After watching the young soldier leave with the bag, Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue went to the village of Xiaowang Village. Xiaowang Village has a population of more than 500, and according to the calculation of a family of five, there are more than 100 households, which is also not small.

Therefore, in this narrow and narrow Xiaowang Village, there are all low houses and few stone-paved dirt roads at your feet.

Naturally, Ye Chen was on the military plane around, and he already knew from the information that it was surrounded by those high mountains, and the tributary of the Yangtze River not far away.

There are mountains and rivers, which is a good place. Now, this situation has occurred, and I am afraid that the villagers in the village are afraid.

Ye Chen knew that if he wanted to really understand the situation in this village, it was best to learn about it personally from the mouths of the villagers. Most of the patients in the temporary treatment center are still not stable, and it is definitely impossible to ask them out of their mouths.

He could only ask from those villagers who had not yet been infected with the plague and whose thinking was still very normal.

"Knock, knock!" The two came to the wooden door of the first earthen house that was still lit and knocked on the door, Ye Chen knocked several times in a row, and looked at the door number next to him.

But he found that, although he had knocked several times, except in the silence of the night, when the knock was heard, the people inside did not know whether they were asleep, and they did not dare to come out and open the door. Seeing such a situation, Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue glanced at each other, and the two were also helpless.

I could only continue to go to the doors of the houses in front of me that were lit up, and I knocked on several houses in a row, and the situation inside each house was the same.

"Could it be that there are no living people inside, or are those villagers infected and sent to the temporary center, and the lights inside are turned on and turned off?" Ye Chen thought strangely.

However, he couldn't just push open the door and go in, because in the current situation, he couldn't break into someone else's house without permission, and even if he wanted to go in that way, he still needed to get the consent of the person in charge and the village cadres here. In such a situation, Ye Chen could only give up.

From the temporary treatment center, which is the center of Xiaowang Village, the school and the village committee of Xiaowang Village, all the way to the end of this village, Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue walked for about twenty minutes, except for those soldiers, they didn't see a single figure, and it was difficult for him to even guess a dead mouse.

Seeing that this was the case, Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue could only go back to the temporary center, Ye Chen was about to finish the map, and when he came to investigate the source of the disease from these villagers, he didn't expect that Liao Bingxue saw a black shadow passing by in the distance, which startled her, and she couldn't help but pull Ye Chen's arm tightly.

When Ye Chen followed that gaze, sure enough, he saw a figure in black clothes moving a hundred meters away, he took Liao Bingxue's hand and hurriedly walked forward.

The closer he got to the figure, the clearer he could see. It was a figure with a back that looked a little rickety, and Ye Chen could see that this should be an old man or an old woman.

On the right hand side of the old woman, the two saw that the old woman was holding a bamboo basket in her hand, and inside the bamboo basket, there should be some incense paper money, some incense, and candles.

Ye Chen grew up in the countryside and knew very well what the old man was used for.

Therefore, neither he nor Liao Bingxue made a sound, and quietly followed the old woman behind him, walking to the front, and after following for more than ten minutes, when Ye Chen saw her stop, the two of them had already seen in front of them, the same new cemetery, newly dug soil, surrounded by those firecrackers and red paper, and in front of those incense papers that had been burned to ashes.

In the morning, when they had just arrived, they had already seen the new cemetery on the raised hill, where the village chief was buried.

There is a big difference between this and that place, so to speak, one is very close to the head of the village, and the other is far from the end of the village.

Now the old woman, in the new cemetery at the end of the village, took out the incense paper money, incense, and candles from the basket she was carrying, and lit them in the same place, and began to stone the burned incense paper money.

Now this dry weather, even if this is a relatively shady place. However, if it is not optimistic, those winds will blow away these burning incense paper money, and it is likely to cause a fire. It's all around with fallen leaves, trees, weeds, which can easily be set on fire.

Now it can be seen that the old woman is still very serious, Ye Chen found that after she finished doing that, she kept her head down and knelt there, muttering to herself, on the one hand, she said it was not clear, and on the other hand, she may be speaking in dialect, Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue did not hear what she was saying.

In this case, the other party has about half an hour before and after.

At the end of the half hour, she took the empty basket and was naturally ready to turn away. Seeing the figures of Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue, the old woman also ignored it and left directly.

Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue glanced at each other and hurriedly followed. When he was about five meters away from this old woman, Ye Chen shouted, "Old woman, old woman!"

The old woman still didn't stop, Ye Chen could only speed up to her, from the front, he could already see the face of this old woman, her face was full of wrinkles, but her eyes were rare to have a trace of clarity, which was completely different from the eyes of those numb villagers.

However, Ye Chen found that the villagers in this village were relatively old compared to their real age. Therefore, now Ye Chen also doesn't know what the age of this old woman is.

He guessed that the other party's age should be seventy or eighty, but if it was too old compared to the actual age, it should only be about fifty or sixty.

"Old woman!" Ye Chen shouted a few more times, but the other party still didn't speak.

Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue followed, and after walking for more than ten minutes, Ye Chen saw a low one-story earthen house, the old woman came to the door of the earthen house, pushed open the wooden door, and when they went inside, Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue also followed in.

When he entered the house, he found that there was no light in the earthen house, and it was all lit with oil lamps.

In the middle is a central hall, on either side of which are two rooms, and then in front is a small courtyard with a well, which is surrounded by stones and directly piled up, and around the courtyard is a wall directly enclosed.

Now Ye Chen went inside and saw the old woman coming out with a dilapidated iron plate, and there was a wood charcoal fire in the iron plate, and after the charcoal fire was burning, the old woman sat down next to the iron plate.

This makes Ye Chen even more strange, this weather is very hot in those big cities in Shanghai, you have to turn on the fan or air conditioner to sleep, in this Xiaowang Village, although it is the shade, but the temperature is not high or low, it is not cold, why does this old woman have to surround the fire?