It's just that the corpse odor on the corpse is newer, while the corpse odor on the fool's body seems to have been on his body for more than ten years.
"But I smell a bit of herbal medicine on that fool."
"Herbs?"
Yan Yan nodded, "I don't know medical skills, so maybe it's either herbal medicine or ginger slices used for cooking meat..."
Cook meat.
Cook the rotten meat.
The meat is already rotten. Will it turn into water if cooked again?
When Yan Yan thought about it, he pursed his lips and felt uncomfortable, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
Two or three people die every day in Xiqiao Village, and Yan Yan is waiting to collect their souls.
Whenever a whole family died in the village, the fool would pile up the bodies and drag them home.
Yan Yan could also see why there was a whole family.
As long as there is a living person in the house, no fool will let the body be taken away.
The villagers who died in Xiqiao Village were all filled with great resentment, and some of the souls collected by Yan Yan turned into evil ghosts.
Fortunately, they came here early in the morning, otherwise it would be even harder to catch this evil ghost floating out of the village.
But there is nothing to do in the village, and taking away the ghosts can be done in an instant.
"Then let's go to the town for a walk." Xiao Baizhu said, "The Juma outside the village doesn't seem to be stopped by the villagers. They know that there is a plague in Xiqiao Village, but they don't see what they are doing inside."
After floating through Shiqiao Village and walking out of the bridge outside the village, Yan Yan and Xiao Bai Zhu appeared alive.
After walking along the road for a while, we arrived at the town.
Looking at the town not far away, there were not many people in sight, but there was a spicy smell coming from the town.
Yan Yan began to wonder if this town was like Xiqiao Village, where people infected by the plague gathered in one place.
When we entered the town, we saw a lot of people.
There were stalls selling vegetables and cloth, but not many selling snacks.
Without snacks, Yan Yan's mood was half as good as before.
The two of them entered an inn with very reluctant expressions. There were still many outsiders in the inn, so it was not surprising that Yan Yan and Xiao Bai Zhu appeared in the town.
The food in the inn is not spicy enough, but it is sweet enough. But when I eat the sweet food, there are waves of spicy taste coming from the tip of my nose.
Not to mention Yan Yu, even the other guests in the inn were unhappy.
"My dear guests, please bear with me. This is all done by Li Zhengzheng. There are government officials patrolling every day. Even the youngest ones don't dare not do it."
The shopkeeper would say this almost every time there was a new group of guest officers in the inn.
Having said this, if anyone is dissatisfied, he can go to Li Zheng.
Indeed, several people in government uniforms came and walked around the inn for half a day.
Now the guest officers in the inn had nothing to say.
"Why is there a spicy taste?" When the waiter was adding tea, Yan Yan stopped him and asked.
"The little one drinks herbal medicine every day and washes it with the medicinal soup. The smell is all pickled out." The little two couldn't stand the spicy smell from the beginning and now he can no longer smell the spicy smell.
"Why is this happening?"
The waiter paused for a moment, then refilled the tea for the two of them, "It's almost summer, so maybe I'm worried that the little ones will catch the cold."
After the waiter left, Yan Yan looked at his back and curled his lips, "This waiter is quite good."
Xiao Baizhu silently took a sip of tea, already accustomed to this.
"Everyone is afraid that news about the plague will spread. Who should we ask?" Yan Yan asked worriedly.
"Money can make the world go round." Xiao Baizhu picked up the tea and drank it again.
"Auntie, I..." Yan Yan was throwing a silver ingot up and down in his hand. When he saw an aunt who wanted to come forward to ask, he was pulled away from the place by Xiao Baizhu.
"What's wrong?" Yan Yan was not angry and asked in confusion.
"The people in the town may not know as much as we do." Xiao Baizhu said, "Li Zheng must have hidden some things about Xiqiao Village from the people in the town."
"Then we should ask an upright person, preferably a yamen servant?"
Xiao Bai Zhu nodded.
Yan Yan doesn't care if he doesn't use his brain. When he uses his brain, he is smarter than anyone else.
There were quite a few government officials patrolling the town. Yan Yan thought about it carefully and went directly to find Li Zheng.
When they saw Li Zheng, he was sitting with a gloomy face and could not read the household registration book in front of him.
Suddenly two people, one large and one small, came into the study, which frightened him so much that he almost fell off his chair.
"Who are you!" Seeing that Yan and Yu were well-dressed, Li Zheng was discerning enough not to drive them out first.
"We are the people you can't afford to offend." Yan Yan said in a conspiratorial manner, "I came here to talk about Xiqiao Village."
When he heard about Xiqiao Village, Li Zheng's expression changed.
He had already reported the plague in Xiqiao Village to the county magistrate, but the county magistrate asked him to deal with it himself.
I only asked for one thing - not to make any noise.
What do you mean by not being allowed to speak out? It doesn't just mean that he can be cured if he can be cured, and if he can't be cured, the disease will be eliminated as well.
But what was before him now was to wait for everyone in Xiqiao Village to die.
It was an inconspicuous village to begin with. If it hadn't been for the plague, even he, Satoshi, wouldn't have remembered that this village existed.
"I wonder what the girl wants to talk about?"
"You are Li Zheng, something happened in Xiqiao Village, shouldn't you take care of it?" Grandma Xiao Baizhu's voice was very serious.
Li Zheng couldn't help but look at him twice.
"With so many villagers living in the village, it is very common for one or two things to happen."
"Plague is unusual." Yan Yan had a smile on his lips, but his eyes were cold.
When Li Zheng heard this, his face instantly turned pale.
"I don't understand what the girl is talking about."
"I don't understand? Could it be that you weren't the one who stopped the Juma outside Xiqiao Village?" Yan Yan pretended to regret, "The Juma was stopped in time. I thought you were the one who stopped it, Li Zheng, but it turned out not to be the case?"
"How do you know about Xiqiao Village? I didn't see you two when I set up a resistance camp." Li Zheng sat upright, and now he had the appearance of Li Zheng.
"When you asked the government officials to set up a barricade, the two of us happened to be passing by. Today we happened to pass by again on our way back. When we saw that the barbarian was still there, we were curious about what happened in Xiqiao Village." Yan Yan began to be confused.
Guessing.
"So you don't know about the plague in Xiqiao Village, and you are just trying to trick me?" Li Li looked livid.
It could be seen that Li Zheng was already vaguely angry, and Yan Yan said in a gentle tone, "There is no need to be angry, Li Zheng. In fact, we already know about Xiqiao Village. We are just wondering why you want to surround Xiqiao Village, and
If we don’t treat it as soon as possible, won’t the village be destroyed if this continues?”
Speaking of the plague in Xiqiao Village, Li Zheng couldn't help but feel angry.
"Destroying the village? They asked for it themselves!"
It is not that Xiqiao Village has no contact with the town. In the past, villagers from Xiqiao Village often came to the town to set up stalls, and people from the town would also go to Xiqiao Village to buy food.
It was only after the death of Zhang Er in Xiqiao Village that someone discovered that the villagers in Xiqiao Village had bloody pustules on their bodies.
At first, only one or two people had it, but gradually they found that more and more people had bloody pustules.
For people who initially developed bloody pustules, the pustules grew larger and larger, and the bleeding would stop at the slightest touch.
After a smaller bloody pustule is scratched, the person will not bleed to death.
And once the blood pustules grow in the blood vessels or have grown as big as a fist.
As soon as it is broken, the person will bleed to death.
The town doctor also often visited Xiqiao Village. He was the first to suspect that Xiqiao Village was infected with the plague.
Li Zheng has lived for decades, and this is the first time he has encountered a plague.
After he learned about it, he immediately sent a letter to the county magistrate, but the county magistrate showed no reaction at all and asked him to keep quiet.
In desperation, he had to ask the town doctor to go to Xiqiao Village to see if the plague could be cured.
The town is just a small town, and the doctor can at most treat colds and bruises.
Where can the plague be cured?
But they all know that the corpses of those who died due to the plague must be burned as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a phenomenon of one person passing it on to ten people, and ten people passing it on to hundreds of people.
Li Zheng also knew this and sent people to burn the dead bodies in Xiqiao Village.
"Are you sure you are going to send someone to burn the body?" Yan Yan asked doubtfully.
She wondered if someone was afraid of the plague, so they obeyed Li Zheng's orders and did not burn the corpses at all.
"I'm sure, I'm very sure!" Li Zheng clenched his fists, "If we hadn't sent people to burn the corpses, two of the only five government officials in our town would have died!"
Yan Yan was stunned, "Did you contract the plague?"
"If you are really infected with the plague, then I won't say anything." Li Zheng slapped the desk hard, "My two government officials were pushed alive into the river by the villagers of Xiqiao Village and drowned!"
"What happened in Xiqiao Village?" Yan Yan frowned tightly.
“The villagers didn’t allow us to move, let alone burn the bodies, saying we were animals and wanted their family members to die without their bodies intact.
After a while, the two government officials pushed into the river. The villagers watched helplessly as they were drowned alive, and no one came to save them.
Poor people must be hateful, and they deserve to be infected with the plague.
They don't want the plague in the village to disappear quickly, but they want to infect people outside the village!
Since they insist on seeking death, I will help them, as long as they do not spread the plague to people outside the village."
"Is Li Zheng really telling the truth?"
"You don't believe it?" Li Zheng looked at Yan Yan sternly, "Everyone in the town also helped to set up a barrage. Ask anyone here who doesn't know how ruthless the people in Xiqiao Village are!"
Yan Ji lowered his eyes.
These were all Li Zheng's words, but she didn't look like Li Zheng was lying.
Those corpses rotting in the threshing field, half-dead villagers.
Who would have thought that all this was caused by themselves.
Saying that you are grieving the death of your family members and wanting to stay with them is actually trapping yourself and others into injustice.
"If the girl thinks that I am cruel, you might as well show kindness and help the villagers of Xiqiao Village." Li Zheng said sarcastically, "It's just that the girl is seeking death on her own, and her life will be in Xiqiao Village. Don't blame me.
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"Of course the little lady said exactly what she said in the letter. She was just too surprised by the villagers of Xiqiao Village." Yan Yan said gently.
It's not easy here, no matter what happens in Xiqiao Village, he will be the one to take the blame in the end.
"Then we really have to wait until everyone in Xiqiao Village is dead." Yan Yan said helplessly.
There are many ghosts in Xiqiao Village, and many of them have strong ghost powers. Accepting these ghosts and returning them to the underworld can increase your moral character a lot.
Logically speaking, Yan Yu should be happy. The life and death of people in the world have nothing to do with her.
But when I think of the tragic situation on the field, I feel a deep sense of powerlessness.
The two were about to go back to Xiqiao Village. When they left Li Zheng's study, Yan Yan was called.