Copper Coins

"Ahem——" Shi Zhang was choked by the cold wind, and coughed a few times.He frowned, covered his nose and mouth with one hand, and slapped his face with the other, muttering, "What's this smell? It seems to be the smell of medicine, mixed with some other smells... as if something had grown mold."

"Fresh concoction mixed with moldy dregs, that's the smell." Jiang Shining explained, but he didn't cover his nose, after all, this kind of smell is common to him——

There are several small stoves in the back room of the Jiang Family Medical Hall, where the medicine is bubbling almost every day from morning to night, and the smell of fresh medicine soup is lingering all year round.And in the rainy days of April every year, the medicine dregs are dumped at the back door in the morning, and when they go to clean up at night, there will be a faint rotten smell.So the mixture of the two is not difficult for Jiang Shining to recognize.

But the Jiang Family Medical Hall is only a little big, how big is Qingping County?For this smell to be released as soon as the city gate is opened, there must be at least a dozen or so families in the vicinity who are decocting medicine and dumping medicine residue at the same time.

So many people sick at the same time?

Everyone suddenly had some bad premonition...

Jiang Shining's expression changed, and he raised his foot to go to the city.Unexpectedly, as soon as the crowd took two steps, a few soldiers guarding the city "swiped" forward, holding the long knife in their hands, and blocked the way.

"The gates of the nearby Japanese county are not allowed to pass through, everyone, please go back." The guard said stiffly.

"Dare to ask the officials, why are you not allowed to pass?" Jiang Shining was a little anxious when he heard the words, and couldn't help asking.

The guard still said coldly in a businesslike manner: "No comment, please come back!"

It's just that when he said this, he couldn't help but stare straight at Xuan Min.Another square-faced guard next to him raised his long knife, pointed at the person Xuan Min was hugging, frowned and said, "What are you doing with a dead person? Seeking bad luck?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to push Xuan Min, wanting them to stay away from the gate of the city, so as not to get in the way.

"Snapped--"

When the square-faced guard was about to push Xuan Min, Xue Xian lifted the black cloth covering his face, clamped his wrists with pale hands, turned his head and said quietly, "Speak well, what are you doing?"

"Heh—" the guard retracted his hand in shock, but couldn't pull it back.

He probably didn't expect that a person covered from head to ankle in black clothes was actually alive, so he was startled by Xue Xian without warning, and he blushed and shouted roughly: "Bold! What's the attempt to pretend to be a ghost?"

He lowered his head and looked at Xue Xian's thin, white fingers. It didn't look like Kong Wu was strong, and he broke free a couple of times, but those fingers were like iron clamps, showing no sign of loosening at all.

"Let go!" The square-faced guard glared at Xue Xian.

"Okay——" Xue Xian said lazily, "Tell me first, this is fine, why doesn't the city gate allow people to enter, is there any room for accommodation?"

The ancestor said it politely, but combined with the strength in his hands, it looked like a threat no matter how you looked at it.

Seeing this situation, the other guards stared and stepped forward one after another, and when they saw it, they were about to surround him.Xuan Min, who was holding Xue Xian, closed his eyes slightly, moved his lips twice, and lightly stepped on the ground with his right foot.

Those guards only felt the ground under their feet tremble inexplicably, and they were bumped, and they were bumped back to the original place in the blink of an eye.

The guards were shocked: "The earthquake?!"

It seems that the previous earthquake in Anqing Mansion left some shadows on them, so that after being jolted like this, the guards froze in place, looking at each other, not daring to move for a while, as if they were holding their breath and waiting. Was bumped for the second time.

"Let go!" The square-faced guard who was clamped by Xue Xian was also a little uneasy. He shortened his body, twitched his wrist again, and said to Xue Xian, "It's not that we don't want to say it, everyone has also seen it. The movement is frequent, the house is unstable, and the epidemic is constant. Letting you go back is for your sake, not harming you!"

"Epidemic?" Xue Xian grasped the key point, "Is there an epidemic in Qingping County?"

Seeing that they couldn't be dismissed for a while, the square-faced guard shook his head and said: "A few days ago, the ground in the county was cracked, and some unknown black insects crawled out from the ground. Some people in the county were killed by those When the black worm bites, rashes appear on the body, the pain is unbearable and you can't scratch it, it will break if you scratch it, and it will start to fester in large patches within two days, which is horrible."

"Where's the doctor? Didn't he get the medicine in time?" Jiang Shining couldn't help asking.

"I didn't know so much at the beginning. Some people couldn't bear it and went to the doctor. Some people just treated it as a minor ailment and dealt with it casually. It turned out that this ailment can be passed on to others..." The guard lowered his voice as he spoke. , with a faint tone, which sounded a little frightened: "It spreads very fast, don't you smell the smell of medicine dregs all over the city?"

"Okay, what's the point of talking to them!" The other guards saw that the ground was no longer trembling, so they straightened up again, impatiently trying to chase them away.

Xue Xianxin said: If you stop me like this again, I won't care!I can do anything.

This ancestor has always been a little unscrupulous in doing things. Although these guards are not unreasonable, they really have to find a way to enter the city.If he continues to stop like this, he doesn't mind turning back into a dragon and flying directly over the city wall.

Just when all the guards gathered and were about to get tough, a black man standing at the back suddenly screamed "ah", pointed at the back of Fang Lian's neck and said, "Brother Li, you, the back of your neck! "

"What's the matter?" Fang Lian felt a little uneasy when he heard his tone, and subconsciously touched the back of his neck with his free hand.When he was dressing this morning, he inexplicably felt that there was something wrong with that piece, and he thought it was worn out, because he was in a hurry to change the guard, so he didn't bother to investigate.

"I've got a rash!" Another guard took a closer look by the light of the lantern, and immediately took two steps back, "It's the size of two thumbs!"

Everyone was still looking at it, but when they heard this, they dispersed like a tide with a "hula".

"Oh... this is what you call a rash. You also have it on your tiger's mouth." Xue Xian pinched his wrist bone calmly, and motioned him to look at his tiger's mouth. "Here, there is also a small piece."

The guard with the square face just stood there stupidly.

Xue Xian glanced at the rash, and suddenly came up with an idea.

The ideas that this ancestor came up with have always been...unusual.Seeing him suddenly "hiss" inhale, he said to himself with his fingers holding his square face: "It's really fast enough, I'll grow up now."

Fang Lian was shocked when he heard the words, and looked down in a daze, and saw a large red rash visible to the naked eye on Xue Xian's hand, spreading from the fingertips all the way to the back of the hand.Soon the whole hand was red and swollen, which was set off by the pale skin on the wrist, making it look particularly shocking.

The guards around were completely speechless by this scene, Fang Lian even forgot to breathe, and Xue Xian muttered in horror, "You said just now that the rash has grown? What will happen?"

One of the guards murmured subconsciously: "The pain, the itching is unbearable, the skin is broken and festered..."

"Oh yes." Xue Xian responded.

So all the guards present watched helplessly as his hand became ragged, and with a slight movement of his fingers, a piece of flesh fell off.

guard:"……"

"How bad is it?" Xue Xian asked again.

All the guards were stunned, unable to utter a single word.

Seeing that no one answered, Xue Xian bit the tip of his tongue, and simply played a big game——

The square-faced guard saw that his hands were getting more and more rotten and frightening, and began to drop flesh and blood, and immediately screamed, and the hand held by Xue Xian's rotten claws shrank back suddenly.It's okay if he doesn't move, this move...

Hearing a "click", Xue Xian's entire hand was torn off from the wrist bone, and fell straight to the ground.

guard:"…………………………………………"

"Look, I've been uploaded too. It took just a while for my hands to rot away. I'm still half paralyzed and can't walk. I dragged them down and they walked slowly. At this time, let's go back the same way and wait. I went to another county and found a doctor who prescribed the medicine, and I guess the whole thing is rotten on him." Xue Xian pointed at Xuan Min with his rotten claw that could see the bones, almost poking Xuan Min in the face.

"..."

Xuan Min only glanced at his wrist, then silently closed his eyes——

What is out of sight is clear, and if he takes another look, he is afraid that he will not be able to resist throwing this disgusting monster directly to the ground.

"Shouldn't you tell me to go to the city quickly and find a doctor?" Xue Xian said earnestly, with an appearance of "I'm just being so reasonable", "Tell me back, don't pester me, or you will die if you pester me again." gone."

The square-faced guard trembled, subconsciously getting out of the way amidst the repeated shocks.

"Thank you." Xuan Min said lightly, and strode towards the city with Xue Xian in his arms.As soon as he moved, the guards on both sides took another two steps back and stuck to the city gate one after another, as if he would die like Xue Xian if he got closer to him.

The guards looked at their backs, not returning to their senses for a long time.After a long while, one of the guards accidentally glanced out of the corner of the eye, and suddenly called out: "Look!"

Everyone turned their heads in response, and saw the guard pointing at the place where Xue Xian was standing, saying, "The hand just now, the hand just now is gone..."

Seeing that Xue Xian's hand that fell to the ground just now was gone, replaced by a white plum branch that was broken from nowhere.

The guard was shocked, and turned his head to chase after them, but found that those people had disappeared, and they didn't know where they had been abducted.

They were about to report it to the leader, but when they saw the square-faced guard still standing there, they stopped abruptly and shouted at him from a distance: "Brother Li, Brother Li? Don't be dazed! Go find the doctor! If the medical hall is busy, go to the nearest Fang's pharmacy to grab some medicines. The pharmacy has been filling people with medicines recently, and the prescriptions must be memorized! We will replace your post, you hurry back, ah ?”

"Yeah." Li Li was stunned for a moment, and responded.He lowered his head and leaned the long knife against the city gate, and went to the medical hall in the west of the city without saying a word.

In the east alley in the opposite direction to him, Xuan Min and the others were following Jiang Shining towards his eldest sister's house. Shi Zhang couldn't help but look back as he was walking, for fear that a large group of guards would chase him.

"Stop hooking your neck, no one is following you." Xue Xianguang could tell by ear whether someone was chasing him, "Why are you so careful?"

Everyone thought: Do you have the face to say it?

Every time he went to a county town, this ancestor would do something in public, as if doing something was a waste of time.

Jiang Shining had been to Anqing before, and he didn't mention it many times, but he still knew the way.With three turns and two turns, he stood in front of a gate house.

The front door is very small, not the main entrance, but the back door facing the narrow alley. On both sides of the door there is a round stone sculpture, with two stone steps between them.

"The main entrance is a pharmacy, which has always been busy. My family and relatives all walk through the back entrance, which leads to the backyard and the house." Jiang Shining explained.

"Baldy donkey, let me sit down." Xue Xian took advantage of Jiang Shining's knock on the door and asked Xuan Min to put him on the stone sculpture.

He squeezed the bone-exposed wrist, while stretching out the real hand again, he said to Xuan Min: "Excuse me, give me another clothes-cleaning spell, I accidentally smeared the flesh on the cuff."

"..." Whether it was Shitou Zhang or Jiang Shining who was knocking on the door... even Lu Nianqi, who seldom paid attention to anyone, turned his head away with a look of horror.

Xuan Min glanced at Xue Xian's cuff, and then looked away as soon as he touched it. With his unscrupulous temperament, this glance was the limit.He was probably very upset by this obscurity, and he didn't follow Xue Xian's words to paint the clothes cleansing spell, probably because he felt that the clothes cleansing spell would be difficult to completely clean up the ragged and rotten scene just now.So, with that icy face on his face, he raised his hand and scratched Xue Xian's elbow, and then pulled it dryly.

As if the sleeve had been cut by a knife, it was neatly broken from the elbow.

Just like that, Xuan Min held the half-smeared sleeve, scratched the fire with a blank face, and burned it clean.

"..." Xue Xian probably never thought that someone would dare to tear his clothes casually, let alone this bald donkey who was the first to have such courage, and was stunned when he saw half of his arm.He stared blankly for a while, then lowered his head, lifted Xuan Min's monk robe without saying a word, wiped his "hands that grew back after rotting" vigorously, and then sent Xuan Min in front of him: " Come on, I'm shirtless, you have to bare your legs to calm the anger in my heart."

Jiang Shining silently cast a sympathetic glance at Xuan Min, and was about to say something when he heard the narrow door in front of him being pulled open, and a girl in her teens asked "Who is that?" and poked her head out.

Familiar face!

Seeing someone he knew, Jiang Shining smiled, cupped his hands and said, "Oh, it's Xing——"

As soon as he said two words, the girl screamed and slammed the door without saying a word.