The sun rises in the east. The morning light shines through the dense branches and leaves, casting a shaking sun shadow on the ground. Countless light spots dance on the faces of the two people who are fighting and playing, and the light and shadow are intertwined.
Sheng Jiangli showed his upper body smeared with herbs and then went in to get the clothes to wash.
Caiyu stopped him. "The water source nearby has been polluted by the plague and cannot be washed."
Sheng Jiangli stared at her with wide eyes.
Only then did Caiyu have time to tell the experience of last night.
After listening to what Caiyu said, Sheng Jiangli's always dandy look became sharp, and his face was covered with a layer of dark clouds.
"Foreign mice?" He murmured to himself and then got up.
"Where are you going?" Caiyu chased after him and asked while trotting.
Sheng Jiangli borrowed a suit of clothes from a soldier stationed nearby and walked in a hurry. "Go and have a look at that waterfall and pool."
"But you have a wound on your back and can't get wet." Caiyu was anxious.
Even ordinary water can't touch the wound. If the polluted water gets into Brother A Li's wound, he will die!
"I can't care so much." Sheng Jiangli said, "I must go and have a look. There is something strange about this matter."
"Wait for me!" Caiyu stopped Sheng Jiangli's steps.
Her eyes turned around and then she ran to the straw stack behind the wooden house and pulled off a large piece of tarpaulin to prevent the straw from getting wet.
She unfolded the tarpaulin and wrapped Sheng Jiangli's upper body tightly for several times, wrapping it like a zongzi.
Sheng Jiangli looked down at her and smiled gently, "It's still sister Shu'er who is careful. This tarpaulin is very useful."
Caiyu gave him a white look and ordered him to wear a veil.
Sheng Jiangli smiled and obeyed.
Then the two people walked towards the pool of yesterday.
The pool was not far from the wooden house, and they arrived soon.
Sheng Jiangli looked up at the small waterfall in front of him. The mountain was not steep, but extremely slippery. If he flew up, he didn't know how to land.
While looking at the place to land, Caiyu had already pulled out a huge leaf from one side to cover their heads, and pointed to a position behind the side of the waterfall and said:
"When the waterfall there falls, it is closer to the water curtain than other places, and there is a wave-like state, so I think there should be a cave behind the position of that water curtain."
Sheng Jiangli squinted his eyes and looked for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yes, it's really like what you said. The shape of that water curtain changes a lot. There should be a cave behind it. A gust of mountain wind blows out from the cave, so the shape of the water curtain in front changes constantly. It's there!"
He put his arm around Caiyu's waist, exerted force on his toes, and jumped into the air.
"Crash!" A sound.
The fierce water flow hit the big tree leaf held up by Caiyu. Then the two people's eyes went black. The water flow behind them sounded like thunder, but they didn't get a drop of water on their bodies.
Sheng Jiangli landed steadily, let go of Caiyu, and then took out a fire starter to light up the front.
Sure enough, it was a long and secluded cave. The mountain wind blew from the opposite side where the end could not be seen. A gust of wind blew, making the water curtain behind them fall to the east and west.
However, the mountain wind that should have carried the natural and fresh breath now carried a strong smell of corruption when it blew into the nose.
Before Caiyu could see the environment in the cave clearly, she felt something scurry under her feet. Her scalp went numb and she screamed.
In the blink of an eye, Sheng Jiangli swept out with one palm the thing that scurried in front of them.
The thing made a sharp "squeak" sound and then stopped moving.
After a short adaptation, both of them saw clearly that the thing that scurried towards them just now was a big black mouse.
Immediately afterwards, there were more mice scurrying around in the cave.
All of them had black hair, walked staggeringly, and had red eyes. They didn't have the cleverness of ordinary mice, but rather seemed to be struggling to survive.
There were more mouse corpses piled on the ground, and the smell of corruption was emitted by these corpses.
Those mice that were still alive were looking for something on the mountain of corpses and struggling to survive.
Suddenly there were fresh humans. The mice that were still alive made sharp and excited calls, as if they saw the hope of survival, and stared at them covetously.
Seeing such a scene, Caiyu took a breath of cold air, and her body immediately climbed up with dense goose bumps.
"Brother A Li, the state of these mice is very strange." Caiyu tried her best to suppress her shaking lips and said.
Sheng Jiangli responded and noticed her fear. He reached out and buckled her in his arms. "This is probably the source of this plague."
The speculation was the same as Caiyu's idea.
Caiyu nodded in his arms and just wanted to get out quickly.
The risk of getting the plague increased by one point for every minute she stayed here. "How to deal with it?"
Sheng Jiangli smiled gently, "It's simple, burn it!"
He mobilized his internal strength and swept across the dozens of mice that were still alive with a strong wind!
A sharp internal strength swept out!
The inside of the cave was in turmoil, and sharp voices came out!
Before Caiyu had time to look back, the man buckled her back of the head with his big palm, threw the torch in his other hand out, and shouted:
"Withdraw!"
Caiyu only felt that she flew into the air again, passed through the roaring water curtain, and flew out and landed on the bank of the pool where they had stood before.
She turned her head from Sheng Jiangli's arms and saw thick smoke coming out from behind the silver-white water curtain, and the fire was faintly visible.
Those corrupt mouse corpses were natural corpse oil. Once they caught fire, it was like a prairie fire, and even the water vapor in the cave could not stop the spread of the fire.
Caiyu was shocked and frightened by Sheng Jiangli's vigorous handling method.
"Just... finished?"
Shouldn't we leave some evidence and clues and take them back to discuss with Song Yinghuai and all the imperial doctors to confirm?
Sheng Jiangli looked down at her dazed and shocked eyes, thought it was cute, reached out and rubbed her bun, and smiled gently:
"What? You miss your prince and want him to make contributions?"
"It's too late to say. This credit is mine!"
Caiyu was rubbed on her bun, and she was so angry that she turned her head to one side and muttered, "I don't miss him at all! I just think... hey!"
She didn't know how to say it. How could it be solved like this?
Sheng Jiangli looked at the thick smoke behind the waterfall, and his cold eyebrows bent sharply.
Naturally, it was not solved.
I don't know who secretly put these mice suffering from the plague on the mountain, causing a disaster to all the people.
What was the purpose of the person hiding behind the scenes doing these things deliberately?
Just before the arrival of the Tartar envoys in Beijing, was it to provoke the civil strife in Daye, or was it eager to make contributions?
In addition to this cave, there may be other caves that also hide the same mice.
The most urgent thing was to quickly check one by one along the water source and contain the source.
Secondly, it was necessary to lead the snake out of the hole...
Sheng Jiangli pushed Caiyu. "Go back to the wooden house, collect my clothes, and let's go back to Qixia Temple first and then discuss."
Caiyu left this place with Sheng Jiangli, looking back three times at every step.
When they were approaching the small wooden house, the small soldier who borrowed Sheng Jiangli's clothes was bare-chested and anxiously circling in place.
When he saw Sheng Jiangli and Caiyu, he quickly greeted them and said incoherently:
"Sheng Sheng Sheng... General Sheng... The prince is here."
Sheng Jiangli frowned, looked at Caiyu, and then looked at the small soldier, and immediately understood.
He and Caiyu were absent overnight. How could Song Yinghuai not be in a hurry?
He sighed. "Come on, it's not you who made a mistake. What are you worried about?"
Small soldier: "Ah! But the prince looks very bad!"
It's like coming to catch an adulterer!
He secretly glanced at Caiyu who was dressed as a man and was already stunning. He murmured in his heart.
The preferences of these noble people are a bit colorful.
Why do they all like men who look like sissies...
General Sheng is like this, and the prince is also like this.
Not only that, these two noble people seem to like the same sissy...
Sheng Jiangli reached out and put his arm around Caiyu's shoulder, who was already stiff all over, and smiled like a spring breeze:
"Fourth, let the storm come more violently!"