In the main hall of the mansion, Shen Qiu and Sima Zheng were waiting anxiously

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and Li Zhilian and Su Yun appeared at the door with more than a dozen ginseng pickers

Shen Qiu and Sima were overjoyed at first, and when they landed, their faces were like ashes, and Li Zhilian carefully observed his expression: "Brother Shen Qiu, what's wrong with you?" ”

Shen Qiu walked quickly, bowed down and said, "Miss Zhilian~ Didn't the adults tell you to have a good rest?" Why did you run out again? ”

Li Zhilian looked at Sima's very anxious expression and asked, "What?" Is the teacher not there? ”

Shen Qiu said: "My lord went to the Blue Flag military camp and hasn't returned, and now there is an accident in Xilin City again!" We don't know what to do now! ”

Li Zhilian and Su Yun glanced at each other, and then asked, "What happened in Xilin City?" We just got back from outside, nothing out of the ordinary! ”

The muscles on Sima's face kept trembling, and Shen Qiu turned to Sima and said, "My lord~ It's better for you!" I'm going to arrange accommodation for them."

After Shen Qiu left with the ginseng pickers, Sima Cai said to Li Zhilian: "The guards who just patrolled came to report: there are a group of people in Xilin City who have hot bodies and a few serious blisters all over their bodies, and now there are no medicinal materials in the city, and there are no doctors, so Xia Guan really doesn't know what to do?" ”

Li Zhilian pondered for a while and said, "Did you send someone to inform the teacher?" ”

Sima nodded: "I went~ I haven't heard anything back yet."

Li Zhilian glanced at Su Yun, and then slowly paced back and forth: "Lord Sima~ Do you see if you can concentrate all the fever patients in the prefect's mansion or yamen, and send people to post notices to seek medical skills."

Sima hurriedly shook his head: "Miss Zhilian~ This matter is inappropriate!" This is ...... if it is an epidemic."

Li Zhilian was stunned for a moment and explained: "Don't worry, my lord, this should be a kind of poison, and it should be the same as the corpse in the cell in the morning."

Su Yun was stunned: "Are you talking about the one we went to see in the cell in the morning?" ”

Li Zhilian nodded: "I need to be sure before I can explain to you, if the teacher blames it, I can bear it alone."

Sima hurriedly said: "Xiaguan will do it now"

Su Yun smiled, poked Li Zhilian with his elbow and said, "I didn't expect you to be quite an official, worthy of being a descendant of the surname Li."

Li Zhipian glanced at him, walked out of the main hall and said, "You are so afraid of death, do you want to send you back to the Western Zhou Kingdom first!" ”

Su Yun glanced at Li Zhilian, with a complacent look: "I was sent to be a proton, no one came to pick it up, it was impossible to go back by myself"

At this time, a few dark clouds appeared in the originally cloudless clear sky, and the sky suddenly became overcast

"Miss Zhipiao~"

"Miss Zhilian~ You let me find it!" Zhang Hui shouted as he ran

Li Zhilian turned around and said, "General Zhang~ What are you looking for me?" ”

Zhang Hui replied: "Even the corpses that were brought back from the Xianghe Inn have been examined, except for the word "feather" tattooed on their elbows, there is nothing else."

"Feathers?" Li Zhilian frowned

Zhang Hui nodded: "Yes!" It's the feather word."

Why the feather character? Does this mean anything? Never mind! The matter at the moment is important: "General Zhang, now that there are a group of fever patients in the city, you can take people to the small villages and towns outside the city to see if there are any people with the same disease, and if so, bring them back."

Zhang Hui hesitated for a moment: "Does Lord Shen know about this?" ”

Li Zhilian shook his head: "The teacher went to the Blue Flag barracks, but he hasn't returned yet."

Zhang Hui nodded and said, "Yes~ I'll send someone there."

After Zhang Hui left, Li Zhilian rubbed his eyebrows, and suddenly became a little tired

Su Yun looked at Li Zhilian and asked with some distress, "Where are we going now?" ”

Li Zhilian replied as he walked: "Go to Uncle Lu to ask about the situation first, and then go to the Blue Flag Barracks to meet the teacher" suddenly stopped and turned around and said: "Su Yun~ Actually, you don't have to follow us on the adventure, you also know that this poisonous insect is uncontrollable, in case their next plan is really Xilin City, I may not be able to protect your ......"

Su Yun was suddenly stunned, opened his mouth, and finally didn't say anything, just followed behind Li Zhilian

A few minutes later, Li Zhilian and Su Yun came to the North Courtyard, and Shen Qiu was running out in a hurry

Li Zhilian stopped and said, "Brother Shen Qiu~ What's wrong?" ”

Shen Qiu scratched his head: "I'm too anxious, I made a mistake, I should arrange them to the south courtyard, this north courtyard is the residence of the guards, and there are no vacancies"

Li Zhilian nodded: "Are they still inside?" ”

Shen Qiu said: "Yes"

The layout of the south courtyard is different from that of the west courtyard, there is nothing in the courtyard, I saw Lu Dasan and the others squatting at the door of the room, and when they saw Li Zhilian coming in, they all stood up immediately, clasping their hands and looking a little uneasy

Li Zhilian stepped forward and said, "Uncle Lu, we have something we want to ask you."

Lu Dasan hurriedly said: "Girl, what do you want to ask, we must say what we know" Everyone behind also nodded

Li Zhilian swept around, and there was not even a stone table in the huge courtyard, so he had to sit on the railing of the corridor: "Are all the poisonous herbs you pick on weekdays designated by Shentang Valley for you to pick?" ”

Lu Dasan watched Li Zhilian sit down, and the whole person relaxed a lot: "Yes! They also sent people to teach us how to identify those herbs."

Li Zhilian nodded, feeling that something was wrong in her heart, could it really be that she guessed wrong: "Hasn't it changed all these years?" ”

Lu Dasan turned his head to look at the older old man, and the old man thought for a while before he said: "A few years ago, there was a kind of rotten flower on the task list, that is, a red flower that grew on the rotting corpse, that kind of flower is particularly easy to attract insects, we are reluctant to pick it, and then I heard that they found a village to raise this kind of flower, so they didn't let us find it."

Li Zhilian said softly "um~", and her brows furrowed even tighter, this was not the answer she wanted

"Ah~ I remember" The old man shouted, looking at Li Zhilian and continuing: "There is another kind of purple flower that I heard grows in the mud, but we haven't found it"

The other ginseng pickers also nodded their heads one after another and said: "Yes~ The person who taught us to identify herbs said that I still have a picture here."

Li Zhilian took a look, the small flowers in the shape of a bunch, the heart-shaped large leaves, and the fruits at the roots, it was indeed a purple lotus, and pulled Su Yun and said: "Go~ Go to the Blue Flag Barracks"

At the foot of the mountain outside Xilin City

A group of officers and soldiers roared and rushed forward, Li Jianqing sneered, stepped forward, and punched the officer in the face of the leader, the officer took a few steps back, blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Li Jianqing with a surprised face, and the soldiers behind him also stopped, they didn't expect that someone would really do it in the barracks

Suddenly the officer roared, turned over, and pounced, Li Jianqing flew up and kicked him in the chest, trampled him under his feet, stretched out his hand and pulled out his sword, the captain trembled and said: "You, you, you want to rebel!" ”

Li Jianqing sneered: "If you want to rebel, you will also rebel, didn't you just see the token in my hand?" The royal gift of the waist card, as the emperor himself came," he said, putting his sword against the officer's chest

"Stop~" walked out of the camp next to him, thinking that the big man was Zhou Congyi, followed by Shen Zhitang and Xia Huaixu

Li Jianqing snorted disdainfully, his right foot shook, the captain's body flew out like a paper kite, knocked down a fire platform with a "bang", and immediately ran to Shen Zhitang's side and asked, "Teacher~ Are you okay?" ”

Zhou Congyi walked up to the officer and said, "You are Li Jianqing?" Do you want to rebel in the barracks? ”

Li Jianqing casually threw the waist card to Zhou Congyi and said: "You see clearly, who wants to rebel?" ”

Zhou Congyi took the waist card, like an electric shock, walked quickly in front of Li Jianqing, knelt down on his knees and said: "I don't know if the adult is coming, I will talk wildly, and I hope the adult will forgive the sin."

Shen Zhitang sneered, took the waist card in Zhou Congyi's hand and said sarcastically: "This is also the waist card given by the emperor, why is this piece so easy to use?" ”

Zhou Congyi sweated like rain: "My lord~ This matter ......"

Shen Zhitang teased: "What? General Zhou still has to wait for the third royal waist card? ”

Zhou Congyi got up from the ground tremblingly: "Adult~Please inside~"

After everyone entered the camp, Zhou Congyi said slowly: "Five months ago, the soldiers caught a person pretending to be a ghost in the mountains, and the lower officials thought it was a spy of the Western Zhou Kingdom, and under the heavy punishment, he confessed that he was from an organization called Anti-Zhou, and was planning a conspiracy to return the descendants of the current saint surnamed Li."

Shen Zhitang said "oh".

Zhou Congyi continued: "Under the careful investigation of the lower officials, it was found that the officials, soldiers, and businessmen in Xilin City had people who were against the Zhou organization, and they were afraid of startling the snake and could only communicate with the prefect Wang Changping in private, and found that this person was exquisite, and he had intersections with either side, so he made profits, and several of his staff members also had their own ghosts, and yesterday the Fa Cao took the waist card and opened his mouth to leave the Xia Chunjun, this Xia Chunjun raised troops and rebelled against the Blue Flag Army three years ago, and at this time came to find the Xia Chunjun, isn't it embarrassing to get off the official, so it was detained."

Shen Zhitang was stunned for a moment, and raised his head: "I see" glanced sideways at Xia Huaixu beside him, and slowly walked over: "Then why did Xia Chunjun defect?" ”

Zhou Congjian's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "The lower officials don't know, when the lower officials came to take over, they pushed and shoved in various ways, first hiding the defense map, then disobeying orders, and always gathering people to make trouble...... The lower officials said a few words to them, and fled overnight, the emperor still had resentment in the Xia family in his heart, and he didn't report it for fear of causing trouble to the innocent, but fortunately, they fled outside the city in the past few years, and they didn't make trouble."

Shen Zhitang nodded, and Xia Huaixu on the side clenched his hands tightly at the corners of his clothes, his face was pale, and his expression was solemn......