Rent Affair

Chapter 143 Plague?

I already asked the village chief yesterday, we can leave here in two days, although the bridge has not been repaired yet, but the villagers are building another suspension bridge in another place, I believe it will be completed in two days, originally we I wanted to play this matter and leave, but now there are more and more weird things, and more and more people are involved, it seems that I can't just leave in a while!
I fell asleep with some doubts and anxiety.

When I woke up again, it was Xiaojun's aggrieved face that first came into my eyes. I didn't know what was wrong with her. I looked at her sleepily and asked what was wrong, and she said slowly.

It turned out that when Xiaojun went out for a walk in the morning, he met a very strange person. Although we have lived in this village for a long time, Xiaojun did not wander around this village all day like me. She has hardly been out of the aunt's house, and she is not very familiar with the people in the village. This morning, she wanted to ask where the medicinal materials were sold. This little gentleman also knew that he was leaving, so he wanted to take some herbs. Who knows He was severely reprimanded by this man, and almost beat Xiaojun up.

If it wasn't for Xiaojun running fast, I still don't know what to do now?
"You still can't beat a mortal?" I looked at Xiaojun wonderingly. I have walked around the village several times in the past few days. Why have I never seen such a person? It is enough to show that Xiaojun is very unlucky. Xiaojun said so, causing a lot of punches, of course, I was just joking, seeing Xiaojun so nervous, I could only use jokes to calm her down.

"Sir, it's not that I don't want to fight, but that I can't fight. Do I want to use magic and Taoism to deal with a mortal?" Xiaojun gave me a big white eye, but compared to the nervousness just now, it is much better now .

I got up and dragged Xiaojun to talk while walking, and after talking for a while, I finally knew who that man was?Why does this sound like Xiao Zhang’s neighbor? The village chief is the one we are familiar with. I am more familiar with Old Man Lin and Xiao Zhang, because I needed to know the things in the village before. I have looked for Xiao Zhang a few times, and met his neighbor, but he has never been in contact with Zhang's vicious.

"Xiaojun, what else did he say? Why did he get angry when you mentioned herbal medicine? Do you just know the reason?" I know that Xiaojun is a very observant person. Since he knew there was a problem, Xiaojun would not Leave it alone.

Xiaojun nodded to live up to my expectations, and said: "It seems that people in their village are very taboo about herbal medicine. It should be that people have died because of herbal medicine before, so their taboo towards herbal medicine is like ten o'clock in the evening. It’s the same if you’re not allowed to go out afterwards!”

Nowadays, people only go to Western medicine for fever and cold, and few people go to Chinese medicine. Of course, those of us who practice need herbal medicine. After all, we can’t carry many things, but herbal medicine is different. Put it in a bag, whether it is rotten or dried, we can always use it, so Xiao Jun went to find herbs.

"Then have you asked the aunt? What's going on?"

Xiaojun shook his head, with a look of helplessness, and said: "Ma'am, she doesn't say anything, she seems to be very taboo about that matter!"

"Okay, I see, don't worry, I'll take care of the herbal medicine." I gave Xiao Jun a relieved smile, and went to find Ji Linyu.

Generally, he should be practicing at this time. I heard the old man Guixin say that Ji Linyu has maintained a good attitude over the years. No matter where he is, he will practice at a fixed time in the morning. I really admire him. , I can't do it anyway.

When I found Ji Linyu, he had already finished training and was about to come back. I stopped him, and he said that he just wanted to find me. I told him what I saw last night, and he frowned. It was locked all the time, as if thinking about something, and after a while, he said: "It seems that what I thought was right, what happened in the village chief's treacherous town is inseparable. If the village chief wants to protect himself, then the next step He will transfer doubts to us, just watch, how things will develop, depends on today!"

It was the first time that Ji Linyu was so confident in his deduction. He was about to leave when he finished speaking, but I stopped him. No matter what, I wanted to know why he was suspicious of Murakami.

"Mr. Chen, what you want to ask me is actually what I want to ask you. Why do you trust the village chief so much?" Ji Linyu asked me a question in an anticlimactic manner. I really didn't know what to do when he said that. How to put it, I thought for a while before saying: "I am with the village chief almost every day, and I don't find anything wrong with him, and he is very kind to the people in the village, I can't find a reason for him to do this !"

"Didn't you find it last night?" Ji Linyu looked at me and said this, and I instantly remembered that it was not the village chief who killed people, but those people died because of the village chief.

What's wrong with me recently, why can't I think of so many things.

Ji Linyu patted me on the shoulder and continued: "Actually, Mr. Chen, do you know? The reason why I suspect the village chief is because the village chief acted too deliberately when something happened again. His first reaction was not fear, but It was surprise, as if he was not afraid of why these people died, but surprised that the person who killed them could be him, every time his scared expression was reacted for a few seconds and then deliberately pretended..."

To be honest, I didn't realize this. Every time something happened, my focus was on the deceased. It seemed that Ji Linyu was more experienced than me. I had to accept this. I smiled respectfully at him, and Said what Xiaojun told me this morning.

Ji Linyu said that he also discovered this, but it doesn't matter, when he got up early to practice these few days, he had already found a place where he could collect herbs, and finally agreed that we would go to collect herbs after dinner, Xiaojun Knowing that it is possible to gather medicine, the mood is quite good.

Ji Linyu said let us stand still and wait to see if the village chief will take any action. From what he said last night, he also has a lot of love for that person, otherwise he wouldn't have taken the initiative until now. She confessed, although I still don't know if it is a man or a woman, but judging by the village chief's appearance, he probably doesn't like men, right?
When collecting herbs, Lan Aohan stayed at the aunt's house to watch Xiaoying, because the one who knows herbs best among us should be Xiaojun, so she had to follow, and Ji Linyu and I followed, just to avoid the village. Chief, if the village head has an idea, he may take action directly. If the person you suspect has not acted, then in order to avoid wasting time, you can only take the initiative to attack.

Shangguan Yang also followed, and he was still talking about it, complaining one after another. If Ji Linyu hadn't told me not to talk to him, we would have started fighting.

Halfway through the collection, Kang Nan ran over panting and said a word out of breath, but it took him a minute to finish what should have taken a few seconds, "Something went wrong, the people in the village seem to be in trouble." Plague?"

"What's going on, how do you know it's a plague?" I looked at Kang Nan impatiently, and didn't care at all. To me, this is simply impossible. Plague is an ancient saying. What kind of disease is called the plague? There is no such disease except cancer. Could it be that the whole village has cancer?
"Mr. Chen, don't believe it. Everyone in the village has seen it, and they don't know what it is. However, the village chief said that there was such a situation hundreds of years ago. No one in the village was spared. They just passed by suddenly. After a Taoist priest saw it, he said it was a plague, and this Taoist priest watched it for a long time before he saved most of the people..."

"Then this time is the same as last time. What are the symptoms?" As soon as I heard that the village chief said it, I glanced at Ji Linyu. He didn't speak, but just asked a question that I thought he wanted to know.

Kang Nan scratched his head and smiled embarrassingly, then said: "I forgot to ask, let's go back, I will talk slowly on the way!"

After Kangnan finished speaking, he looked at us as if he was waiting for our answer. I saw that everyone had made a decision for them, and followed Kangnan back.On the way, Kangnan told the story of the strange town. After breakfast in the morning, the people in the village began to react one after another. Some people started to vomit and diarrhea. At first, they didn't care about it, but at first they had The phenomenon of foaming at the mouth appeared immediately after the reaction, and gradually the situation became more and more. The person who had the reaction first gradually stopped breathing. This situation is still developing, and the doctor has seen it. I can't see anything at all, I've done all the scans, but still nothing.

"Is it because the doctors in Guizhen Town are too unprofessional, and it's just a small village, so of course the equipment here won't be very mature?" Although Shangguan Yang was looking for something, but he asked something, I nodded in agreement, Looking at Kangnan, Kangnan sighed and said: "I went to the hospital to see it. Although it is a little crude, it still has everything that should be there, so there should be no problem with the equipment."

It seems that there is really a problem. We quickened our pace and hurried back. When we got back to the vicinity of the village, we heard the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling. This sounded like a normal person's cry, and it was clearly a ghost. Xiaojun couldn't help covering his ears.

Xiaojun looked at me and said, "Sir, I'll go see Miss Xiaoying first." Xiaojun was afraid that something might happen to Xiaoying, so he went to the aunt's house first. With the influence of the 'plague', and Lan Aohan guarding him, how could something happen?

(End of this chapter)