Chapter 338: Miserable
Maybe it's because a woman's heart is soft, seeing such a tragic scene at the scene, Song Yi is still a little unbearable, and feels it several times.
"It's a good thing that Haruka didn't come with her, otherwise she wouldn't have fainted with fright?" Song Yi was very glad that he left Chunxiang in the prefect's yamen for safety, and did not bring her and her two children in.
Because Song Yi was not sure if his set of equipment would work as he expected. After all, modern science is developed, mechanization is highly integrated, and processes, coatings, and materials are very technical. Moreover, there are a series of instruments that can be used for quality inspection, anti-virus, and safe production and use.
Take the most common masks as an example, there are cotton masks, non-woven masks, polymer material masks, activated carbon powder filter masks, and activated carbon fiber felt cushion masks, which can not only look good, comfortable, but also safe and effective protection.
But in ancient times, there was no equipment or instruments, so Song Yi could only rush to the doctor to find some alternatives.
If you want to talk about the effect, it is definitely not as good as modern medical protective clothing and KN95 masks, I can only hope that it can really play a protective role. This is also something that Song Yi is worried about, but she is also confident that the protective clothing she makes will be much safer than the simple, rough and primitive protection used by the current officials.
Song Yi was even more desperate to find out where the source of this plague outbreak was.
With it, the true king and his party continued to go deeper.
The further you go, the more and more patients appear at intersections and roadsides. There is a sickly face, very languishing; There are glazed eyes, walking dead; There are crying and grabbing the ground, holding the child in their arms; There is grief, pain, despair, ......
All kinds of negative emotions are depressing. Although it was only a short distance, Song Yi seemed to have seen a tragic scene.
Song Yi couldn't help but be a little depressed. Zhu Xi, who was next to him, watched the woman remain silent because of those refugees, and knew that she was also affected by this scene. Not to mention her, even Zhu Xi, who has experienced a hundred battles, feels that the scene in front of him is too shocking.
Before he came in, he had already guessed that the situation in the village was not optimistic, but when he was really there, Zhu Xi felt that his imagination was far less shocking than reality.
This is Guanyi Village, the first place where people were found to be infected with the plague. According to Governor Meng, the villagers here have died to death, fleeing, and there is hardly a healthy person.
Either they are already dead, a hundred, or they have been infected with the plague and are suffering inhuman torture, and life is worse than death. Those with mild symptoms desperately want to survive, and some escaped early, escaped from the village, hid in the deep mountains and old forests, and begged for more blessings; Some of the old, weak, sick and young can only hide in makeshift shacks and go up the mountain to dig medicine to save themselves.
Some people, in order to be able to cure diseases, went up to the mountains to collect medicine, only to come back to poison the weeds, and before they could cure the plague, they were poisoned to death. But what can be done in this case?
The imperial court didn't care, there was neither food, nor good doctors, nor a prescription for treating the plague, so if you didn't want to die, you had to rely on yourself to save yourself.
When Song Yi heard what Governor Meng said, he felt extremely angry in his heart, these once and now fresh lives disappeared into this world like this. Some families are all dead, and not a single one is left. Some villages have become ghost villages, and not a single villager has a mouthful.
Song Yi looked at it all the way, there were countless dead bodies on the roadside, no one claimed them, and no one buried them. But when Song Yi entered Guanyi Village, he was even more shocked by the scene in front of him.
There are no living people in the village. Because this village is the birthplace of the epidemic, it has long been controlled to the fullest.
When Song Yi heard that the imperial court ordered the blockade of Guanyi Village, cut off water and food, and let the villagers fend for themselves, he knew that this was the imperial court's reckless disregard for human life, just to starve these villagers to death.
Song Yi felt the cruelty of the regime and the lowliness of human life. What are the people in the eyes of those in power? How cheap is human life?
The aura of anger that suddenly emanated from Song Yi's body made everyone feel it.
Zhu Xi looked at Song Yi's eyes were red, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" ”
"These people were all forced to die," Mr. Song said.
Zhu Xi understood why Song Yi said this, but in front of local officials, he couldn't go along with it.
"I know you're uncomfortable. But that's already the case. There is no way to do it. At that time, in order to conceal the epidemic, the prefect of Bazhong ordered a lockdown, trying to control the spread of the epidemic at the cost of a village. But it backfired, and the epidemic still could not be controlled. caused the fall of the entire Bazhong. After the emperor found out, he had beheaded the original prefect and disposed of a large number of officials. But the consequences are already the same, and they cannot be reversed."
"Princess, the prince is right. The epidemic started in Guanyi Village, and although the prefect at that time had an impure purpose, it was also a way to lock down the village. But unexpectedly, in the end, it was not able to control it. Fortunately, though, the site of Guanyi Village has been preserved. The two imperial doctors came this time, and they were able to confirm the source of the plague."
Governor Meng said cautiously.
But Song Yi did not let go, such an understatement, in Song Yi's view, is numb, unkind, cold-blooded and ruthless.
"Governor Meng, do you really think it's a good thing now? If you look back at this village, it is ruined, dilapidated and depressed, and where can you see the smoke and thriving population of the past. Could it be that as a local leader, can't he really empathize with the suffering of the people? ”
"Thinking that the villagers of Guanyi Village died in pain, despair, despair and resentment towards the imperial court, their souls must not have left this village, maybe crying every night, just for their miserable life"
As soon as Song Yi's words fell, a demonic wind suddenly blew in from the entrance of the village, blowing up the dust on the ground, accompanied by the sound of the doors of the village houses clattering, which was very terrifying.
The officials in Bazhong, who were originally reluctant to come in with the true king and the real princess, were now trembling with fright, and even the Meng prefect's face was pale and very scared.
When Song Yi saw these officials, he still had awe and fear, which showed that it was not completely hopeless. Although Guanyi Village was ordered to be sealed off at that time, those who wanted to starve the people to death had already been punished by the Emperor of the Qianchao Dynasty. But Song Yi still felt that the corruption of the imperial court and the stupidity of the regime were the main culprits.
It's just that I pity the people of this village. Just when Song Yi secretly sighed, suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of Song Yi's group.
Song Yi was surprised, and hurriedly turned around, and saw the true king's stern formation.
Are there still living people?
Just now, Governor Meng clearly said that all sixty-eight people in the entire village died. How can there still be a living mouth?
Who is he? Is it a human or a ghost?
Song Yi felt that they still needed to reconnoiter all this.