Chapter 346: The Plague [3]
"What's even more strange is that there are a few villages in this situation, and it is also impossible to find out what disease those villagers have, at first some people thought that the villagers were suffering from the plague, as soon as the news came out, the county lord sealed several surrounding villages and Ancheng, and let experienced doctors go to the villages that have not been infected with the plague."
"As a result, more than a month has passed, and except for those few villages, no village has contracted this strange disease."
"Are you telling the truth?" Bi Xiaoyao Road.
"I have nothing to do, what good is it for me to lie to a few people, you should pass by the village where no one lives anymore, and you should also see those new graves."
Bi Xiaoyao raised his eyebrows; "If it's really a plague, how can it be that only a few villages have an outbreak, and the people outside those villages are fine."
"The small sentence is true, I don't believe that a few people went to a tavern called Kebafang after entering the city, and the second child of that tavern was a villager in the village where this strange disease occurred, and his wife, children, and mother were all dead, and he was not dead."
Bi Xiaoyao frowned, seeing that the guard guarding the city gate did not seem to be lying.
Bi Xiaoyao Road; "Can we go into town now?"
"Of course."
The group entered Anseong.
Bi Xiaoyao was very interested in what the guard guarding the city gate had just said.
He wanted to go to the tavern called Ke Bafang as soon as he entered the city.
Su Wan lifted the curtain of the carriage, and Ancheng looked quite lively.
"Find an inn to live in first, we have been on the road for a day and a night, and after a day of rest, we will go to the guest to have dinner together in the evening, what do you think?"
Everyone naturally knew the purpose of the Su bowl.
They were all curious about it.
The group found an inn to stay, and before dinner, everyone gathered in the inn hall and headed for the guest house.
Entering the guest Bafang Xiaoer greeted him warmly.
The guest is divided into two floors, the hall on the first floor and the private room on the second floor.
Su Wan glanced at the hall, and the hall was empty, and there were not a single guest.
"A few guest officers, please."
The group found a place in the hall and sat down.
shop small two roads; "What do the guests want to eat?"
Bi Xiaoyao Road; "A few of your specialties."
Xiao Er answered and left.
Bi Xiaoyao lowered his voice; "He should be the shopkeeper at the city gate, right?"
Su Wan glanced at the hall; "Except for him, I didn't see the second shopkeeper."
"But the way I knocked him out, I didn't seem to be sad at all."
Su Wan Dao; "It's been more than a month since the incident, not to mention that if he cries with a sad face, who would dare to enter this store."
Leng Xue'er said; "There don't seem to be any customers in this shop."
Chu Mohan said slowly; "Maybe this restaurant doesn't usually have many customers, but now it's time for dinner."
While several people were talking, the meals were served one after another.
Su Wan looked at the food on the table in front of him; "It looks good, I don't know how it tastes."
As he spoke, Su Wan picked up the chopsticks and put a piece of meat in his mouth.
The eyes of the rest were on her.
Bi Xiaoyao asked; "How about asking?"
The expression on Su Wan's face did not change; "The taste is not bad, although it is not as good as the Beijing Bafang Pavilion, but it is not very difficult to eat."
The rest of the people saw that Su Wan looked fine, and took a bite of the dish and put it in their mouths.
Indeed, as Su Wan said, although the taste is not very delicious, it is not unpalatable.
Bi Xiaoyao wondered; "The taste is okay, why are there no customers?"
Su Wan Dao; "Do you want to call Xiao Er to ask?"
Before anyone else could speak, Su Wan said in a loud voice; "Little Er, come over here."
The shopkeeper walked to the table of several people; "A few guest officers, is the food not the same as the appetite of several of you?"
Su Wan Dao; "The food tasted good."
"That's ......"
Su Wan Dao; "Your food is doing well, it's time to eat, why don't any guests come to the door?"
The shopkeeper sighed and said; "A few guest officials are not locals, although Ancheng is not as prosperous as Mocheng not far away, but it is also very lively, more than a month ago in several villages near Ancheng, the villagers suddenly contracted a strange disease, the villagers who contracted the strange disease died in a few days, the county lord suspected that it was a plague, so he blocked Ancheng and several nearby villages, and also sent a doctor to the village where the plague had not yet occurred."
"It's been more than a month, except for the previous villages, nothing has happened in other villages, and there are very few people coming to Anseong now, and there was a constant stream of guests from all directions before, and now there are few guests at all."
What the shopkeeper said was the same as what the guard guarding the city gate said when they entered the city.
Just when Su Wan didn't know how to ask the shopkeeper if his relatives had this strange disease, the shopkeeper's eyes were obviously sad; "My family has all died from this strange disease."
Seeing that he took the initiative to mention it, Su Wan seemed to ask casually; "Didn't you say it was the plague? How could the plague be present in only a few villages? Since then, no one has contracted the disease. ”
The shopkeeper shook his head; "I don't know this, this restaurant is opened by a distant relative of mine, I have been working here for the past few years, and I rarely go home except for the Chinese New Year."
"On that day, people from my village came with the news that my mother was sick and asked me to go home to see it, so I asked my boss for a few days off to go back to see my mother."
"After returning to the village, I found that many people had the same disease as my mother, and my mother died of illness the next day, in addition to my mother, several people in the same village died on the same day, and then my wife and my children were infected with this strange disease, and in just a few days, almost everyone in the whole village died of illness."
There was obvious despair in the eyes of the shopkeeper.
Su Wan thought that he must have been desperate at that time, watching the people around him die one after another, but he couldn't do anything.
Bi Xiaoyao asked; "It doesn't sound like a plague, it's a lot like a collective poisoning."
The shopkeeper looked at Bi Xiaoyao in a daze; "How could it be poisoning, if it is really poisoned, it is impossible for the doctor not to see it."
It is easy to see whether it is poisoned or not.
Su Wan asked; "Is there anyone else in your village besides you who has escaped that strange disease like you?"
The shopkeeper thought for a while; "Apart from me, there are a few other villagers who are fine."
Su Wan continued to ask; "Are they like you, who rarely return to the village?"
The shopkeeper nodded, and found that as Su Wan said, the few surviving villagers except him rarely returned to the village.
Although they didn't know what kind of disease those villagers had, Su Wan and the others knew how those villagers might have gotten sick.