Jing Chi asked in the car, "How long do you have to get to Xiantao?" ”

"After crossing the river in front, passing through two or three villages, and then walking through the mountain pass, you will reach Xiantao, and you can arrive before sunset." Zhang Jiu swore solemnly, "Let's rest at the river before we set off." ”

The road in the mountains was crooked, Meng Yining sat in the bumpy carriage and looked out the window, the silence around him made him a little hairy, "Your Highness, have you heard?" This time the disaster was particularly severe. She looked back at him, "I'm a little worried. ”

When King Xia found Jingchi, he only told him that the disaster was more serious than in previous years, but judging from the folds presented, it could not be a line of numbers that the ink had dried, saying that hundreds of sick corpses had been burned and buried. Jingchi has nothing to do along the way, and he has not seen any displaced people, and he has not much anxiety in his heart.

But Meng Yining's words were full of anxiety, "They said that Xiantao is already an empty city. Last night I passed by a village where there were many people who had escaped from it, saying that they were dead from one family to another, village to village. Yesterday I saw a child coughing, and everyone wanted to burn him to death as if hiding from the plague god. To be honest, I was a little scared of what the hell lay ahead. ”

"You relax, you'll be fine. I've already seen the piece that was presented, so I don't have to be so honest. Jing Chi comforted.

"That's good."

The carriage and horses walked for half an hour, and finally the river was getting closer and closer. Meng Yining poked his head out of the car, and a waterfall along the mountain peak came into view. The torrent went straight down to 3,000 feet, and the white swaying water poured down on the huge rocks, and the sound of the water washed away a lot of the gloom in the heart, and it must be the upper reaches of the river. The river is not wide, and there is a strong wooden bridge over it. Meng Yining looked around and suddenly saw something black in the waterfall.

She squinted her eyes and leaned forward, shaking her head, but she couldn't see it clearly.

"What are you looking at?" Jing Chi asked.

Meng Yining pointed to the waterfall, "There seems to be something black in the waterfall, it may be the corpse of a small animal, it looks very weird." ”

"Spring hunting, people need to eat, everything recovers, and they will fight, you don't have to be surprised." Jing Chi comforted her.

It's just that the girl has an ominous premonition in her heart, and she clenches her hands into fists. The carriage slowly climbed up the mountain road, Meng Yining got out of the car and sat on the horse in order to see more realistically, "Oops! What is it! She watched as a black shadow flashed over the waterfall, which appeared to be a corpse.

Looking down along the turbulent water, the body of a civilian, dressed in black, had been smashed on the rock, and there was no splash of blood. Looking at it from afar, Meng Yining felt that maybe he had been dead for a long time.

"Look!"

When people heard her shout, they also looked over, and saw seven or eight corpses left upstream and falling crookedly into the bottom of the waterfall. Suddenly, the water below was stained scarlet.

"What's going on? Where did the corpse come from? ”

"I don't know, it can't be that there are bandits in front."

"Don't talk nonsense, the officers and soldiers on this road open the way, how can bandits be rampant."

A few people were discussing it in front. Zhang Jiu waved his hand, "Don't guess, pay attention to the surroundings and protect Your Highness." ”

Meng Yining chuckled in her heart, I'm afraid it's not those who are sick. She turned her head to look at Jing Chi, the anxiety in her eyes about to overflow. Jing Chi was also slightly stunned when he saw the scene of the corpse falling just now, and then regained his composure, "Go ahead and take a look, pay attention to vigilance." Whatever lies ahead, don't panic. In fact, he gradually hatched the answer in his heart, if it was bandits and murder, then the water should have been dyed blood red a long time ago, how could it be clear?

The waterfall is not high, Meng Yining walked on the edge of the cliff and looked carefully.

After crossing the small mountain pass, I saw a wide wooden bridge. However, Meng Yining's pupils suddenly tightened, and even the horse under him suddenly raised his feet and neighed. She was startled at first, and then quickly reined in her horse. Everyone gasped as they looked at the dark and oppressive scene in front of them.

Where is the clear water of the river? There were more than two dozen corpses of ordinary people, large and small, with sunken cheeks, yellow skin, and dark eyes. And around them were rats that gnawed at corpses, tearing at the clothes of the dead and gnawing on the faces of the dead. The dry muscles were like firewood, and it looked like a slaughter.

"Look at that...... There! A guard shouted in front of him. I saw large groups of rats biting each other's tails and crossing the river in groups, like the depths of the forest. It was like a Yin soldier crossing the border, and the wind and rain pressed down. There was a fishy smell in the air, Meng Yining covered her mouth and nose, remembering that Bai Xining had brought a lot of tulle to herself, so she took it out and distributed it to everyone and put it on her mouth and nose.

No one has ever seen anything like it.

Even Jing Chi, who was once shocked, was shocked.

The carriage stopped, and he stood there and looked not far away. Because the corpse of the water flow was like a haze hell, sucking everyone in, and the group unconsciously held their breath.

Meng Yining frowned and looked at Jing Chi, "Plague? ”

He shook his head, "There's not a word on it. "It seems that the local officials lied about the truth in order to cover up the truth of the matter. Or, when they first delivered the movement, it was true that only a few hundred people had died, but in just seven or eight days it had spread to the point of no return. This has not yet entered Xiantao City, but it is already like this. The scene in that city was unimaginable. The cold wind in the mountains shivered on the faces of the group, and their hearts trembled.

"Go to Xiantao." Jingchi shows a boldness and maturity that he has never seen before.

The group walked cautiously, and the gray squirrel next to their feet was fat and huge, squeaking. Meng Yining's horse under her crotch was a little panicked, and she could only keep comforting her. Jingchi was deep, his head hung slightly, and the silk silk in his hand kept turning.

"Yi Ning, are you afraid?" He asked suddenly, in a voice that only she could hear.

Meng Yining nodded, and shook his head again: "Life has come to this, what can you say?" ”

"Come in, sit with me." He lifted the curtain.

She sighed, "It's the first time I've seen this sight, with corpses all over the field, and swarms of rats rushing up like a tide. ”

"The epidemic is a mixture of people and ghosts."

I don't know where the paper money flew from there and crackled on the carriage, and at first I felt unlucky, Zhang Jiu reached out and took it off. But a gust of wind was exhaled, and the paper money was swept into the sky like snowflakes, and some fell next to the carriage. Jing Chi said lightly: "It doesn't matter, keep walking." ”

He is at ease, and everyone is at ease.

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