Chen Li came to the side of her carriage and said, "Dad and Mom, we will pass through the city tomorrow. Young Master Wei and I will go into the city to take a look. You don't have to wait for me to come back for dinner."
Shen Changshan was unloading his things. Upon hearing this, he quickly turned around and looked towards the city. "Ali, it's getting dark now. Why don't we go tomorrow morning? It's okay if we leave a little later tomorrow."
Lin Cuicui also nodded and said, "Yes, Ah Li, why don't we go tomorrow?"
The three brothers next to him also looked worried, and even Lu Jing and Lu Nian frowned.
Chen Li shook her head, "Dad, Mom, you don't have to go tomorrow, I'll be back soon."
Seeing they couldn't stop her, the couple stopped trying to persuade her and said, "Okay, be careful."
"Uh-huh."
No one else said anything else. If they continued talking, it would be dark soon. It would be better to let her go in early. It would be best if she could come out before dark.
Chen Li pulled Chi Yan towards Pei Yu. Chi Yan didn't want to go at first, but Chen Li tempted him with a few words before he agreed.
Pei Yu also led a horse. When Chen Li saw Tian Qing, she glanced at the Shen family members who were looking at her worriedly, "Tian Qing, I have a favor to ask of you."
Tianqing saw his master glance at him and quickly responded, “Miss Shen, please speak.”
"If Master Wei and I don't come back too late, and my family wants to enter the city, please help me stop them."
So that's what it was. He thought it was something else!
“I understand, don’t worry, Miss Shen.”
"Thank you very much."
The two men rode their horses together towards the half-open city gate.
Pei Yu took out a purse and pulled out two brown pills. He ate one first and handed the other to Chen Li, saying concisely, "It's for preventing miasma."
Chen Li took a bite and ate it. It was not because she trusted Pei Yu that much, but he was the kind of person who would not bother to do such a thing.
Pei Yu was sorting his purse with his eyes lowered when he caught a glimpse of this scene and the corners of his eyes raised slightly.
"Just now, Master Wei said that there was miasma in this city?"
"Very likely."
"But this place shouldn't have miasma. Master Wei, do you know Pinghe County?"
"No, but there has never been any rumor of miasma here."
"Let's go."
Chen Li frowned and thought, if there was miasma, then it would make sense for the people in the city to evacuate urgently.
But where did this miasma come from?
As soon as I entered the city gate, the scene that was a little blurry just now became clear. There were scattered bamboo baskets and tattered and rotten carts on both sides of the street.
The doors and windows of the shops were wide open, and there was chaos inside.
The two of them had been inside for a quarter of an hour, but there was no sign of the refugees who had just come in.
As they went deeper, the fog around them became thicker, and Chen Li looked at the man beside her.
"Is this miasma?"
"yes."
Pei Yu's face looked a little serious. He was just guessing when he was outside, but now that he had come in, he was sure that this was miasma.
Why did the miasma appear here? This was the biggest question in the two people's minds.
"We will check separately and meet at the county government office in two quarters of an hour."
"OK."
The two men wandered around the city for a while and arrived at the gate of the county government office. They didn't find anything, so they decided to act separately and come back later to see what was in the county government office.
The two rode their horses in different directions. Chen Li's mental power spread out. Just now, when she was with Pei Yu, she was a little concerned about him, so she didn't use it extensively.
Now that the two of them are separated, she wants to explore carefully what secrets this city has.
There are some houses here on Chenli's side. Judging from the specifications, they were all lived in by dignitaries in the past. After using spiritual power to probe, there are still many things in the secret room that have not been packed up yet.
There was no food left, as any would have been taken away by the refugees who came in later.
But even if there was any, Chen Li didn't dare to take it. It had been contaminated by miasma, and it was even a question whether it was edible.
However, many houses still have a lot of gold, silver and jewelry hidden, which are all good. Now they are ownerless, so Chen Li accepted them all with a smile.
There was no one around, so he first put the red flame into the space, and then quickly collected the things in these houses.
The time given by Pei Yu is very tight, so we can’t waste too much time on this.
After these things were put into the space, they were stored separately in one place and not mixed with the previous ones.
After acquiring four houses, Chen Li stopped acquiring them because business was more important.
We hurried through the city and came to a well. There was a huge stone covering the well. There were some runes written on the stone with red cinnabar. I don't know whether it was to drive away evil spirits or to ward off evil spirits.
There is no water in the well anymore, and there is a large space inside with a passage, but no one knows where it leads to.
With a slight force of his hands, he moved the big rock above him. After waiting for an incense stick of time, Chen Li took a deep breath, covered his mouth and nose, jumped, and landed lightly in the dry well.
He took out a torch from the space, lit it, and stood there for a while to make sure that the torch was not extinguished. Then he walked forward holding the torch.
This well doesn’t seem simple!
On the way down just now, I saw that this well has never contained water. Maybe it was just to cover up something.
The area below is all made of stone, and there are traces of engraving on the stone walls, which clearly indicate that they were artificially carved.
Walking forward with a torch, I found that the cave was about two and a half meters high. I wonder how much effort it would take to dig such a cave.
Over there, after Pei Yu wandered around without any results, he returned to the gate of the county government office. When the time came, Chen Li still hadn't shown up.
He tapped the white jade fan in his hand. Miss Shen had already taken the pills to relieve the miasma. With her ability, there was no need to worry too much. She hadn't come yet, so she must have been delayed by something.
Glancing at the sun in the sky, which was about to set, Pei Yu left a mark at the door and walked into the county government office.
He walked around the front and back yards of the county government office, but there was nothing special. If there was anything special, it was when he walked to a yard and stopped in front of a well in the yard.
Judging from the name of the courtyard, this courtyard is where the county magistrate handles official business. But how could there be a well where the county magistrate handles official business?
And there is a huge rock on top of it, which is not normal at all.
Pei Yu moved the stone above the well away. As for the weird scribbles on the stone, he pretended not to see them.
The mouth of this well is also larger than that of an ordinary well, and there is no wear and tear on the mouth of the well, which shows that this is just a well that is used to deceive people.
Pei Yu looked at the well, wondering if Miss Shen had also encountered it, which was why she was delayed.
Thinking of this, he decided to go down and investigate. When he saw the stone-carved passage inside, he was slightly surprised. It seemed that the miasma in Pinghe County was indeed not simple!
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