The sky was somewhat overcast, and the environment was quiet.
Although it is the height of summer, everyone felt a chill run through their bodies, and their backs were soaked with cold sweat.
The thought of seeing piles of corpses when the city gates opened made some people have second thoughts.
"There's been no sound at all, so there's probably no one alive left. Let's go back..."
"Yes, yes! If there are no survivors, there's no point in us going in!"
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Su Muxi frowned and stood on the carriage, shouting, "The weather is so hot now. If the city were full of dead people, the air would surely be filled with a stench. There's no smell at all, which means the epidemic in the city has been brought under control!"
Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly began to sniff around.
The fact that they didn't smell any foul odor put them at ease.
Seeing that people's hearts had calmed down, Su Muxi looked at the tightly closed city gate and instructed Mai Kun, "Mai Kun, go knock on the gate!"
Meanwhile, in the prison of Fukang County, a woman in her early twenties, dressed in plain clothes and with a pretty face, was taking food from a food box with a gentle smile on her face.
"Brother Su, this is braised rabbit meat that I specially made for you this morning. Try it and see if it suits your taste."
Su Xing sat on the simple couch, looking at the woman before him, and sighed softly, "Alas! Miss Wei, why did you do this?"
The woman in front of Su Xing was Wei Huan, whom Su Hongshuo had mentioned to Su Muxi before.
Upon hearing Su Xing's words, Wei Huan's smile gradually cracked, revealing a hint of grievance and sadness.
Wei Huan pretended not to understand what Su Xing meant, and instead smiled as she took out a pair of chopsticks from the food box and handed them to Su Xing.
"Brother Su, eat quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
Su Xing looked at the food on the table, as well as a pot of fragrant wine, his eyes filled with an unreadable expression.
Looking up at Wei Huan's bright and pretty face, he hesitated before asking, "Have you eaten yet? Why don't we eat something together?"
Upon hearing this, Wei Huan looked at Su Xing in disbelief, noticing a blush slowly creeping onto Su Xing's face and a light gradually appearing in her beautiful eyes.
"Then I'll have dinner with Brother Su!"
For over a month, Su Xing had remained unmoved by her advances, so has she finally won him over?
Wei Huan seemed very happy, eating her meal in small bites, and occasionally putting some food into Su Xing's bowl.
When she looked at Su Xing, her eyes were filled with undisguised admiration.
Wei Huan's gaze was so intense that Su Xing felt a little embarrassed. He coughed awkwardly, picked up the wine pot on the table, and personally poured Wei Huan a glass of wine.
Then he poured himself another glass.
He raised his glass, hesitated for a moment, and said to Wei Huan, "This glass is for you, to thank you for bringing me meals in prison these past few days."
"...As long as Brother Su doesn't abandon me, I'm willing to cook for you for the rest of my life!"
Wei Huan happily picked up his wine glass, and after clinking glasses with Su Xing with a shy expression, he drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.
However, as soon as she put down her wine glass, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen.
She hurriedly looked up at Su Xing, only to see that Su Xing was looking at her calmly, showing no intention of drinking the wine in his glass.
"This...this wine is poisoned?!"
Wei Huan said in disbelief, cold sweat beading on his forehead, his voice weak and feeble.
Su Xing spilled the wine on the ground and said calmly, "Miss Wei, why did you do this?"
"...I...I only love you and want to marry you! Is that wrong?"
Wei Huan spoke with a mournful expression, her eyes brimming with tears of grievance.
With a gentle blink, a tear slid down her cheek.
Her pitiful appearance is truly endearing.
But Su Xing remained unmoved upon seeing this.
"Miss Wei, you are beautiful and a virgin. Although you are over twenty, you are still very young to me. How could such a young and beautiful woman fall in love with me at first sight?"
"I, Su, may lack much else, but I am remarkably self-aware. I believe I have nothing that could make Miss Wei admire me, except for my status as a member of the Su family, which is something you should deliberately try to get close to."
Su Xing spoke calmly, but Wei Huan still shook her head and protested, "No! Brother Su saved me on the street, and I really fell in love with him at first sight! You have to believe me!"
Su Xing sneered, a hint of coldness creeping into his gaze as he looked at Wei Huan.
"Wasn't the chance encounter on the street and the fainting spell deliberately arranged by Miss Wei?"
He had just returned to Jinzhou when he ran into Wei Huan during one of his outings.
Wei Huan suddenly fainted, and he kindly went to help him. Unexpectedly, the Wei family came to propose marriage the very next day.
Wei Huan is about the same age as Xi'er, old enough to be his daughter, yet she fell in love with him at first sight?!
Everyone else envied him, but he found it absurd!
If he were as tall and handsome as Qiao Xiuyuan, he might actually attract the attention of young women.
But he has an ordinary appearance and average build. What could Wei Huan possibly want from him?
I'm afraid only the position of the head of the Su family is suitable for this.
So he rejected the marriage proposal.
Unexpectedly, Wei Huan became attached to him and followed him all the way to Fukang County. She took great care of him and showed concern for his well-being along the way, just like a virtuous and gentle wife.
If it were an ordinary man, he might have already succumbed to Wei Huan's gentle advances.
But once he woke up, he remained perfectly lucid.
Simply because he is a self-aware person.
From the first day he arrived in Fukang County, he discovered that this plague was strange.
It was more like poisoning than a plague.
However, he was skilled in treating external injuries and could not diagnose what kind of poison the people of Fukang County had been poisoned by.
If you only look at the symptoms of the infected people, it is no different from the plague.
Therefore, he could only treat the symptoms first, and then look for the root cause of the disease.
A month has passed, and the number of infected people is increasing, but the symptoms of those who were already infected have not improved at all.
As a result, more and more people died, turning Fukang County into a dead city where one could only enter but not leave.
During this period, he sent out dozens of letters, but did not receive a single reply.
It wasn't until six days ago, when Jia Ren, the magistrate of Fukang County, poured cartloads of fake medicine in front of him, that he realized it was all a trap set by the Wei family.
Using the people of an entire city as bait, that's quite a grand scheme.
Although he desperately wanted to loudly proclaim that he was innocent, he knew that all explanations would be in vain.
Truckloads of counterfeit medicine were right in front of them, with the Su family's logo still on the sacks, leaving them with no way to deny it.
So he obediently allowed Jia Ren to imprison him.
However, before being locked up in jail, he shouted to Zhong Changqing, "I'm fine, don't worry about me. At least my life isn't in danger. Only you outside can find evidence that I was wronged and clear my name!"
But Jia Ren sneered and ordered Zhong Changqing to be locked up as well.
Seeing this, Su Xing didn't say anything more, because what he said wasn't directed at Zhong Changqing.
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