——In a village in Youzhou

A man knelt in front of the door of a mansion, and in front of him was a rich man wearing a mask, although he couldn't see his face clearly, but from his eyebrows, he could see that the man looked disgusted with the kneeling man.

"Please, my mother is really not good, please lend me some money, I promise, I promise that I will pay you back in the future!"

"Douzi, we grew up together, we are all villagers, and I can't see death without saving, or that sentence, when did you take the consistent money you borrowed last year... No, this is a rolling interest, it should be five times now, you just need to pay back the five times, not to mention borrowing you consistently, borrowing you two times of money. The rich man said with a smile on his face.

"Steward Zhang, where does our family have five guan money, there are really so many, I won't come to beg you!" Bean's tears and snot dripped to the ground, and the whole person kept kowtowing, but this could not be exchanged for a trace of pity.

"That's it, who called our family benevolent and righteous, we grew up from childhood to adulthood, we can't watch you die, in this way, don't you still have a sister? It's okay for me to remember, you can sell it to our family as a slave with your sister, and I'll lend you money, how about it? ”

"My sister?"

"Yes, your sister, think about it, I've heard about it, does Mr. Ma from Jixian County know? Immortal disciple! He has already said, this time the black plague, ordinary people get it, nine deaths, look at you, you don't even have a mask, and you don't have soap, ah, yes, I think you are probably infected now, by the way, do you know what infection is? Even if your mother has the plague, you will get it too! You can still be worth some money now, and when you also get sick, let alone sell your body, you can't sell your meat at a price! Think about it! ”

After speaking, Steward Zhang walked into the gate with his legs, the dark gate was slammed shut, Douzi looked at the gate, and stood up slowly, his eyes full of despair.

When Douzi returned home, her sister, who was taking care of her mother, hurriedly asked, "Brother, what's wrong?" Got the money borrowed? ”

"Brother is useless!" Douzi sat on the ground and cried, looking at the bean who was crying in her head, her sister understood in her heart.

"Or... Elder brother.. You sold me. ”

Although she was only eleven or twelve years old, her sister already understood that she might be the most valuable thing in the family.

Yes, it's something.

Do the poor count as people?

Not counts!

"What nonsense are you talking about! How can I sell you! ”

"What should I do? Li Zheng said, this disease can only be treated by doctors from Jixian County, how to treat it if there is no money, is it just to see that my mother is dead? ”

As she spoke, my sister began to cry too.

There is a saying in later generations that there is only one disease in the world, the disease of poverty.

Ma Qiang has a large amount of money and food donated by the family, of course, this is mainly based on Ma Qiang's ability to come up with a way to cure the plague, so Ma Qiang can treat people who have plague in Jixian County for free.

But it is impossible for other counties to be like this, and the affordable treatment is already a Qing official, and it is more about raising prices, like Liu Bei's hometown Zhuo County, the price of a pound of dried kelp is already more expensive than a pound of meat, and as for masks, it is the price of silk that sells linen.

As for the miracle medicine injected with a syringe, it is a legend at all.

Ma Qiang can't make sodium bicarbonate that can supply the entire Youzhou.

At least not in a short period of time.

"And Li Zheng also said, this disease is contagious, you have to wash your hands with soap, you need masks, where does our family have the money to buy those things, instead of waiting for me to have black plague and sell it without bidding, it is better for me to sell myself now, brother, you are the only son of our family, you have to live."

"My sister~~"

The brother and sister hugged their heads and cried.

A serious illness can destroy a poor family in any era.

"Beans, beans, at home?"

Douzi heard someone shouting outside, wiped his tears, and looked back to see that it was the neighbor next door.

"Uncle, I'm here, what's wrong?"

"Your mother is saved, Taiping Dao has come to our village to give alms to the water."

"What? The immortals of Taiping Dao are here? ”

Douzi immediately picked up his wife and ran out, his mother was very thin and thin, Douzi picked up and hugged a bundle of firewood, and came to the road, there were already many people on the road.

"Immortals, immortals, save my mother!" Beans shouted loudly as they pushed through the crowd.

"Fu water is limited, we only save the Taoist friends of Taiping Dao." The Taoist priest who distributed the talisman water glanced at him and shook his head and said.

"I... I am willing to be a Taoist friend, how to be? ”

"Would you like to?"

"I'm willing... As long as you don't let me sell my sister. ”

"You regard our Taiping Dao as a rich family in your village, right? We are all poor people in Taiping Dao, don't do those things, you go to register, kowtow to the statue of the great sage and good teacher, and get a yellow belt, I will tell you first, one day into my Taiping Dao, you will be a person of our Taiping Dao for the rest of your life, and if someone is in trouble in the road in the future, you have to help. ”

"It's nature." Hearing that it was so simple, Douzi only felt that he was so lucky.

"Brother... Elder brother... Is my mother saved? My sister caught up at this time, and Douzi turned around and cried with joy, "It's saved, it's saved, you wait, I'll go to the Dao, I'll go to the Dao!" ”

Douzi put the mother in his arms on the edge of a tree, quickly pressed the handprint, and became a member of the glorious Taiping Dao.

When a Taoist priest saw that he had entered the Tao, he told him some rules, and then took the talisman water for Douzi's mother to drink.

"Mother, there is Fu Shui, if you can survive, you will definitely survive!" The bean brothers and sisters are waiting for the miracle with an expectant face.

"Dao Chief, why are we so difficult, when will such a day be a head?" One of the people suddenly shouted.

"Yes, Immortal Master, why have we been suffering... I haven't eaten meat in two years. ”

"I've been in the past three years!"

Several Taoist priests glanced at each other, and one of the Taoist priests said, "Fellow Daoists, it's very simple, God has eyes, he can see everything below, the reason why disasters are falling from the sky now, and all living beings are suffering, is because someone provoked the wrath of the sky!" ”

"What people!"

"yes, we didn't do anything wrong? Why should we be punished? ”

"Arrest the man who made God angry and burn him to sacrifice to the sky!"

"It's not ordinary people who can provoke the wrath of the sky, and I don't know who it is, but I think it's those powerful people."

"Powerful and powerful..."

No one dares to say anything about arresting the people who have provoked the wrath of the heavens, the powerful and powerful people and they are completely two-dimensional creatures, they can't afford to provoke them.

But such a passage planted a seed in everyone's hearts, and this seed will slowly sprout, and finally burst out with the power to destroy the world.