Zian shook his head, "He shouldn't be able to do such a thing, right?"
Zi'an was not defending Xia Huaijun, but he was not someone who would do such a thing as showing off his power in public at his age, especially when the Prime Minister's Mansion had already fallen into disrepute. He would not be so stupid as to do such a thing.
Su Qing looked at her and sneered, "He did it. Of course, under normal circumstances, he would at most criticize her a few times, but that day, Ximen Xiaoyue's sedan chair happened to be behind him."
"What?" Zi'an felt a little unbelievable. "You mean, he deliberately showed off his power in front of Ximen Xiaoyue? To please Ximen Xiaoyue?"
"It is to please, but also to show power. It is equivalent to telling Ximen Xiaoyue that even though he has a bad reputation now, he is still the prime minister of the dynasty. The Duke of Jin's family has an alliance with him through marriage, so he cannot be bullied in the future." Murong Jie said indifferently.
Zi'an looked at him. It seemed that he had known about this for a long time but had never told her.
In fact, although she has been in the palace every day recently, the two of them don’t seem to have much private conversation.
Moreover, he disdained to talk about the affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
But it was only that time that Xiao Tuo was asked to beat Xia Huaijun.
"There is one more thing I haven't told you. You asked Prince An to go into the palace to look for Xia Lin's body, but I searched the entire palace and couldn't find him." Murong Jie said.
Zi'an was stunned. "That's impossible. He was in front of the uninhabited palace opposite the Xiwei Palace. He was there when I left."
"Indeed not. Perhaps he was dealt with secretly." Murong Jie said.
Zi'an felt very upset. She had asked Prince An to look for her before, but there had been no news. She thought Prince An didn't want to help her, but she didn't expect that he couldn't find her.
If they were to dispose of it, how else could they dispose of a dead body in the palace? They would either sink him into a well or tie him to a large stone and sink him into a lake.
"Only people in Concubine Yi's palace knew that Xia Lin was dead. Afa in Concubine Mei's palace was killed by you, so it should be Concubine Yi's people who disposed of his body." Su Qing guessed.
Zi'an didn't want to show his sad expression in front of everyone, so he asked, "How did this zombie disease happen?"
"Zombies are just zombies, what kind of zombie disease is that?" Su Qing said, "I've asked some wizards, and they say there are really zombies in this world."
Zi'an no longer rules out the possibility of zombies or ghosts, because the fact that her soul traveled through time is very strange. No one can give a reasonable explanation. Even Hawking, who once proposed that people in the future might be able to travel through time and space, probably has no way to explain why her soul traveled to another person in a completely unfamiliar time and space. Moreover, Hawking's theory of time travel only says that it is possible to travel to the future. He said that traveling back to the past is absolutely impossible.
Since science cannot explain it, we can only use words such as mysterious, strange, and incredible to speculate.
But even so, she still felt that this so-called zombie was just a disease.
"Where are the two people in jail?" Zi'an asked.
"He's dead and the body has been cremated." Su Qing said.
"Dead? Killed?" Zi'an asked hurriedly.
"No, he was locked up in jail for a few days, making sharp and shrill cries all the time, and he didn't eat or drink water. He died in just a few days," said Su Qing.
After he finished speaking, he felt a little strange again, "The zombies couldn't have starved to death, right?"
Zi'an looked at Murong Jie and said, "This may not be a zombie, but a virus. Your Majesty, please hurry up and hunt down the first person who bit people. If he bites people again, it may cause a large-scale outbreak."
Murong Jie said: "The order has been issued, but this person seems to have evaporated from the face of the earth. He cannot be found in the city or outside."
"Is that man from Shitou Village? Have you entered Shitou Village to look for him?" Zi'an asked.
"Shitou Village has always been guarded by soldiers."
Zi'an wanted to go to this stone village to take a look, but he felt that it was better to have less trouble than more. After all, this was just his guess. It was possible that this person just had rabies and had died of the disease.
However, her guess did not reassure her, because if it was rabies, the two people bitten died, so why didn't the first person die? Rabies cannot be cured even in modern times, and the source of infection should also die.
Ni Rong felt very worried after listening to their conversation. He looked at Murong Jie and said, "Your Majesty, if I lose my mind, please kill me. I don't want to become a zombie."
Murong Jie scowled, "Nonsense, there are no zombies. Didn't you hear what Xia Zian said? This is a disease, and every disease has a cure."
"Is that so?" Murong Jie turned around and asked Zi'an.
Although Zi'an wanted to say that not every disease can be cured, but seeing the heaviness in his eyes, she actually nodded, "Yes, if it is a disease, there is always a cure."
Sometimes, in front of him, there is really no professionalism at all, and no bottom line at all.
Ni Rong knew that everyone was trying to comfort him, so he forced a smile and said, "I hope it's an illness."
"What are you worrying about?" Su Qing gently pushed him, "You're not sure the person who bit you is a zombie."
"He has that bad smell." Ni Rong said softly.
"Crazy people all stink, and crazy people don't like to take baths."
Zi'an thought for a moment and said to Murong Jie, "How about this, Ni Rong will stay here for the next seven days to observe."
If it is a virus, it will most likely break out within seven days.
"Okay, tell someone to take care of him." Murong Jie turned around and instructed Su Qing.
Su Qing sat down and said, "I'm watching here personally. Ni Rong, if you were a zombie, I would be the first person you would bite."
"I won't bite people. If I turn into a zombie, you must kill me." Ni Rong said again.
Murong Jie pulled Zi'an out the door and said, "Tell me honestly, was he poisoned because of the bite or some other reason?"
Zi'an said, "I just said that his wound didn't look poisonous, but since I can't do a virus analysis, I can only see with the naked eye that he picked some herbs and applied them on the wound, so he must have swallowed some poisonous herbal juice."
"Do you really think there are no zombies?" Murong Jie asked.
"Your Highness, do you believe that it is a zombie?" Zi'an asked back.
Murong Jie thought for a moment, "These supernatural things, this king..."
Zi'an thought he would say he didn't believe it, but he said two words, "I've seen it."
"Ah?" Zi'an was shocked. "Have you seen it?"
Murong Jie said calmly: "Yes, there is actually a ghost wearing red clothes standing behind you. She is standing behind you sinisterly now."
Zi'an was startled and turned around quickly, but there was no place behind him, and there was no female ghost in red.
"You're just trying to scare me. I don't believe you!" Zi'an glared at him unhappily.
"From the moment you looked back, you lost. How stupid!" He turned and walked away expressionlessly.
(End of this chapter)