November 20 of the tenth year of the Great Jin Chengping.

early morning

Get on the party.

Heavy snow fell heavily on this majestic city, covered in snow.

The two ends of the city are polarized, and the closer you get to the edge of the city, the more sparsely populated it becomes, but as you walk towards the center of the city, you can see that the smoke and fire begin to increase.

At all times, there are handymen who are in charge of clearing the snow with brooms.

The restaurants and stalls on both sides of the long street are more lively, and the voices of people are a little noisy, and the ornate decoration or simple horse-drawn carriages drive through the long street, leaving the soft 'crunch' of the wheels running over the snow.

The steaming heat rose from the steamer, and a boy of no more than fifteen or sixteen years old came out of the alley, his simple winter coat was covered with sewing and patching colorful patches, and went straight to the stall, his nose couldn't help but stir slightly, and he couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva.

He clenched the few copper coins in his hand, glanced at the shopkeeper with a somewhat vicious face, then looked back at the small figure in the shadow of the alley, and said:

"Shop...... I want a meat bun!"

The man who was called the shopkeeper was a man with a fat waist and a round waist, eight feet tall, with a rough face and a thick beard, which would be believed to be a man who killed pigs.

He glanced at the thin young man, his eyes as big as copper bells narrowed slightly, and he said expressionlessly:

"Ten cents. “

Hearing this, the young man's mouth opened slightly, his palms subconsciously clenched, and he said in disbelief: "Didn't you still have five cents a few days ago?"

The shopkeeper said impatiently: "That's the past, you don't see that the weather is getting colder and colder now, and of course things are getting more and more expensive, besides, this is a meat bun, not a steamed bun!"

“......”

The young man was speechless, but he only had five copper coins in his hand.

'Little sister, I haven't eaten meat for a long time. His heart was both helpless and unwilling.

He looked at the steaming steamer, raised his head slightly to meet the huge copper bell-like eyes, sighed in his heart, or bowed slightly to the shopkeeper, clutched the copper coin in his hand, and turned around to walk towards the alley.

"Shopkeeper, let's have a drawer of steamed buns. ”

"Great!"

A clear voice sounded in his ears, and the young man turned his head to see that it was a boy who seemed to be about his age, with a tall figure, a head taller than him, dressed in plain robes, and snow-white mink fur on his shoulders, and white fluff fluttering slightly.

'It's not bad. I sighed reluctantly in my heart.

He hurriedly ran towards the side of the alley.

Li Zhao's eyes noticed the direction in which the young man was running, and his eyes were unwavering.

"Childe...... Your buns. ”

With a hearty smile on his face, the vicious shopkeeper handed the meat bun packed with lotus leaves to Li Zhao.

Li Zhao stretched out his hand to take it, bowed his head slightly, and said softly: "I'm tired." ”

The smell of hot meat blew all the way to the collar with the cold wind, a strand of golden hair swayed slightly, he reached out and stroked it gently, looked at the alley not far away, and walked over without hesitation.

"Little sister, shall we eat steamed buns?"

"Uh-huh!"

In the alleys,

The smile on Jiang Xiaoshi's face was a little reluctant, his chapped lips moved slightly, and he whispered to the little girl who couldn't reach his waist.

The little girl nodded vigorously, and her black and white eyes revealed cleanliness and clarity.

She was dressed in slightly dirty clothes, and it could be seen that several clothes of different sizes were worn haphazardly, barely keeping warm, and her little face was a little ruddy from the cold.

Jiang Xiaoshi took Xiao Jasmine's hand and clenched it gently, hoping to transfer the heat on his body, and turned around to walk out of the alley.

When I looked up, I saw the boy standing at the entrance of the alley, looking at them.

The young man subconsciously blocked Xiao Jasmine with his body, and looked at Li Zhao with vigilant eyes, he heard that the sons of rich families have many weird habits, like prostitution, and are good at male style.

It's horrible!

Li Zhao's face was cold, different from Li Xian's cold and hard like a rock, more like an indifference that rejected people thousands of miles away. He didn't care about Jiang Xiaoshi's attitude in front of him, he just took out a steaming meat bun from his purse and handed it to him.

"Eat. ”

Jiang Xiaoshi was a little stunned, but he didn't take it, but took Xiao Jasmine back two steps, his eyes crossed Li Zhao, and looked behind him, for fear that a few big men would suddenly rush over and tie them up.

Li Zhao just raised his hand holding the meat bun slightly, and his tone was flat:

"Not for you, for the man behind you. ”

Jiang Xiaoshi subconsciously glanced back, grabbing the hem of his clothes, she looked a little scared and nervous, but the meaty buns really attracted her attention, and she couldn't stop swallowing saliva in her throat.

My heart softened.

Hesitantly took the bun, the hot skin made him suddenly reveal his original form, the hot bun jumped back and forth in his two hands, fortunately in the cold world, just a few breaths, but became a little warm.

Li Zhao didn't leave in a hurry, looked at Jiang Xiaoshi and asked:

"There's something I want to ask you, but it's better to eat the buns while they're hot. ”

Hearing that this boy brother had something to ask, Jiang Xiaoshi immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, nodded yes, and reached out to hand the meat bag to Xiao Jasmine.

This world is difficult, there is no shortage of good people to give good porridge, but more people are like ghosts, unpredictable, this point he especially understands in his heart, just for a bite to eat, I don't know how many people break their scalps and coax knives.

If it weren't for the strict manners of this son-in-law and the cold eyes in his eyes, I am afraid that as soon as Li Zhao appeared, Jiang Xiaoshi was afraid that he would pull Xiao Jasmine and turn around and run away.

Xiao Jasmine looked up at Brother Xiao Shi, and after getting the latter's affirmation, she couldn't wait to take a small bite, the tender meat juice exploded on her taste buds, and her eyes instantly brightened.

Very hungry,

The worm in her stomach was telling her, "Eat it in one bite!"

can

She didn't do that, but carefully ate the skin that was still hot on the outside, and the meat inside was only a light taste.

The voice came.

"You shouldn't be a native of the party, right?

Xiao Jasmine's body leaned slightly, revealing a small eye from behind Brother Xiaoshi, and when she raised her eyes to look at the handsome son, she found that this son not only looked cold, but even spoke in a tone that seemed to be colder than a snowflake.

Jiang Xiaoshi met Li Zhao's eyes, subconsciously dodged a little, and then a disbelief belonging to the teenager immediately surged up, his eyes widened, looked at this son, and replied:

"Well, we are not from the party, we are from Yuyang Town. ”

Li Zhao's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he asked rhetorically:

"Yuyang Town?"

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoshi seemed to leave his body all of a sudden, and said a little gloomily:

"Actually, it's Yuyang Village. “

As soon as he said this, Li Zhao immediately understood.

Yuyang Village is located more than ten miles away from Gujing Mountain. It is said that it is still a small village, with a population of more than 1,000 people alone, so it is no wonder that Jiang Xiaoshi will say that it is a town to the outside world.

But......

A few days ago, he heard that Yuyang Village seemed to have a plague, almost ten rooms and nine empty, and even the canals and wells that had been opened up were inedible, and the hundred-year-old village disappeared.

Li Zhao looked at Jiang Xiaoshi and Xiao Jasmine with a scrutinizing gaze.

Jiang Xiaoshi was both familiar and disgusted by this kind of gaze, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, and the once familiar laughter and laughter of the neighbors turned into thin skeletons lying on the sickbed.

That cough was like a Hades urging his life.

Li Zhao retracted his gaze, and for Jiang Xiaoshi's performance, in fact, he didn't have much ups and downs in his heart, but he still mentioned something:

"The best thing to say is to take her to see the doctor, it's not the plague, it should be the wind chill from the cold weather, otherwise she will have a high fever tonight. ”

After that, Li Zhao bowed his hand: "It's hard work." ”

When Jiang Xiaoshi heard the first sentence, his heart immediately lifted, and a look of fear appeared in his eyes almost instantly, not because he was worried that he would also be infected, but if this was the case, he would be equivalent to losing little jasmine.

Almost sentenced to death.

In his heart, the plague that had broken out in the village had not been cured!

The geographical location of Yuyang Village is excellent, and the economic conditions have been good, close to the river, backed by Gujing Mountain, and the ancestors have a lot of experience in raising fish, and the distance from Shangdang County is not far away, every family is actually living a good life, and it is no wonder that Jiang Xiaoshi will say that it is Yuyang Town.

Therefore, after the village chief learned of the outbreak of the plague as soon as possible, he immediately sent someone to the party to invite a doctor to come over. I thought that the doctor in the party could have a way, but he was infected on the first day and became a member of the hospital bed.

No way

He had to send people to ask the doctors to come over, but each doctor was not only helpless when he came, but he also fell ill immediately, and in just two days, no matter how high the price was, no doctor was willing to come.

In desperation, the village chief could only let the children and adults who were not infected with the plague leave the village.

The next day, Jiang Xiaoshi heard the news that Yuyang Village was dead!

All are dead,

None survived.

No one would know how desperate Jiang Xiaoshi's heart was at that moment, and no one would know how relieved he was when Li Zhao's next sentence came out.

Cold sweat broke out all over his body.

Jiang Xiaoshi raised his head, and the unknown son had already walked away. He bit his lip and solemnly saluted Li Zhao's back.

Oh, Jiang Xiaoshi looked at Xiao Jasmine with a nervous expression, and only then did he realize that the ruddy on Xiao Jasmine's face was a little abnormal, and he slapped himself with self-blame.

Xiao Jasmine looked at Brother Xiao Shi a little strangely, there were a series of question marks in her little head, and she didn't understand what Brother Xiao Shi smoked again.

In fact, she didn't hear the conversation between the two clearly, especially at the end, when little Jasmine only saw the son's lips open and close, but she didn't hear the voice come out.

She thought it was too loud outside~

"Brother Xiaoshi, you eat~"

Little Jasmine raised the meat bun in her hand, she covered it well, and now the meat bun was still steaming.

Jiang Xiaoshi's voice was a little choked, and he said softly: "Hmm...... Brother Xiaoshi is not hungry, you eat first. ”

Little Jasmine couldn't help frowning.

Although she is young, it is not that she does not understand anything, but the successive bad news has made her accustomed to hiding her mind in the bottom of her heart.

I was about to say something when I heard ......