Chapter 16: The Plague
In the far north, in a simple bamboo building, the young master Kun Yao was dressed in simple green clothes, with waist-high black hair, like a fairy who had fallen into the mortal world, quietly sitting on the incense table and reading a book.
A voice outside the door broke the silence in the room, "Your Highness, news from the big clouds."
"Come in"
Yuan Feng walked into the house wearing a suit of armor at this time, with a sword hanging from his waist, and bent down and said: "Your Highness, the Qilin Sword of the King of Yingchuan was born, and it was escorted to Yunjing by the Feiyun Dart Bureau."
"Well, there must be a lot of robbers," Young Master Kun Yao said leisurely without raising his head.
"At first, no one knew that it was the Qilin Sword, and many people took the risk to snatch it, but they all died at the hands of Shang Fei and the Yang Family's Blood Shadow Guard. Later, the heaven-level killer of the Ghost Moon Hall also went, and during the robbery, he learned that Shang Fei was sending the Qilin Sword."
"So the Qilin Sword was snatched by the Ghost Moon Hall?" asked Young Master Kun Yao as she looked at the book.
"No, Qi Yangping, the pavilion master of the Falling Star Pavilion at that time, was also there, that heaven-level killer returned the Qilin Sword to Shang Fei, but he captured a person, His Highness must still remember this person"
"Who? wouldn't catch Long Lan of the Blood Shadow Guard, that girl is really fun" Young Master Kun Yao thought of Long Lan, and a smile rose on the corner of her mouth.
"No, it's Yang Yan" Yuan Feng looked at Young Master Kun Yao, and then said word by word.
"Hmm, Yang Yan, are you sure?" Young Master Kun Yao was no longer calm when she heard Yang Yan's name, put down the book in her hand, and looked at Yuan Feng.
"My subordinates are sure, the news says that at that time he was still holding your sword, carrying a fire spirit jade, and a gourd hanging from his waist, with a beautiful girl like a fairy. ”
"Why is Ghost Moon Hall arresting him? he will be fine," Young Master Kun Yao frowned slightly, thinking in her heart.
"Your Highness, Your Highness ......" Yuan Feng called a few times, and the young master Kun Yao came to his senses, and the worry on his face was concealed without any trace, and said: "You go on"
"Ghost Moon Hall has always acted out of the ordinary, rarely walking around the rivers and lakes, this time actually dispatched a heaven-level killer, I am afraid that it was for the Qilin Sword, I want to know the secret of the disappearance of King Yingchuan back then. But Yang Yan, who was arrested later, I'm afraid their real purpose is to go to the Yang family."
"Can you find out where they are?"
"Subordinates try their best"
"Well, you can do it. What else is there to say?"
Yuan Feng continued: "Also present at that time were Qi King Ouyang Tianyou, Ye Family Ye Ming, Blood Shadow Wei Yan Xintong, Yun Zhengqing and Shen Yue, all of whom failed to stop the heaven-level killers of the Ghost Moon Hall."
"I know this, a heaven-level killer, no one can stop it without those old guys. Continue to inquire about the news of the Ghost Moon Hall, and report to me as soon as there is a situation."
"Yes" Yuan Feng replied sonorously, then looked at Young Master Kun Yao's face, and asked cautiously: "Your Highness is worried about Yang Yan's safety?"
"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask" Young Master Kun Yao even sank, Yuan Feng could only lower his head and didn't dare to say anything more, Young Master Kun Yao seemed to remember something and asked: "Is there any news about that little one?"
"No, His Royal Highness has left so far, and he hasn't received any news."
"Hmph, little bit, let me find you to see how I clean you up, in vain I went into the mountains to find medicine for him, and he treated me like this" Young Master Kunyao itched every time he thought of his younger brother.
"Your Highness, the Fourth Highness may have gone to Dayun, hasn't he always worshiped King Yingchuan, maybe he will go to grab the Qilin Sword"
"Hmph, if his identity is revealed, I'll see how he comes back. You go to the emperor's house, bring that kid out of the emperor's family, and say I'll look for him" Young Master Kun Yao looked at Yuan Feng and said fiercely.
"Your Highness, this, let's go to Dayun," Yuan Feng said with some embarrassment.
"As long as you get out of the beast control pass, you don't know how to die, Dayun knows you more people than Gale. Let's let the emperor boy go."
"Yes"
"What's been going on with the two of them lately?" asked Young Master Kun Yao next.
"Well, it's a mess, the whole gale has been stirred up by the two of them, many people are starting to stand in line, and the situation will slowly become much clearer"
"Where's my father?"
"Your Majesty's health has always been unwell, and he hasn't asked about the government for a long time."
"Well, I know, let them make trouble, say to the outside world that I am also sick, and I will not see guests," the young master Kun Yao ordered.
"Yes"
"Okay, you go down"
Yuan Feng retreated at this time, closed the door, and only the young master Kun Yao was left in the house, at this time, she no longer had the leisure to read, looked at the south and whispered: "Alas, Yang Yan, how did you meet the heaven-level killer of the Ghost Moon Hall"
Young Master Kun Yao thought for a while, and then shouted loudly: "Come on."
"Subordinate in" A figure appeared outside the door.
But the young master Kun Yao didn't speak for a long time, and after a long time, he sighed and said, "Go down, it's okay", and the man disappeared at the door.
"Alas, Yang Yan, I can't help you this time, and it's hard for me to protect myself," Young Master Kun Yao whispered as he looked at the sky to the south.
......
On the other side, Yang Yan and the four of them went all the way to the south, wishing Ben Yang Yan thought that he would walk for a long time, and later learned from talking with Ai Yiming and Long Lan that the place where they were was already close to the south of the Cloud Kingdom, and they could get to the border pass Tongyang Pass in five days if they traveled day and night.
"How far did Poria take me to fly" Yang Yan muttered in his heart, it turned out that he was still in the north, and then set off towards the west, and then came to the south inexplicably, and he didn't see anything along the way, and most of the cloud country ran all over.
Originally, Ai Yiming wanted to rush to the border as soon as possible to avoid accidents, but Yang Yan and Poria were unwilling, saying that they wanted to go to the city to buy things, and they could only follow their wishes.
As for what to buy? Poria is rich now, and what to buy is not to see her happy, so the four of them rode slowly and leisurely and rode four horses towards the south.
Along the way, Poria and Long Lan talked and laughed, and Ai Yiming and Yang Yan joined in from time to time. During the conversation, Yang Yan and Poria learned why Ai Yiming and Long Lan were in Tianlong Village.
It turned out that the two of them just went to inquire about the affairs of Tianlongzhai, understand the situation clearly, and then notify the government to go to suppress the bandits, but the two were careless, and their whereabouts were exposed.
"By the way, Sister Poria, why do you want to go to Tianlong Village?" Long Lan asked curiously.
"We? We just wanted to find a place to sleep, and just when we saw a light there, we went in," Poria said slowly.
Ai Yiming and Long Lan were a little embarrassed, what kind of reason is this, if it were someone else, he wouldn't believe it if he was killed, who would go to the bandits' den to stay, but now it was Yang Yan and the two of them, and the two of them had no doubt.
The two of them didn't even know about the silver ticket, it was normal for them to do this kind of, and they hadn't ridden the horse, thinking of the happy appearance when Poria had just ridden the horse, which made Long Lan a little worried about how this young lady would live in the world in the future.
"It seems that we want to popularize safety knowledge for them" Long Lan thought of this, straightened her chest, and said solemnly: "Well, listen, in view of your behavior and the degree of cognition, I decided to tell you about the safety awareness of walking the rivers and lakes."
Ai Yiming hurriedly stopped Long Lan, "Xiaolan, don't make trouble."
"Brother Ai, they will suffer in the future if they walk the rivers and lakes like this, I will tell them about it" Long Lan completely ignored Ai Yiming's obstruction, and began to explain the safety awareness of the two along the way.
Ai Yiming was guilty of the embarrassment of listening all the way, but Yang Yan and Poria listened with relish, looking at the two of them who had never heard of it, Ai Yiming also joined the ranks of explanations, just like that, while hurrying, he taught Yang Yan and Poria a lot of precautions for walking the rivers and lakes.
"Xiaolan, where did you learn this, I think it's very useful, we run around in the province" Poria asked after listening to what Long Lan said.
"This is what my brother taught me, my brother is amazing, of course, my brother also learned from the young master" Long Lan said to the young master, and glanced at Yang Yan unconsciously.
"Isn't your young master even more powerful?" asked Poria.
"That is, our young master is the famous Yingchuan...... What's going on in front?" Before Long Lan finished speaking, her face changed when she saw the scene in front of her.
Only a foul smell hit, a city was not far from the four of them, but the city gates were closed, and there were dense corpses lying on both sides of the road, emitting a foul smell.
Poria sniffed slightly, and said with a somewhat unsightly face: "I'm afraid this is a plague, the people in the city don't know how to deal with it, so they can only let these people die outside, you have to burn these corpses quickly, otherwise it will spread, and there will be few people who don't know if they want to die."
"Plague?" said Long Lan and Ai Yiming at the same time.
"Why haven't we received the news, are they hiding it from us" Ai Yiming whispered, but Poria listened to it sincerely, and said slowly: "I'm afraid it hasn't spread yet, this plague is spreading quickly, and it hasn't had time to spread out."
"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and burn it" Long Lan said and was about to jump off the horse, but was stopped by Poria Cocos.
"There are too many people, we can't burn it, we have to find someone to help" Poria looked at the city in the distance and said, it's not that she doesn't want to burn it as soon as possible, it's just that now in the world, she can only act according to the laws of the world, otherwise Poria will just set fire and solve it.
Ai Yiming hurriedly took out the carrier pigeon and was about to send a message back, but Long Lan said: "Brother Ai, don't be busy writing first, this news will be passed on to Your Majesty, if you send it back like this, Your Majesty will not believe it, the Yang family doesn't ask about these things, otherwise it will be overstepping the power."
Ai Yiming thought about it, put away the carrier pigeon, glanced at the people around him who had begun to rot, and frowned, "Go, enter the city, and find Fancheng to guard Li Yi"
Saying that, the four of them rode horses and thought about the city gate and ran quickly, and after a while they arrived at the city gate, but there was not even a soldier guarding the city above, and no one came after calling the gate for a long time.
"What should I do?" asked Long Lan anxiously.
"Continuing to call"
The two of them shouted loudly under the city gate, but Poria was checking the corpse on the side, and Yang Yan also followed, asking, "Can it be cured?"
Poria nodded, glanced at the two people who were calling the city gate, and then whispered: "It can be cured, but I am afraid that there are not enough medicinal materials."
"What then?"
The two were chatting when a scolding voice came from the city gate, "Hey, you two don't go near those corpses"
Poria and Yang Yan looked at the corpses of the soldiers above the city gate whose faces were a little pale, and their eyes were full of despair, slowly leaving.
"Hurry up and open the door, we are sent by the imperial court" Ai Yiming held up a sign with a white cloud printed on it, and said loudly.
"Ahem, ahem, did the court send you to find the dead?" the soldier said with a few violent coughs.
"Less nonsense, open the door," Ai Yiming said unceremoniously.
"The door is not closed, you push hard," the soldier said, and the man disappeared above the city gate.
"The door is not closed, you said it earlier, I shouted for a long time," Long Lan said angrily.
Sure enough, the city gate was not closed at all, but it was just concealed, Ai Yiming opened an opening in the city gate, just as the horse could pass through, and the four of them led the horse into Fancheng.
Passing through the city gates, the scene in front of me was a bit bleak, the street was full of lying people, some panting, some trembling, some dying.
There are some people on the street, wearing white masks, constantly checking the condition of the people on the street, and when they see that the condition is serious, they quickly feed him medicine.
"Are you too guarded?" asked Ai Yiming, grabbing a man wearing a mask on the road.
"What is too guarded, I guess I am dead at home, go away," the passerby replied angrily.
"Let's go, Taishou Mansion" Ai Yiming said and led the horse to the center of the city, Long Lan followed, Yang Yan accompanied Poria to take a look at the condition of these people, and also followed.
Soon, the four of them arrived at the gate of the Taishou Mansion, only to see that the gate was open, and the courtyard was full of dense people, and noisy voices came out.
Ai Yiming tied his horse and rushed in, holding up a sign and saying loudly: "We are sent by the imperial court, Li Yi and Li Taishou are here?"
The courtyard was quiet, and a middle-aged woman said with a crying voice: "My lord is dying, why is the court still coming to him?"
Poria, Long Lan and Yang Yan also followed, Ai Yiming didn't expect that Taishou was also infected with the plague, and it was already dying, and things were a little difficult to handle now.
Without Taishou's handwritten letters and seals, the emperor would not believe it, and now he can't use the identity of the Yang family to do things, otherwise it will cause trouble, at this moment, Ai Yiming doesn't know what to do.
"I'll take a look," Poria said later.
Ai Yiming and Long Lan looked at Poria in surprise, and Yang Yan explained: "Well, she is a doctor."
Where did Ai Yiming think that Poria was a doctor, and at first glance she was a rich lady, but seeing that the two were not joking, she also nodded, but Poria's words made the yard explode again.
"She said he was a doctor, a little girl who didn't dry up."
"I haven't heard of a woman who can still see a doctor"
"It's really nonsense, I'm afraid I'm here to make a fortune from the dead"
"Hurry up, so many of our doctors haven't been able to cure Taishou here, can you, a person of unknown origin, be cured?"
"I really don't know the height of the sky, come to this plague land to find death"
“......”
"Bang" Long Lan couldn't listen to it anymore, took out his weapon, two very small short knives, split the stones in the courtyard, and scolded loudly: "Shut up, whoever says more will kill whoever says."
The scene was quiet for a while, and Long Lan looked at the middle-aged woman and said, "Take us to see Taishou"
The woman was already frightened, so she resignedly led the four of them into the backyard and came to the Taishou room.
I saw a gray-haired man, panting, lying on the bed with his whole body trembling slightly, his eyes rolled up, his breath was intermittent, and he couldn't breathe at any time.