Shen Man'er put the brocade box containing the Night Pearl back on the shelf, and suddenly saw that there seemed to be something in the crack of the Bogu shelf.

"Butler, come and see what it is?"

When the housekeeper heard Shen Man'er's call, he came to the place where Shen Man'er pointed with his finger, and took out the contents of the box, which were seven or eight brocade boxes, all of which were empty, only red silk remained.

When the housekeeper saw this scene, he quickly got up and said to Shen Man'er.

"Miss Shen, this is the box we used to hold medicinal herbs before, I remember very clearly, this sandalwood box is specially used to preserve an eight-hundred-year-old ginseng plant. ”

Shen Man'er took a few boxes, put them in the palm of her hand and looked at them, there was basically nothing unusual, and finally took the sandalwood box and found that there was a scratch on the side of the lid.

The scratch is very new, it should have been just scratched, Shen Man'er tried it with her fingertips, it was very smooth, and the scratch should have been scratched with something very sharp.

"Butler, look in the storehouse to see if there is any trace left of this thief. ”

Everyone rummaged through the storeroom and found that there was nothing unusual except for a few boxes containing jade, which had been opened.

Shen Man'er stood in the treasury, looking at the treasure full of gold and silver, and buried herself in thought.

Xuanyuan Che walked up to her.

"Man'er, what did you find. ”

Shen Man'er shook her head.

"I didn't find anything special, I just thought this thief was very strange, why did he only steal medicinal herbs. ”

Xuanyuan Che looked at her, as if caught in a memory, and said for a long time.

"Man'er, you were young at the time, maybe you don't remember. Four years ago, when I was leaving, a similar case occurred in Beijing. ”

Shen Man'er looked curious, there was such a thing.

"The prisoner sneaked into the owner's house and only stole medicinal materials, and within a month, there were no less than 100 theft cases in the capital. The capital dispatched the most elite troops and searched for a month, but there was no clue. ”

"Did the culprit catch it in the end?" Shen Man'er asked curiously.

"Didn't catch it. ”

"Ah, then let him go, didn't you continue to track him down? Shen Man'er asked in surprise, with so many people dispatched, wouldn't it just let the prisoners get away with it?

"Actually, it's not that he didn't get caught, but when we found the culprit, he was already dead. ”

"Dead. Shen Man'er was even more surprised.

"Yes, dead, so you can't catch him at all. ”

"Then how did he die? I know, if he stole the medicine because he was seriously ill, and as a result, he took so much medicine and it didn't get better, so in the end he died. ”

"It's not. Xuanyuan Che said sadly, as if he remembered something sad.

"Isn't it?" Shen Man'er wondered in her heart, stealing medicine was not because he was seriously ill, so how could he die, did he feel that he was extremely guilty and committed suicide by wiping his neck, it was too funny.

"He committed suicide. ”

As soon as Shen Man'er thought of this, she heard Xuanyuan Che say that the prisoner really committed suicide, and she grew her mouth in surprise, so she didn't really let herself guess it.

"Actually, that's a poor man, too. Xuanyuan Che said this, and sighed heavily.

"Hmm. Shen Man'er didn't know what happened at that time, but looking at Xuanyuan Che's appearance, it should be a very sad story.

"The prisoner was a woodcutter in the mountains, and he was good at hunting in the mountains since he was a child, and the reason why he took the risk to steal medicine was because his family was seriously ill. ”

"Even if his family is seriously ill, he can't steal it. When Shen Man'er heard this, she said disapprovingly.

"It's not just his family that's getting sick, it's the whole village. When Shen Man'er heard this, she was surprised again, but this time she chose to let Xuanyuan Che continue.

"At that time, because he went to the mountains to hunt, he was not infected, and when he returned home, his mother was no longer alive, and he reluctantly sent his mother to the mountains, but he could not save his relatives from getting sicker.

It was only when people began to die in the village that he became afraid, and even the doctor who had treated them before stopped going.

Later, he reported the incident to the county government at the time, and after the county government checked it, he decided that they had the plague and quarantined their entire village, and no one was allowed to treat them.

The man called the heavens and the earth to be ineffective, and then he was forced to be unable to do so, so he jumped off the cliff in the back mountain and ran to the pharmacy in the capital to steal the medicine, no matter what the medicine, as long as it was medicine, he would steal it.

Later, more and more pharmacies were stolen, and there were people guarding them, and he had no choice but to commit crimes, as long as he felt that someone had medicine, he would go. In this way, in a month, he stole more than a hundred times.

But his actions did not bring him the mercy of God, and more than a month later, even the last person in the village died.

He buried them all in the cemetery behind the mountain and set up tablets for them. ”

When Shen Man'er heard this, her tears flowed uncontrollably.

It may be shameful for this person to steal medicine, but why didn't anyone help him at that time, even if you told him that you were not abandoned.

"Then why didn't he get sick, even if he went up the mountain at that time and missed it, but then he stayed with the patient for a month, and it was impossible for him to be safe.

Maybe the disease isn't contagious or it's not that bad at all, why are all the people dying? ”

Xuanyuan Che heard this and fell into deep self-blame.

"This is also what we are curious about, but when we found him, he had already buried himself alive, and we have no way of knowing what he has been through this month. ”

Shen Man'er became very silent after hearing this, she didn't expect that the stolen medicinal materials would lead to such a sad story.

"Then the officials at that time, why didn't they save them, did they just watch everyone die like this? Shen Man'er clenched her hand angrily, since ancient times, people have been like ants, but even if it is an ant, he is alive.

"The officials at that time were not wrong, when he went to check, all the people were hopeless, and it was the best thing to do except give them up and let them wait for death, and he did not order the slaughter of everyone at that time. ”

"Is it really hopeless?" Shen Man'er said regretfully.

"Yes. Xuanyuan Che let out another heavy breath.

"Then what kind of disease did these people have, did you go to check later, and is there a doctor, is there anything wrong with him?"

"We didn't find out, but when we found the doctor, he felt that he had been practicing medicine for so many years, but he had already hanged himself after watching so many people die. ”

"No way. Shen Man'er shouted.