Dayong Nu sentenced to death

The two carefully avoided the soldiers of the government office.

Most of Hwaseong fell into dead silence at night, with only sporadic lights, and patrolling soldiers walked through the streets, strictly monitoring all abnormal movements.

The further north you go, the brighter the lights.

It seemed that the light of the entire Hwaseong City was gathered in one place, and there was no need for guidance at all. The two of them flew over the eaves and walked directly towards the brightly lit direction.

"The patrols are getting denser."

Xun Zeli accidentally stepped on the tiles and made a noise, which almost alarmed the soldiers below. Fortunately, Su Rao reacted quickly and dragged him to avoid another cornice.

This avoided the fate of being caught on the spot.

Xun Zeli wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, begged Su Rao for mercy, and apologized, Su Rao signaled him to be careful, and the two sneaked away for a while.

There are some carts and tables and stools on the broad street.

Many figures shuttled back and forth in it non-stop, carrying the sacks on the cart to the middle of the road, and then two people grabbed the head and tail and swung back and forth twice. on the ground.

Su Rao stopped suddenly.

Signing backwards, Xun Zeli didn't understand why he squatted down, and under the cover of night, he looked past her and looked forward.

"Sir, what's wrong?"

Xun Zeli asked in a low voice.

Su Rao raised her finger to point in a certain direction, and Xun Zeli followed the trend to look. There were countless archers and soldiers hidden in the dark alleys in the night.

It seemed that as soon as he heard an order, he would rush out and tear everything in front of him to pieces.

And somewhere in the attic above the alley, under the moonlight, a cold light could be faintly seen flickering.

There are people!

Xun Zeli looked carefully at the other surrounding pavilions, and found several 'eyes' hidden in the dark.

If Su Rao hadn't noticed the abnormal stop just now, if they took half a step forward, their figures would be exposed in their field of vision, and they would be shot into hedgehogs by thousands of arrows.

Xun Zeli swallowed his saliva.

This defense is too tight, at first glance it seems like rebellion.

At this time, a voice came from below.

"How's the situation inside?"

"It's not optimistic. Many medicinal materials are in short supply, and there is no way to make a soup. If this continues, they will have to wait to die."

One male and one female.

The man stood in the middle of the torch with his back facing this direction. He couldn't see his appearance clearly, but he heard the voice. It was Zhang Wu, the prefect of Hwaseong who came and left in a hurry.

And that female voice was also inexplicably familiar.

Su Rao leaned her back against the wall, and carefully poked out one eye to look. After rejecting the horse, there was a woman standing at the end of the empty long street. Her petite figure was shrouded in darkness, and the lights seemed to be isolated around her, unable to see her. Nothing bright.

Row upon row of houses squeezed her in the middle, and the night wind passed through, blowing her voice like flying catkins that were about to dissipate, erratic and fragile.

There was a long silence.

Zhang Wu asked in a deep voice: "So far, there are signs of improvement."

The woman is silent.

Silence is the most direct answer. After a long silence, she whispered: "Perhaps my medical skills are not good. As long as Mr. Zhang is willing to report to the court and let His Majesty send the imperial doctor from the palace, maybe there is a turning point for this matter." ..."

"It's useless."

Zhang Wu's voice was cold and hard, and at this moment, it seemed to be tainted with a little decisiveness, "Princess, you won't understand. If I really want to do this, the crossbow will not be aimed at the two or 3000 people inside. It's the entire city of Hwaseong."

"Princess? Which princess?"

Xun Zeli could only rely on the vague conversation to guess the situation below. He wondered: "Whose princess will come to Hwaseong? According to them, someone here is sick?"

Su Rao didn't answer him.

In fact, when she heard the voice, she had a faint guess in her heart, and it wasn't until now that she was really sure.

The princess in Zhang Wu's mouth.

It was Mu Furong, the master of Yunle County, the medical girl she brought back from Shicheng, Jizhou!

She has no time to worry about how Mu Furong appeared here.

The conversation between these two people and the surrounding scenes are enough for Su Rao to think of the whole thing, two or three thousand people who are sick, closed the city, and lack medicinal materials...

She knew what Zhang Wu was hiding from the outside world.

plague!

The conversation below was still going on, Mu Furong said: "But don't do anything now, just keep them in captivity and wait to die. When the people inside die, the whole Huacheng will not escape the bad luck."

"Master Zhang, do you want to watch everyone die together?"

"There's your wife and children in here!"

The last sound, piercingly piercing through the air, seemed to indicate the uncontrollable anger and despair of the speaker.

Zhang Wu didn't make a sound for a long time.

Thousands of soldiers and dark figures seemed to lose their voices at this moment, and the whistling of the wind was like a hundred ghosts crying, suppressing all the noisy sounds in the brightly lit world.

At this time Xun Zeli also understood completely.

"plague!"

He was shocked suddenly, and immediately covered his mouth as soon as he spoke, for fear of being discovered by the people below. Fortunately, everyone's attention was on the bottom, and no one noticed his short words.

"Is Zhang Wu crazy? This is a plague. How dare he hide it and not report it. If he accidentally loses control, not only tens of thousands of people in Huacheng will die, but it will even endanger the surrounding counties and even the capital!"

In the epidemic a few years ago, nearly [-] people died of illness, starvation, and people who were shot and burned to prevent the spread.

The court paid a very painful price to barely control the situation.

How long has it been, is it going to come back again?
"So he sealed off the city."

Su Rao's voice was hoarse, and she suddenly understood Zhang Wu's decision. Mu Furong said that his wife and children were also in the isolated area, and he was really a lunatic.

Xun Zeli finally calmed down when he heard this, his brows were so frowned that several flies could be killed.

plague……

The weight represented by these two words was so heavy that even if he was standing outside the so-called isolation zone, just thinking about it, he could not stop breaking out in cold sweat from the soles of his feet to his scalp.

"I don't have a choice."

After a long time, Zhang Wu's voice sounded again, but this time there was more fatigue and trembling that could not be ignored, "Princess, the time is almost up."

"Zhang Wu!"

Mu Furong's voice trembled, "You are disregarding human life...the imperial court will not let you go."

"You're right, I just ignore human life."

After a brief adjustment, Zhang Wu's tone became cold again, "Compared with the tens of thousands of people in Hwaseong, the thousands of people lying here are more important!"

"I am the prefect of Hwaseong, and I have to make a choice."

"I don't have a choice, and neither do you."

Speaking of this, Zhang Wu looked up at the light, with a desperate and cold tone, as if he was talking to others, but also as if he was talking to himself: "Princess, I gave us a chance, but no one can compete for the sky .”

"The county lord."

His voice was as soft as a dead leaf falling from a branch, "Zi Shi, it's almost here."