Bai Ziche didn't expect to see Shen Zhou in Yangzhou City.

After this shadow-like young man left the imperial capital, he was sharpened into a cold temperament, which made people cut at a glance. Shen Zhou's whole body was shrouded in black, and only a frosty face was exposed.

"Long time no see." Bai Ziche was dressed in a long robe, holding a cup of strong tea in his hand, and moved the stacked accounts on the opposite side of the table to make room for Shen Zhou.

Shen Zhou did not sit down, and said succinctly: "I want to borrow a doctor from you and follow me out of the city to treat a child." ”

Yangzhou City now does not allow people infected with the plague to enter the city, and even if they do, no medical center dares to accept them, for fear that the plague will spread in.

Bai Ziche hadn't seen him for a long time, and he was already overwhelmed by the cumbersome and cunning accounts, and he couldn't react to the request at first glance.

"What child, where did the child come from?" Bai Ziche looked at Shen Zhou in a daze, revealing a frightened look, "You have only been away from the emperor for less than two years...... Your child? ”

"Picked it up." Shen Zhou said, "Can you borrow it?" ”

"I can lend it to you, it's a small thing." Bai Ziche nodded and asked tentatively, "Have you been in Jiangnan for the past two years?" ”

Shen Zhou nodded slightly.

"Did you come to me just to borrow a doctor?" Bai Ziche couldn't help but ask.

Shen Zhou raised his wet eyes and looked at Bai Ziche. His eyes were not as dark brown as those of the Central Plains, but were black and blue, like a pool of cold water for thousands of years. No one can be looked at without being moved by such eyes, but the owner of the eye rarely shows emotion, and these eyes are like dead gems.

"I thought you were here to see Chu Zhixia." Bai Ziche sighed lightly and said, "She has had a hard time in the past two years. ”

"She won't want to see me." Shen Zhou just said.

"How so?" Bai Ziche was a little puzzled.

He didn't know anything about the dispute between the two, and Chu Zhixia was very secretive about the reason why Shen Zhou left. In the eyes of others, the sinking boat was like a drop of dew under the scorching sun, which disappeared silently, leaving no trace in the imperial capital.

"I'll talk about it when she gets back." Bai Ziche didn't want to discuss this issue with him, so he picked up his pen and wrote an edict with a little sour in his heart, and transferred the doctor to Shen Zhou. Although there is no plague in Yangzhou, everyone is in danger, and medicinal materials and doctors have become straining goods.

"She's not in Yangzhou?" Shen Zhou was stunned for a moment.

"She went to Binzhou two days ago," Bai Ziche said with a little worry as she blew the ink off the paper, "and I don't know what the situation is now." ”

Shen Zhou suddenly reached out and grabbed Bai Ziche, dragged him from the end of the table, and threw down the table accounts. Sun Yan, who was outside the door, was alarmed and slammed the door and broke in. Bai Ziche was caught by Shen Zhou in shock, but Shen Zhou didn't look at him, but used his scabbard to open the stacked papers.

Beneath the pile of paper lay a green spider, about the size of a fingernail.

"What is this?" Rao is Bai Ziche is powerless, and he can see that this is not an ordinary spider.

"The 'green full back' raised by the ghost clan of Jiuyousi Mountain."

Shen Zhou stepped on the spider, and the turquoise juice burst open, "Although the toxin is weak, it is better to swim quickly." Generally, not just one, after being bitten three times, the toxin slowly invades the internal organs, and the poisoned person will have a high fever, as if infected with the plague. ”

Shen Zhou stared at Bai Ziche and said, "Someone wants to kill you, but it still costs a lot of money." ”

It seems more reasonable to die of the plague than to let Bai Ziche die under the knife of the bandits, and no evidence can be found.

"What did you do in Jiangnan," Shen Zhou asked, "What did Chu Shixia do in Binzhou?" ”

Shen Zhou's gaze was so sharp, almost like a blade against Bai Ziche's throat, forcing him to breathe. Bai Ziche colluded with Chu Zhixia and the emperor, and told Shen Zhou about a big drama sung in front of the martial arts hall.

"So this time when you go down to Jiangnan, except for the emperor, no one wants you to go back alive." Shen Zhou's face was very ugly, and he quickly wrote down a note and stuffed it to Bai Ziche, "Send someone to this place to pick up a little girl named Mo Yuan." ”

"Where are you going?"

Shen Zhou put on a hat and swept into the torrential rain, and said without looking back: "Binzhou." ”

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August 17.

Binzhou, Anyang County.

It took too long to build a dedicated medical center, and after bargaining with Chu Shixia, the county guard decided to set aside a dwelling in the corner of the city to accommodate the sick. The rest of the counties followed suit, and the doctor signed a life and death certificate, and if the trip did not return, the government would support his parents, wife and children.

Before the area was completely closed, Chu Zhixia met Tan Yun in front of the fence.

The streets were filled with the smell of lime, the smell of wormwood burning, and the bitter smell that could not be extinguished by the drizzle.

Tan Yun was covered with a square scarf on his face, revealing only a pair of noble and self-contained eyes, revealing a faint arrogance. Chu Zhixia looked at such a pair of extremely familiar eyes, and was a little trance-like, and couldn't help but raise his hand to cover his forehead.

"This is your own solution, and when this place is sealed, the dead who are brought out will be burned on the spot. Are you sure you won't go back to Yanzhou? Chu Zhixia looked up at Tan Yun, as if he wanted to keep these eyes in his memory forever.

"My father once said to me that a woman should follow three virtues and teach her children. I was not convinced, and was repeatedly punished by him to kneel in the ancestral hall. If I die here, it is the destination of my conversation; If I come out alive, it will be a new destination for women in the world. Tan Yun smiled, open-minded and firm, "I seek benevolence, even if I die without a place to be buried, I should also smile at Jiuquan." ”

Such stubbornness and such integrity will be like Huo Wenqing, who is famous in Jiangnan. They are so similar, similar intelligence, similar obsessions, similar ...... Death is like home.

Chu Zhixia tried hard to recall that in the six years of auspicious charm in his previous life, what was the result of the Binzhou plague, and what was the outcome of Tan Yun. But at that time, Chu Zhixia had just taken over the burden of Chu Mingxiu, and such a tragic disaster was just a piece of information on the case for her - "Binzhou epidemic, with more than 10,000 casualties". and the list that followed in the party struggle, or collapsed, or implicated and dragged down.

Tan Yun is too small, too small to shake the life and death of thousands of people, and too small to be recorded by the bloody rain in the imperial capital. So Chu Zhixia hadn't heard her name, and he had no way of knowing her ending.

"You look at me like I'm looking at a dead man." Tan Yun raised his eyebrows and said, "The reason why you can prepare manpower, venues, and medicinal materials so quickly is because you killed Wang Biao, right?" I understand you now, and even if I can't catch the culprit in the end, I forgive you. ”

"Hold it." Chu Zhixia suddenly smiled, his face bright, "As long as you come out alive, you can see it." ”

Tan Yun also smiled and said, "I can see that you are doing something that will offend a lot of people." You're not necessarily safer on the outside than I'm on the inside. So Miss Chu, you also have to live well. ”