Zuo Ci suddenly felt that his father was old, but he had the impression that his father was still the high-spirited Zuo City Lord.

"Dad, don't worry, I will protect Rongcheng."

Zuo Ci saw that under the chair on the side, there was a letterhead, Zuo Ci leaned over and picked it up, it was sent by Fuxian.

Outside the door, Xia Yingren knocked lightly on the door, came in with two bowls of sweet soup, served the sweet soup to the father and daughter respectively, and took it all in one gulp.

When he opened Fuxian's letterhead, his eyes widened in an instant, and he was almost speechless.

There were only a few short sentences on the letterhead, but it made Zuo Ci feel uneasy.

"There are many people in Fu County who have fainted with high fever, and five people have died, I am afraid that it is a plague, and I hope that the city lord will send troops to surround Fu County to avoid the spread."

"How long has it been since this letterhead arrived? Why is this letter not marked with expedited red? ”

The Zuo City Lord didn't know what was going on, he got up and picked up the letterhead, and instantly felt dizzy.

"Send someone to Fu County..."

After speaking, he fell straight down, and Zuo Ci patted the frightened Xia Yingren.

"Go and call the medic."

Xia Yingren hurriedly ran out, and the little servants carried the left city lord into the main house. Zuo Ci's mind was blank for a while, and he couldn't think of anything.

The medical officer took the pulse of the left city lord and opened a pharmacy.

"Don't worry about the young city lord, the city lord is just angry, and it will be fine if you rest for a while."

Zuo Ci breathed a sigh of relief, she walked to the desk on the side, picked up pen and ink and wrote three letters.

"Qingluan."

A woman came in and saluted with her fists folded.

"Give these three letters to Wen Ye, Yun Zhou, and Zhinan."

Zuo Ci took the letter and lowered his voice when he handed it to Qingluan.

"You arrange for the three of you to deliver the letter, wait for me outside the city with the soldiers of the Feng Battalion, and let the red kite take the people of the Phoenix Camp to guard the Rong City."

Xia Yingren was taking care of the city lord Zuo on the side, and after Zuo Ci finished giving the order, he patted her gently.

"Welcome, I have to go to Fuxian, you can rest assured here, I have written to Yu Wen, he will come in a few days. If my father is still unwell, you and Wen will take care of Rongcheng's affairs for the time being. ”

Xia Yingren nodded with tears in her eyes.

"Ah Ci, don't worry, I will definitely help you guard Rongcheng."

After Zuo Ci instructed the maids in the house, he hurriedly left the house, got on a horse, and went to the medical hall in Rongcheng, leaving a letter and waiting for the apprentice to hand it over to the medical officer.

rode out of the city, and traveled ten miles before I saw Qingluan and the people of Fengying waiting here.

"Young City Lord, the letter has been sent."

Zuo Ci glanced back in the direction of Rongcheng, prayed in his heart not to make trouble, and then left with his soldiers.

——

Void Mountain was the closest, and Xu Zhinan was also the first person to receive the letter, and she took the letter and still muttered it in her mouth.

"Sister Zuo missed me so much that she left only an hour before she sent a letter."

But when he opened the letter and read it word for word, Xu Zhinan frowned, and his heart hung up.

"Zhinan, there is a suspected plague in Fu County, I will take the people of Fengying with me, you don't want to go back to the City Lord's Mansion. If Rongcheng is in chaos, you will ask my master to send you to Yecheng and hand over the key talisman of the secret room to Shen Yunzhou. Secret."

Xu Zhinan rolled up the letter, picked up the fire fold on the side and lit it, she loved to play, but she didn't want Zuo Ci to be disappointed.

Xu Zhinan put away the worry on his face and replaced it with a smile, Xiahou Chuan in the courtyard was asking Gu Changan to take a step, and when he saw Xu Zhinan come out, he patted Gu Changan's leg with a bamboo stick.

"What did the girl say?"

"Sister Zuo said that she was going to Fuxian County, let me stay here, and go back to say that I was bored."

Xiahou Chuan stroked his beard and laughed, but his legs behind him trembled a little, but Gu Changan, who still gritted his teeth and insisted, couldn't laugh.

"Hold on for another half an hour and run twenty laps around the yard."

Gu Changan felt that the sweat was about to drop, but he still nodded, gritted his teeth and persisted.

Xu Zhinan sat on the steps facing him, holding his head to look at him, his face was full of worry, Gu Changan couldn't help but feel a little happy, but he couldn't say why.

But in fact, Xu Zhinan was just thinking about whether Zuo Ci could get to Fuxian safely.

——

Zuo Ci set off from Rongcheng, and arrived in the afternoon of the second day, there was a foul smell near Fuxian, it was obviously summer, but it gave people an eerie sense of fear, Zuo Ci's heart was full of worry, she didn't know if the situation in Fuxian would be more serious.

"Qingluan, you instructed the soldiers of Fengying to surround Fuxian, and no one was allowed to go out, if you have something important, you should cover your mouth and nose and then come in to look for me. In a few days, the medical officer from Rongcheng should arrive, remember to let the soldiers also take precautions. ”

Qingluan responded to the order, left his horse, dismounted, and walked to Fuxian. The situation in Fuxian is even more serious than Zuo Ci imagined, and even with a scarf on his face, he can still smell the stench. There is no place to be where it once was, there are few people on the streets, and some shops are long closed.

Zuo Ci felt sad in his heart, he didn't know what kind of catastrophe he had experienced here, although he was accompanied by secret guards, he was not worried about his safety. She just felt more sorry for the people of Fu County, who had suffered like this.

It was dusk, the sun was about to set, and the magistrate of Fu County appeared in front of her with a scarf.

"I've seen the young city lord."

Zuo Ci saw that his eyes were dark and green right now, and he shouldn't have had much rest recently.

"Tell me more about the situation in Fu County."

"A month ago, two people in Fuxian County began to have high fever, and they were prescribed medicine in the hospital and went home, but after two weeks, many more people had high fever, until seven days ago, the first two people with high fever died, and more people with high fever fainted. There was chaos in the county, and I sent someone to send an urgent letterhead to the city lord earlier, but I couldn't hear anything, so I had to let some strong young people block the entrance to Fuxian County and prevent people from going out. ”

Zuo Ci gritted his back teeth, it seems that someone deliberately changed the outer cover of the letterhead, if she hadn't found out today, I'm afraid Fuxian would have become a human purgatory.

"You're doing a good job, where are the bodies of the first two to die? Can you still check? ”

The county magistrate walked to a clean inn with Zuo Ci and spoke.

"He has been buried by his family..."

"But if the young city lord wants to investigate, he can send someone to dig it out tomorrow."

"Today, the young city lord is resting here now, and he will check the bodies of those two tomorrow."

Zuo Ci nodded, now that the sun has set, I am afraid that I will miss the details by checking through the candle flame, and tomorrow I will prepare a generous gift for the families of those two people, and no one will be happy to dig up the grave.

Zuo Ci sat on the bed of the inn, his face was full of sadness, if it was really a plague, there was a cure. But if someone deliberately caused it, I don't know if it was Rongcheng or Dongzhou.