Although Shen Yan was so stubborn, he kept being in a daze in the yard and didn't go out.

Fortunately, Zhao Wuwu noticed his abnormal mood the day before yesterday, this person who has always been babbling and eager to let the world know about something, but yesterday he wilted in the Drunken Immortal Building, as if frost had hit.

So he got up early in the morning and went to Xiping Mansion to find Cao Mansion Yin for a long vacation, and after explaining the situation, he came to Nan'an Mansion to find Shen Yan.

At present, the task of treasure hunting is about to start, and he is also worried that Lord Shen will refuse him to participate in this matter because of Shen Yan's safety, so he specially came to investigate.

Who would have thought that as soon as he entered the door, he saw Shen Yan sitting in the courtyard, and Zhao Wuwu asked in the first sentence: "Why, seeing that you are Ling Zun opposing the task assigned to us by the emperor?"

Shen Yan glanced up at him and said quietly: "If that's the case, it's good, now he wishes I could go out early, so that he can settle quietly." ”

Zhao Wuwu heard the dissatisfaction in his words, it seemed that he was really worried, the father and son of the Shen family were both eccentric, and even their thoughts were unpredictable and abrupt.

He said: "In this case, Brother Shen has nothing to worry about, looking at your preoccupied appearance, why don't we go out and relax?"

Do the two big men want to take a boat ride on the lake and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lake?

Shen Yan crossed Erlang's legs and said casually: "With you, it's better to stay in this courtyard and be quiet." ”

"Okay. ”

Zhao Wuwu turned around, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said slowly: "Originally, I wanted to ask you to go to Jishitang with me, and find the white girl to ask some more about Lotus Village, after all, that is the only way for us to go on this trip, so I think we should be cautious." But seeing that you seem to be in poor health today, I have to suffer myself to run this trip, so you can be quiet here!"

"Wait!"

Zhao Wuwu was stopped before he could take a single step, and he turned around to see Shen Yan walking up with an indifferent face.

"Since it's a treasure hunt mission, how can I be embarrassed to let you suffer alone? Naturally, I want to share weal and sorrow with you, so let's go together!"

Zhao Wuwu nodded calmly on his face, but he sneered in his heart, sure enough, no matter how unpredictable this Shen Yan's mind is, there is one thing that will never change.

Outside Jishi Hall, Bai Luo and Xuan'er, who were serving the patient, were taking the medicine bag to the patient and sending it to the door, when they saw Shen Yan and Zhao Wuwu coming over from a distance.

"White girl, it's early!"

Shen Yan's eyes lit up as soon as he saw Bai Luo, and he ran to her to say hello, either he always said that there was Yan Ruyu in the book, if there was really such a beauty in this book, he would not doze off when he read the book.

When Bai Luo saw these two people, he stepped forward with a smile and said softly: "It's really a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet the two sons again." ”

After Zhao Wuwu saluted, he said straight to the point.

"Actually, it's not a coincidence today, but we made a special trip to ask, about the matter of Lotus Village mentioned yesterday, I wonder if the girl has more detailed information?"

"So you are here for this, and I told you all about it yesterday, and I don't know the rest. But we're going to go again today, because it's the first time I've encountered this rare disease, and I want to investigate and see if we can find out what it is.

Bai Luo already knows medical skills, and if he can walk with her, he will naturally gain a lot, and Zhao Wuwu is of course willing.

He nodded immediately and said, "In that case, then we will go to Lotus Village together to find out." ”

After a few people finished speaking, they followed Bai Luo to the backyard to lead the horses and carriages, and rushed to Lotus Village together.

When I arrived at the place, I found that Lotus Village was even bleaker than the Furong Village I had been to before, although the previous Furong Village was poor and backward, but the village was still clean and tidy and inhabited, but this lotus flower seemed to have been looted from top to bottom.

The doors of almost every house are wide open, and the inside is overgrown with weeds and messy, and you can see that it has been uninhabited for a long time.

Fortunately, the old man who Bai Luo went to was there, and the old woman saw through the crack in the door that it was a few of them who were visiting, so she opened the door bolt with peace of mind.

"It turns out that a few benefactors are visiting, please come in!"

The old woman showed them some seats, and then went to bring them tea

"Thanks to the girl's kind healing last time, my old man has woken up now, and he won't go up to the back mountain to collect firewood today. ”

Bai Luo replied politely: "It's just the duty of practicing medicine, you don't have to remember it, auntie." ”

Zhao Wuwu took the teacup neatly and asked tentatively: "Old man, has your village always been so desolate?"

When the old woman heard this, the teapot in her hand suddenly paused, and she put it down and sighed.

"Actually, it wasn't like this before, it wasn't a plague that killed countless people. Later, everything that could run ran away, leaving only our old bones, which could not withstand the toss. ”

When Bai Luo heard this, she couldn't help but wonder, and she asked, "How are you sure it's the plague?"

The old woman thought about it, and then sat down and spoke carefully.

About two months ago, a group of people suddenly came to the village, dressed strangely, and they said that they wanted to pay a high price to hire people to go to the mountains to find things. ”

"As long as there are young strong men in the family who are willing to go, they can get a large sum of money, and it is said that at that time, the house was full of silver, and people were spent, so almost all the men went at that time!"

"The evil thing is that after the men in the village followed those people into the mountain, they were not heard from for half a month.

But suddenly one day, the group came back, and they brought back the corpses of the men of the whole village. They said that before entering the mountains, our village was infected with the plague, and when we were in the mountains, everyone was infected, and not a single one was alive. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Wuwu first noticed the problem, and he wondered: "Then don't you think it's strange, why are you all safe, but only the man who entered the mountain is infected?"

The old woman shook her head when she heard this.

"Hey, that's what I'm going to say next, when they gave us this answer we naturally didn't believe anyone. After all, the men in the whole village are the pillars of the family, and all the women have united to resist, and everyone must be dissatisfied. As a result, this even more evil came, and the people who were originally left in the village were fine, but suddenly began to fall ill one after another. ”

"The people who took the lead in stirring up trouble all died, and the symptoms of death were exactly the same as those of the villagers who were brought back from the mountains, which confirmed the statement of that group of people. The rest of the village are the old, weak, women and children, and they can't do anything to those powerful people, so they can only walk and flee, away from this place of right and wrong. ”

"My old man and I were originally quite strong, but since then, our bodies have not been as good as before, so we can only stay here to find leftover vegetables in the abandoned fields to eat, and we can last a day!"