Chapter 156 The Plague Outbreak (Thanks to QQ Book Friends for their Life and Return to Ann and Warmth 1398 Reward)
"It's not a stone bullet this time!"
"It's a cow or a sheep from the sky!"
"Look!"
Countless villagers in the city saw the cattle and sheep thrown into the city, and they rushed to cut meat clips and take them home.
When Mi Huang and Cheng Jia rushed down the mountain, even some soldiers joined the scramble, and Mi Huang shouted first, "Before checking whether it is poisoned outside the city, all soldiers and civilians are not allowed to take it for consumption!"
However, the frenzied robbery team was too large, and the cattle, sheep and food were thrown into the city, and round after round, led to not only scrambling but also bloodshed between the army and the people.
Seeing that there were still people who didn't stop, Mi Huang ordered, "One arrow, tell them all to stop for me!"
"If you don't stop, you will be dealt with according to military law!"
"Yes, lady!"
Without saying a word, Yoyuki led people forward, quickly stopped the soldiers who took the lead in the scramble, and demanded that everyone hand over the cattle and sheep.
"Hand over all the cattle and sheep!"
Since the day when Phoenix Mountain was besieged, it was necessary to receive food according to the head of the person every day from the beginning of the Huanghuang Dynasty, and the civilians also received food, which made the soldiers of the Ruo Ao clan dissatisfied because they were divided into rations.
At this time, face the "food" sent by God!
There are countless people who are excited.
"Your Highness, we only grabbed a few, and all of them are here!"
Several leading generals will eventually give out some cattle and sheep in the identity of Mihuang's daughter, but some people can't help but step forward to reason with Mihuang.
"Your Highness, since the daily food for human beings in the city, many soldiers have not eaten meat for a long time, even if such a good meat is broken, you can cook a broth for the soldiers to replenish their strength!"
"Only then will we have the strength to continue fighting!"
"Otherwise, now that our food has been distributed to the untouchables, how can we live?" even the generals who rushed over Qi Da, Yao Jun and other generals nodded when they heard this.
If Ao Ziyong is fine, they will be fine.
It's just that I wonder about Yue Jiao's true intentions.
"I understand your feelings. It's just that this thing is so strange, do you think the enemy will send us food in the city for no reason? Or do you think you will?"
"Don't worry about the toxicity?!"
Mi Huang pressed his sword and looked at each of them, and said in a cold voice, "This lady doesn't want you to test the enemy's intentions with your lives, and finally die, so I stopped you!"
Heard that cattle and sheep are poisonous.
All the soldiers and civilians finally changed color and calmed down, as if they saw something dangerous, and handed over their cattle and sheep one after another.
Cheng Jia squatted on the ground through handkerchiefs and masks, and checked with his hands some of the sparse cattle and sheep that had been thrown into the city for a long time, and he couldn't see any good or bad problems, so he could only order someone to take a silver needle to test the poison, but a few military doctors tried the non-toxic reaction for a long time, but they always felt that they were still not at ease.
He could only take off his mask, threw away the stained handkerchief in his hand, and said, "Okay, let's collect all these cattle and sheep first!" After the old doctor examines it, if there is really no problem, I believe that the lady will redistribute these meat to everyone according to the rank of human beings and each soldier, soldier and civilian. ”
"Hmm!"
Mi Huang nodded.
During the war, the importance of food is even higher than life, so it is not easy for all the soldiers and civilians to take the initiative to hand it over, so she said, "Qi Da, Yao Jun, Zi Yong, so that from now on I will pass on my order, as long as the cattle and sheep are handed over, the reward will be rewarded, and the person who hides the cattle and sheep will be severely punished! After all the cattle and sheep are inspected, this lady will distribute them separately according to the head!"
"If there is a problem, incinerate it immediately!"
"Yes!"
This clear punishment finally made all the soldiers and civilians complain, and all the soldiers did not leave, but were summoned again to discuss the unbelievable actions of the opposite side tonight, and even the old doctor who is now the head of the "military doctor" was also seated.
The Phoenix Hall and the Phoenix Palace are connected by an iron-locked suspension bridge, and countless people pass between the two palaces, going in and out, reporting various situations.
Mi Huang sat on the main seat and listened, constantly sorting out the opinions of the various armies and reissuing various orders.
In the heavy rain outside the hall, there was a small scout team of more than 20 people who was returning quickly, and before he even had time to report, Ashin rushed into the main hall soaking wet, and then looked at the soldiers of the six departments of Ruoao in the first hall, his expression was slightly stagnant, and he knelt down and said, "Lady, I have important military information that needs to be reported separately!"
"Then I will retire first!"
When the soldiers heard this, they led people to exit the hall first.
And when Zida walked out of the main hall, on the dim hall, the eyes of the two hurriedly staggered, one quickly glanced at the other party and lowered his head, and the other glanced at the cloth bag that the other party had brought into the hall under his armpit.
Yao Jun turned around and beckoned to the backward Qida, "What are you looking at?"
"Let's go! It's going to be dawn, let's hurry to get today's meal, otherwise we won't miss it, and then we'll be back." ”
Zida withdrew his gaze and smiled.
"Nothing, let's go. ”
Seeing that Ruo Ao's six departments had all left the main hall, Ashin immediately ordered someone to stay outside the hall, and then stepped forward alone, presented a secret letter in the cloth bag, and said in a low voice, "Lady, Lord Youtu, this is the secret letter we just intercepted!"
"What secret message?"
Mi Huang looked at the letter in his hand and didn't open it, but the secret letter that could make Ashin look so nervous must not have asked simply.
"If Ao Erbu sent a secret letter out of the city!"
Ashin took out the token on the intercepted messenger from his bosom, and the word "two" was written on it, which was the token of the second part.
"Zida?"
Mi Huang took it, looked through the main hall, through the closed Zhu Gate, and looked at Qi Da and the others who had not gone far outside the hall.
"My brothers were originally only ordered to guard against the rebellion of the Sixth Division, which had just surrendered, and to ventilate and report outside the city. But I didn't expect that someone really sent someone out of the city secretly, and went out of the city along the lake after the mountain, so our people secretly intercepted this group of people, but it was not six, but two. ”
"Got it!"
"Return this letter untouched, pretend that Ruo Ao Yue Jiao dried it, and then inform Zida!"
Hearing this, Mi Huang handed back the token and silk book in his hand, and said.
"Yes!"
Ashin received the order, but his thick eyebrows furrowed deeply, "But the princess, they sent secret messages at will without the permission of the princess...... Obviously, Ruo Ao is the second department, and now Ruo Ao Yuejiao is also attacking us, so we have to guard against ......"
"And the content of the letter, Ashin is worried that if it is sent to the colt, there will be a big mess!"
"Okay, this is just a normal message, don't think about it!
Mi Huang's eyes were like torches, he looked at Ashin, raised his hand to intercept the words behind him, and said firmly, "I am one husband and wife with the horse, and the horse is on the Northern Expedition, and I need to clearly understand all the situations in the country in order to make all preparations for the return to the north, even if Qida and they don't send someone to deliver the letter, I have already sent Su Cong to deliver the letter!"
"Yes, lady!"
Ashin gave up.
Mi Huang slowly walked to the front of the Kanyu map of the Phoenix Mountain Boundary, and looked at the dead wood outside the window with an inexplicable expression.
……
But within two days later, Cheng Jia's typhoid fever worsened again, and the previous serious injury and typhoid fever finally caused a high fever, and he was groggy from the fever, lying on the bed to the point that he couldn't get up, and he could only listen to the doctor jump outside the curtain and scold him for being "stupid and stupid".
He didn't have the strength to laugh or scold back, but he could only hear Jing'an outside, and he must be red-faced again, holding the collar of the old doctor and fighting back and forth.
This old and young!
"Where is Childe stupid?"
"Childe finally rushed out of Yue Jiao's assassination, and caught up with such a big chaos in the country. ”
"I held on for so long in order to rush to Phoenix Mountain!"
"Is it in order to quell the civil strife, ignoring yourself and calling yourself stupid?"
"Or are you so smart, you should be this right disciple?"
"You old guy, you are chattering on weekdays, and now you are still arguing here, my son-in-law is not as knowledgeable as you, an old guy who doesn't know where to come from, but Jing'an, I have long seen that you are unhappy, take good care of my son!"
"Be careful, sir, I'll serve with my fists!"
"You...... You stinky boy!"
The old doctor was carried by the neck and couldn't breathe, scolded for a long time, and finally ignored himself.
Chen Huangcheng and others were also persuaded on the side, and Shen Wuxing was worried in their hearts, but they didn't know what to do.
Among these chaotic voices was a woman's deep voice, "All go out, just leave Azhu here to take care of it!"
"Yes!"
"Qi Da, Yao Jun, Huo Dao, Ouyang Nai, Ruo Ao Ziyong, Chen Si Defeat, Shen Xianyin, Cheng Zuo Yin, you come with me!"
Cheng Jia listened to the order in a daze and wanted to get up, but the Zhumen "creaked" and closed again, and the room was silent without those sounds, and he wanted to sleep but didn't dare to sleep.
And with the outbreak of Cheng Jia's illness, but within three or five days, the people who took care of him also fell ill one after another, and in the end, there were also patients in the city.
The doctor and the elderly must wear anti-epidemic masks to enter and exit the test, and in the end, it was found that everyone had the same symptoms, high fever and fever, herpes in the mouth, unbearable pain, and moaning......
Same symptoms as Cheng Jia.
He frowned and looked at all the sick patients, moaning in pain, such a sight only happens when the plague breaks out, "Silly boys, I'm afraid this is not the inflammation after a serious injury, I'm afraid they are infected with malaria plague!"
"How can there be an outbreak of malaria?"
Mi Huang wore a mask, twisted his eyebrows, tightened his palms, night sweats, and looked slightly frightened through the heavy curtain to look at the man who was sick and moaned "coughing".
At this moment, her gaze was deeply stained with anxiety.
"Malaria is most likely to spread from sick people, lady, do you remember the dead cattle and dead sheep that Lao Situ threw into the city a few days ago?"
"It burned at the time!"
The old doctor put his hands in the hot water to wash and disinfect them, and at the same time ordered everyone to do the same, and everyone in the city should drink hot water, and never drink raw water or food from unknown sources.
"But I remember that the stinky boy said that he had come into contact with those cattle and sheep, and it was likely that he was infected at that time, and at that time, there were many soldiers and civilians in the city who were greedy for meat, and there was a crazy robbery and private storage, I am afraid that something went wrong at that time!"
"It is even possible that some people have eaten sick cattle and sheep ......"
The doctor thought of the worst-case scenario, which meant that it was possible for each of them to be infected, but there was just no outbreak.
"You mean the sick cows and the sick sheep?"
"Didn't Cheng Jia and I order someone to burn it at that time?"
"It's hard to say this kind of thing, before the big war, those low-level soldiers or who are happy to see the flesh may secretly hide and eat ......," the doctor said ruthlessly.
Hearing this, Mi Huang's gaze was deep.
As a lady, all her food is individual, and in order to lead by example, she never asks for large meat to eat, or to eat alone, so she doesn't eat it.
However, once the plague broke out, according to the law of Chu, all the infected people would be isolated, and all the dead would be burned to death, just like the short-lived epidemic that broke out outside the city last winter.
Death, hunger, pestilence, panic that can occur in all major wars......
At this moment, all followed.
Coming.
Caught her off guard.
A country facing the Notch.
At this time, she felt even more the weight on her shoulders that King Chu had given her.
How heavy it is.
It's so heavy that it's not just because of Cheng Jia's life, but also everyone's life, if she waits any longer, everyone may die.
……
Sure enough, when she wanted to get closer to confirm Cheng Jia's condition, she was stopped by everyone, and even the doctor didn't let her come forward!
"Lady, for your safety, we must leave quickly!"
"This palace must be quarantined and sealed immediately!"
"The people inside, can't come out!"
The plague is no joke!
It's a lot of people who will die!
Qi Da didn't wait for her to order, and immediately led someone to pull all of them out of Cheng Jia's palace room, and pulled out the white police line with white silk, except for the female doctor, temple people, and palace maids who were in charge of taking care of them.
No one is allowed to approach any further.
She stood outside the police line, her eyes passing through the closed carved red door, as if she saw the people inside laughing and saying that they were fine, but her face became very solemn little by little.
His eyes looked at the old doctor like electricity, and he asked in a deep voice, "Old doctor, is there no way?"
"The plague is ......"
The old doctor didn't dare to say the rest of the words, and the two words swirled on his tongue, but he couldn't say it.
Incurable disease!
There is no cure.
Malaria is even more so.
Once it breaks out.
Tens of thousands of people have died, although it is still only the beginning of the outbreak, and only a dozen people have been infected.
He shook his head and said, "I hope the stinky boy is okay too...... But he ......"
Looking at Mi Huang, he wanted to speak several times and stopped, wanting to say that he was injured for her, but he didn't want Mi Huang to feel more guilty, so he could only say, "I was already injured, and I was already overwhelmed by the hard work for days, and I was also infected with wind and cold. ”
"For such a seriously injured person, the body's resistance to the invasion of external evils will naturally decrease!"
At this moment, he hated that the medical skills of this era were so backward, and he couldn't see the era of developed medicine that Cheng Jia said, and hated that he was already gray-haired and dying, and he hadn't yet pushed the medical skills to more people in his hands, and healed more people with him.
Jing'an finally became anxious at this point, "No, you can't do this! If it weren't for my son-in-law, no one would be able to rescue the princess from the eastern suburbs!"
"Yes, Elder Healer, I now order that you must be healed as a right disciple, this is the king's order!"
Mi Huang looked at everyone and looked at the old doctor.
"The country needs him!"
"He can't die!"
"Did you hear that, old man, the lady has given her life, you hurry up and let me go in to save people!"
Jing'an angrily carried the old doctor again to pick up the white silk, and got in, ignoring the shouts of the people behind him.
"Wait...... I didn't say we couldn't help it, but we had to be prepared!"
"At the same time, we must quickly find out the source of the epidemic in the city, and see if anyone has stolen and eaten those sick cattle and sheep to avoid greater infection!"
"Yes, find out who is hiding!"
When Jing'an and Qida searched the whole city, the soldiers in charge of distributing food remembered a few people as soon as they heard the terrible "epidemic", and hurriedly led them to the rear of the barracks, pointing to a fire room and saying, "Head, it's a few of them!"
"At that time, we were going to dispose of it, but these guys were proud to say that they were guaranteed to be completed!"
"They must have harmed the right disciple and the soldiers in the city!"
"Now I'm sick too!"
At this time, when Jing'an and the others found the culprit who hid the cattle and sheep, several men were already infected with the same disease as Cheng Jia and could not afford to have a high fever, so it was very easy to find them.
Originally, they were ordered to burn it, but when they saw that the war was imminent, they were afraid that the besieged city would lack food and starve, so they secretly hid in the kiln and froze it, but they were infected with other food in the kiln.
Pan Chong frowned at these seriously ill men, "Punish them with disrespect for military orders, and burn them and bury them!"
"Yes, Master!"
Mi Huang also ordered people to burn all the food in the entire kiln, and isolated all the men who had come into contact with these foods in the back mountain, which became a forbidden area for a while.
However, this alone does not solve the problem.
As the news spread that someone was infected with "malaria", the entire Phoenix Mountain fell into a panic for a while.
"But that's not enough!"
Everyone panicked at this moment, "Your Highness, if we don't hold on any longer, we will all be infected and die!"
"Hurry up and figure it out!"
"This must be a poisonous plan that Lao Situ has come up with after waiting for so many days to force us out of the city!" Pan Chong said with great certainty.
"What a vicious ploy!"
Pan Chong's eyes were incomparably clear for the first time, and his face was deep and terrifying, "He is taking the lives of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people to pay for Situ Nan's life alone! ”