"This Su family didn't hold a happy event yesterday, why did they hang up the white lantern of this funeral today?"

"You don't know yet, the little sister of the Su family is dead. ”

"Dead? Is it the one you got married yesterday?"

"Yes, married to that Cai Yi, Dr. Cai. I have only been a bride all night, and when I got up this morning, I had already changed into a white lantern at the door. ”

"How did this little sister of the Su family die?"

"It's not because of this damn pandemic. ”

"Alas, the good girl said that it was gone, how old it is. ”

"Who's to say it isn't. ”

Early in the morning, the neighbors who passed by noticed that the red lantern hanging in front of the Su family yesterday had been replaced by a white lantern, and the news that the little sister of the Su family died of the epidemic on the wedding night quickly spread throughout the city.

Everyone regretted it when they learned about it, you must know that the Nizi of the Su family is innocent and cute, and when she meets an older elder, she will always go over to say hello obediently, so she is very likable to the older generation. Many elders want to introduce her to a reliable man. But who knows that people are already famous, and they just got married yesterday and are separated by yin and yang today, how can they not regret it.

By the clear small lake, today's weather is exceptionally good, the blue sky and white clouds, the water is clear, and a breeze blows from time to time, which is very different from the black smoke and miasma in the city at the moment, and a desolation.

Cai Yi put Su Xiaoxiao's body on the pile of flowers, and the bright flowers were picked by him and Su Yan personally, because Su Xiaoxiao's favorite was this kind of wildflower before her death. It's good-looking, and more importantly, it doesn't cost money.

"You used to say that wild flowers are fragrant, and I will bring you tea every time you pick back the flowers. Well, now that I've picked so many flowers for you, I should be happy. Cai Yi looked at Su Xiaoxiao lying in the center of the pile of flowers, and said to himself.

"If Meng Po gives you soup, you must not drink it, I am afraid that you will not find me in the next life. ”

Cai Yi lit the pile of flowers with a fire, and the fire filled the sky in an instant. He didn't dare to look at Su Xiaoxiao, who was burning with flowers in the fire, and Su Yan had already wiped her tears from the side.

It was his sister, the closest person he had in this world. But his sister is more naughty, and she wants to go to another world to see it, but this time she will never return.

The fire burned for a long, long time, and when the fire burned out, only a pile of gray-white ashes remained. A gust of wind rose out of nowhere, raised the ashes, and sprinkled them all over the mountains and fields, living with the sun and the moon, and sleeping with heaven and earth.

"I know you're afraid of the dark, so you walk slowly, I'll come to you with a lantern, let's go together." ”

Su Xiaoxiao's clothes should basically be burned, and they should be thrown away, and in the end, only the money bag that was taken out of Cai Yi's arms was left. I heard Su Yan say that it was sewn by Su Xiaoxiao herself, and she saved the ten taels of shadows in it for half a year, which was to share the gift money for Cai Yi.

Cai Yi buried the money bag in the soil, and buried a little teardrop that fell down, he wiped his face indiscriminately, and there was a smile on his face.

"This is your dowry, and if I find out, you can take it and drink it. ”

The surrounding weeds were swaying from side to side by the wind, constantly hitting Cai Yi's back, as if they were talking for Su Xiaoxiao.

In his mind, Su Xiaoxiao was clenching her fists and staring at herself viciously.

"If you dare to take my dowry for drinking, you will die. ”

The epidemic in Jiangxia County is getting more and more serious, almost every household has held funerals, and many homeless people infected with the epidemic have been left to rot on the streets. The Son of Heaven ordered the city to be sealed, and anyone who stole out of the city without permission would be killed. In an instant, Jiangxia, a thousand-year-old capital, became a dead city.

At this time, a voice came out of nowhere, saying that Cai Yi had brought this devastating disaster to Jiangxia County. For a time, all the fingers were pointed at him.

Cai Yi will be spurned and blinded for no reason when he walks on the street, and all kinds of evil words will be spoken to by the former neighbors. He wanted to buy some firewood, rice, oil, and salt, but the store didn't sell it to him. He became a sinner in Jiangxia County and the object of Qianfu's referent.

As he walked back to the hospital, many people saw him look at her with hatred and pointed at her behind her back, as if he had caused the disaster.

Cai Yi doesn't care what others think of him, or rather, he has been used to this kind of gossip since he was a child.

A small child ran towards him.

The boy was unkempt, and without shoes, he stepped barefoot on the gravel ground, and his feet were ground with a trace of blood. Red spots have appeared on his hands and face, and it is clear that this child is also infected by the epidemic.

He stretched out his dirty little hands to Cai Yi, and looked at him pitifully with a pair of eyes, "Big brother, give me something to eat, I haven't eaten for two days." ”

Those eyes looked at him, as if the plainly dressed young man in front of him was his last hope.

Cai Yi smiled at him, as if he was not afraid of this young infected person at all.

"Little brother, where is your family?" he crouched down, as tall as a child.

The child just shook his head when he heard this, and his eyes turned red instantly, and he held back tears, as if something very sad came to his heart.

"My father and mother got sick and died of the epidemic a few days ago. I'm the only one left at home, and I know I'm sick too, but I want to live, and I want to survive until the day when I can be cured. Because of this, there is hope for our family, and my father and mother will be happy underground. ”

At that moment, Cai Yi's heart seemed to have been touched by something, he remembered that he was only nine years old when his parents died, and since then he has been alone in this world, studying medicine alone, supporting the entire medical hall alone, and insisting on his father's ideal of hanging a pot to help the world.

He actually reached out and touched the child's head, and the child subconsciously wanted to dodge, because he knew that he was infected with the epidemic, and if someone touched him, the epidemic would spread.

He didn't understand, why the plainly dressed young man in front of him had red eyes, why he wasn't afraid of the epidemic on his body at all?

He took out the last bit of loose silver from his body and gave it to the child, and then left him a sentence that he couldn't understand.

"Believe me, no one will leave. ”

He could clearly see that the young man had tears in his eyes the moment he got up to leave.

In the following days, Cai Yi plunged into the infirmary, and Su Yan also started to cook.

He did only three things a day, testing the medicine, eating and sleeping. There are even times when you can forget about the other two things in order to test the drug.

"Still failed. Cai Yi looked at the dying puppy in front of him and said disappointedly. "Why? What went wrong?"

The puppy lay on the ground and was dying, with red spots all over the dog's body, and his limbs twitched, and then he closed his eyes after a terrible scream, and his life was gone.

Cai Yi slammed the table in anger, and then buried his face in his palm.

"Chen Ai has three roots, one calamus, one prunella grass, and three pieces of ten mulberry leaves, obviously these medicinal materials, why is there no effect at all?" he said to himself, he had tested hundreds of times, and finally found a few medicinal materials to fight the epidemic. However, after he developed a prescription, not only did it not have the effect of removing the epidemic, but it backfired, and directly let the puppy die.

"Xiaoxiao, can you tell me what to do now? I'm a doctor, but now I can't even cure the sick and save people, so what doctor am I worthy of?" he looked out the window at the pitch black, and the smiling face suddenly appeared in his mind. If she was still around, he would have persuaded him not to give up, and he would reach out and pinch her smiling face, and then smile at each other.

But nothing, nothing.

He lay on the table, not daring to think about anything more, at this time he was like a small boat floating in the endless sea, let the wind and waves blow, lonely.

"There's nothing wrong with the prescription, it's just that it's missing. ”

A voice came from behind him.

He jerked his head up and looked behind him, where a man wrapped in a black robe had appeared in his room out of nowhere.

"Who are you?" he asked, standing up and staring at the black-robed man of unknown origin in front of him.

"Instead of asking who I am, think about who you are, or who are you going to become?" The voice from under the black robe was a little young, but the person under the black robe should not be much older.

"What do you mean by that?" The more Cai Yi listened, the more he felt that he was in the clouds, and he couldn't figure out the meaning of the black-robed man at all.

"Haha. A clear laugh came from under the black robe, "A little doctor, are you thinking of being a savior?"

"Listening to what you mean, could it be that you are the culprit of this epidemic?" Cai Yi gritted his teeth and said, if it was really as he said, then today he would desperately kill the black-robed man in front of him.

After hearing this, the black-robed man did not rush to answer, but stretched out two fingers.

"One, no one is to blame for this epidemic, and if you want to blame it for those sinners who want to kill hunting creatures. This is a punishment from God. ”

"Two, don't you want to know why you have come into contact with so many people who have contracted the epidemic, but why you yourself have not contracted the epidemic?"

The two words of the black-robed man suddenly reached Cai Yi's heart. Yes, no one is to blame for this epidemic, if Aqing's father hadn't eaten the meat of the deer, he wouldn't have contracted the source of the epidemic, which caused this disaster.

He was very strange that he had obviously touched Su Xiaoxiao and had come into contact with many people suffering from the epidemic, but he had not been infected with the epidemic, and the reason for this could not even be explained by a doctor.

"Why?" Cai Yi fell into deep thought, and only asked after half a sound.

The black-robed man retracted his fingers under the black robe, and although he couldn't see his appearance clearly, he could vaguely feel that the black-robed man's gaze had been staring at him closely.

"As I just said, your prescription lacks a hint of medicine. ”

"What is it?" Cai Yi asked, he suddenly became inexplicably nervous, and a little cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Your blood. There was a little coldness in the black-robed man's tone. He pointed to the medicine pot that Cai Yi usually pinned to his waist next to the table.

"With your blood as a medicine guide, the blood of a medicine pot can save tens of thousands of people in Jiangxia. You can use your blood as medicine, and a medicine pot is enough to make you die. Do you want to be the savior of the world, or do you want to be the only one who can survive this epidemic?"

He was a little distracted, he could cure the epidemic by using his own blood as medicine, if he had known earlier, then Su Xiaoxiao would not have died. A little earlier, a little earlier, she wouldn't have to die!

He laughed, he burst into tears.

In the eyes of others, exchanging the lives of one person for the lives of ten thousand is of course a surefire deal, but what if you exchange your own lives for the lives of others? Presumably, no one can agree to it neatly.

"Why? Why are you telling me?" he asked, tearful. The fists were clenched to death, and the nails were stabbed into the flesh.

"Your choice, about my bet with an old immortal, in fact, I am also cheating. The black-robed man's tone was indifferent, as if anyone's life and death had nothing to do with him.

"What if I didn't turn out to be what you expected?" he looked up at the black-robed man.

"I've never lost. ”

After leaving a sentence that may only be understood by himself, he disappeared from Cai Yi's sight like a gust of wind, as if he had never appeared.

"Don't let me down. ”