Opposite the entrance hall

Suddenly, a watchman died inexplicably at the entrance of the small street. The news spread throughout Xiangzhou City in just one day, and there were many discussions among the people. It was said that the gods were offended and disasters were brought down. No matter what the statement was, it made everyone panic for a while, for fear that if they were not careful, they would cause a whole lot of trouble.

They were careful everywhere, but they didn't know how to guard against it. The next night, several families in the city had a fever again, sweating and retching, coughing, breathing weak and pale, as if they would die if they couldn't catch their breath.

The peaceful night suddenly became noisy.

The sky was as dark as ink, the crescent moon hung in the sky but there was no light, the wind was blowing, and the thin clouds covered the moon, blocking the only light tightly, and the surroundings seemed more and more quiet.

In Yuxi Alley, a figure hurriedly shuttled through it. The native dogs fed by the residents on both sides of the alley were lying in the yard and resting with their eyes closed. When they heard the movement, they jumped up, their eyes widened, their teeth bared, their paws scratched at the soil layer, and they barked in the direction of the gate. , One after another, the sound continued, breaking the calm.

After walking away for a while, the figure gradually lost its strength, grabbed the wall for a breath, and then rushed forward in a slow pace, finally stopped outside a small courtyard, raised his hand and slammed the wooden door.

Boom, boom, boom boom.

The sound of knocking on the door was hurried and flustered, with great strength, and the posture of swearing that he would never die, the yellow dog in the yard next door roared, mixed with the sound of knocking on the door, disturbing people's slumber.

After knocking more than a dozen times in a row, candles lit up in the hut, and then the wooden door creaked open. Chu Yi leaned against the door frame with an oil lamp in his hand, with disheveled hair, drooping eyes in a robe, and a displeased face of being woken up. , didn't even see anyone standing outside clearly, yawned and cursed: "Who, knock on the door in the middle of the night, if you don't sleep, others will sleep!"

"It's me, it's me." The person who spoke was a stooped old man with gray hair.

Hearing the voice on the first day of the lunar new year, he shone the light on the oil lamp. After seeing the person, he became sleepy and said in surprise, "Grandma Zhao, why is it you? What are you doing here in the middle of the night if you don't sleep? "

The old man known as Granny Zhao was panting, her hand holding the cane couldn't stop shaking, and asked directly without any nonsense: "Is Dr. Cen in the house, the old lady has something to do with him!"

Her tone was full of anxiety, and it was not difficult to guess what happened to Xu.

Hearing these words on the first day of junior high school, he probably understood why this person came here. He still remembered how the old woman had said bad things about them among the neighbors in the neighborhood, and now she came to ask them for help. He was too willing to help, not to mention that Mr. Cen has been looking up medical books day and night these days, and he couldn't sleep well or eat well. He just took a break today, and bothering him with these things wouldn't make him lose his mind.

Thinking of this, Chu Yi raised his head, waved his hands and said unwillingly: "Sir, take a break, please come early tomorrow if you have something to do!"

After speaking, he planned to close the door and go back to the house to sleep.

Grandma Zhao panicked, and quickly blocked the door with her crutches, and said anxiously: "That's not good, that's not good, my son can't wait!"

"Then what's the matter with me?" Chu Yi rolled his eyes, "You find someone else."

Having no other choice, Granny Zhao gritted her teeth and yelled into the yard, "Doctor Cen, Doctor Cen, help me, save my son! The old woman knelt down for you, you have helped us so much Next time, let’s help this time again, Huzi is feverish all over, coughing and retching, and can hardly open his eyes, you go and show him, you are a doctor, you can’t just leave him dead!”

"Don't make noise, keep your voice down! Don't wake up Mr.! Hey! If you don't shut up, believe it or not, I'll beat you up!" Chuyi's face changed, and he pushed people away in a panic.

The two of them pushed and shoved, and the door of the main house creaked open, and Cen Yulou came out in a washed-up whitish blue robe, looked up, and said in a displeased tone: "Okay, don't leave other people alone." People woke up."

On the first day of junior high school, I was a little timid, so I retracted my hand and stood aside obediently, whispering to myself, "Sir."

Cen Yulou glanced at him, then cast his eyes on the old man outside the door.

Granny Zhao stumbled in with a cane, knelt on the ground without saying a word, and cried, "Doctor Cen, the old woman is my only son. If he dies, I won't be able to live anymore. Help me save him." He, you save him!"

"Grandma, you get up first." Cen Yulou bent over and supported the man's hand, trying to pull her up.

"Doctor Cen," Granny Zhao pushed away the hand on her arm, complaining with snot and tears, "the old lady used to be sorry for you, but I really can't do anything in the middle of the night, my son of a bitch It’s hard to feel uncomfortable at home, you have superb medical skills, you must have a solution!”

"I don't know who told everyone that we took black-hearted money at the beginning, it was only cheating and abducting, and it couldn't cure diseases at all. As a result, our stall has not received a single business."

"First day of junior high school." Cen Yulou gave him a warning look.

The latter gritted his teeth angrily and turned his head away while humming coldly.

Cen Yulou used all his strength to help him up, sighed and said, "I'll go with you after I go back to the house and get the medicine box."

"Thank you, Doctor Cen, thank you, Doctor Cen!"

When the three of them arrived at Grandma Zhao's house, they opened the door and saw Zhao Hu lying on the bed dying, sweating profusely on his forehead, his body was sickly red, and his coughing sound was piercing, like To destroy the internal organs.

Cen Yulou frowned and looked at it, put the medicine box on the table, and ordered in a cold voice, "Bring a pot of hot water here."

"Okay, I'll go right away!" Grandma Zhao hurriedly went to the main room

"You go out too."

"Me?" Chu Yi pointed at himself with disbelief.

"Well, get out."

When both of them went out, Cen Yulou closed the door, took out a white cloth, covered his mouth and nose, and sat on the side of the bed. He took out a hand pillow from the medicine box and put it under Zhao Hu's hand, pinched his pulse and meditated, and then Open your eyelids and mouth to check again and again, and come to a conclusion.

It is indeed a disease.

In fact, Cen Yulou didn't know much about it. His medical skills were not very good, and he didn't dare to claim to be rejuvenated, and he had no experience in treating epidemic patients. Most of the diseases recorded in medical books were miasma (malaria), plague, smallpox and cholera. The epidemic is unheard of and unseen, so there is no prescription for medicine.

The coughing sound in the room hadn't stopped yet, and what came out of retching was pools of blood. The breath of the person on the bed was so weak that he would die in the next second. Cen Yulou frowned, but he couldn't think of anything.

After a while, the door of the room was pushed open, Granny Zhao walked in with boiling hot water, she put the basin on the chair, hurried over and said anxiously: "How about Doctor Cen, my son The illness is nothing serious, how many days will it take to recover?"

Cen Yulou looked at her with lowered eyes, his fists were clenched by his side, he hesitated for a long time and still said in a hoarse voice, "Sorry, I can't do anything about this disease."

Hearing this, Granny Zhao's face turned pale, and she grabbed the sleeve of the person in front of her tightly, as if she was holding on to her last hope, she cried unrelentingly, "You are a doctor! How can you not be cured?" He, he just has a cough and fever and nothing serious. He is suffering from wind and cold. Why can’t he be cured? You cured him of the wind and cold before, please help him! Help my son, I kowtow to you, I kowtow to you!"

The first day of the junior high school came in and saw this scene. He ran over and shouted, "Let go, sir!"

Cen Yulou was dragged by her and fell to the ground. He held the man's arm and comforted him softly, "Grandma, it's not a cold, it's an epidemic disease, and it can't be cured if you get it. You can't leave tiger cubs at home. Otherwise, not only you will be infected, but also the people around you will be infected. If you are worried, you might as well leave it with me, I will..."

"You will die! Your grandparents will die a good death for generations," Zhao Granny interrupted him viciously, then pushed the man away forcefully, stood up on the table, pointed at him and yelled, "You son of a bitch, quack doctor, Get out, get out, my son is just cold and you curse him to death, what kind of vicious heart are you, what kind of doctor are you! Get out! Get out!"

She was agitated, unable to restrain her rage, picked up the chairs and quilts and threw them all at once, even the scalding hot water on the chairs was poured on Cen Yulou.

Chuyi's pupils enlarged suddenly, and he rushed forward to pull the person back, but the hot water still splashed on the backs of their hands and necks. Chuyi immediately became furious, pointed at her and shouted: "Our husband is kind enough to treat your son, you This old woman is too clueless!"

Granny Zhao had a fierce look in her eyes, she slammed the basin over, pushed the two of them out, "Get out! Get out! Get out, all!"

Cen Yulou was pushed and staggered a few steps. After steadying himself, he looked at the closed door. There were coughing sounds coming from inside. He rubbed the center of his brows, feeling a little uncomfortable.

"Sir," Chuyi asked cautiously, "Is there really no cure for this disease?"

This question was too heavy, Cen Yulou didn't answer, but just sighed, "It's almost dawn, let's go back."

There was still no light on the road ahead. The two of them walked one after the other. Under the faint moonlight, the path looked long and seemed to have no end in sight.

The moonlight shines on the earth, it hangs in the sky, overlooking every change of everything.

Under the guidance of the moonlight, two steeds galloped in the mountains and forests. The hoofs of the horses crushed the dry branches, and a large amount of dust was raised, which aroused a group of birds to flutter their wings and fly.

The man running on the leading horse stared at the road ahead with deep eyes, raised his chin slightly, and the moonlight hit his face, illuminating his face clearly, it was Du Heng.

Be quick.

Faster.

The people of Xiangzhou are still waiting.

Until dawn, the sound of horseshoes did not stop, but the wind in Xiangzhou was even stronger.

A few more people died on South Street in the morning, all of them were fever, cough, and shortness of breath. At first, the people who were somewhat dissenting gradually believed that it was an epidemic. Everyone panicked in their hearts, everyone thought they were poisonous people who were infected with the disease, and wished they could not show their tightness.

The atmosphere was a little tense, but suddenly a message came out:

[The disease was spread from the refugees]

Once spread ten, ten spread a hundred, the people in the city believed it deeply, and then thought of the government's closure of the city to expropriate land, it became more and more reasonable. , Cursing and rushing to the refugee camp.

When Ji Si and Qi Ran arrived upon hearing the sound, the aggrieved civilians and officers and soldiers confronted each other with weapons raised, quarreling and cursing one after another. The common people looked at the menacing crowd outside with horror on their faces.

"What's going on?" Qi Ran asked with a frown.

The official in charge of guarding the refugee camp replied with a mournful face, "The officials are distributing food, and this group of unscrupulous people rushed over, and they rushed into the refugee camp without saying a word, saying that everyone inside was poisonous, and they all had to be killed, otherwise everyone would have to kill them." Everyone can't escape the disease, and Xiangzhou will become a dead city sooner or later."

Hearing this, Ji Si's eyes sank, and what he was most worried about finally happened.

Qi Ran frowned, thought for a moment and said to the crowd in a low voice: "Who spread this word?"

There was a discussion in the crowd, and someone asked at this time: "My lord, we just want to know if the people who died in the past few days were infected with the disease."

"That's right! We are all Xiangzhou people, there's no reason why we can't know what happened."

"Sir, please tell me, so that we can feel at ease."

Others chimed in.

Qi Ran kept a cold face and didn't hide it, nodded and said, "Yes."

As soon as the words fell, the faces of the people around changed. Even the official in charge of the refugee center fell limply and sat on the ground, trembling, "Epidemic...epidemic...epidemic..."

"This disease was discovered a few days ago," Qi Ran continued: "The government originally wanted to wait for the isolation shed in the northern suburbs to be erected and find a way to control the disease before informing the people in the city. The turmoil, the closure of the city is also a last resort, and the flood in the mountains outside has not subsided, and the people in the city are all rushed out because of the epidemic, who will be responsible if something happens?"

What he said was well-founded, and many people nodded.

"Everyone, please rest assured that Xiangzhou is the land of the Great Jin. Everyone here is a citizen of the Great Jin. The Great Jin will not abandon every commoner. In times of crisis, we should work together. This is the best policy."

Qi Ran possessed such a convincing aura, he talked eloquently, and after a sentence was finished, the chaotic crowd gradually calmed down, but suddenly another voice came out, "Don't listen to the nonsense of the people in the government!" , the person next to him is the servant of the household department. This person is a corrupt official. He will not care about our life or death. When the time comes, he pats his ass and returns to Lin'an. We are the only ones who will die! We can only kill the group of people in the refugee camp. Only the epidemic can be truly solved, they are not from Xiangzhou, we kindly lent them a place, why should we have to accompany them to die!"

Affected by these words, the crowd became agitated again. A person suddenly fell to the ground while pushing and shoving. Wolf ambition!"

These are all Xiangzhou people, Ji Siqi's chest hurts and he can't make a sound, so he simply doesn't bother to be polite to them, anyway, he is already heinous, so what if there is another crime, so he waved his hand, prepared in advance All the archers rushed out and surrounded the group of people.

The situation was stabilized, Qi Ran's eyebrows were full of gloom, he glanced at everyone, threw the hoe he had seized in his hand heavily on the ground, and roared angrily: "Seeking sex to cause trouble, obstructing the government, disturbing people's hearts, who gave you the courage to spread rumors and make trouble?" ? Give me another try if you are not afraid of death!"

The people holding hoes were overwhelmed by Qi Ran's aura, looked at each other and took a step back.

Qi Ran took a few steps forward and said in a loud voice: "They are no different from you, they are also the people of the Great Jin Dynasty, they also stepped on this territory, they have the same roots, they are connected branches, they are the same people of the country, and the rivers and rivers are the same people. There is no estrangement, mountains and rivers are never the boundaries, when epidemics arise, they should be connected with each other, why kill each other!"

Everyone lowered their eyes, remained silent, and let go of their weapons one after another.

Seeing this, Ji Si immediately raised his chin, signaling the officials below to handle the matter properly.

After this matter was dealt with, it took another two hours to set up the pot and cook the porridge again. The two of them didn't leave, but stood aside and watched, which made the officials who were doing the work very energetic, for fear of a negligence. Was caught right.

The two stood under the eaves in the open space, when the person next to him looked at him for the fifth time, Qi Ran finally couldn't help but said: "Why are you staring at me?"

Ji Si didn't reply, just grinned.

This person's mind can twist into hundreds of paths, so Qi Ran couldn't figure it out, so he had to ask something else, "You asked Du Cunxiao to leave the city, but you have a plan in mind."

He used an affirmative sentence, and Ji Si nodded.

Qi Ran looked down, feeling that since this person's throat was injured, those strange words could not be uttered, and it was a bit more pleasing to the eye than before. At this time, looking up at his appearance with his chin up, he is even more cute.

Ji Buyan's face is not suitable for being an official, it is suitable for being raised and pampered in the mansion, but that temperament of stalking others is very suitable for doing some shady activities in the officialdom.

This was said by a colleague in the DPRK, and I just snorted it when I heard it, but now that I think about it, it makes sense, even though this person doesn't have the temperament to follow others, he is still deep-minded, and he is also suitable for ups and downs in the officialdom.

Speaking of which, this man has been an official for several years, has never married a wife and had children, and has a good appearance. Officials of his age have concubines, so many people in the court use him as a joke at the wine table.

Qi Ran tilted his head and lowered his eyes, and said in a flat tone: "Master Ji, if we had known each other earlier, maybe we could become friends."

Ji Si heard the sound and raised his eyes, just smiled.

If he could have said those words earlier, then he and Qi Ran would be another story.

One's life is always inseparable from regret.

The author has something to say:

small theater:

The small theater couldn't think of it, crying and chirping, Huang Gu thought about the plot and went.

ps: When a catastrophe or illness occurs, it is the easiest time to show your humanity. Doctor Cen is the most typical medical staff. He is kind and wants to contribute everything he has learned to the society. Doctors are benevolent, and every medical staff is worthy of it. We respect.