Don't look at the donkey's right hand has been cut off by Li Yuliang's elbow, but after Zhu Guozhi gave him three Yangzhou thin horses, the donkey still insisted on hugging the three poor girls to bed at the same time every night, because he was going to leave Yangzhou for Jiangning the next day, and it was difficult to find an opportunity to enjoy the service of beauties on the road, so that night he drank almost a jar of daughter's red donkey was extraordinarily brave in bed, and he tossed until the third watch before he fell asleep, only to pity the three weak girls who had been tortured by perverted methods and bruises, Tear-wet pillow towels.

The rooster crowed three times, the sky was gray and white, and the two warriors of the Shanpu Battalion came to the door of the donkey under the command of Wu Ciyou, and called the door: "Master Gong, Master Qian, Mr. Wu asked us to inform you to get up, prepare a little to mention the prisoner in the prison, and set off for Jiangning before two o'clock." After repeating the barking for a long time, the donkey finally woke up rubbing his eyes, and muttered scoldingly: "Damn, I just went to bed for two hours and had to leave, so I won't let people live?" ”

Scolding and scolding, but whether it is Kong Sizhen's parting advice or Kangxi's secret decree, it is to force the donkey to listen to Wu Ciyou, so the donkey still instructed the girl who was sleeping: "The waiter Lao Tzu wears clothes." Saying that, the donkey pressed the bed with one hand and wanted to sit up, but the hand was soft and did not have any strength, and he fell down as soon as he sat halfway, and at the same time the donkey found himself thirsty, his ribs were extremely painful, and his chest was unbearable, and the donkey couldn't help but cry bitterly: "Damn, did Lao Tzu work too hard last night and get rid of the yang?" ”

"Master, your face, eyes, and body are so yellow, are you sick?" Yesterday, a girl whose whole body was gnawed by a donkey and her whole body was covered with tooth marks trembling, pointing at the face of the donkey and exclaiming. The donkey took a closer look at his only hand, and found that the skin of his wrist and arm was scorched and yellow, showing a terrible dark yellow, so frightened that the donkey hurriedly brought a bronze mirror to his face, and only glanced at the donkey and screamed, "Come on, come on, Lao Tzu's face has turned yellow, Lao Tzu must be sick!" Call Lang Zhong, the military doctor, and the imperial doctor ......! ”

After a while, Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangsu, was the first to come with Lang Zhong in the post house, and then Han Shiqi, the prefect of Yangzhou, also left the increasingly serious epidemic situation and ran to wait for the disease, and finally Nan Huairen and Wu Ciyou, when Nan Huairen and Wu Ciyou and others entered the room, Lang Zhong, who treated the donkey, had already come to the diagnosis. Lang Zhong reported to Zhu Guozhi: "Lord Governor, judging from the pulse and symptoms, Lord Qincha has a sudden onset, his body and eyes are dark yellow, and he is full of heat and poison, so he should be suffering from jaundice. This is a very dangerous acute condition, and if not properly managed, it may even be life-threatening. ”

"Damn, these stinky **s must have infected me. Otherwise, how could Lao Tzu suffer from such a strange disease if he was in such good health? The donkey pointed weakly at the three girls that Zhu Guozhi gave him. The three girls were so frightened that they knelt down together to shout grievances, and Lang Zhong also hurriedly said: "Lord Qincha, this kind of jaundice is difficult to contagious, even if it is contagious, the patient who infects Lord Qincha will be as scorched as adults, and it can be seen at a glance." But the distinction between the kind-hearted men did not play a role, and Zhu Guozhi, who was afraid of being charged with murdering Lord Qincha, roared: "Come on, drag these three stinky ** out and bury them alive!" ”

"The lord spared his life, he was wronged." The three poor girls were so frightened that they cried and kowtowed desperately for mercy, but Zhu Guozhi, who was like a wolf and a tiger, took care of these things, and dragged the three of them out of the room and dragged them to the backyard to be buried alive. And Zhu Guozhi pointed at the frightened Lang Zhong and shouted: "Hurry up and prescribe medicine to Lord Qincha, you must cure Lord Qincha, if Lord Qincha has any three strengths and two shortcomings, this official will bury you alive." ”

"Yes, yes, the villain tried his best to save Lord Chincha." Sweating profusely, Na Langzhong agreed, and rushed to the table to write the prescription. Wu Ciyou went up and grabbed his brush, wrote on the paper with the pen and asked, "Let me ask you, is there any poison that can make people suffer from jaundice?" Are there any signs of poisoning? He shook his head for a moment, and then wiped his sweat and replied, "It's impossible for poison to make people suffer from jaundice, at least I don't know of any medicine that can have this effect." As for whether Lord Qincha has any signs of poisoning, this villain can guarantee - absolutely not, otherwise Lord Qincha will not be able to support it as soon as he is ill. ”

"Am I too suspicious?" Wu Ciyou was a little hesitant, yesterday's altar was touched by Sun Tingling's daughter Hong, and was almost wrapped up by the donkey alone, so the suspicious Wu Ciyou suspected that Sun Tingling's sudden illness was caused by Sun Tingling, but Sun Tingling, Nan Huairen, Zhu Guozhi, and Wu Ciyou themselves had drunk the jar of wine, but no one else got sick, which made Wu Ciyou puzzled - in fact, Sun Tingling's coward didn't finish the medicine, and he only put one of the three pills Yao Qisheng tied in his braid. If the amount of medicine is not enough, only the donkey who drinks the most is unlucky, but it also plays a confusing role. After thinking about it, Wu Ciyou finally gave up his suspicion of Sun Tingling, because if Sun Tingling wanted to avenge the humiliation, he should directly poison and poison the donkey, instead of making the donkey suffer from a sudden illness so much. Wu Ciyou asked Na Langzhong with a pen again: "In this case, can Lord Qincha still be able to catch the way?" Take a boat or car to Jiangning City for treatment and recuperation? ”

"No, Lord Qincha must not be able to work hard in boats and carriages." There was a threat of Zhu Guozhi being buried alive there, Lang Zhong didn't dare to risk patting his chest to assure, but said cautiously: "Jaundice is the most taboo for hard work, you must stay in bed and recuperate carefully, otherwise not only will your condition worsen, but maybe your life will be in danger." ”

"If I don't go, I won't go to Jiangning City, I'm going to recuperate in Yangzhou City before leaving." The donkey killed the anti-Qing righteous people and ordinary people without even blinking an eyelid, but when it was related to his life, he became a soft-footed shrimp, and immediately yelled and refused to go to Jiangning City again. Wu Ciyou was embarrassed again, now the plague is rampant in Yangzhou City, if he doesn't leave immediately, he will be infected with the plague, but if he leaves immediately, the donkey's life will be difficult to protect. Zhu Guozhi also considered the same thing, so he asked Na Langzhong: "Then according to you, when will Lord Qincha leave Yangzhou?" Give an accurate time. ”

"This ......." Na Langzhong hesitated for a while, and then repeatedly looked and asked before he said carefully: "The villain doesn't dare to guarantee this for the time being, today the villain will first use the mushroom Chen Artemisia soup to detoxify and detoxify Lord Qincha, see how effective it is, and only dare to give an accurate answer to the adult tomorrow." ”

"Nanda, Mr. Wu, then how about we stay in Yangzhou for another day, and then decide to stay tomorrow?" Zhu Guozhi proposed to Wu Ciyou and Nan Huairen. Although Wu Ciyou and Nan Huairen were afraid of contracting the plague and cholera and wanted to leave the city immediately, they refused to stay for a day and waited for the donkey's condition to be fruitful and it would be too uninteresting, so the two agreed to Zhu Guozhi's proposal after a little discussion.

"Within one day, there was an outbreak of plague in Yangzhou, a violent disease on a donkey, and two diseases, things are not so simple." When Lang Zhong prescribed medicine to the donkey, Wu Ciyou, who was thinking hard, muttered to himself in his heart, and his intuition told him that this matter was not so simple. After repeated calculations, Wu Ciyou took a pen and wrote down his response plan on a piece of paper and handed it over to Zhu Guozhi for arrangement. If she did this, she wouldn't be able to get out and be buried alive inside. ”

"It's okay, I'm tired of that wavering woman. Besides, this is just a precaution, and it doesn't necessarily mean burying her in it. Wu Ciyou replied: "In order to prevent the thieves from knowing, please be careful to keep this matter secret, except for those who go to bury the gunpowder, no one else can disclose it." After writing it, Wu Ciyou added in his heart, "It's okay to blow up the woman who is getting more and more troublesome, my tongue has hope to heal, just because that woman is unwilling to sleep with Zhu Fangdan, so my tongue can't be cured!" Hum! Zhu Fangdan suddenly disappeared in Gaoyou City, maybe she was the ghost! Otherwise, when I asked Zhu Fangdan where she went, why was her expression so strange? ”

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The rising sun is gradually centered, cloudless, without a trace of wind, only a little cooling of the air at night and scorching like boiling water, such weather is not a good news for the cholera-ravaged Yangzhou City, because the high temperature not only means that the human body needs to replenish water, in this era of low medical and health standards, the people do not have the common sense of boiling water for disinfection - the key is that ordinary people do not have that condition, which virtually increases the channels for the spread of cholera; At the same time, high temperatures will also cause food spoilage to speed up, and the multiplication of germs will intensify, providing innate conditions for the disease to rage. Therefore, although Han Shiqi, the prefect of Yangzhou, has taken measures to isolate the sick patients, those who have been infected with the germs and are in the incubation period have become new sources of infection, causing more and more people to be infected with cholera, and the transmission rate has increased rapidly geometrically.

Everyone is equal in the face of the disease, up to the rich salt merchants, down to the beggars who beg on the streets called Huazi, ordinary citizens, workers, farmers, merchants, gentry, landlords, officials, officials, soldiers, men, women and children are all the targets of the disease, only at noon on the second day when the plague began to break out, the people of Yangzhou infected with cholera broke through the 3,000 mark, more than 200 people died, and the rest were either driven out of Yangzhou City by the officials and waiting for death, or hiding at home and drinking the medicine juice that does not know if it has any effect in the hope of healing, A considerable number of poor patients did not even have to drink the medicinal juice, so they could only lie in the hospital bed** and pray that God would open their eyes and spare them from death. And those who are not sick have been fleeing from Yangzhou with their families, fleeing from this once rich city but now plague-ridden, for a while, the streets and alleys are full of fleeing crowds and vehicles, and the boats and boats fleeing Yangzhou on the river are connected, countless. There are even hooligans and rogue soldiers and ruffians who take advantage of the fire to rob, gang up and rob the fleeing people's property along the way, or openly break into the house to rob, kill people and set fires, and even those grain and salt that are piled up in the wharf warehouse waiting to be transported to the north are not spared, and the scoundrels will burn when they can't finish grabbing, making the smoke billowing from several major wharves and granaries in Yangzhou, and the fires are everywhere.

"Crookedly, this year's grain and salt taxes of the Tartars are finished! The effect is better than I imagined in advance, the price of grain in the north of the Tatar base camp has increased by at least five times! Standing in the corridor on the second floor of Lichun Courtyard, looking at the crowds of people rushing to flee on the street and the chaotic streets of Yangzhou City, Yao Qisheng was secretly gloating in his heart, but his face was constantly sighing, and he seemed to be in a heavy mood. He turned to Wu Yuanming, who was standing beside him with a gloomy face, and Zhu Fangdan, who was full of earth, and said: "Remember, this plan hurts the sky and breaks the yang life, and it can't be used again in the future." Moreover, the true cause of this plague cannot be mentioned to anyone! ”

"Yes, I swear I'll never tell anyone about it!" Zhu Fangdan, the implementer of the plague, nodded like a chicken pecking rice, but regretted that he should not use the methods he had pondered to increase the speed of the spread of cholera, otherwise the situation would not have been so serious. Wu Yuanming's face became more and more gloomy, and he sighed: "It's a pity that this is the territory of the Tartars, otherwise I really want to mobilize salt merchants to donate money to buy medicine and distribute it to these sick people." ”

"Come on, my hypocritical son, that day in Llama Lake, you tricked the nearby fishermen into the islands in the lake, originally trying to use them to attract the Tartar fleet to attack, you are so good to take advantage of the chaos, but it is self-defeating that the Tartars are not on you." Yao Qisheng had already analyzed his godson's true intentions from Wu Yuanming's description of the Battle of Luoma Lake, but he didn't need to expose his godson's sinister intentions. At this time, Wu Shou and Wu Fu, who had been ordered to inquire about the news, had already returned, and Yao Qisheng hurriedly asked, "How is it?" Did Zhu Guozhi and the gang of traitors stay in Yangzhou? ”

"I stayed, but I heard it was only for one day." Wu Shou wiped his sweat and said: "We walked around the post house a few times, and heard that the soldiers who protected Zhu Guozhi and Nan Huairen, these traitors and foreign devils, were also asking to leave Yangzhou, afraid of contracting the plague, but the officer who led the team told them to stay in Yangzhou for at least one night. ”

"Very good, it seems that Sun Tingling didn't brag and lie, he did succeed." Yao Qisheng showed a cruel smile on his face, turned his head to look in the direction of Yangzhou Prison, and muttered: "Now it's up to Li Xiongfei and Wu Lu and a few of them, as long as they can put the medicine into the well of Yangzhou Prison, we will basically win." Wu Yuanming also understood this truth, and secretly prayed in his heart.

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At the same time, outside the Yangzhou prison, Li Xiongfei, Wu Lu and a veteran of the Pingxi Palace, who were ordered to come to give medicine, dressed as vegetable farmers, had been waiting in the alley near the prison for a long time, but because of the large number of fleeing people blocking the traffic, the vegetable vendors who usually delivered vegetables to the kitchen of the Yangzhou prison were nearly an hour later than the agreed time and still did not arrive - these people had already received Wu Lu 300 taels of silver. And what made Li Xiongfei and others most anxious was that because of Wu Ciyou's arrangement of the hardcore traitor, the guards of Yangzhou Prison and the army brought by the donkey used the kitchen and bought vegetables and meat respectively, once it was delayed for a long time, the guards and prisoners had no food to eat, or eat dry food or borrow vegetables from the army, then the vegetables sent by Li Xiongfei and the other three might be rejected and they would never have a chance to enter the prison again.

"Why haven't you come yet?" When Li Xiongfei was in a hurry, Wu Lu suddenly pointed to the street in the distance and exclaimed in surprise: "It's coming, it's finally here." Li Xiongfei was overjoyed and looked up, and sure enough, he saw several vegetable vendors pushing three wheelbarrows over, which were full of vegetables such as eggplants, potatoes and pumpkins, as well as half a piece of pig, which was the vegetable vendor who had made an appointment with Wu Lu. Wu Lu greeted him and complained, "Why are you here now?" We thought you weren't coming. ”

"There was no way, the road was full of carriages and people, and there were fires everywhere, so we finally came here." A vegetable vendor wiped his sweat and said: "To be honest, the plague is so bad, we don't want to come, we want to run away with our wives and children, just because we think that we have already received your money, and if you don't come, we will be too sorry." ”

"Take it, it's two hundred taels that I promised to make up to you." Wu Lu didn't have time to ramble with these vegetable sellers, so he directly handed a money bag to the vegetable vendor, and grabbed the wheelbarrow he was pushing, Li Xiongfei and another veteran grabbed the other two wheelbarrows, and after those vegetable sellers counted the silver, they immediately said goodbye and left with a smile on their faces, went home and fled with their wives and children, and never returned to Yangzhou without mentioning it. Wu Lu and others pushed the wheelbarrow out of the alley and went straight to the gate of Yangzhou Prison.

Because of the face, Wu Lu, Li Xiongfei and others were worried that they would have to spend some tongues to deceive the guards at the gate of the prison, but before they arrived at the door, those soldiers with knives and guns took the initiative to open the door, and couldn't wait to shout to Wu Lu and the others: "Why are you only sending food now?" We're all starving, get in, get in, get in. After all, those hungry and red-eyed soldiers were even exempted from routine inspections, and directly put Li Xiongfei and Wu Lu in prison. Wu Lu and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and invariably shouted God blessing in their hearts.

God blessed Wu Lu and the others not only to pass the inspection easily, their vegetable cart had just entered the outer courtyard of the cell, and several cooks jumped out of the original kitchen of the prison and the temporary marching kitchen of the Qing army, rushing to shout: "Pull the vegetables here, quickly, wait for the dishes to go to the pot." "It turned out that because of the plague, the Yangzhou market was extremely depressed, and only a few vegetable vendors entered the city from outside the city to sell vegetables, which were soon snapped up by the citizens, and the cooks who went to buy vegetables by the Qing army naturally returned empty-handed, resulting in three carts of vegetables sent by Wu Lu and others becoming the prison guards and the eyes of the Qing army. In order to let Wu Lu and the others pull the dishes into the kitchen, the cooks on both sides quarreled and clashed, "We ordered this dish, and more than 100 of us and hundreds of prisoners are waiting for this dish to eat, and we can't let it be given to you." "Damn, you're making us hungry? We didn't come out to fight, and we didn't bring any rations for the march. ”

"Who told you not to believe us Yangzhou people, so you have to go to buy vegetables temporarily? If you let Yangzhou vegetable sellers deliver food directly like us, do you need to go hungry? The cook on the side of the Yangzhou prison guard asked rhetorically. The cook of the Qing army was a little discouraged, and scolded: "Mom, it's all a bad idea from that dumb master, I don't know that we order food directly, so we have to buy it temporarily." "In the quarrel, the cooks on both sides of the camp with their sleeves and arms exposed were about to start fighting, and the guards and soldiers who were guarding inside and outside the prison were all hungry and anxious, and when they heard the quarrel over food, they left their posts and ran over to help, a fire was imminent, but fortunately, the Qing soldiers and the prison officers who led the team came to drink in time.

"Don't make any noise." After the Qing military management and the prison officer drank their subordinates, the two leading officials couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, these three carts of vegetables were not enough to feed the people in prison anyway, but they couldn't be hungry on both sides. was in a dilemma, but Wu Lu, who was quite clever, gave them an idea, "The two military masters, according to the villain, it is better to eat like this, just eat these carts of dishes for your military master and poor master, although it is less, but it is barely enough, put more salt and you can eat." As for the prisoners in the prison, let them nibble on dry steamed buns for a while and choke them to death. ”

"That's a good idea." The Qing military management and prison officials agreed with this bad idea of harming others and benefiting themselves. The prison officer pointed to the only well in the compound and said, "Quickly push the vegetables to the well and let them wash and cook." Wu Lu was secretly happy in his heart, and said inch by inch: "Poor master, since you are all hungry, why don't you let the little ones help you wash the vegetables, and when you give the money later, can you give a few more coppers to calculate our wages?" ”

"Alright, alright, hurry up, we're all hungry." The prison officer was also hungry, so he naturally agreed in order to eat early. Wu Lu, Li Xiongfei and others were secretly happy in their hearts, and hurriedly pushed the vegetables to the well to be cleaned, while the cooks on both sides divided the half of the pig into two and took them back to the kitchen to chop and refine the oil to prepare for cooking. And Wu Lu didn't have anyone around them to watch, so they easily took the opportunity to fetch water and poured all the large bags of sweat medicine hidden in their arms and tied around their waists into the well-these packets of sweat medicine are not the kind of drugs that are poured when they drink them, but make people feel very sleepy and sleep very dead when they take it at the normal sleep time, and it is difficult to wake up the person taking the medicine even if it is thunder - in order to prepare this medicine, Zhu Fangdan, the world's first miracle doctor, has spent a lot of effort. At the same time, Wu Lu and the others also saw the situation of the prison drainage ditch clearly, as the old jailer said, the opening of this drainage ditch is enough to pass through a person as long as the iron rod is sawed off, and the location is relatively remote, it is indeed a good place to sneak in.

The vegetables were washed and processed, and when the three carts of vegetables were all washed and Wu Lu and the others collected the money for the vegetables, the hungry Qing soldiers and guards were already queuing up to receive the vegetables and rice to eat, and outside the prison came a team of five carriages of the Qing army, four of which were loaded with vegetables and eggs and meat, and the other carriage was covered tightly with sackcloth and did not know what it was pulling. One of the masters who led the team couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that the Qing army was already eating, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wu thought that you couldn't buy vegetables today, so he specially sent us to send four carriages, so that the two kitchens didn't have to worry about buying vegetables, but I didn't expect you to really get vegetables." But it's okay, the army and the guards can eat better tonight. ”

"Okay." There was a burst of cheers among the Qing army and the prison guards, and the captain of the gang who was paying Wu Lu and the others said to Wu Lu: "Okay, you don't have to deliver food tonight, come back tomorrow morning." Wu Lu smiled, and said in his heart that there is no need to come tomorrow morning, we will come tonight when you are asleep.