Chapter 28 Arrested at the door, escaped from the county
"Doctor, please save my brother, please save my brother."
"Hey, Miss Jiang, I'm sorry for my incompetence."
"Wuwu...please save him, wuwuwu..."
"Miss Jiang, your brother has a strange illness that cannot be cured, and now the epidemic has just passed. I would like to venture to ask, has your brother ever taken the elixir given by the Taoist Priest?"
"This is not the plague, my brother is not infected with the plague!"
"Hey, this is a serious matter. To be honest, the news about brother Ling's strange illness has been spread. The shopkeeper has just reported it to the official. A large number of people from the Yamen are about to arrive. Miss Jiang, please take care of yourself..."
The sound of footsteps faded away.
The girl sobbed while carefully wiping Jiang Wuji's face.
At this moment, Jiang Wuji woke up.
"Brother, brother! Wuwuwu..." The girl buried her head in her brother's arms and burst into tears.
Jiang Wuji gently patted Xiaoyu's back and comforted him: "It's okay, it's okay."
"How long have I been unconscious?"
"It's almost half a month..."
The girl wiped away her tears and brought a bowl of warm white porridge.
"Brother, you must be hungry, right? Drink some porridge."
"Okay, I'll do it myself."
He took the clay bowl from the girl's hand and drank several large gulps.
Although it is contrary to common sense, Jiang Wuji is not actually hungry, but the taste of this porridge...
"What's wrong? Doesn't it taste good? I asked the shopkeeper to prepare it early in the morning." Xiaoyu asked when Jiang Wuji frowned.
"It's okay. The shopkeeper also called the doctor just now?" Jiang Wuji asked.
"Well, we are not familiar with the county seat, so we can only trouble the shopkeeper." Xiaoyu sighed, which made me feel pity for him.
Jiang Wuji patted the edge of the bed and said, "Sit here."
"What's wrong, brother?" The girl sat down obediently.
"Let me see your feet."
"What?"
"Look at your feet."
"elder brother……"
Jiang Wuji twitched the corner of his mouth and realized that his lines were a bit bad, but he definitely didn't mean anything else.
"Stop the ink stain and stretch your feet over."
"oh oh……"
In ancient aesthetics, the so-called beauty of women is to show their "feminine" side.
Being petite, weak, demure, and having soft curves, etc., in terms of "small", small cherry mouth and willow waist are all female beauty traits, so feet are no exception.
Therefore, in some places, the custom of foot binding has emerged, that is, binding small feet.
Foot binding is to wrap a woman's feet tightly with cloth to reduce the deformity. Generally, women have their feet bound from the age of four to five, and the cloth is untied until the adult bones are established. There are also people who have their feet bound for life.
There is no distinction between rich and poor, high or low, but there are also many people who do not bind their feet. Jiang Zhiyu is one of them. In other words, there is no custom of foot binding in Leping County for a generation.
Although Jiang Zhiyu did not have his feet bound, when he took off the other party's footwear, he still revealed a pair of white and slender feet.
At this moment, the girl turned her head away, her cheeks turned red, her teeth bit her red lips tightly, and her body trembled slightly involuntarily.
Just when she was feeling anxious, her brother's questioning voice sounded.
"Where did the injury on your foot come from?"
"Ah? This, I accidentally fell." The girl retracted her feet, hugged her knees with both hands, and hesitated.
"How did you fall?" Jiang Wuji asked again.
Jiang Zhiyu frowned slightly, thought about it carefully, and said, "I suddenly sprained my legs, and then that's it."
It's not a sprain, it's the corpse of a girl with small feet. The injuries on Xiaoyu's feet are exactly the same as those of her aunt at that time.
Trouble with the people around me, right...sooner or later, I will have to settle old and new grudges with you one by one!
Seeing that his brother no longer stared at his feet, Xiaoyu quickly put his footwear back on.
"Brother, we don't have much money left."
"Have you finished paying for my doctor?"
"Well... it's really expensive to hire a doctor."
"Don't look for it next time. It's useless. I'm not sick."
"What is it if it's not a disease?"
Jiang Wuji was speechless for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "It's a matter of cultivation, it's nothing serious. Just wait until we get to Lecheng and find an expert to give us some advice."
"Oh, that's it..." The girl finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I stood up and stretched my muscles when I suddenly heard the sound of wheels outside.
When he came to the window, Jiang Wuji saw several wheelbarrows, also known as push carts.
The things on the cart were stacked very high, covered with a few pieces of white cloth, and were being sent out one cart at a time.
At this time, Xiaoyu came over and said, "These are all corpses."
"Corpse?!" Jiang Wuji was surprised.
Xiaoyu nodded and said: "They are all people who died because of the plague. Some family members took them away, but no one claimed them. There are also people whose whole family has died. Now that the epidemic has just passed, the yamen has recovered and sent a coachman.
Transport the corpse to a grave dug outside the county and burn it."
When the cart passed by the inn, a putrid smell that could not be covered by the white cloth filled the air, making it disgusting.
"By the way, brother, something happened while you were unconscious." Xiaoyu suddenly remembered something.
"how?"
"Recently, there are rumors that evil spirits are haunting Qingyu Mountain, saying that there are corpses in Qingyu Mountain, with green faces and fangs, stiff but not rotten."
"Zombies?"
"Well, that's what everyone says."
"Wait, Qingyu Mountain? Isn't that us..." Jiang Wuji had goosebumps all over his body.
Jiang Zhiyu lowered his voice: "The bodies of the villagers were also discovered by people from the Yamen. Now the Yamen suspects that the blood of the villagers was sucked dry by zombies. In addition, the Yamen also found traces of theft of the village's money, so it is suspected.
What the demon did to exorcise corpses is being investigated..."
Jiang Wuji's mind suddenly buzzed.
Good guy, if this person is unlucky, he will choke to death if he drinks water. It seems that he really can't stay in this county anymore.
"Brother, please don't let anyone know that we are from Qingyu Village, otherwise we will definitely get into trouble!" Jiang Zhiyu reminded.
"Okay, I understand." Jiang Wuji nodded.
At this moment, a group of people wearing black clothes and carrying machetes suddenly appeared on the street.
On their clothes, there is also the word "ya" embroidered on them.
Yamen's servant!
"Brother! Run! Run!"
Xiaoyu exclaimed: "I have searched all over the doctor recently, but none of them can cure your disease. Now there are crazy rumors outside that you are infected with the plague! These people are here to find you! Run quickly, the officials will not
Listen to our explanation!"
"It's a blessing, not a curse. It's a curse that can't be avoided. Don't be afraid, I'll deal with it."
After rubbing the girl's hair, Jiang Wuji put on his Taoist robe, took his copper coin sword, and went downstairs.
At this time, the door of the inn was already surrounded by guards. While the leading guard was still talking to the shopkeeper, Jiang Wuji had already strode over.
"Look for mine."
"Are you the one who got sick?" The officer frowned angrily.
The shopkeeper on the side quickly bent down and echoed, "Yes, yes, that's him, that's him!"
