When I finally returned to my place of residence, my first words after seeing Bai Ze were: "Inform all our people and remember not to drink the water from the well again. From now on, you can't touch even a sip."
Bai Ze was stunned and asked, "Master, what did you discover?"
"Someone has thrown something into the wells all over the city. I don't know what it is yet, but the water in the well must be undrinkable. You can't eat the water, and you can't cook food. You can move all the food left by Ah Heng in our carriage.
Come out and give everyone points, and wait a few days to see how things go."
Bai Ze was shocked. All the wells in the city had been thrown into. Wouldn't it mean that the lives of all the people in the city were being killed? "Who is so cruel? There are more than 300,000 people in the entire city, who can't live without water?"
If they are all dead... that would be terrible." He didn't dare to imagine, and quickly followed Xuan Tianming's instructions to wake everyone up, and then moved around to move out the remaining food in the carriage.
These people were usually ordinary people who built the city. With the arrival of Xuan Tianming, they immediately resumed their hidden identities and gathered around Xuan Tianming. They had been waiting quietly since the sky had just turned white, until the dawn of dawn.
It wasn't until three roosters crowed, and the voices of people who got up early could be heard outside the yard, that someone walked out, as if wandering, and walked around the surrounding alleys. When they came back, they said:
: "It seems to be no different from usual. My subordinates also saw someone carrying water. The old couple at the breakfast stall also boiled the water brought up from the well and made tea foam. They sold it for five cents a bowl.
Passers-by drank it, and there was no accident after drinking it.”
"Oh?" Xuan Tianming was a little surprised. Although he was relieved that the whole city was not poisoned, there was no change at all. This situation made him feel a little uneasy.
"Master, do we want water?" Bai Ze asked him, "There are fourteen of us in total, and the food on the carriage can only last us tonight, and there will be nothing to eat tomorrow." The most hateful thing in the world is to be without water, even if there is no water.
If there is no food, there are other things that can be used to replace it. Only if the water is cut off, there is no way. He sighed: "Zong Sui can't stand the weather and the snow. If we are in the northern boundary of Dashun and the well water doesn't work, we can still do it."
Use snow water, but the snow in Zong Sui falls so lightly that it melts immediately when it falls on the ground, so it is really of no use."
He was talking to himself, Xuan Tianming kept frowning, the purple lotus was in full bloom, it was very beautiful, but it still made people feel chilled after looking at it. He said to everyone: "Can't use it, absolutely can't use it.
Just because it's okay now doesn't mean it will always be okay. You must not drink the well water until you find out what is being poured into the well."
"Then my subordinate is going to capture someone at night and come back to ask?" Bai Ze said: "Didn't the master say that there are many secret guards in action? I will find out if I capture one and come back and ask."
"You can try." Xuan Tianming said, "If I count correctly the number of secret guards in action, there should be twenty-seven. If you can catch them without alerting the snake, I will
Remember your great contribution."
Bai Ze's tongue-in-cheek comment didn't scare the snake away? How is that possible? Suddenly one person is missing, and even a ghost knows that there must be something wrong. "But if we don't arrest him and question him, we'll just keep waiting like this?"
"A-Heng should arrive in two days at most." Xuan Tianming said, "Wait for her to come and see what is in the water."
Bai Ze felt relieved now, right! Their princess is a miracle doctor! Once the miracle doctor comes, you can't tell whether the water is poisonous or not. It's only two days, and martial arts practitioners have to wait two days.
What?
That night, none of the fourteen people slept. They all hid in the dark and stared at the well in the yard in their own way. Just after the ugly moment, they saw a man in black quickly sneak into the yard and put a bag of water into the yard.
The white powdery substance was poured into the well water, then flashed and disappeared.
Bai Ze glanced at him, he was still a guy with excellent qinggong. If he was asked to chase him, he might not be able to catch up, let alone catch one. He couldn't help but feel ashamed for the big words he said during the day, and thought to himself
Well, if Ban Zou were here, his movement skills should be comparable to that of the guy just now.
The man in black left, and fourteen people, including Xuan Tianming, appeared in the darkness and surrounded the well mouth one after another. Bai Ze brought a bucket of water up, and under the moonlight, he saw
The well water was no different from usual. The white powder dissolved completely when poured in, leaving no trace.
Everyone was shocked, and they were even more determined not to drink the water from the well.
For two nights in a row, people poured strange things into wells all over the city, but the people in the city still didn't hear anyone showing signs of poisoning, and there were no suspected cases in the city's traditional Chinese medicine clinics.
However, all this was an illusion. Just when Bai Ze was eagerly waiting for Feng Yuheng to come soon, they still discovered something unusual——
"Master." The secret guard who had gone out to "leak around" came back and reported to Xuan Tianming, "There seems to be something wrong." He talked about what he had just seen and heard on the street: "When my subordinates passed by a well, they saw
When people were queuing up to carry water, one man carried four large buckets of water in one go. The burden was so heavy that he almost broke, but he didn't feel tired at all. The man carrying the water looked like he was nearly fifty years old and had a lot of water.
He was old. In addition, I also saw a middle-aged man chopping firewood at the door. The ax accidentally hit his hand. It was obvious that a piece of meat was chopped off, but he just wiped it twice on his clothes.
There was no sign of pain at all. Even a two-year-old baby in his yard fell while running and his jaw hit a stone and bled, but the baby didn't even cry.
, but he got up and continued running and jumping with a smile. My subordinate felt that something was not right."
Not only was something not right, it was simply too wrong! Xuan Tianming asked another person who also came back from wandering around the city: "What did you see?"
The man thought for a while and said: "My subordinates saw that people carrying water seemed different from the past. Although there were people queuing up to pick up books in the past, there were not many, and there were no people who kept asking for a drink as soon as the water was picked up.
One sip. It was currently a severe winter, and the water was full of icy stubble, but they didn’t feel cold at all, and they drank it happily. The subordinates looked at them drinking water, as if they were enjoying themselves, as if they were tasting the delicacies of the world.
, it’s not like drinking the most ordinary cold water at all.”
"In this way..." Xuan Tianming began to think, and an unformed idea flashed through his mind, but he felt it was too crazy and unrealistic.
He stood up suddenly, startling Bai Ze, "Where are you going, Master?"
"Get out of the city." He said as he walked, "If nothing happens, your princess will definitely arrive today. Let's go out of the city to meet her, so that she doesn't know what's going on. If she comes into the city and drinks the water by mistake, it will be very serious."
Trouble."
He left twelve secret guards to continue to observe the movements in the city, while he took Bai Ze to the west gate. He was a little anxious. If his guess was correct, the powder thrown into the well should be
It's something like Xiaoyao Powder. He's not afraid that it's poison. Feng Yuheng can cure it. But if it's really something like Xiaoyao Powder, Feng Yuheng will be helpless. What if that girl enters the city?
If you feel thirsty and drink some tea, something big will happen.
He was anxious, and his steps were faster, almost trotting. He was not allowed to ride a horse in Jiancheng, because only the rich and powerful would ride on the street, and he would be too conspicuous if he rode a horse. But even so
, still attracted the attention of many people, including a group of officials patrolling the city. Seeing the two people in a hurry and looking very unfamiliar, they wanted to stop them and ask, but the leader had already moved forward.
He took a step, but at this moment, for some reason, he suddenly stood down again, with a very painful expression on his face. He didn't know where to put his hands, so he kept scratching his face.
Come and cross.
There was another person like him, who also looked in pain, but that person was obviously more awake than him. At this time, he happened to see someone walking by carrying water on the street, so he rushed over, grabbed the bucket, knelt on the ground and plunged his head into it.
He started drinking inside.
The person earlier also reacted and hurried over to grab a drink of water. While they were drinking water, Xuan Tianming took Bai Ze and walked past quickly. When they had drunk enough, they came back to their senses and wanted to find the suspicious two people.
The individual has long since disappeared.
Unfortunately, Xuan Tianming was still a step too late. When they arrived at the West City Gate, they found that the city gate was closed in broad daylight. Many people gathered here waiting to leave the city. However, they heard from the officials guarding the city that the city gate had been closed in recent days.
An army will be raised to invade. It is very dangerous to leave the city. All the four major city gates will be closed. The specific time when they will be opened again will have to wait for notification from the prefectural government.
At this time, just by closing the city gate, a large number of people began to wander around and talk about political affairs. Those people talked about Dashun attacking Zong Sui, saying that Dashun captured Bincheng, and that Bincheng was mostly
People lost their homes and were displaced, and it was said that soon Dashun would come to Jiancheng, massacre the people, and rob property, making this city become the next Bincheng.
It was said that the people were so angry that it was as if Dashun had dug up their ancestral graves. They all clamored to kill Xiang Bincheng and drive the Dashun traitors out of Zongsui.
During this period, there will always be people who suddenly express pain, and there will always be people looking for water to drink. Those who have drank water immediately become more energetic, just like getting chicken blood, and immediately throw themselves into resisting Dashun's shouts.
.
Crowds of people poured out from all directions of the city and gradually gathered in the center of the city. Xuan Tianming was squeezed out of the crowd and watched from a distance. He saw Zuo Da, the magistrate of the city, also in the crowd, shouting all kinds of things along with the people.
All kinds of inspiring slogans, but those eyes are so bright and bright, not at all as muddy and confused as others.
He said to Bai Ze: "Look at Zuo Da. He doesn't seem to have drank the water in the city." After that, he looked up at the tall city wall. The sky was bright and white, and the city gate was closed. It would be very difficult for him to get out.
It’s difficult. Fortunately, even if Feng Yuheng uses space to enter the city, he can immediately detect abnormalities in the city and contact him as soon as possible. He prays in his heart that the girl will drink the water in his space even if she is thirsty.
Well, the water source on which the city was built is absolutely untouchable.
At that time, Feng Yuheng was running on the way to Jiancheng with a dark face...