Jiang Qiufang rolled his eyes and asked with interest, "Grandma, what's going on?"

"It's better that outsiders don't want to know," said the old woman, who got up and lit the fire in the middle, and the three children also came to help, "Listen to grandma, get out of here quickly, if you are found by those people, you really can't leave." ”

"Who, who?" Nian Siqi quickly grasped the point.

The old grandmother brought another pot, it seems that this pot has been used for a long time, "Those little guards, Zhengyang City is only allowed to go out now, or there are no outsiders at all now." The current city lord is also having a headache, and ordinary people like us can only wait for the day when they suddenly die. ”

The old grandmother first added half a pot of water, then threw half a palm of millet into the pot, covered the pot, and continued: "You can't go out from here, there will be guards patrolling here almost every day, but now it is not very powerful, two months ago, almost all the roads were patrolling guards. Tsk, what a sin......"

After hearing this, Jiu Wentian felt that there was a gloomy feeling here, "Grandma, what is going on in this Zhengyang City?"

"Yes, grandma, we're curious, if we can't get out, we won't be able to go home. Nian Siqi also echoed.

"Well, since you want to know so much, then I, the old woman, will nag a few words," the old woman also sat around the fire, and surrounded the three children, "This matter will start from three months ago. ”

The lord of Zhengyang City was Gong Honghe, and he brought many exiles from outside, that is, some refugees and vagrants. Gong Honghe was a very righteous person, and he couldn't see others sleeping on the streets and starving to death outside, so he dragged them to his own city. In the beginning, there would be those people in front of the city lord's mansion to get food, three times a day.

Some of them found jobs in Zhengyang City and slowly adapted to life, and after half a month, those who received food decreased significantly. Gong Honghe is also very relieved that he can let them live again. However, there are some old, weak, sick and disabled people who have no way to work and no relatives, so they can only live on daily food.

These people who are not looking for jobs account for almost half of the original number of people in Zhengyang City, and three weeks later, the granary of Zhengyang City is about to bottom out. Originally, the harvest in Zhengyang City was not good, and Gonghonghe harvested less, so the reserves of the granary were also small. If this continues, Gong Honghe started the idea of military rations, but this was also opposed by many people.

But then many people got sick, Gong Honghe let a voice to see, this doctor is also a half-hanger, after reading it, he said that the weather is getting colder, and everyone sleeps at night without a quilt, causing a common cold. Gong Honghe sent a lot of quilts over when he heard the words, and those people were also ignorant, so they covered the quilt when they slept at night. After covering the quilt for days, two of those people died.

Gong Honghe ordered to investigate, and found that both of them had wet red parts, and the skin and flesh were festering, and they couldn't be seen after those people scratched and scratched. Alas...... Then the disease spread here, and we don't know how. I only knew that a doctor later told us that it was damp and hot, and if we found that there was a burning sensation in any part of our body, we would immediately report to the City Lord's Mansion.

Later, there were more people patrolling the streets, searching people from house to house, and as long as they were sick, they had to be taken to the city lord's mansion, so there were no people on the streets. But according to rumors, those damp red fever diseases will be fine as long as they don't cover the quilt and don't take a bath.

Which Cheng thought, this is what Jianghu Langzhong said, which made us sick dozens of times. The most terrifying thing by now is that no matter where you are, you can get sick, and this disease is very ugly when you die, and it is said that many people have died in the city lord's mansion.

At this time, the door of the grandmother's thatched house was opened, and a group of people in official uniforms came in, and said loudly: "What about the foreign children?

The leader glanced at the three of Jiu Wentian and said, "It's them, take them away!"

Just when the three of them were still a little confused, Jiu Wentian understood the current situation as soon as possible, and I am afraid that the three of them were outsiders spreading damp red fever. When Nian Siqi was about to resist, he heard Jiu Wentian's cough, and then Jiu Wentian shook his head at him. Nian Siqi gave up the struggle and said to the old grandmother, "Grandma, I'm really sorry to trouble you." ”

The old woman did not speak, but twisted her head to the side and let out a long sigh.

Jiu Wentian thought that he should be taken to the City Lord's Mansion, but he didn't expect to be loaded into a carriage first, and the three of them sat on the back box, listening to the noisy sound of the soldiers outside, and it was bumpy from time to time.

About ten minutes later, several people were pulled out of the car, and sure enough, as expected by Jiuwentian, the big plaque in front of them read three big characters of the City Lord's Mansion, but it was written in ancient characters, and Nian Siqi and Jiang Qiufang couldn't understand it. Jiu Wentian whispered: "This is the City Lord's Mansion, it seems that we have come to the right place." ”

was pushed in the back and said, "Hurry up and go in, don't infect others." Really, this place is so good, it's all these people who don't pay attention to personal hygiene. ”

Jiu Wentian didn't struggle, but strode forward, and the two people behind him followed reluctantly, but they still couldn't resist the fact that there were too many people here, and almost all of them were guarded soldiers. At this time, a muffled sound suddenly broke the silence here, and a person actually tumbled off the wall of the City Lord's Mansion, and fell directly to the ground because he was not steady, and then rolled wildly.

"Please, let me die, don't torture me...... Ahhhhh

The man struggled with a flushed face, and many of the soldiers did not dare to step forward to stop him with disgust, but he regained his strength and stood up, clutching his face frantically. Then with a loud roar, he ran towards a soldier, who raised his spear directly.

Flutter!

The man died motionless on the spear like this, presumably this is also the result of his own pursuit. Then the man's coarse clothes fell off, and it was clear that his back was almost festering, and it was all black carrion. Jiang Qiufang looked so disgusted that he was about to vomit, but Jiu Wentian and Nian Siqi saw incomprehensible fear.