Xizi Chu hurriedly rushed back to the Lord's Mansion.
The Lord's Mansion is also known as the Xi Mansion.
It is divided into the front courtyard and the back courtyard. The front courtyard is the office, while the back courtyard is where Ximu Nan's family lives.
The ancestral land of the Xi family is not in Jiacheng, but in the outskirts. With a large population, it is like a town. Jiacheng is said to govern eight towns, and if the Xi family's land is included, it should be nine towns.
Entering a side hall in the front courtyard, Liu Shiyeye was buried in front of the desk, writing something with a pen.
As soon as he saw him, Xizi Chu muttered three words through his teeth: "Liu Shiyeye!"
"Oh, it's Young Master." Liu Shiyeye looked up at him, then buried his head again. "The Lord has gone out. I don't know when he will be back. You can wait for him in the back courtyard."
Xizi Chu walked up to him and reached out to stop him from writing: "No, I'm looking for you."
Liu Shiyeye thought for a moment, placed the brush upside down on the inkstone, and looked at Xizi Chu: "What can I do for you, Young Master?"
"I want to ask you, do you know what kind of disease is spreading in the city?"Liu Shiyeye stood up first, walked to the door, closed it, and then turned to look at Xizi Chu: "Do you know?"
Xizi Chu felt that all his efforts in cultivating his qi in Dongwang Valley had been wasted, and he was very impatient: "I'm asking if you know or not!"
"I naturally know," Liu Shiyeye said.
"Good, then be prepared to apologize to my father!" Xizi Chu was furious and was about to take action.
"The Lord himself went out for this matter," Liu Shiyeye said again.
Xizi Chu stopped his hand, feeling suspicious: "Does my father also know?"
Liu Shiyeye glanced at him indifferently, "Otherwise, how do you think I can mobilize the city guards?"
Xizi Chu was filled with anger.
The one who made the people suffer from the plague, he could still endure the urge to kill, because he was prepared to kill this beast after it had served its purpose before it died, which was not a bad thing.
But he couldn't understand the reaction of Ximu Nan and Liu Shiyeye to this plague.
"You know that this is a plague, but you didn't respond in time. This is negligence! This is poisoning! This is murder of hundreds of thousands of people in the entire domain!"
Looking at Liu Shiyeye's calm appearance, he wished to kill him with one palm: "It must be you, the traitor, who deceived my father!"
"What do you want to do?"
At this moment, the door was pushed open.
The person who could directly push open the door while Xizi Chu and Liu Shiyeye were talking in private could only be the Lord of Jiacheng, Ximu Nan.
"Father!" Xizi Chu suddenly turned around, his voice excited. "Do you know how dangerous the plague is? Do you know what the consequences will be once it breaks out?"
Ximu Nan looked at him quietly, until he calmed down, then asked back, "Do you know why I kept it from you?"
"Why?"
"Because of your useless and stupid appearance now!"
In the gap between their conversation, Liu Shiyeye quietly retreated and closed the door again, showing his understanding of his position as a servant.
Xizi Chu felt shocked and angry. He couldn't understand why he was considered useless now.
"Indeed, some people have contracted the disease. What do you want to do?" Ximu Nan asked his son. "Make it known to everyone? Make the entire city panic? Cause chaos in the world?"
"And then give the court an excuse to intervene, sweep our Xi family aside like garbage, and regain control of Jiacheng?"
"What are you thinking in your mind? Accusing your father of murder?"
"Jiacheng is the ancestral land of our Xi family. The people of Jiacheng are the foundation of our Xi family, they are my subjects! Am I murdering them?"
Ximu Nan swept away the fatigue between his eyebrows and eyes, and angrily said to Xizi Chu, "We did indeed block the news and cut off all contact with the outside world. But this is for the greater good! All the corpses of those who died from the disease are being handled in fixed locations. All those infected with the disease are being quarantined. We have made the greatest effort! Otherwise, why do you think I am still running around outside at this time? Don't I care about them?"
"But..." Xizi Chu remained silent for a long time before replying, "The epidemic is still spreading, isn't it?"
"This is only temporary!" Ximu Nan couldn't help but become irritable. "I should have known that Baigu Dao has ulterior motives. That pig bone-faced person came all the way to Jiacheng, not just to eat a few people. This plague is definitely a conspiracy by Baigu Dao!"
"We should inform the public and overcome this hardship together! The epidemic is expanding, Father!"
"The common people are ignorant, and ignorance is bliss! Moreover, what can they do to resist Baigu Dao? The most urgent task is to find out Baigu Dao's intentions and uncover their hidden forces. To deal with the demonic people of Baigu Dao, we can request assistance from the imperial experts, but we must take care of the resettlement of the people of Jiacheng ourselves!"
Xizi Chu looked at his father, feeling that he was a stranger for the first time.
"So your method of resettlement is to let them die helplessly?"
Ximu Nan looked at his son and finally sighed: "My son, this is the reason why I didn't want you to know about this. You cultivated in Dongwang Valley, practicing medicine to save lives, and poison to kill. The dual cultivation of medicine and poison in Dongwang Valley ultimately prioritizes medicine. Your cultivation does not allow you to stand idly by when it comes to patients. But you are the future head of our Xi family, and your actions must consider the interests of our Xi family... I don't want you to make such a choice!"
Xizi Chu closed his eyes in pain. "But now it's time to make a choice, isn't it?""Our strategy to stabilize the situation cannot change, but since you are aware of the epidemic, you can assist our physicians in treatment, and see if there's a way to prevent and control it. As long as the general situation remains unchanged, and it doesn't cause panic among the people, you can command all the physicians in the city. You can take full responsibility for this matter!"
"In all the medical cases I've read, the first step to prevent the spread of an epidemic is to isolate the inside from the outside, and prohibit travel. Then comes the step-by-step, area-by-area eradication. There's no other way!"
"You've been cultivating for so many years, use your Transcendent power to solve this!" Xi Munan said in an unquestionable tone: "No matter what, the Xi family has been operating for five generations, it cannot be destroyed by our hands! Otherwise, hundreds of years later, neither of us will have the face to meet our ancestors!"
These words hit Xi Zichu hard.
The history of a family that spans hundreds of years, like a heavy mountain, tangible and substantial, pressed him down so hard that he couldn't turn over.
He didn't stay silent for too long this time.
"Implement a curfew for two months, using the murder case created by the one with the pig bone mask as an excuse!"
"No more than a month and a half, any longer will cause panic."
"From now on, gather as much Transcendent power as we can, I will coordinate it. Ordinary people can't resist the invasion of the plague."
"Except for the necessary guard forces, the rest can be commanded by you." Xi Munan thought for a moment, then added: "Except for Master Liu."
"All the bodies infected by the plague must be gathered and burned."
"You can decide on these matters."
After a moment of silence, seeing that Xi Zichu had nothing more to say, Xi Munan waved his hand and said: "Go!"
End of Chapter