Chapter 42: Tracing the Roots
Before Jiu Xi could check carefully, the other guards hurriedly surrounded him, "Another seizure, send it to the medical hall quickly." ”
"Wait," Jiuxi stopped them, "here is the person who practices medicine, please let me take a look." ”
Seeing Jiu Xi skillfully catching the pulse of the fainting guard, the other guards couldn't say anything. It's just that this epidemic is too weird, and no one knows who will be the next to be recruited, and people can't help but feel worried and uneasy.
Jiuxi looked carefully, this person was weak and cold, and there was an extra red blood line on her neck out of thin air, but she couldn't see what the symptoms were. It's not like an onset.
"Who has this person been in contact with before?"
"We're here on guard, and we're all in contact with pedestrians on the streets, and if we say what he had contact with before, I don't know. What can the doctor tell you are telling?" replied one of the guards.
"Well, you can carry him to the infirmary first. Thinking about it, he explained, "If conditions allow, it's best to isolate and protect." ”
However, Jiuxi also knew that there were many people who were sick with this disease, and the palace blocked itself and did not send official doctors to diagnose and treat it, and even if there were many private medical centers, they would not be able to accept so many people.
I was about to find a medical hall to take a closer look, but I saw an argument in a teahouse behind her left.
A tightly wrapped middle-aged man was knocked out of the teahouse by a group of people, and the man wrapped his whole body tightly, looking very weird.
I only heard a group of people who drove people out of the store scolded, "Hmph, the people of Qiming still dare to come to the capital of our Qian country? It is you who brought the epidemic to my Qian country! If this is not the case, everyone in Qian country is in danger, what are you still doing here!"
Jiuxi listened with some curiosity, and couldn't see the difference between this person and the people of Qianguo, but he didn't know how the people in this teahouse recognized this person as the person of Qiming. ”
So I asked a woman passing by next to her, and the woman glanced at her and said, "It's the smell of blazing flowers, which only grow in the country of Qiming, and this person is tightly wrapped and the smell is stronger, so he is recognized as the person of Qiming." Now that Qiming just attacked our country not long ago, I don't know how this person has the courage to run to the capital of my Qian country to be killed. ”
The person who enlightened was a little strange after being beaten out, and his eyes were a little frightened, and he staggered up and ran away, and when he passed by Jiuxi, he brought a gust of wind, and Jiuxi smelled a strange fragrance.
The person of Qiming openly appeared in the capital of Qianguo, Jiuxi was a little puzzled, seeing that the person was running extremely fast, and in a blink of an eye he had turned into an alley, and Jiuxi hurriedly chased after him.
After a while, I saw that the man hurriedly ran into a dead end, Jiuxi was about to catch up, but saw a black shadow flash behind her, and when she chased after her again, the strange Qiming man was already lying on the street, only for a short moment.
Jiuxi stepped forward quickly, but she didn't notice the black shadow that had rushed in front of her before, and the man in front of her was foaming at the mouth and twitching all over, and there was an extra red blood line on his neck.
......
When Jun Qianyu arrived at Wangdu, the two ghost shadow horsemen who had set off earlier had already informed him of Jiuxi's whereabouts, and at a dead end at the turn, he saw her squatting in front of a lying corpse who didn't know whether she was dead or alive, slowly rummaging through something with one finger.
"What are you doing, knocking people out on the street and robbing money or robbing sex?" he suddenly said and startled the little group, and turned his head to see that it was him who was in a trance for a moment and looked at him with some anger.
He carefully glanced at the lying corpse on the ground from front to back, and a little evil smile appeared on his face, "If it's a robbery, your taste is a little heavy." ”
"Well, I'm robbing. Jiuxi said confidently. He turned around and crouched down again, rummaging through it with a finger.
"What are you looking for?" Jun Qianyu also crouched down and watched beside her.
"Blazing Flowers, have you heard of them?"
"Well, it is produced in Qiming, the floral fragrance is strange, and it is said to have hallucinogenic effects. Jun Qianyu replied simply, "Are you looking for a blazing flower?"
"I suspect that the epidemic in Wangdu is related to the Blazing Flowers. ”
"The blazing flowers are delicate, and after being picked, only the smell is left in the human body, and the fragrance lingers for a long time. You can't find the entity. Jun Qianyu looked around, "It's inconvenient to talk in this place, you come with me." ”
With that, he lifted her little ball and dragged her away by the arm.
Jiuxi: "......"
"What about this man?"
"Rest assured, we have someone to deal with after we leave. ”
Jun Qianyu took Jiuxi all the way to the mansion of Prime Minister Zhao Jingnian, Jiuxi looked at the Zhao Mansion engraved on the huge door plaque, and asked, "What are you pulling me to Zhao Jingnian's mansion?"
Although she was also explained by Qin Sang before that if she was in trouble, she could go to Zhao Jingnian, this person is a rare good official in Qianguo, but it seems that this person also seems to know Zhao Jingnian.
Jun Qianxiao pulled her inside, knocked on the door twice, one short and three times, and immediately a small servant opened the door, saw him and said respectfully, "The two of you are the distinguished guests that the master said, please come with me." ”
The little guy took Jun Qianyu and Jiuxi all the way through the corridor, to a secluded path, and pointed to a meditation room in front of him, "The master is waiting in the front meditation room, please move." ”
Jun Qian said, "There is labor." He led Jiuxi to the door of the meditation room, knocked three times as usual, and the door opened from the inside.
"Young master, the old man has been waiting for a long time. Zhao Jingnian stood aside and said respectfully.
Invited the two into the meditation room, only to see a golden Arhat statue in the room, the Arhat does not look like an ordinary Arhat form, the long hair is scattered, the face is not like a Bodhisattva with low eyebrows or King Kong angry eyes, it seems to be smiling with some demonic smelt, a little cinnabar in the center of the eyebrows, but it seems to be looking at the world with an arrogant look, giving people a kind of deterrent that cannot be ignored.
Jiuxi raised his head and looked at this King Kong for a moment, only to feel that his mind was a little trance, so he stopped deliberately looking at it.
"Interested in this Buddha statue?" Jun Qianyan asked when she saw that her expression was wrong.
"No, I just feel a little familiar, I may have seen it in the side. It's just that the Buddha statues offered in the prime minister's house are strange, and they are different from what I have seen in my life. "Nine Xi Dao.
"Does the little girl know about Buddha Tu?" Zhao Jingnian looked at the little girl with a baby fat look on her face, but she looked like an adult seriously, and couldn't help but feel a little happy in her heart. Although the people brought by the young master did not dare to climb high, there was a naughty boy in the family who was the same age as the little girl, and the more he looked at it, the more happy he became.
"I've heard of it, but I don't know much about it. My lord, here is a Buddha slaughterer?"
"This is the founder of the Buddha slaughter lineage, the honorific Buddha slaughter master. ”
It turns out that this is the lord that Qinsang serves, the Buddha slaughtering master. But he didn't think about it at the moment, and looked back at Jun Qianyu, "You know the prime minister?"
Jun Qian said with a reserved chin, "Back then, there were also 12 ghost shadows under my father's command, and Lord Zhao should be the leader. ”
Jiuxi remembered that he had heard the conversation of the three Qian people in the inn with Qiansang in Nanya Mountain before, and the group of ghost shadow warriors who followed the regent had been hidden for many years and mostly retired, but he never thought that the Qian royal family was bent on finding the whereabouts of the ghost shadow warriors, and there was one of them under his nose.
The original regent of Jinguo became the prime minister of the current Qian country under one person and above 10,000 people.
If it is known by King Qian, I am afraid that there will be one more case of the monarch's violent death.
"The young master came to find his subordinates, but because of the frequent epidemics in Wangdu?" Zhao Jingnian asked.
"Does Uncle Nian know the secret behind this?"
"The subordinates are ashamed, although they have sent people to investigate for a long time, they only feel that they have nothing to do with Qiming, but there are still no clues about the specific source of the disease. ”
"Before I left Qingshan Village, Master told me that this epidemic may be the handiwork of the Seven Star Pavilion. ”
"Could the source of the epidemic have something to do with the Blazing Flowers?" Jiu Xi asked as he thought of the strange fragrance on the Qiming man's body.
"Why do you say this? What does the girl have to rely on?" Zhao Jingnian hurriedly asked, although he is in a high position, he has believed in Buddha slaughter in recent years, and he is also worried about the livelihood of the Li people, if he finds the source of the disease and solves the suffering of the people, he will also be at ease.
"Today, I met a tightly wrapped Qiming man on the street, acting strangely and a little crazy, and there was still a strong fragrance of blazing flowers on his body. I saw that something was wrong with him and followed, but the man came to a dead end and collapsed, with the same symptoms as the plague. Then she remembered a dark shadow that came out from behind her before she saw the man, but when she saw the man, she was nowhere to be seen, and she thought it was her own hallucination, and did not say it.
"The Blazing Flower can cause hallucinations, and the human body can make the soul of the person dazed and dizzy, and the girl saw that the person was acting strangely and crazy, presumably because of the Blazing Flower. But if this is related to the Seven Star Pavilion, it is still a bit far-fetched, after all, there is no real evidence. ”
Zhao Jingnian thought for a while and said, "If the young master is determined to investigate this matter, he can find a mountain and sea temple in Bining Mountain, southwest of Qiannanya Mountain, and maybe know whether the Seven Star Pavilion is related to this epidemic." ”
"It's fine. Jun Qian looked at Jiu Xi and said, "You can stay here with Uncle Nian first, and I'll go back when I go." ”
Jiuxi shook his head and said, "I'll go with you." ”
Seeing that Jiuxi did not obey, Jun Qianyu had no choice but to take her to Bining Mountain together.
Bining Mountain is at the junction of the three kingdoms of Tianyuan Tongqian and Qiming, and does not belong to any of them. When Jiuxi came to Qianguo with Qiansang, he stayed in Nanya Mountain for half a day. But I didn't know that there was such a place as Bining Mountain. remembered that Qin Sangyuan said that he was a disciple of Buddha Tu, but he was almost at the door of his hometown, and he didn't know how to inform her, which made her really annoyed.
- When he returns, let him plead guilty.
The place where Bining Mountain is located is already a remote frontier, and Jun Qianyu took Jiuxi to ride a horse in three days. I saw the deep mountains standing majestically, but there was a sense of seclusion and desolation.
The two dismounted and walked all the way to the mountainside of Bining Mountain, where they saw a red wall in the green forest, and realized that the mountain scenery here was completely different from the scenery under the mountain.
Under the large golden ginkgo trees, the temple plaque of Shanhai Temple hangs high, so that people can see it at a glance.
"I feel a little familiar here. Jiuxi muttered, but after thinking about it, "But I've never been here." ”
"I feel the same way. Jun Qianyan turned his head to look at her, "Maybe I took you here to play in my previous life." ”