I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

Ji Qinglin was startled, hurriedly jumped out of the car and shouted towards the front: "Bai Mao! Come back!"

Being scratched by Baimao's paws is no joke. If the officers and soldiers were injured by Baimao, they might be charged with unwarranted charges. Moreover, what if these officers and soldiers bend their bows to protect themselves? What if the arrow hurt Bai Mao?

The two officers and soldiers in front of the car were also shocked when they saw this scene. In desperation, they even pulled out their knives, and ran towards Bai Mao without saying a word.

At this time, the white hair had landed firmly on the man's head, flapping its claws and wings on the ground, messing up the bundle of hair on the top of his head.

The two officers and soldiers came in front of the man, neither stabbed nor stabbed, so they could only hold the handle of the knife and shake it helplessly, calling anxiously: "General, general, general! This, this, this..."

The man who was called the general waved his hands at them while enduring Baimao's torture: "Don't move, put the knife back."

The two officers and soldiers looked dazed, but they didn't dare to disobey, so they just put the knife back into the sheath in a daze.

The general tilted his head, raised his eyes to look up, raised his hand and patted the white hair on his head, and shouted: "Come down!"

Bai Mao fluttered his wings, as if he let out a cry of dissatisfaction.

The general seemed very helpless, and sighed with a wry smile, but his tone slowed down a bit, and he patted the white hair almost dotingly and said, "Good boy, come down."

Only then did Baimao seem to be more comfortable, let go of his head for the time being, lightly jumped to the side, and landed firmly on his shoulders, retracting his wings back, looking majestic again.

The general wiped the top of his head with his hand, managed to put the broken hair back together, raised his chin to the two officers and soldiers and said, "Okay, you guys go back first."

The two officers and soldiers immediately clapped their hands together and walked towards the distant village.

Ji Qinglin heaved a sigh of relief, and then came back to look at the general's appearance, but he couldn't help being startled when he saw this.

He was familiar with this person.

After a while, Ji Qinglin finally remembered who he was, and said in surprise, "You are... the one at the palace banquet, so what kind of general?"

This person was also present at the palace banquet back then, sitting diagonally across from Ji Qinglin, and even toasted him from afar.

At that time, Uncle Huo introduced from the side that he was a great general, and his ancestors once ruled the northern territory for Daluan.

The man listened to Ji Qinglin calling him "that general" dumbfoundedly, nodded helplessly and said, "Well, that's right, I am that general."

Hearing what he said, Ji Qinglin felt embarrassed immediately, and said with a sneer, "No, when someone introduced you to me, they didn't say what your name was, so I..."

The man didn't seem to really care, he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I just didn't expect Concubine Ji to have a pretty good memory."

"..."

Ji Qinglin choked suddenly, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, is it okay to agree?Isn't the word "Ji Guifei" really revenge?

Ji Qinglin was still speechless, but Xie Wuyi got off the car and came behind him.

The general's gaze immediately passed Ji Qinglin and landed on Zhiming Wuyi, he lowered his expression, slightly bowed and cupped his hands and said, "Master."

Ji Qinglin's eyes widened, he looked back at Xie Wuyi, then at the general, and said in disbelief, "Master? Could it be that you too..."

Xie Wuyi walked up to the general, stretched out his hand to lift Bai Mao off his shoulder, turned around and said to Ji Qinglin, "It's probably not the first time you have met, he is Ulanda."

"U, Lan, Da!?"

Ji Qinglin read these three words word by word in astonishment, and looked at Ulanda from head to toe carefully, but still couldn't break free from the shock.

It's like a character you've seen in dramas before, but now it's alive in front of you, both in appearance and clothes are completely different, but you know that he is that person.

This kind of mysterious feeling of combining the picture in memory with the scene in front of me is really hard to describe in words.

Knowing that he was shocked, Xie Wuyi was not in a hurry to bring him back to his senses, and asked Ulanda, "Why is this place blocked?"

Ulanda led the two of them towards the village, and replied: "About a month ago, the government of Qidi reported that there was an outbreak of disease in Qinan, the cause of which was unknown, and the symptoms were strange. Several imperial doctors came here to diagnose the disease, and ordered Qinan to be temporarily blocked to prevent the spread of the epidemic."

When Ji Qinglin heard his narration, he temporarily put aside his astonishment, and said strangely: "You are a great general, and Qinan is only a tiny place, why did you come here for the blockade?"

Hearing the words, Ulanda sighed exaggeratedly, looked up to the sky and laughed at himself: "The government is stable, the world is peaceful, in this kind of days without wars, civil servants can still sing poems and compose poems to praise merits and virtues, impeach and impeach this, win over and win over That, it’s in full swing. Poor us military officers, there’s no use for us, we can only enjoy our lives alone and enjoy our lives alone! If we don’t find something to do, why don’t we get sick?”

Ji Qinglin knew that he was talking nonsense, but he couldn't help but laugh at him.

Xie Wuyi glanced at Ulanda and said, "Speak well."

Ulanda coughed dryly, nodded kindly, and said sternly: "Actually, it's because of Shijiu. He found that the illness described in the booklet was similar to the black-robed man who haunted several times before, so he asked me to discuss it together. We Thinking, maybe this matter is really related to the previous attack on our Four Seasons Valley, and it just so happens that there is no major incident in the court, so I invited myself here to investigate."

Xie Wuyi nodded slightly, and said, "What's the result of the investigation?"

Ulanda was not at all ambiguous when he talked about the business, and quickly detailed all the clues he had investigated since he arrived in Qinan.

Just as the doctor I met on the way said, since the first person became "ill," one after another had the same symptoms, such as unconsciousness, stinking, and rotting bodies.

The situation detected by Ulanda is consistent with what the old man in the thatched hut said. These people had signs of dying before showing symptoms, and there was also a "carpenter" who claimed to be able to rejuvenate in their homes. When every carpenter "saved people", he also cut off the two thumbs of the soul-sealed person.

From this point of view, the so-called "carpenter" was the one who sealed their souls.Every time he heard that someone was about to die, he would come to the home of the dying man claiming to be a coffin maker, and use the old man's words to fool the old man, saying that the man's life span was not over. The art of sealing the soul.

Ulanda originally only knew that these people might be related to those who dealt with the Four Seasons Valley in the past, but he didn't know the existence of the Soul Sealing Technique.

Ji Qinglin briefly described what Chi Ruogu found on the corpse, and Ulanda immediately understood: "So this is not a plague at all, but man-made."

While speaking, Ulanda led them to a temporarily requisitioned bamboo building, and ordered some refreshments to be delivered.

After the three of them sat down, Ji Qinglin asked, "Is there any connection between these 'sick people', or something in common?"

Ulanda thought for a while and said, "They're all old people. Almost all the old people in Qinan are spared, so they spread the word that this plague can only infect the old people."

Ji Qinglin nodded.

It was an old man again. From the first time he went out of Beijing and found the body of the coachman by the lake, most of the people involved in this matter were old people.

The corpse of the coachman itself was an old man. The old man who was lured and taken away by Luming Mountain Villa was designed by Granny An. The leader mentioned by Lu Mian when he recounted the incident that night was the old man. Qidi was mistaken for "the plague." "Patients" are all elderly people.

Earlier in the water pavilion in Lingfang Garden, Chi Ruogu once said that the prerequisite for performing the technique of sealing the soul is "a dying person".

To some extent, there is a great overlap between "old people" and "dying people". It can be said that apart from terminally ill people, the elderly are the group most likely to appear "dying people".

However, the group of old people whose souls were sealed in Qidi actually appeared quite abruptly.

Ji Qinglin looked at Xie Wuyi and said, "Have you noticed that there is one biggest difference between this group of old people whose souls have been sealed up and all the people whose souls have been sealed up before?"

Xie Wuyi turned his head to look at him, signaling him to continue the analysis, Ji Qinglin said seriously: "They were neither held hostage nor used."

Almost all the soul-sealed people they discovered or met before appeared as eagle dogs.

They assassinated the disciples of Four Seasons Valley and set up a bureau in Luming Mountain Villa, including the coachman who drove Ji Qinglin out of Beijing, and the "carpenter" Qidi, they all showed up to complete a certain task.

Ji Qinglin still remembers that he asked Xie Wuyi why those people would go to great lengths to find a terminally ill person to perform the art of sealing the soul. Xie Wuyi's answer was that for a terminally ill person, sealing the soul is no different from To continue life, the soul-sealed person will be grateful for the "life-saving grace", and will obey the caster's words, willing to be a cow and a horse.

Therefore, Ji Qinglin once thought that the purpose of those people using the soul-sealing technique was to expand his manpower, and to use the soul-sealing technique to turn those dying people into pawns that he could use.

Until this group of old men appeared.

These old people were neither taken away like the group of old people in Luming Mountain Villa, nor were they instructed to complete any tasks. They were just given the Soul Sealing Technique, and then they were thrown on the spot and ignored.

So for the practitioners, what is the meaning of the existence of these old men?In other words, what can the caster get from them?

Ji Qinglin said: "I always feel that when a person puts all his energy into doing something, no matter whether the matter is good or bad, he should at least have some reason for it. Do you want to stick needles everywhere for selfishness?"

He rested his elbows on the table, biting his thumb between his teeth, frowning and continued: "It's understandable if you send people to complete some tasks after sealing their souls to achieve their goals, but now What is his intention after sealing the souls of these old people and leaving them to rot in place?"

Seeing that the two of them were thinking, Ulanda didn't seem to want to be idle, imitating Ji Qinglin, holding the table with his finger in his mouth and frowning, thinking hard for a long time, then suddenly straightened up and said: "If the value of a utensil is not in its use , that is in the artifact itself."

Attracted by what it said, Ji Qinglin put down his hand and turned his head, "How do you say it?"

Ulanda said solemnly: "Some people raise cattle to make them plow the land, but not everyone raises cattle for the purpose of plowing the land, right?"

Ji Qinglin looked straight at him, unable to turn the corner for a while.

Ulanda gave a "tsk" and said anxiously, "Tell me, besides being able to plow the land, what else can cattle be used for?"

Ji Qinglin was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly asked: "...to eat?"