Jiang Changchang was the first to object, "sister ......"

Xiang Liangqing smiled at the thief and thief, and as soon as he waved his hand, someone would come forward and drag Jiang Changchang away: "Sister Changxi, don't worry, I will never be polite." As he spoke, he made a gesture of invitation to Qingrong.

Well, you can't treat the little girl as rudely as you treat Jiang Changchang.

Jiang Changxi turned back to Tianshui Hall and continued to discuss a new prescription with Dr. Wen and a few others, the deepest moment of the night passed, and the gray sky gradually turned white.

No one deliberately concealed the strange disease that Tianshuitang received, as the first ray of sunlight fell on the screen window that was only half open, the news spread, and suddenly the whole city was in an uproar, the people were panicked, and some people even took the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that this strange disease was contagious, which caused greater panic among the people, and they packed up their packages and prepared to leave the city with their families, but they were all stopped by the patrol battalion.

It's just that the panic of the people is not something that can be appeased by the words of the official, Xiang Liangqing accompanied Han Wei, who rushed back overnight, to stand on the city tower, and coldly looked at the increasingly chaotic scene below.

"Tsk, it doesn't look like the brain is a special light." Xiang Liangqing propped his hands on the city wall, looking at the few people who were the most troublesome under the patrol battalion, and outside the crowd of troublemakers, there were thieves who saw that the situation was not good, and thought that they had slipped away quietly.

Han Weici squinted slightly, and an indifferent light broke out in the deep black, and as soon as he raised his hand, his own hidden guard came and went silently.

"I'll take care of the rest." Han Weiqi turned around indifferently, leaving a mess under the city tower.

To appease the people, this is really a headache and drudgery, Xiang Liangqing wants to protest very much, but according to his past experience, protesting is ineffective, it is easier to shake the pot.

"Sister Changxi wants to go to the suburbs to see the place where the bones were found." Xiang Liangqing was condescending, and aimed at An early years who was riding a horse and rushing here.

An who came on horseback sneezed in the early years: "......" Who is thinking about me?

Han Weiqi, who was originally going to go out of the city, finally turned around and went to Tianshui Hall to pick up Jiang Changxi, who had not slept all night.

She had just drunk the medicine for typhoid fever under the watchful eye of Dr. Wen, and when she heard that Han Wei had not resigned, she burned wormwood and smoked it before going out to see him.

Han frowned when he saw Jiang Changxi, and he didn't know how bitter and hateful he thought: "Why is your face so ugly?" ”

Jiang Changxi touched his face: "Will it?" She didn't feel anything, and explained, "Probably I didn't sleep well, so it's okay." ”

Also, in a situation like Tianshuitang, I'm afraid that no one can sleep well.

"Do you know how to ride a horse?" Han didn't hesitate to ask.

Jiang Changxi just wanted to talk about it, but found that Han Weici didn't give her a chance to say it at all: "It's a pity that this king only has one horse, so it's hard to take you." ”

Jiang Changxi: "......"

Jiang Changxi turned around and left: "It's still not embarrassing the prince." ”

There was the sound of horses' hooves behind her, Jiang Changxi only felt that her collar was tight, and the sky was spinning in front of her, and she had been taken on the horse by the collar by Han Weiqi.

Han Weiqi clamped the horse's belly with his legs, shouted 'drive', and the horse drove away, not giving Jiang Changxi a chance to resist at all.

Jiang Changxi didn't know whether to be angry or annoyed, and the wind was whistling in his ears, scraping his cheeks like a knife.

It suddenly went dark in front of him, and the cloak with the man's refreshing and cold breath was closed, and the back of his chest could be felt as he chuckled.

Jiang Changxi rolled his eyes at the sky where Han Weixi couldn't see, pulled down the cloak on his head and wrapped himself, and his small face was half-buried in the cloak, which made him feel better.

The dark clouds on the horizon gathered thicker and thicker, and they were dragged by the cold wind to gather over the capital, and the horses that had not given up quickly rushed out of the city gate and went straight to the suburbs.

The place where the white bones were found was not far from the village guarded by Granny Chen and her wife, and the entire mountain had been surrounded by people transferred by Xiang Liangqing.

Han took Jiang Changxi to the place where the white bones were found, and the slopes that collapsed due to heavy rain are still miserable, and the mud and stone clods that have slipped down are black, and the plants and trees have withered everywhere they went, and even died from the roots.

Han Weiqi said: "The vision was only discovered in the past two days, the hunters who lived outside the city went up the mountain to hunt, and when they saw it the first day, they only found that the soil had turned black, and they did not pay attention to it, and the next day they found that the surrounding trees were dead, and then they reported to Jingzhao Mansion." ”

"So you came to the Hou Mansion yesterday to find me, just to talk about this?"

Han Weiqi nodded and said, "I asked the doctor in the city to see, and the road is not a disease or a poison." ”

Jiang Changxi looked around, this inexplicable black cold had already spread, and the grass and trees at the very edge were on the verge of dying.

"Lord, can you cut down this tree?" Picking a wilted tree, with a bowl-thick trunk, it is three or four years old, Jiang Changxi thinks that it is better to leave this kind of work to a professional.

The 'professional' Han Weiqi called the more 'professional' officials and asked them to cut down the trees, and he followed Jiang Changxi to the hillside.

"I came to see the scene and thought that the white bones should have been buried in this place in the first place, and were carried down the hillside by the mudflow from above, and then it was discovered."

Jiang Changxi squatted down, the ankle-length skirt fell into the mud, she was not taboo, picked up a piece of blackened soil and twisted it in her hand, a smell of rot that was customary in the soil of the deep mountains and old forests.

She took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, wrapped it in dirt, and picked up a stone and a dead stick, intending to take it back to Tianshui Hall for inspection.

Han Wei stayed by her side, saw her grasp of the black mud on her hands, frowned slightly, took the 'dirty' thing in her hand, and handed her another clean handkerchief.

Jiang Changxi took the things to him from the good stream, but did not answer his handkerchief: "Where to wipe it clean, is there water around here?" Creeks, rivers, pools? ”

"Yes." When he first discovered the anomaly on this mountain, Han Weiqi had led people around to investigate, and he was barely familiar with this place.

He took Jiang Changxi to the water source, Jiang Changxi suddenly stopped, standing in place and faintly seeing the white walls and green tiles through the shadows of the trees, it was Granny Chen's village.

This is probably too much of a coincidence.

"Lord Wang, is it possible that Granny Chen's husband and wife are guarding not this mountain, but the place where the bones are buried."

Han Weiqi stood beside her, his stature was taller than Jiang Changxi, and he naturally saw it more clearly than Jiang Changxi. He was silent for a full quarter of an hour, and Jiang Changxi also accompanied him to stand here for a quarter of an hour.

"There is indeed such speculation." Han Wei's eyes were deep, and he led Jiang Changxi to the water source.

The two shuttled through the forest, the birdsong gradually, the fallen leaves creaked, and the cold did not quit walking in front, and the sound echoed, which was even more profound.

"Do you still remember the origin of this other village that Aqing found before?"

Jiang Changxi nodded behind him, and only after nodding did he remember that he couldn't see it, so he responded to him with an 'um'.

The family of the fourth prince's concubine sold this village, and Aqing later found out that it was a wealthy businessman in Jiangnan who bought this village. The strange thing is that no one knows who this rich merchant was and what he did, as if he got rich overnight, and bought another village on the spur of the moment, and then hired Granny Chen and his wife to guard the mountain. ”

"What's even more strange is that when A-Qing found out about this rich businessman, he died violently at home."

"Suddenly killed?" Such a coincidence?

Han nodded and affirmed: "The autopsy did not find any abnormalities. But on the second day of the autopsy, a fire broke out in Yizhuang, and the body of the rich merchant was burned to ashes, and all the clues about the rich merchant were also burned to ashes by this fire, and everything was empty. ”

"It seems that some people are weak-hearted." Jiang Changxi said strangely: "It's just that this fire has been burning too often recently, and I heard that there was also a fire in Jingzhao Mansion last night." ”

"Hmm." Han Weici said lightly: "A-Qing has already gone to catch the arsonist." ”

"It seems that the prince has eyebrows."

Han did not quit to take Jiang Changxi to a small stream at the foot of the mountain, the stream gurgled and bent, through the stone through the forest, and it was not only this piece of mountain that moistened. But as soon as Jiang Changxi gained a firm foothold, he saw that in the lower reaches of the creek, there were hunters who had crossed the opposite hill and went to the creek to get water.

Han Weici and Jiang Changxi glanced at each other, and the two walked towards the downstream in tacit understanding.

"Uncle, are you hunting around here?"

The Orion was a bold person, seeing that Jiang Changxi and Han Weiqi came together, dressed not like a poor family, but only a young lady from a rich family came to Zhuangzi to play, and said with a smile: "Yes." Going back, the forest is denser, and there are more prey there. ”

"Then you've traveled all this far to find water to drink."

"Not necessarily. When the weather is warm, there is a spring stream in the mountains behind, and the water there is called sweet. It's not winter, the mountains are deep and the trees are shady, it's cold, the springs and streams are frozen, and the road is not easier to walk than usual. ”

Jiang Changxi immediately caught the important information in his words, and hurriedly asked, "Recently, everyone has been here to get water to drink?" ”

"That's right, the people who hunt and chop wood around here, and sometimes they come together to get water to drink." The Orion scratched his head as he spoke, and said to him a little strangely: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen the second baby's uncle and nephew today, they live in the city, and they are the first to arrive on weekdays...... Eh, what are you doing with a girl! ”

Jiang Changxi stepped on the rocks on the creek and grabbed Orion's veins, the veins were stable, no different from normal people, but after careful inspection, she found that Orion's palms were faintly blue after washing away the blood, and this cyan spread to his tiger's mouth and began to invade his wrists.

The hunter also noticed the cyan color of his palm, and muttered, "It's strange how the bruises are getting bigger and bigger. ”

"It's not bruising." Jiang Changxi didn't have a clue, and she couldn't explain the specifics to him, but she had already roughly determined why those patients in Tianshui Hall had strange diseases at this time: "The uncle said that the second uncle and nephew are in Tianshui Hall now, and it seems that they only got sick after drinking the water here." ”

"Is the second baby sick?" The hunter suddenly said, why are there fewer people going up the mountain today?