Traveling through time and space to become a lady of a noble family, but she only wants to escape

Chapter 188 The Dead

Wei Fuguang forced a smile and asked loudly, "Who were lucky enough to escape the barbarian's witchcraft last night?"

Several warriors responded, and Wei Fuguang said with a righteous face: "Thank God for your mercy, I can let you stay alive and tell me the truth. I also ask you to think carefully about what the barbarian did, and don't miss any details."

One of the girls said angrily, "Sir, let me tell you what happened. At that time, the barbarian was running towards me for his life. I thought I couldn't let him get away, so I stayed where I was and waited for him to come over so I could catch him. But he knocked down several people in front of me - oh, I didn't know the people in front of me were dead at that time, and I was surprised to hear them shouting. I just thought the barbarian was too strong and I couldn't catch him, so I took off my shoes and held them in my hands, intending to hit him on the back of the head. The thousand-layer soles my mother made are so hard that they can crack walnuts."

The villagers all laughed, and a cheerful lady shouted jokingly: "How can you insult your own mother like this? Watch out or I'll report you!"

"Don't interrupt. The adults are asking questions." Miss Tiger pretended to be serious, but she also laughed twice after she finished speaking. She continued, "Then he knocked me down too. The force was so strong that I was confused and didn't hit him."

Wei Fuguang asked, "Oh? Did he knock you down? How did he do that?"

"Well...his forehead hit mine, and I became disoriented, and then I fell down."

"Head hit your head? Are you okay?" Wei Fuguang pretended to be concerned and went forward to check the tiger girl's head. She compared it quietly and found that the tiger girl was tall, about the same height as her. However, she had seen the corpse of the culprit barbarian, who was tall and strong, at least three heads taller than her.

He deliberately lowered his head and tried to hit people with his forehead. Is there any deeper meaning behind this?

"I'm fine, thank you for your concern. Not only that, he also breathed on my face, ugh... so disgusting, I washed my face many times when I got home."

A man said, "Me too, he breathed into my face too."

"I am me too."

"And me, the spit was sprayed on my face."

Lin Chuqi immediately reacted: "Master Wei, could it be that..."

Wei Fuguang shook his head slightly at him, and then said in a roundabout way: "You all must be in excellent physical condition, not even catching a cold, so you didn't fall victim to the barbarian's evil magic. It seems that keeping fit is the way to fight the enemy."

Another girl patted Tiger Girl on the shoulder and said, "My lord, she is the only one with a good physique. She doesn't even sneeze on weekdays, let alone a cold. The rest of us are not like that. We all got the cold at the beginning of spring. It was thanks to her that we went to the government's medicine stall to get medicine, and we are getting better day by day."

Wei Fuguang just smiled and said nothing, then pointed to the man who just answered the question: "My little brother, you look strong and healthy, so you probably haven't caught a cold."

The man said gruffly, "That's true."

For the next incense stick of time, Wei Fuguang unobtrusively asked all the survivors whether they had caught a cold or not. Then, when the heat became unbearable, he found an excuse to send all the people out, leaving only her and Lin Chuqi in the house with the villagers who were faintly smelling corpses.

"Excuse me, young master." Wei Fuguang half-closed his eyes and slumped in the chair, fanning himself with his wide sleeves. Although he was weak, he still insisted on maintaining a trace of official dignity and refused to take off his hat or clothes. "Please keep an eye on me for a while to see if any villagers come to see me. I...I need to rest a little longer."

On the other hand, Lin Chuqi was very relaxed. Not only was he wearing a thin sweatshirt, but he was also fanning himself with a large cattail leaf fan. Lin Chuqi glanced at Wei Fuguang and kindly fanned her a few times: "There's no one here now, but it's hard to say what will happen later."

"This is not good. If the people see me in this state, it will bring shame to the Ningzhou government."

"Master Wei, if you had sat down and rested earlier, this wouldn't have happened."

"Young Master." Wei Fuguang raised his chin and looked at him, his eyes looking somewhere between looking at a child and looking at a fool. "It's wartime now, not like normal times. The people are standing. If the officials can't share the joys and sorrows with the people, how can they trust their lives and property to their officials?"

"Give your life and property to Lord Wei?" Lin Chuqi frowned slightly. "Excuse me, but it seems that Shengshilang doesn't have such great power, right?"

Wei Fuguang shook his sleeves and answered the question irrelevantly: "Young Master, what is so special about the person who died last night?"

Just now, Wei Fuguang had been asking about the cold weather in both explicit and implicit ways. Lin Chuqi had heard it, but she still didn't understand the deep meaning, so she said, "It's so hot, Master Wei, don't guess, just tell me directly."

"There were no women among the dead."

No women?

The soft corpses on the ground could not be distinguished as male or female. Lin Chuqi could only carefully recall the identities of the dead that the villagers had just explained to Wei Fuguang - among them were the son of the old Wang family in the east, the third son of the Liu family, the widower Zhao, the eldest nephew of the Chen family...

There are really no women!

Wei Fuguang saw that Lin Chuqi had reacted, and continued: "There were men and women at the scene last night, but the dead were all men. Isn't this suspicious?"

Lin Chuqi pondered: "Maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe the barbarian did it on purpose."

"In my opinion, this is neither a coincidence nor intentional."

"what is that?"

"I just asked, among the people who survived last night, all the men had not caught a cold, and all those who caught a cold were women. I dare to assume that it was the barbarians' witchcraft that couldn't kill women, and even if it couldn't kill them, they went up to hit people. Maybe they themselves didn't even know there was such a loophole."

Lin Chuqi was confused: "Wait, what does the cold have to do with witchcraft?"

Wei Fuguang rested on the chair to dry his sweat, and flicked his sleeves. He was in a good mood. He hastily told him his long-standing speculation, which made Lin Chuqi tremble with fear. She continued: "The witchcraft encountered by the White Tiger Army should be the same as the witchcraft of the barbarians last night, but there are close combats on the battlefield, and weapons do not distinguish between men and women, so it may not be possible to discover the mystery in a short time. After organizing today's questions into a document, I will take these corpses to meet Prince Jing, and the situation of the war may change from then on - the young master said, by then, how much power will I have?"

Lin Chuqi looked at her for a while, and suddenly said, "Master Wei."

"Young Master, please speak."

"You look a lot like my sister." Lin Chuqi leaned against the old door, looking at the noisy people working from afar, and said softly, "But you are not the same at all."

Wei Fuguang smiled strangely, but asked humbly: "What do you mean, young master?"

"You both know what you want in your heart, you are smart, mature, and you are determined to move forward. My sister only wants to eat, drink, and have fun, but you, Lord Wei - you are full of ambition."