It is divided into a front house and a back house. The front house is where the office is located, while the back house is where Xi Munan's family lives.
The Xi family's clan is not located in Jiacheng, but is located in the suburbs. It has a large population and is like a town. Jiacheng is said to govern eight towns, but if the Xi family's land is included, it should be nine towns.
Entering a side hall of the front house, Mr. Liu was buried in front of the case, writing something with his pen.
As soon as he saw him, Xi Zichu bit out three words from between his teeth: "Master Liu!"
"Oh, it's the young master." Master Liu raised his head and glanced at him, then lowered his head again and said, "The city lord has gone out, and he may not know when he will come back. You can go to the back house and wait for him."
Xi Zichu walked up to him and reached out to hold the paper he was writing on: "No, I'm looking for you."
Master Liu thought for a while, put the brush upside down on the inkstone, raised his eyes and looked at Xi Zichu: "What is the matter with, Master?"
"Let me ask you, do you know what's happening in the city?"
Master Liu stood up first, walked to the door, closed it, and then looked back at Xi Zichu: "You know?"
Xi Zichu felt that all the qi-nurturing skills he had practiced in Dongwang Valley were completely useless, and he said impatiently: "I asked you if you know!"
"Of course I know." Master Liu said.
"Very good, then be ready to apologize to my father!" Xi Zichu was furious and was about to take action.
"The Lord of the City went out personally just for this matter." Master Liu said again.
Xi Zichu stopped his hand and was surprised: "My father also knew about it?"
Master Liu glanced at him lightly: "Otherwise, why do you think I can mobilize the city guards?"
Xi Zichu was extremely angry.
The pig-bone-faced man poisoned the people, but he was still able to suppress his murderous intention and induced him to attack Jiang Wang first, because he was already prepared to kill the pig afterwards and let the man make the best use of his things before he died. There was nothing wrong with that.
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But he really couldn't understand Xi Munan and Master Liu's reaction to the plague.
"You knew clearly that this was plague, but you still didn't respond in time. This is dereliction of duty! It's poisoning! It's the murder of hundreds of thousands of people across the region!"
Seeing Master Liu's calm and calm expression, he wished he could kill him with one blow: "It must be you, the traitor, who deceived my father!"
"what you up to?"
At this time, the door was pushed open.
The only person in the entire Jiacheng who could push the door in while Xi Zichu and Mr. Liu were talking behind closed doors was Mu Nan, the chairman of Jiacheng.
"Father!" Xi Zichu suddenly turned around, his voice excited: "Do you know how dangerous the plague is? Do you know what the consequences will be once it breaks out?"
Xi Munan looked at him quietly until he calmed down, then asked: "Do you know why I kept it from you?"
"Why?"
"Because you are such a worthless fool now!"
While they were talking, Master Liu quietly retreated out and closed the door again. This showed his measured advance and retreat as a master.
Xi Zichu was shocked and angry. He didn't understand why he seemed so hopeless now.
"It is true that someone has contracted the epidemic. What do you want?" Xi Munan asked his son: "Publish it to everyone? Make hundreds of thousands of people in the entire city panic? Make the world chaotic?"
"Then it just gives the imperial court an excuse to intervene, sweep our Xi family aside like garbage, and regain control of Jiacheng?"
"What's going on in your head? That your father committed murder?"
"Jiacheng is the fiefdom of my Xi family for generations. The people of Jiacheng are the foundation of my Xi family and are my people! Should I murder them?"
Xi Munan wiped away the fatigue from his brows and said to Xi Zichu angrily: "We did block the news and couldn't help but cut off people. But this is for the sake of the overall situation! All the corpses that died of the epidemic were disposed of at fixed locations.
All people who are sick with the epidemic have been confined indoors. We have tried our best! Otherwise, why do you think I am still running around outside at this time? Don’t I care about them? "
"But..." Xi Zichu was silent for a long time before replying: "The epidemic is still expanding, isn't it?"
"This is only temporary!" Xi Munan couldn't help but became irritable: "I should have known that White Bone Dao had no good intentions. That pig bone noodle maker came all the way to our Jiacheng, and he definitely didn't do it just to eat a few people.
.This plague must be the conspiracy of the Bone Path!"
"We should announce this to the public and overcome the difficulties together! The epidemic is expanding, father!"
"The common people are ignorant, and ignorance is a kind of happiness! Moreover, what role can they play in fighting against the White Bone Dao? The most urgent task is to find out the intentions of the White Bone Dao. Find out their hidden manpower. To deal with the White Bone Dao monster, we can support
We invite experts from the imperial court, but we must do the resettlement for the people of Jiacheng ourselves!"
Xi Zichu looked at his father and felt that he was strange for the first time.
"So your resettlement method is to leave them helpless?"
Xi Munan looked at his son and finally couldn't help but sigh: "My son, this is why I don't want you to know about this. You are practicing in the Dongwang Valley, and you use medicine to cure diseases and save people, and poison to kill people. Dong
Wang Gu has practiced both medicine and poisoning, and he is ultimately focused on medicine. When it comes to patients, your practice makes it impossible for you to turn a blind eye. But you are the future head of my Xi family, and you must take the interests of my Xi family as your first consideration when doing things... As a father
I don’t want you to make such a choice!”
Xi Zichu closed his eyes in pain: "But now it's finally time to choose, right?"
"Our strategy to stabilize the situation cannot be changed, but now that you know about the epidemic, you can help our doctors treat it and see if we can find any way to prevent and treat it. As long as the general policy remains unchanged, without causing panic among the people, the whole country can
The city doctors are at your disposal, and you can take full responsibility for this matter!"
"In all the relevant medical cases I have read, the first way to prevent the spread of the epidemic is to isolate the inside and outside and prohibit travel. Then we can eliminate it point by point. There is no other way!"
"You have been practicing for so many years, use your extraordinary power to solve it!" Xi Munan said in a tone that left no room for doubt: "No matter what, the Xi family's five-generation management cannot be destroyed by your and my hands! Otherwise, a hundred years later, you and I will lose face.
Meet the ancestors!”
These words hit Xi Zichu.
Hundreds of years of family history were like a heavy mountain, like substance, weighing him down and unable to stand up.
He didn't stay silent for too long this time.
"A two-month curfew due to the murder caused by the pig bone masker!"
"A month and a half at most. Any more will cause panic."
"From now on, we must mobilize as much extraordinary power as possible in our hands, and I will deploy it uniformly. Ordinary people will not be able to resist the invasion of the plague."
"Except for the necessary security forces, the rest can be at your disposal." Xi Munan thought for a moment and added, "Except Master Liu."
"All infected corpses must be burned together."
"You can decide these things yourself."
After a moment of silence, seeing that Xi Zichu had nothing to say, Xi Munan waved his hand and said: "Go!"
