Yongzhou is now not only short of grain and materials, but also of manpower.

On the same day, Jiaozhi besieged the city, cut off the living water of the Zuojiang River into the city, there were not a few wells in Yongzhou City, because there was not enough pure water to drink, the people had to dig a few deep pits in a hurry, and the yellow muddy water and sewage were slightly left to clarify and drink.

At this time, alum is a precious thing, even in normal times, but some large families have some savings, and after the war, few people can afford to use it, so it is naturally impossible to use it for water purification.

As soon as this kind of turbid water was drunk, the epidemic was born in a few days, but at the beginning, it was hindered by the defense of the city, and because the people suffering from the epidemic were only zero dingding, the government did not pay much attention to it, and when Jiaozhi retreated, after more than half a month of brewing, the epidemic finally began to break out.

In the spring and summer of Quang Nam, it is already damp and moldy, and it is easy to get sick, and because of this epidemic, the sick camps and the Jimin hospitals are already full, and even an empty stool can not be found.

Because Chen Hao is already very good, the imperial doctors and medicine who originally went south on the order of the Son of Heaven also freed their hands, but at this time they were either in the sick camp or in the Jimin Hospital, and there was no extra left in the post station.

Although Ji Qingling is not a doctor, she had many illnesses in her previous life, and she said that she had become a doctor for a long time, and she had experienced a lot, and she often read some medical books, and she could still do it by simply taking a pulse and identifying a pulse case, she looked at Gu Yanzhang's symptoms, and she already knew that it was not good, and when she saw the doctor's performance, she felt even worse.

Because along the way, even if she heard that there was an epidemic in Yongzhou City, she didn't know that it would be so serious, Gu Yanzhang said last night that she had only pulled dozens of corpses out of the city, she still thought that she was far away from herself, but she didn't want to be so close in the blink of an eye.

She didn't dare to think about it, she didn't dare to think about it, she looked up, and saw Qiu Yue's lips white standing in front of her, holding a handkerchief with both hands, as if she was trembling, she sighed in her heart, and didn't blame, she just said: "You go back to the room, don't go in and out here, I don't know what the situation is now......

Qiu Yue swallowed her saliva, opened her mouth several times, and said after a long time: "Madam, you sit and rest for a while, and I will take care of the officials." ”

But the breath was very weak.

Ji Qingling shook his head and said, "You go and stare at people to decoct medicine, if there is anything, I will ring the bell and call people to come, just tell them to put things outside the door." ”

Hearing Ji Qingling's words, Qiu Yue's courage was finally mustered, but it was like the pig urine being poked by the butcher with a sharp knife, and countless yellow water flowed out at once, and a ball that was originally round suddenly deflated.

She stood in place, only to feel that her body was cold and hot, her head was lightheaded, her headache was weak, her steps were faster than her brain, and she was already walking outside.

Let's say that Qiuyue went out, and chased the doctor to get the prescription and the medicinal materials that he made up, and took the two little girls to find the firewood room to boil the medicine.

As she walked, she felt that her face and body slowly began to get hot.

When Qiu Yue was a child, she also saw an epidemic in the countryside, and there were seven or eight hundred people in a village, and only one or two hundred survived in the end. Many years have passed now, but she has several memories of her childhood very clearly, one of which is that when there was an epidemic in the village, she was scolded by her father to go out to dig vegetables in the east of the village.

Although the little girl is not very old, she also understands that "infected" and "dead" are not good words, and she knows that whether it is the whole family or the whole village, everyone avoids the sick.

She carried the basket to the house, and did not dare to go in, but only a few wilting white cabbages were haphazardly cut on the edge of the vegetable garden behind his house, and was about to run back, but she heard a movement not far away, and when she turned her head, there was a man lying on the muddy floor a foot away, skinny as wood, with bulging eyes, loose and loose teeth, and a frighteningly red face—staring at herself with two eyeballs, and gurgling from her throat.

She was so frightened that she turned around and ran, forgetting even the vegetable basket, and when she went back, she was beaten hard, but she almost broke her leg and didn't want to go to that house again.

Within two days, word spread in the village that all the families in the east of the village were "gone".

Since some people are still counting, "Why don't they all die in the house, but die in the vegetable garden, how many poisonous gases fly out, if they infect others...... Do evil! ”

Whether it's that scene or something, more than ten years have passed, but inexplicably, Qiu Yue suddenly thought about it all today.

She took the two girls into the firewood room, and told them to wash the medicine jars and make a fire, while she washed a big bowl to make medicine.

There were two large windows on the wall of the firewood room, and the sun came through, illuminating a small room very brightly.

She held half a gourd scoop in her hand, and only then did she scoop a scoop of water, and she saw a very ugly face reflected on the surface of the water.

There was a little girl next to her who didn't know what was going on, so she asked stupidly, "Sister Qiuyue, why is your face so red...... Is it sick. ”

As if she couldn't beat anymore, Qiu Yue's heart fell from her chest to the eighteenth layer of hell.

She explained a few words randomly, and walked out with one foot deep and one foot shallow, because she thought that there was still an autumn dew in the room, and she didn't dare to go back, so she only found a corner where no one was, squatting on the ground and biting her fingers and shaking.

The ground was dirty and damp, but she didn't care about anything, her mind was full of messy thoughts, and for a while she thought that she was only twenty, although she didn't look good, but she was literate, able to do things, and her temperament was down-to-earth, even if she didn't stand out, it was a good one, and what was the difficulty of finding someone to live with, how comfortable was waiting behind.

For a while, I thought that I had learned so much over the years, and I grew up like this under the influence of officials and my wife, if I became a parent, my wife had already said that she would give herself a deed, and when she had a baby in the future, she might be able to provide him with a study.

I am used to seeing the officials and wives in the house reading and writing, maybe I can really raise a jinshi, and when the time comes, I will be able to enjoy the glory and wealth.

For a while, I thought that I would give birth to four children, have sons and daughters, and two sons, not too much, and fight more, it is best that one will be an official, and the other will be in charge of general affairs. There are two more daughters, who are well-raised, who know poetry and songs, and who can take care of the family business.