"Have you heard, a plague has been found in the city! Don't you see that many people go to the high priest? ”

"I heard that one of my relatives got it, and it was terrible."

"Don't say it, do you still want to eat, or you won't be able to eat if you talk about it."

Three men in an inn in the city sat at the dining table next to me and whispered about the corpse poison in the city, and we couldn't stop the news of the corpse poison at all, and it could only be said that it was a plague that was not good for infecting people.

The source of the problem of corpse poison stumped me, the wells of each family are fine, the nearby rivers are fine, and there were many infected people in the city yesterday, and they are all men, the cheap master and the Qingyi real people They went back to Maoshan to prepare medicinal materials, and the amount that needed to be prepared exceeded my predetermined amount.

"Alas" so many burdens pressed on my head and sighed, I was so tired, I really wanted to find the ghost coffin and go back early.

"Little Er, I'll leave it here."

I put down the money and walked out of the inn, I want to go outside the city to see, because most of the people infected with the corpse poison are working outside the city, the streets in the city are at noon at this time, there are not many people walking on the street, the summer heat makes the street full of heat, you can feel hot feet when you walk on the ground with shoes, this is all bluestone pavement.

Walking down the shady edge of the eaves with my head bowed to the gate of the city, where there were few guards, I walked over and took out the waist card of my high priest, and then ignored them and walked straight over, and they did not salute.

My high priest's waist card also has the word "free courtesy", and I don't like people to kneel down on me, so in order to save trouble, I engrave the word "free courtesy" on the waist card.

Walking out of the city gate, there are only a mess of bushes and some dirt bags and a road outside the city, and the village of people is far away, not close to Langya City.

There is a construction site not far away, and I heard that the residence built by King Langya for the gatekeepers is not small, and many men in the city are working there.

I walked over,

"Come on, everyone, we must catch up with the deadline."

A man in an official robe shouted, his face flushed with too much force as a large group of people digging the foundation in front of him.

"Are you still recruiting this official?" I walked up to the man and said.

The man in the official robe turned around, looked at me a few times, and said, "Recruit, why don't you recruit, we need a young laborer like you the most, rest assured that the money will not be less, and it will include food and shelter." ”

Since I didn't show up, most of the people in the city didn't know that I was the new high priest, and I came out today wearing only an ordinary white robe.

"Thank you, sir, I'm worried that my wife and children at home don't have anything to eat, so I can work," I took off my white robe, shirtless, picked up a shovel, and jumped into the pit of the foundation that was still being dug.

I haven't done this kind of work on the foundation, but the shovel will be used, when I was cultivating in Zhongnan Mountain, many vegetables were grown by myself, and everything in the pit was dug by myself, and the main reason for coming here was to understand the situation, because this is the place where men in the city are most concentrated.

There are many people who work, both old and young, and the old man who is a year old said to me: "Young man, you come out to do this kind of manual work at such a young age, you see that you look white and clean, and your hands are so white, you look like you stay at home and are pampered, why don't you become a teacher." ”

I smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Teaching can't feed the children and daughter-in-law at home, although this work is a little tiring and hard, but at least it can reduce the burden on the family." ”

"Do a good job, boy, it's a good job."

"Yes, I know." I said,

"How did you dig up another ball, it's already four today." Suddenly someone complained.

I followed the sound and saw that the person, holding a purple ball in his hand, the ball was similar to the purple cabbage, wrinkled, my intuition felt that the ball must not be simple, I said to the person: "Big brother, can you let me see the ball in your hand, it's very strange I want to see it." ”

"Here you go, this ball is easy to dig out, today I dug four alone, and others dug a lot." The man handed me the purple ball.

I took it, the purple ball, a little hot in the hand, there is a lot of mucus on the skin, soft and elastic, much like the meat ball and Tai Sui, but Tai Sui has purple, most of them are close to the color of flesh.

"Uncle, how much of this thing is here?" I put the purple ball down and asked the uncle who was talking to me just now.

Uncle said: "A lot, just the first day I remember digging out more than 20, at that time some people said that it was the legendary Tai Sui, many people took it home, I didn't take this thing how it could be Tai Sui, when I was a child, my grandfather found that Tai Sui and this color is different, those people are not afraid of problems when they eat." ”

I looked at the purple ball of meat in my hand and thought to myself that this was not Tai Sui, the recent corpse poison must have something to do with this ball, so I threw it aside and continued to work.

Sure enough, as the big brother said, this purple meat ball is very easy to find, I dug out two of them from the soil after a while, and they are still connected, I just wanted to pick them up and take a look.

I heard the uncle next to him say: "Young man, what is so beautiful about this thing, the net amount is less touched, don't you know that there are many people in the city who are infected with the plague now," said the plague uncle's voice was lowered.

"I'm telling you, I suspect it's the plague that I got because I ate this ball, because no one has been here since I brought this ball home a few days ago, and don't tell anyone, young man, I'm here for your good."

"It's okay, uncle, it seems that if you don't eat this ball, it seems to be fine, and the official didn't tell our high priest."

It was impossible for the overseer not to tell the High Priest or King Langya about the mysterious purple ball of flesh, because no one had ever seen it.

"Hehe" After I finished speaking, the uncle smiled, glanced at the overseer, and said in a low voice: "The tiger who eats people and does not spit out bones will not tell the high priest, after digging it out that day, he said that no one can say it, and he swallowed half of it himself,

Those who give others are hush money, and now the corruption of the officials below is ruthless, and the good things are kept by themselves, don't look at this is the national capital, the corrupt officials are very rampant, a few years ago a wharf was built in the Zhishui River, but the wharf collapsed in a few years, in fact, the materials used are not good, but the corrupt officials said that the dragon king did not let the wharf have, let's work hard."

I glanced at the overseer, thinking that this corpse poison must be cured, and corruption must be cured, this purple meat ball, if I didn't come out to see it, it might be irreparable before it would be discovered, the high priest is a little bit ignorant of everything, although King Langya is close to the people and cares about the people, he doesn't know much about the people below.