Yuan's house.

Yuan Hua, the boss of the Yuan family, is not without advantages in Wu Fort. Because he sheltered the local people affected by the disaster during the war, and persuaded his father to reduce the rent of his son during the disaster year, he won the respect of the Wubao household, but if Yuan Hua wanted to implement anything in the Wubao, it must be carried out immediately.

He is good at governing places, and some old people and think tanks of the Yuan family say that if he is not the suzerain but a scholar, then at least he can govern the land of a state properly, and he can't go up because his character is too pure and kind, so that he can't get the approval of some officials.

Yuan Fang is an outstanding talent in business. He followed the unique geographical location of the Yuan family, as well as the convenience that the family could get low-cost grain and grass, silk cotton, and exquisite pottery in Liu Song, and formed the Yuan family's caravan, and now the "Yuan family caravan" is already well-known in the Guanzhong area, but few people know that its person in charge is just a young man in his early twenties.

Many people envy the head of the Yuan family, whose two sons-in-law are so talented, making the other concubines as bleak as a jewel on the side. There are four brothers between Yuan Hua and Yuan Fang, but these four brothers were sent out early, either to take care of the housework, or to be arranged by Yuan Zhe to do other things.

It is equivalent to leaving the center of the Yuan family.

Yuan Zhe is fifty years old, he is already an old man in this era, and he also obviously shows that he is not energetic, and most of the affairs of the family are taken care of by the elders and several sons, but since more than a year ago, Yuan Zhe has come out again, not only frequently out of the council, but also took away most of the rights in the hands of the boss.

Yuan Fang also rose because of this, and almost had the tendency to replace the boss to become the next sect master.

At the beginning, the core of the Yuan family and Wubi thought that Yuan Zhe, a scheming fox, was to beat him and hone him in order to succeed Yuan Hua, so he did this kind of father-son centrifugal thing when his body became bad, I am afraid that even Yuan Hua thought so.

But gradually, everyone noticed that Yuan Zhe was really disgusted with Yuan Hua, although he still loved his grandson so much, but when he faced his son, his attitude immediately changed.

And what made Yuan Hua also start to have conflicts with his father was because he discovered the terrible things his father was doing.

***

Yuan's family is authentic.

Yuan's Wubi is a Wu Fort built to defend against Hu rebellion, which is almost the epitome of a medieval castle.

Because the Wubi of the Yuan family leaned on the water when it was built, it had its own wharf and shipping, and the underground of the Yuan family also corresponded to the ground with its own river, and this underground river could even lead to the tributaries of the river, and the boats along the river could bypass the border and pass the tributaries into the Liu Song Dynasty without being noticed.

This is the biggest secret of the Yuan family, which cannot be known by non-Yuan family descendants, and it is also the last way for the Yuan family to escape when they were in chaos.

In addition, the Yuan family's tunnels extend in all directions, and there are many rooms made like secret rooms, and there are also mechanisms and secret passages along the way, most of which are used to store precious utensils and weapons, armor and other things that cannot see the light.

And now, in a "hidden soldier cave", what is hidden is not weapons, but countless delicate and pitiful women.

An empty tunnel has been artificially divided into dozens of small rooms, which are said to be rooms, but in fact they are no different from prison cells. From the entrance, the guards were all panicked and scared, and some even covered their mouths and noses with cloth towels.

When they saw Yuan Hua coming, these guards shook their heads even more.

"Young master, why are you here again! Let the sect master know and be unhappy again. And these women are getting sicker and sicker, if you really get sick on you......"

"That is the debt of the father and the son, and there should be this retribution." Yuan Hua replied to the guard coldly, and was secretly angry with himself again.

This guard also has good intentions, and he is worried about him in and out of his words, why should he crowd people so much.

Sure enough, the guards looked gloomy and silently made way for him to pass.

Yuan Hua bowed his hand to a few people, as an apology, and then strode in, going straight to the largest room inside.

In every dark room that Yuan Hua passed, terrible howls and weeping sounded, these women who were supposed to be young women, but now they were kept in captivity like pigs and dogs, and were treated inhumanely.

But this kind of thing is justified in both reason and law—the master has the right to kill slaves at will.

Whether it is the Jin Dynasty or the Xianbei people, in their laws, slaves are not people.

Yuan Hua was born in such a family, and originally took the matter of slaves for granted, and felt that there was nothing wrong with driving slaves at will. But when he saw what his father had done to these slaves, he began to feel a deep fear.

He believed that there was power in human resentment. Their Yuan family is shrouded in such resentment, which will delay future generations and will never get a good death.

Seeing Yuan Hua passing by, some of the female slaves in the room immediately shouted "help", and some couldn't scream at all, and could only stare at the only eye that could still shed tears and keep saying that they were still alive.

On this road, Yuan Hua used to walk once in a few days, but recently, it only came back once in nine or ten days. Not only because he could not bear the death and calamities that surrounded this path, but also because he was afraid that these diseases would spread to himself.

Yes, this disease, the disaster here is not simply the torture of slaves by the master's family, but a terrible disaster created by Yuan Zhe in man-made creation.

"You're here."

The largest room was unexpectedly unfurnished like a prison cell, and even had a bed, a small table, and a dressing table, and even the mattress and bedding on the couch were all precious silks and silk cotton that could only be found in the south.

The bronze mirror on the dressing table was fastened, and only a tooth comb was still placed on it, indicating to the visitor that its owner still loved beauty, and although she no longer looked in the mirror, she still maintained the dignity she deserved.

"Helian County Lord......" Yuan Hua walked straight to the door of the room and spoke through the door: "Are you okay lately?" ”

The woman known as the Lord of Helian did not seem to be satisfied with her situation, and she even asked him with a slight mockery: "Locked up here, like a dog, eating food that makes people sick, it doesn't take a while for people to see how ugly their bodies have become...... Young Master Yuan, do you think this is good? ”

Poor Yuan Hua lowered his head.

"Just yesterday, a few more people died, right? I heard the sound of someone dragging them out. And I, even if I say who I am, your father doesn't want me to live. In his opinion, the daughter of a clan who died in a defeated country is no different from the orchid he bought with money......"

The woman seemed to be desperate, and the only thing that supported her was the hatred in her tone: "My identity, the only thing that brings me is that the cell is bigger and more gorgeous, so that I can get more medicine than others." ”

"You will be punished, the gods and Buddhas in the sky are watching you! No wolf has ever hunted after it has eaten its fill, and no tiger has ever slaughtered its own kind in order to kill another tiger, you are more ferocious than a tiger wolf! I knew this earlier, why did I have to flee thousands of miles from the Xia Kingdom and fall into the hands of those Xianbei people, maybe it is better than you vicious madmen! ”

Yuan Hua just leaned against the door, his face full of sadness. He didn't tell the girl behind the door, and for so many days, the only thing that could support him was that she was still alive.

Being able to hear her angry voice, feeling the anger still flowing in her body, knowing that although her face was completely ruined and her limbs were damaged, she still had the strength to curse, which was his only consolation.

He had admired her beauty and extraordinary bearing so much, he had been shaken by her tall and plump figure, and he even thought of taking her as a concubine, just to protect her haughty expression and not to vent her lust.

But this qiē was ruined. Even if she said that her nobility and extraordinariness came from a really unusual family, his father was unwilling to give up a penny for the risks that would be there, and even let him be abandoned by his father......

What kind of suffering is this......

"You'd better get some rest." Yuan Hua listened to these words, as if he was suddenly pierced into his heart. He is simply here to be abused, bearing the hatred of this woman, giving her a way to vent, so that the other party has the motivation to live, and he also has the motivation to support.

"Grandpa has promised me that I won't do anything to you again, you can recuperate, and maybe you can heal is unknown. At that time, I promise you that I will definitely send you to Liu Song to reunite with your family. ”

"Healed? I don't even dare to look in the mirror now! What have you made of me, that even if my family sees me, will they dare to recognize me? Haha, hahaha...... "The woman known as the "Lord of Helian County" laughed loudly, and after laughing, there was great sadness: "Woo woo...... Do you dare? Don't even open the door to look at me! ”

……

Yuan Hua leaned for a while, then suddenly stood up suddenly, pulled his legs and ran out.

He ran so quickly, so disregarded for his image, that in addition to the dim color of the fire, the shadow of his running was pulled into all kinds of strange images.

"What did you say the woman in there was beautiful before? Even our youngest master, who is least feminine, is fascinated. It stands to reason that the mother of our young master is also a beauty, and she gave birth to a son, what is there to be dissatisfied, she was fascinated by a slave girl! ”

When Yuan Hua went in, a few guards were bored and couldn't help chatting.

"Orchid, you know, hehe......"

"Orchid is a fart, which one of these is not orchid! Sometimes I really don't want to do it, and as soon as I close my eyes, it's all these women's screams......"

A guard gritted his teeth.

"Mother-in-law still thinks I've hit an evil spirit!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

Soon, a steady stream of footsteps interrupted the stiffness.

Yuan Hua, who was running over, had a crazy aura on his face, and when he saw several guards, he immediately grabbed the placket of one of the leaders and roared in a low voice: "Where is the key to the woman's cell inside!" Give me! ”

"No, no, no, no, young master......" The guard stumbled and replied, "The people in here can't go out, and if they go out, there will be a great disaster!" The head of the house commanded it! ”

"Then I'll kill you, and then take the key, and my father won't blame you for being incompetent!" Yuan Hua easily lifted the guard up, and his forehead was full of green tendons. "Believe it or not, I strangled you?"

Seeing the generous young master watch Xiàn look like this, the guard did not hesitate to remove a bunch of keys from his waist, took out one of them and handed it to him.

"Young master, you are the master, I don't dare to disobey, if you kill me, I will kill it, but I still have the old and young in my family, you kill me, if you let her go, the head of the family will not let me go, and the lives of all our brothers here and the lives of the little ones are gone. I'll give you the key, and I hope you can give it back to me before you go out......"

Yuan Hua paused, put him down, snatched the key and left.

"One, two, three, four......"

Sitting on the bed of the cell, the "Lord of Helian" silently counted and put his body in a beautiful pose.

Her crow-like hair was now scattered and covered most of her face, revealing only her high nose and sexy lips, and the rest of her fair skin and eyelashes as long as small fans were hidden by her hair.

She counted unhurriedly, and when she had counted to five hundred, she heard the sound of something twisting from the iron door, which had been her worst fear, but now it made a smug smile appear on the corner of her mouth.

The door opened, and the young master of the Yuan family, who was simple and almost cute in love with men and women, came in. His tall body squeezed into this not-so-small dark room, but it suddenly cramped the space.

There is no light in the house, because some diseases do not see the light, and some diseases do not see the wind, so these houses can neither see the light nor the wind.

In the dark room, a woman with long hair and waist length sat on a couch, with only a small lamp in front of the couch. The lamp oil is running out, and everyone else may not even have an "oil lamp" in their room. And she undoubtedly cherishes this oil lamp and rarely uses it, so the small table in front of the couch is clean, and there is no trace of the oil lamp being smoked for a long time.

A woman, whose face is ruined, and a person who is locked in a house, why should she light an oil lamp? It's a pity that the young master's clever mind didn't realize what this meant at all, and as soon as he entered the room, he showed a complicated look of worry and guilt, and said to the thin woman who could be blown away by a gust of wind: "You come with me, and I will send you to Liu Song." ”

The woman was half-lying and half-up, her green hair cascading down, and her thin shoulders were peeking out of the wide robe, making her exude a plump and pitiful temperament.

Hearing Yuan Fang's words, she gradually straightened up, revealing her terrifying face.

The pitiful temperament that was still full just now immediately became terrifying. The dark red rashes and patches on the face look even more terrifying on the fair skin.

The woman just brushed her hair away, stood up as if she was facing her servant, walked up to Yuan Fang barefoot, and blew on his face viciously.

The smell was so foul, there was no moving reverie of "blowing like an orchid", which shocked Yuan Hua.

"You...... How did you get to this? ”

Yuan Hua woke up immediately after speaking.

Why wouldn't she be like this? They were the ones who made her like this!

"You said you were going to send me away?" The woman smiled slightly.

Yuan Hua actually nodded in this terrible smile, only to feel that this woman with a foul smell and a rash on her face was still beautiful and moving.

"Then why didn't you take me with you?"

She tilted her head.

Yuan Hua nodded as if he had just woken up from a dream.

However, in just a moment's effort, Yuan Hua found that the face of the woman in front of him suddenly became frightened, and the shock made her eyes widen, as if she was staring at something terrifying.

"What's wrong with you? Why is your face so bad? He shouted, lifting his foot to pull her.

She didn't answer, her eyes staring motionlessly behind him. When she heard his question, she tried to grab his arm with one hand, and pointed behind him with the other, and her fingers trembled.

"You dare to touch him!"

Yuan Fang heard this familiar voice and turned his head suddenly.

He saw Yuan Fang covering his face with a cloth towel.

Yuan Fang, whose whole body was tightly covered, actually stood at the door with a sharp knife, exuding a terrifying aura all over his body.

This younger brother, who was praised by many people as "good-tempered", is now full of murderous energy.

Yuan Hua and this younger brother have had a good relationship since childhood, and seeing him standing behind him with a masked knife, he couldn't help but feel a chill rising from behind.

If Yuan Fang wanted to kill him, he wouldn't notice it just now.

But in an instant, he realized why the "Lord Helian County" was trembling.

Because the murderous aura was directed at the woman in front of him.

***

He Mulan could not stay in Runan County for long, and when the team had rested and the horsepower was almost exhausted, they were about to set off.

It just so happened that Xue Andu got another clue in the same direction as He Mulan, on the way to Chen County, so Xue Andu discussed it with He Mulan, and then set off with hundreds of elite soldiers with He Mulan, along the way to explore new clues.

The great monk of Wan'an Temple has died, and the novices offer that they occasionally "drink tea" to passers-by who have stayed overnight, and most of the tea drinkers are solo rather than traveling in groups, and they disappear after drinking tea.

These couldn't help but make both He Mulan and Xue An guess that there was a comatose drug in the tea, or simply □□, so these people disappeared.

The question is where did these people go? If there is no one to carry it, and there is no one alive or dead, and there is no corpse, is it really the power of ghosts and gods?

Fortunately, Xue Andu had a lot of rangers, and after exploring the Wan'an Temple, they found a secret passage under a certain Buddha statue, which could lead directly to the vicinity of a carriage and horse shop.

The owner of the carriage also asked what he didn't know, but provided a very useful message.

There are several rice traders from Chen, who sometimes hire their chariots and horses to transport large bags of chestnut rice to Chen.

Carriages and horses are not like ordinary merchants, and passing through towns and cities need to check things. They all gave "filial piety" to the city gate officials in various places according to the month in order to obtain the necessary conveniences. Compared with the merchants who plucked the feathers of the geese, most of the people who hired the chariots and horses were many people who pooled money to go on the road together or mules and horses that transported goods, and the gifts were also heavy and undeductible, and the probability of being interrogated was much smaller.

The target is Chen, or at least someone who has an accomplice in Chen. Xue Andu's spirit was suddenly shocked, and he couldn't wait to immediately go to Chen County to find the whereabouts of each rice shop.

The next day, when he went to Bai Ze Township on Chenjun Road, a ranger found his long-missing brother. Now that the man was out of his mind, someone found him lying on the road in despair, his skin festering and bleeding, and he panicked, and it became a miracle that spread everywhere.

Therefore, there is a large black mole on the face, so the facial features are extremely obvious. The local rangers were looking for him everywhere and immediately took him back.

The missing brother became like this, and the rangers didn't dare to bring him back to his original home, so they had to place him in an abandoned house, first invited Lang Zhong to see what was wrong, and then reported it to Xue Andu according to the situation.

It wasn't until no Lang Zhong dared to lean over, and even some Lang Zhong hurriedly fled in a hurry after seeing it, that these rangers realized that something was wrong and hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to Xue Andu.

Originally, this matter was not related to He Mullan's business at all, but the culprit pointed directly at Chen Jun, and found that the missing person appeared, and it happened to be in the place where the army must pass by, which attracted He Mulan's attention.

There are so many coincidences, and it would be strange if they were just coincidences.

Therefore, when they arrived at the boundary of Baize Township, He Mulan left Na Luohun and Di Yefei to deal with the matter of camping and sleeping in the open, so he invited the local county commander and ranger as a guide, and went straight to the dilapidated house that contained the missing people.

Xue Andu remembered to know from the missing person where they were when they disappeared, so his attitude was particularly eager, and when he arrived at the broken house, he simply broke down the door and approached the person's bed.

It's just that as soon as he arrived at the bed, Xue Andu was so frightened that he gasped, and even took a few steps back and covered his mouth and nose.

The man who slept on the door panel was now purulent all over his body, and his face was even more strange black and purple, and the rangers who had picked him up were hiding outside the house one by one, and almost no one dared to come in to take care of him, so that he had a terrible stench in addition to suppuration all over his body.

Under such torture, the man did not move, only his chest was still rising and falling slightly, and the rangers before said that he was "unconscious", which was obviously right. If he could still be struggling on the streets a few days ago, he must be close to death now.

Xue Andu was such a bold man who didn't dare to step forward, and the others were so afraid that they couldn't move. Just when the county magistrate couldn't help but rush out of the door, He Mulan suddenly remembered a terrible illness and couldn't help but scream.

"Everybody out! Get out first! ”

This order simply made these people run away as if they were on the verge of amnesty. Hermulan ripped off his sleeve to cover his nose and mouth, wrapped a bandage around his hand, approached the man, and examined his armpits, neck, and groin.

Swollen lymph nodes are enough to make anyone vomit. At least Xue An, who was bold enough not to go out, vomited.

"In the end...... What exactly is the disease? Is it the plague? Xue Andu's scalp also began to tingle, and his words were full of fear.

He Mulan strode to the window and exhaled into the window, only then did he resist the urge to scream, gritted his teeth and said: "Plague, where is the plague, it is the plague!" It is winter, and there is no war or calamity, but there is the plague! ”

Xue Andu's face was already solemn as soon as he heard the "epidemic", and when he looked at the man on the door panel, his face immediately changed again, and he took out a knife a few steps forward.

"What are you doing!"

He Mulan's eyes widened, and he didn't react yet......

Swish!

I saw Xue Andu raise his knife and kill that person directly!

After killing people, Xue An didn't even have a look of shame and guilt on his face, he threw his knife to the ground and made a gesture to ask He Mulan to go out.

"Someone! This brother is already sick and dead, and he burned down all the people and the house! ”

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