polar demon

Chapter 128 The Plague ([-])

After Jiang Yuan rode his horse to Pengcheng, he found that Pengcheng was under martial law.

Outside the city, an isolation camp surrounded by tall fences has been set up. Groups of people suffering from the disease were escorted out of the city by officers and soldiers and the Star Demon Sea gang, and locked in the fence.

At the gate of the city, there are also officers, soldiers and gang members strictly checking the people entering and leaving.

When Jiang Yuan entered the city, some unsightly officers and soldiers wanted to step forward to check, but Jiang Yuan whipped him away with a horsewhip.

The members of the Xingmohai gang who knew Jiang Yuan hurried forward to hold the other furious officers and soldiers. After some explanations, the officers and soldiers hurriedly apologized to Jiang Yuan and let him go.

However, in Pengcheng, it seemed that it was more chaotic than imagined. There were members of the Star Demon Sea gang or officers and soldiers breaking into houses to search for patients everywhere.

Begging everywhere, crying everywhere.

Many people and horses set up vigilance on the streets, seeming to re-divide the city into small areas.

Jiang Yuan rode across the street and was about to go home when he was suddenly stopped by someone:

"Master Jiang Xiang? Please stay still!"

Jiang Yuan reined in the horse rope, and saw a carriage slowly approaching surrounded by several Xingmohai gang members.

The curtains on one side of the carriage were drawn open, and a graceful woman was sitting in it. It was the elder Shangguan Shu.

As the carriage approached, Shangguan Shu smiled at Jiang Yuan and said:

"Master Jiang Xiang wants to go home? You might as well ride together."

Jiang Yuan also wanted to know about the situation in the city, so he immediately got off his horse and handed over the reins to a gang member.Then got into the carriage and sat with Shangguan Shu.

The carriage gradually started to drive along the street, and there were helpers clearing the way, but the speed would not be affected.

In the slightly shaking carriage, Shangguan Shu said with a smile:
"Jiang Xiangzhu is full of travel and dust, but he just went out and returned?"

Jiang Yuan didn't want to say more, but replied:
"I just went out of the city last night. By the way, Elder Shangguan, how is the situation in Pengcheng now?"

Shangguan Shu sighed slightly:
"Last night there was a lot of movement, and Jiang Xiangzhu must have seen it. First, there were plague ghosts entrenched and spread the plague, and then there were flame giants to make trouble. Many people in the city were infected with the disease this morning, and the plague exorcist closed the door early in the morning. Thank you, I don’t know what good way to save people I’m thinking about.”

Jiang Yuan thought for a while and continued to ask:

"What's the difficulty in saving diseases and treating disasters?"

Shangguan Shu asked:
"I heard that Master Jiang Xiang is willing to donate a huge amount of silver for disaster relief?"

Jiang Yuan nodded:

"That's true."

Shangguan Shu continued:
"Currently, it's okay in Pengcheng alone, but the exorcist once held a council at dawn and said that the reinforcements could not arrive in time. If the flame monster reappears tonight, then the people must lead the people to abandon the city and flee. Even if the flame monster does not appear again However, it is still unknown how many people in Peng County are sick. Once the disease spreads at night, more patients will be born.

At that time, it will take money to isolate the people, to purchase supplies, to appease the family members of patients, and to contribute even more.Jiang Xiangzhu's silver taels can just relieve the urgent need. "

Jiang Yuan wanted to ask again, but at this time there was a loud sound of gongs and drums from far away in the street, and the carriage stopped and drove to the side of the road to wait.

Surprised, Jiang Yuan lifted the curtain and looked out to see who could make Shangguan Shu's carriage avoid it.

I saw a group of people holding colorful flags and beating gongs and drums, wearing weird clothes like opera robes, walking along the street.

Their faces were painted with distorted oil paint, and they were arranged in a column. The leader of them was wearing black clothes made of bear skin and red clothes, with a hideous mask with golden four eyes on his face, and a Ge Yang shield in his hand.

He led twelve people, all with dyed red hair and white and painted clothes.Each of them held a hemp whip in their hands, and they kept making crisp noises in the air.

A group of people walked forward with weird dance steps, singing a wild and weird song for the masked man:
"A man eats miscellaneous food, a sulphurous stomach eats tigers, a male uncle eats evil spirits, Teng Jian eats ominous food, blames all food, Bo Qi eats dreams, Qiang Liang and Zu Ming share food and death parasitism, Wei Sui's food concept, mistaken fasting eats giants, Qiongqi and Tenggen eat Gu together. Whoever makes twelve gods chase after the evil ones, hews your body, pulls your body, joints your flesh, pumps your lungs and intestines, you don't rush to go, the latter is food!"

The people on the street retreated to the side of the road one after another, praying devoutly to this strange team.

Shangguan Shu explained to Jiang Yuan:
"This is the Nuo Sacrifice. The leader dressed up as Fang Xiangshi, the deity who exorcises plague ghosts, and led the crowd to sing "The Song of the Twelve Gods and Beasts Eating Ghosts" and circled the city three times. It can be regarded as the people in the city praying for blessings and wishing that they can pass through safely. disaster."

Jiang Yuan put down the curtains, and after a while, after the Nuo Sacrifice team left, the carriage continued on its way.

It didn't take long for the carriage to drive into the street where Jiang Yuan's residence was located.

However, outside the gate of the house, there is a group of helpers from the Star Demon Sea guarding the house, strictly prohibiting the entry and exit of people in the house.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Yuan's eyes turned cold. He didn't know who had the guts to send someone to do this.

Shangguan Shu seemed to know all this already, she said to Jiang Yuan:

"Master Jiang Xiang, please don't blame the brothers in the gang for making Ai suffer from the disease. They have no choice but to do so."

Jiang Yuan frowned when he heard this, and looked at Shangguan Shu in surprise.Then he lifted the curtain of the carriage and jumped down, walking quickly towards the house.

When they came to the door, the guards naturally did not dare to stop them, Jiang Yuan said to them in a cold voice:

"roll!"

Those Star Demon Sea gang members left in a hurry.

After entering the house, all the servants in the family were panic-stricken, and when they saw Jiang Yuan, they all knelt down and saluted.

"What's going on?" Jiang Yuan asked in a deep voice.

A maid answered in a low voice:
"Reporting to the master, the eldest lady and a few servants are infected with the disease."

Jiang Yuan continued to ask:

"where is she?"

The maid hurriedly replied:

"It's in the backyard."

Jiang Yuan immediately walked towards the backyard, passed through a moon gate, bypassed the flower garden, and a row of huts appeared in front of him.

There seemed to be a few maidservants locked in one of the huts. They lay on the window nailed up by wooden blocks, and begged Jiang Yuan through the gap:
"Master! Please let us out, we won't run around, we just want to go home and see our loved ones again!"

The three children, Li Siyan, Chen Yin, and Ding Ze, were crying in front of the hut, while Qi Yuxing, the teacher in charge of teaching them martial arts, sighed.

At this moment, the three children saw Jiang Yuan, and hurriedly surrounded them:

"Father, you must save the elder sister! And save those older sisters!"

Jiang Yuan passed through them, came to the hut, opened the door and walked in, a rotten smell came over his nostrils.

The light in the room was dim, and I saw Qian Luo sitting quietly on a chair.

She looked sluggish, her hands were firmly tied to the handles of the chair with ropes, and many ulcers could be seen on the exposed delicate skin.

When Qian Luo saw Jiang Yuan coming in, his pale face was full of unwillingness and despair:
"Father, am I going to die?"

Jiang Yuan stepped forward, looked at her hands tied with ropes and asked:

"Who tied you up?"

Qianluo choked up and replied:

"I asked them to tie it up for me, otherwise I would not be able to control myself and want to scratch. It would be really painful and itchy! I wish I could dig my nails into the meat and tear all the meat off!"

Jiang Yuan sighed and said:
"Don't be afraid, foster father will find a way to save you."

Just walking to the door, Qian Luo suddenly cried and shouted:

"Father!"

Jiang Yuan stopped and turned around.

I saw Qianluo crying while saying:
"Father, do you know? I really hated you back then! I hated you why you didn't save my mother. You are clearly capable of saving her! I just watched her sink into the river bit by bit and disappeared. I hate you." I hate you! I hate you! I don’t want to worship you as a foster father at all! I’m just so scared that you will abandon me. I don’t have any relatives. I don’t know how to live.”

Jiang Yuan took a deep breath and listened quietly.

Qianluo continued to cry:

"After I'm dead, can you stop being like that? I used to live very hard. I didn't eat as well as I do now. I didn't have enough clothes to live in. There was always too much work to do. But with my parents by my side, I'm very happy. If you meet people in trouble like my mother in the future, can you reach out and help them?"

Jiang Yuan stood there in silence for a while, then turned his head and left the hut.

Walking out of the house, Qi Yuxing rushed forward to meet him, and took out four cheat books from his arms:
"Jiang Xiangzhu, I have read the cheat book, and found a method suitable for several young masters and ladies to practice, now it's back to the original—"

"We'll talk about this later!" Jiang Yuan was feeling irritable, so he couldn't control it.

He immediately pushed Qi Yuxing away, and then walked towards his bedroom.

After arriving at the bedroom, Jiang Yuan ordered the servants to move away and not to approach, and then closed the door.

He opened the big bed in the room and stomped the ground with his foot:

"Hey! Is it dead?"

The voice of the dryad Lin Yulin quickly came from the ground:
"I knew you would come to me, but I've been waiting for a long time!"

Jiang Yuan asked:

"Can you save someone?"

"No!" The Dryad replied very simply, "But I can let them live for a while. Next, I have to put forward conditions. First of all, you have to hello! Don't leave! Listen to me and finish my conditions first! "

How could Jiang Yuan be in the mood to listen to what she said, so he left the bedroom immediately.

He took a horse, asked where Fang Qian, the exorcist, lived, and then drove away.

Although galloping the horse in the street, Jiang Yuan's mind was not at peace for a moment.

It's obviously just a weak trace of ghostly aura, which is nothing to him at all.But it made him unable to pull it out of a living person while keeping that living person's life. This feeling made Jiang Yuan feel super uncomfortable.

"That stinky girl! You really don't know what to do! Why do you want to say that? Why do you want to say it all?"

Jiang Yuan clenched his teeth, the depression in his chest made him short of breath.

"If she wants to die, she should die! This stinking girl! Are you saying so much to make me unhappy? She really deserves to die, really deserves to die!"

The horses galloped all the way, and finally came to the outside of the house where the plague exorcist temporarily lived.

I saw that the house was closed tightly, and only two officers and soldiers were guarding the door.

Jiang Yuan got off his horse, and the two officers and soldiers guarding outside the courtyard rushed up to lead Jiang Yuan's horse.

"Please inform me," Jiang Yuan said, "Jiang Yuan asks to see you."

The two officers and soldiers suddenly showed embarrassment:

"Master Jiang Xiang is really sorry, the exorcist said that I will not see any guests today."

"No visitor?" Jiang Yuan snorted coldly, then stepped forward.

"Bah!"

The door was kicked open by him, and then he stepped over the threshold and stepped inside.

(End of this chapter)