"What's your name?" Ming Xi helped the youth bandage his wounds as he asked for his name.
The youth tilted his head and thought for a while before slowly saying, "I'm Guan Jie."
"You're not from Cang Hai City?" Ming Xi could hear Guan Jie's accent and it didn't sound like he was from Cang Hai City.
Guan Jie glanced at Ming Xi but didn't say anything.
"Your injuries are too serious. You should sit down and rest." Ming Xi glanced at Guan Jie and confirmed that this youth was different from normal people.
"It's not serious. Let's save someone." Guan Jie looked at his feet and wanted to save someone.
Ming Xi saw that Wang Qu and Xu Jinbei had come over and said to Guan Jie, "The rescuers are here. You should rest for a while or else you'll die when all the blood is gone."
Guan Jie looked at Ming Xi seriously, "Will I die?"
"Yes." Ming Xi nodded and looked at Guan Jie's innocent eyes. He felt that this person's stupidity was quite cute.
"Then I'll sit down." Guan Jie said seriously as he sat down with his back straight and his eyes looked straight ahead.
Ming Xi had already bandaged his wounds. Seeing that there was no more blood, he went to treat other people's wounds. However, his medicine was limited and he could only save those with heavy injuries. Soon, he ran out of medicine.
Fire Phoenix carried two unconscious people over and said in a bad mood, "Mingxi, there are too many people buried here. We've saved a few dozen people up there, but there are still people down there. This Thousand Buddha Pagoda was already cracked due to the earthquake, but those people actually swarmed up there and crushed the Thousand Buddha Pagoda."
"Where's General Wang?" Ming Xi asked. He didn't have any medicine left so he wouldn't be able to help the others even if he stayed.
"Over there." Fire Phoenix said.
Guan Jie, who had been silent all this while, suddenly said, "Over there, someone called everyone to Thousand Buddha Pagoda. We couldn't stop them."
Ming Xi and Fire Phoenix stopped and turned to look at Guan Jie, "What did you say?"
"Those two …" Guan Jie pointed at the two men beside the ruins, "They called everyone to Thousand Buddha Pagoda."
As he spoke, the two men had already turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
"Huo Er!" Ming Xi's eyes darkened as he called out to Fire Phoenix.
"I'll go chase them back." Fire Phoenix immediately said as she quickly chased after them.
Guan Jie's eyes lit up when she saw the Fire Phoenix's speed.
Ming Xi instructed Guan Jie not to move recklessly before he went to look for Wang Qu. Although it was the twelfth month of the year, Wang Qu was sweating profusely as he commanded the soldiers to save people.
"General Wang, when will the Imperial Court's medicinal herbs arrive?" Ming Xi stepped forward and asked.
"They're already on the way. I'm afraid it'll take another two days." Wang Qu said. He was also very anxious. He had originally thought that as long as the imperial envoy of the imperial court arrived, it would be over, but now such a thing had happened.
It seemed that there was no need for him to boast to the imperial court. It was already good enough that he was not punished.
Ming Xi looked at the ruins of the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda, his eyes were covered in a layer of frost, "Someone instigated the common people to enter the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda."
"What?" Wang Qu was stunned for a moment, and then became furious. "There's actually such a crazy person!"
"General Wang, pass down the order. Carefully inspect the city to see if there are any dangerous buildings. Do not let the commoners approach." Ming Xi said.
"I've already sent someone to inform the people not to let them live in houses with cracks, in case it collapses," Wang Qu said.
Ming Xi's little face sank, and Shen Yuexuan's voice came from behind.
"General Wang." Shen Yuexuan walked over with large strides, and behind him was a group of people pushing an ox cart, "The Imperial Court's medicinal herbs haven't arrived yet. It just so happens that a medicine merchant asked me to transport a batch of herbs, and I just went to take them off the ship. I don't know much about medicine, so I don't know if they'll be of any use."
Ming Xi glanced at Shen Yuexuan, and then his gaze fell on the cart behind him. The medicinal herbs on the cart were undoubtedly a timely help to the injured commoners.
"Many thanks Master Shen." Ming Xi said, his eyes sizing up Shen Yuexuan. He suspected that the matter of instigating the commoners to go to the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda had something to do with Shen Yuexuan. Taking advantage of the chaos, Shen Yuexuan and Teng Ye probably hoped for Cang Hai City to be as chaotic as possible.
"Young master Ming Xi, is there a problem?" Shen Yuexuan noticed that Ming Xi had been staring at him, and asked in a daze.
"No." Ming Xi lightly said, "The military doctors have also arrived. Tell them to quickly treat the injured commoners."
Wang Qu nodded. "Okay."
Shen Yuexuan wanted to know what kind of person Ming Xi was, so he also stayed behind.
Not long later, Fire Phoenix came back with the two people from before.
"Let me go, let me go, who are you?" The two people who were being carried by Fire Phoenix shouted for help, "Help, help!"
"What's going on?" Wang Qu looked at Ming Xi in astonishment.
Ming Xi lightly said, "These two people instigated the commoners to enter the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda. Maybe there was someone behind them."
Wang Qu's expression sank. "Bring them over."
"Huo 'er, let's go over there." Ming Xi said in a low voice. He did not look at Shen Yuexuan, but he knew that Shen Yuexuan's expression was ugly. He looked very shocked, as if he did not know of the existence of these two people.
"Who are you?" Wang Qu asked the two people who were thrown to the ground by Fire Phoenix.
"Lord, we are innocent. We are good commoners, good commoners." The two people cried as they knelt at Wang Qu's feet, wanting to prove their innocence.
Wang Qu kicked them away. "Who told you to instigate the commoners to enter the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda?"
"How could they answer such a question." Fire Phoenix said from the side. "These two people have skin and flesh. If they don't suffer a bit, they won't tell the truth."
"Lord, we really did not."
"Do you think everyone is dead? Whether or not you instigated them to enter the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda, you only need to ask and you will know. "Ming Xi lightly said.
One of them cried out, "We didn't know that the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda would collapse. We just wanted to go in and rest. Others followed us in, so we had no choice."
"Others followed you in? Why aren't you buried inside? "Wang Qu angrily asked." It seems like you don't plan on telling the truth. Men! "
"Lord, it really has nothing to do with us. We are natives of Cang Hai City. Someone … someone used money to tell us to do this." The other person was so scared that his face turned pale as he cried out the truth.
Wang Qu and Ming Xi looked at each other. Indeed, there was someone who took the chance to cause trouble! This person clearly had ulterior motives!
"Who told you to do this?" Wang Qu asked.
"That person covered his face, so we couldn't recognize him. He only told us to bring the people into the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda to rest. We thought that he had good intentions. If we knew that the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda would collapse, we definitely wouldn't have dared to do this." The two people cried.
It seemed like they wouldn't be able to get any information out of them. "General Wang, lock them up first. Let them think about what the person who gave them money looks like."
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