Chapter 12: The Thief Appears

After three days of integrated training, not only the 20-odd or so members of the Liulin Village Self-Defense Force have taken on a new mental outlook, but even other villagers have also undergone great changes.

Originally, they were worried about epidemics, fears of thieves, and endured hunger. One by one, they feel hopeless about the future, and in the face of such a world, they are sad and helpless, and the only thing they can do is to wait for death and resign themselves to fate. In the end, they were killed by thieves or officers and soldiers, or starved to death.

But now, things are different.

When they were most desperate, Liu Fu took out life-saving food, and at the same time, under the placement arrangement of Liu Xian, the son of Liu Fu, they have no more infected people with the epidemic at present.

What's even more incredible is that the thirty or forty epidemic patients who were originally sick and quarantined, except for a dozen or so who have died, are still alive and look much better. The symptoms of the disease are also less obvious.

In general, patients with the disease have fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue, as well as diarrhea or vomiting, muscle atrophy or tiredness, and red eyes.

Liu Xian has observed them, if it is those patients whose muscles are atrophied and their eyes are already red, they are basically hopeless. The dozen or so who died basically had this symptom.

And the twenty or so people who are still alive are in other situations. Liu Xian deduced that they should have just been infected and the symptoms were not too deep.

However, if there is no or effective treatment for an epidemic, it usually takes two or three days from infection to death.

Now that three days have passed, and these 20 or so sick people are still alive, then at least it proves that Liu Xian's methods of rushing to the doctor should have played a certain role.

One more important point is very important.

It is a matter of the personal resistance of these villagers.

In this Liulin Village, since there have been cases of such epidemics, they have not directly infected everyone, but only a small number of them, and these people themselves are still with their families, and he is the only one who has been infected with the epidemic. This also shows that it is very likely that the person's body has poor resistance, so he is infected with these viruses.

Therefore, in the past two or three days, Liu Xian actually cooked a lot of broth for them to drink, supplement their nutrition, and enhance their physical resistance as much as possible.

While using those methods to treat them, and at the same time enhancing their physique, in this two-pronged way, these people's complexions are really much better. Maybe it will really get better and come back to life.

Liu Xian asked them to continue to isolate and treat, and each of them isolated each other to avoid reinfection between the sick people.

When it's good, they can come out and meet their relatives and live together.

It is precisely because the villagers who have been affected by the epidemic seem to have signs of improvement, and other villagers are more convinced and respectful of Liu Xian.

It can be said that now these villagers have completely regarded Liu Xian as their backbone. Even if there was no village chief Liang Ji to maneuver around, they would all obey Liu Xian's orders and obey them absolutely.

The people of this era are not as complicated as those of later generations. They are basically illiterate people, people who can't write their own names.

They are very simple and pure, and if you are good to them, they will be doubly good to you. Moreover, the ideas of loyalty, filial piety, courtesy and righteousness in ancient times have penetrated deeper into their hearts. Whoever is good to them, they can feel it, and they remember it in their hearts.

It's like in this ancient era, heroes save beauty, and beauties promise each other, it's too common. Unlike later generations, the grace of saving lives has become a joke on the Internet. But in these ancient times, this was really a very serious matter. The rescued beauties, people are really not talking, but sincerely want to make a promise.

In this era, people will keep in mind the grace of a meal and a drop of water. And take it as a virtue.

This is the traditional virtue of ancient China, people are united in words and deeds, and they do what they say.

Of course, Liu Xian didn't want them to make a personal promise.

Liu Xian took these men, women, and children, into a group of a woman, an old man, and a child about 10 years old, and asked them to carry dry food and disperse them around Liulin Village. Let them pretend to be wandering homeless people, hide on the side of the road and keep an eye on the situation around Liulin Village.

Once they find out, from a distance, they will tell the children who are about 10 years old to run back and report what they have seen. And they are all old men and women, with no long things, even if they don't hide well and can't escape, it is estimated that those thieves are too lazy to kill.

Of course, there is also a certain danger, if they encounter a thief who loves to kill, they are afraid that they will lose their lives.

Liu Xian talked to them about these situations and taught them how to save their lives first when they encounter such a situation.

However, don't look at the old and the young, even the women, they are not all timid and afraid of things. It's really in such troubled times, they don't have to be afraid if they have seen more dead people, it is rare for Liu Xian to give food to save his life, they all feel that it is appropriate to do things for Liu Xian, even if they lose their lives for this, this is also their life, and it is regarded as returning their lives to Liu Xian.

What's more, Liu Xian asked them to do these things, in fact, to save everyone and save more villagers in Liulin Village.

Look, this is the people of ancient times, how lovely they are.

And the villagers who didn't go out to keep an eye on them, they would also do what they could under Liu Xian's arrangement.

For example, collecting valuable things in the village, like cotton or something, are all valuable. It's already winter, and the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, so many women try to make as many warm clothes as possible.

The clothes of this era are all handmade, and there are still a lot of cloths preserved in Liu's mansion, and Liu Xian plans to make them all into clothes. Because after this period of danger, he planned to go elsewhere to buy food.

If he can collect more valuable materials now, and make more clothes and the like, then Liu Xian can take them to other towns and sell them, and use the money from the sale of these things to buy food.

Also, even in the cold winter, in fact, some crops can be planted, and even, if it is not for the appearance of thieves, Liu Xian wants to organize them to go to the field to grab some wheat. Although this cultivation period has passed, if the seeds are sown in time, they can barely catch up with the growing season.

But most of Liulin Village are women, and even if they are asked to grab seeds, they can't plant much, so it's better to do more manual work.

Facts have proved that Liu Xian's arrangement is effective.

On the fourth day, some villagers immediately discovered the traces of the thieves and ran back to report to Liu Xian as soon as possible.

The thief is finally here!