After saying that, Lin Xi asked Zhou Ke to let go. The little boy grabbed her arm and printed two black handprints on Lin Xi's sleeve with his gray hands.

Zhou Ke frowned and was about to do something when he saw Lin Xi shaking his head at him.

The little boy's voice was trembling: "Can you cure the plague? Can you cure it?"

Lin Xi pointed at Zhou Ke, "I just cured his master's relative. If you don't believe me, can you ask him?"

The little boy looked at Zhou Ke eagerly.

Zhou Ke nodded.

The little boy's eyes suddenly lit up, and he pulled Lin Xi and ran: "Then follow me. Many people in our county have also been infected with the plague, and they are about to die!"

"What? A plague has also appeared in Pei County?" Lin Xi was dragged and staggered, and he barely managed to keep his balance and ran with the little boy, and asked unexpectedly. Zhou Ke followed Lin Xi.

Little boy: “It will be there at the beginning of the month!”

"At first, someone disappeared in our county. The newly appointed county captain looked for them, but in the end he only found a sick man. But he died not long after he was found, and then our Peixian County appeared.

plague!"

"The county captain moved the infected people to the mountains behind Peixian County to isolate them, and asked doctors to treat them. But they were never cured, and many people died. Later, some officials came to find out how the plague appeared and took them away.

Many of the big brothers said they were suspected. After they were taken away, they never came back."

"Later, the county captain said that we should all go to the back mountain to separate ourselves, so he took us all there."

After hearing this, Lin Xi frowned.

So the source of this plague is the first missing person?

Then why were young people taken away later? And they never came back?

Lin Xi asked: "Have all the people gone to the back mountain?"

The little boy nodded, "Many people have been infected by the plague, but there are very few people who are not infected now."

"Then why did you return to Peixian County at night?" Lin Xi asked.

The little boy straightened his chest and said proudly: "Because the county captain thinks highly of me and asks me to work for him! He said that a very important person will come to the county in the next two days and ask me to keep an eye on him. If it is confirmed

This person is here to wait, I have to take this person to the county captain!"

He looked at Lin Xi and said seriously as he ran: "Don't look at me because I'm young and think I'm easy to bully. I'm smart. I'm familiar with the county and know a lot of secret ways! Ordinary people can't catch me at all."

He pointed at Zhou Ke again.

"That means he used his kung fu skills to scare me, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to catch me!"

The little boy made a face at Zhou Ke.

Zhou Ke: "..."

Lin Xi couldn't help laughing and asked: "Then where is the big brother you mentioned?"

The little boy said: "He is gone."

"Gone??"

"Yes, he left Peixian County yesterday." The little boy said, "The eldest brother really can't speak, and he was always accompanied by someone before."

It seems that the big brother he is talking about is Du Buyou.

"Do you know where this person went?"

"I don't know, maybe the county captain will know," the little boy said.

"Then the two people around him also left with him?" Lin Xi asked.

The little boy shook his head, "No. Those two people left long ago. Although I didn't see them when they left, I can remember people accurately and quickly. I can remember them in one go. I didn't see them the next day.

, I can still find it. And they all left on the night of the 21st, and the carriages they brought disappeared with them."

Lin Xi is strange.

From what the little boy said earlier, since it was the county captain who asked him to come here to wait for her, then the person Shen Chen arranged for Wang Shou and the others to go to Pei County to meet was the county captain.

But Wang Shou and Yan Zhong left with their weapons, leaving Du Buyou alone with the county captain. They didn't leave until yesterday. What happened?

Is this also Shen Chen's arrangement?

While they were talking, they had already left the county and headed towards the back mountain.

Ju Xiaoboy said that it would take an hour and a half to get to the place where the people were in Pei County, Houshan.

On the way, Lin Xi asked, "When did those people who came to Peixian County take away your people come?"

The little boy said: "About the seventh day of the Lunar New Year."

Lin Xi was even more amazed.

The plague appeared at the beginning of the month, and the time it took for the disease to spread was very short.

Knowing that there is an epidemic here in such a short period of time and sending people here, could it be...

"Are they from Jinling City?"

Bringing those young people who might be infected with the plague to Jinling, caused the plague to break out in Jinling??

The little boy shook his head, "I don't know, but the county captain should know."

When Lin Xi heard this, he didn't ask any more questions and concentrated on his way.

After a long time, they passed through a mountainous area. In the past, it was flat land with very few woods. Soon, Lin Xi saw the outlines of houses appearing in the distance, one after another.

The little boy became excited when he saw it: "Here we are! We are here!"

After getting closer, Lin Xi could see clearly that most of the houses in front of him were farmers' houses. They should have been an abandoned village before, so they looked quite shabby and shabby. Many of them had no roofs and were temporarily covered with bamboo, grass and leaves. There were also many shed.

The buildings on the east and west sides are also obviously different. There are large temporary sheds on the east side, which overall look lifeless; on the west side it is very quiet.

At the front, there were more than a dozen officials standing guard, all well-dressed, with their eyes and foreheads exposed.

Lin Xi looked beyond them and could see many official servants going in and out of various houses, and could vaguely hear a lot of coughing, wailing, and crying.

In addition, there were officials guarding the larger road between the village houses on the east and west sides, seeming to separate them.

The smell of herbs in the air made Lin Xi and Zhou Ke frown at the same time.

Before they even got close, the official ordered them to stop.

"Who?!"

The little boy ran over happily: "It's me! Little Shitou! I didn't disappoint the county captain. I completed what he asked me to do and brought the person back!"

The officers recognized the small stone, but were startled when they saw Lin Xi and Zhou Ke, and cautiously held on to their sabers.

Lin Xi stopped two feet away from them.

"Please inform your county captain."

The officials looked suspicious, and the other one turned around and ran in, disappearing into the village house on the east side.

Soon, the official came back.

"Our county captain will be here shortly, please wait a moment."

Lin Xi asked: "What's the situation with the plague here? How many people are infected? How many people are well? How many people have died?"

The officials' eyes were sad and heavy, and their tone was a little bad, "What does it have to do with you, a foreigner?"

Xiao Shitou said anxiously: "Something's wrong! She can cure it..."

"There were originally more than 800 people in total, and hundreds died due to the plague. Several hundred people are still in danger, and less than a hundred people are safe and sound. Another hundred people were taken away." A voice sounded.

When the officials heard this, they all came to their senses and saluted respectfully: "I've seen the county captain!"

Lin Xi looked at it and was shocked by just one glance.
Chapter completed!