King's Landing [Rebirth]

Song Yuan's smile was still on his face, and he was extremely happy. Liang Jian's cold water was poured at the wrong time.Song Yuan's smile was too late to take back, he turned his head to look at him stiffly, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Jiang Shengxue and Mei Zhenghan also looked over curiously. They had been in the city for less than a day, and they didn't know much about each other. They wondered where Liang Jian came to the conclusion.

Liang Jian didn't make a fool of himself, and mentioned what he had seen and heard during the day: "I walked around the city during the day today, and found that there were too many rats in the city, which was not normal. Dead livestock, have you dealt with the corpses of these livestock? If the rats feed on the corpses and the sick people gather in groups, the rats bite the corpses and then bite them, which will accelerate the spread of the disease. The epidemic is easy to kill people, you deal with it It’s still so slow, do you think those people didn’t die fast enough?”

The spread of the epidemic is very strong, and if it is not dealt with in time, it is easy for a village to die.It stands to reason that when an epidemic occurs in a main city like Hongye City, it should be able to be contained in the shortest possible time to minimize the spread of the epidemic.It is puzzling that they can't control the disease in the city even though they have ordered the control of going out of the city.

The smile on Song Yuan's face disappeared completely, and he sat down with a long face in frustration, his brows were full of bitterness.He looked at the three people in front of him, touched Xiaodouzi's head and sighed: "To tell you the truth, Hongye City has no leader now, and I'm the one who handles everything up and down. Even if I want to control the disease, I'm not strong enough. "

It is a joke to say that such a large main city has been reduced to the point where the chief officials are in charge.Song Yuan had the heart to hide it before, but now he can't.

Jiang Shengxue was very surprised, and said in astonishment: "Where is the city lord? Could it be that the city lord also...gone?"

Jiang Shengxue wanted to say that he had escaped, but felt that this word was not very good, so he changed it to a more euphemistic term after a pause.

Song Yuan chuckled lightly when he heard the words, with a look of disdain on his face: "The city lord fell down before the epidemic broke out, and now he is lying on the bed unable to move. If it weren't for staring at the eyes every day and occasionally turning around, we would all consider electing a new city lord. Bury him."

More than ten days ago, Hongye City held a Poetry Friendship Association. The city lord hosted a banquet for rich merchants and knight-errants.The good city lord's hall forced him to become a forest of wine and meat.As a chief official, Song Yuan hated this deeply, declined the request of the city lord to let him accompany him during the banquet, and went to the city lord's mansion every day to order an appointment, and left in a hurry when he saw nothing.

The city lord's mansion is heavily guarded, and the commander-in-chief is a trusted aide hand-picked by the city lord, so there would be no assassins or poisoning.But the city lord couldn't bear to commit suicide by himself, and fell in love with a merchant's concubine, and forced the concubine to stay in the mansion by means, wanting to have a spring night with someone, and turn the tide.Who knew that this little concubine was from a quack and a master at using poison, after bringing down the city lord, she floated away.

Soon afterwards, the epidemic broke out in the city, and the dragons in the city had no leader. A few officials who were greedy for life and fear of death immediately packed up their clothes and ran away.The rest are either wine bags and rice bags, or a group of warriors, who can't come up with a plan at all.

If the officials in the city are like this, one can imagine what the situation of the Li people below is like.There were many people who burned, killed, looted, and looted while Song Yuan sent several waves of officers and soldiers to suppress them.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Song Yuan has been full of anger. Every day when he goes to the city lord's mansion and sees the group of idiots who are hiding inside and dare not come out, he wants to kill them all.

Liang Jian thought that something happened in the city, but he didn't expect it to be so dramatic.He has never met the city lord of Hongye City, but he has heard of his virtues. He is lustful, greedy for money and greedy for life and fear of death, because it is not impossible for a woman to fall into it.It's just that the people of the city who have suffered a lot have encountered the epidemic at this juncture.

But after thinking about it, I'm afraid the situation would be the same if it weren't for this juncture. After all, the city lord is just a dead man.When he couldn't make a sound, Song Yuan could still let go of his hands and feet, but if he could make a sound, he had to let go of Song Yuan angrily.Thinking about it this way, it seems that the woman who poisoned her did something good by mistake.

"There is no one in charge of the city, and those people are clamoring to leave, so I have to order people to strictly check at the gate of the city, and no one who is infected can go out. I summoned all the doctors in the city to the city lord's mansion, and only gave them two things, to save the city lord and reconcile the epidemic, but none of them have completed it." Song Yuan felt sad and blamed himself for the situation in the city, he smiled bitterly, and laughed at himself: "Actually, before I met you, I was quite frustrated and thought about the big deal Die in the city with these people."

The atmosphere in the room was a little dignified, like the dark city outside, lifeless.

Mei Zhenghan had a good impression of Song Yuan, and now he felt more and more sympathetic to him: "It's not easy for you, the most difficult thing at this time is that you have more energy than you want. Then what are you going to do next? Let Sheng Xue Help you control the epidemic?"

"This is how I think about it, it depends on whether Miss Jiang is willing to lend a helping hand." Song Yuan looked at Jiang Shengxue and said sincerely: "I can make decisions about most things in the city now, as long as Miss Jiang is willing to help, there will be more people in the future Where I need to take action, I will never hesitate to define."

Hongye City has no leader now, and Song Yuan arranges the things in the city by himself.If he can control the epidemic and pass this crisis, his status in Hongye City will definitely improve, and his power will also increase.Using the prescription of the epidemic in exchange for one of his promises, this deal seems to be a good deal.

Jiang Shengxue was a little moved. She raised her head to look at Liang Jian and Mei Zhenghan. Seeing that their expressions were normal, she suppressed the urge to say yes, and resisted the temptation to answer immediately.

Jiang Shengxue's silence did not discourage Song Yuan. Song Yuan turned his gaze to Liang Jian and asked, "What do you think, brother Liang?"

Liang Jian looked at him with a smile on his face, and answered irrelevant questions: "It's your duty as a senior official to handle the daily affairs when the city lord can't take charge, but is it over the line to mobilize officers and soldiers? Listen to what you said, the commander-in-chief He probably didn't leave, how did you mobilize the officers and soldiers under such circumstances?"

Within a city, there are civil servants and military officials. Because the city lords have different priorities, the status of civil servants and military officials is different.Hongye City favors martial arts, so the power of military officers is greater than that of civilian officials.

Liang Jian believed in Song Yuan's skills, but in the chaotic situation without a leader, everything before would be overthrown.Those who want to survive and those who want to take the opportunity to seize more power have their own ghosts, and they are obedient and contrary.Song Yuan, a civil servant, no matter how skillful he is, can't make them all settle down, unless he holds the most important hole card in his hand.

Liang Jian's question made Song Yuan raise his eyebrows. He watched Liang Jian hesitate to speak, and weighed in his heart whether to show all the cards with Liang Jian now.If Liang Jian is willing to help, he should be able to proceed smoothly.But I was afraid that Liang Jian would not cooperate, and when the time came, he would lose his wife and lose his army, and the disaster of killing his life would not be worth the loss.

Liang Jian didn't urge Song Yuan either, instead he turned around and asked Mei Zhenghan if he was full while he was thinking.Mei Zhenghan nodded, he clearly felt that the atmosphere at the dinner table was not good, but Liang Jian looked indifferent, and was still in the mood to discuss the dishes with him.

Jiang Shengxue only cared about saving people, regardless of the grievances and grievances of the City Lord's Mansion, and Song Yuan hesitated because of Liang Jian's words, so she just took a look and didn't pay attention.Xiaodouzi was sitting next to her. Mrs. Du hadn't returned with the bowl yet, so Jiang Shengxue served him some soup on a plate.

The room quickly became quiet, and no one was talking. After a while, the sound of Mrs. Du's footsteps and voice came, breaking the silence in the room.

"Hey, let me tell you that a group of mice ran in from nowhere in the kitchen. They were all slick and bloody, and they were frightening to death." Aunt Du held a bowl in one hand and patted her chest with the other, still in shock: "I When I went to get the bowl, I ran out of the cupboard all of a sudden, and I almost dropped the bowl."

"Rat?" Song Yuan frowned, thinking about what Liang Jian said just now, he had a bad feeling in his heart.His house has always been kept clean, and snakes, insects, rats and ants are cleaned up regularly, and there will be no swarms of mice.

"Yeah, it's bigger than the average house mouse, and it should have come in from the outside."

Aunt Du filled a bowl of rice for Song Yuan and handed it to him together with chopsticks.Song Yuan took the bowl, took a few mouthfuls of rice without taste, looked up at Liang Jian and said, "I said that I can only control a part of things, and the military officer does not cooperate with me, but they have no choice. You understand what I mean , I want you to think about it."

What Song Yuan said is very clear, he also has difficulties, and it is not so easy.If the military officer doesn't cooperate, relying on them literati alone is not the answer.

Liang Jian thought about Song Yuan's last words, looked at him meaningfully, and sneered twice in her heart.Song Yuan is threatening him, this bastard, I am afraid that during the time he went to the city lord's mansion, in addition to handling things, he also did some extra things that shouldn't be done.For example, to check the recent cases passed on from the lower jurisdiction, fortunately, one or two cases came up by coincidence.

No wonder he wanted to seduce Jiang Shengxue with favors just now, because he wanted to say that he could help Mei Zheng sell the case.

"I have nothing to think about. I'm not a doctor. Just taking care of my blind brother has already taken up most of my time. I really can't spare it." Liang Jian took a breath in his heart, spread his hands indifferently, and teased Song Yuandao: " But my sister is kind-hearted, so she definitely doesn't mind helping out. Sheng Xue, you see, we've all come here, and we're staying at other people's homes, so it's hard to justify not helping. Why don't you go with Song Yuan tomorrow?"

Liang Jian looked at Jiang Shengxue, and smiled harmlessly, as if they went to a vegetable market to buy vegetables and always brought something back to cook.

The corners of Jiang Shengxue's mouth twitched, her temples thumped, Song Yuan asked for help and said it very politely, but when Liang Jian relayed it, he was beaten up, which made people feel super upset.

Suppressing the urge to curse, Jiang Shengxue said, "Then I'll try."