Chapter 477: Life or Money?
Xiao Jin tapped the table with his bony fingertips. His voice was low and filled with endless coldness. "The Queen said that Lord Wei was trying to embezzle the official grain from the court."
Wei Zhongming's knees softened and he knelt down. "I deserve to die. I am possessed by a demon, sir. Please say a few good words to the queen and spare my life. Even if I have to work like a cow or a horse for you, I will do it."
Xiao Jin exhaled lightly, with a trace of confusion between his brows. Wei Zhongming saw that there might be hope, so he begged even harder, "Sir, I haven't touched a single grain of food in that cave. I will take you to move the food out right now."
Xiao Jin raised his dark eyes, "Didn't the official grain be burned? If you want to make up for your mistake, you should at least make up for the burned official grain, right? Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to beg for mercy in front of the queen."
"Master Wei, is it true or not?"
Wei Zhongming opened his eyes in shock, thinking he had heard it wrong.
He spoke tentatively, "Sir, the official grain... isn't it too much? I'm afraid I can't raise so much food in such a short time."
Xiao Jin picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip. "I heard a lot of rumors unfavorable to Lord Wei on the way here. It is said that Luocheng has suffered from drought for a long time, but the court has not received any news. How will Lord Wei explain this to the emperor?"
Wei Zhongming's face turned pale and he was speechless.
On one side is money, on the other side is life. Wei Zhongming can tell which is more important!
Wei Zhongming made a bitter face and patted his head on the ground, "Don't worry, sir. I will do everything I can to get the food even if I don't eat or drink it. Please give me some time."
"Three days. In three days, I will see Lord Wei in the reserve granary to show his repentance."
"Three days..."
Xiao Jin raised his eyelids and asked, "Grown?"
Wei Zhongming hurriedly shook his head, "No, no, just three days, just three days!"
"Go ahead."
"Yes, I will take my leave. I will take my leave."
When Xiao Jin returned to the guest house, Su Ying had already left the city. She still wanted to go outside the city to confirm if there were any patients who had not been cured.
But the result surprised her. The symptoms of all the patients disappeared and everyone returned to normal. There were no new patients inside or outside the city. It was as if the virus appeared and disappeared out of thin air.
From a medical point of view, this is basically impossible to happen in such a medical environment, unless the transmission route of the disease is self-blocking.
"My lady, the first group of people you want to investigate who were infected have all died."
"All dead?"
"Yes, before these patients were treated by Miss Zhou, almost none of them survived. As long as they showed symptoms, they would basically die within three to five days."
The mortality rate of this disease is somewhat frighteningly high. "Where are the bodies? Where are the bodies of those who died of the disease?"
"It was burned and then landfilled."
"Where is it buried?"
Zhou Qing went to find an official to ask, and an hour later, the official took Su Ying to a barren mountain. A large area of renovated soil could be vaguely seen on the hillside in front.
Su Ying signaled the officer to bring a shovel, then asked everyone to retreat to a farther place at the back, and then she put on a gas mask and went to dig.
One, two, three charred bodies were dug out.
These corpses must have been burned repeatedly, and they had been burnt black. Su Ying put on gloves and dug into the corpses, and found that all the internal organs had been burned away.
The corpse has been burned like this, and it is difficult to find anything useful from it. Many substances have undergone qualitative changes during the repeated burning process.
Su Ying dug out a few more bodies. Their condition was even worse than the previous ones. They were simply unbearable to look at. The bones were so carbonized that they broke at the touch of a shovel.
She still refused to give up and kept digging, and finally she found something a little different.
Judging from the remaining body shape, this should be the body of a woman, no, to be precise, this is a pregnant woman.
Su Ying frowned. The corpse was burned beyond recognition, but her internal organs were still intact in her abdominal cavity, perhaps because of the fetus. She took out a big bag and put the corpse in it. Then, when no one was paying attention, she put the corpse into the space.
Zhou Qing stood behind the woods and stretched her neck to look. If Su Ying hadn't given a strict order that no one could get close to her, she would have wanted to go over to help.
The officers standing by all looked unhappy and covered their mouths and noses tightly with cloth towels. Even so, they could still smell the stench.
Su Ying dug for two hours. Seeing that the sun was about to set, she stopped, buried the body she had dug back, and then sprayed her whole body with disinfectant before walking up to Zhou Qing and the others.
"Let's go, and get back to the city before dark."
"yes."
When Su Ying returned to the government office, Xiao Jin was already waiting for her in the guest house.
"Where did the queen go?"
Su Ying said: "We went outside the city to dig up the bodies. We still want to see what kind of strange disease this is."
Xiao Jin frowned when he heard this, "It's too dangerous." They still haven't figured out how the disease is transmitted. Those corpses are poisonous. What if they get infected?
Su Ying did not argue and just said, "I will pay more attention next time."
Xiao Jin wanted to go forward, but he saw Zhou Qing standing motionless in the room, "You go out first."
Zhou Qing looked at Su Ying without moving. She always felt that this gentleman's attitude towards the Empress was not right. He did not have the respect that a subject should have for the Queen at all!
Su Ying thought Xiao Jin had something to say to her, so she asked Zhou Qing to bring dinner over.
Before leaving, Zhou Qing glanced at Xiao Jin warily before turning and leaving.
Xiao Jin sat down next to Su Ying. Even though he was wearing a mask, Su Ying could see a trace of grievance between his brows. "After the people from the Ministry of Industry come, we will return to Beijing."
Su Ying didn't have the time to mention this to him yesterday. He is the king of a country now, how could he be away from Beijing for so long?
"Tell me first, how did you leave Beijing?"
Xiao Jin grabbed her hand and put it to his lips, wanting to kiss her, but he smelled a faint stench of decay. He paused for a moment. She went to dig up the corpse in the afternoon...
Xiao Jin silently moved the hand from his lips to his heart, "Pretending to be sick."
"Are you so sure that the person in Los Angeles is me, and not a trap set by someone else?"
Xiao Jin's dark pupils reflected her cold and beautiful appearance. "Wei Zhongming gave a detailed description of you in the letter he sent to the capital. He was very resentful of you. Every detail he described was so similar to you. At that moment, I felt it was you, Yingying. I knew it was you who came back."
(End of this chapter)
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