"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" In Dali City, at the east gate, five officers and soldiers wearing black masks, armor, and swords at their waists shouted out of the city gate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There are not many people at the gate of the city at all, plus Wang Yizhu, four people, but more than a dozen, and the others without exception all cover their mouths and noses with masks and gauze. Seeing the soldiers appear, these people immediately stopped and stood on both sides, bowing their heads and saying nothing, for fear of disturbing these officers and soldiers.

Five officers and soldiers escorted a prisoner cart, one leading the way and four escorting the cart behind. It was a prisoner van that could only accommodate three or four people. But Wang Yizhu counted that there were fifteen people in the car, all of whom were dressed as ordinary people and did not wear prison uniforms. The only difference from ordinary people is that each of them is covered with red rashes, some are dying, and some are still full of energy.

"Big brothers, please let me go. I have two children at home, their father died of the plague not long ago, and now I have been taken away, how can they live? Please......" A woman pleaded bitterly in the prison car.

"Less nonsense! If you go back, you'll only kill them. The leader of the officers and soldiers said viciously, "If you don't stop, I will kill you now." ”

The woman said no more, but kept wiping away her tears.

"I don't know what to do! To send you to the incineration ground is for the benefit of the people, who caused you to be infected with the plague! The officer added.

Incinerator?! Wang Yizhu and the others decided to quietly follow and take a look.

The officers and soldiers escorted the prisoner van to the suburbs. After walking for about half a pillar of incense, I arrived at a barren mountain. The barren mountain is a solitary mountain, with a flat front and scattered yellow unknown wildflowers on the ground. If it weren't for the plague patients lying or sitting in the middle of the flatland, it would be a pleasing place for the eye. But I saw that in the center of the flat ground there was a large circle surrounded by iron chains, and there were hundreds of plague patients in the circle, and outside the circle stood heavily armed officers and soldiers.

The five officers and soldiers pulled the prisoner cart outside the circle, negotiated with the guards, and locked all the people in the prisoner cart. Because they were so far apart, it was not known what these people had said. But one thing is for sure, they didn't immediately burn these plague patients to death.

The officers and soldiers completed the escort mission and immediately returned to the city. Wang Yizhu and Bai Lufeng followed closely.

"Catch it every day, send it every day, the people in Dali are almost finished!" One of the lean officers and soldiers saw that there was no one around, and complained in a low voice, "The general said before that there was an important mission in Yunnan, and he originally thought that he was marching to fight and could take advantage of the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but he didn't expect that he was transporting the living dead, and he had to worry about contracting the damned plague. ”

"I just said this in private, and I must not let others know. If it reaches the ears of the general, none of us will want to leave Yunnan alive. The leader of the officers and soldiers reminded, "This plague is indeed strange, it is only prevalent near Dali, and there is no movement in other places." What's even more weird is that every time someone is burned, the general will personally go to the incineration site to inspect it, or just burn a few people, can't everyone figure it out. ”

"The general has never acted according to the routine, how can his mind be guessed by a few of our soldiers, or An An will arrest people and give them away! Tomorrow it's time to search the west of the city! An officer and soldier with a red birthmark on his head urged, "Hurry back and rest, I'm tired after a busy day." ”

Who is the general in the mouth of these officers and soldiers? Wang Yizhu and Bai Lufeng looked at each other. After several people entered Dali, they finally settled in an inn.

"If it weren't for your pleading, I wouldn't have taken you in." The inn is very small, the name is very elegant, the seven-string inn, taken from "Lingling seven-string, sit and listen to the pine wind cold". The innkeeper's surname is He, known as He Laoqi, middle-aged, slightly obese. Wang Yizhu couldn't relate the person in front of him to the name of the inn, but He Laoqi said that the name of the store was indeed chosen by him, "How is it not bad?" ”

Wang Yizhu and others walked around the city for a long time, and almost all the inns were closed. When he walked to this inn, He Laoqi happened to visit the old mother across the street and came back, and after some soft grinding and hard bubbles, He Laoqi introduced a few people to the inn.

"Please forgive me for saying a lot about He Laoqi, the plague is rampant in Dali, why did a few people come at this time. In the city, everyone who has a way to move their families out early, and those who have no way can only stay and wait for death. He Laoqi also had a sad incident. He was the seventh in his family, with six older brothers, all of whom lived on the same street. In just two months, four of the six elder brothers died. He Laoqi's wife and children also died of the plague, "I am alone now, if it weren't for the fact that my mother is still in Dali, I would have escaped a long time ago." ”

"You say, what's wrong with this Dali, it's the plague. More than a month ago, someone from the imperial court came, and I heard that he was still a general, with many officers and soldiers. At first, everyone thought that they had come to a savior, but they didn't do anything, they only knew how to arrest and burn people every day. The more He Laoqi spoke, the more angry he became, "Those officers and soldiers will come to search every day, I advise you to leave Dali as soon as possible, and don't go to this troubled water." ”

"When did this plague begin?" Wang Yizhu asked.

"About two months ago, the eldest daughter-in-law of the old Liu family in the west of the city at that time suffered from this disease, and later more and more people fell ill. I heard that it was the people of the witch clan who made the bad and used witchcraft to make everyone suffer from the plague. It's strange to say, the Wu clan has no grievances with us, how could they suddenly harm us. "He Laoqi mentioned the Wu Clan!

"Who said the plague was the work of the Wics?" This He Laoqi is a talkative person, and he talks for several hours. Bai Lufeng asked.

"I don't know, that's what everyone says anyway." He Lao Qidao.

That night, the four of them stayed at the Seven Strings Inn. There are three rooms, one for Bai Lufeng and Wang Yizhu, one for He Xiaotian and one for Yanzi.

As soon as he returned to the room, He Xiaotian knocked on the door and came in, "Miss Wang, did you go to Yunnan to look for the Wu Clan?" When He Laoqi mentioned the Wu clan, Wang Yizhu's face changed slightly, and He Xiaotian did not let go of this detail. Wang Yizhu didn't hide it, and immediately admitted, "It's not a secret, my father is a member of the Wu clan, and he left Xinyi Town for the Wu clan three months ago, I don't know what his current situation is." ”

"The rumors of the common people cannot be fully believed, but there is no wind and no waves. It is unknown whether the plague was the work of the Wu Clan. Bai Lufeng analyzed, "But one thing is certain, that is, the Wu clan should have appeared in Dali, or had appeared in Dali, otherwise how could it be related to this plague." ”

In addition, the identity of this great general sent by the imperial court is a mystery, if he is really sent by the imperial court, why do he blindly burn people without investigating the root cause of the plague?