The convoy traveled all the way to a small village where the sick people were concentrated, and finally arrived after a long walk.

Xia Chutao opened the curtain with some curiosity and looked at it, but what she saw was desolation. There is no grass everywhere, crows are everywhere, the wailing sound is almost full of the whole wilderness, and occasionally you can see the exposed white bones of the forest, which looks very inferior, and it is a bleak scene.

"Those who are sick are thrown into this place?"

Xia Chutao looked at it and felt really unbelievable, so she couldn't help but ask, and then put down the curtain in front of her with a hard time.

"Yes, whether it is a commoner or a prince or nobleman, once it is found that it is infected with the epidemic, all of them will be thrown to this place."

Qiaoyun on the side also felt uneasy in his heart, and said this in a faint voice.

"This is in response to the previous sentence, in front of Lord Yama, there is really no poverty and wealth to speak of, and it is the same when it goes to the ground."

Xia Chutao just nodded, and didn't say anything else, in the end, Qiaoyun's words still made some sense.

Gradually, the carriage stopped, and it seemed that it had arrived. At the beginning of summer, Tao carefully opened the curtain of the carriage and saw a very dilapidated village gate.

The moment she stepped out of the carriage, Xia Chutao had already smelled a very strong rancid smell in the air, and she couldn't help but wrinkle her nose in shock, and her brows slowly frowned.

She covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve and looked around at this almost forgotten village, and couldn't imagine that there were so many plague patients piled up in this place.

Everyone's reaction when they got out of the carriage was almost the same as that of Xia Chutao, all of them covered their mouths and noses, after all, the smell in the air was too suffocating.

"What does it smell like...... It stinks. ”

Yuesheng also followed with a grumble in his mouth, but the moment he came out, he almost wanted to retreat back into the carriage.

"The smell of the dead."

Xia Chutao replied calmly and abnormally, to be honest, Xia Chutao is really not afraid in this regard.

She used to play horror games when she was at home when she had nothing to do, and her courage was practiced, and she hadn't seen dead people in real life, compared to other people's helplessness, Xia Chutao seemed to be much calmer.

"Dead Man's ......"

Yuesheng's face turned green when he heard these two words, such a thing is too early for a child. Although Yuesheng was practicing medicine by Wei Qi's side, when had he ever seen such a scene.

Xia Chutao looked down at Yuesheng, who had an embarrassed face, and asked with a smile,

"What? There are thousands of people who have contracted the epidemic here, and it will definitely be a dead end without treatment. It's such a small village, and I don't know how many people have died. ”

"What? Are you scared? ”

"I ...... I'm not afraid. ”

Yuesheng said this head-on, but he was obviously so frightened that he couldn't talk about it, intermittently, and he had no confidence.

"The master said, I will have to face such a thing sooner or later, and it is just to practice my courage. Don't underestimate me, little girl. ”

Xia Chutao smiled silently, what she didn't expect was that Yuesheng's child was quite stubborn. After saying this, Yuesheng was the first to get out of the carriage and took a few steps forward with his head held high.

Xia Chutao also slowly got out of the carriage and walked a few steps forward with the support of Qiaoyun, but she felt strange when she looked at the desolate and cold village gate.

Logically speaking, there are thousands of people who have contracted the epidemic here, but why can't anyone see it at this time?

Just when Xia Chutao wanted to continue to explore the depths, she was directly pulled by Bizhu behind her.

"Little lady still don't go on, if you want to explore the situation, let someone else go, I'm afraid that you will make a mistake."

Xia Chutao thought about it and felt that Bizhu's words were also reasonable, so she didn't move forward. At this time, there were people in the crowd who volunteered, and a few people went in to investigate.

Xia Chutao was originally very worried about this situation, but fortunately, those people came back not long after they went in to investigate.

"What the hell is going on inside? Why didn't I see a single person after reading it for a long time at the entrance of the village? ”

Seeing that those who were probing were back, Xia Chutao hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"All the people inside were staying at the end of the village, and there was a big fire burning there, and I saw some people jumping into the fire one after another."

Hearing this, Xia Chutao's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly beckoned the people behind him to go to the village.

Sure enough, not long after walking, I saw the big fire that the man just said, and below the big fire was a wood as thick as the beam of the house crackling and burning, and above the burning big wood was a thick pile of straw, and there were people adding firewood to this fire.

And above the fire, there were really people jumping into the fire sporadically.

The fire was burning so vigorously that the tongue of fire could almost lick the sky, and the sky was almost crimson.

Xia Chutao could even hear the terrible screams of the people coming from inside the fire, and she really couldn't understand why these people ended their lives in such a cruel way.

Xia Chutao really couldn't stand it anymore, and stepped forward to the side of an old man who was sitting next to the fire and looked at the fire indifferently, and asked urgently,

"Old man, what are you doing here?"

The old man raised his head expressionlessly, glanced at Xia Chutao in front of him with his cloudy eyes, and then looked at the people behind Xia Chutao, and this was the answer.

"Do you need to ask? Of course, he committed suicide by jumping into the fire. ”

Xia Chutao watched people walking into the fire one after another, and the picture didn't know how heroic and miserable it was, it was unbearable to look at it directly.

At the beginning of summer, Tao hurriedly waved to the person behind him,

"What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and stop those people!"

Those people understood, and hurriedly stopped those who wanted to jump over the fire one after another.

"Old man, why did you end your life in such a cruel way?"

Xia Chutao felt that the calm old man sitting by the fire must know the inside story.

"You think we did it voluntarily? The epidemic in the capital came quickly, and the sick people were transported here by carts to fend for themselves. But a few days ago, someone said that even if we die here and rot here, our corpses will still infect other people with the wind, so they lit this fire, saying that the family members of those who are willing to jump into the fire by themselves can get some pensions. ”

"That's how the local officials suppressed the outbreak? That money for human lives? ”

Xia Chutao was almost shocked, and it was already very unkind to leave these sick people here. But did these officials come up with such a way to curb the epidemic? It's a little too cruel.

"Little girl, what do you know, I don't know how many people can't even open the pot for cooking, and the pensions given are almost enough to save the lives of the whole family."

"Anyway, if you have this disease, you won't live long, so it's better to exchange one of your rotten lives for some money to live a better life for your family."

Saying that, the old man also sighed gloomily,

"My son jumped in a few days ago, and I won't be able to survive for a few days like this, so when I sit down for a while, I will accompany him."

Xia Chutao looked at those who were stopped by the people he brought, almost all of them were desperately wailing, and even some people couldn't stop them at all, and they still desperately wanted to run into the fire.

"No, it won't work."

How could Xia Chutao accept such a thing, and hurriedly said to the old man.

"Uncle, listen to me, I know how to cure this epidemic, don't jump yet."

The old man's body stiffened, and there was a glimmer of light in his cloudy eyes.

"Little girl, what do you say? Even the doctors in the capital can't prescribe a prescription for such an epidemic, but you tell me that you know how to cure it? Don't make fun of the little old man. ”

Xia Chutao heard the old man say this, and she was helpless and distressed in her heart.

"I really know that these people we came here came from that medicine, otherwise how dare I stand next to you and speak? This medicine can be prevented as well as cured, and it is really effective. ”

The old man looked at Xia Chutao with some surprise, and looked at Xia Chutao from top to bottom with his own eyes.

"You mean, you people are not sick? I thought you were newly delivered...... So, we are saved? ”

When Xia Chutao saw the old man's reaction, he knew that he had finally listened to his words, and hurriedly nodded.

"That's what it means, as long as you take this medicine, you will be completely well in a few days. So don't jump into this fire again, I promise every one of you has medicine, okay?"

When the old man heard Xia Chutao speak like this, he was so excited that he burst into tears, and said to Xia Chutao in a dumb voice,

"Little girl, I'm afraid you weren't sent by Guanyin Bodhisattva to help the world...... If I had come earlier, my son wouldn't have ......."

Xia Chutao looked at the old man crying like this, and her heart was also very uncomfortable.

Now she also really feels that sentence, in the face of natural and man-made disasters, human life is really nothing......

"I really should have come early......"

Xia Chutao also had a trace of apology in her heart, saying that Xia Chutao slowly stood up and said to the people behind her.

"Go and put out the fire of this fire, and then tear it down."

"Don't worry, from now on, there won't be another death."