The alternative of crossing

Lun country.As soon as the two stepped into the city, a group of people in white clothes passed by them carrying coffins one after another.People in white clothes had tears on their faces, and they must be relatives and friends of the people in the museum. Those who led the way in front sprinkled yellow paper, and those behind were beating gongs and drums.Li Ze was about to step forward to ask what happened, when a little girl about seven or eight years old with two braids ran towards him.

Those who carried the coffin were all crying, and the leading government servants yelled: "Why are you crying? The people who caused the plague should be sent to the wilderness to be burned. If you want to blame, blame your relatives for what happened. This time of plague!"

Before Hua Ruoxi could grab Li Ze, the little girl was knocked down by Li Ze.He helped the little girl up and patted the dust on her body and said, "Little girl, are you okay? Brother accidentally bumped into you, I'm sorry."

The little girl is holding a flower basket in her hand, and in the basket are fresh flowers she has just picked.She looked up and saw two young brothers and sisters, so she said in a thin voice like silk: "Brother, buy a bouquet of flowers for this beautiful sister. My family is waiting for money to ask the doctor to save my mother's life..."

"Little sister. We have bought all the flowers in your basket. Don't cry, okay, sister hugs you up." Seeing the little girl kneeling on the ground, Hua Ruoxi took out the money in her pocket. Pick up the little girl and tell her.

The little girl took the money Hua Ruoxi gave her, and hurriedly wanted to kneel down and kowtow to her to express her gratitude.Li Ze quickly helped her up and said, "Little girl, you don't have to do this. My brother asked you why so many people died in the city?"

She got up and pursed her lips slightly and said: "Brother and sister are new to Lun Kingdom. You must not know that a plague just happened here. The dead were all pulled away by the government and separated, and the dead were directly burned. The living ones are dying. My mother... She also contracted the plague, and she is still lying at home waiting for me to ask the doctor to save her..." The little girl wiped her tears as she spoke.

"Little sister. How about taking us to your house to check on your mother's illness. The pretty sister next to me knows some medical skills." Li Ze said with a smile and put his arms around Hua Ruoxi's shoulders.

"Pretty sister, how about this..." The little girl stared at Hua Ruoxi with teary eyes.

Hua Ruoxi nodded and said, "Of course. Elder sister only knows a little about medicine. Little sister, take us there."

The three of them walked all the way, and all the people carrying the coffin passed the street.The street seemed deserted, the people on the street were coffin bearers, and the doors on the street were tightly closed.Li Ze also felt strange, he was wondering what was going on, such a big Lun Kingdom was so desolate.

The little girl walked all the way holding Hua Ruoxi's hand, and brought the two of them to a thatched cottage.Stepping into the yard, I fed a few chickens and were pecking, and a few willow trees were planted next to them.The thatched hut was very simple, and the groaning woman was the little girl's mother on the simple bed made of straw spread on the wooden boards.The woman on the bed coughed and said, "Wei'er...are you back...if you can't sell for money...don't go out..."

The little girl of Wei'er in her mouth ran to the side of the haggard woman and cried, "Mother...Mother...it's Wei'er...I brought a beautiful sister to see you."

Hua Ruoxi went to the woman's bed, checked her pulse and said, "Wei'er, your mother is infected with a kind of plague, and there may be worms in her body. This kind of plague spreads very fast. , People infected with the plague will feel numb all over their bodies, their throats will be hoarse, and they will even paralyze their nerves until they have the urge to commit suicide."

After she finished speaking, she spread Wei'er's mother's arm, which was full of rash-like spots, and she asked the woman to stick out her tongue.The tongue turned jet black, and the eyeballs began to become bloodshot, which made people feel terrible.

Wei'er heard that the beautiful sister said that her mother was infected with such a terrible plague, she hurriedly pulled Hua Ruoxi's sleeve and cried, "Beautiful sister... you must save my mother... Weier I beg you."

"Wei'er, get up quickly... To save your mother, you have to find the source of this disease. Where has your mother been recently?" Xiao Wei shook her head.Where can her mother go? Mother spends all day weaving for others and leads a hard life for mother and daughter.

"Wei'er...mother knows...mother's life is not long..." The woman on the bed coughed again.Wei'er threw herself into her mother's arms and cried for a while.

Li Ze took Hua Ruoxi's hand and said, "Ruoxi. Let's find a way to save Wei'er's mother. If her mother leaves, how will she survive as a little girl. Let's help them."

Hua Ruoxi nodded and walked to Wei'er and said: "Wei'er must take good care of your mother, sister will find a way to save your mother. Now, sister, go grab some medicine to calm your mother down first. This plague."

When the two of them left the thatched cottage, they came to the streets of Lunguo.The flow of people seems to be less and more deserted.Found a pharmacy "Huixuntang".The two knocked on the door, but no one inside came out. "Is anyone there? We're here to grab the medicine." Li Ze shouted while knocking on the door.

After a long time, I saw a young boy opened the door and stuck his head out and said, "The two of you are here to catch the medicine for the plague, and you really can't buy it in the small shop." Seeing that the boy was about to close the door after speaking.

Li Ze hurriedly stopped him from closing the door and said, "We are not here to catch the medicine for the plague. It is the medicine on the prescription written by ourselves. I wonder if you have it here."

The boy seemed relieved.I thought to myself: Fortunately, these two people are not here to catch the medicine for the plague. Ever since the plague broke out in this Lun Kingdom, every household dare not go out, for fear that their family members will be infected with the plague.The plague spreads very quickly, as long as you have more contact with people infected with the plague for a few hours, it will follow.The boy looked at the ruddy faces of the two people, who seemed to be uninfected by the plague, so he felt relieved and let the two of them come in to grab the medicine.

"We have all the medicines on the prescription here. I'll go grab them for you two immediately." The young man went to grab the medicines after seeing the ingredients in the prescription.

"Both of you are new to Lun Kingdom. Look at your faces. You really shouldn't come at this time. Now the plague is spreading all over the country. The emperor sent an imperial doctor to treat it, but it didn't get better. They said it was the plague. It's an ominous sign." The young man grabbed the medicine and chatted with them.

"Brother, do you know how this plague started?" Li Ze asked curiously.

The boy took a look at the two of them and felt that they didn't look like bad people, so he closed the doors and windows and started talking.

It is said that some women were washing clothes in the pool by the city, but when they came back, nothing happened as usual for a few days, but do you know after a few days?They began to feel dry mouth and tongue, and they fetched water from a nearby well at home all day long. They couldn’t eat their meals on Sunday, so they only knew to drink the water from the well, until they all became thirsty like wolves and tigers. They frantically ran to the pool to drink water, and those people were all drowned.

As for the corpses brought back by the government, their faces were all black when they died, and their hands and feet seemed to have shrunk. That was scary!People who have been in contact with these people for a few hours, have rash-like spots all over their arms, numbness all over their bodies, hoarse throats, jet-black tongues, and bloodshot eyes.They came to Huichuntang to seek medical treatment and medicine, how could they cure this plague in Huichuntang, the fear was that they themselves would fall into the plague just to earn a small amount of money, and their lives would be lost.That's why they closed the door so cautiously, fearing that someone who was caught by the plague would rush in and infect them.

The bad news of the plague in Lun Kingdom soon spread to the palace.The emperor issued a decree to invite countless imperial doctors from the palace to go to the town, but the imperial doctors were helpless, saying that this plague was rare in a hundred years, and it was an ominous omen. I am afraid that it was something that Emperor Xiaowen did back then. The gods still cannot forgive it now. Then he released the plague to haunt the people.The emperor was so scared that he couldn't understand, so he went to the Immortal Temple to kowtow and offer incense to the Immortal Fu Mo.

The plague became more and more severe, and the government officials received instructions from above.They arrested all those infected with the plague and kept them in prison, saying that they were afraid that they would go out and infect more people and kill them.But how can this be done?People infected with the plague in the prison clamored for water all day long, and their throats became extremely dry, as if they were scorched by a fire. Without water, they strangled their companions to death, in order to keep themselves alive and drink their blood. .Some people even didn't want to kill each other, so they crashed against the prison wall to death. They didn't want to suffer the pain, so they might as well die happily.

The government will post notices in front of the government gate for those who died in prison.It is announced that xxx's relatives died in prison due to the plague, and some subsidies will be compensated.It was silver taels allocated from the palace, and it was said to appease people's hearts.the second day.The servants of the government will drag the dead to the gate of the government, and let their families prepare for the funeral one day in advance.Then it was what they had just come to see, those who were infected with the plague would be carried to the outskirts of the wilderness and burned to death.In order not to touch the corpse and be infected with the plague.

Today's Lun Kingdom is in a state of panic and has been severely affected by the plague. People who have not been infected by the plague should not go out at home. If a child accidentally escapes, when the family members go out to look for it again, it will be difficult to find it. Fortunately, if I don't find it back, I'm afraid I'll be infected with the plague during the time I was in contact with someone when I went out to play, and I won't be able to recover. [Notice: Please tell each other that the only new address is. 】As for the people infected with the plague, they either waited to die at home, or they were separated by the government and waited to die.Countless imperial doctors came, but none of them could be cured, and some people simply packed up their burdens, escaped from Lun Kingdom, and went to other countries to survive.The current Lun Kingdom is like a pan of loose sand, and the spread of the plague may lead to the country's subjugation at any time.