Xi Zichu hurried back to the mayor's residence.
The mayor's residence was the Xi residence.
It was divided into the front residence and the back residence. The front residence was the office, while Xi Munan's family lived in the back residence.
The Xi family's land was not in Jia City, but in the suburbs. There were many people there, like a town. Jia City was said to have eight towns under its rule, but if the Xi family's land was included, it should be nine towns.
Stepping into the side hall of the front residence, Advisor Liu was in front of a desk, writing something with a brush.
Once he saw him, Xi Zichu gritted his teeth and said, "Advisor Liu!"
"Oh, it's you, sir." Advisor Liu looked up at him, then lowered his head again. "The mayor has gone out, who knows when he'll be back. Please wait for him in the back residence."
Xi Zichu walked in front of him and pressed down on the paper he was writing on. "No, I'm looking for you."
Advisor Liu thought for a moment, then placed the brush on the inkstone and looked up at Xi Zichu. "Sir, what's the matter?"
"Let me ask you, do you know what's happening in the city?!"
Advisor Liu stood up, walked to the door, and closed it, then turned to look at Xi Zichu. "You know?"
Xi Zichu felt that all his cultivation in East King Valley had been wasted. He said impatiently, "I'm asking you if you know!"
"Of course I know," said Advisor Liu.
"Very well, then prepare to ask for my father's forgiveness!" Xi Zichu was furious and was about to attack.
"The City Lord went out personally for this matter," Advisor Liu continued.
Xi Zichu stopped, bewildered. "My father knows about it too?"
Advisor Liu glanced at him indifferently. "Otherwise, how do you think I can mobilize the city guards?"
Xi Zichu was outraged.
The pig-bone-faced man was tormenting the people, but he could still suppress his killing intent and lure him to attack Jiang Wang first, because he was already prepared to kill him afterwards. There was nothing wrong with letting him make the best use of everything before he died.
However, he could not understand Xi Munan and Advisor Liu's reaction to the plague.
"You knew it was a plague, but you didn't respond in time. This is dereliction of duty! It's poison! It's the murder of hundreds of thousands of people! "
Looking at Advisor Liu's calm face, he wished he could kill him with one palm. "It must be you, you traitor, who deceived my father!"
"What do you want to do?"
At this moment, the door was pushed open.
In the entire Jia City, there was only one person who could barge in while Xi Zichu and Liu Gan were talking behind closed doors. It was the chairman of Jia City, Mu Nan.
"Father!" Xi Zichu suddenly turned around, his voice agitated. "Do you know how dangerous the plague is? Do you know what will happen if it erupts? "
Xi Munan looked at him quietly and waited until he calmed down before asking, "Do you know why I'm hiding this from you?"
"Why?"
"Because of your useless and stupid appearance!"
While they were talking, Advisor Liu quietly left and closed the door behind him. It showed that he had a sense of propriety as a private advisor.
Xi Zi Chu was shocked and angry. He didn't understand why he was so useless now.
"There are indeed people who have contracted the plague, what do you want to do?" Xi Munan asked his son. "Announce it to the world? Let the hundreds of thousands of people in the city be in a state of panic? Throw the world into chaos? "
"Then it will give the imperial court an excuse to sweep our Xi family aside like a piece of trash and regain control of Jia City?"
"What's going on in your head? That your father is going to murder you? "
"Jia City has been the fief of the Xi family for generations, the people of Jia City are the foundation of the Xi family, my people! I'm going to murder them? "
Xi Munan swept away the tiredness in his eyes and said angrily to Xi Zichu, "We have indeed sealed off the news, but not the people. But this is for the sake of the big picture! All the corpses that died from the plague have been dealt with in a fixed location. All the infected people have been locked in their rooms. We've already done our best! Otherwise, why do you think I'm still running around outside at this time? Do you think I don't care about them? "
"But …" Xi Zichu was silent for a long time before replying, "The plague is still spreading, isn't it?"
"This is only temporary!" Xi Munan couldn't help but become irritable. "I should've known that the White Bone Sect was up to no good. That pig-faced person came all the way to Jia City, definitely not just to eat a few people. This plague is definitely a scheme of the White Bone Sect! "
"We should announce this to the people and overcome this difficult time together! The plague is spreading, father! "
"The people are ignorant, ignorance is a kind of happiness! Moreover, what can they do against the White Bone Sect? The most important thing now is to find out the White Bone Sect's intentions. Find out who they are hiding. We can ask for help from the imperial court to deal with the White Bone Sect demons, but we have to settle the people of Jia City ourselves! "
Xi Zichu looked at his father and felt that he was a stranger for the first time.
"So, your solution is to let them wait for death?"
Xi Munan looked at his son and finally couldn't help but sigh. "My son, this is why I didn't want you to know about this. You've been cultivating in the East King Valley, healing people and poisoning people. The East King Valley cultivates both medicine and poison, after all, medicine is the main focus. When it comes to the patients, your cultivation makes it impossible for you to stay out of it. But you're the future head of the Xi family, you have to consider the interests of the Xi family first … I don't want you to make such a choice! "
Xi Zichu closed his eyes in pain. "But it's time to make a choice, isn't it?"
"Our strategy of stabilizing the situation can't be changed, but since you know about the plague, you can help our doctors with treatment and see if there's any way to prevent it. As long as the strategy doesn't change and the people don't panic, all the doctors in the city will be at your disposal. You can take full responsibility for this! "
"In all the medical records I've read, the first way to stop the plague from spreading is to isolate the inside and outside, and prohibit people from traveling. Then, we have to eliminate it one by one. There's no other way! "
"You've cultivated for so many years, use your extraordinary power to solve it!" Xi Munan said in an unquestionable tone. "No matter what, the Xi family's five generations of business can't be destroyed by our hands! Otherwise, we won't have the face to see our ancestors in a hundred years! "
These words hit Xi Zichu.
The hundreds of years of history of the family was like a heavy mountain, pressing down on him until he couldn't make a comeback.
This time, he didn't stay silent for too long.
"Using the murder case created by the pig-faced man as an excuse, impose a curfew of two months!"
"One and a half months at most, any more and there'll be panic."
"From now on, gather as much extraordinary power as we can. Under my command, ordinary people won't be able to resist the plague."
"Apart from the necessary guards, the rest are at your disposal." Xi Munan thought for a while and added, "Except for Advisor Liu."
"All the infected corpses have to be burned together."
"You can decide on this yourself."
After a moment of silence, seeing that Xi Zichu didn't continue, Xi Munan waved his hand and said, "Go!"
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