Gloomy little room,

Bitter little man.

Peony sat on the edge of the bed, her head bowed slightly, and her wrist was held weakly. Pinch for a while and flick a few times. From time to time, from the open pouch, he twisted the silver needle and probed it into the blackened neck of the woman.

Probe, stab, prick, steady, light, silver needles like a sword dancing on the fingertips...

Only afterimages remain.

Thin beads of sweat slid down her soft cheeks...

The immature cry echoes here...

"...... two months ago"

"Duck eggs, his father, when they went out to sea to catch fish, they encountered a strongman robbery. I heard from the people in the village that the sea was fierce at that time......"

"The next day, only the duck egg and his father escaped with serious injuries, and his whole body was covered in blood......"

"At first, everyone thought it was just an injury, just take some medicine and rest for a few days..."

Who knows, a few days later, Duck Egg's father's injuries became more and more serious, and his whole body began to turn purple. So the old village chief went to the city and asked for a doctor......"

"The doctor I invited looked at it many times, and they all said that they couldn't find out the cause, but they just prescribed a lot of prescriptions to heal people..."

"Then, after almost a month, his father took a lot of medicine for duck eggs, but he still couldn't survive and died..."

"After his father died, everyone carried him to the ancestral hall of the back mountain, and together they raised some silver and invited a few archmages to do it..."

"That's when the strange things in our village started......"

"After the archmage did some Dharma in the ancestral hall, he told us that Duck Dan's father did not die of illness, but was taken by the evil god! Let us also arrange for some people to bring incense offerings to the ancestral hall every day to worship and recite scriptures, so that we can bury the duck egg and his father as soon as possible..."

"Then we did as the Archmage said. Every day, the old village chief arranges for five uncles to take turns to go to the ancestral hall to offer incense and worship..."

"At first, everyone thought it was nothing..."

"Until half a month ago, the first uncles who went to the ancestral hall to offer incense suddenly began to have a fever, and the fever was so bad, and in the end they were like duck eggs and his father, and their whole bodies turned purple..."

At that time, the old village chief was in a hurry, and immediately invited the archmage over again.

When the archmage came to the village to see a few uncles, he turned around and scolded us. Said that it was because the people who went to worship were not sincere enough, so they made the fairy grandfather angry, and we are going to be punished......"

"At that time, the people in the village were so frightened when they heard this, so they begged the archmage to help us...

After begging for a long time, the archmages agreed to help us. They built an altar in the ancestral hall, and asked the old village chief to arrange more people to worship in the ancestral hall every day, and they had to recite the scriptures for half an hour every day before leaving..."

"The longer we say it, the more we are sincere..."

"Said that only in this way can we invite the gods to come down to help us..."

"So, since then, all the people in our village have gone to the Houshan ancestral hall every day to offer incense..."

"We are really sincere, and we recite the scriptures in it for at least one hour every day..."

"But... But... Woo..."

"But... Those sick uncles are still dead..."

"Woo... After their deaths, they were also moved to the altar in the ancestral hall by several archmages, and they were placed together..."

"Then everyone in our village started to get sick... Woo..."

"Woo..."

As she spoke, the dog couldn't help crying.

Xia Xun squatted down and patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, my brother and sister will help you, what happened later?"

"Woo..."

Holding back her crying, the dog baby continued:

"Later, the old village chief stopped believing in those archmages, and he took my father to the city to find a doctor to help us... But the doctors said that it would cost us a lot of silver taels to cure our sickness..."

"Woo... However, all our money has been taken to invite the Archmage to the immortals..."

"Woo... I don't have any money to go to the doctor..."

"Woo..."

"In the end, the old village chief cried and begged, and the doctor prescribed a prescription for us to get medicine for ourselves..."

"Woo... We've taken all the money we have left to grab the medicine... Outcome... Whining... In the end, the big guy's illness didn't get better... Woo."

"The duck egg is dead, Daddy is dead, and the old village chief is dead. One by one, the people of the village died..."

Whining...

The more Xia Xun listened, the more he felt that something was strange, he grabbed his sleeve and wiped away the tears of the dog baby, and said softly: "Didn't you go to report to the official?"

"Woo... went, before my father said that those archmages were bad people, so he took a few uncles to the town to report to the official. As a result, those official brothers didn't help us, but they also beat up my father and them, saying that they had nothing to do... Woo."

The dog baby couldn't cry.

It is sad and pitiful that a doll has suffered so many disasters in two months.

Xia Xun frowned, and thought for a while: "Did those archmages do anything else after that?"

The dog baby shook her head and wiped a handful of tears from her sleeve: "Those archmages will go into the village every day and go door to door to catch the dead and take them to the ancestral hall in the back mountain to do things... Woowoo"

"Well..."

Xia Xun patted the dog baby on the shoulder: "It's okay... Rest assured"

With that, he stood up again, grimaced his face, and walked over to Peony.

At this time, Peony's face was equally solemn. The white onion fingers bounced on the woman's thin purple wrist. The drooping black hair was pulled behind her back, and her eyes were sometimes confused, sometimes confused, and repeated.

"How's it going?" Xia Xun asked in a deep voice.

“......”

Peony didn't answer immediately. Instead, he carefully put the woman's withered hands back into the quilt, then turned his head to look at the dog baby, and said with a smile: "Dog baby, can you help my sister boil some boiling water?"

After getting along before, the dog baby basically has no guard. Now, Xia Xun and the two seem to him to be more blindly worshipful and dependent...

"Yes, I'll go. ”

The dog nodded vigorously, wiped away a handful of tears, and then turned around and walked out of the room...

"Bang..."

"Sha..."

After a while, the sound of burning fire and pouring water came from outside the room.

There are only two people left in the dimly lit room...

"Look..."

At this time, seeing that there was movement in the kitchen, the peony prescription broke the woman's purple and black lips, looked at Xia Xun, and said solemnly: "We all guessed wrong... This is not the plague. ”

"The patient has no symptoms of vomiting, and his breath is bloody and black, and there is no sign of infection in the five internal organs, so it can be concluded that it is not a human plague. Also, I've examined her body, and there's no sign of flesh decaying, so it can't be any other plague..."

"Judging from the current symptoms..."

Peony's words became heavy and slow: "This is corpse poison..."

"And the cattle outside the village are infected with the poison of the corpses of the dead to get human plague..."

“......”

Xia Xun's brows formed pimples. Because, according to Peony's inference, what is happening in this village is going in the direction they thought it was...

And the result that extends to the end is too evil...

When a person dies, the depleted corpse releases toxins on its own. Therefore, when a person dies, he has to go to the ground after completing the first seven rituals. In fact, it is to use the soil to block the toxins in the bodies of those corpses, so as not to infect the living people.

These toxins can be large or small. It is possible to be infected with a fever for a few days, or a serious illness. However, as in front of us, the infection is like a plague and a village is dead, and even the livestock and grass are infected with the corpse poison of the epidemic. I'm afraid this is not as simple as ordinary corpse poison...

What's more, in the few words that the dog baby said just now, there are also many strange things that are incomprehensible and worth pondering.

It always makes people feel that behind this thing, there is an invisible ghost hand.

What are you planning...

Xia Xun moved a stool, sat next to Peony, scraped the bridge of his nose with his fingers, and pondered: "The corpse poison in this village is probably inseparable from those archmages that the dog baby said." He came from the city and carried a sword with him, and he was probably a person from the rivers and lakes. It's just that I don't understand, there shouldn't be anything worth thinking about in this village, and there is no high-ranking person to protect it, if it's really for money, then you can just kill people... Why did you waste so much effort and plan for two months to let the villagers be infected with corpse poison?"

The words are cold-blooded, but that's exactly what happened. Xia Xun can only make inferences based on the actual situation.

Peony stranded the strands of hair scattered on her forehead with one hand, and put away the silver needles placed beside the bed with the other, and said quietly: "These people have done things so obscurely, it is estimated that they have hidden some ulterior motives. I think it's better to wait until I return to the city and let the senior brother deal with it. ”

The peony wrapped the silver needle carefully and put it back in the waist bag.

He turned his head to look at the woman's face worriedly, and continued: "It's just that the dog baby and his mother may not be able to delay those time..."

"Already poisoned?" Xia Xun asked.

"En" Peony nodded: "She has been infected with corpse poison for a while, if it weren't for the dog baby who went to the city to steal medicine according to those generous prescriptions, she wouldn't be able to survive now..."

Xia Xun was a little confused when he heard this: "Since the prescription is effective, why can't it be completely cured?"

Xia Xun's question made Peony a little frightened.

She hesitated for a moment, moved her soft lips lightly, and said in a low voice: "The recipe is fine, but it is a recipe for ordinary corpse poison." However, this village is not infected with ordinary corpse poison, it has already melted...

If you want to cure it, you have to take the main medicine..."

At this point, Peony stopped her mouth.

Seems to be scared of something...

It's just that her words have been made clear. With Xia Xun's knowledge, she knew what she wanted and what she was afraid of.

Xia Xun looked at the peony and asked softly, "Corpse grass?"

“......”

Peony nodded, speechless.

“......”

The candle shadow is soft, like water tenderness.

Two dim figures sat opposite each other, silent.

Peony lowered her eyebrows and tossed the corners of her Mai sleeves back and forth. Xia Xun closed his eyes and thought, and kept touching the bridge of his nose with his index finger.

Quietly, all pondering, worried.

The water is boiled...

The dog baby laboriously moved the basin from the kitchen and carefully placed it beside the two of them.

His thin and black hands trembled, and he could see that he was tired.

"Big brother, this is back for you..."

The dog baby took out from under the bed, recommended the national test and the gold leaf, and handed it to Xia Xun, while lowering his head guiltily, and said with a crying voice: "The money of the dog baby's family has been taken to the archmage... There is no money to buy medicine, so the dog baby can only go to the city to steal...

The dog baby really doesn't want her mother to be caught by them like her father and go to the back mountain..."

Xia Xun hugged the dog baby, rubbed his messy hair, and comforted: "Your mother's illness will get better, don't worry." ”

Saying that, Xia Xun looked at Peony: "I'll go to find the corpse grass, you will stay here with the dog baby first, right?"

"Not good. ”

As soon as Xia Xun's words fell, Peony started to speak, although he was still looking at his fingers with low eyebrows, his tone was very decisive.

"Uh..."

Xia Xun was stunned by this decisiveness, and then said in a different way: "It's very windy outside..."

The onion fingers of the peony twist the corners of the sleeves into small rolls. She seemed a little distracted and worried.

"Your cultivation is not as high as mine..."

“......”

"Uh... But the wind in the back mountains is really strong..."

"You're in the way..."

“......”