"His father, his father." Liu Shi hurriedly returned home and said in a panic to Nie Dalang: "What can I do about this, I'm going to die." ”

Nie Dalang frowned and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about, my mother should scold you again when she hears it." ”

Liu still looked frightened, and Nie Dalang asked her, "Didn't you let you go to see Yan Niang, why did you come back so quickly?" ”

It turned out that after Nie Dalang showed Dr. Liu the way, he was still a little worried about his sister, so he asked Liu to follow him to take a look, and help him if necessary. Unexpectedly, the Liu family had only gone to a pillar of incense for less than a time, so he ran back in a panic.

"Smallpox, it's smallpox." Liu Shi trembled and said, "Your sister's child has smallpox." ”

After speaking, I couldn't help crying, "No wonder I have to move out suddenly, it turns out that I have this disease, what should I do, the child was still living at home when she got sick, could we all be infected by her?" ”

Hearing this, Nie Dalang's face turned pale instantly, and he asked Liu, "How do you know?" ”

Liu told him that he had heard the conversation between Dr. Liu and Haitang, Nie Dalang's legs were weak and he almost sat on the ground, he pulled Liu and said, "Let's go, tell my father and mother about this first." ”

Nie Daddy and Nie Auntie were no less frightened than them, Nie Auntie patted her thigh on the spot and cried, "The debt collectors of the heavenly harvest are all owed to her in my previous life, and they were reincarnated in my stomach in this life." What can I do about this, such a big family, if it is infected, it will be all over. ”

Although Father Nie was a little calmer, he was not much better, "Okay, don't cry, the most important thing is to make sure that no one in our family is infected." ”

Aunt Nie hurriedly stopped crying, and said to Nie Dalang and Liu: "Boss, you hurry up and go to the school to pick up the children back, old family, you go and inform your brother and sister-in-law, be careful not to leak the news." ”

Nie Dalang's movements were very fast, he took leave with the master of the school, and came back with the children in the two rooms. The Liu family has already told Yu and Nie Erlang about the situation.

When Yu Shi heard this, she fainted on the spot, and Nie Erlang hurriedly helped her sit down.

Because of the word smallpox, the Nie family was panicked, and Nie's father gathered all the children and grandchildren together and repeatedly asked them if they were uncomfortable, especially fever, headache, rash on their bodies, etc.

Everyone shook their heads, only Yu's youngest son Nie Cheng said that he had an itch on his back, Yu heard it, and hurriedly lifted his son's clothes, only to see that there was nothing on it.

Yu Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and anxiously asked his son: "Where else is itchy, tell my mother quickly." ”

Nie Chengcai twisted his body, still saying that his back was itchy, Yu Shi lifted his clothes, touched it lightly with his hand, and suddenly said: "Oh, something is on my hand." ”

Everyone looked at her, and then saw her take out a few pine needles from Nie Chengcai's back.

Looking at the yellowed pine needles on his hands, Yu asked his son again, "Is it still itchy now?" ”

Nie Chengcai shook his head and said no more itching.

Yu's other half breath was relieved, "It turned out that the pine needles fell into the clothes, it's okay, it's okay." ”

Everyone present was finally relieved, but Liu said: "Second brother and sister, this child still has to be taught well, where did the pine needles come from in the school, I think most of them are skipping class." ”

Yu Shi also came back to his senses when he heard this, and turned his head to glare at Nie Chengcai, "You skipped school again?" ”

The reason why the word "again" is used is because Nie Chengcai has escaped in the past, and after being caught by Yu, he was beaten several times.

Nie Chengcai didn't admit it, Yu was so angry that he wanted to beat him, but Nie's father yelled, "Okay, teach the children to teach in their own room, the most important thing now is to make sure that no one in our family is infected with smallpox, and in the past three days, the door has been locked, and they are not allowed to go out." ”

No one dared to object to Father Nie's decision, after all, this was a matter of human life.

Only Nie Chengcai, when he heard that he couldn't go out for the past few days, his mouth was high. If he can't get out, what if something hidden under the pine tree is taken by someone else.

Nie Chengcai originally slept in the same room with his eldest brother Nie Chenggong, but after the smallpox incident, Yu Shi was not worried about him, so he built a small bed next to their big bed. Nie Chengcai thought about his baby, tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and after his parents fell asleep, he planned to sneak out.

His movement was too loud, waking up Nie Erlang and Yu, who tugged at his ear and said, "What are you going to do?" ”

Nie Chengcai, whose ears were hurting, hurriedly begged for mercy: "Mother, it hurts, it hurts." ”

Only then did Yu let go of him, and he said, "I'm going to pee." ”

Nie Erlang pointed to the gong bucket in the corner: "Go to Nasa." ”

Nie Chengcai looked at it, and walked to the side of the gong bucket without any intention of urinating, and Yu Shi also found that something was wrong, and asked sharply: "What are you doing out there?" ”

Nie Chengcai saw that his mother's face changed, and his neck shrank in fright, and he planned to sneak out to find the treasure buried under the pine tree.

Yu asked him what treasures he had, and he replied one by one: "Six-ring knife, bamboo snake, tiger head mask, hexagonal windmill..."

Yu Shi and Nie Erlang glanced at each other, and Nie Erlang asked; "Where did you get those things?"

They didn't buy him these.

Nie Chengcai was forced by his father to confess honestly: "It was given to me by my sister, she asked me to play with a rattle, and asked me not to be discovered by my sister-in-law, I did what she said, and she gave me a bunch of fun things." ”

"When did she let you do it?"

"It's the day my grandmother and sister-in-law quarreled." Nie Chengcai confessed.

Hearing this, Yu's head became dizzy again, and he hurriedly asked where the rattle went? Nie Chengcai said: "That rattle is broken, full and I don't like to play, so I threw it under the bed." ”

"Under the bed in your sister-in-law's room?"

"That's right." Nie Chengcai said disgustedly: "It's really too broken." ”

Yu Shi and Nie Erlang listened, tiptoed to the house where Yan Niang lived, and found the broken rattle from under the bed, only to see that the drum surface had a hole and was sewn up with a needle and thread, but the person who stitched the thread was not good, and it was crooked and twisted like a big centipede.

Yu Shi used scissors to cut the stitches, only to see a ball of cotton stuffed inside, and took it to the lamp to take a closer look, there were many yellow spots on the cotton.

"This can't be a scab, right?" Yu shivered and threw the rattle to the ground.

Nie Erlang pulled Nie Chengcai back two steps, and said tremblingly: "It's full of being infected by this." ”

The couple looked at each other and saw shock and fear in each other's eyes.

Nie Erlang said to his youngest son: "From now on, you are not allowed to tell anyone about your rattle to your sister, not even your brother, you know?" ”

Nie Chengcai didn't know what was going on, but nodded under his parents' stern admonition.

Nie Erlang found a handkerchief, wrapped the rattle and took it to the back of the house to burn it, and then shoveled two handfuls of soil with a shovel to cover it before going back. However, after going back, he was still not at ease, so he asked Yu to boil a large pot of hot water, and the three of them washed clean before they dared to go to bed.

The Nie family trembled for three days, during which no one felt unwell, but Nie's father was still not at ease, so he asked his wife to pretend to be sick and went to the town to invite a doctor to come and see him.

After the doctor diagnosed the pulse, he said that Aunt Nie had some liver qi problems, but nothing else was serious, and Father Nie really put his mind at ease.

Although no one in the family was infected with smallpox, Nie's father was worried that Yan Niang and the others would come into contact with the people in the village, and if someone in the village was infected, their family would still not be able to escape.

Thinking of this, Nie's father took Nie Dalang to the end of the village, saying that he would block the source of infection.

Yan Niang and Haitang don't know these things yet, she is now full of joy that Dr. Liu came to the door, she and Begonia thought that Manman had smallpox, and was frightened, who knew that Dr. Liu carefully diagnosed it after seeing Manman, and it was just ordinary eczema, not smallpox at all.

After the diagnosis, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Dr. Liu prescribed medicine and asked Haitang to follow him to the town pharmacy to grab medicine. After grabbing the medicine, Haitang mixed the medicinal materials with water to boil it into a medicinal soup, cooled it in a wooden basin until it was warm, and bathed it with Yan Niang.

After taking a medicinal bath for five days, the rash on Manman's body has basically faded, and only a red mark on his calf is still there.

The next day, Dr. Liu came again, and when he saw that Man Man was recovering well, he asked them a few more words. From today onwards, he will not come to Niejia Village in the future, Yan Niang hurriedly asked Haitang to hand over the prepared consultation fee to him.

Dr. Liu excused himself several times, but in the end, he couldn't help the two of them and had to accept it.

As soon as Dr. Liu left, Nie's father came with Nie Dalang.

In the past few days, Yan Niang has been haggard because she has taken care of her, and after seeing her father and brother, the fatigue of the days disappeared, and she hurriedly stepped forward to meet them: "Dad, big brother, come in quickly." ”

The two stood motionless outside the fence.

At this time, Father Nie looked at her coldly and said, "You still have a conscience, and you quickly moved out when you knew that girl had smallpox." But have you thought about it, that girl is a scourge, if she stays in the village, she may harm the whole village. ”

Hearing this, Yan Niang couldn't help but take a few steps back, "Dad, you... What did you say? ”

Nie Lao said: "I can't keep that girl, I want you to deal with her." ”

"No, that's my child." Yan Niang said loudly with a white face: "I looked for a doctor, I didn't have smallpox, it was just ordinary eczema, and now it has been cured." ”

Nie Lao Dad and Nie Da Lang thought she was lying, Yan Niang kept explaining, the two just didn't believe her, and they had to deal with her.

Yan Niang clenched her fists tightly, and she didn't feel pain even when her nails pierced into her palms.

Here, Nie Dalang remembered his fear when he heard the word smallpox, and saw that his sister was stubborn, and said angrily: "Your child is a baby, isn't my child anymore, Yan Niang, you can't be so selfish, you have to solve the child today." If you do it, we will treat it as if nothing happened, and you and Begonia can continue to stay in the village, if you don't, when the people in the village know, you should know what awaits you. ”

Yan Niang couldn't help shaking her head, she couldn't believe that her father and eldest brother were so vicious, and they forced her to kill her own child, "No, I won't do it, don't even think about it." ”

After saying that, he turned around and ran back and closed the door.

Nie Dalang said loudly: "Yan Niang, have you forgotten the fate of Wang Yang's family?" ”

Yan Niang's body stiffened, and then she couldn't help but tremble.

Wang Yang is a nightmare that many people in Niejia Village do not want to mention, she was originally a bride who married far away to Niejia Village, and became a widow after her husband died early. Wang Yang's water-based Yanghua is extremely restless after being widowed, and has a head and tail with many men in the village.

But walking too much at night will always meet ghosts, Wang Yang's concubines have a lot, I don't know where they contracted the disease, and finally passed it to the man who had an affair with her, and the man passed it on to the woman in the family, so that almost half of the people in Niejia Village had this disease.

Those with mild conditions were cured after taking medicine for a few months, and those with serious conditions almost did not survive. As the source of the infection, the people of Niejia Village were eager to skin her and eat her flesh raw. One night, Wang Yang was tied up by people from Niejia Village, put on a high pile of firewood, and burned alive.

After she died, there were still people who couldn't understand the hatred in their hearts, and they set fire to the house where she lived. The people of her mother-in-law's family also hated her for losing face, and when the village disposed of her, not only did not stop her, but also took the initiative to participate.

The villagers used lynching, and the government originally wanted to take care of it, but the patriarch of the Wang clan moved out of the ancestral etiquette, and the government just had no choice but to manage it.