About half an hour later, Su Chen and Li Shizhen passed through the town that had been washed away by the flood, and came to the temporary yamen on the mountain behind.

In front of the steps of the yamen, a large group of disaster victims had already surrounded.

"What's the situation?" Su Chen and Li Shizhen watched from a distance, a little surprised.

As the two got closer, they heard the wailing voices of the victims, as if they were asking the Yamen to open the door to help them.

"This group of sons of bitches, the government's relief food has already arrived, but they locked it in the warehouse and never distributed it."

An old man leaned on his crutches and was so angry.

A woman hugged her child in silence, staring at the gate of the yamen, expecting someone to open the door to distribute relief food.

Men in their prime don't have such a good temper.

"If they don't give out rice, we'll go in and grab it!" Who knows who made a fuss first, and the blood of the group of men suddenly boiled with excitement.

"Yes, we will go in and carry the food ourselves." Someone took the lead, and the big guys immediately began to attack the Yamen.

The temporary gate of the yamen was not strong. Although the people in front of them were hungry for a while and their strength was not as strong as usual, they were all men of farming background, so it was too easy to knock down a temporary gate.

The people in the yamen obviously didn't intend to waste a gate, they opened the gate from the inside, and a group of officers and soldiers came out.

"What are you doing, storming the Yamen, wanting to rebel?!"

The first official held a sharp knife, shining brightly in the sun.The seven or eight subordinates behind him have already stretched out their hands to press the big sabers around their waists, and they can draw them out easily.

The men who rushed to the gate just now felt a little weak when they saw this, but the leader still bit the bullet and said: "We are not rebelling, we just want to eat a bowl of porridge, we want disaster relief food!"

"Yes, we just want food!"

The crowd booed again, trying to force the other party to submit with public opinion.

"I want your mother's food! Get the hell out of here, and if you disturb the adults to rest, I'll take your heads!"

The leaders of the officers and soldiers didn't accept their tricks at all, and let them disperse with a loud shout.

Such an attitude naturally aroused public outrage, and some of them wanted to feed the elderly and children at home, and their eyes were red.

"Big guys, these officials don't treat us as human beings, so why should we listen to them and rush in to grab food!"

Some people yelled loudly, and some people started to charge with their carrying poles.

The term "a large number of people" is not false. Those officers and soldiers did not expect that these disaster victims were really bold to such an extent.They hurriedly organized and tried to stop them, but their officers and soldiers had less than ten people in total, how could they resist the push and bustle of hundreds of people?

Soon the first person broke through the defense line of officers and soldiers and rushed into the government office.

"Where is the granary?" After entering the yamen, the man looked left and right, looking for a place to store grain.

The leader of the officers and soldiers next to him looked at this man with a cold light in his eyes, and suddenly raised his knife and dropped it!
"Pfft—!"

A special sound of liquid splashing sounded, and everyone suddenly caught a glimpse of red in front of their eyes.

The elder brother who first entered the yamen clutched his neck and fell into a pool of blood.

He could barely move, raised his hand and pointed at the leader of the officer and soldier who was wielding a knife, his eyes widened and he wanted to say something.But his throat had been cut by a big knife, almost a severed neck injury, only blood froth gushed out of his mouth, and he couldn't speak at all.

"Killed, killed!"

The crowd rushing in with the man was passionate, and Li Shizhen also saw the man fell to the ground, and hurriedly shouted "get out of the way" and rushed forward to save him.

He opened his medicine box, took out the golden sore medicine powder to stop bleeding, poured it on a clean white cloth, and then covered the wound on the neck of the leading brother.

But how could the spurt of blood from the aorta in the neck be stopped by gold sore medicine and cloth strips?
Even Li Shizhen, who is a famous doctor of a generation, is also in a hurry at this time, and he comforted him indiscriminately: "It's okay, it's okay, I can save you..."

Hearing Li Shizhen's words, the man grabbed his hand as if he was grabbing the last straw, and he was so stubborn that he even scratched Li Shizhen's hand.

But in the end, he still stared wide-eyed, and died unwillingly in front of Li Shizhen, with the blood-stained ground beneath him.The cloth in Li Shizhen's hand was also soaked in blood.

Such a scene instantly calmed down the men who were trying to attack the Yamen.

The leader of the officers and soldiers didn't regret killing an innocent civilian at all. He swept across the corpses on the ground indifferently, and shouted to the victims outside the door: "If you dare to attack the Yamen, you are trying to plot a rebellion, be decisive!"

"Draw your swords and be on guard!" the leader of the officers and soldiers ordered, and all the officers and soldiers drew their bright swords.

The people outside the door saw the flickering light of the knife, and the blood that wanted to avenge the leader's brother was extinguished at once.

Food is important, revenge is important... but life is more important, you can live a few more days by eating some bark, if there is another conflict, you may die on the spot.

After a stalemate, they had no choice but to disperse.

Soon a woman who received the notice rushed over. She was the wife of the deceased. As soon as she saw the man's body, she rushed over and lay on the latter, crying.

She had been hungry for a long time, and at this moment she was too sad and physically exhausted and suddenly passed out.

Li Shizhen next to her was busy again, trying to save the woman from waking up.When the woman woke up again, her face was already numb.

"Thank you both."

After the woman mechanically thanked her, she looked at her husband's attempt again, and then carried the corpse away expressionlessly. That desolate figure seemed to be a microcosm of the whole of southern Shonan.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people are in dire straits, this is the scene of the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Shizhen looked at the woman's back, and couldn't bear to go up to help, so Su Chen pulled him back.

"She can handle the corpses of her family members, but you have more important things to do. There are dozens of people waiting for you in the City God Temple. If the plague breaks out here, you will know the result better than me."

Corpses, sundries, puddles, reptiles, rats and ants, these are simply breeding grounds for diseases.

Li Shizhen understood Su Chen's meaning, took a deep breath, walked back to the front of the temporary yamen with Su Chen, and rang the gongs and drums at the door.

"Is there anyone who is not afraid of death to make trouble?"

The officers and soldiers guarding the door opened the door, and they learned their own way of leading the way, and directly pulled out their knives.

The leader of the officers and soldiers just now has taught them a truth: to deal with troublesome people, the easiest way is to fight with a knife.

"My servant, Li Shizhen, is a doctor. If I have something to ask, I would like to see the lord of the government office." Li Shizhen reported his identity.

"doctor?"

The officers and soldiers who opened the door put away their knives and looked at Su Chen and Li Shizhen. They really didn't look like those yellow and emaciated disaster victims.

In ancient times, to study medicine, one had to learn to read from a master. Ordinary people might not be able to afford private schools for a lifetime, so why study medicine and write books if they can't read?So Li Shizhen still has some family background, and the doctor's professional status is relatively high, the officers and soldiers dare not offend recklessly.

"Wait a minute." The officers and soldiers closed the door again, probably to report.

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