Four hundred and fifty-four chapters after the catastrophe
Liu Zhenyou is in the room next to Bai Sanshu and his wife, which is opposite to Bai Ling's room.
Knowing that Liu Zhenyou had something to say, Bai Ling followed Liu Zhenyou directly into the guest room when sending him back.
"Second girl, please tell me the truth, what's going on outside?" Liu Zhenyou looked at Bai Ling, his weathered eyes showed a calmness that could not be fooled.
Bai Ling sighed lowly and told Liu Zhenyou what he knew about the situation, as well as his plans.
However, Bai Ling did not inform him of the cruelty he had committed and the news he had received last night.
After all, Liu Zhenyou is just an old country man with a reputation as a scholar. Knowing too much is not good for him. On the contrary, it will make Liu Zhenyou uneasy and harmful to his health.
"How sure are you that you can develop an antidote?" Liu Zhenyou didn't know if he had figured out that there might be a deeper secret to this matter, but he just asked about the antidote.
"I can't guarantee it." Bai Ling said with a bitter smile: "It would be great if the master was here. He is well-informed and should be able to find a solution. I have been reading the notes left by the master these two days, hoping to find a way as soon as possible.
Find a solution to the problem."
"Just do your best and don't put so much pressure on yourself. We are just ordinary people. It's better if we can save them. It's not our fault if we can't. Besides, there are so many people in the town who are fine. You have tried your best to save them.
They are here. Even the imperial court... may not be able to do better than you." Liu Zhenyou sighed.
Bai Ling's heart sank, and she understood why Liu Zhenyou paused just now.
If the poison of these people cannot be cured, what will the court do after learning about it?
Training them to become dead soldiers?
Or the front line to kill the enemy on the battlefield?
Or maybe just kill them all without even daring to mention a single word in the history books?
But no matter what the court does, as long as the poison is not detoxified, these innocent people will not end well.
There are also those poisonous people whose whereabouts are unknown, what will happen to them?
And how many such drugs does the mastermind behind the scenes have in hand? What is his shocking conspiracy?
After coming out of Liu Zhenyou's room, Bai Ling felt very heavy and went to check the pulse of the medicine people.
Because the duration of poisoning was different, the pulse condition of the medicine people was naturally different. What shocked Bai Ling was that the poisonous people who were deeply poisoned had a pulse that was almost undetectable, but the frequency of the heart beating was extremely fast.
But when poisonous people are unconscious, they look just like ordinary people.
"Shopkeeper." Bai Ling hurriedly turned around, came to the counter and asked: "In recent times, or even longer, before the poisonous people were discovered, what was different in the town? When did these poisonous people come to be?
At first, do you have any impressions of the shopkeeper?"
The shopkeeper was confused by the question and thought carefully for a long time.
"About the Chinese New Year, a butcher in the town suddenly went crazy and hacked everyone in his family to death. However, the butcher committed suicide before being sent to the county government. I heard people say that after the butcher killed someone, he was like a lost man.
He seemed to have lost his soul. I asked him but he didn't know anything. The mayor sent many people to catch him." The shopkeeper replied.
"After that, did something similar happen?" Bai Ling asked again.
"There was a scholar who was robbed of money by some gangsters. Then the scholar chased and beat several people and maimed them all. Later, the scholar disappeared, and his family searched for it for several months but could not find him."
The shopkeeper tried hard to think back and wanted to tell Bai Ling all the unusual things in the town.
After talking about a few more things one after another, the shopkeeper suddenly slapped his forehead and said: "By the way, someone went to Wang's Rice Shop to make trouble before, saying that they ate their brown rice and killed the children and the elderly in the family.
Then there was a big commotion. The man in the troublemaker's family suddenly went crazy and smashed the rice shop. Everyone in the rice shop was beaten to death. Even his own daughter-in-law tried to pull him away and was killed.
was beaten to death.
From then on, there were more and more people acting strangely on the street. At first, everyone avoided it, but no one took it seriously. Until something happened to a few wealthy families, and the mayor's house was also occupied, everyone
Only then did I realize that the town was not peaceful.
Later, when they heard the whistle, everyone hurriedly hid, because those poisonous people started going crazy when they heard the whistle, and beat people to death when they saw them..."
Seeing that the shopkeeper paused, Bai Ling asked softly: "Did the shopkeeper remember anything else?"
"Yes, those people all have a piece of red cloth tied on their arms. Those poisonous people never beat people who wear red cloth!" The shopkeeper said excitedly: "Those people outside the inn also tied red cloth.
, so no one has come to smash it, it must be like this."
Bai Ling narrowed his eyes. This clue was very important. Although it could not detoxify, it could help people avoid being attacked by poisonous people.
"Does the shopkeeper have any red cloth at home? Please ask the shopkeeper to pull it off and let everyone wear it." While Bai Ling spoke to the shopkeeper, he also glanced at the space.
At first, the conditions at home were not very good, so Bai Ling developed a habit of wanting to round up items that were on sale.
Later, they wanted to support the Zixiao Army, so this habit was naturally retained. There were a lot of cloths of various colors and textures in the space, including hundreds of pieces of red ones.
"My wife is about to give birth. I have prepared two pieces of red cloth at home. I will take them out right away," the shopkeeper said generously.
Bai Ling went upstairs and told the girl to take out all the red fabrics in the box and tear them into strips.
In addition to tying it up for everyone, it is also necessary to tie it up around the outside of the inn to prevent poisoners from attacking through the main entrance.
Haitang and others were also resting at this moment, and Bai Ling would not let his people use up their energy to perform tasks.
After taking out some cloths in the space and tearing them apart, Bai Ling left some outside Haitang's door and asked an escort to guard the door so that when Haitang and the others went to perform their mission again, they could take these cloths with them.
When you go out, you can also distribute them to some common people.
In order to test the authenticity of this matter, Bai Ling activated the space and went out again.
Sure enough, when they meet a poisonous person, they treat Bai Ling as if they are nothing.
If it weren't for the shopkeeper's reminder, Bai Ling wouldn't have thought about it at all. He thought the red strips on the thieves' bodies were a sign to distinguish them.
After the verification, Bai Ling immediately returned to the inn and woke up Haitang who was still resting.
"Plan change..." Bai Ling whispered a few words. Seeing that Haitang completely understood what she meant, she asked Haitang to lead people to carry out the mission.
Bai Ling then called the secret guard and asked him to quickly pass on the news, but also made up a superstitious reason for everyone to voluntarily wear red cloth strips without causing panic.
In order to prevent the merchants from raising prices, Bai Ling also asked the secret guards to pass it on, and the government would purchase a large amount of red cloth to ensure that it was distributed to every village, and the silver would be paid by the Han Dynasty Palace.
When it got dark, except for the bandits who were taken into the space by Bai Ling, after Haitang and others fought bloody battles, they finally wiped out all the bandits in several big houses.
Bai Ling also took the opportunity to release the poisonous people in the space and the victimized women, and the mayor made unified arrangements.
In the whole town, everyone in the family who was not poisoned received a red cloth, but the rest of their lives were filled with cries throughout the town.
Mayor's Mansion.
Bai Ling sat in the main seat, looking at the haggard mayor who was holding back tears and felt a little heartbroken.
"Has the mayor thought about what to do next?" Bai Ling finally asked. (To be continued)