Under the night moon, the roars of several wild beasts could be faintly heard.

Yun Jian subconsciously leaned towards Zi Li, but Zi Li stopped her behind her.

"I don't know what's in the bag, let's find a hidden place for the time being"

Xu miscounted in the dark, and when the group of people were no longer obsessed with throwing down the number in the river, they quickly left, while Yun Jian and Zi Li slowly walked out of the hidden place and found a cave at the foot of the mountain that could accommodate five or six people.

Zili lit a fire and carefully opened the bag.

Yun Jian helped him arch the bag towards the fire, but he screamed the moment the bag was opened.

Even Zili couldn't help but be shocked, the bag was not a dead pig or other animal corpses, but the corpses of two five or six-year-old children.

The corpse's complexion was pale, with faint dark red markings, not corpse spots, but familiar lines on cloud paper, and bruises appeared on the sides of the child's cheeks, and there was a faint black around them.

"Brother Zili, these children" Xu was frightened for a moment just now, and Yun Jian was a little incoherent.

Zili regretted bringing the cloud note a little, but now he regrets that there is no way to do it, so he can only solve the matter in front of him.

He flipped over the body with a wooden strip and examined the cause of death, frowning more and more as he looked at it.

The moon was dark and the wind was high, and a group of people from unknown forces carried 20 sacks into the river, and if one sack contained two children, at least 40 children died at the hands of that group.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple," Zi Li looked outside, except for the sound of the wind and the occasional roar of wild beasts, there was silence, "Guiyun, let's go back for the time being, and come back tomorrow." ”

Yun Jian wished to go back earlier, although there was Zili, but she couldn't resist her fear of the dark night, just walking past the child's corpse, but smelling a familiar smell.

"Wait a minute, Brother Zili. She held Zili in one hand, picked up a wooden stick in the other hand and carefully stirred the corpse in the bag, although she couldn't hide her fear, but this breath made her unusually calm in the chaos.

After looking at the firelight for a long time, until even she forgot that she was facing two corpses, and when Zili helped her up, Yun Jian's eyes became solemn: "I think I may have found the source of the plague." ”

"Oh?" Zi Li didn't know much about medical science, especially these strange illnesses, but when Yun Jian followed Guiwu, he read all his books and codex, and even if he didn't see many illnesses with his own eyes, he also knew about them, so Zi Li didn't doubt her words.

However, Yun Jian's expression after knowing it was not relaxed, but became more and more solemn.

When the two returned to Linyunju, Han Chuyue and the others were about to go out, and when they saw them, they hurriedly stopped them.

"You can be regarded as coming back, and if you don't come back in the middle of the night, Mu Lao was finally persuaded by me to go back to sleep," Han Chuyue teased, "You have news, but this month, you are in love with the concubine, don't delay the business." ”

"What are you talking about!" Zi Li glared at Chu Yue, his face suddenly serious, "You go to the study with me, I have something important to discuss." ”

After all, Chu Yue and Zi Li have been friends for many years, and when he saw his friend's serious face, he knew what he had discovered, but looking at Yun Jian's solemn face, he secretly said in his heart Could it be that this time the clues are very wide-ranging?

Just when he and Lin Xiaojing were in a state of ignorance, Zili told them: "It is very likely that this plague is manipulated by a certain official in the DPRK and China behind the scenes." ”

"But what is the purpose of them reaching out to such a remote place?" Chu Yue was puzzled, no matter how important the town of Zonglin is, it is also the boundary of Cen Zhou, and it takes thousands of miles to paint the Fanglin forest, and the emperor is far away, how to control those people in the painting of Lincheng.

It's just that Zili didn't explain, but asked Yun Jian: "Guiyun, tell me what you see." ”

Yun Jian doesn't know much about conspiracy theories, although she can vaguely guess it, but it's only a rough idea, but medically, it's obvious that no one here can be her opponent except Gui Wu, and that's all she can say.

"We found a group of people sneaking at the river three miles away, and Zili stole one of them, and when we opened it, we found two children's bodies inside. ”

"What-" Lin Xiaojing was shocked, "they are so mad!"

"Go on. Gui Wu had no expression, but the ruthlessness in his eyes revealed his mood.

"I've seen that these children have a disastrous complexion, stiff bodies, and dark red markings on their skin, and it's been more than three days since they died, and the markings are very similar to those of the people who are suffering from the epidemic, Master, do you remember those people," Yun Jian looked at Guiwu, "In the early stage of the plague, there were always spots on the body, but I just smelled that familiar smell, in addition to the foul stench emitted by the rotting flesh at these markings, there was also a cold incense, I think it was probably a poison." ”

Gui Wu nodded: "This poison is called muscle life, it can give birth to human flesh and bones, and can also restore a carrion to a human body, it is the best medicine to solve the case, but the imperial court will not use it, because it is not a herbal poison." ”

"What's that?" Hatsuki wondered.

"It's a bug," Yun Jian continued, "a kind of Gu worm that grows in Northern Xinjiang and eats human flesh, something that was once listed as a forbidden thing by the patriarch of Northern Xinjiang. ”

"But how did this kind of thing end up here?" Lin Xiaojing didn't understand, obviously he had seen far more than he had seen more than he had been in the past ten years after following this group of people.

At this time, it was Zi Li who replied to him: "I'm afraid that there are traitors in Northern Xinjiang, who happen to be in the same league as the people who created the plague, but their final purpose is probably not as simple as a plague, which is also the purpose of asking you to come to the study to discuss." ”

Although Linyunju is only a small courtyard, Ke Zili will keep the study very solid and private every time he looks for a house.

In fact, it will not attract sneakers here, but he has long been accustomed to guarding against people after walking in the rivers and lakes for so many years, so it is very safe to discuss these words that sound like rebellion in this study.

Yun Jian only has a general understanding of the situation in the DPRK and China, and most of them are also told to her by Ye Yang, not that she is ignorant, but she is unwilling to participate.

And now Zili left her behind, obviously asking her to pay attention to the movement of the DPRK.

"This is just my personal speculation," Zi Li opened a piece of drawing paper, the wolf dipped it in ink, and spread it on the paper to show his intentions, "Now the most obvious thing in the court is that it is divided into two factions, namely the former faction headed by Zuo Xiang and the later faction headed by Qin Feng, the former faction is mainly the old ministers who assisted the emperor in ascending the throne, and the latter faction is the careerist who was single-handedly supported by the emperor. ”

Gui Wu is dedicated to practicing medicine and does not participate in this matter, but Lin Xiaojing has always been interested in entering the court as an official, so he is very curious, and he is also curious about Chu Yue, it is the first time he has heard that his friend cares so much about this court, and he thinks that he has already agreed to Mu Lao's proposal.