Shen Xiaoyu wore thick clothes and except for the door, and after walking for a while, someone called her name behind, and as soon as Shen Xiaoyu turned around, he saw that it was Lu Butterfly who came with an ox cart.

"Butterflies? Why are you driving the car yourself? What about Uncle An? Shen Xiaoyu asked.

Lu Butterfly shook his head: "Uncle An is sick, I came out to buy medicine, and I was afraid that I would lose time and catch the car by myself." ”

"Uncle An is sick too?" Shen Xiaoyu asked, there seem to be a lot of sick people in the village recently.

"I thought it was a cold and cough, but now I have a high fever." Lu Butterfly said.

Shen Xiaoyu listened and felt that Uncle An's illness was a bit similar to her father.

The two entered the city, grabbed the medicine first, and when they returned, they found a person lying on the side of the road, and if they looked closely, it was the beggar in the village who had been wandering!

"Why is this man lying here? Hungry and faint? Lu Butterfly said and stopped the ox cart first.

Shen Xiaoyu got out of the car, looked at himself, and shouted, but the man didn't respond.

Lu Butterfly also jumped down and said, "He can't freeze to death, right?" ”

When Shen Xiaoyu heard this, he put his finger in front of him, and then his face changed: "I'm afraid it's really dead...... '" His voice trembled a little.

When Lu Butterfly heard this, he was a little scared, so he said: "On such a cold day, he doesn't have any anger, he ......" and then jumped on the ox cart first.

Shen Xiaoyu was scared and hurriedly got into the car, but Lu Butterfly was so frightened that her hands trembled, she had no choice but to come to drive the ox cart.

The ox cart walked slowly all the way, Shen Xiaoyu had never rushed before, and it was almost dark before he arrived home.

Sent Lu Butterfly and the ox cart back to Lu's house, Shen Xiaoyu also ran all the way home, and as soon as he entered the door of the river pond, Cui Fenglan asked, "What's wrong?" What's going on? ”

Shen Xiaoyu told him about the death of the beggar he saw on the road, and when Cui Fenglan heard it, he said, "This beggar still hasn't survived." After sighing, he said: "This beggar is also strange, and he can't communicate with people, if he goes to Liaoyang City to ask for food, I'm afraid he will be able to survive this winter." "Sometimes the people in the village see that the beggar is pitiful, and they will put something at the door, but the beggar is still hiding from people, usually just grabbing a food, or he can't see anyone.

Shen Xiaoyu hurriedly went to boil medicine, the little money that the family had saved up had also spent a lot to buy medicine, Shen Xiaoyu was a little worried, if Shen's father's illness was not good, the family's money was afraid that he would not be able to buy medicine for a few days, and when the money was spent, what would he use to buy medicine?

Shen Xiaoyu got up early in the morning, burned the house warm, and prepared to go to the city to set up a stall.

"It's cold, or you won't go to the city for the next few days." Cui Fenglan said that there were Shen Xiaoyu Zhang Luo outside the house, worried and tired, I was afraid that my body would not be able to stand it.

Shen Xiaoyu shook his head: "I can't help but go, now I can earn one." "If you don't have money, you can't open the pot at home, and you have to go when it's cold.

Cui Fenglan sighed: "The situation in our family is going to drag you down again." "She has a stomach now, and it's inconvenient to do anything, Shen Xiaoyu is afraid that she will have a fetal gas, so she will take over any work, and now she is basically a family of four, and Shen Xiaoyu has to take care of her alone.

"Oh, aunt, what are you talking about, what is not a drag!" Shen Xiaoyu smiled and said, "I'll go first." ”

The business of setting up a stall in winter is not very good, and Lu Butterfly is okay with it.

"Is Uncle An better?" Shen Xiaoyu asked.

Lu Butterfly shook her head: "There is no improvement, I feel that the medicine is drunk in vain, but it is said that it is the best medicine, and it has no effect, what else can I do?" ”

Shen Xiaoyu also sighed, this time the illness was too fierce, and his father and Uncle An's conditions were so similar......

When he went home and entered the village, Shen Xiaoyu heard a cry, crying heartbreakingly, Shen Xiaoyu ran over to see that it was Sun Cui!

"This ...... Is this something wrong in the family? Shen Xiaoyu frowned, Sun Cui hugged a straw mat and cried, and a white cloth was hung at the door.

Guan Er's sister-in-law saw Shen Xiaoyu and said, "Alas, it's a pity, the youngest daughter of Sun Cui's family, Xiaofeng, is gone." ”

"Why not? Xiaofeng is five years old! Shen Xiaoyu said, the children in the village are not all born to live, but they are generally not easy to feed before the age of one, Xiaofeng is already five years old, why can it be gone?!

According to the custom in the village, children die before they reach adulthood, and they cannot be buried in coffins, but can only be buried directly. Seeing Sun Cui crying with a straw mat, Shen Xiaoyu felt uncomfortable.

Guan Er's sister-in-law said: "It's strange to say, I heard that Xiaofeng suddenly got sick, and she had a high fever for a few days, and then she ......" Speaking of this, Guan Er's sister-in-law sighed: "The little girl is smart, if you say no, you don't know, this time Sun Cui doesn't know how much she has to suffer." "Although I quarrel on weekdays, but what happened to my family, whoever sees it feels sorry.

Shen Xiaoyu sighed in his heart, and then looked at Lu Butterfly, Lu Butterfly's expression was similar, they all had a high fever for no reason, Xiaofeng was already dead, so ......

Shen Xiaoyu didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly ran all the way home, Father Shen was drinking porridge at this time, and when he saw Shen Xiaoyu running back in such a hurry, he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Dad, can you sit up?" Shen Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, he was able to sit up, was it just that he was getting better?

Father Shen coughed twice and said, "Well, it's not yet seventy or eighty, and you can't be fed when you eat!" ”

Shen Xiaoyu sat down to rest for a while, and then said, "Xiaofeng is gone." ”

Father Shen asked, "That little girl Lao Liang?" ”

Shen Xiaoyu nodded: "Well, it was said that he died of a sudden illness." She didn't dare to say anything else, for fear that her father would think too much.

One night, Daddy Shen looked better in spirit, but the next morning, people began to have a fever again, which made Shen Xiaoyu's heart rise again.

In the morning, she went to Lu Butterfly's, and now in this situation, she is not in the mood to set up a stall.

Lu Butterfly saw that Shen Xiaoyu was coming, and knew what Shen Xiaoyu was worried about, so she pulled Shen Xiaoyu back to the house and whispered: "Xiaofeng's incident should be just a coincidence." ”

Shen Xiaoyu actually hoped that it was a coincidence, but ......

"I don't want Uncle An to be like Xiaofeng." Lu Butterfly said that her mother has remarried, if Uncle An is gone, she will only be left alone, and the thought that Uncle An may die, Lu Butterfly wants to cry.

Of course, Shen Xiaoyu doesn't want her father to be gone, her mother is gone, if his father is gone, what will she do in the future? Cui Fenglan is still young, it will be easy to remarry, and she doesn't want to be alone.

The two sighed, and there was still medicine boiling on the small stove of Lu Butterfly, so Shen Xiaoyu said, "Don't change it to another medicine, this medicine won't work." ”

Lu Butterfly nodded, although the money to buy medicine is expensive, it is not important to human life.

"You wait for me for a while, after feeding Uncle An and drinking the medicine, let's go together." Lu Butterfly said.

Shen Xiaoyu went home to change into thick clothes, and then drove out with Lu Butterfly and Lu Butterfly, but when they arrived at the entrance of the village, there were officials from the yamen guarding the entrance of the village, Shen Xiaoyu wondered, could it be that there was a thief in this village?

"Stop, can't pass!" A servant stepped forward and stopped the ox cart from leaving, and the servant next to him brought up a barricade made of wood.

Shen Xiaoyu was puzzled, so he asked, "Why don't you let me go?" ”

The official said: "What the lord said above, if you don't let it go, you won't let it go, go back quickly!" ”

Shen Xiaoyu looked at Lu Butterfly, and Lu Butterfly also looked confused.

After looking at it privately and seeing a familiar face, Shen Xiaoyu asked, but it made her desperate.

"You say that our Sihe Village is a plague village?" Shen Xiaoyu was shocked, she couldn't believe that this good village had become a plague village!

Lu Butterfly can't accept such a result, the purpose of these officials here should be to isolate their village!

"Okay, you go back quickly, we don't know if you are sick or not, hurry up and go back!" The servant said that they did not want to come to work, and that if they got too close and contracted the plague, they would also suffer.

Shen Xiaoyu and Lu Butterfly had no idea, there were officials here, and there must be officials guarding other exits in the village, and behind Sihe Village was a mountain, which was a dead end, and they were now trapped here.

When she returned home, Cui Fenglan wondered, "What's wrong?" "I just went out and came back, but I haven't been to the city yet.

Shen Xiaoyu pulled Cui Fenglan back to the room and said, saying that he had asked Cui Fenglan to sit on the kang first.

"Auntie, our village has been sealed off,......" Shen Xiaoyu said.

Cui Fenglan didn't understand: "Sealed? What does it mean? ”

Shen Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There is a servant at the entrance of the village, and it is said that our village is in trouble...... Pestilence. ”

When Cui Fenglan heard this, she was also shocked, her head was dizzy, and she was in a trance.

Shen Xiaoyu hurriedly helped the person a little bit, and said, "Auntie, I can't get out now." ”

Cui Fenglan wanted to cry, but she didn't dare to cry, Shen Xiaoyu had no choice, and she had no idea when she sat on the kang.

Cui Fenglan cried enough, so she said: "Don't let your father know about this in advance, just say that the weather is too cold, the road is not easy to walk, and there will be no stalls for the time being." ”

Shen Xiaoyu nodded, but still said: "This news will definitely be known to the whole village immediately, how long can it be hidden?" ”

Cui Fenglan shook her head: "It's a long time to hide it." "If Daddy Shen knew the news, I'm afraid he would be sick.

Shen Xiaoyu was bitter in his heart, not to mention anything else, Cui Fenglan still had a child in her belly, this village would be closed for a day or two, if it was a long time, the food stored at home would not be able to eat for a few days, and the officials outside would definitely not care about their life or death.

Cui Fenglan felt uncomfortable: "If it's really a plague, I'm afraid this village will be ...... It's going to be burned. ”

"Burn? But not everyone in the village is sick, and there are no people who are not! Shen Xiaoyu said, don't these people care about their lives or deaths?

"It's not that there is nothing like this, the lives of our little people are cheap in the eyes of those big officials, and they haven't done such things in order to save trouble!" Cui Fenglan said: "Xiaoyu, you run, we can't all hug each other and die!" ”