Chapter 281: An iron box

Xiao Rin listened very carefully, and didn't miss any keyword, but the suspicion began to spread in the depths of his heart, which was different from the annotations in the Dragon Soul database, and according to the time described by the old man, it did not coincide with the time of the medical experts sent down, if it wasn't someone from Yanjing, who would it be?

"After the medical team came, none of these people remained, but the epidemic never happened again."

"Oh?" Xiao Rin frowned, thoughtful.

"Not long ago, a clansman went to the former village to visit the married daughter, fainted on the way back, and died not long after carrying it back, and the people who had also been in contact with her began to have a fever one after another, and red spots appeared on the body, the same condition as the first time, just ......"

"It's just, they're all poisoned, aren't they?" Xiao Rin continued to speak on behalf of Old Man Miao.

"No, they're not poisoned." When he heard the old man's words, Xiao Rin couldn't help but be surprised, he was quite confident in his medical skills, from the symptoms of those people just now, it was indeed a phenomenon of poisoning, and he couldn't help asking, "How do you say this?" ”

"Follow me!" After saying that, the old man Miao walked to a house with game hanging at the door, he did not enter the door directly, but opened the small door next to the main house, and a cool wind rushed in his face, accompanied by this damp earthy smell, this is a cellar, and it is dug very deep.

The old man lit a kerosene lamp from the side and bent down and walked in, Xiao Rin followed behind. In such a remote place, almost every house has a cellar that is used to store food or home-brewed wine, but this cellar is a little different, not only is it deep, but the further you go, the more you can feel the convection in the air, indicating that there is not only one outlet here, there is fresh air.

Xiao Rin is even more sure that this old man is not an ordinary person, Xiao Rin did not take precautions, but he did not believe it easily, but it was too mysterious, but it made people have layers of doubts.

"Old man Miao!" Xiao Rin shouted at the person who walked forward with his head covered at an inappropriate time, not that he was timid, there was nothing in this world that could make him afraid, he just didn't want to know other people's secrets.

"Those pills are right up ahead." The old man did not look back, put his hands behind his back, and walked steadily and quickly. He seemed to be in a hurry, Xiao Rin had to follow behind, and the old man's urgency and irritability were obvious.

Walking out of the cellar, Xiao Rin found that they were very close to the original school playground. In fact, as long as you walk a few steps to the ancestral hall of the Miao family, you can come to this position, what I don't understand is why the old man Miao took him around in such a circle.

"Avoid people's eyes!" As if he saw Xiao Rin's question, the old man was generally tinkering with a pile of old furniture, while explaining. And a simple sentence contains too much meaning in it, Xiao Rin is a smart person, how can he not understand the truth in it. Immediately afterwards, Old Man Miao said: "Although I don't know who you are, since Tong Tong said that he believes in you, then I will believe you for the time being." ”

After tinkering for a long time, an iron box appeared in front of him, which was quite well preserved, except for the marks left by the repeated opening of the lock, there was no rust at all, and even the paint on the corners was not scraped off, which showed the protection of Old Man Miao and its importance.

At this moment, Old Man Miao spoke: "The poisoning you saw was done by me. ”

Xiao Rin unconsciously raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything: "After Xiao Jiu reported it, we didn't receive any more information, I don't know when the government will send someone over, this is the only medicine that can delay their lives." ”…,

Xiao Rin's attention was always on the iron box, this was not an ordinary iron box, but judging from his double-layer hollow design, the production process was quite fine, and although the lock was designed with the most ordinary buckle, there was a hidden buckle. It is the most ordinary box for an ordinary person, but it is different for those who know how to do it, there are not many people in the entire Yanjing who can have such a box, Xiao Rin's eyes became very sharp for a while.

"Old man Miao, do you remember the medical team that sent you medicines?"

"You can recognize it when it turns to ashes." Old Man Miao's anger can almost be described by gritting his teeth, he took out a box half the size of A4 paper from the box and handed it to Xiao Rin: "Since you are a doctor, you should be able to understand these things." ”

Stuffing the box into the pocket of his windbreaker, Xiao Rin was not in a hurry to see these medicines in the first place, at this moment he was most concerned about these people, and couldn't help asking: "Old man Miao, I hope you can recall what this group of medical teams looked like at that time." ”

"You're just a school doctor."

Sensing the old man's vigilance, Xiao Rin was a little helpless: "I'm a military doctor, and you just saw that the helicopter I was riding in is a military aircraft." ”

The old man didn't seem to notice what Xiao Rin was saying, he squatted on the ground and smoked his cigarette, and it was that kind of absolute look, he always looked at a certain place and didn't say a word.

Xiao Rin couldn't help but be curious about this old man, although the law that curiosity can kill a cat would not appear in Xiao Rin's principle, but the old man's absolute had to make him reverie.

"More than two months ago, a dozen people in military uniforms suddenly came to the village, and among them there were two foreigners, who spoke fluent Chinese."

"Old man Miao, you said they were soldiers?" For this, Xiao Rin was surprised, his heart was turbulent, he seemed to smell the conspiracy after this mutated virus, but where was the motive? What's the point of just threatening a small place? Or is there something special about this place? Xiao Rin looked at Old Man Miao, as a person of the Dragon Soul, he had to consider more far-reaching possibilities.

"I don't know if it's really a soldier, their head is a woman, a very beautiful woman." Old man Miao spit out a puff of cigarette, coughed a few times and then spit out a mouthful of phlegm: "As soon as they came, they went to visit the patient, we really thought they were coming to save the savior, and to be honest, these people are quite ...... There is quality. ”

"If it's a general military medical institution, there will be obvious signs, are you old, have you noticed?"

"Logo? Do you mean something like a badge? Old Man Miao glanced at Xiao Rin and pointed to the box and asked.

His eyes fell on the smooth and flawless surface again, and Xiao Rin secretly scolded his carelessness. The brand is fused with a special carving technique and the veins of the iron sheet itself, and you really can't find anything if you don't look closely.

"Are you really just a doctor?" Old Man Miao watched Xiao Rin use his mobile phone to take pictures of the surface of the iron sheet, around, inside and outside.

"Don't I look like a doctor, old man?" Xiao Rin put away his phone and smiled at the suspicious old man Miao.

The message was sent to a mobile phone number as soon as possible, and all that remained was to wait: "Don't worry, I will do my best to treat them...... Old man Miao, I ......"

As soon as he walked out of the cellar door, he heard someone shouting something in a local dialect, but Xiao Rin didn't continue.

"Another one died." The old man locked the door, he was used to seeing this kind of scene, and the whole village was also used to seeing this kind of scene, less crying and shouting, more thick sadness, the old man looked at Xiao Rin deeply and said: "You are really a doctor, just stop this death." ”…,

Doctors are not gods! Xiao Rin wanted to say this, but he couldn't say it, his hand touching the medicine box tightened, and he followed the old man to the ancestral hall.

A person ran from a distance, lowered his head after seeing Old Man Miao, and always followed him, until he finished dealing with the deceased's funeral, and then quietly shouted: "Old man!" ”

"This is Dr. Xiao, tell him what you know again." Old Man Miao scooped a bowl of water from a wooden bucket on the table and gave it to Xiao Jiu.

There is a wooden bucket and a bowl on the table, there are not many wells that can be supplied in the village, and sometimes they need to go to the mountains to carry it, so water is a very precious food here, Xiao Rin silently watched their actions, and seemed to realize something.

"Doctor Xiao, hello, I'm Miao Jiu, you can call me Xiao Jiu, just ask."

Xiao Jiu was very short, less than 170 centimeters tall, very thin.

His long hair was coiled back and he wore a turban in Miao clothes. He is a member of a small group who moved back to the village with his wife and children in the early years, and because he had studied, he helped to do some uploading and distributing work.

"Xiao Jiu, how far is this from the nearest village?"

"Just go over the hill in front of you." Xiao Jiu pointed to a mountain in front of the entrance of the village and replied incomprehensibly.

"Well, you go ahead and talk about the situation here."

"The sixth aunt went to Lincun to visit her married daughter, I happened to go to the city to buy some daily necessities that day, and on the way back, I saw her fall to the ground, so I went back to the village and called someone to help." Xiao Jiu glanced at Old Man Miao and continued: "The sixth aunt didn't survive that night, and in the next few days, the people who helped carry her together were also infected, at first they hid at home with chills and didn't dare to go out, and then they began to feel dizzy and had a high fever. ”

"Are there any other symptoms?" These are routine performances, and Xiao Rin wants to know more about other potential problems.

"Hmm...... People will have convulsions and will babble gibberish. Most of those infected do not survive more than three days. ”

"Old man Miao, with all due respect."

"Please!"

"There is a habit of sharing a well, a bucket of water, and a bowl in the village, which may be the most direct way to spread the virus. Xiao Rin said very tactfully, you must know that the villages in the mountains have their own customs and culture, for an outsider, it is difficult to change, but this must be changed, he is not completely sure of it, but this is the best way to put an end to it.

"There is only one well in the village!" Xiao Jiu hurriedly explained that water is their treasure, if they can't even use it, how can they live.

PS: National Day, two chapters updated, starting this month, there should be a lot of time to write, the goal is 5,000 words a day!