A cold autumn rain.

In an unremarkable dilapidated house made of tree branches in Hadong County, a man wearing a bamboo hat leaned against the crumbling window.In addition to the wind blowing in from the window, there is also the rain leaking from the roof.

pat pat pat.

pat pat pat.

The man was motionless, as if asleep.

The wooden door was suddenly pushed open, and with a bang, several pieces of wood fell down. "Did Mr. Jing also fail? How are you going to explain to the master?" The visitor said arrogantly, "On weekdays, he looks like an outsider, but the result is not much different from our brothers? It's just that his ability to escape is not ordinary."

The man touched the new scar on his thigh and snorted coldly: "If I really want to kill someone, no one can stop me. It's just that I don't want to make too many murders."

"Oh? Hehe. Then tell me, how did you assassinate the little emperor when surrounded by thousands of people?" The Yuan family's assassin squatted down, but his eyes were full of mockery.

"I hurt my leg, so I can't use force." "Mr. Jing" leaned against the wall and slowly took out a porcelain bottle, "But if you want to kill someone, there is a more violent way than a knife."

"Using poison?" The assassins looked at each other and laughed, "We are not laymen, so it's your turn to remind us? But Cao's kitchen is kept like an iron bucket. Besides, the emperor has someone to test the food before eating. .”

"Ha, it has to be eaten to take effect, and it's the poison of the world." "Mr. Jing" shook the small porcelain bottle, "It's the poison of heaven that kills people when it comes into contact with it."

The Yuan family's assassins stopped talking, and said half-believingly: "You better not brag about yourself." After saying that, the leader stretched out his hand to snatch it.

"Mr. Jing" stuffed the small porcelain bottle back into his bosom quickly. "You still don't know what sky poison is. Open the cork, and no one in this room can escape."

Everyone took a deep breath.

"What do you want?"

"Prepare me an idiot, a son of a family who can get close to Liu Xie. I think the idiot from the fifth room of the Hedongwei family is not bad. He secretly flirts with Yuan Shu. Don't tell me Yuan Shao is reluctant."

"This... I have to report to the Lord."

"Oh, go ahead, don't make me wait too long. I'm giving my life to do this job." He said, his eyes were dimly lit.

The "Assassination Case" that occurred in the autumn of 191 was a century-old case that shocked thirteen states across the country.

At the end of September, Cao Cao, who suffered the least from the locust plague that year, organized his troops and led an army of [-] troops to march south, pointing his sword at Shouchun, the capital of Yuan Shu.Along the way, the counties and counties that did not receive their military rations surrendered in anticipation.Less than a month after the expedition, the entire territory of Yuzhou and two counties of Yangzhou were conquered, forming a siege of Shouchun.

For a time, the princes in the country were like frightened birds, and they wrote letters to pay tribute.Even Yuan Shao sent envoys to Xu County to deliver New Year's gifts, with the intention of making peace.The families of the ministers in Xu County are full of families, so old relatives and friends keep in touch.

The little emperor is even worse here.Posts from all over the world inviting him to enjoy the scenery and hunt are like snowflakes.Ninety-nine percent of them were rejected.But in the remaining one percent, something went wrong.

In October, Emperor Han visited Hedong to appease the people in Guanzhong.At that time, a son of a rich family brought his trilogy to attack the mountain barbarians, captured more than a hundred prisoners, and shot them in the hunting ground for fun.Emperor Han stopped this atrocity and bought the survivors with money from the internal treasury.Among them, there were eight people suffering from boils, and they suddenly broke out and hurt people.As a result, Emperor Han fell ill and had a high fever.

At that time, Cao Sheng was transporting food and grass for the front line in Yingchuan. He heard that he was galloping day and night on horseback. It was five days after he arrived in Hedong, and more than a dozen people were infected.

On October 21, the whole area of ​​​​Hedong was sealed off, allowing entry and no exit.

The emperor was infected with the plague. The news was like a bolt from the blue, blowing up the brains of the people who were indulging in the grand scene.Yang Biao, who followed the emperor to inspect Guanzhong, almost died to apologize.

"Before Mr. Zhonghua rushed to Yingchuan, he entrusted His Majesty to me with thousands of reminders. But he ended up in this situation. The old minister is extremely ashamed." He knelt outside Liu Xie's residence and kowtowed again and again, breaking his skin. .

The Eastern Han Dynasty was not the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The last time I saw such a brutal kowtow was 20 years ago when the scholars begged Emperor Huan to lift the party.

Standing around the dormitory were medical officers and female doctors in blue and white uniforms, their faces were as solemn as statues, with only occasional sympathy in their eyes.

"Mr. Yang, please get up." Finally, a little medical girl came to persuade him, "Master Cao said that she had encountered a sore."

"A total of seven layers of blockades have been set up in the dormitory, mansion, county town, and border. The medical officers of Xu County have come out all over the place, and they have to transfer people from Qingzhou. It is tuberculosis and dysentery. The enemy." Yang Biao grabbed the little doctor girl, "Tell me the truth, what kind of disease is Lupus?"

"White powder magic medicine doesn't work, what is the disease?"

"Eight to nine out of ten of the dead, and those who survived were also covered with scars. What kind of disease is this?"

The little doctor girl was about to cry, struggling and unable to break free.

"Mr. Yang, why make things difficult for her, she is still an apprentice." A young man about 30 years old persuaded next to him, "Lu sore is also called smallpox. Because it was first discovered on the barbarians, it is often called Lu sore in the Central Plains. Zhonghua Gong once said that fortunately there is no smallpox among the plagues of the Han people, otherwise even she would not be able to save so many people. Once she gets sick, she can only rely on the patient's foundation to survive."

With red eyes, Yang Biao lifted the collar of the medical officer.

The young man showed a painful look on his face: "Mr. Zhonghua personally took care of His Majesty inside, and he also took the risk of getting sick. I will only help when I complete the blockade and prevent the disease from going out of Hedong and going to Yanzhou and Qingzhou." her."

Yang Biao let go of his hand dejectedly, as if he had aged more than 20 years in an instant.

At this time, a female doctor in the room pushed open the door, revealing a crack in the door.The fully armed white mask and white gloves cover the whole body tightly, only revealing a pair of smart eyes.

"Decoction." She said, "Ren Bai listens to the prescription."

The young man who had just talked to Yang Biao rolled up his sleeves, sat down on a table in the corridor, and picked up his brush.

"Two taels of bupleurum, one tael of honeysuckle, six cents of cohosh, one tael of kudzu root..."【1】After writing, I compared it twice, and then the medical officer Ren Bai went to grab the medicine himself.

Yang Biao wanted to follow, but was stopped by the female doctor inside. "Mr. Yang. Mr. Zhonghua said that the sores seldom appear in the north of the river. This is strange. I'm afraid that someone sent patients to the east of the river, just for His Majesty."

Yang Biao's eyes almost popped out.

Only Cao Sheng's voice came from a distance from the crack of the door: "I have to take care of two children now, and I can't get away. I will leave this matter to Yang Taiwei."

"Assassination with an epidemic disease is really the most vicious act in ancient and modern times." Yang Biao was vicious, as if he wanted to bite off someone's flesh, "Biao will investigate this matter thoroughly and will never show mercy."

The door was closed, and the light in the room became a little darker.

Liu Xie was lying on the huge couch, and there was another one on the small bed next to it, which was Xia Houchong of Xiahou Dun's family.Both children had flushed faces and pimples on their chests and backs.

"Cao Zi, itch, woo woo." Liu Xie cried in his dream, dazed.Ah Sheng had to be held down by someone to prevent him from scratching the pustules on his body.

As for Xia Houchong, he was even stronger, and it took three people to hold the brat down.

"It's my fault." Ah Sheng said, and then he personally rubbed a towel with cold water and covered the foreheads of the two children.

"How can it be said that it is the master's fault?" The medical officer next to him continued, "One is the assassin's fault, the second is the Habayashi guard's lack of protection, and the third is the arrogance of the Hedong family. It has nothing to do with the master."

"I was the first to take the emperor out of the city, so it was my fault." A Sheng lowered his eyes, staring at the little emperor's pus-covered face, as if suppressing the endless darkness, "I claim to be the second best in medicine, but It was also my fault that I failed to anticipate the enemy's opportunity."

"Master, even if His Majesty stays in Xu County, this Lushang will sneak into the school. If you do mental calculations but don't care, how can you prevent them from acting like this? And manpower is sometimes exhausted, even Huashi, there are incurable diseases. People who can't."

Ah Sheng raised his head: "If you have the time to talk, why don't you cook some sweet porridge. The children cook it by themselves now, and being able to take medicine is not as effective as being able to eat."

"promise."

At the same time, on the front line of Shouchun, Cao Cao was calling for the door under the city.On the opposite side, Yuan Shu set up a table on the tower to drink and sing.

"Cao Aman, you are running too fast, and the food can't keep up now. There are ten years of food in my Shouchun City, and the height of the city is twenty feet. Consumption, let's see which one of us can consume more than the other."

Cao Cao laughed loudly: "Yuan Gonglu, you have plundered all the counties around you. Naturally, you have ten years of food storage. I, Cao Cao, can't do anything to you, so I can only stay in Yangzhou and never leave. Let's waste, waste. Wait. Ten years later, Lujiang County, Danyang County, and Kuaiji County have all forgotten who you are, and it won't be too late for you to come out of Shouchun City."

"you--"

"I have already reported to His Majesty, asking His Majesty to select the candidates for the prefect of the five counties of Yangzhou, who will take office soon. You can guard the lonely city of Shouchun and make your Spring and Autumn Dream come true."

Although he knew that Cao Cao's intention to directly rule Yangzhou beyond Shouchun was cruel, Yuan Shu still took the lead. "Fuck, Liu Xie, that sick boy, suffered many secret injuries outside the pass in his early years. He might be gone after a serious illness."

Cao Cao's face changed: "How dare you curse the emperor."

Yuan Shu: "Who is not the Son of Heaven anymore? I am also the Son of Heaven, so I just said, he won't live to be a child, what can you do to me?" Calling the emperor is called the emperor, and he still avoids the Liu family emperor, what a joke!

At this time, the messenger galloped to the front of the formation on horseback, almost rolling and crawling to Cao Cao's feet. "Da Lang, Xu County urgent report."

It was an old man from the spy department, whom he had seen before.There was no problem with the face management of the spy staff, but Cao Cao was keenly aware that this might be bad news. "Let's go back to the camp and talk about it."

Seeing that Cao Cao's voice was gone, Yuan Shu felt even more proud. "Look at it, when Liu Xie, that little thing whose fortune has collapsed to the point where the imperial mausoleum collapses, dies, you still have to come and apologize to me."

The author has something to say: [1]: The traditional Chinese medicine prescription for treating smallpox was made up by me. It is mainly for reducing fever and supplementing nutrition.

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