Conspiracy

Chapter 352 Strange Disease
Shang Yuchen keenly noticed the abnormality between the three of them, but wisely did not point it out. He walked to the front and sat down, looked around everyone, and said, "Okay, let's all sit down."

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness."

After everyone saluted, except Master Sun who was left outside tremblingly, they all took their seats.

After the two officers and soldiers lit the candles in the house, they exited the door.

"Old man, can you tell me what happened now?"

Shang Yuchen's voice is full of warmth, and those who hear it will always involuntarily let go of their guards.

The old woman's eyes always showed hatred involuntarily when facing the people in the government, even at this moment, her complexion would turn darker every time.

"Old man, your skin color will change with your emotions?"

Not only Yang Huanzhi, who made a sound, noticed the clue, but the rest of the people were also thinking about it.

The old woman fell to her knees again, and Shang Yuchen signaled Yang Huanzhi to help her up, but she pushed his hand away.

"His Royal Highness, the old woman's name is Tao Yu. She lost her husband in her early years. Her only son, Tao Qingran, was burned to ashes by the government a few days ago."

As she spoke, her complexion gradually turned into ice blue, and her trembling and haggard hands reached towards the close-fitting skirt.

Seeing this, Jin Lian immediately put his thumb against the hilt of the sword, but saw that the old woman named Tao Yu just took out a stack of square and neat brown handkerchiefs.There is a bulge in the middle, as if it is wrapped in something.

She spread the veil on the ground, carefully and slowly lifted it, and it turned out to be some burnt straw.The scorched straw had long lost its original shape, but the smell it wafted was exactly the same as what they had smelled before they entered Liting Town.

Everyone thinks that the deceased suffering from a strange disease will become a scarecrow after death.And Su Zhen said more than once that they are not dead.

Yuzhu covered her mouth and nose, turned her head away.

Tao Yu continued crying, "His Royal Highness, the old woman is not crazy. On the night my son died, that is, seven days ago, people from the government took his body to the back mountain and burned it. A son, he is very obedient! Very filial! But he died of the plague, according to the rules of the government, the body will be burned.

That night, the old woman wanted to go to the mountain to retrieve my son's ashes.

But when they got to the mountain, they found that the dog official Tao county magistrate had burned a bunch of scarecrows!

Later, the villagers all went to the back mountain and found that the place where the corpses were originally stored was full of scarecrows, our relatives and our children. All the people who they claimed to have died of the plague disappeared without a trace.Nothing remained but the ashes. "

Afterwards, Tao Yu wept uncontrollably.

Yang Huanzhi knelt down and took out his handkerchief to wipe her cheeks, "Grandmother, when you heard brother Su say that people with strange diseases turned into scarecrows, they were still alive, and there was no surprise on your face except hatred. How did you know that they were burned alive?"

"I saw it with my own eyes! We saw it with our own eyes! My child was burned to death by the government!" Tao Yu cried bitterly and beat Yang Huanzhi's arm squatting beside her.

Suddenly, she stood up from the ground with tears all over her face. She pointed to Su Zhen and said, "It's him! He was the one who sneaked into Nanzhuang Village two days ago! Your Highness, it was he who forced the old woman to take him up the mountain! We saw with our own eyes that those When the scarecrow was burned, it kept rolling, as if it couldn't bear the pain of burning!"

Everyone looked at Su Zhen in bewilderment, and the latter looked up calmly, "Yes, I don't need to suppress mountain bandits or kill evil officials. I arrived two days earlier than you, and what she said is true."

"Zhen'er? Did you see the scarecrow move?" Shang Yuchen asked.

"Well, I've checked, and all corpses will turn into scarecrows within twelve hours after death."

"Are they bewitched?"

Su Zhen ignored Chu Moxuan's fiery gaze, and looked at Master Sun with a playful evil smile on the corner of her lips. "Actually, I'm also quite curious. There are only more than [-] people in Jiangdu, but it has spread to the entire Jiangdu in just a few days, and nearly [-]% of the people have been infected. But such a terrifying spread speed has not endangered Jiangdu. Master Sun, according to Luo Qi’s laws and regulations, indiscriminate reporting and concealment of disasters is a capital offense!”

When Master Sun heard the words, he quickly knelt down and said, "Su Shaoqing! Absolutely not!"

"Oh? Not so? So what?"

"My lord had reported this matter before, but later we received an order from the prefect of Jiangdu. In order to strictly control the strange disease, when the court sent people to rescue, the matter must be kept secret. At that time, the flood was at its worst. At that time, I thought that if it spread out, it would definitely cause even more panic. It is simply that this strange disease has not been spread to Jiangdu, so it has been kept secret."

The more Master Sun spoke, his voice became lower and lower, and he didn't even dare to raise his head to meet their gaze.

Shang Yuchen scolded furiously, "Nonsense! It's just nonsense! Do you still take the lives of the people seriously! You don't know what disease they are suffering from, and whether they still have a chance of survival! How dare you rashly Burn everyone! Are you trying to slaughter the entire river?!"

Master Sun put his hands on the ground and kowtowed, "His Royal Highness! You can't believe what Granny Tao said! We have never seen those corpses move after being turned into scarecrows! At first she publicized this matter everywhere, presumably Su Shaoqing He also found her after hearing about it!
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is aware!Never before that time!It didn't happen later either!Otherwise, wouldn't it be a disregard for human life?Our lord is a good official, how could we allow this to happen! "

Shang Yuchen had been listening to Master Sun whispering in his ears how good Tao County Magistrate was, and Tang Yinchen had been babbling back incessantly before, which made their ears almost callused.

"Since the clues have already been born, why did you continue to burn before I brought people here?"

"Your Highness, it is true that the corpse will turn into a scarecrow! But the officials of the yamen have been guarding the place for three days under the order of your lord, and they have never seen a scarecrow move!"

The expression on Master Sun's face didn't seem fake, as if they were also Monk Zhang Er who couldn't figure it out and was very confused.

"Brother Su, could you be dazzled? How are you sure they are still alive?"

Yang Huanzhi's doubt seemed normal to Su Zhen, but if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't believe it.

"Ordinary people judge whether a person is still alive by testing the pulse, breathing and heartbeat. But those so-called corpses that have turned into scarecrows are different. They just left their original form and survived in another form. You burn them Lost, living souls become dead spirits, if they cannot enter the underworld, they cannot be reincarnated, and they have no choice but to wander around."

Jin Lianting's scalp was numb, and he asked in disbelief, "Su Shaoqing, are you crazy? What nonsense are you talking about?"

(End of this chapter)