Song Lingjun was silent for a moment, then sat up straight, and arched his hand towards Lin Xi: "Miss Lin wants to know, Song naturally has nothing to tell." To tell the truth, Miss Lin can cure the plague and dare to come here, Song admires her very much. Don't hide it from Miss Lin, the people of Pei County who are infected with the plague are here, please ask Miss Lin to help! ”

Lin Xi said: "Is it only here?" ”

Song Lingjun immediately said: "Miss Lin can't rest assured that the people who are infected with the plague in Jinling are really righteous. Miss Lin rest assured, I know how to enter Jinling, Miss Lin can cure the plague, and the officials of Jinling have no reason to refuse Miss Lin's arrival. ”

When the words fell, Song Lingjun looked at Lin Xi and spoke respectfully.

"If Miss Lin can be cured and the plague is relieved, her name will surely be passed down to the world, and the people will be grateful to you."

Lin Xi laughed when she heard these words, but there was no smile in her eyes.

"County Lieutenant Song, I thought that you and I had known each other since I was in Ruyang Ping County, and you helped my family Dabao to run an enrollment, and your feelings are somewhat different from ordinary people. But I didn't expect that you would also prevaricate me with the words of others. ”

Song Lingjun said calmly: "I don't understand what Miss Lin means. ”

"The plague, I will cure it. But the words must also be made clear. ”

Lin Xi frowned and said: "I don't know if you don't want to tell me, whether you think that I shouldn't be involved in this, or if my father-in-law has already told you before, but what I want to say is that I'm not stupid, it's not that I can't guess." ”

She looked at the contents of the case, pulled out a clean piece of paper, and then took a brush and dipped it in ink, drawing as she spoke.

"If this is the range we are in, then use this to represent Jinling, here is Pei County in the west, and the mountains here in the northwest. Sorting out the ins and outs of the matter, it was a common man in Pei County who disappeared in the mountains in the northwest and came back with the plague. It didn't take long for the plague to break out, and the people of Jinling City came quickly, and then the plague also broke out in Jinling. ”

Lin Xi pointed to the mountains to the northwest.

"In fact, I already knew not so long ago that there were traces of military marches here."

Song Lingjun suddenly raised his head and looked at Lin Xi.

Lin Xi's voice was clear and light, "The plague broke out very suddenly, without any warning, which shows that the plague should not have appeared in Peixian and Jinling. So combined with all the previous things, let's start with the people who were originally found in Peixian. ”

"What if when he disappeared in the mountains, he saw something he shouldn't have seen, like the army in the mountains?"

Song Lingjun's hand tightened.

"I heard Chen Fuzi and Li Fuzi say that Jinling is hundreds of thousands of miles in radius, and only in the Jiangyou region has troops allowed by the imperial court to be stationed. Then these things that appear in the mountains of the northwest are against the law, and once discovered, the crime is against the private army. So these people will not spare the people who find them. ”

"It's easier for people to find out if they kill someone in vain, so they thought of a way to make this person die as a matter of course, and the method used in it should be the plague. The people who disappeared in Pei County before all died because of this, didn't they? It's just that what those people in the mountains didn't expect was that someone would be infected with the plague for a few days and not die, and returned to Pei County. But even when he returned, the man was terminally ill and soon died, but the plague spread. ”

Lin Xi's expression was solemn, "The plague is extremely contagious, once it explodes on a large scale, it is impossible for no one to notice." So not long after the explosion, people from Jinling came. But they found that you were new to office, and your foundation was still shallow, so there was nothing to fear. They want the people of Peixian to fend for themselves and prevent you from contacting people outside. ”

Song Lingjun looked at Lin Xi with a strange look, "Why did the officials of Jinling City do this?" ”

"Because of the old Chu relics." Lin Xi said.

Song Lingjun's eyes changed.

Lin Xi said: "There are quite a lot of relics in the old Chu in Jinling, and they have been in business for several years, and they have different people and everything they do, which is not surprising. Moreover, if there is a plague for no reason, if the court knows about it, their black gauze hats will not be guaranteed. ”

"If my guess is correct, the traces of the march that appeared in the mountains are also from the old Chu relics. Even, although they decided to start an incident, they probably didn't think about taking action so quickly. It was the Peixian plague that appeared too suddenly, and it caught them off guard. So they had to pick up the pace. ”

At the same time, they didn't have enough manpower, so they came to Pei County to directly capture a lot of young strong people, which could also speed up the demise of Pei County. But what they never expected was that the people they took away were already infected with the plague, so they brought the plague into Jinling City. ”

This is the most reasonable explanation that Lin Xi can infer based on the information he has obtained so far.

Lin Xi asked, "County Lieutenant Song, am I right?" ”

Song Lingjun looked directly at Lin Xi, his gaze changed several times.

Lin Xi couldn't tell what Song Lingjun meant by looking at her, but she was sure of one thing, she guessed right.

Sure enough, Song Lingjun bowed his head and said, "Yes." Miss Lin guessed it herself, but it wasn't what the official told you, so Brother Shen couldn't blame the official. ”

It's really Shen Chen.

Lin Xi was really angry and distressed for a moment.

Shen Chen was angry and hid it from her, and felt sorry for Shen Chen, who was carrying so much when she didn't know.

Speaking of Shen Chen, Lin Xi couldn't help it. She asked, "What happened to the county lieutenant Song and me?" When did you get in touch? Why did Shen Chen send a message to Du Buyou and Wang Shou a long time ago, and arrange for them to come to Pei County to find you to connect? ”

Song Lingjun said these happily: "After my scientific examination, I worked in Beijing for a period of time, and then I was assigned to serve as the county lieutenant of Pei County. Soon after I took office, I wrote to Brother Shen. I have always known that Brother Shen helped me find someone to solve the problem of the bookstore, and I also knew that Brother Shen also asked someone to take care of my family. ”

Lin Xi thought about it.

Good guy, wasn't Shen Chen busy opening a shop with her at that time?

At that time, Shen Chen was as busy as she was from morning to night, and she didn't have the energy to pay attention to anything else, but Shen Chen could still take care of so many things? ?

And later, she was also busy all night, she was tired and unconscious, but Shen Chen still had the energy to leave to see Wang Shou.

Is this really what normal people can do?!!

"As for Brother Shen's arrangement of Brother Du and them to me this time......" Song Lingjun flipped through the official documents on the ground, and finally found out the old ones and handed them to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi took it and opened it to take a look, and found that this was an official document about the disappearance of many people in Mingpei County.

She wondered, "Show me what ...... this"

Song Lingjun explained seriously: "It was my first time as an official, and I didn't know how to deal with many official affairs, and I couldn't do it. I was afraid that I would not be able to give justice to the people, so I would often write to Brother Chen in Haixian County to ask for advice. Later, Brother Chen was ordered to return to Beijing to take up his post, and before he left, he told me that I could still consult Brother Shen. Brother Shen has a cold face and a warm heart, and he will teach me. ”