Chapter 126: Crossing the Yellow River Eastward
"What about Xiao Zhi and Yachi?" At dinner, Dr. Sun, who had returned to the camp, looked left and right, but there were no two of them, so he couldn't help asking.
"Oh, they went to the next hill and said they were going to stay for a few days, so we didn't have to worry about them." It was Dingguo who replied, and Zhiwen asked him to be in charge of the overall situation before leaving.
"Do you know what to do?"
"They didn't say it, but Eight Thousand took some medicinal herbs."
"What!" Doctor Sun changed color suddenly, "This stinky boy." After scolding, he didn't care that the meal was not finished, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and ran to his shack.
After a few moments, he came back pacing.
"Uncle Sun?" Dingguo asked cautiously.
"Well, this kid is sensible." Doctor Sun snorted, glanced at the leather coat on Dingguo's body, and pursed his lips, with unconcealed joy in his eyes.
It seems that the medicine taken by Baqian did not affect Dr. Sun's medical treatment, but why is he so happy? Everyone was a little puzzled.
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"Divine doctor, why haven't Xiao Zhi and Yaqian come back yet?" Xiao Yingniang asked anxiously, at this time the sun had set, and the afterglow of the setting sun reflected half of the sky, seeing that the sky was about to get dark, everyone knew that there was no ferry at night, and it was dangerous.
Early this morning, an unprecedented scale of river crossing operations began, Brother Li and their total of more than 100 boats of all kinds, began to send more than 2,000 people across the river in batches, fortunately, there are Dingguo and Kewang with people to maintain order, but busy but not chaotic.
Now there are still hundreds of people left in Hexi, all of whom are the most core members, as well as orphans, all of whom were left behind to wait for Zhiwen and Eight Thousand, but Wang was not worried about Zhiwen, and took some people across the river to maintain order in Hedong.
"It's fine." Dr. Sun said, "Don't you know Xiaozhi's ability? ”
"I'm just worried that they're too late, and I'm afraid they won't be able to cross the river tonight." In terms of safety, Xiao Yingniang is really not worried.
"This doesn't have to worry about Sister-in-law Song." Brother Li said, "You can cross the river in peace, I will wait here, if it is too late, I will definitely send them over tomorrow." ”
Brother Li also fought hard, in order to envelop Zhiwen, he couldn't even take care of the rules of not staying overnight in Hexi, he knew a few days ago that Zhiwen and Baqian had disappeared, but these people were very tight-mouthed, and no one told him where the two were.
"How can this be done, Leader Chen, let's just stay and wait for Xiaozhi, you better go back to Hedong to rest, and come back tomorrow, it's just to trouble you." Dr. Sun also knows the rules of the boatmen.
"Isn't that Brother Zhi?" Dingguo, who was silent, suddenly spoke.
Everyone looked in the direction pointed by Dingguo, and saw that on the road leading to the dock, two small figures were running quickly from far and near, the speed was far beyond ordinary people, and there were even two yellow smoke behind them.
"Well, it's them." Doctor Sun stroked his beard and nodded, this speed, Zhiwen and Baqian can have.
When the two of them arrived in front of them, their embarrassed appearance shocked everyone, unkempt, with a yellow and gray face, a depressed expression, each with two dark circles under their eyes, and they didn't know how many days they hadn't slept for.
The most unbearable thing is the smell of the two of them, just the smell of mutton and an inexplicable smell can make people can't open their eyes, and there are all kinds of unknown flavors mixed together, that sour...
"Xiaozhi, why don't you two go to the river to wash first?" Xiao Yingniang, who had already developed a habit of hygiene, frowned and asked.
"Brother stinks." Nan Nan covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve and said dissatisfied.
"Let's cross the river first." Zhiwen said weakly, "It's still too late, right?" Uncle Chen. ”
"Just in time." Brother Li replied, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is already the waning moon, but the night sky is clear and cloudless, the moonlight is acceptable, plus they are very familiar with the waters in this area, it is not a problem to run a few times in the first half of the night.
Eight thousand physical strength is far inferior to Zhiwen, these days have not been well rested, this trip down, already so tired that he can't speak, only panting on the side, his mind still echoes what Zhiwen said to him before going down the mountain.
"The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty!"
"Eight thousand, your method, who else will do it now besides you and me?"
"None? Okay, so who knows you know you can do this? ”
"No one knows but your father? Very good. ”
"From now on, tell anyone that only I know this method, and you have to do it, otherwise, you will be targeted by others, and there will be endless disasters."
"Take the time to talk to your father and grandson alone, and ask him not to show his stuff."
"Let all those ghosts come at me, I can bear it."
After Zhiwen conjured up clay pots and bags of wool out of thin air in front of Eight Thousand, Eight Thousand was the same as Xiao Jie from then on, firmly believing in Zhiwen's words.
He believed that Zhiwen had a very high opinion of his method, he believed that Zhiwen could carry it forward, and he believed that the words that Zhiwen had given him were for his good, although he did not understand where the danger came from.
He didn't believe that Zhiwen had such a magical spell, and he had other intentions for this method, and people who didn't understand this method couldn't figure it out, but in fact, as he said, just watch him operate it once, and the medicinal materials he took eight thousand were just to hide people's eyes, so the medicinal materials he picked were all not used by his father.
Originally, Baqian also planned to wait for the river to cross the river, and after Xiaoying Niang and the others were idle, they would teach this method to them, but they were sternly vetoed by Zhiwen.
If there is really any selfishness, Zhiwen will not even let her own sister be unwilling to let her learn.
didn't mention the thoughts that Baqian had in his mind, but said that Zhiwen insisted on it until everyone boarded the ship, and then he was the last one to get on the boat.
The faint moonlight sprinkled on the surface of the river and the mountains on both sides, the center of the river had become misty, the boats near looked hazy, and the boats in the distance could only see the black shadows, with the gentle sound of the river, Zhiwen half leaned and half leaned on the boat... Fell asleep.
Hexi, especially near the wharf, there are a lot fewer fires scattered at once, while Hedong, which was originally deserted, has a lot of swaying fires this night, which looks vibrant.
The sleeping Zhiwen may not have thought that since he got acquainted with Dr. Sun, his actions along the way, after retiring Wang Er, once again changed history slightly.
Originally, because of famine and plague, as well as the inability of the imperial court to provide relief, as many as seventy or eighty percent of the people who fled died before crossing the Yellow River.
The survivors, after crossing the Yellow River in the east, carried this deadly germ all the way to the east, until the capital division, the plague spread all over the land of North China, and for more than ten years, the plague and drought have always been wreaking havoc in the north, stabbing the suffering Shenzhou again and again.
More than ten years later, before Chongzhen hanged himself, when Li Zicheng attacked the Beijing Division, almost half of the people in the entire city were infected with the plague, not to mention fighting Li Chuang, many of them were so sick that they couldn't even walk.
Now, after a series of measures taken by Zhiwen and Dr. Sun, nearly thirty percent of the people survived, and those who died of illness were also disinfected and buried deep by them, isolating the secondary spread of the plague, and most of the people who fled behind Zhiwen were lucky to escape this disaster.
If they were well staffed, organized, and strictly quarantined, more people would survive.
Many families have been influenced or coerced by them and have developed good hygiene habits.
These small changes may be insignificant, but who knows what kind of storm they will cause in the future?
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