The gates are usually opened at 5 a.m. and locked at 7 p.m.

Closing the gates in broad daylight was something that hadn't happened in many years.

The gate creaked down over there, and the people on the street couldn't help but put down what they were doing and curiously flocked over to see the excitement.

The crowd was crowded, and Fu Yuanyuan and Yinbao finally squeezed to the front, and saw several soldiers with spears standing on the side of the city gate, blocking a large group of people who wanted to enter the city outside the city gate.

The city gate gradually closed, and through the gap, the group of people could be vaguely seen in ragged clothes, all with yellow faces and thin muscles.

The people in the city were puzzled, and someone asked, "Official, who are the people outside?" Why don't you let it in? ”

The gatekeeper looked at him coldly, but did not reply.

There were many curious people, and even if the soldiers were silent, the chattering and speculation among themselves became louder and louder.

"It looks like a beggar, isn't it a group of beggars who want to come to our Qingshui County to eat?"

"I don't think so, a lot of them are dragged with their families, could it be refugees from somewhere?"

As soon as these words fell, several people nearby clapped their hands and responded: "It has rained again and again this month, and I heard that many nearby villages have been flooded. ”

The power of the masses of the people is powerful.

This nonsense is really being said by everyone.

The soldier guarding the gate had a cold face and shouted: "Everyone is scattered, all are scattered!" Don't influence the government! ”

Looking at the bright guns slicing in front of them, no matter how big the gossip is, the people still honestly stop.

After a while, they dispersed.

Seeing this, several soldiers guarding the gate met and muttered a few words, leaving three or four people to continue to guard the city gate, and the soldiers led by them left in a hurry.

Not far away, Yinbao asked Fu Yuanyuan: "Master, what are we going to do next?" ”

Fu Yuanyuan looked at the sky and thought: "In another quarter of an hour, it should be the time to change the guard, and then we will find a soldier to inquire about the situation." ”

A quarter of an hour later, the leading soldiers hurriedly led a few soldiers over to change their guards.

Fu Yuanyuan and the two seemed to inadvertently follow behind one of the soldiers on duty, and when they came to a certain alley, they knocked the soldier unconscious and dragged him into the depths of the alley in the blink of an eye.

It was not difficult to get words from the mouth of the little soldier, and he stuffed a piece of silver into the soldier's arms, and Yinbao put a dagger against the soldier's neck and smiled, and the soldier was all recruited.

"Those refugees outside are from Kan Village," the soldier said honestly, glancing at the dagger on his neck with a cold glow, "about twenty or thirty people." Our team leader went over to ask and said that there was a disaster in Kan Village, and there was no food in the village. Many people starved to death, and many people had high fevers, and seeing that the village could not stay, several families came to the county seat to ask for help. ”

I thought that Xiahe Village was already the most severely affected village in Qingshui County, but there was an even more serious Kan Village.

Fu Yuanyuan twisted his eyebrows and asked the soldier to explain the situation in Kan Village.

It turned out that Kan Village was a very small village downstream of Xiahe Village, with only about 20 households in the whole village.

Because Kan Village is the lowest, it was the most severely affected this time.

"The villagers of Kan Village are so miserable, didn't your county order send rice and grain relief?"

Yinbao's eyes were full of anger, "It's still reasonable to stop people from coming in?" ”

The soldier shrunk his neck, a little away from the angry dagger, and sighed, "How can I, a little soldier, know about relief. But the man really can't let it in. ”

"How?"

"The little one went out with the leader just now," said the soldier with a sad face, "The leader said that several of the twenty or thirty people were flushed, and they were afraid that they were having a high fever. I'm afraid that if I get an epidemic, if I rush into the city, the infection will be a big thing. ”

"So we led the team to report to the top, and see what the boss ordered."

Angrily let the soldier go, Yinbao rolled up his sleeves: "Master, what are we going to do now?" ”

Fu Yuanyuan's heart turned slightly.

If there is no timely treatment and relief after the flood, it is indeed prone to epidemics.

And the epidemic spreads quickly and is highly lethal, and there is nothing wrong with the soldiers stopping people outside the city.

However, whether the refugees really contracted the epidemic or not still needs to be diagnosed by doctors before conclusions can be made.

"Let's go to the South Gate."

Qin Ze and Qin Hao must have learned the news in the county office, and with Fu Yuanyuan's understanding of them, I am afraid that they have already gone to the south city gate with the county order at this moment.

Fu Yuanyuan guessed well, and when he took her and Yinbao back to the South City Gate, it happened that Qin Ze and Qin Hao were asking about the situation at the South City Gate with He County's order.

Qin Ze and Qin Hao looked through the files at the county office in the morning, making He Xianling, who was watching on the side, nervous.

Unexpectedly, there was another incident of refugees entering the city, and his face became more and more ugly.

He has only been in Qingshui County for less than a year, and if things are not handled well, it will be troublesome to lose his official hat.

So he took Qin Ze and Qin Hao and rushed to the south gate in a hurry.

"Where's the doctor?" He Xianling heard the situation and said angrily, "It's been so long, and you haven't invited the doctor over?" ”

"It's coming, it's coming!"

The response was the leading soldier who came running from afar with two old doctors.

"My lord, these two doctors are very skilled, so let them go out of the city to check the pulse of the refugees."

With a wave of his hand to let the soldiers go out with the doctor as soon as possible, He Xianling turned his head and smiled at Qin Ze with a flattering smile: "Your Excellency, please wait a while, there should be a conclusion soon." ”

"Master, I'll go out and have a look."

Yinbao stood beside Fu Yuanyuan and said in a low voice.

Fu Yuan bowed his head and was about to mention it to Qin Ze, when he saw Qin Ze nodding knowingly, he said to the He County Order: "One of the retinues I brought is proficient in medical skills, let him go to see a doctor together." ”

He Xian Linghu looked at Yinbao suspiciously, and was a little unimpressed by her age.

However, he didn't want to disobey Qin Ze's wishes, so he recruited soldiers to hand Yinbao special protective clothes and let the soldiers lead them out of the city together.

The people outside the city who had lined up to enter the city had already run out when they heard that the group of refugees who had come might have a disease.

However, when the city heard that the doctor had gone out of the city gate to diagnose the patient, it was quietly surrounded by people waiting to hear the results.

About half an hour later, the soldiers led the doctor and the silver treasure back to the city.

"Back to my lord, there are twenty-two refugees outside. Five of them had a low-grade fever and three had a high fever. The rest of the people are okay for the time being. ”

After listening to the order, He asked with concern: "What is the cause of the fever refugees?" But the epidemic? ”