Xuanhuang Era: 4,712,416,000 years

Gao Chunguo year: the twenty-third year of Tianfeng, the first quarter of the fourth day of the second month of spring. "Words, feelings, first, http://www.Klxsw.com

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A and B continents: Gaochun County, Fenglin County, Baibai County.

"Da da da......."

A series of hurried horses' hooves broke the silence of Yaqian Street in Baibai County.

When a vermilion horse raised its hooves and suddenly stopped next to the tethered stone in front of the county government with a long neigh, a sturdy middle-aged man turned over and went down, and before he could tie the scarlet horse, he rushed towards the county office.

While running, shouting:

"Emergency, emergency!"

The official standing in front of the county yamen on duty didn't even react, and he didn't hear what the person was shouting, and this person had already broken in.

"Stop! The public court is also a casual place?! The old man is still in the back hall. ”

Seeing this, the two officials scolded and wanted to stop the other from breaking into the court, but they struggled to catch up and stop them. However, the middle-aged man's footsteps did not stop at all, and when he heard the official behind him say that the county magistrate had not yet ascended to the hall, he turned around, bypassed the lobby, and rushed straight to the back hall from the aisle on one side.

At this time, Liu Changzhi, the county magistrate of Baibai County, was drinking tea in the back hall, thinking that it was the spring ploughing season, and he should also go around below to understand the moisture of spring sowing. Today's Shengshang is a very filial and sympathetic Ming monarch, who has always put agriculture in the first place of state affairs, and naturally "persuading farmers" has become the primary task of local officials.

As soon as I thought of this, I heard the scolding of the officials in front of me, and the sound of hurried footsteps. Liu Changzhi couldn't help but stand up and walked out to meet the sound of footsteps. One year and four months after coming to Baibai County, Liu Changzhi had never seen anyone dare to trespass into the court.

Liu Changzhi's figure had just walked out of the back hall, and he almost collided with the oncoming sturdy man.

"Presumptuous, don't you bow down when you see the master?!"

The middle-aged man fortunately stopped his steps in time, otherwise he would really knock the thin county master in front of him into the air.

"In Yulin Town, Cao Xiang is visiting the master."

Fortunately, Cao Xiang met the county master in the early spring of last year. He immediately fell to his knees with a pop, gasping and saluting.

"Why did you trespass on the county office?"

Liu Changzhi did not reprimand Cao Xiang, and vaguely, he also felt that he had seen this person. Seeing that the face of the person who came was not only full of anxiety, but also with a trace of fear, he knew that something big must have happened.

"Back to the master's words,"

"Get up, inside."

After speaking, Liu Changzhi turned around and returned to the back hall again, sat down in his original seat, and saw that Cao Xiang was about to salute again, so he waved his hand to stop him.

"Tell me, something is going to come slowly."

"Yes, sir."

From Cao Xiang's expression, Liu Changzhi somewhat guessed that something big might have happened, but he never expected that the matter was not only big, but so big that even he felt a trace of fear coming out of the depths of his heart.

"Master, seven of the seventeen natural villages in Yulin Town have become uninhabited since the plague began three days ago, and as of this morning."

Hearing this, Liu Changzhi suddenly stood up from his seat, and although he was nervous, he did not interrupt Cao Xiang's narration.

"In the evening three days ago, a huge meteor suddenly crossed the sky and smashed down on the clay pot mountain in Dongpo Village, Yulin Town. The ignorant villagers of the seven natural villages around the mountain thought it was a treasure from heaven, so they flocked to the top of the mountain, and when they reached the top of the mountain, they saw only a bottomless pit, and the entire top of the mountain had been razed to the ground, but nothing else was found. However, when those people returned home one after another, an unbelievable scene occurred.

In the morning, people died one after another, and until this morning, none of the 4,684 people in the seven villages around the crockpot mountain survived. Not only that, but even pigs, dogs, geese, ducks, and all flesh and blood creatures are not spared. ”

In the end, Cao Xiang couldn't cry, and at the same time became stuttering because of fear.

"What are the symptoms of the deceased?"

Although he felt that things were extraordinary, Liu Changzhi always thought that it was just a sudden plague.

"Back to the master, all the dead people or animals, without exception, have become dried corpses, and, and ......"

"How?"

"Eventually, they all burst into a pile of dry bones."

Hearing this, Liu Changzhi couldn't help but take a long breath, and he originally thought that it was just a plague from the sky, but now he had to doubt his guess.

"Burst?!"

Liu Changzhi, who has read poetry and books since he was a child, has never heard of such a plague.

"Yes, sir. When the villain got the news in the morning, he went to see it, and although he didn't dare to enter the village where the accident happened, he could still see the people who were sick at the entrance of the village because they wanted to escape, and the corpses finally burst, and even heard a dull sound like setting off firecrackers. ”

Looking at Cao Xiang, whose face was sallow from fear in front of him, Liu Changzhi subconsciously moved half a step behind him.

"Someone!"

"Sir."

"Ascend immediately."

With the beating of the shengtang drum, in less than ten breaths, Liu Changzhi was already sitting in the lobby of the county office. Looking at the officials on both sides of the line, as well as the master Liu Chuan on one side, Liu Changzhi took two deep breaths to suppress the uneasiness in his heart before he spoke:

"There is a plague in Yulin Town, and Master Ben will go down immediately to inspect the epidemic. Leave the four people and the master to guard the county office, and the rest of the people will set off immediately. ”

Without any extra nonsense, Liu Changzhi led twelve officials to lead the way from Cao Xiangtou and went straight to Yulin Town, forty miles away.

It's just that Liu Changzhi and his entourage only walked less than 20 miles before they were blocked by two groups of villagers.

"Go to the front and see what's going on."

"Yes."

Seeing from a distance that two groups of villagers were confronting each other on the road with various farm tools, Liu Changzhi stopped and sent two officials to investigate the situation.

Soon, the two officials returned.

"Back to the old man, the villagers of Yulin Town wanted to enter Guhuai Town, and the villagers of Guhuai Town forbade them to enter, so there was a dispute."

Liu Changzhi knew that if he wanted to go to Yulin Town, he had to pass through Guhuai Town, and the territory of Guhuai Town where they were now located was located. After hearing this, Liu Changzhi took the reins of his horse and came to the side of Guhuai Town on both sides of the confrontation in a few steps.

"Stop! The county magistrate arrived. ”

A servant shouted, and the villagers who were facing each other suddenly stopped what they were doing, took a step back, and gave way to Liu Changzhi and his party.

"Why are you making trouble?"

Faced with the county master's questioning, an old man who was a little older, about sixty years old, came out of Yulin Town, bowed to Liu Changzhi and said first:

"If Xiaomin returns to the master, the town was suddenly hit by an epidemic, and the father wanted to go out to escape, but he was intercepted by the residents of Guhuai Town, so he ......."

As soon as the old man said this, his body suddenly crooked, and he fell to the ground with a pop. The people who were standing next to him just wanted to reach out and pull him, but they fell down one after another.

"The plague is out, hide!"

I don't know who shouted, the two sides who were still confronting just now ran away without a trace in an instant, leaving only Liu Changzhi and his servants, as well as Cao Xiang who reported the news, and the five corpses that fell to the ground.

"It's ......."

Liu Changzhi only felt a cool breath rising from the center of his feet, rushing straight to his head along the back of his back, and subconsciously wanted to turn the horse's head and gallop away.

"Poof, poof, poof."

However, three successive sounds like cracks made Liu Changzhi, who had already turned half of his body, turned back again. The scene he saw in front of him made Liu Changzhi's eyes widen at the same time, his mouth was also wide open, and he didn't close it for a long time.

Among the five people who had just fallen to the ground, the body of the old man who was about sixty years old first burst open at the back near his neck, turning into a pile of dry bones in an instant, and then the two corpses closest to him also underwent the same change one after another.

"Sir, ...... quickly."

seemed to hear the shout of a servant beside him, but in Liu Changzhi's ears, the shout had become extremely distant, as if it was from the sky.

At the moment when Liu Changzhi's body fell off the horse, the last thing he saw was that Cao Xiang, who reported the news, fell to the ground suddenly, several officials around him also fell to the ground one after another, and the rest of the officials scattered in a hurry, and the horses under him collapsed on his body