snowstorm

Soon at noon, the man who was knocked unconscious by the old doctor was sleeping in the house, and he couldn't wake up for a while, so Xie Qiao took all the pots and pans outside the house and prepared to cook some food.Even if Lu Jue didn't mention it, Xie Qiao could guess that this person probably brought the old doctor here day and night as soon as he saw the letter he left. The old doctor can still use some things in the carriage. After an overnight drive, he definitely didn't have breakfast.

Xie Qiao had never done these kinds of jobs before. Before he was nine years old, he often chopped firewood, but he had never set fire to cook. It wasn't that the woman's conscience found out, it was just because when the woman drove him to cook for the first time, He nearly set the kitchen on fire, and the woman never dared to let him in the kitchen after that.

In the past few days, because he was the only one here, Xie Qiao had to cook by himself, but he felt that he was much more proficient at cooking with fire.Lu Jue stood aside and watched Xie Qiao stuff the chopped firewood into the bottom of the pot, and then threw the whole fire into it. The fire didn't ignite, but the smoke came out in puffs. Xie Qiao He was so choked that he coughed a few times, and when he looked up, his face was covered in black ashes.

Lu Jue looked at him like that, and there was some helplessness in his eyes of "what should I do with you?" He shook his head, then walked a few steps forward, stood beside Xie Qiao, bent down and pulled out Xie Qiao. For the firewood in his hand, Xie Qiao turned around in a daze, and met Lu Jue's teasing eyes. Xie Qiao rarely felt ashamed, so he coughed and said, "I swear, it wasn't like this a few days ago. , today is just—" He thought for a moment, then said expressionlessly, "It's too windy outside."

Lu Jue looked at Xie Qiao with a face like a cat, looking for reasons for himself solemnly, and finally couldn't help but chuckle.He threw a handkerchief on Xie Qiao's face, and through the handkerchief, his fingers curled up like white jade shot Xie Qiao's forehead: "Fool."

Xie Qiao clutched his forehead and suddenly remembered the two stupid fish that Lu Jue gave him many years ago.

Xie Qiao: "..."

Xie Qiao wiped his face with a handkerchief, and Lu Jue half squatted beside him, took out the pile of strangely shaped firewood that Xie Qiao stuffed into the pot stand one by one, and took the ax next to him to chop one by one and put them away .Xie Qiao looked at the man who was chopping firewood as if he was playing the piano. He stared straight at the white jade-like hands of the other party, and finally couldn't help asking: "Brother Huaiyu, you actually know how to cook?"

Water and rice had been put in the pot, so Lu Jue put some chopped firewood on the bottom of the pot, and raised the fire again. He glanced at Xie Qiao and said, "It will be easy when you are marching and fighting outside."

Xie Qiao suddenly remembered that Lu Jue looked at a person who was carefully raised like white jade. In fact, he went to the battlefield before the age of 16; Those blood and fighting.

He couldn't stop him, even if he really got him, he couldn't stop him.As long as he still has that bright and dazzling ambition burning in his heart, his destiny is Iron Horse Glacier.Xie Qiao knows Lu Jue too well, so he understands that trying to change Lu Jue like this is an insult to Lu Jue.

The porridge rolled quickly, bubbling and bubbling. Lu Jue grabbed the red beans from the bag beside Xie Qiao and sprinkled them in. He tilted his head and looked at Xie Qiao: "Are you hungry?" Looking at Xie Qiao's face For a moment, Lu Jue frowned slightly: "Why is your complexion so bad?"

Xie Qiao shook his head with a smile on his face, and said, "I'm hungry. I'm just hungry."

The old doctor looked at the two sticky people cooking porridge over there, smiled and shook his head as if he had seen through something, and then thought of the village again, he let go of his smile and sighed again.

Lu Jue served porridge for the old doctor, and then stuffed a bowl of porridge into Xie Qiao's hand. The porridge was steaming hot. Lu Jue finally let go of his heart when he saw Xie Qiao's pale face turning red in the heat. Come.

After finishing the porridge, it was already noon, the old doctor stroked his beard, looked at the exit of the bamboo forest, and said, "I will go to the village to check the epidemic in the afternoon."

Xie Qiao nodded. He turned and went into the room. When he came out, he took a few pieces of white cloth and a few gloves that were used as a scorpion, and said, "I have boiled these in wine in advance."

The old doctor took it and nodded, and then instructed: "When you enter that village, you must cover your mouth and nose. Remember, you two, you must not touch the patient's body directly."

……

in the afternoon.

After passing a stone tablet, it is the entrance of Zhou Village.Xie Qiao and his party covered their mouths and noses and put on gloves. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they already felt that something was wrong.At the entrance of the village is a road that runs through the whole village. There are intact houses on both sides of the road. At this time, there is no one on the road, and there is no smoke in the houses.Even though it was only afternoon, standing on the road and looking at the village, it felt very desolate and gloomy.

They froze for a moment, then continued to walk in with solemn expressions.

"stop!"

They walked to one place, and suddenly, some people jumped out from the alleys on both sides, blocking their way.

Lu Jue subconsciously protected Xie Qiao and the old doctor behind him.

Most of the people in that group were young people, and the leader was a middle-aged man.Most of them have yellow complexions, bloodshot eyes, and a fierce and crazy hostility on their faces, like ghosts.They held agricultural tools such as hoes in their hands and pointed at Xie Qiao and the others.

The middle-aged man who took the lead asked nervously, "Who are you?!"

"We are doctors." Lu Jue stared at the other party's movements, and said slowly: "I heard that there is a plague here, so we came here."

"What plague! What nonsense are you talking about!" The middle-aged man raised the hoe in Lu Jue's hand fiercely: "There is no plague here! Go, go, go!"

The old doctor looked more serious, and he looked at Xie Qiao: The villagers here are not cooperative, but they must enter the village now.Before the army comes, they must at least have an understanding of the epidemic situation here.The sooner it happens, the more lives can be saved.

Lu Jue naturally knew this truth.If you can't explain it clearly, then you can only...

He frowned, then lifted the sword at his waist, cut off the hoe in the man's hand through the scabbard, and kicked the man's leg neatly, the man knelt down in front of him, splashing dust all over the place .Lu Jue's sword was pressed between the man's neck through the scabbard, and a small section of the blade was exposed, and the middle-aged man could not move.

Lu Jue restrained the leader, then glanced at the group of young people who were already frightened, and said coldly, "Do you still want to stop us?"

The group of young people looked at me and at you, and they all slowly retreated with fear on their faces, and disappeared when they entered the alley.

Knowing that his helpers were gone, the middle-aged man felt the strength on his shoulders, and tremblingly said: "Hero... Xiong... Spare me..."

Lu Jue restrained the man, and Xie Qiao stepped forward and asked, "Why don't you let the doctor enter the village?" Logically speaking, there was a disease in the village, and it was impossible for the villagers to have such an attitude when they heard that a doctor came.

The middle-aged man was trembling, and said: "I, the witch in our village said that Concubine Jing became angry and punished her, so...so we can't leave the village during this period, and outsiders can't come in, so... Only then can we pass through the catastrophe safely..."

Xie Qiao frowned, and said, "Concubine Jing's tomb is in your village?"

The man said: "No... I don't know... The villain doesn't know..."

Xie Qiao asked again: "Did the goddess say why Concubine Jing is angry?"

"No...no, Concubine Jing only communicated through the sorcerer, saying that we are guilty..."

"What sin?"

"Ms. Jing Concubine said that we know clearly..."

Lu Jue thanked Qiao and looked at each other, then Lu Jue pressed the man's shoulder hard again, and said, "Take us to see the witch."

……

The man was suppressed by Lu Jue and obediently brought them to a house, which was more luxurious than the ones they had seen along the way.When he reached the door, the man said: "This is the residence of our sorceress, but, can you please let the villain go..."

Lu Jue took away the sword that was on his shoulder, and the man was about to leave when the old doctor said, "You haven't contracted the disease yet, after you get home, find a clean cloth towel and boil it in hot water to cover your mouth and nose. Wash your hands with hot wine, remember not to eat raw food and water, if your family members are not sick, you must do this. Only in this way can you live."

The man was taken aback after hearing this, then took a deep look at them and left in a hurry.

The old doctor knew that the other party was skeptical of his words, so he could only sigh more helplessly.

……

Time was running out, so Lu Jue stepped forward and kicked open the door in front of him.

"Who is who?!"

After a harsh voice sounded, someone lifted the curtain and came out.

The person was a woman, about 40 years old, fat and short, but wearing bright clothes, she looked very funny.Xie Qiao's pupils shrank when he saw the man's appearance: this man, like them, covered his mouth and nose with a cloth scarf, so only a pair of squinted eyes were exposed.

When she came out of the house, she saw a stranger in the courtyard, her face was taken aback for a moment, and in an instant, a domineering anger appeared on her face: "Who are you?! How dare you be rude in front of the envoy of the Concubine Mirror?!"

Xie Qiao sneered: "Concubine Jing? Concubine Jing has lost all her wits, so where did some kind of envoy come from?" He drew Lu Jue's sword and placed it on the other party's neck, and said coldly, "Say, who instigated it?" What did you say in the village?"

The woman looked at the sword on her neck and shook her body, but said boldly: "You are bold!" Then she shouted: "Hurry up and call someone! The sinner is going to kill the goddess!" , and saw a short man slipping out of the room at the door.

Just as Lu Jue was about to chase, Xie Qiao raised his hand to stop him.There was a sneer on his face, and he squinted his eyes and said to the woman: "You are right. I am very courageous, let alone an angel, even if Concubine Jing is in front of me, I will be beheaded when I am." He said Pushing the sword forward a few minutes, he asked, "Speak! Who ordered you?"

Some blood oozes from the woman's neck, she feels her neck hurts, and when she sees the dark eyes of the man in front of her, her heart trembles, knowing that the man is serious.She trembled again, and said: "Yes... it was Shunzi who asked me to say this..." She knelt down and kowtowed a few times, and said, "My lord, please forgive me! It is Shunzi who asked me to say this. ! It's none of the villain's business!"

The author has something to say: Merry Christmas, little angels!

Comparing my heart~ There are two more chapters to reveal the mystery~