Soon, Li Wei and Lu Chunnian also returned.

After all, Li Wei is a native of Qingzhou, and he has served in Qingzhou Mansion for a short time, so he is familiar with this Qingzhou boundary.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't suppress a snake on the ground. Every place has its own rules, and those who master the rules become the head of the land, and even the local officials have to avoid it.

Lu Chunnian wants to find someone, but he definitely can't rely on himself, so he still has to ask the head snake.

Li Wei took Lu Chunnian more and more out of the way, until he entered a courtyard, which was well repaired, but it looked a little scary.

When he got closer, he found that there were two big characters on the door of this courtyard - Yizhuang.

Lu Chunnian was taken aback, although he had never been to Yizhuang, he also knew that Yizhuang was the place where the dead were placed.

"Master Li Li Li, ...... are you?" Lu Chunnian pulled Li Wei's sleeve and didn't dare to continue to move forward.

"I'll take you to find the head snake of Qingzhou Mansion." Levi said lightly.

Lu Chunnian watched Li Weiyun say those words lightly, and he didn't know what to say for a while, Lord Li Weili of Dali Temple, who has always been self-denying, actually took Lu Chunnian to Yizhuang to find the head snake of Qingzhou Mansion?

It's magical to think about.

Seeing that his face was embarrassed, Li Wei opened his mouth to explain: The head snake in Qingzhou Mansion is different from the other places, he was originally a good man in the green forest, and later ...... Something happened, so I went to Yizhuang. ”

"Although others are not in the rivers and lakes, he still has his prestige on the rivers and lakes."

Lu Chunnian nodded. Li Wei said so, and he couldn't be hypocritical anymore.

It's just that this Yizhuang is a place to store dead bodies after all, Lu Chunnian still feels a little scared, and he still pulls the corner of Li Wei's clothes and doesn't let it go.

Li Wei didn't laugh at him, after all, his performance when he first came to Yizhuang was on par with Lu Chunnian at the moment.

In Li Wei's impression, this Yizhuang was deserted, there were no living people, and there were not even a few corpses.

Contrary to their impressions, as soon as they entered the gate of Yizhuang, they were frightened by the corpses that filled the courtyard.

The corpses were laid out one by one, neatly and covered with a white cloth. In front of each corpse was a brazier with paper money burning in it.

The walls of Yizhuang were covered with yellow talismans, and although Lu Chunnian couldn't understand what the cinnabar characters on the yellow talismans were, he also knew that they must be some exorcisms and demons.

Levi's heart sank, and he knew that most of these people had died of the plague.

Lu Chunnian was still looking around, and he didn't feel scared at this time.

Li Wei stopped him, he took out a sweat towel from his sleeve, and decisively tore it into two pieces, one was handed to Lu Chunnian, who was still looking around, and the other covered his mouth and nose.

"Cover it." Levi's voice was muffled through a sweat towel.

"Oh." Lu Chunnian obediently took the sweat towel and covered his mouth and nose like Li Wei.

Before entering, he glanced at the ground, which was covered with a thick layer of snow, but it looked a little yellow.

This reminded Lu Chunnian of a sentence that Mr. Lu once said: It will rain when the sky is yellow, and it will snow when the ground is yellow.

Lu Chunnian glanced up at the sky, it was gray, overcast and cold.

Lu Chunnian hurriedly wrapped the cotton clothes on his body.

There is a statue of Guan Gong in the main hall of Yizhuang, and Guan Gong's black and red cheeks are very abrupt in this plain white, but Lu Chunnian thought that Li Wei had mentioned that the owner of this Yizhuang turned out to be a good man in the green forest, and he immediately felt that this Guan Gong statue was weirdly suitable here.

A man was burning incense to the statue of Guan Gong.

Levi waited aside, and it seemed that this man was the land snake they were looking for today.

Lu Chunnian couldn't help but look at the man carefully.

The man was about nine feet tall, looked taller than himself, and was a tall man, looking less than forty years old, with smooth cheeks and no beard.

It was obviously a cold winter day, but the man was dressed in a black suit, and his sleeves were rolled up, revealing his dark arm, and if you looked closely, you could see that the arm was covered with scars.

Sure enough, he is a good man in the green forest who has mixed the rivers and lakes, Lu Chunnian sighed secretly.

"Brother Li?" As soon as the man turned around after putting on the incense, he saw Li Wei and Lu Chunnian waiting at the door.

"It's me. Old Mo. Levi took two steps forward and high-fived him cordially: "It's rare that you still remember me." ”

Lu Chunnian looked at the person called Lao Mo, his face was tense one second, looking like a fierce killing god, but the next second, he grinned and grinned like a stupid son of the landlord's family.

Looking at the way these two people get along, I think the two of them have a lot of friendship.

To be honest, Lu Chunnian followed Li Wei as soon as he entered Dali Temple, and now he has been a few years, but he has never seen Li Wei hook up with any minister like this, he always abides by etiquette and serves the public, and maintains a relationship with the ministers of the DPRK and China, neither flattering nor oppressing subordinates.

Lu Chunnian looked at Li Wei and the old Mo Xu like this, the two of them chatted in dialect, probably Qingzhou dialect, Lu Chunnian couldn't understand it, so he started to fugue.

He originally came to Qingzhou with him to find the whereabouts of his younger brother Lu Chunzhi.

But when he really arrived in Qingzhou, looking at the ruins of Qingzhou Mansion waiting to be rebuilt, Lu Chunnian was not so anxious, and there were many more important things than Lu Chunzhi at the moment.

For example, Huang Yi'an.

For example, the plague.

"Recently, a lot of deceased people have indeed been sent, and the cause of death is ...... I was afraid that it was a plague, but the doctor said that it was common typhoid fever. What kind of typhoid fever can kill so many people at once? Lao Mo sighed: "This Qingzhou is too guarded is really a sin!" ”

Li Wei was reassured, and then asked, "Are all those who sent them here?" ”

Lao Mo shook his head: "There are too many people who have died, the locals, those who have relatives, have been claimed by relatives, and the rest are those who have no relatives and no reason in Qingzhou." If no one claims their bodies, they will have to be placed in my village. ”

"The people in the yamen said to keep the bodies of these people and wait for the capital to send someone to see this strange disease."

"I listened to their gossip when they were moving, saying that these people were not claimed anyway, so it was better to keep them for the people from the capital to autopsy the cause of the disease."

"It's vicious."

Li Wei grabbed a clue from these words, and he hurriedly said to Lu Chunnian: "Go and see if there are any ...... among these remains."

Levi didn't say that name, but Lu Chunnian knew who he was talking about.

He immediately got up, starting with the closest body.

Lu Chunnian carefully lifted the white cloth, his movements were slow and long, he was afraid that the familiar face would appear under the white cloth.

Little by little, the face under the white cloth was revealed, it was the face of a strange man, he still looked very young, somewhere between teenager and youth.

Lu Chunnian breathed a sigh of relief, and soon, he began to move towards the next body again.

"I want you to help me find someone." Li Wei looked at Lu Chunnian's back and was silent for a long time.

Lu Chun is only in his early twenties, and at this moment he is hunched on his back, but he seems to be old.

He had heard about the Lu family for a long time, and he felt sorry for Lu Chunnian's lack of attention, and admired his independence and sobriety. He knew that he was born for Lu Chunzhi, so he was willing to be Lu Chunzhi's shadow and stepping stone.

Lu Chunzhi can give up the recommendation of the nobles of the family for the sake of a good reputation, and enter the official with the imperial examination.

But Lu Chunnian wanted to pave the way for Lu Chunzhi, so he took the road of being recommended as an official.

At this moment, Lu Chunnian is going to leave his hometown again in order to find Lu Chunzhi.

"He looks a little like the person in front of him, taller and whiter than him, with handsome eyebrows and a mouthful of Kyoto official dialect." Levi silently thought about Lu Chunzhi.

He was not impressed by Lu Chunzhi, and after Lu Chunzhi passed the Jinshi examination, he went to the Hanlin Academy, and on weekdays he worked with other Hanlin scholars in the Hanlin Academy to revise and compile books, and he seemed to be very busy, but he was not busy with anything.

Li Wei can't look down on Lu Chunzhi. In his eyes, Lu Chunnian is much better than Lu Chunzhi, he is down-to-earth and hardworking, upright, straightforward in character, although he is a descendant of the Lu family, he can mingle with those people when handling cases, he has the people in his heart, and he also has a family and a country.

"Okay, I'll ask my men to help you find it." Old Mo said leisurely. "But here, you better not come yet. You also know that if these people really die of the plague, I am afraid that they will infect you. ”

Li Wei nodded, he patted Lao Mo's shoulder and said, "I also have important things to do when I come to Qingzhou, maybe I will continue to trouble you." ”

Lao Mo smiled heartily: "I'm afraid that you won't trouble me!" If there is anything to do just look for me. It's still the old place, you know. ”

Levi glanced at him in shock: "Old place? After all these years, you still haven't ......."

Lao Mo sighed, his straight waist collapsed in an instant, and even he himself seemed to be much older.

Lao Mo picked up the gold foil paper in his hand and began to fold the gold ingots skillfully. He folded and said, "It's because I'm not good enough, it's because I'm incapable that I let her down." ”

Li Wei also picked up a piece of gold leaf paper and learned from Lao Mo to start folding gold ingots. It's just that he hasn't done it for a long time, and he is rusty in the end.

He didn't know how to comfort the man in front of him, so he could only sigh.

In the courtyard, Lu Chunnian was still checking the faces under the white cloth one by one.

He had a strange idea in his heart, and it was a lot of thoughts, and it was very messy, like a ball of thread that had been crumpled by a cat, and he couldn't find the head and tail.

Lu Chunnian felt a little relieved.

He lifted the white cloth faster and faster, in contrast, he was afraid that there was a familiar face under the white cloth, and he hoped that it was......

A white particle of snow fell in the palm of his hand covered with a white cloth, and soon, the snow particle turned into water under the effect of body heat.

Lu Chunnian looked up at the sky, and the snow particles became more and more dense, overwhelming, as if they wanted to bury all the dirty sins in this world.

Is it dirty? Perhaps.

Lu Chun laughed young and continued to the next body.

"I have seen the bodies of these men when they were brought in, and there is no one who looks seven points like him, as you say. Won't you tell him? Lao Mo's movements did not stop, and full and round gold ingots were born under his hands.

Li Wei smiled lightly and shook his head: "He has been trembling and frightened all the way, but he has been struggling to suppress it." Now there is an opportunity for him to relax and vent. ”

"It's better to be blocked. If he is allowed to reluctantly suppress himself, I am afraid that there will be problems. ”

"He's a good boy, he shouldn't be."