Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

Chapter 125 Xixia enters Beijing

Capital City, Kaifeng Prefecture.

When Gongsun woke up, he found that he had returned to his room, but his head was groggy. He pressed his hand on his head and found that it was covered with bandages.

"woke up?"

Gongsun turned his head and saw Bai Jintang sitting at the table blowing a bowl of black medicine. He quickly recalled what happened, and hurriedly asked: "How is the Qinchasi?"

Bai Jintang glanced at Gongsun, continued blowing on the medicine bowl in his hand, and calmed down after a while: "It's too bad, those people rushed in and snatched the dead bodies of their relatives. When we arrived, it was already too late."

Gongsun frowned: "How long have I been in a coma?"

"Two days." Bai Jintang came to Gongsun's bed with a bowl in his hand, "You'd better not think about getting out of bed now, the imperial doctor has come to see you, you were too tired before, and your body has already passed the load. If you were hit on the head, you must recuperate for a while, otherwise you will be able to walk anywhere."

Gongsun took the medicine bowl and drank it up in one gulp. Bai Jintang had already prepared a handkerchief to wipe Gongsun's mouth.

"How is Master Sun?"

"Bring them back together. They are more seriously injured than you, but they won't die."

Gongsun sighed: "If he hadn't tried his best to protect me later, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to wake up."

"If he didn't protect you with all his strength, I'm afraid he wouldn't have a chance to wake up." Bai Jintang said coldly.

"What do you mean?" Gongsun looked up at Bai Jintang, then reacted and said, "You didn't hurt those people, did you?"

"Am I such a restless person?" Although when he saw Gongsun lying unconscious in a pool of blood, his murderous intent really started to surge from the bottom of his heart, but his years of experience in the rivers and lakes told him that the more he At this time, it is even more necessary to calm down, and to kill again is just to aggravate the crisis of the situation.

"This...that's true." Gongsun hissed, "You are better at judging the situation than Fifth Master. That guy is getting angry, and only Zhan Zhao can stop him."

"I can stop it too." Bai Jintang said bluntly, "Just knock that kid unconscious."

Gongsun said awkwardly: "It seems quite reasonable."

"I don't know how things are going between the two of them in Mojiao County. When will they be able to return to Beijing?"

Bai Jintang thought for a while and replied: "Come on, maybe there will be some unexpected 'surprises'."

Gongsun was a little confused, so he wanted to ask something more. Suddenly, there was an empty sound in his stomach, and the sound was quite long and distant. He pressed his stomach helplessly: "Is there anything to eat?"

Bai Jintang brought a bowl of warm corn paste from nowhere and said, "Eat quickly, I've been preparing it for you."

Gongsun took the bowl, and swallowed it whole without any image. After a bowl, the posterity became more energetic: "The incubation period of the fire snake spot is relatively short. After tomorrow, those people who brought the corpses of their relatives back will probably break out on a large scale. Fire snake spot sores, the Xixia Mission just wants to take advantage of the outbreak of the epidemic in Beijing, and use it to threaten, this wishful thinking is ringing bells."

Bai Jintang put away all the bowls, then looked back at Gongsun: "You don't seem to be as anxious as before?"

"Didn't you say that Xixia will bring a lot of orchid grass when he enters Beijing this time?"

Bai Jintang recalled carefully: "Ah, that's what I said."

Gongsun slapped his thigh: "That's it, there will be things that you Yelan gang can't grab? What's more, they are delivered to the door by myself!"

Bai Jintang laughed and said, "Sir, you are a public official, so it's not appropriate to rob such a thing?"

Gongsun was so angry that he waved his hands: "Saving people's lives can't be called robbery, it's called good deeds!"

Bai Jintang cleaned up the dishes and sat back beside Gongsun's bed, shook his head and said, "Xixia has spent a lot of effort this time, using all the strength of Xixia Yipintang, and waited for this wave with enough energy. It is not so easy for my Yelan gang to accumulate this virtue, not to mention, if I can rob, I will do it halfway, why wait for him to come to the capital."

Gongsun raised his eyebrows: "Dad Bai is admitting cowardice?"

"It's useless for you to provoke me. If I can't do it, I won't make random promises."

The two were arguing, when suddenly someone outside the door shouted respectfully: "Master, please report something."

Bai Jintang pressed down Gongsun's quilt before looking out the door: "Come in and talk."

A young man dressed in Yelan Gang's costume came in, seeing Gongsun on the bed, he looked at Bai Jintang hesitantly, Bai Jintang saw his hesitation, and said: "Mr. Gongsun is not an outsider, but it's okay to say."

"Yes." The young man bowed his head and said, "Our people chased down a thief who was dressed like the gang in the outskirts of the city. Presumably he was one of the culprits in the Zhong family extermination case and the Qinchasi tragedy. Thinking of him committing suicide by taking poison."

Bai Jintang wandered thoughtfully, and asked, "Did you bring the corpse back?"

"Bring it back."

"Take me to see."

"Yes!"

After saying that, Bai Jintang got up and was about to leave, and Gongsun also subconsciously wanted to get up, but Bai Jintang pressed him back: "You can go if you want, let me carry you."

Gongsun was confused for a moment: "What?"

Bai Jintang effortlessly hugged Gongsun Ce with the quilt in his arms: "If you agree with me, I'll let you go."

The young subordinate at the side turned his face away a little shyly.

This shameful posture made Gongsun blushed all of a sudden, struggling to get off like a silkworm chrysalis under the quilt, Bai Jintang chuckled lightly, and put Gongsun back firmly: "You take a rest, I'll go back as soon as I go. "

Knowing that he couldn't resist this guy, Gongsun simply turned his back to the two of them without saying a word.

After a while there was no sound, he turned his head and found that the person had already left, and the door was still tightly closed, as if he was afraid that a little wind would leak in.Gongsun Ce sighed, and began to count with his fingers when Zhan Zhao would come back...

mortuary.

The young subordinate brought Bai Jintang to the corpse. After observing the corpse carefully, Bai Jintang asked, "Do you know what kind of poison he took?"

"I checked, it's Sanghun San."

"Sanghunsan?" Bai Jintang frowned, "Sanghunsan won't be able to be checked in detail. The dead soldiers raised by big gangs and small factions basically always have this thing."

He looked at the corpse for a while, and then carefully looked at the young subordinate, and suddenly said with some emotion: "Looking closely, no matter the workmanship, pattern, or accessories, they are all exactly the same as what you are wearing, and there is no flaw at all."

The subordinate looked at his clothes left and right, nodded and said, "There are indeed no flaws."

"Don't you think it's weird? If it's a fake, it must be different from the real one, otherwise how can it be called a fake?"

The subordinate replied: "It's really strange, but the subordinates have already checked, and none of the brothers of the Yelan Gang lost a complete set of clothes. Even if there were occasionally, there were so many counterfeiters in these two cases, and the clothes couldn't be divided. come."

Bai Jintang sneered: "If it's not a fake, then it's a genuine product. Go and check the Su family in Jiangnan."

"Su family?" The subordinate was puzzled, "Jiangnan Su brocade silk shop?"

"That's right, our clothes are all purchased from him. The Su family is a master in the weaving industry. The weaving skills and clothing quality are unmatched by ordinary silk shops. If I remember correctly, the Su family changed a new boss a few years ago. The head of the family, Su Liran, is young, but he is quite capable. He is obviously a concubine, but he insists on relying on his talent and ability to run away those elder brothers. The business of the Su family has been booming under his promotion these years, so he is not to be underestimated. guy."

"Okay, this subordinate is going to investigate Su Jin Silk Factory!"

After the subordinate left, Bai Jintang looked around the corpse for a while: "It's exactly the same, tsk."

After inspecting the corpse, he walked out of the mortuary, looked at the slightly cloudy sky, and leaned lazily on the door frame with his arms folded, with an unknown smile on his face, and slowly read three words: "Su Liran .”

At the same time, the Young Master of the Su Clan in the distance raised his head and looked up at the sky, his eyes of different colors flowed coquettishly like jewels, he smiled lightly, and the ghost in black beside him hissed, "You seem to be quite happy?"

Su Liran smiled, and replied: "I'm going to see my 'lover' whom I've admired for many years soon, so I'm naturally happy."

"Oh? The old ghost doesn't know, so there is still your lover in the capital?" Guixiu was short in stature and had to look up at Su Liran, but when he heard the word 'lover', he still grinned so obscenely that his yellow teeth opened.

Su Liran's strange-colored eyes are so strange that people are frightened. When he smiles, he looks like a demon king coming to the world, and he cannot be looked at directly.

"That's an extremely dangerous and irresistible 'lover'."

……

Two days later, the epidemic in Beijing broke out on a large scale in an uncontrollable state, shaking the whole country.

Quarantine points were urgently set up everywhere, but the number of people was too large to accommodate everyone, resulting in patients covered with erythema everywhere on the street. The people in the capital did not understand how the disease spread, and thought that people with erythema It is contagious, and everyone avoids it. Some people even violently treat people with serpentine spots. Some people even publicized the Zhong family's extermination case and the Qinchasi tragedy, saying that if they suffer from this disease, they will die without festering. will also be killed.For a time, everyone in the capital was in danger, and the people were panicked.

At the same time, the Western Xia Mission, led by Li Yuanhao, also sailed into the capital in mighty force.

Five days later, the gate of the imperial city, which had been closed tightly for a long time, finally opened slowly when the Xixia mission was ushered in.

Sitting on a luxurious golden chariot, Li Yuanhao was hugged and carried into the gate of the capital by a group of people. Behind him was an equally luxurious silver chariot, the exterior of which was covered by white tulle. I couldn't see the figure of the person inside, but I could only vaguely feel that there was a person sitting inside.

Behind the silver chariot, there are several huge wheeled carts. The wooden fully enclosed roller carts are almost several times larger than the houses of ordinary people. They are all driven by dozens of strong horses. A gift to the emperor of Song Dynasty.

After Li Yuanhao entered the city gate, he looked at the desolate people around, and said with a smile: "I heard that the epidemic in the capital city, I didn't expect it to be so serious. In the past, when we entered the capital, it was crowded with thousands of people, but now there are no people there. Hahahahahaha!"

The envoy accompanying him coughed and said, "My lord, restrain yourself..."

Li Yuanhao didn't care what the envoy said, he turned his head and shouted at the silver chariot: "I said, Holy One, it seems that you don't need to appear on stage, hey, what a waste!"

The people in the silver chariot only smiled contemptuously without saying a word.

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