Chapter 68

"Stay together in peace, live and die in the same cave......" Shang Yuyue spoke, his voice hoarse, "Is it his meaning or your speculation?" ”

Du Ziru smiled but no longer explained, and smiled with relief: "You have to ask Chen Shaoyou about this." ”

There was a rush of footsteps outside the house.

"Doctor Du, something happened."

The person who hurriedly entered the door was auspicious, and his face was anxious.

Shang Yuyue sighed in her heart, and Huo Di got up: "What's wrong with Chen Shaoyou?" ”

Ji Xiang hurriedly shook his head, "It's not Gongzi, it's Governor Lin." ”

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There are plague patients all over Liuzhou, more and more people, more and more people die, many people only four days from the onset of the disease to death, the initial symptoms of fever and cough, so, as long as there are these two symptoms of the family will be taken away, and then isolated.

Liuzhou Prefecture is under martial law, outsiders can't enter, and those inside must have a disease-free certificate presented by the government if they want to go out.

Therefore, there was a long queue at the gate at this moment, full of people who were in good health and had not been infected with the plague, and they were holding large and small packages in their hands, and each of them held a small booklet in the most conspicuous place in his hand—the Book of Disease.

Chen Shaoyou's pale cyan official uniform was wrinkled, there was a thick exhaustion on his cold face, and his eyes were like a pool as he watched the people at the city gate being inspected by the officials one by one, and those who had no disease-free books were allowed to go, and those who did not have disease-free books were taken away by the special officials wrapped in full clothes.

Ji Xiang stood behind Chen Shaoyou and said, "Childe, there are more and more people suffering from the plague now, and the number of people in Liuzhou City has reached as many as 1,000. ”

Chen Shaoyou didn't speak, glanced at the city gate, and slowly walked back to the county office.

Ji Xiang followed him and continued: "All the plague patients have been placed in the southern suburbs, and food is delivered every day. Dozens of doctors are also working new drugs, and all the necessary medicinal materials have been found in various pharmacies. ”

Chen Shaoyou nodded, and his feet didn't stop, "Go on." ”

"Because the southern suburbs are used to house the plague patients, so many are temporary grass huts, although it has stopped raining in recent days, but in the end it is a little simple, many parents and children of the old and weak women and children have been driven to the grass huts by the young.

In addition, the plague is rampant in Liuzhou, and grain merchants from other prefectures and counties dare not come, so we lack food, and the food sent to the southern suburbs is limited, and those old, weak, women and children are the targets of hunger and cold.

And the number of deaths has been increasing recently, and the plague patients in the southern suburbs have been in a commotion, fearing that the imperial court will send people to burn them to death. ”

Chen Shaoyou entered the study of the yamen, took off the black gauze hat on his head, and sat on the Taishi chair rubbing his temples.

Every problem that Jixiang said was something he was trying to solve.

The matter of the straw hut can be suspended, the rainstorm stops, and the sky is already freezing in June.

The old and weak women and children are pitiful, but this is helpless, there are not many houses in the southern suburbs, and no good houses can be built in a short time, so they can only respond to emergencies, after all, there are not enough people in the yamen now.

Healthy people can't hide in the southern suburbs, who would want to build a house in the plague area?

It is not easy to have a grass shed that protects from the wind and rain.

Food! The important thing is to eat.

Although there were no casualties in Liuzhou, many traffic arteries were damaged, and there were not many grain merchants in Liuzhou City who went out to collect grain, and now there is a plague thing, Liuzhou is under martial law, and other grain merchants in the city without plague do not dare to come, and as long as the people in the city have a disease-free book, who will go out and come back?

Even if the grain merchants go out, they won't sell the grain into Liuzhou, who knows if they can go out if they come in? Who knows if if you come in and will catch the plague?

Therefore, in Liuzhou at the moment, food can be described as scarce.

He and the prefect Lin Maonian's joint letter of urgency was delivered to the imperial court and there was no response, and the officials he sent to other state cities for help were blocked back, and now Liuzhou has become a lonely state like Jinzhou, Jinzhou, and Lanzhou.

No foreign aid, no food, no relief food from the imperial court!

Perhaps, as those plague people said, they will really be burned to death by the people of the imperial court, because Liuzhou has been abandoned by the imperial court.

Chen Shaoyou closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

"Childe is not good."

A little guy dressed the same as Jixiang hurriedly came, full of solemnity.

The person who came was Chen Shaoyou's other small guy Ping'an, who was sent by him to his second aunt Tao's side, and later after he took office, he planned to take Tao's to Liuzhou, but because of Tao's illness, he put it on hold, until Liuzhou burst the embankment, Tao was not worried about him, so he let Ping'an come to Liuzhou first.

Chen Shaoyou rubbed the corners of his aching forehead: "What's the matter?" ”

Ping'an hurriedly said: "The prefect has been infected with the plague, and now he has a fever, and the doctors in the yamen have gone to the state capital!" ”

Chen Shaoyou's hand paused suddenly, his brows furrowed, and he left the Taishi chair: "Go to the state capital." ”

Looking at Chen Shaoyou's back, Ji Xiang sighed: "Childe hasn't closed his eyes much for a few days." ”

Ping An glanced at him, and hurried away.

After entering the Lin Mansion, Chen Shaoyou saw Lin Maonian, who was feverish and weak, and at a glance, he knew that Lin Maonian was infected with the plague, so he hurriedly sent Ping'an to Hanshan Temple to find Du Ziru.

Du Ziru said that the prescription is only two flavors of medicine, and just now the yamen has entered another batch, and the prescription should be able to test the medicine.

Chen Shaoyou sat in front of Lin Maonian's bed with a scarf, whispering about the plague, although Lin Maonian was weak, his spirit was still acceptable, and the two discussed the matter of food.

Lin Maonian said: "The imperial court has abandoned Liuzhou, and it is impossible for grain to be sold by people from outside, so we can only save ourselves." ”

Chen Shaoyou nodded, "I have already asked Qin Jian to go to Ningcheng with my letter, there should be a batch of grain from Ningcheng in less than five days, although it is a drop in the bucket, but it is better than nothing." ”

Lin Maonian and Chen Shaoyou were classmates, and they were in the top three at the same time, and they also took office in Liuzhou at the same time, and their relationship was already close.

Lin Maonian knew that Qin Jian was the little housekeeper in Chen Shaoyou's mansion, and he also knew that the letter written by Chen Shaoyou was sent to Tao.

Lin Maonian said: "There is not much in the treasury of the state capital, but there are also tens of thousands of taels of silver, taking advantage of the fact that Ningcheng has not closed the city gate at the moment, hurry up and send a few more people to Ningcheng to buy some food." ”

Chen Shaoyou shook his head, "It's too late, Ningcheng has already closed the city gate, the people inside can go out and can't enter, no matter how much food Qin Jian can bring this time, I'm afraid he is the only one to escort out of the gate of Ningcheng, and after that, if you want to go in, it will be difficult to climb to the sky." ”

Lin Maonian smiled decadently, and Chen Shaoyou said again: "Most of the officials in the yamen have been sent by me to pick up the grain brought out by Qin Jian outside the gate of Ningcheng, and the government soldiers of the state capital, I want to borrow it from you." ”

Now that the grain is like gold, seeing that Qin Jian is transporting grain, the common people will definitely rob it, and there is no accident that the official sent to pick up Qin Jian Lin Maonian, what is strange to him, what does Chen Shaoyou want his soldiers to do?