After the embedding day, the bamboo building that burned down the house in the city has been quite large-scale, the bamboo building is located in the city neatly and orderly, the reeds have been cut down and dried and spread in the bamboo building, not only moisture-proof but also can lie on it to sleep, some people have moved in 6 times, and other bamboo buildings are still in full swing to build, looking at it, the whole town is almost invisible to the trauma of Zhan Zhuo.

It's only been half a month since he entered the city, and Du Wenhao's whole person feels like he's lost a lot of weight, and he hasn't closed his eyes for three days. It was probably a cloudy day for several days, with no rain and no sun. So it was just right for him to rush to work, he was reluctant to spend this time sleeping, and he took the officials to run around to deal with various problems in the lending of "Huimin Rice Bank", as well as the epidemic prevention work in the city and the construction of bamboo buildings.

The shareholders of Huimin Rice Bank are all veterans, and they are familiar with lending, so Du Wenhao does not bother with this aspect, and after Hou Zhong's accounting is clear, and the management is also in place, Du Wenhao is more worry-free.

Since this was the time when the harvest was scarce, after learning that it was possible to receive it, there was an endless stream of people who took the title deed to borrow grain, and some of them took the house deed or asked the guarantor of the house to guarantee it. Borrowing money to start a new business. In just a few days, half of the grain and silver money in their warehouse had been loaned out, and all the shareholders were very angry, saying that if they continued like this, they were afraid that they would have to expand their business. Doubling the share capital is sufficient.

Du Wenhao handed over the daily affairs to Hou Zhong to take care of, and he was mainly responsible for the reconstruction of buildings in the city.

Some local squires and wealthy businessmen also have money to contribute, and everyone in the entire Yazhou city is full of energy, and there is a fiery atmosphere, which makes Du Wenhao even more energetic and wants to do more.

At noon that day, the sun was shining, Du Wenhao was tired all morning, sitting under a tree a little sleepy, and he didn't want to eat, so he drank some rice soup, so he leaned under the tree and wanted to rest, but he fell asleep.

In a trance, Du Wenhao seemed to have walked into a garden. Strange flowers and plants in the courtyard, pavilions and pavilions, birds singing and flowers, there is a melodious sound of the piano not far away, Du Wenhao feels as light as a swallow. Footsteps briskly walked towards the sound of the piano.

I saw a gazebo, and a light yarn was lifted by the breeze. A woman in a gorgeous dress is concentrating on the harp. didn't notice Du Wenhao's appearance at all, Du Wenhao couldn't see her eyebrows clearly, like a veil separating her.

Suddenly, a voice came: "My lord, I think I'm hungry, the slave family has prepared the wine and is waiting for the adults to drink together." ”

I saw some beautiful women out of nowhere, all of them were as beautiful as flowers, smiling lightly and passing in front of Du Wenhao with a plate of delicacies from the mountains and seas, Du Wenhao secretly swallowed his saliva, and followed those women towards the pavilion with his feet without stopping.

"Wake up, sir. Wake up! ”

Du Wenhao heard the abandoned man shouting to himself, and opened his eyes to look. I saw that a sweaty face was almost close to him, and Du Wenhao pushed the other party away with a palm. If you look closely, it turns out to be a monkey.

Du Wenhao scolded in his stomach, you stinky boy came at a bad time, you disturbed my dream, neither let me see the beauty clearly, nor let me have a good meal in my dream. He yawned, rubbed his eyes, and said, "What's the matter, haven't I slept for a long time?" ”

The monkey approached and whispered in Du Wenhao's ear: "Master, I have a good place to take you to see it." ”

Du Wenhao stood up and saw that everyone had started working again, and he didn't know how long he had been asleep. Seeing the mysterious look on the monkey's face, he said, "Why don't you take your lady and them up the mountain to collect food, what are you doing here?" ”

The monkey said, "It's Madame who asked me to call you, let's go." We'll go now, and you'll be glad to see you. ”

Du Wenhao was not interested, and said: "You let Miaoshou go with you, I will go to the state government later." There's a lot of work to be done there. ”

Seeing that Du Wenhao was not going, the monkey was anxious, and said: "It's really a good place, I found a horse, and you won't be able to delay much time on horseback." ”

Du Wenhao looked at it, and sure enough, there was a horse tied not far away, and said, "Okay, then I'll go with you to have a look, so what should you do?" ”

The monkey smiled slyly and said, "I'm no slower than you run." ”

Du Wenhao didn't believe it, and the monkey said: "My lord, get on the horse, I still have to lead the way, even if you run in front, you don't know the place, so don't worry." ”

Du Wenhao thought about it, so he followed the monkey to the horse. The monkey helped Du Wenhao onto the horse, Du Wenhao said to Li Pu, and then went all the way east with the monkey.

Out of town. Du Wenhao really understood the monkey's foot strength, almost the same degree as his own mount along the way, and there was no intention of slowing down, about five kilometers away, the monkey stopped the horse, and then said to Du Wenhao: "My lord, it's here." ”

Du Wenhao dismounted and saw that there was nothing here. It's just a wilderness, so he jokingly said: "You shouldn't be some undercover agent of bandits and bandits, sent to arrest me, right?" ”

The monkey was puzzled and found a place to hide the horse. He asked blankly, "What is an undercover agent?" ”

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "It's just pretending to be a good person, but it's actually a bad person." Then hide in the pile of good people and do some bad things. ”

The monkey was upset, pouted, and muttered, "I'm not a bad person." ”

"Alright. Kidding with you, is this the place you are talking about? ”

The monkey hurriedly pointed to a mountain behind him and said, "It's in the mountain, but the horses can't get in," said the eldest lady. There should be any traps or paths in this mountain, but we haven't found them yet. ”

Du Wenhao followed the monkey into the mountain and did not walk for a while. Probably because Du Wenhao didn't rest for a few days and didn't eat well, he was now a little lightheaded and panting.

After walking for another half hour, the monkey stopped.

Du Wenhao raised his eyes and saw that it was now a flat land, as if it had been deliberately mined out, and not far away was a dense jungle that could not be seen at a glance.

Du Wenhao: "Arrived?" ”

The monkey nodded and pointed to Du Wenhao's side, Du Wenhao turned around and looked, and was dumbfounded, only to see that there was a stone bridge not far away, and there was a very husband's house in the past on the stone bridge.

Du Wenhao stood up, and the monkey said, "My lord, let's go, Mrs. They are waiting for us inside." ”

Du Wenhao walked by the bridge and now there is a very wide river below, the river is turbulent, and a stone tablet is erected at the stone bridge, which reads: "Kejia River"

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "Who is so arrogant, even the river is his own." ”

The length of the bridge is about ten zhang.

The stone bridge is very strong, and the consumables are very good..."Almost all of them are made of whole marble, and the carved patterns of the bridge are also ten, and it seems that this bridge and this house should be inseparable.

After crossing the bridge, the monkey rushed to the door of the house, the door was hidden, the monkey pushed the door open, Du Wenhao looked up at the door, at least three of himself were so tall, it looked very magnificent.

Entering the door, Du Wenhao was shocked by what he saw again, not so much a manor at this time, but a bunker, directly opposite is an ancient castle built on the mountain, and it is a door, this door is completely an iron door. There was a pool in front of the door, and there was nothing in it, just a pool of clear water.

Du Wenhao walked to the iron door, which was slightly lower than the front door, and he tried to push it without moving. The monkey said, "We couldn't get in before, but the fourth lady climbed over the wall and opened the door. As he spoke, he pointed to a very high fence on the side, and ordinary people would not want to enter it. Of course, for Lin Qingdai, it was naturally a piece of cake.

As he was talking, a small window on the door opened, and a woman looked at it and hurriedly said, "The old man is here, I will call someone to open the door immediately." ”

Du Wenhao: "You just go into someone else's house?" ”

Monkey: "Well, there is no one living in the house. ”

Du Wenhao was puzzled, the door suddenly opened, the sound was very loud, and it made people panic.

Lin Qingdai walked out, with a rare bright smile, walked up to Du Wenhao, and said: "This door is very interesting, the people outside the door can't hear the people inside, but the people inside can hear the voices outside the door in the house, Wen Hao hurry in." ”

Du Wenhao walked into the door, only to see that there was indeed another cave inside, although it could not be compared with the bedroom of those ladies in the Beijing Imperial Palace, but it could also be called grand and gorgeous, there were beautifully carved pane corridors everywhere, just looking at some decaying weather, although the flowers and plants in the courtyard were growing well, but they were a little messy, as if no one had taken care of and pruned for a long time, and spider nets and dust could be seen everywhere on the eaves.

"How do you know there's no one in this house?" Du Wenhao said to Lin Qingdai.

"We didn't know before, walked to the gate. Qin'er is now rusty with the door buckle, generally such a large family should not appear in this situation, and there are no footprints all the way from the bridge to the door, there are often rainy days recently, and there should be at least mud on the stone slab at the door. ”

Du Wenhao looked around and said, "Maybe it's to visit relatives, your curiosity is going to kill people, let's leave quickly." I thought it was a good place. ”

Lin Qingdai hurriedly said: "Wen Hao, don't be angry, you listen to me tell you slowly, we thought the same way before, but then we found a few graves at the back of this house, which looked like new graves, and the things in the house have not been moved, and a letter appeared in a study." ”

Du Wenhao was helpless and said: "You are really bold, other people's houses, what are you doing so clearly?" ”

Monkey: "The main thing is that we have a lot of hoarded food in this house. ”

As soon as he talked about food, Du Wenhao's eyes immediately lit up, and now what everyone lacks is food, so he said, "How much?" ”

Lin Qingdai said proudly: "It's so much that you can't think of it!" ”

Du Wenhao smiled: "Won't it? ”

Lin Qingdai tugged at Du Wenhao's sleeve and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see them one by one, and you'll know that I didn't lie to you." ”

Du Wenhao thought about it, but still felt that it was inappropriate, so he said: "Forget it, let's send someone to check the situation of this family first." This city has just been sacked by the Fan Army, we can't be the second Fan Army, let's go, no one can touch anything here until we find out. ”

Lin Qingdai saw that Du Wenhao was not like joking with herself, so she had to let everyone come out, Du Wenhao did not continue to walk forward, turned around and took the monkey out of the gate.

"Don't be angry, my lord, we won't dare to do it again." Seeing Du Wenhao's gloomy face, the monkey said timidly.

"Breaking into a private house is not what we should do, and I went in today, so everyone is at fault, right, monkey, you should be familiar with Yazhou, you go and check the situation of this family."

"Yes, sir."

"This matter must be kept secret, and the people who came with it should also advise it."

"Today, many people followed Uncle Li and them to the field, and there is no place to put a lot of wild vegetables and fruits collected in the yard, so it's just me and the four ladies, I won't talk nonsense."

"That's good. Let's go. Let's go back. ”

After dark, everyone also returned to the state capital.

Du Wenhao asked Pang Yuqin and the four of them to follow him to the bedroom and closed the door, Pang Yuqin and the others knew that they had done something wrong, and they didn't dare to sit. The four of them stood in front of Du Wenhao and waited for the words.

Du Wenhao said: "You should not trespass into people's houses, don't mention a word to outsiders about this matter." Don't mention it to Master Su for the time being. ”

"Wen Hao, don't blame the three of them, it's my idea." Lin Qingdai said ashamedly.

"Even if it's your idea, someone sensible should come out and stop it." Du Wenhao scolded harshly.

"We know it's wrong." Pang Yuqin whispered, and didn't dare to look up at Du Wenhao's face.

Du Wenhao sighed and waved his hand: "Okay, you guys have been tossing for a day, and you're tired, go and rest." He said. Lying on a simple bamboo bed made of bamboo, I closed my eyes tiredly.

Xue Lei'er wanted to say something, but Pang Yuqin glanced at her and motioned her not to say anything. This night was Pang Yuqin's bedtime, and the three of them retreated and closed the door.

The little couple was lying on the bed, and Pang Yuqin was already asleep in Du Wenhao's arms. But he didn't feel sleepy. I kept thinking about it.

Ancient houses, deep mountains and old forests, new tombs, Kejia River, and tun grain, although Du Wenhao closed his eyes, he kept thinking about these problems in his mind, rich people should build their houses in densely populated places. Such a huge project, how long does it take to complete the repair, what kind of people live in this mansion, why did they all die suddenly, could it be the Fan army, but it seems that it is not, if it is their current mansion, it should not be so well preserved, at least a lot of valuable things in it have been looted, there must be someone in this mansion. Otherwise, no one would have buried these dead people, so where is that person now, is he still in that house? There should be a possibility. Thinking about it, Du Wenhao fell asleep unconsciously.

As soon as it was dawn, Du Wenhao sat up from the bed and sat up, Pang Yuqin had already gotten up and was grooming.

Looking back at him, he smiled and said, "Xianggong, don't you sleep for a while?" ”

"No, it's late, there's still a lot of work to do

Du Wenhao got up and hurriedly put on his robe and went out and came to the construction site. Now there are few people under construction, I feel strange, I saw Li Pu not far away, walked over and said: "When is it, why hasn't anyone come out to work?" ”

Li Pu bowed and said: "Yesterday, more than a dozen craftsmen suddenly fell ill, and I have already found Lang Zhong to see, thinking that he was too tired to support it, so I privately ordered everyone to rest for half a day today, and then work cooler in the afternoon." ”

"Sick? Then why didn't you call me? Du Wenhao said.

"Adults are already tired. It is estimated that it is just a small problem such as a cold, and it is enough to have Langzhong.

At this time, I saw Su Shi's wife Wang running over in a hurry: "Imperial Doctor Du, I'm looking for it."

"What's the matter, ma'am?"

"Just now I went to the river to wash my food, and I smelled a foul smell, so I searched for the smell and went upstream to find it. There are still some unburied corpses upstream, all of which have been soaked in water and rotted. ”

Du Wenhao was very surprised. Said: "Li Pu, didn't I ask you to send someone to transport the dead to the suburbs and incinerate them in a distance?" ”

Li Pu hesitated and said: "The end" The last general will go to ask clearly, I am indeed looking for someone. There may not be any of them. ”

Wang: "This is not a trivial matter, this river is the source of drinking water in the city, and those people don't seem to have been killed, could it be that they died of disease?" That's bad. ”

Du Wenhao's heart couldn't help but sink, Wang is also a well-informed, talented and very intelligent woman, what she said is right, one of the sources of typhoid fever infection is drinking water. If these people die of typhoid fever, and the people of the city drink the polluted water, I am afraid that the tuberculosis will soon explode in the city!

Du Wenhao thought of this. Suddenly remembered that Li Pu said that many people among the craftsmen were sick, and suddenly became even more nervous, and hurriedly took Li Pu and others to follow the Wang family to the upstream.

Wang exclaimed in surprise: "Huh! What about corpses? Obviously here, there are several

Du Wenhao walked to the place Wang said, squatted down, inhaled with his nose, did not smell the smell of the corpse, carefully inspected the pebbles by the river, and there were no traces of the corpse water being stained, nor did it have been washed. Stood up and asked, "Mrs. Su, you remember the place correctly, right?" ”

"You can't be wrong. There was also a crooked-neck tree, which I was horrifying at the time. I couldn't walk on my feet, so I leaned on it for a while before running back.

Du Wenhao and the others searched up the river for a while, but there was no corpse, and there was no other abnormality.

Li Pu breathed a sigh of relief, and said happily: "Mrs. Su, you must have been dazzled, treating rocks or falling wood as corpses, there are no corpses here, I'll just say, a few days ago, all the corpses around the state city were cleaned up, and I have been here by this river several times, so there should be no escape." ”

Mrs. Su looked around. Said to himself: "Probably not, I see it very real, and it stinks!" ”

Du Wenhao was relieved: "Madame is busy these days, she must be tired, forget it, since there is none, it is always a good thing." Let's go back. ”

When Du Wenhao said this, he was still a little apprehensive in his heart, and when he returned to the state city, he immediately went to the residence of those sick craftsmen to check.

The results of the examination made Du Wenhao very uneasy, some of these people were infected with typhoid fever, but there were not many people in the city who were sick with typhoid fever, and it was not certain that their illness was contracted by drinking river water. And. The typhoid virus from several corpses dissolved into the entire river, and after being diluted, I am afraid that it is not a big problem.

Despite this, Du Wenhao still couldn't calm down. Fortunately, in the days that followed, there was no large-scale outbreak of typhoid fever in the city, which made him feel a little relieved.

Han Xiu brought relief food from Chengdu, which happened to be helped, and the people's hearts in the city became more stable.

On this day, Su Shi's concubine Wang Chaoyun asked Pang Yuqin to go to the street to buy some things, and Du Wenhao and they had been in the city for more than a month. Many businesses have opened their doors to do business, and the old scene can be faintly seen in the bazaar.

Because Su Shi's two wives are surnamed Wang, and the two families have been very close since entering the city, Pang Yuqin and they all call the second lady Sister Yun.

Although the two women were both dressed simply, they had gorgeous appearances, and when they reached the market, they immediately caused quite a stir. Some of the residents who were good things even pointed and whispered after them, which made both of them a little embarrassed.

"Sister Yun, you see these people are so annoying, these people's eyes are more powerful than eagles." Pang Yuqin said with a shy face and a low head.

Wang Chaoyun was happy and generous, and said with a light smile: "Let them see it." In broad daylight, there is nothing but to see. Let's just think they're nothing, they don't exist, and then there's guards behind them, and we don't care about them. ”

The two walked to a needlework stall, and Pang Yuqin thought that many of the silk threads brought at home were not all colors. A lot of clothes need to be sewn, although there are many things that the maid can do, but she doesn't want to be idle, and when she sees some needs, it is better to prepare some first, so she bows and chooses them.

"My sister really can't tell that she is a woman from an official eunuch's family, she is careful in her work, and she is not delicate, just from this selection of silk threads, you can see that you are a good hand inside and out." Wang Chaoyun exclaimed.

Pang Yuqin quickly chose the silk thread, and said to Wang Chaoyun with a smile: "I didn't do these things at home in the past. These are all learned slowly after entering the Du family. As he spoke, he handed the silk thread to the vendor and took the money out of his purse.

"There are seven kinds of silk threads, three strands of various kinds, a total of twenty-one strands, this eldest sister, give seventy lines of money. The peddler counted the money neatly, and his eyes still looked at the faces of Pang Yuqin and Wang Chaozi from time to time.

Wang Chaoyun sank his face. Said sharply: "Why is it so expensive?" It's just some silk threads, and you want seventy lines? ”

Pang Yuqin rarely goes out to buy things, and on weekdays, she goes with Li'er and Xue Xiu'er, and today Wang Chaoyun made an appointment with herself to come out, hearing Wang Chaoyun say this, I still wonder in my heart, how did the second lady know this. It's expensive, but it's hard to speak, so I just stand and listen.

The peddler didn't know them, and when he saw that Wang Chaoyun was angry, he hurriedly explained: "This eldest sister doesn't know, in the past, it was true that these silk threads were about less than ten lines, but now we buy them from the silk thread merchant and ask for fifty lines." It's all caused by the army, if you don't believe it, you can ask, it's not that my stall sells you so expensive! ”

Wang Chaoyun looked around and saw that there was a silk thread stall not far away, so he said, "It's okay, it's so expensive, who can afford it." Let's see. As he spoke, he really pulled Pang Yuqin and walked towards the stall in front.