Half blood

Seeing that the old man was rarely so serious, Li Xuan didn't care about the embarrassment between him and Li Xiuqi, and hurried out to call Li Xiuqi.Before he had gone far, he heard the old man whispering to Tianma: "Go and burn the patient's drinking cups, eating bowls and chopsticks, and face towels, and then ask the people in this family to burn them." Do not come into this room."

Li Xiuqi went to the old man's room and asked, "Why do you keep calling me here?"

The old man took a book from the bookshelf and said: "The flood is usually followed by famine, and the plague is followed by famine. This is a continuous catastrophe. Now the flood is blocked by the dam, but the plague will not , this guy is pervasive and hard to guard against."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiuqi asked, "Is someone in the village suffering from the plague?"

The old man didn't nod or shake his head, and replied: "Plagues often follow famines, and some people say that this is the sins of the world to be washed away by the heavens. I am a doctor, I believe in God, and I also believe in medicine. So I have some understanding of this." A little bit of my own humble opinion. Floods and plagues will cause a large number of people to die. They often lose their entire family members. No one can collect their bones, so they are piled on the ground and rotted. This rotten flesh is the most sick, so the plague often followed. But now the strange thing is that this time the flood was blocked and no one was killed, but," the old man paused, "if my diagnosis is not wrong, someone in the village got the plague , In my life, I haven't missed a diagnosis..."

Li Xiuqi's face darkened when he heard this, and he said: "I know about this." After speaking, he stood up, "I'll make arrangements now. Do you always have a cure for this plague?"

The old man shook his head and said: "Now I can only hang this patient to keep him alive. As for how he got sick, I don't know at all. I don't know how he got sick, so I can't stop him from dying." The next person gets sick."

Li Xiuqi nodded after hearing this, saluted and then retreated.Li Xuan was waiting for him outside the door, the door was not closed, Li Xuan could hear what they said clearly.Li Xuan asked: "What are you going to do now?"

Li Xiuqi glanced at Li Xuan and said, "I'm going to tell General Wei about this now, and see if I can suppress the news."

"Suppress it?" Li Xuan asked incredulously, "Suppress it? How can such a big matter be suppressed?"

Li Xiuqi asked back: "If the whole village knows about this, will the plague be cured? No, it will only cause panic among the villagers, and they will be afraid. At this time The last thing we need is fear."

Li Xuan asked in a cold voice: "What's the difference between what you did and the day when General Wei insisted on burning Rong Nuo to death? What happened is what it is. There is nothing to cover up. Someone in the village got it." Plague, this matter should be known to everyone so that they can be prepared."

"But the problem now is that they can't prepare at all." Li Xiuqi replied lightly, "I still don't know why they got sick. The doctor is right. In the past, if the plague appeared after a flood, there are eight out of ten reasons. The corpses of the victims were handled improperly, but there is no flood now, and it happened for no reason. No one knows what the reason is. So we can't let them know, as you can see, the villagers are all simple and kind, just listen to the wind Damn it, this news can’t get out.”

Li Xuan was speechless for a while, so he had to ask Li Xiuqi to go to Wei Zhong.He turned around and walked into the village. As soon as he got outside the village, he was surrounded by several villagers. They asked, "Did you go with the military doctor to see a doctor for Sun's family? What kind of disease is it? Is it plague?" ?”

Li Xuan was asked such a question, and thought of the conclusive and fallacious Li Xiuqi just said, he didn't know how to answer, so he had to say a few perfunctory words that he didn't know.But those villagers didn't believe it, they felt that this meant that he had a guilty conscience and that it was a plague, so they immediately talked about it, saying that there was a plague.

The news was indeed not suppressed. After a few days of hiding it, they finally found out.The sick family was surnamed Sun, and the husband of the Sun family died within a few days of getting sick.His wife, a widow who was not very young, sat with his eight children at the entrance of the village crying, while the body of Sun's husband was placed on the platform, and he refused to be cremated no matter what.

The white-bearded doctor rushed over immediately after learning about the incident, saying that the corpse must be burned immediately.The widows of the Sun family refused, saying that they came from the west, and they always practiced that it is safe to go to the ground, and the bones of the Sun family should not be burned with fire.

Now the white-bearded doctor had no choice but to tell the truth, saying that Sun's husband had the plague, and if he didn't have a fever, he was afraid that others would catch it too.All of a sudden, the rumors about the plague turned from rumors to the truth, and the whole village was thrown into chaos, and everyone was terrified.Pack up your clothes and leave this place of right and wrong.

But they couldn't leave anymore, Wei Zhong led the army to surround the village, and no one was allowed to leave, because it is still unknown what the disease is, and whether anyone in the village has contracted it.A few miles west of the village is the largest town in the west. There are tens of thousands of families living in this town. The plague must not be allowed to spread into the town.

Li Xuan suddenly saw a small figure squatting on the ground in a chaotic crowd. He took a closer look and found that it was the fifth child of the Sun family who was squatting in front of his father's bone that he knew was squatting. Knead the mud into small pellets for playing.That child is young and doesn't know what's going on. He doesn't know that he has become a child without a father.

Li Xuan couldn't help feeling sad, turned his head and asked Li Xiuqi in a low voice: "Can we find a cure for this plague?"

Li Xiuqi replied: "I still don't know what kind of disease it is. The military doctor just prescribed some common medicine and asked the villagers to drink it first. As for whether it will work or not, it depends on what happens to them after drinking it. We have to find Sun Da. Why get sick."

Not only the villagers, but also the soldiers in the camp drank a bowl of dark herbal juice.This herbal medicine is not all warming and tonic medicinal materials, which means that it is useless but it will not kill people. Li Xuan obediently drank the medicine, thinking that it is not an option to continue like this, so he tried to find Sun Da to get sick s reason.

This day, Wuwa was still playing in the mud at the entrance of the village. Li Xuan walked up to Wuwa, squatted down, and asked, "Hey, little guy, what are you doing?"

The boy raised his head, looked at him, and replied, "I'm playing with mud."

Li Xuan smiled lightly and asked, "Can you wait a while before playing in the mud, and do me a favor first?"

The child hesitated for a moment, as if he was waiting for Li Xuan to say what he wanted to help before answering.Li Xuan thought to himself, this child is still a genius, so he went straight to the point and said, "Can you tell me what your father has done these days?"

The child rolled his eyes and replied: "My father goes fishing in the morning, and then comes back at night, and sleeps with my mother."

"Fishing?" Li Xuan thought about it and asked, "Where did your father fish?"

"On the Anqu River."

"I know that." Where else can I go fishing if I live on the edge of the Anqu River? "Where is it in Anqujiang?"

"There..." The child pointed his finger, and Li Xuan turned his head. Where is this place? It's really only in this river, and the depth of the water is unknown.

Li Xuan thought that the child was only this old, and it would be difficult to find out why no matter how much he asked, so he walked towards such a large area pointed by the child, searching around while walking, hoping to find some clues. .

Walking and walking, Li Xuan felt that he seemed to smell a strange smell. This smell was similar to the rotten smell in Sun Dafang's house, but it was not the same. There was also some river water vapor and fishy smell.

Li Xuan followed the smell, and the stronger the smell became, the more it made him sick.Li Xuan had no choice but to pinch his nose with his hands, and walked to a place with a stronger smell.At this time, he discovered that there was a turning point in the Anqu River, and that turning point happened to be next to a rock, and there was a dense layer of dead fish piled under the rock.

It turned out that the earthquake that day not only shook the huge river waves, but also killed so many fish in the water. After these fish died, they could only drift with the current on their white bellies, and finally all gathered here.

Li Xuan thought, this Sun Da lived by fishing, and wondered if it was possible that he got sick from eating dead fish in the river by mistake, so he strode towards the village.

A few miles away from the village, Li Xuan heard a fierce quarrel, and saw the villagers shouting hysterically at Chong Weizhong: "Why don't you let us go out, do you want us all to be buried here?"

Li Xuan walked quickly to Li Xiuqi who was standing beside him, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Xiuqi replied: "This is the result of panicking the villagers. They must go, but we don't know if they are infected with the plague, so we cannot let them go."

Li Xuan heard Wei Zhong shout loudly: "Villagers, please listen to my Wei Zhong. Now our military doctors don't know why Sun Da got sick, and don't know if any of the villagers have been infected but don't know. I know. So please give us some time, let us figure out the ins and outs of this plague, and when everything is clear, none of us will be infected."

"When will you wait? What if it takes you a year? By then, even those who don't have the disease will be forced to catch it!" a villager shouted angrily.

Li Xuan felt that it was not too late, so he stopped listening to Wei Zhong's response, and rushed to the white-haired doctor in a hurry.As soon as he entered the house, he told him exactly what he found by the river.When the white-haired doctor heard it, he had a clue in his mind, and he came out of the house and walked in front of the excited villagers.He asked the widow of the Sun family who was still wiping her tears: "Has Sun Da ever eaten fish?"

The widow of the Sun family was taken aback, and replied: "Yesterday he fished on the river for a day, and said that there were so few fish in the river somehow. But he didn't eat at home, and he didn't bring dry food with him, but ate outside by himself. I don't know what he ate..."

The old man heard this and asked, "Then do you know who he went fishing with yesterday?"

The widow of the Sun family told him that she went with Sun Bai.The old man asked Sun Bai if he knew what Sun Da ate yesterday.

Sun Bai said that Sun Da didn't catch any fish yesterday, and somehow there were dead fish floating in the river.He didn't bring any dry food with him, so he grabbed a half-dead and roasted it.

The old man asked Sun Bai if he had eaten, and Sun Bai shook his head, saying that he had eaten before going out to fish.The old man breathed a sigh of relief.He raised his voice, overwhelmed the noisy villagers, and asked loudly, "Did anyone eat fish from the river these days?"

After hearing this, several villagers changed their expressions and stammered: "I ate it, can't I eat it?"..."

The old man changed his usual crazy temper, his face sank, and he said: "If you eat, please follow me to my yard." He paused, then looked at the widow of the Sun family who was still crying on the ground, and said: "Sister-in-law Sun, bring these children over here."