Chapter 15: The Spread of the Plague
"I didn't expect the lady to care so much about this!" Wen Yiheng chuckled and said.
His smile made Su Jiudong's brain a little foggy.
Why did she care about this, shouldn't it be him? Don't think she didn't see him glaring at An'er.
She was very suspicious that the reason why An'er said that was taught by Wen Yiheng in private.
So, he's going to hit a rake now!
"What do you mean?" Su Jiudong asked with some displeasure.
Wen Yiheng saw that Su Jiudong's mood was up, and he immediately laughed.
"What I said was my surprise that when the lady heard that the plague was coming, she was so calm and methodical in dealing with it, which really impressed me."
"Cut, don't you think everyone else is so hasty, okay!"
Su Jiudong opened his mouth with some disdain, and his praise for Wen Yiheng in his heart was very useful.
Wen Yiheng also smiled.
"Ladies are naturally different from people! But ......" Wen Yiheng's body suddenly moved, and he came to Su Jiudong's ear, "When will the lady not look at An'er's face and let me share the bed with you." ”
Hearing his words, Su Jiudong's whole person seemed to be burned, and he immediately bounced away dozens of meters away.
"You...... You...... Pay attention to the points of virtue. ”
She pointed at Wen Yiheng, and was ashamed for a long time before she said a word, and then escaped into the house.
After Su Jiudong entered the house, he leaned on the door and took a deep breath for a long time before the heat on his face dissipated.
As a result, as soon as she calmed down and sat on the bed for a while, Wen Yiheng came in again.
Su Jiudong immediately looked at him vigilantly, and his words were not good.
"You...... What are you doing again? It's not night yet. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Jiudong couldn't help but want to slap himself.
Look at what she said, it's not night yet, it's not time to go to bed yet!
"Don't worry, lady, I'm just here to bring you medicine, the medicine is decoctioned, let's drink it while it's hot." Wen Yiheng said softly and handed the medicine to Su Jiudong.
In order to prevent himself from saying the wrong thing, Su Jiudong took the medicine and poured it down.
"The lady doesn't have to be in such a hurry, she can't sleep immediately after drinking the medicine, it has to be dark."
Su Jiudong resisted the urge to spit out the medicine, and secretly scolded Wen Yiheng in his heart.
Wen Yiheng looked at Su Jiudong's forbearance and felt cute, but he also accepted it when he saw it, did not tease the little girl further, and walked out with the empty bowl.
The two didn't meet again until the evening, after Liu Yunniang bought all the things back.
"Jiu Dong'er, look at it, is thank you enough? It's not enough for me to go to the street tomorrow, I really can't take it today. ”
Liu Yunniang pointed to the rice noodles all over the ground and said breathlessly, in order to buy these things today, she almost put half of her life into it.
Su Jiudong propped his chin and said unhurriedly, "Some have been stored for a long time, if we have money, we can buy some more, melons, fruits and vegetables are almost the same." ”
In the next period of time, Liu Yunniang will deliberately buy more food that has been stored for a long time on the street, take it back, put it up, and buy a lot of medicinal materials.
It's just that the only thing that doesn't make her feel comfortable is. Nowadays, almost all the water at home is boiled before it is used. She mentioned it a few times, but each time it was refuted by Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng, and after that, she never mentioned it again.
After almost a month of careful care, the plague spread to the village.
In the beginning, only one or two people got sick, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it.
But then, more and more people began to get sick, and almost four or five patients with the same symptoms could appear in a day, and the people in the village realized the seriousness of the situation.
On this day, after another group of patients were sent to the infirmary, the village chief called a meeting of the people in the village, saying that there was an outbreak of plague in the village, and some ordinary medicinal materials to strengthen the resistance were distributed, and no further measures were formulated to resist the plague.
I only told everyone to take precautions in advance, and to go to the hospital in time when they are sick, and nothing else was said.
The situation of the plague is getting worse and worse, and in less than seven days, almost more than half of the people in the village are infected with the plague.
The people in the village were terrified, but there was nothing else they could do.
Under Su Jiudong's full precautions, none of the people in the family were infected with the plague, which made her very pleased.
She is not a savior hero, nor does she have a broad mind to repay grievances with virtue.
Therefore, she didn't plan to meddle in the plague, she just wanted to guard her little home and survive the plague safely.
However, people are not as good as heaven, and in the end, her plan was broken.
After another group of people died of the plague, some people began to spread rumors in the village.
It is said that the outbreak of the plague is the punishment of the river god for them, and the people who are sick are the ones who anger the river god, as long as the sick people are sunk in the pond and the anger of the river god is appeased, the plague can pass.
At first, the people in the village were still a little unconvinced, but as more and more people in the village became ill, many people began to get ready to move.
Under pressure, the village chief had no choice but to become a horse doctor, and asked the villagers to take the sick people from their families to the Shenhe River at the head of the village.
"What, the village chief wants to sink those sick people in the pond?"
After listening to Liu Yunniang's words, Su Jiudong slapped his chopsticks on the table with a snap, and said angrily.
As a doctor, the last thing she could see was giving up on her patients.
Liu Yunniang had never seen her daughter lose her temper like this, and she was so frightened that her voice was several degrees lower.
"Right...... Yes, the village chief said that everyone was sick because they angered the river god, so he wanted to sink them in the pond to appease the river god's anger. ”
Su Jiudong shook her head, she felt that she couldn't find any other words to describe the people of this era except for ignorance.
She can't do anything about natural disasters and man-made disasters, but she really can't stand it if she wants to watch those who obviously still have hope for life, because some people's ignorance has died in vain.
So, Su Jiudong didn't continue to eat, and ran to the village alone.
There are already quite a few people gathered here, some lying down and some wearing white masks standing by the river.
Su Jiudong found a big rock, hid it behind, and quietly observed the movements of these people.
After all, he is from his own village, and in the end, the village chief is a little unbearable. So after waiting for a long time, the village chief made a move, and then, those who were standing nearby, dragged those who were lying on the ground into the river one by one.
The expressions of those patients were very struggling, but the torture of the disease made them powerless to resist.
Su Jiudong lay on the stone and watched, his hands unconsciously clenched into fists.
Just then, she suddenly heard a low, low sob.