Donglai had a smile on his lips, and he was more happy than Nan Jingpei to see King Shin lose power. In this way, the cynicism he had received in the past because Nan Jingpei was not favored could make up for it.

"According to the slaves, the Jiang family has the heart of the rabbit and the fox."

Nan Jingpei pursed his lips and smiled slightly: "Two years ago, Ying Lin mentioned this matter to the Jiang family, but because Ying Lin's fief was in Beihan, the Jiang family looked down on him at that time. Now the Jiang family is in a hurry to tie up Yinglin, which is ridiculous. ”

The night breeze blows the big red palace lamp on the Qixiang Gate to sway. The repaired Qixiang Gate has no traces of explosion, and the vermilion city wall is more conspicuous than ever. Nan Jingpei likes it very much, not only because of this auspicious name. I remember when I was a child, every time I finished the homework assigned by the young masters, he would take Dong here for a walk.

Qixiang Gate is the highest place in the whole palace wall, when the weather is good, standing here, you can look at the scenery of half of the capital. According to the palace people, the most prosperous and lively place in the capital is the East City and the West Market, where the most magnificent and majestic buildings are concentrated. Although he has not been there, he is particularly yearning for the East Market. He heard that on Jinxiu Street next to the East Market, there is the old house of the Shen family. The most innocent past of that little girl stayed in that quaint courtyard.

The building of the Shen family was renovated by his imperial grandfather, and the imperial grandfather praised the Shen family's traditional Chinese medicine for its immeasurable merits but incorruptible as water. Allocate 100,000 taels of silver for the Shen family to repair the mansion. So that little girl has had the best of everything since she was born. She has never seen a sinister heart, she has always been held in the palm of Shen Wenzhong's hand, even her father's concubine, who has not come out for many years, is also very good to her.

He caressed the cold wall battlements, and looked into the distance, half of the lights of thousands of homes in the capital had been extinguished, and he vaguely remembered that direction, remembered the tall and spacious courtyard. But now, there is nothing to be seen, only a gray clearing.

Donglai stood far away, and he knew that the emperor was secretly looking at the Shen family again. This year's capital is a little deserted compared to a few years ago, and there is a bit of bitterness and rain.

The epidemic is ferocious, so as not to spread the epidemic to other places. The government put up notices everywhere to prohibit the people from wandering. therefore

The streets were empty, except for the occasional hawker, except for the occasional hawker, except for the beggars who begged along the streets.

Caught up with the epidemic, there was no one on the street, and the beggars couldn't get the money, and they were listless and crooked on the street corners. When they encountered officers and soldiers, they had to flee as much as possible, because the government believed that beggars were the most susceptible group to carrying sickness, and every time they encountered them, they had to drive them away with all their might.

Everywhere the car passed along the road, there were scenes of officers and soldiers in white cloth and masked masks snatching patients. The family cried earth-shatteringly, digging out their hearts and livers, and fighting with the officers and soldiers with a spatula and kitchen knife. The government ordered that all infected people should be moved to the shack area in the north of the city, but the people did not believe in the government, and always felt that once people were sent to the shack area, they could only wait for death slowly, and the corpses were dragged to the mass graves, mixed with a handful of lime and burned clean. No one would send away their sick people, so the whole family became ill.

Wang Pintang's heart was low, when Shen Wenzhong was treating the epidemic, when people heard that the emperor had sent a holy hand of national medicine, they applauded and celebrated. If you want them to line up, you will go to line, and if you want them to isolate, they will go to quarantine, and they are obedient like a flock of sheep. Now that he is here, the people are in chaos like a plate of scattered sand.

Shen Yunzhen lowered the curtain of the car, only to see Wang Pintang looking at her.

"It's a pity that I don't have the name of Lingzun, and I can't appease the people." He sighed.

Shen Yunzhen smiled: "I read your recipe, although it is slightly different from my father's recipe, but it is enough to treat the disease and relieve the disaster." The symptoms of the epidemic cannot be alleviated, and the problem is not the prescription, but the method. ”

Wang Pintang was slightly stunned: "Method? ”

"It's not surprising that the people don't want to quarantine, who isn't afraid of death? The predecessors had a precedent for putting medicinal herbs into the well water, and the people who drank the well water slowly recovered, and they did not necessarily have to be forcibly isolated, which caused a lot of complaints. ”

Wang Pintang shook his head helplessly, he hadn't tried this method, but the people were only willing to drink their own well water, and never contaminated the well on the street. People often drink the water from the well on the street, and after returning home, they have diarrhea, and later the government has salvaged several strange corpses in the well, and later after identification, these corpses were all suffering from serious epidemics before their deaths. The people always believed that the dead bodies had polluted the water source, so no one would touch the wells in the streets.

"Then dig a new well and put herbs in the well. Then ask the Taoist priest to do it, and say that this is a god-given divine water, and let the people line up to buy it. ”

"Buy?" Wang Pintang was stunned for a moment: "Isn't this using the public for personal gain?" The emperor will never agree. ”

Shen Yunzhen smiled slightly: "Each household will receive ten taels of silver, register and make a book, and then return the silver taels according to the booklet after the epidemic is over." ”

Human nature is difficult to say, and there is a cheapness in his bones. They always have to be suspicious of the things that are free of charge, and they believe them when they are in a hurry to spend money.

Wang Pintang nodded: "I'll order someone to do it." ”

The car drove to the north of the city, passing by Jinxiu Street, which I hadn't seen for a few years, except for the pattern of this street, everything had changed.

"Stop here, I'd like to go down and have a look." She whispered.

Wang Pintang lifted the sedan curtain, and when he saw that it was Splendid Street, he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart. The Shen family's old house was once the largest and grandest building on Fairview Street, but now all that remains is a ruined wall, where some beggars occasionally stay overnight. Later, it was rumored that it was haunted, and even the beggars did not dare to live.

"Shall I come with you?"

Shen Yunzhen shook his head and helped Liu Eryue's men get out of the carriage: "Uncle Wang, let's leave it at that." ”

She took out an envelope from the package, and inside were a few prescriptions and precautions for the treatment of the epidemic left by Shen Wenzhong, which she had written silently after staying up all night yesterday.

Wang Pintang took the envelope and handed her a cloth bag: "Now the entry and exit from the capital are very strict, and you can't get out without a pass issued by the government." Although this pass is fake, it should be able to confuse the truth with the false, so take care all the way. ”

The carriage galloped away and disappeared at the entrance of Splendid Street. Shen Yunzhen and Liu Eryue carried a small flower package and walked in the direction of the Shen family's old house.

The old mansion had been burned down by a fire, the blue bricks of the walls had been blackened by smoke, several courtyard walls had collapsed, and a few pillars stood alone. Liu February's tongue couldn't help but sigh, she had only heard of the name of the Holy Hand of Traditional Chinese Medicine before, but she didn't expect that a Tai Doctor would have such a big family business. Judging from the foundation, it is not an exaggeration to say that this was once a royal palace. Liu Eryue followed Shen Yunzhen closely, although this place is in tatters, but after all, the area is large, maybe you will get lost.

Messy weeds grew fluffily at the base of the wall, and muddy dust covered the brick floor with a layer of black mud. Because there was a little rain last night, and it was wet everywhere.

Shen Yunzhen stopped suddenly, and Liu Eryue attached: "What's wrong?" ”

In the mud ahead, there were several deep footprints, as if they had been newly stepped on, and judging from the size, they looked like the footprints of several adult men.

"Anyone has been here?" Liu Eryue was a little surprised, didn't he say that the Shen family was haunted, and even beggars didn't want to come?

Maybe the woman's premonition is really accurate, Shen Yunzhen looked around and suddenly felt a little flustered.

"Let's go." She whispered.

They retreated the way they came, only to find that there were more and more footsteps on the ground, and they were disorganized, and there was no such thing just now! Then I saw a red cloth wrapping on the wall, and the contents were the size of a watermelon, round and round. Liu Eryue was bold and plucked it with the branch he had picked up, and the thing seemed to be not strong, and it slammed on the ground with a pop, and a black thing rolled out of the package. The thing rolled on the ground a few times and stopped at Liu February's feet.

It turned out to be a bloody human head! Liu February's panic exclaimed: "There are dead people!" ”

"Yes, not only the dead, but also the living."

Before Liu February's words fell, someone responded to her casually, and a few people turned over from the broken wall for a while, and landed in front of them like dragonflies, turned around and wanted to run, but the retreat was blocked by several other men.

Liu February's busy blocking Shen Yunzhen behind him: "Who are you?" ”

These men wore iron masks on their faces, like sheep's heads. Is it a believer in the king?! Shen Yun was a little stunned, could it be because she refused to assassinate Nan Jingpei and angered King Xin? Sending so many people to kill her really looks up to her.

"I'm the one you're going to kill, let her go!"

As soon as these words came out, the leader laughed, and when he smiled, his subordinates also laughed. They laughed for a long time and finally stopped, and the person in charge stepped forward and pressed a sheep's head knife against Shen Yunzhen's jaw: "Yes, it's quite a bit guts, but who are you?" Stupid pig? Caught you and let her go? Let her report to the government? ”

They were brought again, and they were not allowed to resist, so they only put a piece of linen cloth on Liu February's face, and after a while, Liu February's body was soft and unconscious. She struggled, obscured by the sackcloth.

The anesthetic was so strong that when she woke up again, she was already tied up in a cabin. There is no strength in her hands and legs, and the only places on her body that can move are her eyes, she looked at Liu February, she still closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Seeing that Shen Yun was really awake, the kidnapper walked over and put a cold blade against her sideburns, and half of his cheeks touched the ice-like coldness. This person is not among the kidnappers just now, obviously a newcomer, or their master. He played with the blade on her cheek for a while, then retracted it into its scabbard.

"Miss Shen has now become the woman of the Dog Emperor, and her courage has become bigger, I thought you would be so scared that you yelled." He said.

The voice was hoarse, but it was familiar, as if it had been heard somewhere before. She stared indignantly at the face, a pair of deep eyes peeking through behind the sheep's head mask. I feel more and more familiar with these eyes, like an old friend who has been absent for many years.