Okay, but you have to promise me that you can't leave my side for half a step. Xie Yutang said righteously.

Chi Wan smiled slightly and agreed, "Okay." ”

She suddenly thought about it again, and said, "By the way, I don't think this person is stupid, I think he must not only poison the river water, but also the well water in the city in order to make sure that everyone is sick." So it's best to send someone to look at a few wells in the city, so as to make sure that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

Without saying a word, Xie Yutang began to go out and send officers and soldiers to disperse, all of them disguised as ordinary villagers, and then squatted by the well water, ordering them to arrest anyone who was acting strangely when they saw it.

As for him and Chi Wan, with the remaining group of people, they prepared to go to the water source outside Pingcheng to squat, while the doctor and maid stayed in Pingcheng to continue to treat the people.

Without further ado, they set off on the same day, and Chi Wan and Xie Yutang rode a horse and walked in the direction of the city gate.

Xie Yutang asked Chi Wan, "When did you come to Pingcheng?" Why don't you say goodbye to me? ”

"About ten days ago," said Chi Wan, "I just came to Pingcheng to negotiate, and I thought that I would return to the capital after success, but I thought that it would only be three or five days after I came, but I knew that a serious illness had broken out here, so I decided to stay and heal them." ”

Chi Wan recalled: "At that time, the emperor also sent people to burn those patients at the stake, but I couldn't do anything, but fortunately, the people of Pingcheng resisted vigorously, and the capital sent people to stop it, so it stopped." ”

"It's not the emperor's doing, it's the crown prince," Xie Yutang said, "and only he would have come up with such a cruel and inhumane way to stop the spread of the disease, if I hadn't learned about it through the grapevine, I'm afraid you would have been implicated in it." ”

Xie Yutang looked at Chi Wan with pity, his eyes full of worry. If it weren't for Chi Wan's intelligence and proficient medical science, he couldn't imagine that she would have lost her life in Pingcheng before, but he felt terrible just thinking about it.

At this moment, Xie Yutang found that he had something to fear, he was not afraid of the ground since he was a child, and he was not even afraid of letting him fight him in a battle that he knew would be lost, he was afraid that the lovely person in front of him would suddenly disappear one day, and he was afraid that he would not know how long he would be depressed.

They marched all the way, and after leaving Heicheng, most of the surrounding mountains and forests were around. It's afternoon and the sun is just right. Layers of peaks, covered with thick grass, vigorous and green pine trees stand tall into the clouds, the mountain wind blows, the sound of pine waves bursts, this sound beats on the heart, makes people feel comfortable and happy.

The chrysanthemums in the grass on the side are in full bloom, adding a touch of color to the thick verdant color. Mountain chrysanthemums, the protagonists of the autumn mountain forest, yellow, pink, orange, the morning sun exudes fragrance, competing for beauty.

All tourists will not stop for the beauty of the obsession, Xie Yutang and his party are no exception. Seeing such a magnificent autumn scene, they were unconsciously stupid, for a child like Chi Wan who grew up in the city in modern times, he went to the capital not long after crossing over, and he rarely had the opportunity to see such a magnificent scenery.

But now is not the time to sigh at the beautiful scenery, they still have important things to do, and if they don't catch the poisoner, they won't be at ease even if they enjoy the beautiful scenery.

"When I'm done with everything, I'm going to take you here, it's just the two of us, how about it?"

Xie Yutang said carefully, for fear that the officers and soldiers behind him would hear the noise and shout and want to follow, he and his subordinates have always had a good relationship, and they share blessings and hardships, but at this moment, he didn't want them to ruin the rare time between himself and Chi Wan in the future.

Chi Wan nodded lowly, although she didn't say anything, but she acquiesced to this matter, not to mention how happy Xie Yutang was in his heart.

They walked all the way up, and finally reached their destination after an hour, and the waterfall was rushing down, and the rumbling sound was endless, which was very spectacular.

Chi Wan dismounted and approached the river, the water was rushing and slamming against the stones to make waves. She crouched by the river, a little further as if she could fall, and she reached out and touched the haystack beside her, on which there was still a white powder like frost.

She sniffed the powder close to the tip of her nose, rubbed it with her fingertips, and said, "It's this powder, but it doesn't look fresh anymore, and I think he's going to come again soon." ”

"The timing is just right," Xie Yutang looked around, the nearby dense forest was just enough to cover for them, so he planted his camp in the dense forest, and then arranged for the guards to go there at regular intervals to squat there, and report as soon as there was a strange person.

Night gradually fell, and the cold moonlight hit the grass like a thin layer of frost. At night, the air in the forest is always wet and cold, and even if you warm yourself around a campfire, you can't help but shiver a little.

Xie Yutang took off his coat intimately, put it on Chi Wan, and sat next to her, taking her hand and putting it in his palm to keep warm.

The two looked at each other silently, but there was a kind of warmth in their hearts, listening to the crackling sound of burning wood, smelling the fragrance of grass, and listening to the crickets, which only made people feel comfortable.

"General Xie, people are here!" One sentence made everyone vigilant, Xie Yutang tiptoed to the guard in charge of reconnaissance, and sure enough, he saw a person sneakily squatting by the river.

This is a mountain forest, and ordinary people don't go up the mountain in the middle of the night, so this person estimates that it must be the person who poisoned him.

Xie Yutang moved to the side and looked at it from a different angle, but the night was very heavy, and he still couldn't see what he was doing. Time waits for no one, and we must seize the opportunity that has been hard to come by.

Xie Yutang didn't care about 3721, and as soon as he gave an order, more than a dozen guards who had been ambushed rushed up and began to arrest that person.

The man saw that guards were coming from all directions and cut off his way, so he simply fought with them, but if it was one or two, it was fine, but there were more than a dozen guards, and Xie Yutang, a victorious general, was here, and he was quickly defeated.

Several guards took control of his hands and feet, and led him to the place where they were stationed, and saw his face by the light of the fire, and the eyes of the thief were swollen from the punch he had just received, and some of the surroundings were blue.

However, this is a fresh face, no one can recognize who he is, Xie Yutang asked unceremoniously and directly: "Say, why did you poison the water, who instructed you to do this!" ”

"I didn't poison the water." The man was still stiff-mouthed when he died, Xie Yutang didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked the guards to go up and search him, and this search really found a packet of medicinal powder, and handed it to Chi Wan to identify that the consequences were exactly the same as the poison in Naping City.

Xie Yutang shook the packet of medicinal powder and said, "It's all come to this point, you still don't want to say it?" ”

"Don't say it." This person is also loyal enough, but after all, he is a person who has killed hundreds or even thousands of lives, and Xie Yutang will not let him go easily.

"Do it," he motioned to the guards beside him, "until he is willing to tell him who is behind his back." ”

"Yes." Several guards did not take this kind of cold-blooded person lightly, rolled up their sleeves and turned them on the face a few times, and some kicked them with their feet, although the person was caught, he was beaten down in a daze, and the whole person's body could not help but spasm.

After a few beatings, Xie Yutang thought that he should have tasted the bitterness, and said, "Tell me quickly, who is it!" ”

A trace of blood flowed from the corner of the man's mouth, two obvious blood marks on his nostrils, and one eye was completely purple and swollen to the point that he couldn't open it. But even so, he hesitantly said, "No...... Don't say. ”

Xie Yutang clenched his fists, held back the impatience in his heart, and motioned to the guards: "Keep fighting for me!" ”

Crackling, fists raining down on the man, his wails startling the birds that roost in the woods. Chi Wan said: "If you don't say it like this, it will only be you who will suffer, you still hurry up and tell who the person who instructed you is, and we may be able to let you live." ”

Maybe it was the desire to live that shook the man's heart, but who wouldn't want to live? The pain burned his body like a flame, and he only felt as if the internal organs in his body were twisted together, and the pain was terrible.

Finally, he was overwhelmed by the pain, and he cried out weakly, "I say, I say!" ”

Xie Yutang said, "Stop. Then he went to the man and said, "Who is it?" ”

"Yes......" He gasped for air, but he only felt that his breath could not go down his throat, and the tormenting pain suffocated him.

"Yes...... ......He only felt that his spirit was also in a mess, his head was buzzing, his consciousness was gradually dissipating, he was so tired, he needed to close his eyes and rest for a while.

"Who is it?" Because his voice was too soft, Xie Yutang had to squat down to listen, but the man was not speaking, only to see him slowly roll his eyes, and his chest no longer had any ups and downs, and he died.

He's dead? Xie Yutang's fist smashed directly on the ground and shouted: "Damn! ”

Several guards saw that it seemed that they would let that person die because they were too heavy, so they hurriedly knelt down and confessed their mistakes: "The general spared his life, blame us for being too heavy......

"Forget it, I can't blame you for this." Xie Yutang waved his hand, and he paced back and forth beside the man's body irritably, recalling the last words he said in front of him.

Too? Since you can say the word too, maybe this person's surname is too? There are many people with the surname Tai, but who are they? Or maybe the person has a title that is too beginning, or is it ......

There are too many conjectures, but the identity of the other party cannot be determined at all according to a single word, but the most important person has already choked his breath, and all the clues have been broken.