little fool's child bride

"Didn't the epidemic in Lin'an County happen two months ago?" A tea drinker asked puzzled.

"I'm afraid it's because I'm sick and there's no money to treat it, that's why I ended up like this..." The man who was so gossip before said again, "I heard from my cousin that when the medical officer didn't come before, many people thought it was a terminal illness and directly Run away. Do you see that there are still some refugees outside our city gate? They all ran out early, but when they wanted to go back, they found that their homes were burned."

"It's ridiculous!" The middle-aged scholar scolded angrily, "The homeless people are in danger outside the city, what is our magistrate doing? I heard that the day the young master of the Jiang family married his concubine, he There are many gifts, and now it seems that our prefect is really a good official!"

Xiao Xiao almost spit out a sip of tea when she heard the word Jiang's family, and the other tea drinkers also looked embarrassed, but it was because they couldn't speak freely like scholars.The crime of arbitrarily discussing government affairs may be a ban on ordinary people, but it is a good time for scholars and literati to gain their reputation, so the court basically ignores it and does not use it as a tool for them to make a name for themselves.The scholar wanted to say something else, to enjoy this sense of superiority, but Xiao Jiu suddenly spoke in order to ease the atmosphere:

"Everyone, listen to me. This matter has nothing to do with the magistrate. The key to this matter is what kind of disease the daughter has!"

"Did you hear the dispute between the two masters just now? This daughter is covered with abscesses. How could it be a seasonal epidemic?" Xiao Jiu shook her head, and then continued with some fear, "The epidemic in Lin'an is nothing more than vomiting, diarrhea, and dizziness. It’s just a stomachache, and there are abscesses growing there. I heard people say that it’s the plague..."

"Don't dare to talk nonsense!" The middle-aged scholar looked shocked, then he straightened his clothes and stroked his beard fiercely, "There has been no war in recent years, so how could there be a plague?"

"That's right, absolutely impossible!"

"Xiao Jiu, you must have heard it wrong. There are many diseases with pus and sores all over the world. How could it be that they are all plague?"

A stone stirs up a thousand waves.Xiao Jiu didn't expect her words to attract such a big reaction from everyone, so she quickly apologized and said with a smile: "Hey! It's all hearsay, everyone, take it as a story for entertainment, don't take it seriously! We didn't see it with our own eyes, we just heard it from others Well. Three people become a tiger, this story is somewhat believable, everyone knows it by themselves..."

"Even if it's a story, you shouldn't make jokes about the epidemic." The middle-aged scholar shook his head and said solemnly. The rest of the people also looked worried and preoccupied.Although Xiao Jiu said not to take it seriously, things in the world are not like this, the more you think that it will not happen, but it will happen.Coupled with the secretive looks of the two tea guests before, even if they didn't see it, they still believed it in their hearts.

Everyone stopped talking, and this storytelling ended in a strange atmosphere.Xiao Xiao didn't know what the epidemic was, so she still wanted to drink tea, sipping tea while listening to the sound of the rain, feeling inexplicably leisurely.It was getting late after the rain stopped, and everyone left one after another, Xiao Xiao also rushed home with the crowd.

"Stinky boy! I'm going to be mad at you sooner or later!"

Before turning inside, Xiao Xiao heard the old man's angry growl at the base of the wall, which didn't match his gray hair at all.Worried that one day someone would find out that there were many people in her yard, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but wonder what made him so angry, so she stepped on the cracks in the bricks and started to climb over the wall.