Three Bao Palace, what's the matter, brother?"

"You can buy your life with money, and you will be thankful if you succeed!" The young master finally spoke, and took out a small goldfish from his sleeve pocket.

Seeing Jin Zi, Mo Ergou grew evil from his guts, exchanged a glance with his subordinates, clenched the weapon in his hand, and was about to move forward to kill.

Unexpectedly, just as Mo Ergou took two steps, he was picked up by a black shadow and thrown in front of the young master's horse.Behind the young master, the guard jumped off the horse and drew a knife fiercely to his neck.Mo Ergou opened his eyes wide in shock, looked left and right, but didn't see half of the black shadow that darted past him just now, did he see a ghost?

I just heard the young master sneer and said: "Don't look for it, it's also mine. Don't you understand? If I want you to die, you have to die. If I want you to live, you can live. Then, I will Let me ask you again, do you want money or life?"

Mo Ergou secretly glanced at the young man on the horse, and then at the gloomy masked warrior on the big horse next to him, sweating coldly from fright, "Damn, die."

"Very good, as long as you follow my instructions and succeed, in addition to this piece of gold, I will give each of you ten taels of silver. If there are casualties, I will pay another ten taels of silver for each life."

When they heard that there was so much silver, the pirates were overjoyed. They hadn’t eaten for a long time. If they agreed to work hard, they would get ten taels per person and they could buy two acres of good land when they returned home. Worry about eating and drinking again.

Mo Ergou didn't need to look, he knew how his subordinates reacted, but he still didn't feel at ease and asked: "Brother's nonsense can be counted?"

The young master smiled: "Didn't I already give the deposit, I am not afraid that you will run away halfway, but you are afraid that I will renege on the debt!"

Mo Ergou rolled his eyes, yes, if something goes wrong, they can run away with the deposit.Immediately agreeing to the transaction, "That's so boring, what are you doing?"