Chapter 164: Exploring the West City
It's okay if she doesn't say anything, but Luo Zhen's words made Luo Zhen very uneasy, and he wiped his hands on the placket of his clothes and followed.
Mu Qingyan took two steps towards the open door, and He Xin immediately stopped in front of her, his face full of worry.
"I'm not going in." Mu Qingyan knew that Qin Yan's sentence 'Your master has just recovered from the cold' has worked, and He Xin will not let her enter the door desperately, so she has to say that she will not go in to fix his heart.
After a moment, Qin Yan came out.
Luo Zhen personally poured some thick green juice into the basin, "This is the antidote prepared by Luo himself, please clean your hands carefully by the Tiger King." His face was solemn and serious.
Qin Yan nodded and cleaned his hands carefully.
Greeting Mu Qingyan's gaze, he said lightly, "It's a little troublesome." He told the truth.
Mu Qingyan knew that the 'some trouble' in his mouth must be extremely troublesome, his face was a little unsightly, and he squinted his eyes and did not speak.
Qin Yan walked over and held her hand again, "Let people prepare to eat, you still need to take another pill today." He had a gentle expression and an unconcealed pampering in his words.
"My subordinates are going to prepare meals!" He Xin hurriedly carried his robe and strode out.
Luo Zhen looked at Qin Yan in disbelief, with his experience, it was not difficult to see Qin Yan's cold and noble temperament. But his icy aura turned into spring water in front of his master, gurgling and flowing.
He was busy leading the way, and sat down in the main hall to speak.
Qin Yan seemed to be trying to calm her heart, and as soon as she sat down, she said lightly, "Shopkeeper Luo said that this is the first batch of people who have become ill, and it has been three days now. He looked at Luo Zhen and asked, "Trouble the shopkeeper Luo to tell me about the initial situation." ”
"Before these four fell ill, they had eaten and drank together in the largest restaurant in the city." Luo Zhen lowered his voice and described in detail the situation three days ago, "His family only realized that something was wrong when he got up the next morning, and he was still breathing at the beginning, and he asked the doctor to diagnose and treat it to no avail." After our people quietly moved people here, their breath came and went, and their pulses were empty. ”
Qin Yan asked again, "How many doses have you used?" Fang Zi took a look. ”
Luo Zhen hurriedly got up and walked to a room in the west, came out with two pieces of rice paper, and handed them to Qin Yan with both hands, "I used two sides, but it didn't work." He frowned slightly, and said worriedly, "In the past few days, there have been no people with the same disease in the city, only rumors that they are crazy one day at a time." ”
Mu Qingyan pondered for a moment, "Does that mean that the people who took the medicine are also waiting to see the condition of these people?" ”
Luo Zhen nodded, "I've also thought about this possibility, and I'll see the situation after tonight." "He is a person who studies medicine, and he knows that he will not give up his reputation in the rivers and lakes, and with his heirs here, the initial anxiety has also calmed down a lot.
"Shopkeeper Luo, in addition to the Desmodium grass, what medicinal materials have been in short supply inside and outside the city in the past few days, and how much is missing?" Mu Qingyan asked Luo Zhen cautiously.
Luo Zhen thought for a moment, "There is no shortage, and the circulation is normal." Since receiving the master's order five years ago, if a stranger buys medicine in Baicaotang, he must sell three and keep seven, and there has never been an exception. He looked at Mu Qingyan's eyes and said, "On the fifth day of the first month of this month, someone bought a large amount of desmodium in Liangzhou City at the same time. When the subordinates got the news, they kept only a little bit of the money grass in the medicine bucket of Baicaotang, and hid the rest along with the inventory, and at the same time, let people buy some before those people. ”
"Where did those people get the money grass?" Mu Qingyan asked him.
Luo Zhen replied, "The Songlin Temple in the north of the city has all burned down. ”
"Pine Forest Temple?" Mu Qingyan asked.
Luo Zhen nodded, "Yes, my subordinates asked people to follow the group of people who pretended to be in the city, and saw that they each went out of the city to the north, and the final location was Songlin Temple." ”
"Don't go!" Qin Yan's cold face sank like water, and he felt uncomfortable thinking that she had been Chu Li's concubine in the rumors. Even though he knew it wasn't her, he was still angry.
Mu Qingyan, how could he conclude that she was going to Songlin Temple. glared at him fiercely, and before he could open his mouth to refute, Qin Yan said again, "It's not too late to go back in the evening." ”
He Xin entered the door at this time and brought a tray full of dishes.
"Master, it's not enough to cook fine food in a hurry, so you can use some first." He Xin put down the tray and confessed first, and then put the dishes on the table.
"Good work!" Mu Qingyan sat down and looked at the dishes on the table, but she was very picky, but she didn't dislike it at all, and raised her chopsticks to eat.
Qin Yan sat down beside her, also eating without saying a word. The gestures are noble and elegant, not as arrogant as the Jianghu guests, nor as arrogant as the sons of the family.
After removing the meal, Qin Yan cleaned his hand and went to the room on the west side with Luo Zhen. After a while, Luo Zhen came out and hurriedly walked out with a prescription.
Mu Qingyan drank all the tea in his cup, and drank half of Qin Yan's cup.
After Qin Yan came back, she silently refilled the cup she had drunk, and drank it slowly, frowning and not knowing what she was thinking. A cup of tea was not finished, and suddenly he put down the tea cup and hurriedly went out, and went straight to the cross-courtyard on the west side.
Mu Qingyan also hurriedly put down the teacup and wanted to chase after it to take a look, but Sanjiu came back with a frown.
"Master, this disease has appeared among the flooded people on the west side of the city." Half of Sanjiu's body was muddy and wet, and his boots and shoes were also wet. He gasped and said: "According to the secret envoy's report, these people are much more serious than the four ones found before, they started vomiting blood two days ago, and the sores on their bodies protruded, and they were all bleeding with fishy blood. ”
Mu Qingyan glanced at Sanjiu, "Why did you only come to report today?" Although her voice was very soft, there was a sharp edge in her light that could not be ignored, and the sparkling fire in her eyes was ignited.
"The subordinates are derelict in their duties, please let the master allow him to go and receive the punishment after he settles this matter." Sanjiu half-bent over and pleaded.
Mu Qingyan is not an angry temper, whoever is wrong should be punished.
"You should tell me more about the matter first, I'm afraid that Xicheng will be in chaos at this time." She let out a sigh of relief and sat back in her chair.
Qin Yan entered the door with wet hands, and his cuffs were slightly wet. He glanced at Sanjiu's expression, knew that something had happened, pursed his lips and still sat down next to Mu Qingyan.
Sanjiu didn't dare to lift it, "The subordinates went to the rudder to find no one just now, and said that they went to Xicheng, and the subordinates hurriedly followed." Who knew that there was a wail in Xicheng, and a few rich families had hung white flags in front of their doors, and they found a secret envoy to find out that the situation was much more serious than he thought, and he had passed on the matter to Beijing. ”
Mu Qingyan was not as lazy as before, but added a little indifference. But Sanjiu knew that the more indifferent her expression was, she was afraid that she would think more in her heart, and she didn't dare to disturb her, so she had to wait on the sidelines.
"What do you think?" Qin Yan handed the teacup to her, leaving the lid alone and placing it on the side of the table. Then remove the teapot and the cushion plate of his own teacup and place them in two directions, and finally put his teapot in the middle, and connect several points with his fingers.
Mu Qingyan understood Qin Yan's intentions at a glance, "Three cities besieging Beijing? She snorted, "Chu Li wants to exchange the people of the three cities for the throne of the emperor, it's really whimsical!" ”
"He's already started." Qin Yan opened his mouth coldly.
Mu Qingyan sneered, "Brother Jue is magnanimous and can't bear to kill each other, he could have lived the rest of his life peacefully." But some people don't appreciate it, and they have to jump into the fire pit, I think this time he has any chance of escaping! ”
"If you can't stay, you can't stay, and sooner or later you will die." Qin Yanjian's eyebrows were slightly raised, and his handsome facial features were cloudy at this time.
Mu Qingyan nodded, put down the teacup and turned back to Sanjiu to instruct, "Pay close attention to the movements in the city, Jingzhong knows that I have come to Liangzhou City, and there will be secret envoys to and fro to deliver the news of Jincheng and Longmen County in the next few days, and it cannot be delayed for a moment, and it must be in my hands as soon as possible." ”
"Obey!" Sanjiu turned around and went out very quickly.
Qin Yan got up, "Let's go." ”
The two of them went out of the small alley one after the other, turned the main street and went to the house of the white banner hanging in the mouth of the 39th mouth of Xicheng.
The two picked up nowhere and flew into the courtyard, and searched for it to no avail, so they had to avoid the family and find the courtyard. There was no one in the courtyard, and the house was in the form of light and darkness, and from the east side of the house came an unseemly debauched sound.
Mu Qingyan's eyelashes flickered, and his bad eyes suddenly appeared.
Qin Yan didn't understand the flash of cunning in her eyes for a while, but she didn't give him a chance to look at it again, that feeling had disappeared, as if it had never happened.
In the middle was a hall with a half-worn curtain hanging from the door. Facing the door of the hall was a corpse bed, and under the white cloth it was covered with a large human shape, with a heavy fishy smell.
Mu Qingyan held her breath and was about to approach to look at the dead body covered under the white cloth, Qin Yan immediately stopped her and warned her with her lips: "Be careful of poison!" ”
Mu Qingyan was not reckless, walked a few steps to the east door, and hid sideways outside the big red sprinkler curtain, peeking at the situation in the inner room. The woman cried out as if she was sick and in pain, and there was also the sound of a man panting.
Qin Yan's ears couldn't help but turn red, he stretched out his hands to cover Mu Qingyan's ears from behind, and there was anger in his cold eyes.
The room was not very large, and there was only half of the woman's snow-white calves on the bed, and only half of the woman's snow-white calves could be seen......
Qin Yan came to cover Qingyan's eyes again, and whispered angrily with her lips against half of her ear, "Don't listen, don't watch!" ”
Mu Qingyan's face also turned red, turned around and walked into the courtyard like a cat, and squirmed to speak, "Go faster, I'll see how I clean you up if I miss something later!" It wasn't loud, but it was just enough for the two Blissful Men in the inner chamber to hear clearly.
Suddenly, there was a sound of something tipping over in the house, and in the blink of an eye, a cry came out, "Master, why do you say that you will leave, how can you let Mei Xiang live in the future, woo woo ......" The voice was charming and contrived.
There was a whisper in the courtyard suddenly, and I couldn't hear everything clearly, but occasionally a sentence or two came out but people could understand the general meaning.
"The people from the wife's mother's family are here, as if they are going to send these aunts out of the backyard." A clear voice faintly echoed into Qin Yan's heart, and he realized that Mu Qingyan was really stubborn.
Another mother-in-law's voice answered, "Yo, then don't hurry up and take a look, as soon as the master dies, only the lady will be the biggest in the family, go quickly." The footsteps of the two men seemed to be getting farther and farther away.
There was still a smile on the corner of Mu Qingyan's mouth, and he silently returned to the hall, picked up Qin Yanshuang and flew to the beam.
The cry in the back room was gone, "You find a place to hide first, I'm afraid that the old family's family will come to see this dead ghost." The woman gritted her teeth and spat out harsh words.
"It doesn't matter, the world will change in the next ten days and eight days, and I don't care about his Xu family's property at that time. Brother Fang hasn't enjoyed it yet, you can let your brother take a look at your body again......" The man grinned obscenely.
The woman's heart was moved again but still a little clear, "I've been following this old thing for a few years, and I can't waste my youth in vain, I still have to go forward and take a look." ”
After a burst of neatness, the woman groaned again: "You go out first, and come back at night." There are always people coming and going during the day, and they can't enjoy it, and they enjoy it with you at night, what's the hurry! ”
The man reluctantly scolded twice, and then threw the curtain out.
Then a young woman in her early twenties, dressed in red and green, came out, covered her nose with a silk handkerchief, pouted her lips, glanced at the morgue, and twisted her hips out of the door.
"Qin Yan, go take a look at that dead ghost." Mu Qingyan smiled and pointed to the morgue, his eyes staring at the door, "I'll go shopping." She flew off the beam, lifted her leg and was about to run out.
Qin Yan followed and fell to the ground, pulled her back, gently scratched her nose, and kissed her thin lips on her forehead, "Be careful yourself, leave a mark, I'll look for you here." ”
Mu Qingyan agreed while running.
Qin Yan watched her pick up the curtain and go out, only to frown with a little disgust. After a few steps to the bed, I lifted the white cloth and observed it carefully, and there was a strange fishy smell in the room.
He tore off a tablecloth and lifted the white cloth on the man's body, and suddenly a very foul smell came out. The large and small boils on his body had burst, and a bed of blood had flowed. The tablecloth caught his pulse, and there was no response at all. When I opened my eyelids, I was powerless. If it weren't for the blood on his body not clotting, he would have been dead for a long time.
He carefully felt the stench mixed with the blood, and he couldn't distinguish it for a while. He didn't have the patience to waste here, shook off the tablecloth in his hand, and walked out the same way and walked over the wall.
Five families went in a row, only one family was more ordinary, Qin Yan thought about Chu Li's intentions. He returned to the house where he first came, but he didn't find the secret mark left by Mu Qingyan, so he had to go back first.
There were many things he had to sort out.
After walking through the streets and alleys, he returned to the courtyard of Luo Zhen and carefully cleaned his hands.
He Xin didn't dare to slack off, took advantage of his clean hands to brew tea and brought it to the hall, and came out to invite Qin Yan in, "Lord, where is my master?" He was a little worried, but when the two of them went, only the Tiger King himself returned.
Qin Yan nodded in thanks, "Follow Chu Li's people." ”
It was rare for him to explain such a sentence, politely with an unapproachable alienation.
He Xin didn't ask much, the Tiger King at this time was several times warmer than the cold in the world's mouth, although it was not as good as when the master was there, but it was far better than the rumors.