At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the two saw that the sun was going down, so they rushed to the capital with the flow of people fleeing the famine.

Ye Chen hugged her brother and disappeared in the crowd, she had already changed into her brother's clothes at Uncle Li's house, and her hair was casually chirped. The weather was very hot, Ye Chen was sweating on his forehead, and the ashes on his face were washed one by one, black and white, as if he had just climbed out of the coal mine.

However, this is very good, Ye Chen feels that he is very safe now, if this person is in a desperate situation, he can do anything, and an ugly boy is much safer than a fair and beautiful girl.

There are all kinds of people fleeing the famine, some pushing carts, the old and children sitting on the carts, and some helping the old and the young, moving forward slowly. No matter what posture the people were, they all squinted, they were dirty, and they could smell the smell of sweat from a long distance, but no one cared about this, they hurried with all their hearts, wanting to go to the place where there was food earlier.

In the evening, the fleeing team stopped in a roadside clearing.

Ye Chen saw that the people around her were burying the pot and cooking, and she was a little stunned for a while, she didn't know that there was still such an operation. It turned out that I had to carry a pot on my back when I went out......

She sighed, secretly hated her mistake, and took the dry food handed by her brother and gnawed slowly. The tortillas are very hard, and they fall off the slag when you bite into them, and they are still very choking. Ye Chen took the water, chewed slowly, swallowed slowly, she hadn't eaten such an unpalatable thing for a long time, and she was choked and wanted to vomit.

But she must eat, and she will have to travel tomorrow, and in a few days she will not even have to eat this.

The elder brother patted him on the back and frowned, "Drink more water, this is too choking." ”

"It's okay, brother, eat quickly." Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief and hiccuped.

Ye Jing saw tears in the corners of his sister's eyes, shivering and hiccuping, and suddenly laughed, he poked Ye Chen's head with his hand and said, "What did you steal?" ”

Ye Chen took a sip of water unhurriedly and swallowed slowly, "Childish!" ”

The weather was exceptionally clear, and the moon was shining brightly, making people a little sleepless.

Ye Chen shrunk in his brother's arms, and his heart was up and down. She was very unaccustomed to lying directly in the field, plucking out her ears, she always felt itchy, so afraid that insects would get into it.

With his eyes open, Ye Chen thought about the way out in the future, and went to Wencheng to find his uncle, he could be a scholar for others if he was literate, or he could be an apprentice for Mr. Bookkeeper, but he didn't know if people wanted to be themselves. I have to hide my gender, and I must not reveal it, otherwise it will be all over. Thinking about it, my eyelids began to fight, and I fell asleep with my head tilted.

Ye Chen was woken up by the chatter around her, at this time it was not yet dawn, she sat up and rubbed her stiff neck, and saw her brother lying there with his eyes open and a little pale, she was startled.

Ye Chen patted his arm lightly and said worriedly, "Brother, are you uncomfortable?" Why is your face so bad? ”

Ye Jing came back to his senses, turned over and sat up, "I'm fine, I just woke up, and I'm a little confused." ”

The two hurriedly finished their breakfast with the water, and began to hurry with the crowd.

Suddenly, I saw that the road ahead was blocked, and there was a commotion. Ye Chen helped his brother to avoid the crowd and continued to walk forward, when he heard someone say in a panic: "Hurry up!" Come on! This man has a plague! ”

The crowd surged to both sides and became even more chaotic. Ye Chen grabbed his brother and retreated to the side of the road.

It was just the beginning, and on this day, people in the team were found to have the plague, and the people became soldiers. Ye Chen finally saw the inferior nature of people, once the patient was found, he would be driven out of the team regardless of 3721, and he didn't care about the life or death of that person.

Ye Chen saw with his own eyes that those patients who were still with fever lying on the side of the road, looking at the crowd in the distance with their dying breath, they didn't cry or make trouble, they just looked at it, there was no despair or anger in their eyes, only the accustomed Mu Ran.

At this time, human life seems so thin, you don't even need to do anything, just stand by and don't look at it, and it quickly disappears with the wind.

Ye Jing held his sister's hand and squeezed it gently, "Once they are infected, they won't be able to live, and now everyone is in danger, and there is no way to do it." ”

Ye Chen nodded and pouted at his brother, "Don't catch a cold these two days, I don't want to be treated as a plague because of typhoid fever." She touched the dry food in her bag, shook her head helplessly, and dragged her brother away.

Ye Jing pursed his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he just led his sister and continued to hurry.

But sometimes, whatever you're afraid of comes.

Ye Chen never thought that his brother suddenly fainted while walking. Apparently she had been fine before, but she fell on top of her suddenly, without warning, and she sat down on the ground.

She was so frightened that she dragged her brother to the side of the road with all her might, and the crowd of people rushing forward in a mighty way, and no one stopped to ask the brother and sister. They didn't even look at the two of them, and they rushed forward.

Ye Chen touched her brother's head, it was very hot, she gently patted her brother's face, and shouted anxiously: "Brother, brother, brother!" She was about to cry, there was no village in front of the village, where to find a doctor.

After shouting for a long time and not seeing his brother react, Ye Chen stood up, looked around on tiptoe, and saw a dilapidated house more than 200 meters in front of him, and he didn't know what it was for.

Ye Chen laboriously pulled his brother's and carried him on his back, and then half-dragged and staggered towards the dilapidated house.

finally arrived in front of the house, Ye Chen found out that where was the broken house, at best, it was a few broken walls, and the roof had long been scraped to where it was. The beams are on top of it, and it's as if they're going to roll down the next moment.

Ye Chen dragged his brother into the house, cleaned up a clean place and moved over, maybe she moved too much, Ye Jing's eyelids moved and woke up.

Ye Chen hurried over, "Brother, where are you uncomfortable, do you want to drink water?" ”

Ye Jing shook his head, he moved his lips, Ye Chen probed over, and listened to him: "Achen, am I ...... Got the plague? I felt dizzy a few days ago, I thought it was sunburned, and I was afraid that you would be worried, so I didn't tell you. “

Ye Chen felt that her nose was a little sour, she rubbed it, and said a little anxiously: "I'm your sister, why didn't you tell me earlier, if you knew earlier, you would have found a doctor in Yuncheng." Her voice was hoarse, but her heart was twitching, and the taste was very strange, just a little breathless.

The corners of Ye Jing's mouth moved, wanting to smile at his sister, but in the end he only lifted his lips and said softly: "Achen, I don't live long, you go, take the baggage, there is enough dry food to eat for two days, and more than a penny of silver, you take it well, don't lose it." He paused, coughed suddenly, and continued, "Go quickly, and you will be in the town the day after tomorrow." I've inquired about it, you go quickly, or you don't have enough dry food, just leave me here. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ye Chen cried all of a sudden, she couldn't control her tears, she knew that it was not the time to cry, but her life in the past few days had overwhelmed her, and she finally broke out at this moment.

"Brother, don't think about it, what can't you die, you just have a cold, do you know about typhoid fever?" She raised her hand to wipe her tears, and said incoherently, "I'll go find a doctor for you, I will definitely find a doctor for you, it will definitely be cured, you wait, I will put the dry food here, you remember to eat, I will go find a doctor for you." ”

She put the burden beside her brother, ran out with the silver, ran out for two or three hundred meters in one breath, then gasped and stopped, she looked around blankly, there was not even a figure, for a moment, she felt very helpless, no one could help her, what should she do.

Ye Chen wiped away her tears, and chased towards the escape team, there must be a doctor inside, she thought so.

Her feet had worn out the skin, the blisters were bleeding pus and soaked in sweat, and every step hurt her heart, but she couldn't stop, her brother was still waiting for her, she had to run quickly.

Zhu Qishen heard that there was a big flood in Yuncheng, and it was said that there was a plague outbreak in the past few days. He has practiced medicine for many years, and the more strange and inexplicable the disease, the more interesting he feels.

He rode his old hairless horse, staggering along, and in the distance he saw a young man running towards him like mad. Zhu Qishen stroked his beard, "Strange, this young man has an anxious look on his face, and he is running wildly, what are you going to chase?" He muttered to himself.

"Kid! Who are you looking for? The old man can give you a ride! "He has to be nosy again, hey, who made him a doctor, he can't see others suffering the most.

Ye Chen was running out of breath, when she heard someone shouting to herself, she suddenly lost her breath, gasped and stopped, a stream of blood rushed up her throat, and she couldn't speak in pain.

When she looked up, she saw an old man sitting crookedly on an old horse, with a wooden box on the horse's buttocks, and a basket tied to the box was green, and she thought it was some kind of herb.

Ye Chen inexplicably felt that this scene was familiar, that basket should not be the legendary medicine basket, and this old man should not be an unborn miracle doctor.

Ye Chen gasped and said, "Old man, what is in your basket?" My brother is sick, and I'm going to go to the front to find a doctor. ”

Zhu Qi stroked his beard deeply, and his expression became serious, "I am the doctor, surnamed Zhu, is your brother far away from here?" Take me there. ”

Ye Chen was so happy, her eyes suddenly lit up, the ups and downs of the past half a day were too tormenting, and God finally had some conscience for her.

She hurriedly led the way in front, but Zhu Qishen thought she was slow, so he picked her up on the horse, and the old horse ran with his feet, but he was old and strong.

When he returned to the dilapidated house, Ye Chen saw his brother lying on the grass with his eyes closed, motionless. Frightened, she hurriedly ran over and touched her brother's forehead, which was as hot as a soldering iron.

Zhu Qishen walked over with the medicine box, he lifted Ye Jing's eyelids and looked at it, and closed his eyes to check his pulse carefully.

Ye Chen fanned his brother with his sleeve and stared at Zhu Qishen nervously.