Chapter 21: Clear Water
After Feng Xue finished lunch, he took four guards, two maids, a servant, and ten barbarian slaves, and drove all the way towards Qingshui Village.
He doesn't have the idea of a private interview, in case of danger, who will he go to to shout grievances?
The four guards are all practitioners, although they are not the kind of masters who can hit a dragon with one palm, but they are also trained Honghuang people, the bow of three hundred stones will definitely not be able to be opened, and the three-stone hard bow will be easy.
Of course, three stones and three stones are different, Feng Xue's previous life was the kind of military general who opened a three-stone bow and pulled a dozen arrows at a time was a big guy, and put it here, this group of muscular guys can use the full bow as a flat envoy.
As for the barbarian slaves, although they have sealed the spiritual wisdom, but they are better than loyalty, after all, people's hearts are changeable, and no one knows if the four guards will suddenly rebel for some strange reason, at this time, the barbarian slave who absolutely obeys the order is the hole card that saves his life.
As for the spirit cards that controlled these ten barbarian slaves, of course, they were also kept by Feng Xue himself.
The speed of the ox cart was not fast, and the roads in the countryside were very ordinary, and by the time they arrived near Qingshui Village, it was already two hours later.
The so-called village of Shimizu was built at the foot of a small hill without a name, and a clear stream flowed down from the top of the mountain, hence the name of the village.
The village is not big, there are only about a dozen households, and there are no more than 100 people when it is full. There are two streets in the inside, there is not even an inn or restaurant, if the people in the village want to buy something, they basically have to wait for the first day of every decade to push the cart to Sheyang County to catch the market.
"Go to the village and see if there is any strange smell. Standing at the entrance of the village, Feng Xue did not enter the village directly, but said to the accompanying maid, although Luo Yang said that the concubine did not have a fragrance before, but there was no guarantee that it was not a deliberately hidden result, if it was really a problem in the village, then the village should have the same taste.
On the other hand, if there is no strange smell in the village, although there is no guarantee that there will be no problems here, it can at least show that the thing has not spread unscrupulously.
The little guy didn't know the purpose of coming to this village, he just thought that Gongzi was the same as before, just looking for medicinal herbs, crop seeds, etc., and he didn't care much, so he nodded and walked towards the village, not Feng Xuekeng, but most of the time, it is much safer not to know anything than to know a little, otherwise with the little guy's heart, maybe he will leak the bottom without talking a word.
He is not afraid of the little guy eating the things in the village, and the people who are used to eating in the Gongzi's Mansion can't look down on this kind of food in the poor countryside.
After waiting for a while, the little guy ran out, looking at his rather large stride, obviously worried about making Feng Xue wait.
"How is it, does it smell?" Feng Xue opened her mouth and asked, but the little guy didn't dare to sell it, so she replied directly:
"There is no fragrance, but there is a lot of feces and urine......"
"......" Feng Xue grinned, didn't bother to teach him vulgar language, just nodded, and walked towards the village with people, it was already evening at this time, most of the people in the village had already returned from the fields, Feng Xue and his group of more than a dozen people entered the village, and immediately attracted the attention of the villagers.
However, looking at Feng Xue's dress, it was not like an ordinary family, and the guards around her were powerful and powerful, so she didn't dare to contact rashly, but it didn't take long for an old man who was slightly better dressed to come over, and when they met, he first bent down and saluted, and then said:
"Little Lao'er is the chief of this Qingshui Village (in fact, it should be called Lizheng), I don't know which son it is, what is the matter?"
In ancient times, five households were neighbors, and five neighbors were neighbors, and the so-called radius of 100 miles may not refer to a specific area in ancient times, but to the surrounding 2,500 households.
And the chief here, which is naturally a mile long, belongs to the small officials with the organization, and generally speaking, it is also equivalent to the village chief.
Although it is not an aristocrat, in a village, it is also the most prestigious and influential existence.
"My surname is Xu. Feng Xue didn't make much introduction, so she directly said the prepared statement-
"Recently, there was a strange disease in Sheyang County, the first patient came from this Qingshui Village, I was worried that it was a plague, so I came to investigate one or two. ”
"Xu ......" The old man was slightly shocked in his heart, no matter how closed this village is, as an official (actually an official), he still knows that the surname of this country is Xu, and he dares to introduce himself with "surname Xu" in Xu State, it is not a royal family, or Wu Zhu, but before he had time to think about it, he was startled by the words behind.
Plague, no matter what age it is, is the existence of the enemy of mankind, even in the era of relatively developed medical treatment in Feng Xue's previous life, a large-scale plague still swept the world, causing millions of deaths and injuries, this word is placed in primitive society, even if it is a mythical world, the deterrent effect on civilians is also quite terrifying.
"Plague...... The ......old man couldn't repeat that word for a long time, and he stumbled for a long time before he simply changed the topic and said:
"I don't know who the patient is? Maybe it's just a miscommunication? I haven't had any serious illnesses in Qingshui Village lately......
"Liu Zhaodi, Liu Dazhuang's daughter, was accepted as a concubine by Sheyang County. Feng Xue said coldly, "You should understand who the county order usually comes into contact with, if it weren't for this, the ordinary plague wouldn't be worth coming to me personally." What do I ask you next, you answer truthfully, if you dare to be perfunctory, you know the consequences!"
"Understood! understood!" The captain's face turned white at once, the concubine was infected with the plague, so was the county order infected? If the county order was infected? Will it be infected with other nobles? Other nobles were infected with their family members......
The chief didn't dare to think about it, so he could only secretly scold Liu Dazhuang's daughter, I used to hear that there was a long tongue in the village saying that the big girl of the Liu family was a scourge, and I only felt jealousy at the time, but now it seems, isn't it?
Thinking of the legendary way to deal with the plague-infected village, the chief couldn't help but shudder, and hurriedly said:
"Childe, please speak!
"Let me ask you, in recent years, has Qingshui Village ever looked like crazy, with a strange expression, sometimes smiling, sometimes stunned, but thinking clearly, but he couldn't control himself?" When Feng Xue asked this, he took a half step back, ready to activate the spirit card at any time—no one knew whether the old man in front of him was a human being.
If it weren't for the fact that he only had the most initial point of anthropology, he would have been directly judged!
However, the old man did not make any radical moves, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head:
"No, at least Xiao Lao'er doesn't know, there are a total of more than 100 people in this village, if anyone has a stupid child, it must have spread all over the morning!"
"Really?" Feng Xue still asked in an emotionless voice, as if he was about to be sentenced, he nodded vigorously and said:
"Really, if there is half a lie, the little old man will definitely thunder and thunder!"
In this era when there are gods under your feet and ancestors at your heads, oaths can never be made indiscriminately, although they will not be fulfilled on the spot, but the reduction of yin virtue and the disaster to future generations are well known - of course, this must be the premise that the village chief is really a human being.
However, everyone swore an oath, and Feng Xue couldn't delve into this aspect, so she could only nod and say:
"Then you bring that Liu Dazhuang here and ask, maybe he ate some poison......"
"It should be, it should be!" Li Chang nodded vigorously as if he was relieved, and then shouted at the onlookers who were gathered in the distance, afraid to approach and unwilling to leave:
"The third son's family, go and call Da Zhuang!"
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ps: About the spirit card, it is the lowest level of magic weapons, Wu Zhu can do it, generally when the slave trade will give a supporting document, to prove that they are indeed barbarian slaves, and then you can use this document to find Wu Zhu to tie the spirit card, and the spirit card is not one, but a bundle of several, for example, a hundred people tie one first, you can give orders to a hundred people at the same time, and then there are ten people one, Five people and the like, the smaller the spirit card, the higher the priority, so that you can use a hundred people to control the ninety people in the family, and then take ten people to take ten people out, but also don't have to worry about someone using the ninety people to make trouble, but generally there is no single, because the barbarian slave has no wisdom, you might as well find a maid to do things quickly, and when you bring multiple people, you have to bring a single person to avoid someone holding trouble. And it's not that a multi-person spirit card can't give instructions to a single individual, and there is no need to make a large stack of cards.