Moth

A man may be able to withstand knives, guns, sticks, and extreme torture better than a woman, but he may not be able to withstand boundless sadness and misery.Women are flexible, and they can always show strength beyond ordinary people's expectations when they are abandoned.

At this moment, Liu Changzhou was very fortunate that there was a woman like Zhu Dianyi present, and he felt that he couldn't bear this kind of tragedy.

He commanded almost everyone to search for people with symptoms throughout the city, and bring them to the gate of the city regardless of life or death.Fortunately, it has only been one day since Hongyun's new food was launched, and there are not many people in contact with it. Only some people near the urban area have suspected symptoms, and the exact number of people gathered at the gate of the city is only 220 or three.

Among these people, Zhu Dianyi only picked out a little girl.

The blood on her face had long since dried up, and the hairpin on her head fell somewhere when she was running around.When she was leaning against the wall to drink water to moisten her throat, a silk handkerchief wet with water was suddenly handed over to her eyes.She looked up along that arm, Zheng Xuange looked at her worriedly, and said clumsily: "Miss Zhu, wipe it off."

Zhu Dianyi's heart skipped a beat for no reason, and his tense shoulders relaxed, probably because he couldn't think of joking on such a heavy occasion. Wiping his face with his hands, he hesitated, and finally decided to explain: "I'm fine. This is not a voodoo disease, it looks like a plague, but it's actually just a contact toxin."

She pointed to the man whose belly had been cut open just now, and said plainly: "When I was studying medicine with my father, I saw a kind of mouse called jishu. It feeds on carrion of animals or people, and it nests in the house for a long time. Under the ground, a lot of toxins have accumulated in this kind of rat. Only those who have been directly exposed to these poisons will die suddenly, and those toxins penetrate the skin and are all located in the kidneys, which is what it looks like now."

She spread her hands, made a very helpless gesture, and glanced around the scene... Suddenly she saw a very strange man standing behind Liu Changzhou.Except for the eyebrows, that weird man was almost white from head to toe, his complexion was extremely pale, the neck protruding from the collar was almost the same color as the plain white singlet on his body, and the fingertips slightly protruding from the hands wrapped in the wide sleeves were also very pale. Pure white.

In Zhu Dianyi's eyes, there are few normal people in the world, and Liu Changzhou, who is active and active every day, has been picked out by her—blood fever, irritability, irritability, and mental illness.But right now this person is really weird. She stared at his chest for a while, and saw that the person's breathing was extremely slow, as if it was very strenuous to inhale and exhale alternately. I can't notice it, the skin is pale, but I can't see any distortion of the meridians, and there is no life in the whole body, I don't know which grave he climbed up from.

Zheng Xuange coughed softly, and said very caringly: "That's Lu Hanzhang, Director Lu, and the Wuding Pass in Qinghe is his handwriting."

Zhu Dianyi frowned, trying to pick out something from his memory, but to no avail.The widow was furious!After so many years of walking in the rivers and lakes, there is no disease that she can't recognize. It's unreasonable!

With sharp ears, Liu Changzhou heard Zhu Dianyi's words verbatim.

He called Fang Bingbi over and ordered: "Invite all the officials in Huarong who eat the imperial food, and invite them to watch a play at the imperial envoy's office tonight." There is also a lingering coldness and viciousness.

Fang Bingbi instantly understood what he meant and left in a hurry.

Before sunset, all the people at the gate of the city died one after another.

It was an extremely tragic scene, almost everyone could see the moment of dying in each other's eyes, the deep fear brought by the suffocation of the throat, but they could only helplessly Sit in place and wait for your next turn.One after another, without interruption.

There were three rows of people piled up at the bottom of the pre-dug pit, all of which were instantly burned by the fire.The air was filled with the smell of burnt hair and flesh, and the heat was rolling in.When the thick smoke cleared, Mu Qiu's sad wind kindly lifted the ashes lying on the bottom of the pit into the air, and the last trace of life disappeared.

When the lights were on, the night was dark, but there was an endless stream of horses and horses in front of the imperial envoy's yamen. In the backyard of the yamen, as far as the eye could see, there were all uniforms of Daqing official uniforms. The courtyard was full of officials who came to the banquet.In the middle of the courtyard is a very mysterious thing covered with a big red silk cloth, which is one foot high and very impressive in size.

The officials who arrived were all whispering to each other, guessing what the ministers sent by the imperial court were going to do with the banquet at night.I only heard that the prison of the Yamen recently ransacked the house of Mr. He Yunhe, the grain transportation officer, but I didn't hear about any other major events.But this meal is definitely not simple, and no one knows where it is not simple.

After waiting for a while, Fang Bingbi, who was dressed in court clothes, came out of the main hall, cupped his hands as he walked, and said with a smile: "Good evening, my lords, I am really sorry for inviting everyone to come here at this time, in fact, it is not for other reasons, it is my humble I just got something very interesting today, and I really can't wait to share it with you all." Liu Changzhou is definitely not as good-looking in court clothes as he is, his shoulders are broad, his waist is not like Liu Changzhou's thin, and his sparse eyebrows set off Full of official air.

He raised his hand and slapped it twice, the red silk covering the covered thing standing in the middle of the yard was lifted off, and Liu Changzhou changed into a servant's coarse clothes with an expression on his face. Standing aside stiffly with hands down.

The thing that was covered was actually a bronze four-legged cauldron. When it first appeared in front of the eyes of the world, its whole body was covered with a thick layer of sacredness, as if three souls and seven souls were born from within. , standing solemnly in the middle of the courtyard with eyebrows drawn down, with its own majesty and inviolability.But the big tripod has now been fully restored as a cooking utensil—a pile of charcoal is piled under the tripod, and a short ladder is set up beside the tripod.

There was a sudden silence in the yard.

Several people present have already reacted, and some of them have begun to turn pale.

A few servants came out of the back kitchen with a pot of boiling water in their hands, stepped up the short ladder and poured the water into it.Liu Changzhou glanced at the faces of the surrounding officials, big and small, expressionlessly took the torch prepared in advance and lit the pile of firewood, and the jumping flames gradually rose up, tightly wrapping around the cauldron. center.

Afterwards, several laborers came out carrying a wooden cage.The well-built He Yun was stuffed inside with five flowers tied up, his face was in a mess, his expression was sluggish, with a large ball of cotton cloth stuffed in his mouth, he looked very pitiful.Behind the cage was an executioner standing with a knife in his hand.

Fang Bingbi picked up the wine in front of him without changing his expression, and said slowly: "I don't know how much you are interested in drinking while watching the moon while cooking?" I had to read a line of words on the expression of the person who seemed to be sleepy: kill if you want, kill if you want, shave if you want, where is the bitch talking so much nonsense!

He stared back vaguely: Didn't you say you wanted to exaggerate!

He Yun's eyes in the cage turned to a certain direction in the crowd, and he didn't know what he saw. Suddenly, he started to scream "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo", straightened his back, struggled upward with his head, trying to get out of the cage Stretch out, as if wanting to drag a few more people on their backs before dying.The hands that were tied behind them were also very round like a blooming cactus, and it felt as if they wanted to grab someone together.

If this He Yun is really asked to admit all the deeds he has done one by one, then how many people in Hua Rong's official face can not be implicated?Liu Changzhou was well aware of this, but his purpose of doing this was to make an example, not to wipe out all those people, so he was not at all interested in hearing anything from He Yun.

If some people are really able to restrain themselves, he can moderately let go of the past, but if there are still people who are as arrogant as before, then don't blame him for being ruthless.He glanced in the direction of He Yun's gaze, and saw at the end of his line of sight was a man with chicken bones, the man's neck was sticking out, and he kept staring at the wine glass in his hand with lowered eyelids .

He squinted his eyes and remembered this person, another official in one of Huarong's two major vacancies, Liu Tong, the envoy of salt transportation.It is true that the so-called gentleman responds with the same voice and seeks the same spirit; all things in the world are gathered together, and people are divided into groups;

Needless to say, the next scene, I am afraid no one will be interested.

As the leader of the Guanyu Pavilion, Liu Changzhou has never lacked viciousness, and that kind of cruelty is brought into full play at this time.Before pushing He Yun into the boiling water, he kindly helped He Yun pull the cloth out of his mouth, and then kicked him into the boiling water.He Yun only had time to call out "Liu" before suddenly changing his tune, howling a series of very miserable sounds.

At the same time, the wine glass in Liu Tong's hand fell to the ground.But apart from Liu Changzhou, almost everyone present didn't notice this detail—this would probably be the first time, and perhaps the only time, that those people who didn't move at all saw a big boil in their careers as officials.

He closed his eyes with concern, and sat stiffly on the spot, not daring to plug his ears with his hands, for fear that any random movement he made would be looked at by others, and it seemed that some secret would be released, so that he didn't know what to do. Time also becomes the next He Yun.

In the courtyard, apart from the horrific screams, the only thing left was the sound of boiling water boiling in the pot. After a while, there was no sound, and a smell of meat wafted out, and a pile of white bones were fished out from the cauldron and piled on the ground. On the open space in front of the cauldron, there was a skull with deep eye sockets staring at it, with traces of hot air coming out of it.

Fang Bingbi's color suddenly changed, and he crushed the wine glass in his hand. This voice ended a tormenting silence.He threw the fragment on the ground with full acting skills, and said in a cold voice: "I think all the adults understand what I mean, right? Come!"

As soon as the words fell, a series of boxes were lifted out one after another. As soon as the lids of the boxes were opened, almost every box was full of gold, silver, jewels, and rare toys, which made people's eyes hurt.Fang Bingbi came out with his hands behind his back, pointed at these treasures, and said mockingly, "I'll take care of all of you!" He took out a roll of bright yellow stuff from his sleeve, held it up to shoulder height, and said seriously: "Don't say there are any people in the court to support you, just weigh yourself and see how many heads you have to chop off."

Suddenly, a large area of ​​the ground fell to its knees.

Liu Changzhou walked over with his hands in his hands, picked up the skull on the ground with his feet, and inserted his fingers into the big hole in the back of the head. He was not afraid of any retribution in the world, and disrespectfully twirled the head on his fingers like a ball , looks very unbeaten.He was not interested in listening to so many nonsense nonsense, so while everyone was eager to bury their heads in their chests, he flew over the wall quietly and walked into Du Heng's account room.

Du Heng was looking at the black books he had found from He Yunfu under the lamp with staring eyes, when he heard the voice, he raised his head and took a look. He straightly held a white skull in the palm of his hand and covered it in front of him.

He leaned back calmly, and said as calmly as possible: "Master, aren't you afraid that he will crawl out of the ground to find you?"

Liu Changzhou walked over a few steps, sat down on Du Heng's table, snorted and said: "I can kill him when he is alive, and he is dead, what else should I be afraid of? Even if he Come up, I will endure him for a few years, and when I go down, I will still kill him. How is it? Did you find out what's wrong?"

Du Heng stretched out his arms and handed him the ledger to show him to read it for himself, only to see a few places marked with cinnabar on the ledger.

It turned out that the 20 shi of food on Mount Lai was all scavenged by He Yun from the soldiers' pay that should have been sent to the North Defense.The reason why Hua Rongxie's food to the household department is half less than that of other counties is that Hua Rong bears almost half of the food and salary of the northern defense generals.

But He Yun was so bold that he was able to deduct half of the salary.

Liu Changzhou frowned, feeling that it was impossible to be so simple.

The general who guarded the northern frontier was General Chi Lihao who was single-handedly promoted by the late Emperor. He was known for his uprightness, and his salary was reduced by nearly a quarter. How could the old general hold back?After thinking about it, there was only one possibility, and that was that General Xili's memorial was intercepted halfway.

Someone suddenly exclaimed in the silent backyard, followed by the sound of miscellaneous footsteps and the clash of cups and plates, which was very noisy.

Liu Changzhou threw down the ledger, and before he left, he didn't know whether it was intentional or not, he threw the angry skull under Du Heng's eyes, and quickly flipped out of the window.

Du Heng: "..."

There was indeed a mess in the backyard.

But something was wrong. Beside the pile of white bones lay a man rolling all over his eyes, covering his eyes.Lu Hanzhang, who came out of nowhere, stood on one side very abruptly, holding a thing in his hand that could easily misunderstand his age and IQ - a slingshot.

I really feel sorry for this group of officials in Huarong. First, they were invited by their superiors to watch a live cooking that was very suitable for drinking. Then a masked man with triangular eyes jumped in and attacked indiscriminately. The weirdo directly blinded one of the triangular eyes with a slingshot, and each of them really wanted to die by now.

Fang Bingbi was strict first and then lenient, and kindly said that everyone can get out.

Liu Changzhou walked over with his hands behind his back, kicked the triangular-eyed buttocks as if he didn't understand that "a scholar can be killed but not humiliated", turned his head and glanced at the slingshot in Lu Hanzhang's hand, and said with a half-smile: "Lu Hanzhang The boss is very skillful."

Lu Hanzhang put away the slingshot generously, not feeling any shame at all, and said in a dainty way: "Why, is it funny? Yitong gave it to me."

Fang Bingbi stared at Lu Hanzhang in surprise, leaned over in disbelief, perhaps still putting on an official air, and said in a calm tone: "This is Boss Lu? Why is Boss Lu here?"

Lu Hanzhang poked Liu Changzhou's shoulder cheaply, and said, "Ask this slut. He ordered Hongyun to be set on fire, and even burned all the silk in Haoshang's back warehouse. Qingyun almost Go inside." He turned his head to look at Liu Changzhou, and squeezed out a line between his teeth: "Did I owe you in my previous life? I used to think that you were a bastard at best, but now I think you are worth it." A group of broom stars."

Liu Changzhou: "..."

He rubbed his nose, wondering why Lu Hanzhang was still so calm, his words and movements were as natural as ever, anyway, he felt uncomfortable all over.He glanced away unnaturally, and said with a guilty conscience: "Boss Lu came here in the middle of the night, didn't he just use a slingshot to blind this man's eyes?"

Lu Hanzhang snorted: "You think I'm idle, don't you? I have something to tell you."

Liu Changzhou felt that the words "I have something to tell you" were like a mantra, and once he heard it, he would feel distraught for a while, which made him even more uncomfortable. He didn't know where to put his hands and feet, and he was very useless at the same time. At the same time, I think that I will try my best to avoid this person in the future.

Fang Bingbi on the side was very surprised to find out that this neurotic who has never known the heights of the sky and the earth is still embarrassed-their father's willow eyes can't be closed, and his half-closed appearance has an inexplicable like The warmth like flowing water.

He was really frightened, felt his teeth trembling, said "Farewell", and hurried to get out of here.

Lu Hanzhang leaned back on a table, clasped his hands, and seemed to have a long talk: "I don't know how Master Liu will solve the current mess?"

Liu Changzhou heaved a sigh of relief, and leaned on the short ladder next to the tripod a little nervously: "What can we do? Right now, the lower class people in the entire Huarong territory should be in a state of having money and no food, and they can only wait for the relief food to arrive."

Lu Hanzhang tapped the table with his fingertips: "'There is money but no food', then how do you think they have money? The Ministry of Households stipulates that if the local food is not fully resolved, the people are allowed to exchange it into equivalent silver taels and hand it over. They are so stupid Buy your own food and then use the money to buy high-priced food? Since you have money, why didn’t you just hand over the silver at that time?”

Liu Changzhou paused, then gradually came to his senses, and said in a straightforward manner: "Loan!"

Lu Hanzhang snapped his fingers and nodded: "The current Huarong should actually be 'without money and food', but the food should be concentrated in the hands of a few people. Their money must be borrowed, and you send someone to check After checking, there must be someone lending high loans in private. At present, so many borrowers have died, and the money released cannot be recovered. If you were a lender, what would you do?"

Liu Changzhou raised his eyebrows and blew a hooligan whistle: "Rise interest rates for the remaining people."

Lu Hanzhang commented pertinently: "Not stupid. I came to you mainly to borrow the face of the government to help me. Please trouble Mr. Liu to buy all the papers in the hands of the lenders, and control all those borrowers in the hands of the yamen gate. Next, I am useful."

Liu Changzhou asked suspiciously: "Why do you want so many people? Besides, I don't know if the Fantai can provide so much money. And do you think I will agree to ask for public funds for your private use?"

Lu Hanzhang was caught off guard and kicked him, hating iron for not being steel, said: "Forget about being stupid, do you have to force me to tell the truth?"

Liu Changzhou felt that he was very innocent. Every time he met this person, his intelligence was completely wiped out, thus creating an illusion that as long as two people work together, Lu Hanzhang must use his brains and he must be running errands.This kind of aggrieved energy of IQ being crushed made him very unhappy.

Lu Hanzhang felt that he had failed too much, he sighed, and said bluntly: "You said... How about setting up a winery?"

Liu Changzhou's eyes lit up - that's right, the grains from He Yuntun on Mount Lai can be used to make wine!Since it has become moldy and deteriorated, and according to Zhu Dianyi, if those people are only exposed to poisoning, there must be a way to screen out the poisonous powder. Most importantly, once the winery is set up, it will inevitably require a lot of manpower.

It can not only avoid the waste of a large amount of food, but also solve the livelihood of many people, and can also add an additional source of money for Huarong. !

When he thought about it carefully, he realized something was wrong.Lu Hanzhang always likes to sit back and watch when others are busy, so why would he take the initiative to ask him to help him solve the current mess?And then he suddenly woke up—

Lu Hanzhang is helping him.

And in the final analysis, it was because of... caring.

But what if you care?

He typed the manuscript several times, adjusted his tone, looked into Lu Hanzhang's eyes without avoiding it, and said softly: "Don't do this, I can't afford it."

Lu Hanzhang turned around and walked back without warning, but the voice stayed behind when he left: "You think I am willing? Haoshang is Qing Yun's hard work for a year, if you say no, it will be gone. Can he feel better? If the master can really do it Start the liquor workshop, hand over the cabinet to Qingyun."

Liu Changzhou looked at the back of the man going away, moved his footsteps slightly, and followed him quietly - this ancestor dared to go out with a broken slingshot in his arms, his heart was really big enough.