Four Foods in the Mountains

"What?!" Everyone in the room exclaimed in shock.

Boy Ping escaped overnight.

Seeing that the situation in the town is getting worse day by day, and there are more and more patients in the hospital, he feels bad in his heart. After sending a letter back last time, he quietly packed his things, thinking that no matter how serious the situation is, After some time, I asked the restaurant manager for leave and went home.

This evening, a regular customer of the restaurant rushed back from Fucheng. He didn't say anything when he entered the door, but hurriedly bought a lot of smoked duck, bacon and sausages to take away.

The shopkeeper couldn't help asking curious questions, so he covered his mouth and said that there was an epidemic in Fucheng, and several people had died.

"Really, man, are you bluffing me? Why haven't I heard anything?"

"Why did I lie to you! I wanted to go to Fucheng to deliver goods to earn some money, but I entered the city gate and came back overnight. The yamen in Fucheng wouldn't let me tell you, but the way I saw it on the street was clearly an epidemic. Ah, those patients at the entrance of the medical hall have more air intake and less air output, they look like dead people!"

"Then, the people in our town are probably also..."

"What else can there be except the epidemic! Dude, I advise you from the friendship between the two of us, stop doing business, and stock up on some food and stay at home before the chaos, money is not as good as The lives of the whole family are important! Let’s not talk about it, I have to buy some rice oil.”

As soon as the regular customer left, the boss was so frightened that he was about to close the building immediately. Boy Ping went into the house and ran back to the village overnight with his back on his back.

In the dead of night, Ping's words were like thunder on the ground, and everyone in the room was terrified when they heard it.

"This, what can we do?"

"It's actually an epidemic, it's going to kill people." The daughters-in-law said with pale faces.

The village chief was stunned by the news for a while, and after a while, he said loudly to his wife Xu: "Hurry up, boil the water, and wash them from head to toe. Don't be reluctant to change the clothes." , directly set it on fire, hurry up!"

At this time, I couldn't care about the clothes and fear, Xu and several daughters-in-law hurriedly ran to the kitchen to make a fire and boil water.

The village chief said to his sons: "Knock on the door from house to house, and every house in the village must not miss it. Tell the men to wait under the old tree at the entrance of the village. Hurry up!"

The sons also took the oil lamps and ran out, leaving Ping and Wu Jiadalang in the yard for a while.

Hearing that the village chief said that the clothes were going to be burned, the two of them realized that their hind legs were weak, but they immediately retreated to the bottom of the wall, taking care not to bump into other people in the yard.

"The young man is promising, don't be afraid, wash your body well later, you can't keep a single piece of clothes, and your shoes are also burned."

After finishing his speech with a sullen face, the village chief went out with the oil lamp in his hand, and hurried south all the way to invite the old doctor in the village.

In the side room, Da Huzi had woken up a long time ago, and was lying on the door and window looking out, seeing his parents, uncles and aunts in a state of panic, and seeing that his father and uncles had left, the courtyard His uncle huddled in the corner.

Da Huzi slipped off the kang, put on his shoes, ran into the yard and said, "Uncle, what's wrong with you? Did you make a mistake and be scolded by grandpa? I'll go and intercede for you, you can go into the house."

"Big Huzi, don't come here, stay away from me!" Ping quickly stretched out his hand to stop, "You, you are obedient, my uncle didn't make grandpa angry, you are obedient, go back to the house and sleep."

Da Huzi scratched his head, then turned around and ran to look for his mother, "Mother, why didn't my uncle let me get close to him? Where did Grandpa and the others go so late at night?"

Mrs. Zhu was frantically lighting a fire in front of the stove, and when she heard this, she patted her son's head and said, "Dahuzi, you're fine, the adults have something to do, Erhuzi and Brother Yao are still sleeping in the room, you go back to the room." Go and help the mother to watch them, don't let them catch a cold while stepping on the quilt."

Da Huzi then ran back into the house, the oil lamp was dimly lit, and his two younger brothers were still asleep on the kang. He took off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, tucked them in and patted them After clapping, he wrapped himself in the quilt and went to the window, continuing to look into the yard.

The moon hung on the branches, there was a knock on the door and shouts in Yunxi Village, and oil lamps were lit in every household one after another, and the lights were brightly lit for a while.

There is an old tree at the entrance of Yunxi Village. In summer, people in the village like to enjoy the shade under the tree, but at this moment, torches are lit under the tree, and people are standing there.

Everyone's faces were full of unconcealed panic and fear. When they heard that there was an epidemic, some men ran over without even fastening their clothes.

"I really let Sanzhu's mother say it's right, it's really an epidemic."

"Then what should we do now, the epidemic will kill many people!"

"Don't worry, the village chief must have something to say when he called us over in the middle of the night. We will listen to the village chief."

"Yes, where is the village head?"

The crowd was noisy, and the village head and the old man hurried over.

"Quiet, listen to me." The village chief stood in front of the crowd, his face was solemn, but his words revealed majesty.

The crowd quickly quieted down, and the village chief said in a deep voice: "You all know what happened. It is indeed the Fucheng that has an epidemic. Boy Ping heard from the restaurant guests tonight that the sick people in the Fucheng and the sick people in the town Symptoms are the same, all abdominal pain, fever and tongue congestion, and... the death has started.

Hearing this, the crowd panicked again, and a man asked: "Village chief, why do the people in our village recover from abdominal pain, but they don't?"

"That's right, why doesn't anyone in our village have fever and congestion? Is it because we can't get this disease, so we don't need to be afraid?"

The village chief didn't speak, and the old man next to him stroked his beard and said, "The abdominal pain in the village is mostly caused by the long rain in autumn, and there is dirt in the well water you drink. Boil the water, and the dirt in the water It’s gone, and the disease will be cured naturally. But people in Fucheng and the town have fever and tongue congestion, presumably because after the rain, the dead mosquitoes, flies and rats on the streets were not cleaned up in time, and the water source was polluted, which caused the plague.”

After the fall of Fucheng, the heavy rain continued, and it was inconvenient for the servants of the street department to come out to clean it. The corpses of rats and mosquitoes on the streets, especially in the neighborhoods where civilians lived, could not be cleaned and burned in time.

And the village is spacious, every household is swept clean, and there are wild cats catching mice, so it is naturally much better than Fucheng.The only symptom of the villagers was abdominal pain, which was caused by drinking the raw water after the rain, which damaged the intestinal tract.

Hearing what the old man said, the villagers felt relieved.

"It's better to be in our village. I just said that there are so many people living in a corner in Fucheng. Is it not a bad thing?"

"Old Langzhong, then we don't have to worry, this disease will never reach us."

The old doctor shook his head: "The plague 30 years ago only occurred in one block of Fucheng at first. The plague is different from other diseases. One person infected will affect the entire area."

Thinking of the plague more than 30 years ago, the crowd suddenly fell silent. Even if they hadn't experienced it themselves, they all heard the old people at home talk about it with lingering fear.

At first, it was only a servant in the Dongcheng District of the Fucheng who had a strange disease. He had a fever and a rash on his body. In the end, it spread to the whole Fucheng, and even many people in the towns below suffered from the same disease.

The medical center was overcrowded, and if they couldn't stay inside, they lined up on the street outside. In the end, the whole street was full of patients, and corpses that were too late to clean up could be seen everywhere on the street, which can be called purgatory on earth.

People have started to die in Fucheng, which means that the source is there. The sick people in the town may all be infected by delivering goods to Fucheng.

"People have started to die in Fucheng, the town..." The old man didn't finish his sentence, but everyone understood what he meant.

"Has anyone been to the town during this time?" The village chief asked in a deep voice.

The crowd all shook their heads. They haven't been to the town since the village chief told them not to go to the town last time. It's not because of anything else, but because they are afraid that they will get sick and delay their family's work after going there.

"It's a good thing I didn't go, who knows it's really a deadly disease." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised another heart, "Then, that boy Ping?"

"Boy Ping and Dalang Wu came back overnight. Neither of them was sick. I asked my family to boil water to scrub them, and burned all their clothes and shoes with fire." The village chief said, "Boy Ping It is said that not many people in the town suspected the disease for the time being, and he only knew about it from the guests who came back from Fucheng in the restaurant, but I am afraid that if it lasts for two days, the town will be in chaos."

"I heard from my grandma that after the town suffered from an epidemic more than 30 years ago, not only did they worry about not having a doctor to treat the disease, but also they couldn't buy food to eat. Many people were so hungry that they went to the villages below to beg for it. In the end, the loss of food is a trivial matter, and the most hateful thing is that those people brought the disease and killed people in a village!"

"Ah? Then our village can't let those people in. It's fine to give some food. It's okay to come here with a disease. My baby is still young."

"To put it simply, the legs grow on other people, and when the time comes, you will be hungry and afraid. If you put your hips on your hips and say 'don't come over', will people really stop coming? Who will talk to you when your life is at stake?"

"That's right, let's talk about it. If you give food to this group of people, will you give it to that group? This year's corn is not growing well. I don't know if my family can survive the winter. How can there be food for others? How much food do we have?" Ah, if you want it, you should go to the officials and masters to ask for it."

Every time you say something to me, the scene suddenly becomes noisy.

The village head pondered for a long time, and said, "Stop making noise. The reason why I woke up everyone here in the middle of the night is precisely because of this. The epidemic is not a trivial matter, it is a major event that will kill people. Now if someone still thinks it doesn't matter , that’s because there’s no commotion yet, and when the people in Fucheng and the town are really dying, it will be too late for us to think about it.”

"The village chief, what can you do, we will listen to you."

"That's right, village chief, what do you say we will do."

The village chief looked serious, and said after a while, "Dig the road and seal the village."