The people around them also retreated in panic, and then someone in the crowd screamed: "Be careful, they have a new plague, and whoever touches it will die." Our family was infected with the new plague because of the people who encountered the new plague, and even Lang Zhong died before he could see it. ”

"Run, there's a new plague here, it's a terminal disease, and if you don't run, you'll die. ”

"Go home quickly, hide in the house and close the door, no one comes out, this is the only way to escape the new warm plague. ”

These shouts reverberated through the crowd, and the field was immediately chaotic, followed by several people vomiting blood, falling to the ground and convulsing. The blood spurted out was also sprinkled on the bodies of the people around them. It scared the hearts of those people into the cracks, wondering if they had contracted the new plague.

And in those shouts, everyone did not know whether it was true or not, but they preferred to believe it in the face of the plague. So many people panicked and ran out desperately, but there were too many people around, and after a big chaos, they ran around, and the crowded crowd made the whole scene even more chaotic, and many people were pushed to the ground, including the hundreds of officials, many of whom were scattered by the believers who rushed out, some were pushed to the ground, and those who vomited blood and fell to the ground couldn't get up, and countless feet stepped on them. There were still screams from someone before, but even the screams disappeared when they arrived.

The believers who had surrounded Xuanwu layer by layer arm-in-arm were still cheering each other up at first, saying that there was a Xuanwu Zi Dao Master behind them, and the Dao Master could treat them. However, this kind of encouragement soon lost its effect, because none of the people who had been sent to Xuanwuguan to ask Xuanwuzi to see a doctor before this time were cured. And why hope that he can cure so many infected people at this time, since he can't cure it, then the only way is to escape from this place as soon as possible to avoid being infected by the plague.

This thought was like the wind, quickly blowing through the hearts of everyone in the audience. Almost at the same time, the believers, who were believed to be the most faithful, holding hands to form a human wall, let go of their holding hands and began to run out.

And if there are one or two who do this, then two, or even two hundred, will follow.

The entire Xuanwu Temple was in a mess of porridge in front of the gate, screaming, crying, begging for mercy, and calling for help one after another. By the time everyone in the Xuanwuguan Square ran out, the ground was full of messes, and dozens of people were lying on the ground, some of them wailing, because they were trampled by the crowd and injured their bodies, or they broke their hands and feet and couldn't move. And many more are lying motionless on the ground, already dead.

Miao Zhu had been watching from the horse-tied stake in front of the Xuanwu Temple, and loudly told everyone not to panic, so as not to trample on each other and hurt people. But no one listened to him, and everyone just rushed out like crazy. Now the people are almost gone, and most of the people lying on the ground have obviously been trampled to death. Several of them were officials of the yamen, after all, they were in the center of the crowd at that time. After the whole chaos, they bore the brunt of the attack, being pushed down and trampled by those who rushed out.

The temple was frightened, but he didn't dare to step forward to find out. Hurriedly jumped off the hitched horse stake, and ran back like a fly, anxious to report the news to Xuanwuzi, the abbot of the temple.

When Xuanwuzi heard the news, he was still as respectful as a rock, and he didn't even move his eyebrows.

There were so many people dead at the door, and the old Taoist chief was still silent, which made others admire his calmness at the same time, and at the same time, they felt that this was too cold-blooded. But everyone also knows that this Xuanwu Dojo is this temper.

Since the master did not express his position on this matter, of course the eldest disciple had to deal with these unexpected things for the master. Therefore, the eldest disciple hurriedly stood up and walked out quickly under the somewhat flustered gazes of several elders, and several elders also looked at each other. Finally, they all stood up and said to the Taoist chief who was sitting on the futon with his eyes closed and his eyebrows lowered, "Let's go and see it too." After that, he came out in a hurry.

When they walked quickly to the front yard of the Taoist temple, they saw the corpses lying all over the ground, and they were immediately frightened and stayed on the spot. The eldest disciple was still young, and he reacted quickly and hurriedly stepped forward to check the corpse on the ground. Twenty or thirty bodies were found to have been trampled to death, with obvious external injuries. And there were seven or eight others who had blood on their bodies, and there was also on the ground, and their faces were horribly black.

This made the big disciple also frightened and stupid, and he didn't know what to do. That Miao Zhu saw clearly just now, these seemed to be the few patients who had suffered from the plague who fell to the ground on the spot, and hurriedly shouted on the side: "Senior brother, be careful, this person seems to have fallen ill with the plague and died on the spot." ”

The senior brother was frightened as if he had been bitten, his whole body bounced up, and he withdrew from the distance, and the few elders who wanted to come forward to check also retreated.

At this time, the officials who had been dispersed finally had the courage to return here, and saw dozens of corpses and wounded people strewn across the ground from a distance. One by one, they were stunned, and someone hurriedly rushed forward to inform Cai Jing.

When Cai Jing heard this, he immediately covered his mouth and snickered. It turned out that this was a small ploy by him. He sent more than a dozen of his men, their faces were purple and black, and they had a mouthful of pig's blood in their mouths, and then squeezed into the crowd with a cloth covering their faces, came to the center, and then pretended that the plague had suddenly attacked, tore off the cloth covering their faces, and fell to the ground with blood in their mouths and convulsions.

Then there were some of them shouting in the crowd that someone had the plague and was sick, and told everyone to run and go home and close the door to avoid getting sick. In this way, the tens of thousands of people gathered in front of the Taoist temple will be scattered.

Cai Jing couldn't help but feel secretly proud when he saw that his plan had succeeded, but the news that came back immediately made him dumbfounded. Dozens of people were killed or wounded in the stampede, and there were twenty or thirty corpses on the ground alone, several of which were civilian servants he had sent to pretend to be plagued.

It turned out that after these people fell to the ground, they thought that if they were plagued, others would not dare to approach, and they would hide far away, so that it would be safer, but they didn't know that once these tens of thousands of people were in chaos, where and what direction they had, they were all running around with the flow of people. Those who approached them, even if they sensed that they were dangerous, could only trample over them, driven by the frantic crowd behind them. trampled them to death, and they didn't even have a chance to get up and escape.

However, the people who died in such mass incidents were basically old people, children, and thin women, and basically there were no young adults. It is because young adults are often able to stand still without being pushed down in crowding. However, once it is pushed down, in the crowd of people, it is basically impossible for even young adults to get up again. As long as the flow of people swarms, they will be trampled to death and squeezed to death. Many of the young and middle-aged people who died in the stampede were killed for this reason.

Therefore, these officials who were sent by Cai Jing to pretend to be plague patients, although they were all young and middle-aged, because they fell on their own initiative, they never got up again, and were trampled to death on the square.

Although Cai Jing was shocked that things did not develop according to his expectations, he was a generation of heroes, so he was very adaptable, so he immediately had an idea.

He immediately called the rest of the auxiliaries who had not been trampled to death and the auxiliary staff who were shouting that there were plague patients on the side, pointed to the corpses on the ground and told them that everyone was a grasshopper on the same line in this matter, and if anyone wanted to speak out, it would harm everyone and himself, and they would have to be imprisoned or even lose their heads.

After some intimidation, Cai Jing promised to double the reward for each person. With such an equal emphasis on grace and power, let these participating officials swear one by one to absolutely obey Cai Jing's arrangement and never leak half a sentence.

Cai Jing really gained a lot of benefits in this flood fighting and drainage rescue, because the corresponding money had to go through his hands. Since he was able to cut corners and send such a large sum of money to Yang Xianmao, he himself had a way to eat more money from it. So he didn't worry about where to find money to stop the mouths of these officials.

After arranging all these things, Cai Jing breathed a sigh of relief. The next thing he has to think about is how to deal with the matter in front of him, which is of course 100% official, and puts all the responsibility on the Xuanwu Temple.

It was precisely because the Xuanwu Temple instigated the people who did not know the truth to gather in front of the Taoist temple to prevent the government officials and the Imperial Forest Army from entering and taking away the patients suffering from the plague for forced quarantine, which triggered the terrible crowding stampede at the scene.

Cai Jing immediately ordered the officials to enter the Taoist temple, immediately take away the plague patients in the Taoist temple for compulsory quarantine, and send those who fell to the ground in front of the temple to pretend to be plague as real patients and sent them to a centralized cremation place for cremation, so as to extinguish the mouth.

Because there was no longer a large number of believers with the overlapping protection of the inner and outer three layers, the officials and the Imperial Forest Army who cooperated with the action successfully entered the Xuanwu Temple, took away the patients suffering from the plague, and transported the corpses for cremation.

At the same time, Cai Jing personally led people to break into the Sanqing Palace and arrested the culprit of this matter, the host of the Sanqing Palace.

When Cai Jing led people to rush into the Sanqing Palace, the elders in the hall and several disciples of Xuanwu Zhenren had already fled without a trace, and they all knew that they had caused a big disaster this time. Only the Xuanwu Daoist was still sitting cross-legged on the futon alone, with his eyebrows lowered and his eyes lowered motionless. Cai Jing snorted coldly and said, "You old Taoist has committed such a heinous crime, inciting so many believers to gather in front of your Taoist temple, with the intention of confronting the imperial court. As a result, dozens of people were killed and injured due to a large-scale crowding stampede. What else do you have to say, take him down for this officer!"

Several officials immediately rushed forward with iron chains, reached out and grabbed the body of the Xuanwu Dao Master, and wanted to lift him up. But just this moment, everyone was stunned. - I saw that the whole body of the Xuanwu Daoist was grabbed by the two officials and hung in the air, and the two legs were still sitting cross-legged, without any changes, including the knot seal on his hand. The two servants, who had lifted him in mid-air, saw that the situation was not right, and immediately let go.

The Xuanwu Daoist who was hanging in the air fell from mid-air, fell on the futon with a bang, and then fell to the floor, the whole person shook like a tumbler, and the whole body still maintained a meditative posture. Only this time it was with his back to the ground and his legs facing the sky, and his knees were still cross-legged and there was no change, as if it were a sculpture.