Since I met you, people are dying every day

This time the yamen servants scattered, but they all carefully kept a distance from the disaster victims everywhere.Those who lay or sat seemed uninterested in these big men who had suddenly left the city.Ye Sirui walked up to an old man lying on the ground and the man sitting next to him: "Are you father and son?" The old man looked very old with gray hair, and the young man was too dirty to tell his exact age , The loose black hair is covered with dust and mud and knotted into locks.

The old man looked blank, and the man didn't seem to understand the words, and didn't respond.

Both Shi Ziyu and Kong Taiping stood far away, and the servant following Ye Sirui stabbed the young man hard with his scabbard. "My lord is asking you something! Did you hear me!"

"Stop!" Even though his guards treated the gatekeepers like this when he left the city gate, Ye Sirui couldn't stand it now.The young man seemed to have been awakened by the stab, and nodded indiscriminately, and it was impossible to tell whether it was fear or numbness.

"Is your father sick?" Ye Sirui asked again.

The young man nodded again.

"What about you? Are you sick? Do you want to go back to the city?" Ye Sirui tried his best to speak each word slowly and clearly, but the young man shook his head repeatedly as if frightened by his peaceful question.The mystery in Ye Sirui's heart is getting bigger and bigger. "Can you speak? Can you write?"

The yamen servant said: "Lord Ye, this man is probably dumb, why are you talking so much nonsense to him?"

"They're all dead." The young man said suddenly.His voice was too hoarse, as if he hadn't drank water or talked for many days, Ye Sirui didn't realize that it was the voice of talking at first.The young man repeated that sentence over and over again: "They are all dead, they are all dead, they are all dead..."

"Is everyone dead?" Ye Sirui asked immediately.

The young man seemed not to have heard his words, and was still muttering to himself: "They're all dead, they're all dead..."

"Lord Ye, shall we go?" the yamen servant urged.

How could Ye Sirui listen to him? "Stand back first," he ordered.The yamen servant was so eager to do so, he immediately took a few steps back.Ye Sirui looked at the young man who seemed to be in a daze, and the old man beside him who seemed to have lost consciousness, and asked patiently and slowly: "Everyone is dead, is your family?"

He didn't have any hope, but this time, the young man answered: "All dead, all dead, all dead, all dead..." Ye Sirui immediately took a few steps back, facing Shi Ziyu and Kong Taiping said: "Tell them to take good care of this person, don't tell him to die of illness, I have something to ask him." His intuition told him that this person is not crazy.He originally wanted to take this man back to the county government to protect him, at least let him take a bath and have a full meal.But he said so.Everyone knew what the man had said to him.Then both Shi Ziyu and Kong Taiping could reject him with the reason that "this person may be sick and cannot enter the city easily".

Shi Ziyu responded as the county magistrate.

Ye Sirui took one last look at the father and son in the mud, and turned to leave together with them.The disaster victims in other places are no different from the father and son.There are also some children, lifeless, the younger ones leaning on their mothers' arms, and the older ones sitting or lying down like everyone else.There was no joke, and there was very little conversation, most of them were whispering to themselves.Ye Sirui saw that there would be fewer people after walking, so he asked Kong Taiping: "How many people were there originally, and how many people died?"

Kong Taiping, who had always been straightforward, faltered, and Ye Sirui made a distinction in his heart, and sneered.Kong Taiping probably remembered the smashed wine glass and the words he said in front of Ye Sirui, and he replied decisively: "The victims of the disaster are wider. There are about two to three thousand people who moved here, and half of them have died."

"Why are there so many deaths?" Ye Sirui was shocked, Bing County's population is not large, and two to 3000 people were affected, almost one out of ten.

Kong Taiping lowered his eyebrows and replied: "The epidemic spreads wildly, it is hard to predict..."

"They all died of illness?" Ye Sirui didn't believe it, especially after hearing what the victim said.What a disaster relief that everyone praised, but it didn't bring the epidemic into the city, and it didn't let people die in front of their eyes.It's just that they thought that no one would know what happened if they sent people to block the south gate and shut all the victims out of the gate? "Where are the dead people? Take me to see them."

Kong Taiping led the way, Shi Ziyu was in the back.They walked around in the crowd like this, and none of the disaster victims even looked up at them.They walked all the way to a place far away from the refugee huts, and there were many bumps on the ground. Kong Taiping said: "The corpses of the dead cannot stay long. They are burned to ashes and buried here in a jar. A wooden sign is set up. If there are still relatives here." , you can move it to another place, build a grave and erect a monument."

Ye Sirui counted secretly in his heart, but felt that the number of soil bags was far from enough.He calculated that the time was almost up, so he said: "The epidemic will be cured in the next day, and I still have to come here to pay my respects. Let's go back today." He was finally willing to leave here, Shi Ziyu and Kong Taiping were relieved, and the guards immediately surrounded them and returned to the city. The gate was guarded by soldiers.After Ye Sirui got into the sedan chair, he raised the curtain to look at the city gate, and there were many ghosts locked outside the gate.

When returning, the movement was faster than when coming.Ye Sirui held his breath in his heart, the sedan chair was parked in the yard, and he got down without Shi Ziyu's help.Kong Taiping said in a low voice: "My lord, I have invited a doctor to come to Yazhong. My lord has spoken to the victims before, so it is better to ask the doctor to feel the pulse."

Ye Sirui didn't want to take any risks, so he went to the main hall with them.The doctor took Ye Sirui's pulse and asked about his symptoms. Ye Sirui didn't feel uncomfortable at all, but he was forced by the doctor to drink a large bowl of dark medicinal juice.Shi Ziyu and Kong Taiping are the same.

After taking the medicine, Ye Sirui used an excuse to go back to the room to rest, and went back to the room to find Xia Shu.Xia Tian sat and looked at the sky comfortably, wiping the sword in his hands leisurely.When Chaming saw him, she grinned and hugged her arms.Ye Sirui didn't bother to question his rudeness, and asked Xia Shu: "How is it?" Xia Shu pointed at the case.There were two rolls of paper lying on the table.Ye Sirui was overjoyed and grabbed it to read, but saw that the ink was fresh and the handwriting was messy, "Who copied this?"

Chaming finally looked forward to the opportunity to speak, and hurriedly replied: "Master, I have been copying for a long time!"

Xia Tian couldn't write well, so he stole the account book and asked Cha Ming to copy it, and then put it back.Ye Sirui nodded in satisfaction, automatically ignored the sad tea, took out the paper from his sleeve and gave it to Xia Shu, "See if this is a prescription for curing the epidemic."

Xia Shu took the paper.Ye Sirui grabbed the secret account book and looked through it carefully.

"This is Shenmai Fushen Decoction. It is mainly used for the treatment of damp-heat syndrome. It has been used to ventilate and seize, and all evil symptoms are calm. One's mind is unclear, tired speech does not think about food, drowning, dry lips and teeth, stomach qi is not lost, and lung qi is not distributed. It’s a big loss for Yuanshen.” He babbled a lot, and seeing Ye Sirui’s expression, he had to say again: “The treatment of the epidemic is symptomatic. Where did you get the prescription?” He put down the prescription as he spoke, and regarded him as a treasure The sword is retracted into the sheath.

"Didn't I go to see the victims today? This is the medicine that the free clinic doctor gave them." Ye Sirui answered casually, relieved.Unexpectedly, Xia Shu stopped moving as soon as he heard it, "Prescription for free clinic? Weird, weird."

"What's wrong?" Ye Sirui's heart that had just been let go hung up again, and he put aside the account book and looked at Xia Shu.Xia Shu said: "Of course not, there are ginseng and dendrobium in this prescription."

He seemed to have finished his explanation and stopped, but Ye Sirui didn't understand, "So what?"

"Ginseng costs six cents, and dendrobium costs one and a half cents, and this is a daily decoction. Let me ask you, how much medicinal material does it cost?" Ye Sirui frowned secretly when he heard this.Xia Shu said: "You may not know that ordinary people use ginseng and ginseng slices at most to see a doctor, which is already extremely luxurious. Not to mention dendrobium. This medicine has to be dehydrated every time it is decocted, and the victims have to take it every day. I'm afraid that the government office can't come up with so many medicinal materials. Besides, ginseng is a great tonic, and one medicine costs six qian, which is inevitably too much to take every day. According to your words, you can use Biying Decoction, Cangzhu, Chuanqiong, Gansu Pueraria lobata and licorice are common medicinal materials, and they are also very effective in relieving the exterior and eliminating filth."

After saying this, Ye Sirui sneered, "It's such a big show, they treated me well, they are so kind." Although he was angry, he reminded himself that this play may not be sung by anyone, so he continued to study the accounts, After meeting, he said to Chaming again: "Go and tell Shi Ziyu, just tell me what I ordered, decoct and drink epidemic prevention soup for the victims every day, stop the original prescription first." He turned his head and asked Xia Shu again: "You just said Can you repeat the prescription of Biying Decoction that you mentioned?"

Xia Shu opened his mouth and came, Ye Sirui wrote what he said on the paper and handed it to Chaming, "Bring this to him too, he knows how to do it." Chaming took the order and left.

Thousands of human lives were played like this, Ye Sirui sneered when he thought about it.He forced himself to read it patiently, writing and drawing on paper while watching.By the time the two accounts were reviewed one by one, it was already sunset.It was dark in the room, and I don't know when the lights were turned on.

Ye Sirui immediately turned his head to look, Xia Shu was still sitting where he was.He didn't make a sound, Ye Sirui thought he walked away.

"How about it?"

Ye Sirui turned his head, his shoulders and neck were so sore. "I don't see any problem for the time being," he said regretfully.

"You know how to read the ledger? Do you need someone to look at it?" Xia Shu asked.

Ye Sirui, an official with a background in scientific research, and Xia Shu, a wandering killer, neither seem to know how to read accounts.A vague smile appeared on the corner of Ye Sirui's lips, "Don't worry, I can understand it, it's not appropriate to ask someone to read it." He got up to move around, and then asked, "Has Teaming come back?"

"I told him to go out and wait." Xia Shu said.

Ye Sirui walked a few steps to move his joints, "No one came to ask us to eat?"

"I said you were resting."

Ye Sirui nodded, "Chaming!" Chaming was idle outside the house, and ran in to answer his summons, "Ask the kitchen to deliver food!" Ye Sirui said.

"Yes!" Chaming responded.Ye Sirui stopped him again, "Go and ask Shi Ziyu by the way, and tell him that I'm going to interrogate the disaster victims he's imprisoned after dinner."