The county horse is a medicine jar

Before dawn, Shen Qingwan planned to leave for Beijing alone, but she seemed a little worried about Lin Sishen's safety.When parting, she carefully warned: "No matter what, you have to be careful, I will leave a few hidden guards by your side, and if the situation is urgent, they will rescue you. I can't take her back to Beijing , you need to take good care of her."

Although she knew that she would meet again in a few days after this parting, Lin Sishen was still reluctant to part with her. She raised her eyes to look at Shen Qingwan's figure, nodded and said softly: "Princess, leave with peace of mind. I will definitely leave in a few days." I will return to the capital with Ju An unscathed."

Shen Qingwan turned her head to look at Lin Sishen, her expression was quite complicated, she sighed softly and slowly opened her lips: "If it wasn't...I really want to stay, lest..."

I don't know why there is something difficult to say, Shen Qingwan's words are particularly hesitant and cryptic, and the cause and effect have not been explained.Lin Sishen was even more confused, she was about to ask, but Shen Qingwan gently motioned her not to ask.

Seeing that Shen Qingwan didn't want to speak out, Lin Sishen didn't ask any more questions. She watched Shen Qingwan put on a mask to cover her face in silence, and felt a sense of inexplicable loss for some reason.

When Shen Qingwan walked to the window, she suddenly walked quickly behind Shen Qingwan, wrapped her hands tightly around Shen Qingwan's waist, buried her head on her back, and said nothing sullenly.

Shen Qingwan smiled lightly, raised her hand to cover the back of Lin Sishen's hand wrapped around her waist, and said helplessly, "It's not life and death, why did you suddenly become so obsessive?"

Lin Sishen shook his head, rubbed against Shen Qingwan's back with his eyes closed, took a deep breath and let go, with a smile on his face, he said softly: "It's nothing, the Princess should also leave, don't wait until It’s dawn. I’m tired of traveling all the way, and I need to remember to rest.”

Shen Qingwan turned around and took a deep look at her, then raised her hand to caress Lin Sishen's side face, her cool fingertips brushed gently across her face, gentle and tender.

Lin Sishen's eyelashes trembled, and she couldn't help closing her eyes.But at the moment when he closed his eyes, the fingertips on his face retracted, and a gust of wind suddenly came towards his face.

When Lin Sishen opened his eyes again, there was no one in front of him, Shen Qingwan had already quietly disappeared into the dark night, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Lin Sishen sighed a little dejectedly, and looked down at the handkerchief on his wrist, on the corner of the snow-white silk handkerchief, was embroidered a light white orchid that was not stained with dust.

After Shen Qingwan left, Lin Sishen ate something casually to fill his stomach, and then lay down in Shen Qingwan's room, on the bed filled with Shen Qingwan's body fragrance, and soon fell asleep unconsciously past.

By the time Lin Sishen opened his eyes again, it was already noon, and he could faintly hear noises outside the official post.

Lin Sishen got up and changed his clothes, then hurriedly opened the door, and happened to bump into Mo Zhu who was standing outside the door holding clear water.

The noise outside became louder and louder, Lin Sishen casually took some water and slapped it on his face, and couldn't help asking: "What happened today, why is it so noisy outside?"

Mo Zhu was holding the copper basin, seeing Lin Sishen washing up so casually, he frowned slightly and said, "I heard from Brother Meng that many disaster victims died outside the city today, and the officers and soldiers dragged back two corpses and put them at the gate of the city." , Zheng sent Wu to do the autopsy, and the people in the city gathered on the street to discuss it."

Lin Sishen was stunned, as if he had thought of something, his expression changed slightly, he sighed and said, "Now that a few people have starved to death in Longyou, what's so strange about it."

Mo Zhu shook his head, and said seriously: "But those victims didn't starve to death, but were poisoned to death."

Lin Sishen frowned, thought softly and asked: "You said they were poisoned to death?"

Mo Zhu sighed with worry in his eyes: "There are not a few people who died, probably as many as a hundred. I don't know who the murderer is. The situation of the victims is so bleak, and someone poisoned them."

Lin Sishen's expression became more solemn when she heard the words, and she asked again: "Why didn't Han Ce come to report this incident?"

Mo Zhu shrugged: "I don't know why, Mr. Han didn't report this matter to the official post today, and it was Brother Meng who went to the gate of the city to inquire about this matter."

"Mo Zhu, you stay in the official post to take care of Meng Yange and Ju An, and I will take Meng Lin out for a while."

It was really strange at this time, Shen Qingwan just left last night and this happened, and I don't know if it was a trap set by Sun Wenqian.Lin Sishen thought for a while, then left a word and hurried downstairs.

Meng Linben had been guarding outside the official post, and immediately followed Lin Sishen when he came downstairs: "Master, are you going to the gate of the city?"

Lin Sishen nodded: "Well, you take one more person with me to go with me."

Leading Meng Lin and another guard, Lin Sishen quickly walked out of the official post and rushed straight to the gate of the city.

As Mo Zhu said, there are quite a few people gathered in the streets of the lower city, all of them whispering worriedly.In the words, it seemed that there was an unknown man in black who intended to assassinate the imperial envoy who lived in the official post last night.

Lin Sishen only stopped to listen to a few words, and then rushed to the city gate without stopping.

A temporary shed was set up at the gate of the city, covered with straw mats, and the air was filled with a strong rancid smell. Except for a few officers and soldiers guarding the city, the common people looked at it from a distance, and no one dared to approach it.

Lin Sishen led the people and walked straight over, but the guard officer didn't recognize Lin Sishen, and almost stopped her. Fortunately, an official present recognized Lin Sishen, and hurriedly asked someone to make way to let Lin Sishen in.

Lin Sishen looked at the nodding and bowing official in front of him, frowned and asked, "What's going on, such a big case happened in Pingliang City, where is Mr. Han?"

The official smiled all over his face: "I would like to report to the imperial envoy, Mr. Han was bedridden with a cold this morning, and the case will be investigated by the lower officials today."

Han Ce is sick?

Lin Sishen glanced at the official, but ignored him, spared him, and walked into the shed where the corpse was placed.Before he got close to the arbor, Lin Sishen felt a little headache from the stench.

She took out a piece of spice from the sachet at her waist, wrapped it in a handkerchief, covered her mouth and nose, walked quickly to the corpse, and lifted the straw mat covering the corpse.

Unexpectedly, when the opening was made, Lin Sishen was shocked in place.The corpse lying on the ground didn't look like someone who died last night. The carrion was almost falling off, and the face was even more difficult to recognize.

After looking at it carefully, Lin Sishen couldn't help but look away, covered the straw mat back, turned his head to look at the officials who followed, frowned and asked coldly: "On the way here, I heard from the people that these people died last night. of?"

The official nodded again and again: "My lord, these people did die last night, and someone saw them yesterday. As for their corpses, the lower officials also felt a little strange. They died only last night, but their bodies were already rotten. It looks like it's been dead for half a month."

"It seems that this matter is really strange."

Lin Sishen looked at the other two corpses again, without exception, the corpses were already rotten, not at all like the person who died last night.

After a hasty look, Lin Sishen couldn't hold back any longer, and quickly walked out of the arbor.

The officials followed Lin Sishen step by step: "My lord, these corpses were just dragged back from outside the city by the lower officials for post-mortem examination. There are more than this outside the city. I don't know my lord...you need to be accompanied by the lower officials. Have a look outside the city?"

This matter was so weird that Lin Sishen couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. She lowered her eyes and pondered for a moment, then raised her sleeve and said, "Lead the way ahead."

Under the guidance of the officials, Lin Sishen and his party quickly rushed to the outside of the city. Sure enough, just like the rumors, there were corpses almost everywhere outside the city, and the death conditions were without exception, just like the few corpses in the city.

Lin Sishen was shocked even looking at it from a distance, she asked in a deep voice, "What's the result of your autopsy?"

The official nodded and bowed his head and replied: "According to Wu Zuo, these victims were all poisoned by others, and the poison is extremely poisonous. It can be said that seeing blood seals the throat and touches it will kill them."

Originally, many disaster victims gathered outside the city, but after many people died last night, the rest were scared and fled in all directions.Now outside the city, except for the corpses everywhere, it can be said that there are no living people.

Lin Sishen felt a faint sense of ominousness in her heart. The incident happened so suddenly, she had to guess whether these victims were poisoned by Sun Wenqian.

But why did Sun Wenqian do this?What good is it to him to poison these innocent victims?

Just when Lin Sishen couldn't figure it out, an official in the city suddenly ran over with a flustered expression, stumbled, ran up to them, and fell to the ground with his knees bent.

Seeing this, the official glared angrily, gritted his teeth and scolded fiercely: "You dog slave, haven't you seen that the imperial envoy is here? How can you be so flustered?"

The officer's eyes were full of horror and mourned: "My lord, is it okay, something big happened in the city."

The official frowned and was about to explode, but Lin Sishen gave him a cold glance, and after he was silent, Lin Sishen asked softly, "Don't panic, tell the truth slowly, what happened in the city. "

The officer swallowed, looked at Lin Sishen tremblingly, and said in a trembling voice, "My lord, in the city...some people in the city's households were poisoned and died. Even Wuzuo...he also..."

The official's face changed when he heard the words, and he hurriedly asked: "What happened to him after you finish talking?"

The official servant was frightened out of his wits, trembling and sweating profusely: "Even Wu Zuo is dead, and the little one was drinking tea and chatting with him just now, but suddenly he turned pale and fell to the ground, but in an instant, He died in a fit of rage."

"What...this?"

The official's complexion changed drastically, and he hurriedly turned his head to look at Lin Sishen who was at the side, and asked repeatedly: "My lord... this, this, this, what should I do?"

Lin Sishen's eyes flashed, and he glanced at him expressionlessly: "Why panic, follow me back to the city to have a look."

After a trip in vain, Lin Sishen led the people back to the city in a hurry. This time, under the leadership of the officials, they went straight to the writer.

With such a drastic change today, the people in the city were panicked, and many people ran home and closed their doors tightly when they heard the news.Originally, the city was quite lively when I left the city, but after returning, the city looked empty.

After arriving at the writer, Lin Sishen saw a dead body lying on the ground inside the open door.When he got closer, he saw that the man's face was blue and white, his eyes were wide open, and his body was twisted in a very strange posture.

Lin Sishen didn't approach, and then whispered a few words in Meng Lin's ear, after which Meng Lin nodded and hurried out.

Apart from Lin Sishen and a guard, there were only the following officials and the ecstatic official servant left in the room.Lin Sishen glanced back at them, walked around the corpse and walked to the table.

She looked at the teapot on the table and the two empty teacups, and asked, "You said that before Wu Zuo died, you were still drinking tea and chatting with him?"

The officer looked at Wu Zuo's body on the ground, and his legs couldn't stop trembling with fright: "Exactly, the young one is from the same town as Wu Zuo, and we often come to his house to drink tea. Today, after he has examined the corpse, he invites the young one to come to him." Have a cup of tea at home."

Lin Sishen nodded, wrapped the handkerchief around her hand, and removed the lid of the teapot. She peeked at it and asked, "The first pot of tea? It seems that you have also drank this tea."

The officer turned pale when he heard the words, and he tremblingly pointed to the teacup and asked, "Yes, sir, could it be that the tea is poisonous, but this tea was brewed by a villain, and the villain never poisoned it?" .”

Lin Sishen ignored him, but paced around Wu Zuo's corpse. Wu Zuo had just died, and a stench had indeed begun to emanate from the corpse.The rate of decay of the corpse is unreasonably fast.

Just as Lin Sishen was quietly standing in front of Wu Zuo's corpse, Meng Lin led Mo Zhu in.

Lin Sishen came back to his senses, and said softly: "Mo Zhu, come and see what kind of poison he has been poisoned, be careful."

Mo Zhu nodded, put the medicine box on the ground, and began to perform an autopsy on Wu.Because he didn't know how poisonous it was, Mo Zhu didn't touch the corpse, but pricked his throat with a silver needle to get some blood, then put the silver needle into a porcelain bottle filled with clean water and stirred it stir.

Lin Sishen waited patiently at the side, while the official who followed seemed a little anxious, glanced at the corpse from time to time, and sneaked another glance at Lin Sishen.

Lin Sishen snorted coldly without raising his head, and said quietly, "Master Wu seems to be in a hurry?"

The official smiled stiffly and explained: "My lord, what are you talking about, my officer..."

Mo Zhu interrupted him coldly, frowned and said in a deep voice: "This poison is extremely poisonous, it was inhaled."

Lin Sishen nodded, and saw with a sharp eye that there seemed to be a piece of fine tea leaves on the little finger of Wu Zuo's right hand, and she looked at the official servant with a flash of eyes: "Let me ask you, when Wu Zuo drinks tea, does he like to stir it with his little finger?" Tea?"

The officer was stunned, then nodded and replied: "Exactly... Exactly."

Mo Zhu put away the porcelain bottle containing Wu Zuo's poisonous blood, and said in a low voice: "He conducted an autopsy today, if his hands were stained with the blood of the deceased, and he stirred the tea with his little finger, the poison would seep into the tea. And he It is also possible to drink tea and be poisoned to death."

Meng Lin took a step forward and said, "My lord, on the way here, I saw many people carrying their bags and planning to escape from the city. I stopped a man and asked him, and he said that a doctor asserted that there are people in the city The corpses outside the city were all infected with the plague and died."

A flash of inspiration flashed in Lin Sishen's mind, he narrowed his eyes and thought, "Plague, escape?"

It seems that this is really the trick of Sun Wenqian, he just wants to make Pingliang City into a mess.First, the victims were poisoned to death, and the corpses were brought into the city by people, and then Zuo Zuo was poisoned, and then rumors were spread that there was a plague in Pingliang City.

In this way, the people of Pingliang City would flee in all directions, and when Pingliang City became an empty city, he could boldly attack Lin Sishen with confidence.No matter whether Lin Sishen wanted to leave the city or stay in the city, he could not escape death.

After Lin Sishen died, he could also blame Lin Sishen's death on the plague, saying that Lin Sishen died of the plague.If her body is burned again, there will be no way to investigate and prove her death.

It took so much effort and effort just to deal with her alone, Lin Sishen, but he really thought highly of her.

Lin Sishen smiled coldly, turned around to look at the official, and said sharply, "Immediately send someone to seal the gate of the city. No one can enter or leave the city without the official's password."

The official lowered his head respectfully and cupped his hands: "The next official takes orders."

After he finished speaking, he led the official and walked quickly to the door, but when he turned around, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

Once those two left, only Lin Sishen was left in the house.

Meng Lin looked at the corpse on the ground with lingering fear, and couldn't help but worry: "My lord, this poison is so powerful. I'm afraid that those people will secretly use this poison to poison you."

Lin Sishen nodded, looked at Mo Zhu with downcast eyes in thought, and called softly: "Mo Zhu."

Hearing this, Mo Zhu shook his head, and said helplessly: "This poison is extremely poisonous. I have never seen such a strange poison before. It may take a lot of effort to prepare the antidote. What's more... the medicine shops in the city have long been Close the door, and the medicinal materials are nowhere to be found.”

Lin Sishen sighed quietly, she did not expect that Sun Wenqian would go to such lengths to resort to such tricks, and at such a fast speed.

She frowned and paced back and forth in the room: "Once the city gate is closed, if they continue to poison the city, it will definitely cause panic among the people. If the people are dissatisfied with me, they may surround the official post. At that time, if he pretends to be a mob and lures people into the official post to take advantage of the chaos, I will also be in danger."

Meng Lin opened his eyes angrily, gritted his teeth and slapped the table fiercely: "As long as Pingliang City is in chaos, it will be easier for them to attack you. That old bastard Sun Wenqian is indeed vicious. Before that, he sent someone to pretend to be a bandit to assassinate you. Want to repeat the old tricks. For this reason, he did not hesitate to kill innocent people. This old thing will not be relieved even if he is hacked into pieces."

Lin Sishen stopped, looked at the corpse on the ground and said softly, "For people like Sun Wenqian, human life is nothing in his eyes."

Mo Zhu was silent for a long time, and then asked softly: "Then is there a way for you to get out of trouble?"

Lin Sishen shook his head, raised his chin calmly and signaled: "Let's go back to the official post first."

As Meng Lin said, the people in the city now want to run out of the city one after another, and the originally empty streets are full of people, and the people drag their families and their families to the direction of the city gate.

But with Lin Sishen's order, the gate of the city was tightly closed, and a large number of officers and soldiers guarded the gate of the city, driving back the people who wanted to leave the city.

Sure enough, among the bustling crowd, someone took the lead and began to scold Lin Sishen, saying that he came all the way from the capital, and that he didn't do a good job of investigating the case. Forced to die.

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers guarding the gate of the city unceremoniously pulled out those who scolded the imperial envoy, and severely punished dozens of people in front of everyone.

But this made the people even more resentful. They refused to disperse, and just stood in front of the city gate to confront the officers and soldiers. Some even tried to force their way in without fear of death, but were held down by the officers and soldiers, tied up and hung at the city gate. superior.

What's more, they chanted words, shouting that this was an order from the imperial envoy, and that anyone who dared to forcefully break into the Fa-rectification on the spot would show no mercy.

Naturally, these were not Lin Sishen's will, but the officials deliberately did so in order to stir up dissatisfaction and resentment against Lin Sishen.

There was a lot of commotion at the gate of the city, but inside the official post, Lin Sishen was still sitting at the table having dinner at ease, looking at his appearance, he seemed not at all disturbed by the movement outside.

Today Lin Sishen stayed in the lobby for a meal for the first time, and asked Meng Lin and others to sit around the table, even Nanxiangqin was there.Not only that, but she also had some pots of wine warmed and brought to the table, intending to have a few drinks with everyone.

Except for Lin Sishen, Mo Zhu, Menglin and the others were all worried, and they didn't have the heart to eat.They looked at Lin Sishen silently, only to see Lin Sishen's pickled vegetables being put into his mouth in a calm manner, and he praised his craftsmanship a few times.

Seeing this, Meng Lin finally couldn't help but open his mouth. He patted the untouched bowl and chopsticks, suppressed his anger and said, "My lord, you really don't plan to go out and take care of it. The official is still outside with chicken feathers and arrows to ruin you. reputation."

Lin Sishen swallowed the food in his mouth, took a sip from the wine cup, and waved his hand indifferently: "No hurry, let him make a fuss. Why don't you move your chopsticks? Today's chef's skills are really amazing. Alright, I'm almost catching up with the skills of the royal chef in the palace."

Sitting next to Lin Sishen in a trance, Nanxiangqin heard the words, suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Sishen, smiled slightly, bowed her body and said, "Thank you for your praise, my lord."

Lin Sishen was stunned, pointing to a table of delicious food on the table, he asked in surprise: "This... the food on this table is all made by Miss Qin?"

"Ah."

Nanxiangqin nodded, pursed her lips and lowered her eyes a little shyly, and said, "There is only a little girl in the official post who is a useless idler."

Lin Sishen coughed lightly, and said with a gentle smile: "Miss Qin is an idler, let alone your good craftsmanship at this table, you are better than everyone here, including me."

After she finished speaking, she pointed at Meng Lin again, and said dissatisfiedly: "Just take Meng Lin's cooking last time as an example, the food he cooked was really hard to swallow."

Meng Lin's face turned red when he heard the words, and he hastily retorted: "This...cooking is what women should do. The humble job is a general who holds a sword to rule the country. If the young master didn't drive the cook away, the pot and spoon How can a humble job touch it?"

Before Lin Sishen could speak, Mo Zhu glanced at him: "Who said that cooking is something a woman should do? Brother Meng must have forgotten that even the general cooks vegetables and stews for his wife several times."

"This..."

Meng Lin was blocked by Mo Zhu's words, and he didn't know how to refute for a while, his face turned red and pale, and he froze there in embarrassment.

Lin Sishen couldn't help laughing, and also teased: "Meng Lin, if you said this in front of Mrs. Qin, I'm afraid you won't even be able to drink hot soup in the future."

Everyone in the room couldn't help laughing secretly when they heard the words, even Nan Xiangqin could hear the deep meaning in Lin Sishen's words, covered her lips and smiled softly.

Meng Lin, a man of five grades and three grades, shrank his shoulders subconsciously when he heard Lin Sishen mention his wife.Seeing that everyone was laughing at him, he blushed and straightened his back, half ashamed and half serious: "Sir, don't laugh at me, now is the time to joke, let's think about how to get out."