Chapter 222: Don't forget your original intention from beginning to end
Under the firelight, Mu Jingchen's pale face, closed eyes, and undulating chest showed that he was gone forever.
The crowd wept bitterly, unable to accept such a result for a while. During this period of time, Master Mu has taken care of them day and night, but at this moment, he has passed away...
Xun Buyu's heart was a little blocked, and before he could say a word to his uncle, he closed his eyes forever.
"By the way." He stepped forward and said to Chun Ci and Qiu Ran, there are more important things to do at this time.
"Arrange all these people, and bring Zhang Lianzheng to the yamen." I didn't find it, turned around and explained it one by one.
"Yes"
"According to their prescriptions, they take turns to boil medicine for the sick every day until the plague of Le'an is lifted."
"Yes"
"Qingzhi, I'll take you back to the house to rest first...."Xun Buyu walked up to her and whispered.
Qing Zhi shook her head, "No, I'll just stay with them, you ....."
Turning his head to look at him, the previous one seemed to have matured a lot, and there was no greenness in his eyes, who among the Xinglin disciples had not grown up in pain?
"Obedient, you need to rest." Xun Buyu looked at her right foot, "I brought sixteen doctors, you can rest assured to hand over this place to me, I will return you, and give everyone a peaceful Le'an City." β
When she was stunned, I saw him lift her right foot lightly, and pick up her bone at great speed.
"Hiss..."Qingzhi was in pain, almost screaming, seeing him straighten his bones for himself, "Thank you." β
"I'll take you to rest first." As he spoke, he reached out to hug her.
"No need." She hurriedly stepped back, "You are now the prefect of Le'an, and I am just an ordinary person..."
"Qingzhi ....." couldn't find the hand that was frozen in mid-air for a long time and didn't take it back, is she refusing in disguise?
"Lord Xun, please rest assured, we will take care of our junior sister." Qiu Ran wiped away her tears and said, can't you find it? Was he also a disciple of Xinglin before?
He glanced at him, withdrew his hand and nodded, saying, "Okay, I'm tired, I'll come to see you tomorrow." β
After speaking, he took a deep look at the little woman with her head down, and secretly decided in her heart: "Qingzhi, when I settle everything, I will leave you here to be with me... I don't know if you'd like to? β
Seeing that they all dispersed one by one, many officials helped the sick into the Le'an Temple.
"Senior brother, how should we place Master?" Looking at the obvious plague red spots on Master's body, the two of them were a little embarrassed.
"Cremation." Qing Zhi spoke, "Uncle Shi said that he wanted to go back to Chenjiazhuang after death, then you should take his ashes to Chenjiazhuang...."
"Senior sister, what about you, won't you come with us?" Autumn Ran could tell that after the plague, she was going to be separated from them.
"Are you going to stay and marry that Xun-sama?" Chun Ci asked with a frown.
"Spring Farewell!" Qiu Ran glared at him, when did he ask such a question.
Qing Zhi shook her head, "No, I'm the uncle I can't find." After leaving Le'an, I...."
"I have other things to do....."
"Are you his uncle?" The two were puzzled, thought for a while, and then figured it out, but the two tacitly didn't ask, the apprentice who couldn't find Mu Rufeng was likely to be Mu Rufeng, oh, the traitor's apprentice.
Qing Zhi nodded, "Hmm." β
"You mean to burn Master?" Chun Ci glared at her, "He's your uncle!" β
Qing Zhi raised her eyes to look at him, and the young man who was about the same age as herself had tears on his face at the moment, and he was embarrassed.
"Do you want to take Uncle Shi's body back to Chenjiazhuang?"
"Why not?" Chun Ci asked rhetorically.
Qiu Ran felt extremely uncomfortable, he knew that it was impossible to take his master out of the city, but he couldn't do it by burning his master's body.
"Uncle Shi has been infected with the plague for more than half a month, and we can't risk taking the plague all the way to Chenjiazhuang....."
"Isn't it okay for me and my brother to pick some paths to walk? With me and my brother here, how can we allow others to contract this disease? β
"You ....." Qing Zhi knew that he couldn't bear it, "this time the plague will only be lifted in a month, do you want to make Uncle Shi wait another month before letting him be buried in the ground?" β
"You...."Chun Ci glared at her fiercely, her words were like a handful of salt sprinkled on his heart, and he couldn't breathe in pain.
"If it weren't for meeting you, Master would have left with me and my senior brother a long time ago."
"It's all you, who killed Master...."
"Chun Ci, what kind of bastard are you talking about!" Autumn Ran scolded.
"Do you think Master did something wrong?"
"Have you forgotten what Master taught us before?"
"When we encounter a plague, fleeing, is it what we healers should do?"
"What's the difference between this and a deserter on the battlefield?"
"I.... I didn't mean that..."Chun Ci knew that what he had just said was a bit excessive, but, "I just don't want to burn Master, Senior Brother." β
The extremely aggrieved appearance stung Qiu Ran, why didn't he want to let the master enter the ground as soon as possible? But.....
"Just according to what my sister said, put the master.... After the cremation, we took his ashes back to Chenjiazhuang. β
"Senior brother...."Chun Ci couldn't cry anymore, and in a fit of anger, he picked up Mu Jingchen and walked towards the Le'an Temple.
"Spring Farewell...."
"Senior brother!" Qing Zhi got up and grabbed his sleeve, "Let him go, let's talk about it after arranging everyone." β
"Hey, I've been very clingy to Master since I was a child, and now Master has gone....." He choked up and couldn't bear to continue.
She didn't understand that the most regrettable thing in this life was that she couldn't see the last time she saw her master.
"I'll help you go."
"No, my feet don't hurt anymore."
The two of them walked slowly forward in the firelight, and the figures on the ground became longer and longer.
I rushed to the outside of the city overnight and found Zhang Lianzheng in a vacant lot. Probably expecting that the massacre had failed, he was about to leave with his family.
Seeing that the newly appointed prefect had arrived so soon, Zhang Lianzheng's heart was like ashes, and he sat on the chair for a long time. After a long time, he didn't find all the people and arrested them, only to see him look up at the young man in front of him.
"Are you the son of the Ministry of Rites?" Zhang Lian Zheng seemed to see his father through him.
"Exactly." I can't find a cool opening.
"Hahaha!" Zhang Lianzheng's eyes were filled with tears, "No, do you remember when you were five or six years old, you called me Uncle Zhang?" β
"I don't remember." He narrowed his eyes and replied.
Zhang Lianzheng lowered his head and smiled bitterly, "Yes, you were still young at that time, so you don't remember." β
"The reason why I did this is also for the sake of Le'an City."
"Hmph, for the sake of Le'an?" He sneered.
"For the sake of the people of Le'an or for the sake of your good future, Lord Zhang didn't count it in his own heart?"
"Do you want to massacre the city for the sake of Le'an?"
"For the sake of Le'an, don't you even let go of the people in the Le'an Temple?"
"Have you ever sent someone to inquire about the news in the city, even a little, do you?"
"Do you know how many people in the city are battling the plague?"
"How many doctors are working day and night for the sake of Le'an's patients?"
Zhang Lianzheng was stunned by his series of questions, yes, he didn't send anyone to inquire about the situation inside, he only knew that as long as the people inside were dead, he could keep his position, and he could successfully return to his hometown, and he would have no worries about his life from now on.
"Huh
Hehe! Zhang Lianzheng's weak laughter made people disgusted.
"When I was young, I was like you, doing everything by myself, but what was the result?"
"How many people pay attention to Le'an, and how many people profit from it?"
"I'm thinking, since they can, why can't I, as Le'an's parental officer?"
He smiled mockingly with his eyes closed, not knowing whether he was laughing at those people or himself.
"No, you're doing it yourself." He muttered, not knowing whether he was consoling or regretting that he had failed to keep his original intention and that his shoes and socks had been soiled by this muddy water.
"If you don't meet you, you will definitely maintain your original intention, and you will definitely eradicate the corrupt people, and you will also be happy with the people of a pure land."
"I will never follow the old path of Lord Zhang."
"Please also ask Master Zhang to go all the way and take care all the way."
Zhang Lianzheng looked at him and pleaded: "No, Uncle Zhang begs you for one thing, and please agree." β
Looking at him puzzled, he wouldn't be thinking about it.....
"The plague in Le'an is rampant, the people do not abandon and resist stubbornly, although the prefect Zhang Lianzheng has the heart but has no ability to turn the tide, and finally died in front of the Buddha in the Lecheng temple...."
"Lord Zhang, if you don't meet, you will inform the court of the truth, and the merits will be determined by the saint." He interrupted.
When he heard that Zhang Lian was going to slaughter the city on the way here, he never thought of soft-heartedness, and when he saw that the little woman in his heart almost died on Lecheng Street, he wanted to crush the bones of the person in front of him.
The face that Zhang Lianzheng wanted to save in the end was ruthlessly destroyed by him, "Hehe, tell me the truth?" What a truthful one! β
"If I don't meet my nephew, if I tell you a secret about the destruction of Xinglin Courtyard, can you let my Zhang family live?" Zhang Lianzheng only then revealed the fox's tail, the last hole card.
"What did you say?" Xun Buyu was shocked in his heart, wasn't Xinglin Courtyard destroyed in the hands of his own master, but someone who should cooperate with the outside and these powerful forces to intervene?
"How's the deal?" Zhang Lianzheng still had a little sad appearance just now, and at this moment he slowly got up and came to Xun Buyu's side, thinking that this young virtuous nephew would definitely agree.
"You.... Why did you attack Xinglinyuan? Le'an is far away from the apricot forest, how are your minions... β
"Hahaha! Virtuous nephew, you are too naΓ―ve, now in this world, why do you need to do it yourself if you want to kill someone? It's just a matter of the rich and powerful moving their mouths. β
"Rich and powerful?" I don't understand who would have such a big hatred for Xinglin Courtyard in this court. "Who is the mighty?"
"If I say it, my nephew will promise me and let me go of the Zhang family." He put forward the conditions at the right time.
"You...."Unable to find a dead fist, the death of Master Tai, Master Uncle and Uncle Shi lingered in his mind. Oh, he hasn't taken office yet, is he going to do this shady affair with the former prefect?
"Heh, Lord Zhang, even if I spend my whole life, I will definitely find out who this powerful person is. As for you....."
"I'll let you get the punishment you deserve."
"Virtuous nephew, why are you so troubled?" Zhang Lianzheng panicked, "I'll tell you now, how much trouble I saved you." β
"Also, even if you know who he is, you can't fight him, so let me tell you now, you can plan it."
Finding no surprise glaring at him, he closed his mouth at the right time.
"Can't fight him? Can he still turn against the sky? β
"You can't fight him, he's ....."
"Whew!" With a soft sound, I couldn't find a startled heart, and looked to the right front, only to see a black shadow flashing by.
A hidden arrow came from afar, targeting Zhang Lianzheng, from the back of his head through the middle of his forehead...
There was a loud "bang", and I saw Zhang Lianzheng, who had not finished speaking, fall to the ground heavily, and blood gushed out from the middle of his forehead....