Chapter 369
There are three sons in total, two of whom married into the wife's family.
There are four daughters in total, and three of them married far away.
This family is quite interesting.
"Do you have a sack at home?" Su Qingqing asked the big man at the foot of the wall.
The big man nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes."
As he said this, he urged the young man next to him, "Go get it!"
The young man didn't know whether he was nervous or scared, but when the big man pushed him, he walked towards the small side room next door tremblingly. In a moment, he pulled out two sacks.
Jixiang took the sack and quickly stuffed the little girl and the old woman on the wall into it.
As for the third boy in their family who had a high fever, Su Qingqing asked someone to notify the doctor and made normal arrangements, but released the Su family soldiers to guard him.
Originally she was going to patrol the streets, but now that something like this had happened, Su Qingqing had no intention of continuing her patrol, so she returned to her residence with Jixiang and two sacks.
Because this man was infected with the disease, in order to prevent infection, he was not very suitable for interrogation, so he had to be placed in a new cell and kept under guard while receiving treatment.
As a result, Jixiang has not looked very good in recent days.
When asked, it’s like: Damn, I still have to treat the bad guys!
Since being imprisoned by Su Qingqing, Duke Xue was worried every day that he might be tortured or killed by Su Qingqing. However, he had been imprisoned for seven or eight days. During these seven or eight days, except that the food was poor and every meal consisted of steamed buns, pickled vegetables and cold water, he was not tortured at all.
But not being tortured doesn't mean his life will be easy.
Su Qingqing locked him in a room with all the doors and windows covered tightly.
The room was pitch black and he couldn't see anything even with his five fingers stretched out. Here, apart from someone delivering three meals a day, he couldn't hear even the slightest sound.
Absolute darkness and absolute silence. At first, Duke Xue could still lie on the ground or sit somewhere calmly, but on the fourth day, he became anxious and even started to hear auditory hallucinations.
He shouted loudly, trying to call someone, even someone to interrogate him, but it was no use, he received no response.
He seemed to be abandoned here, and no one would ever find him again.
Logically speaking, if one wanted to get rid of such mental torture, he could just hit himself to death, but the key point was that Duke Xue did not want to die.
It's just torture.
Xu Kefeng on the other hand was not so "lucky". He did not suffer any mental torture, but Su Qingqing gave him the most direct physical torture, commonly known as torture.
They tied the man to a tree in the yard, didn't ask him any questions, and then flogged him for three days.
Three days later, that is now, Su Qingqing was sitting opposite him with a cup of tea, about three meters away from him.
"Tell me about it." Su Qingqing took a sip of tea without even raising her eyelids, and her voice had a lazy tone.
After three days of beatings, Xu Kefeng was already dying. He didn't dare to tell a lie. He hung his head and said in a half-dead voice, "What does the queen want to know?"
Su Qingqing smiled, half lifted her eyelids and looked at him with a smile, "First of all, is the antidote to this disease with you or with Duke Xue?"
When Xu Kefeng and Xue Guogong were arrested, Su Qingqing asked about the antidote, but both of them denied it.
Now Xu Kefeng admitted it readily, "Duke Xue said there is no antidote for this epidemic. As for whether there is really no antidote, I really don't know. He said there is no antidote."
Su Qingqing smiled and said, "Do you think so?"
In the past few days, she searched Duke Xue's residence but found nothing. She also sent someone back to Kyoto to send a letter, asking Rong Que to focus on investigating the Weiyuan Escort Agency, as the antidote might be in the agency.
The last time the Jixiang incident happened, the escort agency finally got the medicine.
Xu Kefeng didn't dare to be perfunctory and answered honestly, "I think, nine out of ten times, there is a chance. Duke Xue will definitely leave himself a way out. The epidemic is different from other diseases. He won't prevent you from getting sick just because you are a Duke. Everyone is equal in front of the disease, so he should leave himself a way out."
Unexpectedly, although his body was covered with wounds, Xu Kefeng's ability to express himself was not damaged at all.
Looking at Xu Kefeng with amusement, Su Qingqing said, "Based on your understanding of Duke Xue, where would he hide the antidote?"
Xu Kefeng shook his head, "I really don't know about this."
Su Qingqing asked, "Why did you split the river into two streams, one for the people and one for the government?"
Xu Kefeng knew that Su Qingqing was going to ask this, but he really had no answer to this question. "Your Majesty, I did this with Duke Xue, but he only told me how to do it, but he didn't tell me why. He just said that with this, Your Majesty would never be able to return to Huicheng."
At that time, no one expected that Tsui Hark would commit suicide.
Who could have thought that he would bring a huge army and pack himself and his men up to send to Su Qingqing!
When Xu Kefeng thought about this, he felt so regretful that his teeth ached.
How can he be so stupid!
If he had been calmer at the time and did not think of himself as a governor with military power, he would not have ended up like this and been tied to a tree and beaten for three days and three nights.
"There is no chance to use this river now. What Duke Xue is thinking is very cunning. I really can't guess what he doesn't want to say. However, the river in this city has an exit at the foot of the city wall. There is a secret entrance there, and we focused on repairing that end at the time.
I calculated the height, width and length of the secret opening. Duke Xue only gave me the dimensions but didn’t tell me how to use it.”
Zhao Kangjie guessed that the size was enough for a ship to pass through.
So, what did Duke Xue want to do with the boat?
What kind of ship is it? Is it going in or out? What should it carry in order to trap Su Qingqing to death in Huicheng and make her unable to leave?
If I can't leave, I'll die here.
Jixiang stood by and pondered for a moment, then leaned over to Su Qingqing and said, "Master, he is not going to transport gunpowder and blow us up, is he?"
Su Qingqing frowned slightly, this might not be impossible.
But if they were planning to blow him up, why did they send people to the military camp to deliver poison?
"At that time, when people were sent to poison the military camp, what did Duke Xue say?" Su Qingqing pondered for a moment and asked Xu Kefeng.
Xu Kefeng's head ached when he heard this question. He hesitated for a long time before saying, "I sent someone to go, not him. But I told him about it, and he didn't stop me. He just told me not to mess around."
What a mess?
In Duke Xue's opinion, poisoning the military camp is a waste of time?
Why, is he so sure that the military camp will directly arrest the people who came to poison them or what...
As they were talking, a military doctor came rushing in from outside with a happy look on his face.
"My queen, my queen, we have found the antidote . We have prepared the antidote! The antidote for this plague has been prepared!"
The military doctor's voice was hoarse, but when he shouted this, everyone in the yard was excited.
