Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Prophecy
Mu Zichu stopped outside the tent, he turned around and teased: "General Long Xiao has arrived outside the tent, do you want to go in and sit?" ”
The national teacher studied the piece of carrion inside, Long Baiyu has always avoided him like a tiger, and he can't hide from him, how can he be stupid enough to throw himself into the net, so Long Baiyu patted Mu Zichu's shoulder, his eyes were far-reaching, and he said seriously: "No, I still have some things, you can go in quickly, and I always have a bad premonition recently, maybe I should urge those generals who are responsible for digging through the secret passages." ”
Mu Zichu waved his hand: "Go, after all, it's a big thing, if it can really succeed this time, it can save a lot of trouble." ”
He whispered a few times, Long Baiyu didn't hear it clearly, so he turned around and asked again, Mu Zichu thought he was annoying, so he didn't say anything, and raised his hand to open the tent curtain and get in.
Long Baiyu knew that he didn't want to answer his own question, so he could only silently purse his mouth and leave.
"Hey, how did I hear Xiao Baiyu's voice outside just now? Tell him to come in where he is! ”
Although the National Teacher's tone was very excited, his body did not take his eyes off what was in front of him at all.
For Long Baiyu, the National Teacher seems to have a great interest, and when the two meet, it is always as noisy as a large downtown area.
Mu Zichu pretended not to know anything and shook his head: "How can he have time to come here, I'm afraid you've been busy for a long time, and your ears are listening to the wrong sound." ”
The Master looked up at him, stared at his face, and then continued: "Perhaps, Zichu, you come and see what I have done, before that, I really can't believe that the carrion that can only be born on animals that have died with life characteristics will be wrapped around the body of a living person like maggots to the bone, but I crushed the carrion and fed it to the mouse, you see, this rat's condition only lasted less than two baths." ”
The National Teacher came out with a solemn face and a wooden cage, and he beckoned to Mu Zichu who was standing at the door, calling him to see the results of his time.
Mu Zichu listened to the words and looked over, making his eyes widen involuntarily, and he couldn't help but show a frightened look.
And the state of the rat in the wooden cage is really miserable, it is estimated that the national teacher is well fed, this little guy looks like a man's palm, but most of the gray hair on its palm-sized body has fallen off, and where there is no gray hair, without exception, it is like rotting corpses that have been dead for seven or eight months.
When the mouse saw someone approaching, it still subconsciously shook its little body, looking very frightened, but it only made a very faint chirping sound, and its body did not even move.
Mu Zichu narrowed his eyes and covered his eyes to think deeply, he is not a fool, since the National Teacher dared to put this mouse in front of him, this must mean that he has made some major discoveries, Mu Zichu tried all possibilities, took out one of the closest possibilities and said: "The National Teacher wants to say that you suspect that the plague is on leave, and someone has drugged the diet of the soldiers?" ”
"Naturally, I thought of something to show you these things."
The Master said in a deep voice, and he took aside the wooden cage containing the half-dead mouse, and then took out many worn-out books and put them on the table.
"If you look at the pages of these books, do you think that some of them are very similar to this epidemic?" The National Teacher pointed to the large stack of books on the table, looking mysterious.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the national teacher would still have to sell a lawsuit, Mu Zichu tried to read a few books in disbelief, who knew that there were indeed some places in the books that could make people marvel.
"These, these are indeed very similar to the situation of epidemics in the army, but these books are not talking about the treatment of people infected with the plague, this, how can these things be confused with medical skills?"
Mu Zichu couldn't help but scream, he threw the book at the National Teacher in disbelief, the book hit the arms of the National Teacher, the National Teacher raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips to close the page, and the bibliography was actually written for the Animal Hundred Stories.
It was a book that collected all kinds of symptoms of chickens, dogs, cows, sheep and pigs, no wonder Mu Zichu shouted regardless of his image, no one could imagine that the incurable diseases that made several doctors in the army rack their brains were actually found in these cattle anecdotes written by the National Teacher, saying that the people were still waiting for the National Teacher to be a vain charlatan who was bluffing here.
"Hey, don't believe it, maybe it's really here."
The National Teacher shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and looked at Mu Zichu innocently with a pair of eyes: "Actually, I have also studied the plague for a long time, but none of these medical books I brought recorded cases of carrion on the body of a living person, so I can't go through the crooked ways?" In fact, there is really no way, it can be regarded as a blind cat hitting a dead mouse, who made me lucky, and then I thought of whether the carrion taken from the living person before using a mouse to experiment can make it sick, no, no, no, no, it's this poison! ”
Mu Zichu still couldn't believe it: "Are you so sure? ”
The national teacher touched his chin, and after a long sigh, his eyes kept looking at the top of the tent, but he didn't look at Mu Zichu, as if he was teasing him: "Guess!"
"Boring!"
However, the result is the best, although the National Teacher does not seem to be particularly reliable, but Mu Zichu's trust must still be given enough, and in the past few days when he accompanied the National Teacher to find the cause of the disease, Mu Zichu has also been worried, and at this time, there is finally a result, and Mu Zichu can not hide his joy.
"If someone deliberately sent plague-infected animals to the barracks, then he may not be too scheming, but I don't understand one thing, there are not many people who are infected with the disease now, but Er'er, so it is impossible that only the infected soldiers can eat the rotten and infected food, right?"
This is an important message, if there is really a problem with food, then there should be a large number of sick people in the barracks, but the current situation is that only a few people will get sick, and it is obviously impossible.
So is he thinking in the wrong direction? After thinking of these questions, Mu Zichu wanted to ask for answers from the National Teacher.
"Naturally not, I mean, these individual soldiers are in a state of infection as if they were infected with the disease, and it is very likely that they are infected with poison rather than actually suffering from the disease."
Mu Zichu didn't understand very well when he heard this, so he had to shake his head.
The Master of the National Teacher continued: "Do you think it is possible that someone would fuse an animal that had died and rotted after suffering from the epidemic with a special medicine, and then feed it to someone, so that the person would appear in the same situation as the epidemic, and then turn it into a panic and take the opportunity to achieve their goal!" ”
After listening to the explanation of the National Teacher, Mu Zichu immediately reacted to what he said, and couldn't help but feel a chill on his back for a moment, but he was already drenched in cold sweat and stained his back.
"If this is really the case, it must be those insidious villains in the Jurchen Kingdom who are doing it, their purpose is to cause panic in the barracks, so that the morale of the soldiers in the barracks is low, and they have no intention of fighting, in that kind of situation where everyone is in danger, deserters and traitors are most likely to appear, but when they don't need to attack violently, the defense of Yancheng will be self-defeating, and they can take this important border defense place without much effort!"
This scheming is really terrible, if it can't be broken, or if the national teacher fails to arrive in Yancheng in time, the army will be chaotic sooner or later.
"The first soldier may not be the most unlucky, but like a poisonous seed, always reminding Long Baiyu that more and more people in the army will end up like this, if Long Baiyu is a greedy and afraid of death, he may have abandoned his armor and fled, but fortunately, this stupid boy did not go home stupidly, and he knew to send Wei Jing back to find us."
There was a sense of happiness in the tone of the National Teacher, he was not showing off that he could solve these incurable diseases, but he was thanking Long Baiyu for thinking of himself and allowing him to exert his strength in a familiar field to defend this troubled country!
"But Master Guoshi, do you have a cure for these poisons?"
As soon as this question came out, the awe-inspiring feeling that surrounded the whole body of the National Teacher suddenly receded.
"Can't you just not ask these unpleasant words? How glad I can figure out that this is poison and not disease, and how can you be so picky at eggs? Do you have to give a kick in the door when I'm happy? ”
Mu Zichu smiled slightly, and his peach blossom eyes rose upward: "I'm just telling the truth, I didn't expect this to disturb the interest of our national teachers." He had no choice but to spread his hands.
"You, you, shut up for me, don't speak!"
"Oh, that's not going to work! I also want to ask Long Baiyu if there is any solution, those poisonous soldiers can't die without help! Aren't you afraid that Long Baiyu will say that you are ruthless and unrighteous behind your back? ”
"What can I do! can only isolate them, and they have to be left to fend for themselves, if they survive, it will be good, but if they can't survive, I don't have an antidote! By the way, why can't Xiao Baiyu ask me about these things in person, and drag you to ask, what about others? ”
The National Teacher asked dissatisfiedly.
"Are you sure Long Baiyu still wants to see you?"
Mu Zichu said with a smile.
When the national teacher heard him say this, he was not interested in self-knowledge, and as soon as his words changed, the topic changed elsewhere.
"Speaking of which, I think the problem may not be in the food, you will tell Long Baiyu that you must pay more attention to the water source problem, which is something that the soldiers cannot lack every day, so pay attention to whether the soldiers who are infected with poison are all from a camp tent, or are very close to a few, I promise that as long as you pay more attention to these, although you can't solve the soldiers who have been poisoned, you can eliminate the poisoned soldiers from the root!"
"Okay! Be sure to bring it, I'm sure he'll be happy! ”
Mu Zichu showed a smile, this national teacher had indeed solved a major problem in Long Baiyu's heart!
"But the low morale in the barracks is still a hidden danger, they will collapse in such an atmosphere one day, has Xiao Baiyu thought about how to solve it?"
After he mentioned such a question, Mu Zichu's face froze, and he suddenly thought of the scene he heard when he met Long Baiyu before, his palm hanging on the outside of his thigh suddenly clenched into a fist, gritted his teeth and said: "You don't have to doubt this, I believe that it won't be long before the morale of the army will improve." ”
The national teacher smiled wryly: "Which bad kid has offended you, look at it, look at it, it's going to rain on your little face, tell me why." ”
Mu Zichu didn't understand what the national teacher asked him to say, but they were all involved, but they all said it all in one go.
"Naturally, it's Shen Kun's bastard! He actually dared to sell a book with my portrait outside, and it was a matter of two men, who else would be so skinless and faceless in this kind of thing except that person! It's so excessive! ”
The national teacher was confused and didn't understand, and was still in a state of fog: "What do you say, how can it have anything to do with Shen Kun and low morale?" ”
Mu Zichu gritted his teeth and said: "Shen Kun asked people to write a notebook, which was bought by the soldiers in the barracks, and Long Baiyu also said that he was afraid that I would be in danger, and he would transfer Wei Jing to me later, so that I would not be taken captive by those soldiers outside who were carried away!" ”
This kind of thing Mu Zichu has no taboo in front of the national teacher, so he would say such a thing, after all, he is a man, and if others covet it as if they were looking at women, how could he be happy, and it was too late to be angry.
The National Teacher frowned and pressed the angry Mu Zichu: "This matter is definitely impossible for Shen Kun's kid to do, I'm afraid you think too much." ”
"What are you talking about? How is it possible, how many people in this thousands of worlds do you think will have the same dragon yang fetish as Shen Kun? National Teacher, why do you always protect him like this? ”
Mu Zichu snapped away the palm of the national teacher on his shoulder, and prepared to go out to dissipate his anger, others were categorically not allowed to mention Shen Kun's name in front of him, which would easily arouse Mu Zichu's anger.
"Shen Kun is really good to you, I have lived for so many years, you people's thoughts can be seen at a glance, don't be angry, how could he be willing to let you do such filthy things as writing books, not to mention the portrait of you! How could he bear it! ”
The National Teacher shouted solemnly in Mu Zichu, and the sorrow in his eyes lingered.
However, Mu Zichu's mind was completely complaining about Shen Kun at this time, and the words of the National Teacher were subconsciously thought by Mu Zichu to be Shen Kun's justification, and he was even more annoyed, but he still stopped and said: "I won't dispel the rumors about me in the army these days, until Long Baiyu completes his plan and makes the morale of the army no longer so sluggish, I will defend again, in fact, aren't these things just right?" Just solved a big problem! ”
Mu Zichu said sarcastically, but this is indeed a good way, even if he is very disgusted with Shen Kun, he still has to thank him.
The national teacher behind him opened his mouth, but found that he really had nothing to say, if he didn't know how to talk about Shen Kun again, he was afraid that he would be resented by Mu Zichu, the national teacher looked at the person who walked out of the tent quickly, and could only sigh weakly.