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Xie Qiao and his party walked into the bamboo forest, and as soon as they approached the wooden house, they saw the man sitting in front of the grave, leaning over and caressing the blank wooden tablet.

Hearing the movement, the man slowly looked towards them.Under the desolate moonlight, the dull and dull face of the man was like a ghost.

"You have entered the village." His voice was hoarse, but extremely calm.

Xie Qiao nodded. He stepped forward and stood behind the man, bowed straight to the grave, and then said, "You are Shunzi. Your sister Mei Xiang is buried in this tomb."

The man froze for a moment, then nodded slowly: "You guys even know this."

Xie Qiao closed her eyes, looked up at the icy moon in the sky, regardless of human affairs, and asked, "Where is the tomb of Concubine Jing? What does it have to do with the plague in this village? What did you do?" "

Hearing Xie Qiao's question, the man stood up slowly, with a "click" sound from his joints.He walked a few steps and stood in front of Xie Qiao, staring at Xie Qiao's eyes with stagnant eyes.Lu Jue watched from the side, but he didn't step forward to stop him. He just clenched and loosened the hand hanging under his body, and the old doctor sighed secretly again.

"Hahahahaha!"

The man laughed sternly, "Jie Jie", hysterical, like a ghost driven to a corner, he stared closely at Xie Qiao's eyes, every word seemed to be about to grind his teeth: "Why must I do it?" What? Why can't the gods in the sky really open their eyes?!"

Xie Qiao looked at his bottomless eyes that were brewing with hatred, closed his eyes, and the scene after the plague spread in the previous life emerged in his mind.

The plague spread to all directions with Luzhou as the center, and everywhere it passed were piles of bones. What was heard in Jinling City when they went out at that time was desperate weeping.

'God, what did we do wrong? ! '

The wailing from the previous life seemed to still be echoing in my mind.A mother holding a dead child, a husband holding a dead wife, a child holding a dead relative...they are all asking the same thing, they can only ask the same thing: 'God, what did we do wrong ? ! '

Xie Qiao opened his eyes. He looked into Shunzi's eyes, and said in a low and calm voice, "If there is a god in this world, he will just punish those who have done bad things. Why should innocent people die? In this way, how can the gods Didn’t he become an accomplice of those bad guys? In this way, how is he different from those bad guys who kill people? In this way, how can he be called a god?”

Shunzi froze for a moment, his pupils dilated even more fiercely, and he murmured like a nightmare: "I won't kill innocent people... I won't implicate an innocent person... Outsiders can't come in, and villagers can't get in." Will go out, innocent people will not get sick... After killing the dog officer, there will only be a big fire here... Just one big fire will burn everything--sickness and people, and everything will be completely burned. It's to clear up the matter here... as long as - a big fire - they are atonement for my sister!"

"My sister is the real innocent person, do you understand? My sister is the real innocent person! She did nothing wrong, but she will be tortured by the dog officials, and she will be forced to death by them!"

"Don't they deserve to die? Their lives are their lives, but my sister's life is not my life?! Is their life more noble than my sister's life?!"

"It's only one step away..." Under the moonlight, two lines of tears flowed on his pale face: "I've already saved enough money to take her away... It's only a few days away, just a few days away..."

Xie Qiao clenched his fist with the hand hanging under his body, and the back of the fist showed blue veins. He looked at the man and said, "In that village, there are newborn children, and old people who are dying and unable to move. There are also people who are kind to your sister Are they sorry for your sister? Are they not innocent? Why should they bear the fault of the evildoers?"

"Before you did this, did you ever think about how many innocent people would die if the disease spread? You can just take revenge on those who bullied your sister. Why do you want so many innocent people to be buried with you?"

Just like in the last life, since the county magistrate didn't die, the one who died was probably Shunzi who went to kill him.After Shunzi's death, the plague in this village began to spread. The county magistrate didn't take these lives seriously at all, and finally it led to a shocking tragedy.

After hearing this, Shunzi took a few steps back in a daze. For some reason, he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he and his sister were treated harshly by their stepmother. It was a grandmother in the village who secretly gave them food every day...

His eyes widened, his body began to tremble, and he finally fell to the ground...

There was a moment of silence.

Shunzi turned around and looked at the blank wooden tablet, and finally said, "Concubine Jing's tomb is at the other end of the bamboo forest. I didn't dig that tomb, but a man wearing a mask brought people to dig it. He I just came here to buy some water and food."

"Later, two of the people he brought died, so he asked me to help bury them—the two were buried deep in the bamboo forest. When burying them, he asked me to cover my mouth and nose and put on gloves. When he saw that I was worried, he came to ask me. I told him about my sister."

"He said, the sky is unfair, the sky is merciless, the sky cannot see the suffering in the world, but he will help me..."

……

The man's voice was not human, as if it came from the abyss of hell, luring those who heard his words into the bottomless nightmare.

He handed a pearl to Shunzi's hand through the glove, and the voice sounded like an ancient and treacherous ballad: "They killed your sister, and they all deserve to die. This pearl can help you fulfill your wish. The hand of heaven stretches out If you don't see them, then you can come by yourself..." He pointed to the two graves with a deep meaning, his voice seemed to contain a smile, and he said: "Did you see it? The two of them died in the On this bead. Remember, you must never touch it directly."

……

"Later," Shunzi said in a hoarse voice, "I threw that bead into the well in the village... Most of the villagers would go to get water from that well, and the disease would infect people, and people who didn't draw water from that well would get infected too... ..."

"I beg you for one thing." He looked up at Xie Qiao, and his dull eyes seemed to have finally brightened at this moment: "I am illiterate, and I can't even make a decent monument for her... Please, help me I engraved her name on the stele, her name is Mei Xiang, the plum of plum blossom, the fragrance of flower fragrance...with a name, she...wouldn't be a lonely ghost..." He vomited as he spoke With blood, Xie Qiao narrowed his pupils and hurried forward, only to see that a knife had been inserted into his waist and abdomen. He was holding on to Xie Qiao's sleeve tightly, and a mouthful of blood spilled from his mouth: "Don't forget...she, she called ...Mei Xiang..."

Xie Qiao watched Shunzi's hand slip down, his eyes were completely and completely silent.He closed his eyes, only to feel a fire of anger burning in his heart.

He was an emperor, and Lu Jue had taught him that in a high position, he should lower his eyebrows and bow his head to see the people.

At that time, he wanted to be a good emperor. At that time, he saw the people in Dasheng, the fireworks in the world, and the various states of the world.I saw it then, and now I will naturally see it too.

……

The old doctor's eyes were red, and he stretched out his sleeves to wipe away his tears.Lu Jue put his hand on Xie Qiao's shoulder, and Xie Qiao supported Shunzi's body with one hand, while looking into Lu Jue's eyes and nodding.

Everything that needs to be cleared must be cleared up.What needs to be cleared up is not just the plague.

Only by cleaning up the things here thoroughly can I live up to these fates.

Human life is more important than heaven.