Chapter 170: The Source of the Plague
There were more than a dozen people in the cave, and these people were rude-looking, each wearing weapons, and at first glance they looked like a nest of bandits. The big man just now was obviously the leader of this gang of bandits.
The big man waved at his hand, and the gang of bandits dragged out a disheveled woman from the cave, and the woman was none other than Lu Yunqing's mother, Tongyun.
Tongyun was ravaged and dying, she looked at Lu Feng weakly, unable to say a word.
Lu Feng lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Tongyun.
Dahan smiled: "Haha, Lu Feng, Lu Feng, you are really not a thing, and I don't know how this little beauty fell in love with you in the first place!" Ha ha! ”
The bandits burst out laughing.
Lu Feng didn't dare to raise his head in shame, but said in a low voice: "Yun'er...... If you hold on for a few more days, I'll be on the verge of success......"
Who knew that hearing this, Tongyun suddenly became angry, she straightened up and spat at Lu Feng, scolding: "Lu Feng! You shameless scum! ”
"Yun'er...... I...... It's also a last resort to save you......"
"Fart! Say it yourself! This is the first time you've used me to pay off your gambling debts!? You say! Say! ”
Lu Feng had nothing to say, so he could only bow his head and be silent.
Tongyun cried, she cried and scolded: "Woo, you, you gamble with the bandits, and if you lose, you will pay off my debts!" Woo, they defiled me, **I, I endured it, my life is bitter, I owe you in my last life. But what's wrong with the villagers?! They're all good people! They were kind enough to take us in the first place! Give us food to eat, clothe us with clothing, and give us land to plant! They treat us as their own! Such good people, how can you bear to betray them! ”
"I ...... I...... I can't help it! I owe too much debt, and if I don't betray the villagers, we'll both die......"
"I'd rather die!" Tongyun said that, he suddenly got up and grabbed the short knife on the big man's waist, wanting to commit suicide.
The big man kicked Tongyun to the ground and scolded viciously: "Hmph! Stinky! It's not that easy to die! ”
Lu Feng hurriedly climbed to Tongyun's side, hugged Tongyun and shed tears.
Tongyun pushed Lu Feng away, curled up on the ground, and cried bitterly, "You get out, I don't want to see you again!" Get lost...... Whining...... Roll ......"
The big man smiled: "Did you hear it, the little beauty doesn't want to see you anymore, haha, hurry back and do something!" If you can't ransack the village within three days, I'll kill you first!" Throw you into the well! Ha ha! ”
Lu Feng knelt down and begged for mercy: "No! Three days is really not enough! I've buried dead animals in all the water sources, and now people are getting sick! But I'm afraid it will take some time for the plague to break out, at least ten days! ”
"I don't care! In the past three days, whether you are poisoned or assassinated, as long as there is still strength in the village to resist, I will only kill you! Of course, if things are done well, you will benefit from the looting! Hum. ”
"I ...... I got ......."
At this moment, there was a strange smell in the cave, which became stronger and stronger, and it made people feel a little intoxicated. The big man squinted his eyes, felt dizzy, he thought he was sleepy, yawned and wanted to be refreshed, who knew that this big breath was inhaled, it was even more confused, he shook twice, and almost fell to the ground.
As soon as Dahan turned around, he found that his subordinates had fallen to the ground unconscious. The big man was taken aback, and realized that someone must have released the poison, and he just wanted to pull out the knife, but found that his hands and feet were no longer obedient, and he fell to the ground, and could only open his eyes, unable to move.
After a few moments, the strange smell of the cave gradually dissipated, and the light of the fire at the entrance of the cave reflected a thin figure. This person was none other than Lu Yunqing, it turned out that he had collected some fennel from nearby, lit it and threw it into the cave, fascinating these people.
Lu Yun walked into the cave lightly, stepped over Lu Feng who had fainted on the ground, and walked straight towards Tongyun, he knelt on the ground, picked up Tongyun, and gently patted Tongyun's cheek. Tongyun's eyelids trembled, and he finally opened his eyes, Tongyun looked at Lu Yunqing, showed a smile in a daze, and said softly: "Yunqing......"
Immediately, Tongyun fell unconscious again.
Lu Yun slowly put Tongyun on the ground, then stood up and walked towards the bandits who were lying on the ground. He pulled out a short sword from one of the bandits and pressed it against the bandit's chest, and the bandit was unconscious, even snoring, not knowing that his life was hanging by a thread.
Lu Yun gasped heavily, his heart was pounding, he held the short sword, put the short sword up for a while, and put the short sword across the bandit's neck for a while, he kept gesturing, but he couldn't do it for a long time.
After a long time, he finally relented, gritted his teeth, and slammed his short sword into the bandit's chest with his body. The bandit opened his eyes suddenly, glared at Lu Yun viciously, and the bandit spat out blood from his mouth, let out a faint moan, and soon died.
Looking at the corpse that had just died, Lu Yun's light breathing gradually calmed down, he drew his short sword, and walked towards the other bandit with a wheez. Next, he slashed and slashed these bandits who had defiled his mother one by one, and even a smile appeared on his face, and he felt a burst of happiness in his heart.
Finally, he came up to the big man and raised his dagger to kill him as he had done before. And just as the short sword was about to fall, the big man suddenly opened his eyes, waved his hand and punched, and the huge fist smashed Lu Yunqing's face. Lu Yun was knocked out by this punch, rolled on the ground several times, and fell right next to Tongyun.
The big man stood up slowly, pulled out the short knife on his waist, and walked towards Lu Yunqing with a trembling step. Lu Yunqing was dazed by the punch just now, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while, seeing that the big man had already come to the front with a short knife, but he was powerless to get up and resist at all.
"Damn bastard! I'm going to...... I'm going to tear you to pieces! ”
The big man scolded and swung his knife at Lu Yunqing, Lu Yunqing couldn't dodge at all, and at this moment, he saw Tongyun suddenly pounce on Lu Yunqing, and used his life to block the knife for his son at a critical moment.
A pool of blood instantly splashed on the rock wall, Lu Yun roared lightly, and a sword pierced the heart of the big man. Dahan struggled a few times, and soon stopped breathing.
The blood on Tongyun's chest flowed, she gently stroked Lu Yunqing's face, and said with pain: "Yunqing, you are twelve years old...... It's all a little adult......"
Lu Yunqing nodded desperately, but he whimpered and couldn't say anything.
"Cloud light...... Grown up...... Mother...... Mother is very happy ......"
After saying this, Tongyun passed away with a hint of a smile.
"Mother!"
Lu Yunqing hugged Tongyun tightly and raised his head and cried, and the cry of grief echoed in the cave for a long time.
After a long time, Lu Yunqing's tears dried up, he wiped his red and swollen eyes, and put down his mother in his arms. Then, he pulled out the short sword inserted in Dahan's body and slowly walked towards Lu Feng.
Lu Yun kicked Lu Feng lightly, Lu Feng woke up, he opened his eyes in a daze, but was startled by the mess in front of him, the diffuse smell of blood and dead people everywhere scared him to urine.
In horror, he saw Lu Yunqing standing in front of him, "Yunqing, this is ...... This...... What's going on? ”
Lu Yunqing didn't answer, but asked coldly, "Do you have anything else to say?" ”
"Huh? What do you mean? Lu Feng looked at the blood-stained short sword in Lu Yun's hand, and felt a chill, he climbed back a few steps in a panic, pointed at Lu Yun and scolded softly: "You bastard!" What are you doing?! ”
Lu Yun stepped forward lightly, put the short sword against Lu Feng's heart, and didn't say anything.
Lu Feng was completely frightened now, and he begged for mercy in a panic: "Yun Qing! You...... Don't be impulsive! Nothing is what you think! I...... I...... You her...... She ......"
Lu Feng didn't finish speaking, but he felt a sharp pain in his heart, and he screamed, spurting out a mouthful of blood. I saw that Lu Yunqing had already inserted the short sword deep into his heart.
Blood dripped along the blade of the sword, Lu Feng's vision became more and more blurred, and in the end, he only saw Lu Yun lightly carrying Tongyun and leaving the cave, he wanted to call for help, but he couldn't make a sound at all, slowly, slowly, his consciousness disappeared completely.
Lu Yun left the cave with Tongyun on his back. It didn't take long for the day to dawn, and the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it was always gray. After that, a light rain began to fall. Lu Yun lightly carried Tongyun to the grave hill in the west of Yiyang Village, and in the light rain, he dug out a grave and buried Tongyun's body in it. He took a rock from the wasteland, planted it in front of his mother's grave, and carved a few words on it - "The Tomb of the Loving Mother Xiao Tongyun".
After burying his mother, he stood motionless in front of the grave, and the rain completely drenched his clothes. At this time, a group of people came from Yiyang Village, and it turned out that Elder Yan had come to greet him. He finally turned around and glanced at his mother's grave, and then followed Elder Yan to Yiyang Village to treat the plague.
The weather in summer is changing, and the sun is shining just now, and immediately black clouds overwhelm the city, and the rain is like a note. Xiao Shi looked at the heavy rain outside and sighed: "It's such a heavy rain, it's just that this kind of weather is the most likely to breed plagues, senior brother must pay special attention." ”
Gong Wanran nodded and said: "Yes, epidemic prevention is the key work in summer, and I have to order people to distribute anti-epidemic medicinal materials to the people in the city in the next few days." ”
"Well, if you encounter a serious patient, you must isolate it in time, otherwise the consequences will be more serious."
"It's hard to do, because no one wants to see their patients imprisoned for no reason."
"Then you have to be ruthless. In the country of Vietnam, as long as someone is infected with an epidemic in the summer, I will immediately detain him, and if he can be cured, he will be put back, and if he can't be cured, he must die in prison. ”
"Hey, you're being too cruel to do that."
"What cruelty? A moment of soft-heartedness will only make more people suffer! When I was treating the plague in Yiyang Village, and when Master took in the refugees, if I hadn't poisoned those serious patients in time to stop the spread of the epidemic, I was afraid that none of those ignorant people would have survived! ”
But how can you be convincing in doing so? Everybody treats you like a life-seeking Yama. ”
"What others think is someone else's business, how I do my business. If I say to those who are seriously ill, you are dying, so that you don't infect more people, you will take poison and kill yourself. Will those people do what I say? No way! People are selfish! Even if it is for one-thousandth of his own hope, he is willing to take the lives of 10,000 people! ”
Gong Wanran smiled, shook his head and said, "I can't say anything about you, but you can't poison Senior Brother Ji at that time." ”
"I just wanted to threaten him, not to take his life. I don't want Master to know about my poisoning of patients, because I'm afraid no one will understand my theory. ”
"Yes, your theory is completely contrary to the doctor's desire to save the dead and help the wounded, so don't complain about the master, the master's punishment for you is not heavy."
"Nope! Master never punished me, he understood my theory and fully agreed with it! ”
"Oh?" Gong Wanran looked at Xiao Shi suspiciously.
"After my poisoning of Senior Brother Ji was revealed, Master imprisoned me in the Forbidden Mountain, and the brothers and sisters despised me, but they didn't know that I was actually the first person qualified to enter the Forbidden Mountain!"
"Eligibility?"
"Exactly! What's it like inside the Forbidden Mountain? Hehe, I'm afraid that except for me, no one in the same door will know about it. It's not a place of captivity, it's a place of sealing! There are a total of four huge bookcases in the Forbidden Mountain, which contain all kinds of classics that Master has collected over the years, namely medical classics, engineering, the art of war, and political strategy, all of which are heirloom treasures! It's a rare sight! Now that I think about it, I always feel that the scriptures sealed by Master have some connection with the wisdom of Yuenu Mountain, but I can't be sure of it. ”
"Oh? It's so magical. ”
"Yes! Master opened the bookcase where the medical texts were sealed, and he said to me, "I can read the medical texts as much as I want, but I am not allowed to look at any other books." I was obsessed with it, and the things in these medical texts were written in that I had never been learned, and the medical skills I had mastered at that time were just scratching the surface compared to them. ”
"I was immersed in it, and I read voraciously all day long. There is a meal delivered every day in the Forbidden Mountain, but even so, I often forget to eat. Master solves my doubts every 10 days, and each time it is only for half an hour, so I have to ask all my doubts in one go. ”
"A year later, I memorized all the books in the cabinet and asked all the things I needed to ask, and I was eager to try and put into practice what I had learned. Finally, one day, Master found me and said that he could no longer teach me, and that I could go down the mountain. The price was that he had to expel me from the sect, and from then on, I would no longer have anything to do with his old man, and I would not be allowed to set foot in the Kite Spirit Mountain again. ”
"I wept bitterly and begged Master to take back my life, but Master was extremely determined. In the end, I could only slam my head on the master ten times, and when I raised my head, the master had already left. There was only a bag and a strip of cloth on the ground, and on the strip of cloth was written a sentence - 'When you have nothing to ask for, you can open the bag'. ”
Xiao Shi took out a brocade bag from his arms, rubbed the stitches on it, and said: "From then on, the original Lu Yun died lightly, I changed my name to Xiao Se, and left Yuanling Mountain forever." ”
At this time, the heavy rain outside stopped, and a gorgeous rainbow was drawn on the horizon, Xiao Shi walked under the eaves, looked at the rainbow and said, "Senior brother, blow the song "Zhuolu", I want to hear it." ”