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Shuozhou City, the locomotive station.

There was a crowd of people, countless Shuozhou people carrying big bags and small bags crowded outside the station, beating on the wooden fence.

Stationmaster Wang, let us go there, please!

Yeah, Wang Liulang, we're not sick, and we're in good health. I hugged you when you were a kid. Since your aunt is my wife and sister, let us go.

Wang Liulang! I am the steward of Liuguang Bank in Shuozhou. Now I have to bring important books to Luoyang. If the reconciliation is delayed and Shuozhou taxes are delayed, can you bear the responsibility?

Inside the fence, Wang Liu, the station master of Shuozhou station, was sweating profusely, and explained loudly: Fathers and folks, the order to block Shuozhou station was issued by General Yan Hu, and the prefect also agreed.

Vehicles passing through Shuozhou will not stop here, and there is nothing I can do about it. Everyone please come back.

His explanation was not recognized by the people, but aroused the anger of the crowd.

General Yan is unconscious. The prefect asked his soldiers to block the main roads, but he hid himself in the mansion behind closed doors. Even your chief doesn't care, why do you have to stay here?

How many people have died of illness in Shuozhou now? You still let us stay here, you clearly want us to die!

Stationmaster Wang, please!

A young peasant woman with a baby in her arms and a child in her hand squeezed through the crowd and cried: My parents, elder brothers, younger siblings, my husband, father-in-law, and mother-in-law were all infected by the plague and died of illness.

My eldest sister was married long ago. When she heard the news of the death of her parents and siblings, she was deeply saddened. She refused to listen to the dissuasion from the authorities and insisted on coming to the village to see the funeral. She also died.

It's just me and my two kids, and no one else.

Stationmaster Wang, please let us go by car.

The peasant woman burst into tears, she took off the swaddle in front of her bosom, put the baby on the ground, and kowtowed heavily to Wang Liu.

Her forehead fell on the stone bricks of the locomotive station, making a bang, and after a while, her forehead was covered in blood and flesh.

Wang Liu's mouth was dry and his fingertips were numb. The surrounding crowd also showed unbearable expressions, trying to help the peasant woman to stop her from knocking down.

However.

Ahem——

Maybe it was because of the haste of kowtowing, or maybe it was too long without water or food. When the peasant woman got up, she coughed violently.

The surrounding crowd all changed color, like the ripples of the lake, pushing back and retreating, forming an empty circle among the crowd.

She's sick!!

Someone shouted sharply and panickedly, and the crowd looked at the peasant woman no longer with sympathy and pity, but full of hostility and suspicion.

I'm not, I'm not. It's wind chill.

The peasant woman picked up the swaddle and tried to explain to the people around her, but coughed more violently.

Hit her, drive her away!

You dare to come out when you are sick. Do you want us to die? Don't you know how terrible this disease is?

Back, back, back!

The villagers who were still fighting against the enemy just now changed their faces instantly, and yelled at the peasant woman,

Young man waving a stick from a distance, threatening,

The women took their eggs from their baskets and threw them at her,

Even the gray-haired old man raised his cane tremblingly, waved it at her, and opened his mouth with only a few teeth left, cursing in a dialect that not many people could understand.

Like a rat crossing the street, the peasant woman could only shrink back to protect her two children.

The young child in the swaddle was crying loudly, while the older child looked dull and bewildered.

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Looking at the scene in front of him, Wang Liu couldn't bear it. He turned his head and said to his subordinates, There is a small door behind the station. Go out through the small door and take her out of here first.

Station Master, this.

The subordinates looked at each other in blank dismay, no one stood up to answer the conversation, and everyone avoided Wang Liu's sight, as if his eyes were the fangs of a poisonous snake.

The horror of the plague has been deeply understood by the people of Shuozhou these days.

Once the sick person gets sick, they will suffer severe pain, chest pain, coughing, difficulty breathing,

They will definitely die within two or three days. When they die, their skin will bleed and their bodies will be purple-black. There is no cure.

According to the academic publications, infectious diseases will spread in different ways.

The speed and intensity of the spread of this infectious disease far surpassed all previous plagues. It is even more unsolvable than malaria before the advent of effective drugs.

As station employees, they can usually fight against hooligans who come to find fault with them, and even hunt down bandits who steal the railway tracks and road tyrants who set up checkpoints privately.

But they are just ordinary people with nothing more than that, so how can they fight against invisible and intangible infectious diseases?

They also have families. If they put themselves in to save a peasant woman, who will save their family?

Seeing subordinates looking at each other and hesitating,

Wang Liuyi gritted his teeth and turned to dissuade the people outside the fence: Everyone, don't embarrass her and let her go. I will write another book and send it to Daizhou. I believe someone will take responsibility.

Before the words fell, the loud siren sound came from afar.

At the end of the horizon, a spiritual locomotive was galloping towards it.

The car is coming!

Quick, let's work together to flatten the fence, everyone get in the car!

If the car doesn't stop, we'll stand on the rails and see if he dares to stop!

No one paid any attention to what Wang Liu was talking about, and the common people rushed forward, pushing and pushing the wooden fence frantically, hitting the barrier with their bodies.

The wooden railings creaked and cracked, and the wooden posts were pushed out of the soil bit by bit under the action of brute force.

Boom!

With a loud noise, the wooden fence collapsed, and the crowd carrying large and small bags shouted up the steps and rushed into the station.

The mere dozens of soldiers staying in the station could not stop the crowd at all.

Let them go.

Wang Liu looked gloomy. He stepped over the collapsed wooden fence, lifted the peasant woman covered in egg liquid and egg shells from the ground, and handed her a handkerchief.

Woohoo!

The whistle came from afar again, and the driver on the Lingqi locomotive seemed to see the people crowded on the railroad track, and kept blowing the whistle.

However, the people who decided that this was the only chance to escape from Shuozhou stood on the rails hand in hand, cheering and encouraging each other.

The car will stop, it will.

This is the country of Yu, who speaks of the law of Yu! Even if there are princes and nobles sitting in the car, they dare not really order the car to run over.

Everyone, don't panic! You must stand firm! When the car leaves Shuozhou, we will be saved!