Chapter 87: A Difficult Choice (2)
Chapter 87
Lou Xin pursed his lips and said, "There is a miracle doctor." ”
She stood up and bowed, then turned and went to the back hall.
Lou Xiaowu saw her suppressed anger, so she rushed to Mo Si and said, "I'll also go see the Sixth Elder." ”
The rest of the people left with Lou Xin and Lou Xiaowu, and only Mo Sigui and An Jiu were left in the house in an instant.
Mo Sigui could see Lou Xin's displeasure, but he didn't care, "Why are you here?" Could it be that you don't see each other for a day? ”
An Jiu directly ignored his words, "I was attacked in Bianjing, it was the Crane Army that saved me, and when I returned to the plum blossoms, I was arranged to follow the Knowles over." ”
Mo Sigui supported his head with the handle of the fan, a pair of shining peach blossom eyes stared at her, and said casually and frivolously, "You were attacked?" These people are really not picky eaters at all, and they don't let go of any small roles. ”
Yasuku nodded, "So I heard that you were also attacked." ”
"Hah!" Mo Sigui chuckled and sat up straight, "I am especially willing to chat with you, I can exercise endurance." ”
Before meeting Lu and Anjiu, Mo Sigui had never fallen behind in the activity of flirting with people, and it was interesting to meet someone who could block him from speaking.
The two sat for a while, and when Mo Sigui was about to go to the ice cave, he suddenly thought of something, "Hiss! They're all gone, who's going to carry the corpse!? ”
An Jiu looked at him and didn't speak, and the atmosphere suddenly became cold.
"Don't do that, weird." Mo Sigui approached her and said, "Mei Fourteen, you can go to the ice cave with me." ”
"No, no." An Jiu decisively refused. She only came to find out about the situation, and didn't plan to make any effort.
"If you go with me, I am willing to spend my whole life healing your meridians." Mo Sigui shouted.
An Jiu stopped at the door and glanced at him, "Can you bear it if I don't go?" ”
With Mo Sigui's fanaticism for medicine, it is strange that he can endure it in the face of strange injuries, and An Jiu is not to be fooled.
There was only one person left in the huge council hall, Mo Sigui, and he could have picked on it. But as a healer, he could not afford to watch the corpses of those who could cause a great plague at any time lie in the ice caves.
Mo Sigui carried the lantern and went to the back hall to find someone to take him to the firewood room.
Lou Xin was angry, but he didn't keep Mo Sigui hanging, after all, this is Knowles's business, and his willingness to help is already en.
In winter, there is a lot of firewood, and there is a lot of dry firewood stored in the building. Mo Sigui looked at the sky, and estimated that the snow would not fall again, so he asked all the firewood to be removed, and he himself took a person into the ice cellar to fight the corpse.
As a century-old family. Even if the Knowles have withered to this day, there are more than forty people up and down, and even if each person only arranges one maid to serve, it must be the same number.
As expected, all the dead were servants. Even if they have martial arts, most of them are below the fourth order, and they can't withstand this kind of cold, and almost all of these people are blocked at the door of the ice cellar, but they don't have to bother to find it.
It depends. At that time, there must have been people who wanted to escape from the ice cellar, so Lou Mingyue blocked the Yongdao crossing with a sword.
Mo Sigui resisted all night, and found a hundred and seven corpses, more than half of which were thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls.
The buds are not blooming and withered. Mo Sigui's heart was gloomy.
The firewood was poured with a thick layer of grease, and the torch was thrown up, and with a bang, a large piece of fire was burned. They were frozen to the ground, burning from dawn until mid-afternoon.
Mo Sigui asked people to go down the mountain to buy a large number of atractylodes and soaphorns, ready to disinfect again.
In the evening, the people who bought the medicine returned. But it brought a frightening news - a plague broke out on the outskirts of Bianjing!
Plagues usually occur in spring and summer, and this one in the middle of winter spreads as fast as in summer, and all of them are infected in two days in a village in the north of the city. And one after another, people died, and the villagers panicked and fled elsewhere.
Fortunately, this time the imperial court had already prepared, and the whole village was in danger of being blocked.
"The slave maid heard that the plague had also been found in other villages." Humane procurement of medicinal herbs.
There was a dead silence in the council hall, and Lou Mingyue's face was pale, and overnight, a woman who was not yet in her twentieth year, she had strands of white hair on her temples, making her look five or six years older.
Where this "plague" came from is well known to all of you. The terrain is condescending, and the howling north wind is very likely to carry the poison to other places, and there is another possibility that when Knowles went to the plum blossom for help, he accidentally spread the poison to the villages along the road.
Lou Xinne said, "We all take secluded paths, and we have never been close to the village!" ”
"Looks like someone has improved the plague Gu." Mo Sigui's face was solemn, "Back then, as long as you were not close to the poisoned person, you would not be infected, but now the activity of the poison is many times more than before, not only is it easy to be infected, but the onset time is also shortened by one day." ”
According to the original estimation of the toxicity of the plague Gu, there was no problem with those who were still alive in the ice cellar delaying the disposal for a few days, but now it seemed that it was ......
Everyone looked at Lou Mingyue differently, and there was a trace of expectation hidden in Lou Xin and Lou Xiaowu's sad eyes, hoping that she could think of a way to achieve both, not only to protect the Lou clan but not to affect the innocent. However, this hope fell on Lou Mingyue's shoulders like a mountain, crushing her almost to pieces.
And Mo Sigui hopes that she can make up her mind to burn the poisoned person as soon as possible, which is too cruel for Lou Mingyue.
Mo Sigui looked at the familiar and unfamiliar face so haggard, his heart softened, don't look over his head and can't bear to look at it again.
Lou Mingyue got up and walked out of the meeting hall, and when she arrived at the door, she suddenly stopped, and looked up at the four big characters on the door plaque.
Yasuku leaned against the inside of the door, closest to her, and saw the dazzling snow light reflecting her pale skin almost transparently, and those glass-like eyes clearly reflected the handwriting on the door plaque.
Loyalty.
Lou Mingyue closed her eyes and squeezed out a word from between her teeth, "Burn!" ”
The hoarse voice with the words "loyalty, righteousness and righteousness" smashed into An Jiu's heart like a hammer, leaving an indelible mark.
"Go back, all of you." Mo Sigui said, "Mei Fourteen and I will do it." ”
This matter is thankless, although it is a decision made by Lou Mingyue, but no one will be able to calmly face a person who has lost his own loved ones, but An Jiu did not object this time.
Mei Jiu had long been unable to cry, as if the person who wanted to burn it was her clansman.
Lou Mingyue took a deep breath and said categorically, "No! I'm going. If I don't see it with my own eyes, how can I firmly remember this blood feud! ”
"I'll go too!" Lou Xiaowu Road.
Lou Xin didn't speak, but her hateful gaze already made her attitude clear.
Ling Gu took people to pile out all the dry firewood stored by the Knowles, while Mo Sigui and the others took turns to move people out of the ice cave.
During the break when Lou Xiaowu was resting, she squatted beside Mo Sigui and said softly, "Brother Mo, will they hurt a lot?" Can you use some drugged ......?"
These people were frozen in ice, and it was impossible to use their blades to make them die instantly.
"I'll cut my throat later." Mo Si returned.
If you can't breathe, you probably won't wake up again, but there is no guarantee that there will be exceptions.
"Hmm." Lou Xiaowu said in a muffled voice.
A person's true qi with a strong internal force runs on its own in the body. Therefore, they will not be completely frozen, and they will definitely hurt when the sword is within reach, and Mo Sigui has no choice.
Lou Mingyue took out a four or five-year-old boy from the ice cave and walked straight to Mo Sigui, "Can you save him?" ”
Mo Sigui tilted his head.
The fire mink skin reflected Lou Mingyue's face a little bloody, and the whole person looked like a cluster of newly blooming red plums in the snow.
"Brother!" Lou Xiaowu jumped up and hurriedly picked up the child who had been frozen into an iceman.
There were only about twenty people in the Lou family, and Mo Sigui remembered the order in which they were infected clearly, this child was almost infected with several elders, and he had been frozen in the ice cave for so long, logically speaking, he should have already died.
Mo Sigui looked at his face carefully. His face was pale, and his cheeks were peach-colored, as if he had just been newly infected with the plague, "If I'm not mistaken." Several elders have given him all the internal strength, then there is still salvation! ”
Lou Mingyue was not surprised, Lou Mingrui was a man who came from Knowles with great difficulty, although he was born by Knowles's daughter. Strictly speaking, he should be a grandson, but since he was born, he has been regarded as a continuation of Knowles's incense, the same as his grandson.
"Xiao Wu. You accompany Doctor Mo to prepare for treatment, and leave the matter here to me. Lou Mingyue said and knelt down to Mo Sigui, "Lou Er swears that he will never give up if he does not avenge this revenge in this life and this life, Doctor Mo saved me from the Knowles lineage, Mingyue has nothing to repay, and in the next life, he will repay his great kindness." ”
Lou Mingyue simply kowtowed three times, and then fell to the ground.
"I deserve your kneeling." Mo Sigui looked at her and said lightly, "I don't believe in any afterlife, the promise of the afterlife is not worth a word or a word now." ”
He stuffed the folding fan into his sleeve pocket and took Lou Mingrui.
Lou Xiaowu picked up Lou Mingyue and hurriedly caught up with him.
Back then, Qiu Ningyu also said something similar. She said to him: After five years, I will marry you if I don't want to kiss, and before I marry out, you are not allowed to marry or be nice to others.
They have been friends since childhood, and this is just the willful words of a little girl. Mo Sigui still remembered that he smiled and said: That's terrible, I have to tell the little ladies in Bianjing tomorrow to cherish these five years, otherwise in the second half of my life, under your destruction, where will there be such a beautiful son today.
The words of the past are still in my ears, but the Si people are no longer there.
Today, I met a woman with a similar appearance, and I made a promise to him in the next life. Five years is still difficult to achieve, how to next life?
Mo Sigui felt that he was afraid that he would be lonely in this life.
An Jiu was like air next to him, and after Lou Mingyue left, Lou Xin walked over, "Mei Niangzi." ”
She clasped her fists and saluted, and then said, "I have a reluctant request, and I hope that the lady of the building can agree." ”
"Say." An Jiudao.
Lou Xin said, "Doctor Mo said that he wanted to cut the throat of the clansmen to avoid pain, I can't do it, Mingyue is difficult enough to make a decision, I don't want her to do it herself, I hope you can ......"
"Okay." Without waiting for her to finish speaking, An Jiu simply agreed.
Lou Xin was stunned for a moment, and said bitterly, "Thank you." ”
begging others to thank him for killing his family, Lou Xin's heart was as uncomfortable as if it was blocked.
After the dry firewood was erected, everyone put more than 40 corpses on it, covered their mouths and noses for a long time, climbed on the dry firewood rack and cut their throats one by one with a dagger.
Ling Gu asked people to pour grease on it. Even if you are very careful, such a collective fire is no better than being buried in the ground.
Lou Mingyue bit her lip tightly, but insisted on staring.
Lou Xin simply turned his back.
After everything was ready, Lou Mingyue said in a dumb voice, "Let's light the fire." ”
She opened her mouth, and blood flowed from the corners of her lips.
No one moved.
After a while, An Jiu took the torch in Linggu's hand, raised his hand and threw it on the firewood stand.
The fire was blazing, and in a moment it engulfed all the figures inside.
In the southernmost place, and the closest to Lou Mingyue and An Jiu, she is a woman in her forties, and her eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Lou Xin.
The wind swept the ashes to fuel the fire, and the tongue of fire curled up, and An Jiu clearly saw the owner of the building slowly open his eyes.
Lou Mingyue couldn't stop trembling, and a suppressed whimper sounded in her throat.
The owner of the building did not make any other movements, as if he was staring at the ashes and residual snow floating in the sky, and his eyes did not blink.
"Mother!" Lou Mingyue approached, her eyes reflected the jumping flames, and she was blood red, "My daughter will avenge you!" ”
An Jiu seemed to have been pinched somewhere, and suddenly it hurt. She thought that Lou Mingyue's mother had passed away a long time ago, but she didn't expect it to be the owner of Lou Zhuang!
Lou Mingyue is a woman with a heart, An Jiu asked herself if she couldn't do this, even if the whole world was burned out, she couldn't give up a glimmer of hope for her mother's survival.
Maybe it's because it's hard for me to do it, An Jiu sincerely admires her.
Lou Mingyue didn't kneel, hoping that her mother would be able to look at her again before she died, however, the owner of Lou Zhuang finally just slowly closed his eyes.
The owner's face was covered with water droplets, and a drop of red overflowed from the corner of his eye, I don't know if it was blood or tears.
Lou Mingyue's knees weakened and she fell into the snow, her cheeks pressed against the cold snow, but it did not make her sober.
After the moment of confusion, Lou Mingyue only felt a pair of hands helping her.
At nightfall, reinforcements from the Crane Army finally arrived.
Lou Xin suppressed the resentment in his heart and reluctantly received the Crane Control Army.
Lou Mingyue had something in her heart, she only slept for an hour, and when she heard that the crane army had arrived in the village, she simply washed up and put on filial piety clothes and went to the meeting hall.
She was much more sober than Lou Xin, the plague and poison were sudden, and two days had passed when she found out, and there was a lot of delay on the way to Konghejun and Mei's for help. Even if the people of the Crane Army came a day earlier, the result would still be the same, but it was just a few more laborers to carry the corpses and firewood.
When Lou Mingyue walked halfway, she was greeting Ling Gu to send the people of the Crane Control Army down, so she saluted and asked directly, "Can the Crane Control Army find out the mastermind behind the scenes?" ”
"This is the new head of our Knowles family." Lou Xin introduced. The building is no longer there, and there is no owner anymore. (To be continued......)