After five days of autumn rain, the rancid smell of the street was stained on the withered flowers and plants, on the broken branches, on the withered leaves, scattered along the raindrops, with the flow of the autumn wind, into the colorless and formless cracks in the air, pervasive, and every breath was smeared with a mist-like poison, moldy......

The sound of business was everywhere, and the plague left by the dead and wounded corpses bit the person who collected the corpse, and the corpse collector brought the infection to his family, and spread it to his family, and on the sixth day, the plague that raged, like the judge in autumn, gave the capital half of the death sentence.

The hospital has not yet been reorganized, and the newly funded medical center has just opened, and it is already overcrowded with patients.

"Everyone be quiet, don't squeeze it, the house can't hold it," Jing Zhixi had fine beads of sweat oozing from her forehead, stepping on the threshold, looking at the crowd under the eaves, like a helpless injured beast, from all directions, regardless of the blind squeezing her head into the barley house.

Dian'er and the medical women, veiled, in front of the case to diagnose the pulse, Zhixi was originally singing medicine, seeing that the small house outside the house could no longer maintain the patient's disorder, and the house was gradually disordered, she had to get out of the gap between the people in the house, sideways out, quickly stepped on the threshold, and helped explain and maintain, but her voice was soft, her tone was soft, and people were blindly anxious, how could anyone care about her.

"Why did you hit my daughter?" The crowd was in turmoil, and the cry of a little girl was mixed in, but it was not abrupt, but when she saw a weak woman, she pointed to another fat and round girl beside her. The fat girl who was accused glanced at the thin woman in front of her, and said very unceremoniously and domineeringly: "What are you doing with me!" As she spoke, she hugged the waist of a dark and thin middle-aged man, and pretended to cry: "Dad, this person has wronged me. ”

The dark man's face became darker and darker, and he pushed the woman and shouted impatiently, "Which eye did you see my daughter beating your girl?" What are you fooling around here?! ”

"My daughter said that your daughter was injured" The weak woman saw that the man was unreasonable, and her momentum became weaker and weaker: "I should always apologize." ”

"Hello big guy, give me a witness, if my daughter really hurts someone, ask the doctor for the money I will give the raccoon, I will lead her, bow to you and apologize," the man said in an official tone, and started a long speech: "It's just that this person has a lot of mouths, and now it is the season when the epidemic is raging, who doesn't protect that there is a wound on his face and a cut on his hand, this woman, but in front of the public, making a fuss, pointing to the deer as a horse, daring to love that her family is sick, but she wants to pull my child and be an unlucky companion." ”

"I, I, that's not what I mean......," the woman was so clumsy that she couldn't tell him, and she was teased so much that she didn't know what to say, but she just held the child's face, squeezed tears and sobbed, and said, "This wound hurts a little, and it is bleeding." ”

"It hurts, who doesn't know that it hurts, I still hurt!" The man continued to bite and said, "You are so red-mouthed and white-toothed, you accuse my child for no reason, it's not okay!" I see how hard your backer background is, in the imperial court, there are a few relatives who are officials, dare to be so presumptuous?! ”

"It was the knife in her hand that slashed my face." The little girl of the woman who had just cried pointed to the fat woman of the swarthy man. Everyone followed the direction she pointed, and really saw the man's fat daughter, holding a sharp knife in her hand, but she was just mixed in the crowd, and no one else noticed.

Hearing this, the fat daughter hid the knife in her sleeve, pretending to sob, and said: "My knife is for self-defense, my father said, his uncle friend in the court told him that there were zombies in the city, and they were infected with demon poison." How did I know I would hurt her? ”

"She didn't mean to, but she should apologize." The evidence is ironclad, and she admits it in person, the woman always thinks that she can ask for a small apology and justice for her daughter's injury, but the man said with a white face: "What does it have to do with my daughter?!" The devil cares about you! You say that my daughter beat you, and I am going to accuse you of false accusations? ”

The woman's words and silence were not of great importance, but his arrogance was too hurtful and too deceitful: but, in the eyes, all bustling, all strange patients, who would come to her to say a word of justice.

"I saw it with my own eyes," and at this time, an old man, rubbing his beard, stood up to the woman, and the woman looked at him, who was the master of the Mengguan in the capital where her child was: "You calm down and listen to me." ”

"Well," said the weak woman, bowing her knees slightly, and said with joy, "Master, I think it is the fairest." ”

"This child is praised by everyone, and he loves to help others, and he is excellent in learning," said the master's wife, standing behind the fat daughter of the swarthy man, and took her shoulder in her arms, and said to the weak woman: "I accidentally touched your daughter lightly, and I thought that it was unintentional, and your daughter cried in front of everyone like this, and it was also wrong to accuse the person who did not mean it." It's better to let the two of them apologize to each other. Both sides are fair. The Master listened, smiling all over his cheeks.

The weak woman thought that the master would uphold justice for her, but after hearing this, the pain, anger, and grievance made her chest suffocate and tremble: "Master, what I said is unfair, such a deep knife mark, is it a light touch, I don't know if it will leave a scar, she has hurt someone, and she is reasonable, and she does not apologize, do we still have to apologize to her?" ”

"What are you robbing for nothing?!" The master was still kind and pleasant just now, and when he saw that the woman refused to give up: "Isn't it a shame that such a trivial matter is worth making such a fuss in front of people?" As a master, I am the embodiment of justice, and you don't want to obey, so you take your 'delicate' daughter with you, go out of the city and return to your hometown to study, with a white face, living in a house in the capital, and thinking of my Mengguan, but a stranger under the fence. ”

The greater pain, the irritation, the grievance, pressed harder into the woman's chest, almost suffocating her. She expects others to administer justice for her, but she doesn't know that justice must be earned by herself, and she can never be expected to give it to those who protect the officials. The master had already received many benefits from the man, and he was partial to him.

The daughter of the weak woman, who did not cry at this time, saw that the master was threatening her mother, she was very sensible, and very pitiful, leaned down, bowed to the fat girl who had scratched her, and said, "I'm sorry." ”

How sad it is to endure humiliation and bear the burden, but it is also passed down from generation to generation by the weak!

Wait to see everyone, it's none of your business, just look at the excitement and gloating. The human heart is like this, and they still expect the heavens to be pitiful!

Jing Zhixi, who stepped on the threshold, saw it clearly, and secretly grieved for such injustice in her heart, and her left arm gradually fell out of her control, and a ghost resentment flew out and flew towards the dark, arrogant, domineering, and unreasonable man, and in an instant, tore his face, made him unrecognizable, turned into blood, and said sharply: "People are doing it, and the sky is watching." You will not live! Your relatives in the court are just minions who carry shoes for others, and they are also worthy of being bullied like you, and there is no one in your eyes! The weak are bullied by you, I am a terrible ghost, but I want to tell you that even if justice is not in the hearts of the people, it is still with me! ”

The ghost flew to the master and her lady who was playing right and wrong and reversing black and white, scratched his face, and shouted: "It's not small, it's about attitude." She sends people under the fence, you look up to others, if she has no shame to list your class, what kind of face do you have, and you are a teacher in vain? ! ”

As he spoke, his face shattered and spat.

The curse echoed in the crowd, but the crowd did not know where the sound came from, panicked, and fled without a trace. Only the weak woman, holding her wounded daughter who had apologized to the one who had scratched her, wept and fell to her knees, and cried out, "Heaven is right." "In the eyes of the good, the evil curse against the wicked is not an evil curse, but a good thought.

Jing Zhixi settled down at this time, but began to complain about herself in her heart: after saying it, you must be calm, not good at moving your mind, so that your heart is like water, and there will never be ripples, so that you can control the ghost and keep it from getting out of control. My heart just moved, and I actually wanted the lives of three people. Though they are wicked, they are not wicked unto death.

Her compassion summoned Fang Cai's ghost to the ghost of Fangcai, who comforted her and said, "You have done nothing wrong, these three people, the evil of today, the evil will not lead to death, but if he indulges himself wantonly and commits a great evil to death, I don't know how many innocent and weak people will die at their hands." Saying that, self-destruction and death can be regarded as apologies for Zhixi.

At this time, outside the suburbs of Beijing, in front of the dilapidated house rented by Zhao Menghan's family, there were people who collected debts one after another, and the congestion was noisy, which was not weaker than under the eaves of the barley mill.

"Everyone, everyone, it's good, I have sold my two houses in the center of the capital and the suburbs of Beijing, and soon there will be a buyer who will send a silver ticket," Zhao Menghan bowed his hand and begged for mercy: "In the past, when I contracted the project scenery, I did not treat everyone badly, and now, the project has collapsed, and it is not my wish, I am willing to pawn all my belongings and repay the debt, and I hope that everyone, wait a while, don't be impatient." ”

It turned out that Zhao Menghan's business in the capital failed again, chasing the debtors, blocking the door, the houses he bought in the capital and the suburbs were all sold now, just waiting to send the money, and the slaves, carriages and horses were also pulled to the market by the creditors to offset some fractions, and now, he only has this rented dilapidated house in the suburbs of Beijing, and he is surrounded again.

At noon, if the buyer kept his word and the servants sent the money, the creditors were dispersed. Zhao Menghan's mother-in-law was frightened, and urged him to go back to Yue's wife Zhao's house, but when she saw her pity, she wiped her tears and persuaded her father-in-law: "Now that the plague is rampant, we can't fill the hole debt, while the city gate is still open, we won't go back to Yue's house soon, if we don't leave, even if the remaining creditors don't force us to death, the plague will kill us." ”

Zhao Menghan was frustrated in the shopping mall, he had already returned to his heart, and as soon as his wife persuaded him, he immediately left, fortunately, there was nothing outside his body, there was no package baggage, he walked very fast, and he was the legs and feet of escaping debts and plagues, and he arrived at Yue's house in a few days. They just left on the front foot, and the epidemic in the capital on the back foot was out of control and the city gate was sealed.

The plague is like a devil with long teeth, gnawing everywhere, chewing people and tearing people's lives, like destroying flowers and breaking willows. Panic.

In the same month, the Zhao family had this catastrophe, Zhao Menghan's body, was stained with epidemic poison, a few days to the house, Mrs. Zhao was lying on the sickbed, and fever and shivering, and vomiting did not stop, seeing the age of the birthday star, it was going to return to the underworld, the people at the bottom hurriedly invited the medicine picker girl of the green sac, came to treat, the medicine picker saw its symptoms, quite like more than ten years ago when the snake venom spread, the suspicion was caused by the demon poison, and now the old lady was prescribed some suppressed prescriptions, and after returning to the green sac, he took a letter and asked Dian Er about the preparation.

"Zhixi, your grandmother of the Zhao family, but she is too sick," Dian'er took the letter written by Scopole and showed it to Zhixi.

"Although my grandmother doesn't care for me, she raised me," Zhixi heard that Mrs. Zhao was seriously ill, her eyes turned red, and her eyes were filled with tears, "If she doesn't want to see me, but in my heart, I am grateful to her, if I don't go back to see her, I can't get over it in my heart." ”

However, getting out of the lockdown is a big hurdle. Zhixi went to Gu Cuo to ask for Wen Mu who went out of the city, but Gu Cuo insisted on refusing to talk to her, and said angrily: "I have nothing to do with anything that is good to you, but now you have to risk your life to see a person who hates you, what good color can you get, I don't allow it here." ”

Zhixi was originally thin-skinned and never asked for help easily, but now she rejected her with a wrong mouth, how could she ask again, she had no words, turned around and covered her mouth, and ran away, so she had to go to Zhao Wanmo. In order to ask Mrs. Zhao to marry Zhixi, she responded to her request, not to mention that Zhixi came in person, and as soon as he said it, he personally sent her back to Yuewu Village.

As soon as Zhixi arrived, he found that the filial sons and grandsons who were guarding the old lady Zhao also followed the signs of infection, Yue's wife was in a remote location, and she didn't know that the plague in the capital was so serious, and she was infected by the old lady at this time, which was also a sin that could not be protected. You're a scourge! Why did the old lady kick you out of the house, what did the Taoist priest say a few months ago, you forgot?! ”

"People are not plants and trees, how can they be ruthless? But you are more vicious than the grass and trees! Old Mrs. Zhao heard the scolding of the fourth family, woke up a little, looked at Zhixi, and said in disgust: "The Taoist priest who did the practice, just said that you are a ghost, do you have to come back, do you want our Zhao family to be ruined?" ”

"Grandmother, Zhixi misses you in her heart and remembers your kindness to Zhixi." Zhixi knelt beside the old lady and cried, "You are seriously ill, if I don't come back to see you, what has become of me?" I don't forgive myself in my heart for a while. ”

"He also said, 'The ghost house is not light on duty, everything you ask for is shocking, it is not good to buy and sell and seek wealth, and the disaster in the house is scattered.'" The old lady has never said so many words for many days, and today she saw Zhixi extremely resentful: "You are back, I can't spare you!" ”

"Grandmother, who is terminally ill, but remembers the Taoist priest's proverbs to Zhixi's ghost house word for word, how disgusted should she be with me?" Zhixi was bitter in her heart, the tears on her face fell like a string of beads, she took out the Angelica Angelica ice dew that Dian'er prepared for her from the placket, and smeared it on the old lady's head.

People say: grass and trees are ruthless. Zhixi, the broken grass and tree, is: regardless of the name of greed, the heart is depressed and internally hurt, but it is too much affection and hurts the heart.