Chapter 57: Leprosy

"What!" When Uncle Song brought the news of my arrest to the camp, everyone was shocked.

Big Bear rolled up his sleeves and said, "Then wait for a fart, let's go to the prison quickly, shall we?" Lao Han was imprisoned and didn't die, and he had to peel off his skin. James' grandson is really a high jump in the toilet, too much! ”

Uncle Wei lit a cigarette and said, "Prison robbery? What are we going to rob the hell of? And what happens when people are rescued? This island is a natural prison, you can't hide in the mountains and forests, right? Lao Song, do you think there are any legal avenues such as lawyers in this era? ”

Uncle Song nodded and said: "There are lawyers, and there is also the so-called legal system, but that Mattieson is the nephew of Count Soros, he is rich and powerful, and it may be futile to take the legal route." What's more, James is now obviously biased, he still has weight in speaking as the governor of the island, and now there is neither monitoring nor other eyewitnesses, and it is difficult for Xiao Han to explain why he suddenly appeared at that time. ”

"It's a replica of the farmer and the snake." Sister Hongmei also said on the side: "Even in the era we live in, when the legal system is relatively sound and the judicial process is relatively transparent and fair, it is inevitable that there will be some judicial corruption, let alone now." ”

In the face of James and Mathieson's joint planting, everyone couldn't think of a good way for a while, Uncle Wei asked Uncle Song to go back to find out the situation first, and notify everyone at any time if there was any change, Lin Ruyi and Su Yuliu went to Zhou An'an to see if she could let Grace think of a way.

In the military camp on the island, Sandro also learned about my arrest, he touched his head and paced back and forth in his room, and the adjutant next to him said: "According to Xiaonia's information, the gang surnamed Han seems to be preparing to rob the prison, should we send more people to the police station?" ”

"Prison robbery?" Sandro sneered twice and said disappreciatively, "Unless they're crazy, I don't believe they'll do such a stupid thing." It's just that this surnamed Han is really embarrassed for us to be arrested now, the Duke has always hoped to dig out the secrets on them, but now that he is in the hands of James and Mathieson, the situation is difficult to control. You secretly sent someone to pay attention to the situation inside the police station, it doesn't matter how they do it, James, but you must not let the surname Han die inside. ”

Before Sandro could finish speaking, another adjutant suddenly rushed in. Sandro glanced at the person and scolded dissatisfiedly: "What are you panicking about? Is the sky falling? ”

"Lord Lieutenant, it's not good, there's leprosy on the island."

Leprosy! Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by leprosy bacilli, the main lesions are in the skin and peripheral nerves, and it is extremely contagious. The disease used to be a large-scale epidemic around the world, but with the continuous development of medical standards and the popularization of relevant vaccinations, the disease has basically been effectively controlled, and the incidence has decreased significantly. But that was in the modern world, and in the current era, leprosy is a terrifying existence that makes people talk about it.

When Sandro heard the word leprosy, he was also shocked, and he quickly asked the adjutant to explain the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that a little earlier, suddenly a few Protestants ran to the governor's palace to say that one of their companions had leprosy, and asked Governor James to send someone to heal me, James was thinking about how to torture me well, and when he heard that someone had leprosy, he immediately became nervous, and he planned to send someone to check the situation, but he did not expect that no one wanted to go, and even on the spot, there were cabinet ministers who were ready to go out with their families to avoid it for a while. At the critical moment, the man with glasses stood up and volunteered, and he followed the Protestants to their residence.

According to the report of the man with glasses, seven or eight of the Protestants had leprosy, and all of them seemed to be in serious condition, and under his detailed and vivid description, James and the others were even more frightened to hear it, not to mention the island, even in the British Empire, there was no special medicine for leprosy. In the past, once someone got this disease, they were generally isolated immediately, and then sprinkled lime disinfection around the place where he was isolated, and there was no way to talk about follow-up treatment, unless the patient himself could be cured, he could only wait for death, and once the patient died, he must be immediately pulled to a far away place for cremation and burial.

Seeing that his colleagues around him were worried, James also lost his attention, and he asked the man with glasses: "What should I do next?" Seven or eight people got leprosy, and if it spread, the whole island would suffer. ”

The man with glasses said with a heavy face: "That's true, those people are still getting worse now, I estimate that it's too late to move to other places to isolate, and there is no suitable isolation point on the island now, if you throw them anywhere, the risk is too great, and the best way is to isolate them on the spot." ”

"Oh, if you want me to see, it's better to burn them all to death with a fire, anyway, they won't live long if they have leprosy, and instead of suffering themselves, others are also worried and afraid, it is better to go to God as soon as possible." A cabinet official couldn't help but say.

The man with glasses helped his glasses and said, "Burning them all to death will ensure that the disease will not spread?" Maybe the people who came into contact with them have already been infected, but they haven't broken out yet, so will they burn everyone to death? Besides, if the news of the burning of lepers by fire reaches the empire itself, it will be difficult for the Governor to explain to the Parliament and the Queen, right? ”

"So what do you say?"

The man in glasses snorted coldly and said to James: "I have heard from the old man on the island that some of the aborigines of the island had leprosy a long time ago, and then a fishing boat from Pelican Island in the northwest of Paradise Island passed by, and the fishermen on board cured the patient with a kind of pelican island specialty powder. In my opinion, in addition to doing a good job of quarantine, we should immediately send someone to find that pelican island. ”

"Nonsense!" The minister in charge of medical care in the cabinet said indignantly: "There is no medicine to cure leprosy, and what kind of flour can a fisherman use to cure him?" ”

"Believe it or not! Besides, could you have a better way? The man in glasses asked expressionlessly.

The glasses man's words made James muttered a little in his heart, Pelican Island? It seems that I have never heard of such an island, although the ocean is vast, and some inconspicuous islands are indeed easy to be overlooked, but even if such an island really exists, then the so-called powder will really be so magical? If leprosy can really be cured, then what kind of governor can be a rich country by selling flour alone.

Take another 10,000 steps back, even if everything is true, but you can't just rely on such a general description of a northwest direction, just go to the haystack to find a needle, rashly go out to sea without a map navigation guide, maybe Pelican Island was not found, but people died at sea first.

Seeing that James was a little hesitant, the man with glasses said again: "Although the old man's words may not be credible, but you can also try it, otherwise the big guy can only wait, and it is easy for people on the island to panic and chaos." If you want me to say, let the surnamed Han go, if he didn't find Pelican Island and died at sea, then he deserved it, if he found Pelican Island and brought back the powder, then even if he made meritorious service and sold the powder to Count Soros at that time, you can also explain the matter of Master Mathieson. ”

James looked at the man with glasses and felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, he was silent for a few seconds and then said, "What if he runs away on the plane?" ”

"If you can run, the monk can't run away from the temple, his wife, and his companions are all on Paradise Island, I don't believe he can ignore it for his own life, besides, we can only give him a small boat and a small amount of supplies, even if he wants to run, he can't run anywhere."