Phoenix dwelling in Yanzhou

Seventy thousand years have passed, and the poor and the rich have all been hurt.

Coughing and coughing blood stains the grass in front of the door, sighing that flying flowers fall into the rain pond.

The sick bone is close to the spring road, and the lonely grave breaks people's hearts every year.

According to the Lord, don't complain about the past, the doctors of the past dynasties did not have a prescription.

In a small village ten miles away from Lin City, in the sick ward, you can see pale and emaciated patients everywhere, and there are heart-piercing coughs everywhere...

Su Qian stood on the temporary lookout platform, with thick gauze tightly wrapped around her mouth and nose, looking at the distant village.

At this moment, officials from Lin City gathered on the not-so-spacious observation deck.

The county magistrate of Lincheng is an assertive person. When the epidemic was discovered and the sick relocation workshop was established, the address was chosen in a suburban village far away from the crowd.

Duan Yunxu brought a map, the ink was still fresh, it could be seen that it had just been drawn.

"Ma'am, this is the map of Zansu Village and its surrounding fifty miles," Duan Yunxu spread the map on a simple table, frowning, "This village is only ten miles away from Lincheng. It is adjacent to four villages, and beyond that is Anyi County, Jicheng... If the epidemic cannot be controlled, these places will be affected..."

Su Qian looked at the map with dark eyes.

This area is densely populated, once the epidemic gets out of control, the consequences will be unimaginable!

"What did the disaster relief mission say?" Su Qian asked.

Thinking of the rewards brought by his subordinates, Duan Yunxu couldn't help but sneered, "The disaster relief envoy said that King Ning is in Anyi County, and Lincheng will be handed over to the concubine."

Everyone knows that the most troublesome thing now is the great epidemic after the disaster!Lin Cheng is now a hot potato, and as a disaster relief envoy sent by the imperial court, he feels at ease over there.

Su Qian frowned slightly, and glanced at the village in the distance.

That village, where a large number of epidemic patients gathered, was dilapidated and desolate, and there was a decayed and dead air everywhere.

There was a faint cry, which came from the village. The family at the entrance of the village died again today before the white banner was withdrawn.

"Commission" means tuberculosis, but not every kind of tuberculosis is called tuberculosis, only the tuberculosis with extremely high infection rate and mortality rate is called tuberculosis.

If one person is infected, the whole family will be destroyed, and the mourning guests will also be infected with the disease, and the cycle will be repeated until the whole family is destroyed.

This is written in the "Great Epidemic" of the medical classics of the previous dynasty.

It has been more than half a month since they arrived in Lincheng, and the entire Lincheng is blocked, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and the epidemic situation in the sickness workshop still shows no improvement.

"Is the situation in Bingqianfang better today?" This is what Su Qian asks every day.

"Your Majesty should know that there is no cure for the disease of passing corpses." Duan Yunxu sighed, "Even the doctors in Zanlu Village have been infected..."

The situation is not optimistic!

"Is there any response from the imperial court?" Su Qian asked quietly.

"If there is no accident, the imperial court's order will reach Lincheng today, but..." Duan Yunxu looked at the village in the distance, with guilt and heartache in his eyes, "The disease of passing corpses has no cure, and it is causing great pain. Before the epidemic, the imperial court's decision was likely to be... to avoid future troubles!"

Duan Yunxu's sentence "No future troubles" was cryptic, but Su Qian didn't know what he meant...

Slaughter the village!

Kill all the patients suffering from the epidemic, and burn them clean together with these epidemics!

Su Qian tapped the table with her fingers lightly, again and again.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for Su Qian's decision.

"Before the imperial court's order is issued, do your best to treat them."

It was an order, but more like a sigh.

In the evening of that day, a riding shadow galloped towards the closed gate of Lin City.

On a big bay red horse, a man who is full of travel and dust, is wearing a pair of black brocade official boots.On the black brocade, a picture of a tiger treading the waves is secretly embroidered with black thread.

If any officials in Beijing see it, they will definitely recognize it, it is the embroidered clothes directly under the emperor's command!

"Who is under the tower?" The soldier on duty on the tower asked sharply. "The city is closed here, no one else is involved, leave quickly!"

The people under the city tower raised the festival talisman in their hands and said loudly: "The envoy from Kyoto, open the city gate quickly!"

That night, Su Qian received a secret decree.

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In the hospital, the eight-year-old girl Luo Luo received today's food, and went back to the hospital happily.

Her parents are both doctors. This time the village was hit by an epidemic, and their family was trapped here. Fortunately, the court has been doing its best to provide medicine and food.

"Mother! Look at the richness of today's dishes, including fish and meat." The little girl put the tray on the food table like offering a treasure.

Mrs. Zhao had just seen the patient's symptoms, and pulled off the three layers of gauze wrapped around her mouth and nose.As soon as he returned to the inner hall, he saw his daughter with curved eyebrows, and his heavy heart also healed.

But when she saw the relief food her daughter brought back from the court, her expression changed instantly.

The young Luo Luo didn't know what happened, but saw his mother rushing out and pulled his father back.That afternoon, my father closed the door of the hospital, not knowing what he was doing.

Today's dinner was extraordinarily sumptuous, Luo Luo ate very happily, but she didn't see her mother crying secretly in the dark.

In the middle of the night, Luo Luo was woken up by the sound of fighting.

"mother……"

Luo Luo, who was still sleepy, yelled in a daze, but a big hand tightly covered his mouth.

It's her father!

"Luoluo, be good, don't make a sound!" The voice of the always refined father was trembling.

Behind the door, Luo Luo heard her mother screaming. "Who are you? How dare you break into a private house?"

"Prince Yan's concubine has an order to kill all those affected by the epidemic."

"But we are not infected with the epidemic..."

The mother's terrified voice didn't finish, the sound of the blade cutting through flesh and blood was terrifying in the dark night...

Luo Luo, whose mouth was covered, cried and wanted to call mother, but only saw the blood-stained hem between the door.

The woman lying in a pool of blood had lost her eyesight, and when she was dying, her trembling lips murmured: "Luo Luo, run away..."

Father carried Luo Luo and escaped through the window. Along the way, there were fires, corpses, and dying cries everywhere.

Under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, lay two corpses. They were a mother and a child.

The father and daughter fled to the small pond at the back of the village, following the flames and corpses along the way, avoiding the officers and soldiers who wanted to kill people on the street.

"Do you still remember how your father taught you to swim?"

Luo Luo was already terrified by the killing all the way, crying out of breath, but her father stuffed a bamboo pole into her hand.

Before he came back to his senses, he was put into the water by his father. "Remember! No matter what happens, don't come out, never come out before dawn!"

Luo Luo hid in the water. Not long after, there was a sudden bang, as if something hit the water.Luo Luo raised his head, but saw his father's face was close at hand. On his elegant face, those eyes had not been closed until death.

The water of the little pond stained red with blood, that...her father's blood...

Luo Luo stretched out his hand, trying to grab his father, but when he touched his father, there was a "wow", it was the people on the shore, and they dragged his father away like an animal.

The killing outside was still going on, Luo Luo hid under the cold pond, breathing through a bamboo tube.

The water is so cold!She wanted to go out, but she remembered her father's begging eyes before he died, and the almost crying "Luo Luo, don't come out..."

Dawn breaks and dispels the darkness of night.

A thin figure crawled out of the water staggeringly, and what he saw was a home that had been burned into ruins.

The young girl curled up on the scorched earth after the killing, trembling, but didn't even have the strength to cry...