Gu Rin came out of the county government and led his soldiers to surround the Shang Gang.

The leader of the Shang Gang didn't know about Yao Chen's capture, Gu Rin suddenly came and directly gave him a blow to the head, he wanted to escape from the secret passage, but Gu Rin responded to the outside, and sent someone to block the only way to survive early.

Gu Rin took away several key personnel within the Shang Gang, and the rest of the people were placed in the Shang Gang.

In addition to the helper, plus the principal, there were four people in total, and all of them were captured.

Eleven tied the four people to the cell, and separated the three principals from the gang leader, who handed them over to Gu Gu Rin for personal interrogation.

Gu Rin sat behind the interrogation table, fiddling with a torture whip at random.

The identities of the four people, he sent someone to investigate early in the morning.

The leader of the merchant gang is named Gu Liang, who served as a guard guarding the border of the Western Regions in his early years, and then returned home with an injury, and after two years of repair, he began to do silk weaving business, and traveled back and forth between Hu and Han all the year round, and was a merchant for eight years, and then landed in You County and formed a merchant gang.

The other three principals, named Liu Yi, Tao Cong, and Chen Qi, are all natives of Youxian County, one is a landlord, one is an ordinary tenant farmer, and the other is a scholar who failed in the children's examination.

The three of them are all innocent, and even if they trace their ancestors for three generations, they have never turned over a case record.

On the other hand, Gu Liang is full of mistakes.

However, he defended the Western Regions eleven years ago, and frequently traveled back and forth between Hu and Han, so his suspicion was even heavier.

Gu Liang had a dark and wide face, his eyes were as small as soybeans, and his eyes shone like a mouse.

There was a layer of guilt on his head, but he was not afraid, and said with a smile: "This adult, the grass people are doing serious business, from childhood to adulthood, they keep to themselves, even in business, they are also strict in obeying the law, and they have not committed anything, and the adults have arrested the grass people, so there must be a lot of misunderstanding among them."

Gu Rin raised his eyes, glanced at Gu Liang coldly, and sneered: "Yao Chen has been taken down by Ben Jiang, what should be said, what should not be said, last night after eating a round of punishment, they all vomited, otherwise how do you think Ben will find out the head of the Shang Gang."

Gu Liang's smile froze, the smile on his face faded, and his eyes rolled, as if he was measuring the truth of Gu Rin's words.

After a while, he tore away a smile again, still pretending to be crazy and stupid: "What the adults said, what Yao Chen criminalized, the grass people don't understand, the grass people are just ordinary businessmen, their net worth is innocent, and they have never ......."

"When the Hu people come to sea tomorrow, they will disguise a caravan from Zhuang Village and send you to meet you, and you will bring people into You County under the pretext of trading with you." Gu Rin interrupted, "What is the purpose, isn't the next step to go straight to Kyoto? That's what you call keeping to yourself."

As soon as his words fell, the indifferent color attached to Gu Liang's face instantly shattered.

Gu Rin leaned back at will, and a lazy and lazy movement fell on him, but it was full of indescribable coercion.

He has a full grasp of the current situation, and it is only a matter of time before Gu Liang is willing to tell the truth.

There was a dead silence in the cell.

"How do you know?!"

Gu Liang's voice trembled, and his eyes cracked.

These are all secret news, and no one knows about them except for the henchmen of the Hu tribe, as well as Yao and him who are ambushed in You County.

Could it be that Yao Chen really rebelled!

He stared in disbelief, not knowing who to believe for a moment.

Gu Rin stepped down from behind the interrogation table and squatted in front of Gu Liang, his cold gaze locking him like a poisonous snake.

"How about Ben will be free Ben General's means? If you still want to pretend to be crazy and stupid, I don't mind repeating those things that were used on Yao Chen last night."

Yao Chen swore to die, and died inexplicably this morning, these things were not interrogated by him, but from the letters provided by Pei Yungui.

After learning the news, he was also slightly stunned, on the one hand, he was shocked by the speed of Hu Ren's movements, and on the other hand, he was glad that the news came in time.

Li Qingyuan arrived at the latest in the dark, he hurried up, and rushed to Zhuang Xiao within two hours, and it was still too late to deploy at that time.

Gu Liang's gaze dodged, and he was confused, and the defense line was about to collapse.

Gu Rin again

Filling it with a fire, Yoyo said, "I already know the strategy, tomorrow, my army will be ambushed around Zhuang Xiao, and all Hu people who enter the country will be killed." Gu Rin said: "Hu Ren is too busy to take care of himself, and he can't save you."

Gu was stunned and flustered in his conscience, and on the one hand, he suspected that Gu Rin did it on purpose, just to convict him by his words.

On the other hand, he was worried about his situation.

The time, place, and events were all right, Gu Rin didn't lie, he really got something out of Yao Chen's mouth.

Once Gu Rin planned in advance, the little strength of the Hu people would definitely die.

After all, this time he relied on him to build a bridge and infiltrate Daqi, not to attack it for a long time, but to take the small town of Youxian County as a wait-and-see place.

And after Hu Ren was ambushed, it is self-evident who will be next.

He will surely die!

And the informant sent by the Hu people at the beginning should have contacted him yesterday, and he didn't see half a figure when he waited in the merchant gang for a long time.

Hu Ren didn't plan to give up his chess piece.

Gu Liang was suspicious by nature, and when he grabbed an insignificant detail, he couldn't help but be desperately suspicious.

His thoughts flipped, and the more he thought about it, the more vulnerable he became to the trust he had established with Hu Ren.

Gu Rin coldly looked at Gu Liang's increasingly ugly face, and evoked a smile that was bound to win.

"How's it going, have you thought it through?"

*

Pei Yun returned to the inn, and when it was time to put things down, he felt exhausted all over his body, and the hunger in his stomach swept like a spring.

She suddenly remembered that except for the porridge she drank in the morning, she had not eaten yet, and it was not obvious when she was busy, but now that she was free, she had a feeling of wanting to eat something.

There were more people in the other three cities, and the three shopkeepers finished distributing the rice porridge in half an hour, and they came back earlier than Pei Yungui, so they were busy in the kitchen in advance and made some hot dishes and hot meals.

Pei Yungui just caught up with this meal, he hadn't eaten oil and water in his mouth for a few days, tasted a few side dishes, and felt that the food was delicious.

Gu Rin may still be dealing with the affairs of the Shang Gang, since Pei Yun returned to the inn, she has not seen him, she thought about it left and right, and made a belly of drafts, but she had to give up.

It's just that the matter of the shelter is urgent, so I still have to hurry up and explain it to Gu Rin.

Pei Yungui pretended to be thoughtful, and after lunch, he went around the streets of Youzhen again, and finally his eyes fell on an abandoned ancient temple not far from the inn.

She went in and shopped.

The ancient temple is very large, divided into two courtyards, with two floors, respectively, which is suitable for use as a shelter.

It's just that the inner utensils are dilapidated and have accumulated dust for a long time, and it takes a lot of work to clean up and clean them later.

Pei Yungui came out of it, but he was still quite satisfied with this discovery.

She quietly wrote down the address and went back to the inn.

At dusk, Pei Yungui went to Nanshi to deliver food again, Mo was busy for an hour and a half, and after returning, it was already dark.

When he was busy, he was very fulfilling, although he was tired, but after seeing the immature smiles on the faces of those children, Pei Yungui felt that all the hardships were worth it.

At the same moment, Li Qingyuan's carriage and horse finally arrived in You County, Pei Yungui came back from outside, and saw the team of Haohao Tang Tang outside the inn from a distance, and approached closer, just as Li Qingyuan turned off the horse.

He traveled all the way with the stars and the moon, day and night, with some dust on his face, and his eyebrows and eyes were still cold.

Pei Yungui jumped out of the carriage and saluted.

Eleven followed Gu Rin and was still doing errands outside, Zhao An and the shopkeeper and others had not returned from the porridge abroad, so Pei Yungui brought Li Qingyuan and others in.

Fortunately, the guest room was cleaned up early in the morning, and dozens of imperial doctors were quickly settled.

"What about General Gu?" Li Qingyuan put the luggage in the compartment and asked non-stop.

He came three days late, and he needed to know the situation in You County immediately.

However, when he entered the town and saw the devastated streets, he could also guess that the situation in You County was not clear.

Pei Yun

He replied, "The general has gone to deal with corrupt officials, and he has not returned for a day, so he should be back soon tonight."

She knew that Li Qingyuan cared about the people of You County, so she explained to herself: "Except for the surrounding villages in You County, there are more than 50,000 people in the town, about 8,000 households.

Li Qingyuan stared at the flickering candle on the table, did not speak, but his eyes showed a worried expression.

When he entered the town at night, he saw the streets bustling with sallow-faced patients, and the number was so great that almost the entire town was not spared.

Pei Yungui continued, "The most serious problem now is the shortage of doctors. On the night when Xiaonu and General Gu first arrived in You County, they went to the only open medical hall on the street, and there was only one doctor and one medicine boy in it, and there were hundreds of people who came to seek treatment.

"I see." Li Qingyuan said, "The Imperial Doctor will be in the clinic from tomorrow, and all patients will need to come for consultation...... There is only one medical center in You County?"

"Not really." Pei Yungui shook his head, "Originally, there was a medical center in each of the four cities in the southeast, south, and northwest, but in addition to the East City Medical Center, there was an old doctor who was still in good health, and the doctors in the other three medical centers were all sick at home."

Li Qingyuan frowned.

It's so serious......

He asked, "Do you know what is the sign of the sick?" Gu told the Imperial Doctor in advance so that they could draw up a diagnosis plan as soon as possible."

It was not that there had been no plague outbreaks in Daqi in the past, and there were three plagues that he led to help fight the plague, but it was the first time he had seen such a large number of sick people.

Even the plague eleven years ago was not as severe as this one.

Praying alone is not an incurable disease that even the Imperial Physician is at a loss for.

Pei Yungui pondered slightly, then took the pen and paper on the table and wrote down the illness of the patient she had witnessed.

- Vomiting, retching, diarrhea.

These three symptoms are the most common manifestations that Pei Yungui has seen among the patients he has come into contact with in the past two days, she recalled them carefully, and added: angina pectoris, sallow complexion.

She dried the ink on the paper and handed it to Li Qingyuan.