Conspiracy

Chapter 350 The Scarecrow

The old woman's eyes were fierce, and she groped for half of the shovel in the dark, wanting to attack again.

"Old man, don't be stubborn, if you don't stop, no one can save you."

Hearing a teasing voice behind them, everyone turned their heads, and saw Su Zhen leaning against the door frame with her arms folded, looking at them with a smile on her lips.

"Hazel? Why are you here? Come and see what's going on here?"

"People have already said, it's not a plague."

"what?!"

The old woman noticed Su Zhen, and the disgust in her eyes was a little less, but she was still a little bit unkind, "It's you! Why is it you again?! Get out!"

Yang Huanzhi's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard that, Su Zhen has already been here, and found out the clue?
Su Zhen shrugged and said, "I have already told you that the government will report to the court and isolate you at most because they mistakenly think that you are suffering from the plague. How is your health? You still need to be diagnosed and treated by the imperial physician. If you don't believe me, wait until you die." That's it."

"Brother Su! Don't provoke her anymore!"

"Anyway, we don't want to be soft and hard, so why should we waste time?" Su Zhen paused, then said with a smile, "Old man, you really don't want to know why your son turned into a scarecrow after death?"

"Scarecrow?!" Tang Yinchen said in surprise.

After the prince and others heard that there was a commotion here, they brought people over immediately. Seeing that Su Zhen was also there, he, Gu Yunshu and others did not come in in a hurry.

Su Zhen nodded, "Yes, I have already checked, the people in Jiangdu have suffered indelible physical and mental injuries due to floods. As the saying goes, after a major disaster, there must be a major epidemic. Whenever a flood breaks out, there must be a disaster. The plague was rampant. People did not eat food or clothing to survive. In order to survive, as long as it was edible, they would stuff it all into their stomachs. Bark, grass roots, rats, and even their own people were all afraid to eat.

Because they ate too much dirty things, they would have symptoms such as fever, cough, weakness, and blood blisters.Then spread rapidly in various ways.

Due to the proper prediction of the court this time, so far, the casualties of the common people have approached the least in history.

The imperial court also took precautions early on, and prepared the people in various towns to deal with floods and plagues in advance.Therefore, the possibility of a plague outbreak this time is extremely small.

The people in Jiangdu were not infected with the plague. "

Tang Yinchen scratched his head, his brows twisted into Sichuan characters, "Wait! Wait! Hazel, what do you mean, their symptoms don't match those after suffering from the plague?"

"Yeah." Su Zhen passed them, walked to the old woman, knelt down and helped her back to the kang, then turned to face them and said, "At first they had the same symptoms as the plague, but after a few nights, the infection The number of people has approached five thousand, and then the plague spread. But when they died, their bodies were normal, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep, but one corpse, because it was not burned in time, when it was found, it Has turned into a scarecrow."

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After Su Zhen finished speaking, the audience fell silent.

Outside the house, Shang Yuchen looked coldly at the shivering master behind him, "Master Sun, is what Su Shaoqing said true?"

Master Sun nodded with a stiff neck, "Hui Hui. Hui His Royal Highness, that's right!"

"Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"Your Highness, you said that this person is dead, even if he becomes a scarecrow, he won't be able to survive!"

Su Zhen heard the voice outside, looked at Master Sun coldly through the wooden door, "Who told you that they are dead? The whole Jiangdu is full of blood and resentment, do you know why? Because they are not dead at all! "

Everyone's face was pale. Whenever a plague broke out, in order to prevent the accumulation of a large number of corpses and reduce the spread of the plague.All the dead bodies of the plague must be burned.

This time the torrents were fierce and powerful, and the city was closed and the village was closed.Regardless of the concept of being buried in the ground, except for the corpse, the clothing and accessories used by the deceased must be burned forcibly.

Unless the disaster is extremely serious, the village will be set on fire, but the cruelty of this method is outrageous.

"Su Shaoqing, what evidence do you have for saying they are not dead?"

Imperial Physician Pei, who came to report the disaster to the prince after treating the patient, asked outside the door.Hearing what Su Zhen said, although some of the doubts in his heart were resolved, there were still some things he couldn't figure out.

Su Zhen hooked her fingers at the officer and soldier holding the lantern beside Yang Huanzhi, who pointed at his nose in a daze, waiting for Su Zhen to nod before he dared to approach that side.

Su Zhen leaned her body to the side, and saw that the old woman's complexion had returned to the color that an ordinary person should have.

"what on earth is it?"

"Yeah! Isn't this too weird?"

"Could it be that the people in the entire Jiangdu will be bewitched by monsters?"

Hearing the mumbling voice beside her ear, Su Zhen took the old woman's hand, "Grandmother, I, Su Zhen, guarantee with my life that I will find out the truth. But, please cooperate."

Feeling that she no longer resisted, but still stared at Tang Yinchen with dissatisfied eyes, Su Zhen smiled and handed her a medicine, "Grandma, take this, and your internal injuries will be cured. Just now my friend It's just that I was frightened repeatedly along the way, and I didn't intend to collide, so please don't mind."

Tang Yinchen caught a glimpse of Su Zhen's eyes through the dim light, and he hurriedly nodded a few times, "Yes, yes! Mother-in-law! Don't be angry."

As he spoke, he untied the water bottle on his waist, took an empty bowl from the table and poured some water into it, approached cautiously, and passed the water forward, "Drink some water first, we will find out as soon as possible .”

The old woman took a deep breath, took Su Zhen's medicine and Tang Yinchen's water, and with Su Zhen's support, she walked outside over the officers and soldiers.

After leaving the room and looking around, just as Su Zhen and Tang Yinchen told, the officers and soldiers outside were carrying boxes of food and medicinal materials from the carriage.

The tears that had just overflowed from the old woman's eyes, when her eyes touched Master Sun, her body trembled with anger, and her whole body quickly turned red again.

She let go of Su Zhen's hand, and walked towards Shang Yuchen, who was surrounded by officers and soldiers like stars holding the moon in the center, she knelt on the muddy ground and kowtowed, "Prince! Please be sure." Be the master for us! Save the folks in Liting Town! Save all the people in Jiangdu!"

People near the house have been staring outside, listening carefully to the movement. Seeing the old woman like this, they knew that she must have been persuaded by the people from the government, and their hearts suddenly raised their throats.

Shang Yuchen would always write letters inexplicably to what Su Zhen said.

What's more, she even dared to eat the pigeon meat she gave, let alone touch someone she had touched.

He squatted down halfway, helped the tearful old woman up, and said softly, "Old man, don't be afraid, first tell me what happened in recent days in detail, and I will consider it myself."

(End of this chapter)