Chapter 22: The Whip of Hell

"How many?" Zuo Tiandong said it badly, and the ominous premonition was like a gloomy creeper, which instantly crawled all over his heart.

"Five...... Five or six rooms. The visitor's eyes were full of fear, and his lips trembled irregularly.

"Let's go! Check it out! Although Mu Lingxi didn't quite understand what was going on for a while, his keen nerves told him that he might be afraid of something, so he came. didn't have time to think about it, so he ordered Zuo Tiandong to rush with him to check the situation.

Mu Lingxi took Zuo Tiandong and Yuan Dong to follow the pawns who reported the news through the camp and ran towards the tent where the accident occurred.

When the tent curtain was opened, the scene inside the tent was even more numb, and the soldiers were desperately scratching the exposed skin on their bodies with their hands one by one, and their bodies kept rolling and rubbing on the ground. His face and arms were covered with bloody handprints, like countless caterpillars under his flesh, eager to dig out the skin and pull it out. After a while, the tent was filled with the smell of blood, and no one stopped even though it was already drenched in blood.

"Is that what ......?" Mu Lingxi lowered the curtain and pulled Zuo Tiandong aside.

"Yes, this is the kind of disease, the soldiers privately call it the Hell Whip, but when they are cured, they will leave countless horrible scars on their bodies, as if they have been whipped with a whip by the ghosts of Hell, but these scars are scratched by their own hands." Zuo Tiandong sighed deeply, his voice trembled slightly, "I don't know how long it will take, there will be a trouble, and the interval will be different each time, but recently I have found that the longer the interval, the more people will get sick, and the trouble will last for three or five days, and when the skin is scratched and festered, it will stop." ”

"Is there no cure?" Mu Lingxi knew that this kind of disease did not cost people's lives, but it would destroy people's will, and the soldier who licked the blood on the knife was most afraid of not death, but this unknown fear of destroying the will.

Zuo Tiandong shook his head with a look of despair. There was a heart-scratching scream from the tent, which made Mu Lingxi's brows tighten again, maybe this was a disease deliberately spread by the other party, or maybe Zuo Tiandong and the others were unwilling to go to war and send them to death. Although Mu Lingxi knew that he should not be suspicious of the officials guarding the frontier, but his heart was separated from his belly, so he had to guard against it.

"Who?" A dark shadow flashed outside the window, and Lu Zhu's heart suddenly rose to his throat. Since being possessed by Yang Huaigui, she has been imprisoned in the back garden of Yang's mansion, and every day only the maids and servants send food and drink to the house, but she can't freeze or starve, but she can't step out of the back garden for half a step, she has nothing to do all day long, depressed, and beware of Yang Huaigui coming in in the middle of the night to do disdainful things. Today's ghostly black shadow is not like Yang Huaigui's style, Lu Zhu exploded his guts, took a candle, and pushed open the door.

Green bamboo stood in front of the door, looking left and right, did not see the figure, the shadow of the back garden at night is sufficient, some cautious, a cold wind blows, green bamboo can't help but shiver, retreat to the house. Unexpectedly, at the moment when the door was closed, a hand stretched out from behind and covered Luzhu's mouth. The candle fell to the ground, rolled a few times and went out. Luzhu struggled hard, but remembered a long-lost voice in his ears: "It's me."

As soon as the two words came out, Lu Zhu was stunned, and tears rolled down involuntarily. The hand covering the green bamboo's mouth also let go. Luzhu turned around, and by the moonlight, he saw Brother Shun's warm and familiar face.

"No, no, no, you go." When Luzhu saw the person in front of him clearly, Luzhu resisted the desire to hug it, and pushed Brother Shun out again and again.

"It's me, Luzhu, I'm Brother Shun." Brother Shun was very surprised by Luzhu's reaction, and hurriedly lowered his voice to explain.

Lu Zhu desperately pushed Brother Shun out of the door and closed the door. After doing all this, the green bamboo suddenly lost his strength, sat helplessly on the ground along the door panel, and let the tears wet his clothes.

"Green bamboo, open the door." Brother Shun's deep voice sounded outside the door.

"You go. Don't come again. Green Bamboo whispered in the door.

"Green Bamboo, Green Bamboo, do you know how many times I sneaked in? In order to find you, I have walked almost all the courtyards of the Yang Mansion and almost all the houses, I just want to take you away and get out of here. Green bamboo, open the door, open the door. Brother Shun tapped lightly on the door.

"Brother Shun, let's go. I'm no longer the green bamboo of Linglong Pavilion. I am Yang Huaigui's concubine Luzhu. Let's go. Listening to Brother Shun's voice, Luzhu was already crying in the house.

"No, Green Bamboo, no matter where you are, no matter what you go through, you are my Green Bamboo. I'm going to take you away. I have money, let's go far away and leave the mausoleum, okay? Brother Shun pleaded in a low voice with a crying voice.

"Whoa!" Lu Zhu opened the door and looked at Brother Shun with teary eyes.

"Green Bamboo ......" Brother Shun was stunned for a while, settled down, and after seeing his sweetheart in front of him clearly, he wiped away his tears and hugged Green Bamboo in his arms. Between the hair, there is a familiar smell of each other at the neck, and the green bamboo with pear blossoms and rain has a unique style in the moonlight.

After the drum beat the fifth watch, Luzhu sat up from the bed in shock, pushed Brother Shun beside him and said, "It's almost dawn, you go quickly."

"Okay, I'll arrange it in two days, and I'll pick you up." Brother Shun said with his clothes on.

"I'll wait for you." Luzhu sent Brother Shun away with tears, lay down again, looked at the bright moon outside the window, touched the residual temperature on the bed, and tears ran down the corners of his eyes in his hair. Open your eyes and look at the dawn.

"His Royal Highness King Xiang, look at how this is good......" Zuo Tiandong had a dense bead of sweat.

"General Dragon, General Tiger." Mu Lingxi pondered for a moment, raised his eyes and called the two generals he had brought, "You two take the uninfected soldiers to evacuate fifteen miles away from the water source. The two generals of the dragon and the tiger were ordered to leave.

Mu Lingxi looked at Zuo Tiandong again: "General Zuo, please isolate the infected tent as soon as possible, no one is allowed to approach at will, and those who violate the order will be punished by military law." In addition, please ask General Zuo to lead people to stay by these people's side, and if there is anything unusual, send someone to report it at any time. ”

"Yes." Zuo Tiandong received the order and left with Yuan Dong. Mu Lingxi looked at the backs of the two of them, thoughtful.

"Steward Chen, will you continue to check today?" Luan Pu'an, the head catcher, pushed open the courtyard door of the back hall of the yamen, and just saw Chen Xiao moving his hands and feet in the courtyard.

Yesterday's whole day of door-to-door investigation has worn out Chen Xiao's patience, to be honest, he Chen Xiao really doesn't want to look for it anymore, in his opinion, a girl can't set off any wind and waves at all, Zhang Qingyan is completely worrying about the sky. He was moving his body in the yard, thinking about how to deal with it, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Luan Pu'an.

"Come, come in, I have something for you." Chen Xiao looked around, but he didn't see the servants of the Zhang Mansion, he beckoned to Luan Pu'an.

"Steward Chen, if you have something to say, just ask for it." Luan Pu'an arched his hand.

"Come, come in and sit down." Chen Xiao let Luan Puan into the room and closed the door with his backhand. Luan Pu'an didn't dare to speak when he saw Chen Xiaoshen's mystery, so he had to sit quietly on the chair and look at Chen Xiao.

After Chen Xiao made sure that the partition wall had no ears, he leaned in front of Luan Pu'an and whispered: "Luan Tou'er, you can be said to be the number one in this realm in the mausoleum, and even he Xue Bowen may not be as familiar with this place as you."

"Steward Chen has won the award, where the responsibility is, where the responsibility is." Luan Pu'an said modestly.

"You say, about a year ago, did such a little girl of unknown origin appear in Lingcheng?" Chen Xiao was going to ask again and reconfirm, if it was really not, then even if he turned the Lingcheng upside down, he would not be able to find that girl.

"Uh......" Luan Pu'an groaned for a while, "I won't tell you, in our realm, there are many little girls of unknown origin who buy and sell in the human market every day, so I really can't say what you are looking for." ”

Luan Pu'an was a little disappointed when he saw Chen Xiao, and he didn't feel like he wanted to inquire more: "Steward Chen, why do you have to find this girl."

"The reason doesn't matter to you. What matters is where this girl is. Listening to Luan Pu'an inquire about the reason, Chen Xiao's face darkened at that time.

"Well, let's go ahead and look for it." Luan Pu'an saw Chen Xiao's black face, and knew that he was talkative, but he was still unhappy, and urged Chen Xiao to hurry up and find someone.

"Let's go, I don't want to eat." It was noon, and the little maid brought the food to Luzhu, who looked at the nausea of the food for no reason, and let the maid take it away.

"Didn't eat again?" For three or four days in a row, the green bamboo let the maid take the food away as it was, and Yang Huaigui was slightly surprised. It's normal to be in a mood for the first few days without eating or drinking, but it's been more than half a month, not to mention that I still ate something a few days ago, why didn't I eat again? Yang Huaigui felt that something was wrong, and beckoned Zhong Yan: "Zhong Yan, you go to the Rejuvenation Hall to invite Doctor Si."

"Yes." Zhong Yan took the order and left.

Not long after, Si Duhan followed Zhong Yan to the Yang Mansion.

"Master Yang, don't come unharmed." Si Duhan bowed his hand and said.

"Doctor Si, please come in." Yang Huaigui hurriedly let Si Duhan into the house.

"Dare to ask who is in the house who is sick?" Si Duhan saw that Yang Huaigui's face was full of eagerness, and he knew that the person who was ill must be unusual.

"Doctor Si, do you remember the girl you rescued at my house the day before yesterday?" Yang Huaigui took a sip of tea and looked at Si Duhan.

"Oh, it's the young lady." Si Duhan remembered that day, when the red thing turned white.

"No, she's not a young lady now. It's my concubine. Yang Huaigui's face was full of pride, "I don't know why I've been eating for the past few days." ”

"Offended, Master Yang, can you let me see the patient?" Si Duhan couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard that Luzhu had changed from the young lady of the Yang Mansion to the concubine of the Lord of the Yang Mansion. You must know that at that time, Luzhu was blowing and beating in front of the whole city, and the media was marrying the daughter-in-law who was carried into the Yang Mansion in a sedan chair.