Courtesy

At least compared to before, since Jiangling came here, Feng County has entered a stage of calm, and the disappearance of this girl finally broke this seemingly peaceful situation.

Jiang Ling mobilized all the envoys to search the whole city, everyone searched from sunrise to sunset, when Gu Fang came to his senses, they hadn't rested or eaten for a whole day, unfortunately, they still found nothing.

Gu Fang sat resting in front of a small courtyard that had long been abandoned, his injured foot couldn't take it anymore.

While pinching her ankles, she thought, where can a little girl go?

They didn't go out of the city, which means they are still in the city. The place where the people gather is the resettlement place and the isolation place, but the people in both places have been counted, and there are still no people.

The people in charge of appraisal are very careful, even they can't find the person, where is this person hiding...

"This girl is also quite pitiful. At the beginning, her brother died, her brother died two days ago, and her mother died today. If she is left alone, even if she doesn't run away, she is probably not far from going crazy!" The envoys who were looking for people passed by, and one of them sighed.

"You said her family members are all dead?" Gu Fang suddenly stood up and asked.

Originally, there was a person sitting at the gate of the small courtyard, but passers-by didn't notice it at first because they didn't move much, and they all jumped when he made such a sound.

"Yes, yes!" Seeing that he was wearing the same clothes as himself, the man calmed down.

Gu Fang nodded to show that he knew, watched the two walk away, turned on his toes and ran towards the pit of death.

I was going to visit this place yesterday, but there was not enough time, so Zhuang Zhou pointed out the general direction for him and said that he would bring him here tomorrow.

Now that Zhuang Zhou is not needed, he probably knows where this girl has gone.

The whole family died in front of my eyes one after another, disappeared from my side, and were all sent to that place where they were wiped out without a trace.

The death pit in Fengxian County is different from the one in Dayu Ridge. This death pit is dedicated to burning people who died of diseases, so that the plague will not spread due to improper handling of corpses.

Gu Fang only followed the direction that Zhuang Zhou pointed out to him in his memory, and after searching for a long time, he finally found the death pit he was talking about.

In fact, he hadn't gone up to see if it was a pit, but when he saw the slender figure with his back not far away, he concluded that the death pit was there.

Seeing that the back seemed to shrug his shoulders twice because of coughing, Gu Fang let go with a hanging heart.

He didn't dare to startle, let alone frighten her, so he could only call softly from a distance: "Girl."

As if he didn't expect someone to come, the back froze first, then he turned his head defensively, seeing Gu Fang wearing the official uniform of Zhang Jiansi, his eyes instantly changed from grief to hatred just now.

"Don't come here," the girl yelled.

"I won't go, don't worry, I won't hurt you." Gu Fang raised his hand but didn't stop, and moved forward again until he was sure that if there was an emergency, he could catch the person in front of him in time. Just stopped.

"Won't you hurt me?" The girl smiled wryly, "Then why did my parents and brothers leave me one by one? Didn't you say you came to Fengxian to save us?"

"We are here to save you, the emperor sent people from the capital to bring medicinal materials over yesterday, we still have hope." Gu Fang took another step forward as he spoke, this time he could probably see the situation at the bottom of the pit clearly.

The pit was much deeper than he had imagined, probably to prevent it from being dug up when he left in the future.

It's just that the things at the bottom of the pit made his heart tremble a little. Perhaps these days, corpses were brought over for incineration every day. The lower layer has been burned to ashes, and the upper layer may be two days old, and some bones are still clearly visible.

He didn't know what kind of mood the girl felt when she saw this situation. The one below might be her dead mother.

Facing the girl's questioning, Gu Fang deeply felt how insignificant people are in the face of such a disaster: "The plague... can't be 'cleaned up' so easily, isn't there some people who get better and are sent out these days? People? You are still young, and I see that your condition seems to be fine, so don't give up."

"I don't have any relatives anymore. I don't have any. Instead of waiting to die in that world, it's better...to die with my mother." The little girl smiled sadly after finishing speaking.

Gu Fang's pupils shrank, and he saw the man jumping into the death pit without hesitation.

He flew towards her suddenly, grabbing her arm without thinking.

That arm was so emaciated that it made people feel distressed. It was said to be thirteen or fourteen years old, but when he held it, he thought it was a child of eight years old.

"Let me go." The captured girl didn't expect this man to save her, dangling on the wall of the pit.

Gu Fang lay on the edge of the pit, his face turned red from holding back, but he didn't dare to let go for a moment: "Although the pit is deep, you may not die if you fall like this. If you don't die, your heart will suffer even more. Waiting for death lonely among the dead."

"That doesn't need you hypocritical people to take care of it." The little girl was still struggling, and even stretched out her other hand to push him.

Gu Fang gritted his teeth, feeling that the back of his hand was about to bleed from being scratched by this girl.

"Come up to me."

He yelled with all his strength, supported the edge of the pit with one hand, and suddenly exerted strength with the other. After all, the girl was too thin. Gu Fang fought so hard that she actually lifted her out of the pit and fell heavily beside him.

"Gu Fang!" Seeing the situation in front of him, Jiang Ling lost his composure and shouted.

A few steps forward, he wanted to help the man up from the ground, but when his hand was about to touch him, Gu Fang shrank suddenly, avoiding him, and got up from the ground by himself.

The people who came with Jiang Ling were fully armed and took the girl away.

Gu Fang looked at the direction she was leaving, and said uneasy: "You won't embarrass her, will you?"

"No, I will fulfill her." Jiang Ling stood up and said coldly.

"You..." Gu Fang said something to you, but you didn't say anything, he should understand that Jiangling never cares about feelings when doing business, what he wants to do is to maximize his interests.

If killing one person could stop everyone from running away, he would definitely do it without even thinking about it.

"Let's go, go back." Jiang Ling saw that he was far away from him. Although he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, he could still feel that he was deliberately avoiding him.

"I, I had a very close contact with that girl just now." Gu Fang said.

"What did you do to her?" Jiang Ling asked.

"No, no, no, I didn't do anything to her." Only then did he realize how ambiguous his words were.

Jiang Ling was silent for a moment, and didn't force him to get too close to him, turned around and walked back the same way: "Go back and let the doctor show you."

"Hmm." Gu Fang rubbed his nose and kept a bridge-like distance from Jiangling, hoping that Xun's pills and sachets would be of some use today.

Back at the residence, Zhuang Zhou refused to come to see him, and he was relieved until the doctor took his pulse and confirmed that he was fine for the time being.

However, he knew that whether he was infected with the plague could not be determined just by the doctor's pulse. If he had no symptoms of infection in the next few days, he could be sure that he was safe.

Jiang Ling really did what he said, and stabbed the girl who was running away with a sword in front of everyone in the isolation room.

Although many people here had an extremely bad attitude towards the Zhang Jiansi before, and sometimes insulted them in front of them, they didn't make any response. Those who didn't know thought that these supervisors were afraid of them, so they boldly, Even Jiangling, who was patrolling, was treated by them with extremely bad words, but Jiangling's self-control ability is unmatched, and he has never looked at them directly.

Facing Jiangling's cruel "evil deeds" this time, those sick people who couldn't straighten their waists unexpectedly went against the normal state of riots in the past, and no one dared to speak out casually. Zhuang Zhou saw fear in their eyes, it was true A real fear, a different fear from the plague.

Although he disagreed with Jiang Ling's behavior, Zhuang Zhou had to admit that such a clean and neat method would be more effective than telling them the truth.

"If you want to die, you don't have to bother so much, and you still go to the death pit, stand up now, and I will help you." Jiang Ling took the cloth towel from the person next to him, and wiped the blood on the sword slowly.

Everyone was silent, just staring at him blankly.

Usually, I saw this half-blind man who was unsmiling, even in the face of their verbal attacks, he would not say a word, but at this moment, he really shocked them.

Who wants to die if they can live?

"Since there is no one who is in a hurry to reincarnate, we should cooperate with the doctors' treatment so as not to hurt others." Jiang Ling threw the sword into the hands of the people next to him, turned and left.

Then it was time for Zhuang Zhou to win people's hearts.

He looked at the people inside the fence, and said earnestly: "Yesterday, my lord, who was ordered by the emperor to deliver medicine, did not hesitate to risk his own life in order to save this girl who was determined to die. I don't know if she has contracted the disease at this moment. You must know that this lord is the emperor's senior brother! The Holy Majesty asked his senior brother to deliver the medicine, but in the end... hey..."

Needless to say, leave some room for their own imagination.

After Zhuang Zhou left, these people fell silent. Their emperor... Maybe he really didn't give up on them.

Although there are not enough medicinal materials, it is not hopeless. Three carts of medicinal materials can be sent this time, maybe there will be a next time?

But this half-blind Jiang Ling is really bad, the kind that is so bad in his heart.

Gu Fang was lying on the bed alone, the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the plague pills were burning in the censer. An occasional cough would make him worry that he might be infected with the plague.

This night, living up to his guess, he really couldn't close his eyes.

Gu Fang sat up from the bed at dawn, probably because of a sudden start, but before his legs could stand up straight, he fell back again.

Geez, are you old?

It's just that I feel dizzy after not sleeping all night.