Chapter 53: The Man Who Suddenly Appeared

It was the result of ignorance and greed.

Although Mayor Yuan and the person in charge at the beginning were both highly educated state cadres, the superstition in their bones still made them do such a heinous thing.

It's nothing more than cholera!

More than a decade ago, a flood struck this place. Although many of China's rural areas were already rich at the time, they were still remote and poor, and medical conditions were quite poor. Due to the fact that the health and epidemic prevention work was basically not done, and it was the peak period of cholera from May to September, there was an outbreak of cholera in a place called Malian Village under Hongqing Town!

At that time, almost all the adults in the village were infected with cholera, but because the initial symptoms were not high, but similar to diarrhea, the villagers with little medical knowledge thought that it was just diarrhea caused by drinking unclean water.

But then the situation became more and more serious, people began to die in the village, and most of the adults in the village were no longer able to walk, so the third uncle, as the village head, sent a child who was not infected with cholera to the town to find Zhang Xinxin, who worked in the town hospital.

Zhang Xinxin is the only daughter of the old Zhang family and the female champion of Malian Village, the only one who went out of the mountains to study in college, and then returned to work in the town. Although she is young, because she graduated from a famous medical university, she is the vice president of the town hospital, and in the hearts of the villagers, she is the savior of the village.

Malian Village is located deep in the mountains, and there was no winding mountain road at that time, so it was almost isolated from the outside world, so when Zhang Xinxin rushed back to the village with a few people and some simple medical supplies, most of the people in the village had already shown a 'cholera' face due to severe dehydration - sunken eyes, sunken cheeks, dry lips, and apathy or even confusion. The skin is wrinkled, clammy and cold, and the elasticity is lost; Her fingers are shriveled like those of a washerwoman, and her belly is sunken like a boat.

This scene made Shin Shin very worried, and immediately began treatment. From her medical knowledge, although cholera is highly contagious and the vaccine is not effective for everyone and is toxic, as long as it is handled properly, it is no longer an incurable disease with a high mortality rate in today's society.

But even though she thought so, the few people she brought with her were terrified. Although those few people also have the sign of hospital doctors, in the local area where medical conditions are poor and medical personnel are scarce, they are actually only practitioners who have received some simple medical training, and they do not even meet the level of nurses in urban hospitals. In remote rural areas, this phenomenon exists in many places, and people who do not have medical skills become doctors.

Before the outbreak of cholera in Malian Village, there was a village called Dayang Village a few years ago that this disease occurred, because the location of Dayang Village was still remote, so the whole village was known to the outside world after the disease died, because the corpse was not properly disposed of, almost let the plague spread, which caused great panic in the local area.

In the eyes of the locals, this is not a disease at all, but someone has offended the plague god, so he will be condemned to the crime of destroying the village, and contact with these people will also be implicated, and even if he speaks about it, he will be punished in the same way!

For some reason, the locals call cholera 'zero-two', perhaps after the type of bacterium. Anyway, under the false rumors, the locals smelled 'Zero Two' and changed color, and it is rumored that this germ cannot be killed no matter what, and the infected people will die, only fire, only a fire that keeps burning can kill this disease!

When the few people who came with Xinxin saw this in the village, they thought that the terrifying 'Zero Two' had come again, and completely gave up the heart of a healer and fled in a hurry. Xinxin couldn't stop them, and she couldn't make sense of them, so she had to report them to the cadre in charge of medical and health care at that time, and the current mayor of Yuan, and asked him to find a way to mobilize medical forces to save the people in the village!

Xinxin maintained an ambiguous relationship with the married Mayor Yuan at that time, and she thought that the knowledgeable and upright Mayor Yuan would definitely find a way to find the medical strength of the provincial hospital to help these villagers who had not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

From her point of view as a doctor, this is just a symptom of uremia and acidosis manifested by a mass loss of potassium salt, and the dead person died of organ failure, regardless of the plague god. Although the number of infections is extremely high, most of them are within the range of cure. And she firmly believes that the man she is secretly in love with, the man she loves, worships, and trusts with all her heart, will definitely save them!

However, what she didn't expect was that Mayor Yuan, who she trusted and waited for, after calming the patient's emotions and taking away the ancestral process of the village chief's third uncle's family, actually took a dozen town staff to set fire to Malian Village in one night, burning all those who might recover completely in the village.

The whole village was too sick to get out of bed and could not escape the fire, and some of the children who were able to flee were forcibly pushed back into the fire by the people surrounding the village. As for Xinxin, she was tied to the door by her sweetheart herself, watching him go away mercilessly, being burned to a charred corpse in front of him.

She won't know if she dies, Mayor Yuan has coveted the secret recipe for making the kiln for a long time, and this cholera is the opportunity for him, threatening the third uncle to hand over the secret recipe and there will be no more opportunities to do it in the future! Of course, he understands that cholera is no longer a terminal disease under today's medical standards, but he wants to become the mayor of the town, he wants to rely on that secret recipe to make great fortunes, and he wants to appease the hearts of everyone in this place.

So she and her villagers had to sacrifice themselves to be exterminated in this barbaric and cruel way, just so that they would not harm others! And that kind of harm doesn't exist! Being murdered like this, such an innocent, such a distinction between men, women, and children, how can they not be angry!

Therefore, not long after this incident, Mayor Yuan and a group of more than a dozen people began to feel restless, and as a last resort, he invited his uncle, Master Yuan Long.

Master Long was furious at first, and even wanted to bring his only nephew to justice. But after all, he couldn't get rid of the fetters of family affection and Mayor Yuan's pleading and so-called remorse, and instructed these people to make bricks and tiles from the charred corpses that had not been buried at all, and built houses so that they could not leave this place, and then he used a feng shui array to trap them.

After doing all this, Master Long died, but Mayor Yuan buried him in a place with excellent terrain deep in the mountains according to his instructions before he died, so that he had been guarding the Feng Shui Great Array for more than ten years, and trying to surpass the undead!

Malian Village is located in a remote area, and there was a precedent of Dayang Village being wiped out due to cholera, so when the fire to eliminate the plague was ignited, no one knew that it was not the dead corpses that were burned, nor the germs, but the living people who were burned to death! After that, their souls were tortured by the heat of the furnace blessed by spells and formations! And their disappearance was exchanged for the rise of Mayor Yuan, his good reputation, and the subsequent prosperity of Hongqing Town.

And this unjust case was not poked out under the concerted efforts of these powerful people in Hongqing Town. Not long after, the forgetful people either forgot, or they refused to mention it for fear of the plague god's guilt, and these people who were unjust like the sea were ignored and forgotten, and they were so gone, so that their resentment that could not be dissipated lingered in the new town!

"This Mayor Yuan is really a bastard plus three levels, and he will definitely be severely punished by the law!" Wanli talked about this matter again, and he was still indignant.

Ruan Zhan didn't speak.

Wanli grew up in a normal environment, although as a psychiatrist, he has come into contact with many patients, but after all, that is also the normal side of human beings. He's different. He had seen the most insidious and darkest parts of humanity, and he had faced and experienced it, so he understood that the devil was made of people!

"Is the evidence true?"

"No matter how big or small, it's conclusive."

"That's good, I'll trouble you to go and give these people justice." Ruan Zhan sighed, "The people of the year or their descendants are almost dead in the new town, and there are only Mayor Yuan and a few small people left outside, you have to be careful not to let them escape." ”

Wan Li smiled, "Don't worry, those thugs who Hong recruited so well were scared by me that they ran away, and there are still a few people who have made amends and are staring at Mayor Yuan's people." Don't worry, whoever renews the cause will bear the consequences, and whoever he is, he will not be able to escape. ”

He said as he looked up at the sky, "Hey, it's almost dawn, so you have to prepare early." In this way, seeing that you have hurt this virtue, I guess I don't have much strength, so I will go to the tower to eliminate your 'traces of crime'. Then send Zuo De to find Reporter Ma and Mao Fu, let them study the unified statement to the outside world, and then escort Mao Fu back to the town. And don't be idle, wake up this damn girl. He pointed to Xiao Xia in Ruan Zhan's arms, and then sighed as if he remembered something, "I still want to say goodbye to Ah Bai, alas, such a good woman, unique in the world, is so miserable because she loves the wrong man!" ”

Wanli's words made Ruan Zhan's heart cold, he looked down at Xiao Xia's cute face, and stroked it gently, until he felt that she had slowly woken up, which made Ruan Zhan suddenly reluctant. He already loved her to the heart, but he had to tear this love from his heart for the rest of his life, how he wished he could be with her forever, but he knew that the time they snuggled together like this could only be counted in seconds.

She didn't know that all of that was better, he just wanted her to forget about it anyway. He remembered that when they first worked together, Xiao Xia saw the memory of him manipulating the police in the detention center, and once made him swear that he would never treat her like this, he swore it, but unfortunately today he had to break his oath.

Because he didn't think that he would fall in love with her so deeply, he didn't think that he would have such a gentle relationship with her, and he didn't think that he couldn't do this. His father and Sima Nan both said that he could not survive this catastrophe, which meant that he was not capable of giving her happiness.

He had a last resort, and he shouldn't have provoked her. It was his weakness after being injured, because he was in this labyrinth, because he was too worried about her, and because of the irrepressible passion when he met, that he couldn't care about anything!

He kissed her, and the love between her and him burst forth unreservedly, and if this feeling was allowed to develop, she would face only sadness and despair, which was not what he wanted to see.

So, he had to make her forget, forget everything that happened here, forget their love, forget that he had treated her so warmly!

Xiao Xia in his arms struggled for a moment and slowly straightened up. As soon as I looked up, I saw Ruan Zhan's dark eyes, looking at her with a complex emotion, gentle, sad, warm and painful.

"Is it over?"

Ruan Zhan nodded, looking at her for a moment, as if he would disappear in front of his eyes in the blink of an eye, as if he wanted to impress her appearance deeply in his heart. This made Xiao Xia's heart beat wildly, and she was a little inexplicably afraid.

"You're so badly injured, you might have to recuperate for a while, let me take care of you, okay?" She tried to dispel the uneasiness in her heart with a smile, "Let me show you, if necessary, I can be very gentle." ”

Ruan Zhan didn't speak, just looked at her.

"Oh my God, it must hurt!" She noticed the blurred flesh and blood on his shoulder, and touched it lightly in distress, and the feeling of uneasiness in her heart suddenly increased, and she wanted to hold him and not let go, "That-I want to hold you, is that okay?" ”

Ruan Zhan stretched out his hand and gently touched the fine hair on Xiao Xia's cheeks, "Okay." But before I want to say something to you, you should put it in the deepest part of your heart, but you don't have to think about it, as long as you know. ”

"What?" Ruan Zhan's contradictory tone and extremely gentle eyes confused her.

"I love you! Very, very loved. Even if I die, this love will not stop, forever and ever! Ruan Zhan whispered, then took Xiao Xia in his arms, leaned down and continued to murmur between her hair, the hot kiss through her hair to her heart.

"I love you very much." She replied to him in a daze.

"Do me something, okay?"

"What?"

"Forget me!" Ruan Zhan said and reached out to rub the top of Xiao Xia's head.

Xiao Xia only felt a hot current rushing in from her head, which made her a little confused, but suddenly she realized that something was wrong! She wanted to resist, but it was too late, she only felt a blur in her mind, and then she didn't know what to do.

Ruan Zhan hugged Xiao Xia tightly, but the steel-like person almost cried, although he was reluctant to let go of his hand, he had to whisper in her ear.

After a while, Wanli's voice came from behind him, "What did you do to her?" ”

"I told her that she was sick in Hongqing and had a nightmare that she couldn't remember anymore. Then Ah Bai found Sima Nan and took him back to Miao Jiang, and you took her back. Ruan Zhan said quietly.

"What? You-" Wanli was stunned for a moment, but then understood what was going on, "What about you?" Where have you been? ”

"I didn't show up, I went back to my hometown to worship my ancestors."

"Let her forget all the horrors here?"

"Yes."

"What else?"

“――――”

"Tell me, as an insider who erases and changes Xiao Xia's memories for you, I have the right to know, why are you doing this?!" Wanli's expression was very serious, "I know you don't like this, haven't you always thought that no one has the right to deprive others of their memories?" Even the most unbearable and horrific. ”

"I just made her forget what happened after she came to Hongqing Town, and the rest is intact, intact. Nothing has changed. Ruan Zhan still held Xiao Xia in his arms, and every word he said made his heart twist.

But why is that? I have to know, or I'll find a way to get her back to memory! Wanli threatened.

Ruan Zhan raised his head, his eyes full of pain and helplessness, "Because I told her that I love her." Because I kissed her! Because I still have a year to live, because I can't let my impulsiveness make her sad for the rest of her life! ”

"You bastard!" Wanli couldn't tell whether he was shocked or jealous in his heart, "I have been guarding her for so many years, and I have never been willing to touch her, but I didn't expect you to attack first, and then want to leave!" ”

"I'm sorry, I can't help it!"

"It's not me you're sorry for, it's her!" Wanli pulled Xiao Xia out of Ruan Zhan's arms and let her lean on herself, "No matter what kind of pain it is, you don't have the right to help her choose." Wait and see, if she remembers all this, she'll hate you! As he spoke, he put a small cloth bag into Natsu's pocket.

That's what Ah Bai asked him to pass on to Xiao Xia just now, and she said that the stone can test a man's sincerity, and she doesn't need it now, so she wants to give it to her best friend. She said that she had completely petrified the stone, so the stone would no longer be invisible, and that once it settled down, she would teach Natsu how to use it in her own way.

But now, he was very skeptical, what was the use of Xiao Xia asking for this stone? Women want a man's sincerity, but only sincerity, love can't be achieved. He understands Ruan Zhan's heart and understands himself, but what kind of choice will fate make?

Ruan Zhan couldn't answer Wanli.

In spite of this, his heart was bloody, and in spite of the greatest pain he endured, he could not justify himself. How he wished he could live happily with her!

But if that would bring her disaster and suffering, then he would rather be the wicked man who cut everything off, and would rather she hate him!

"Alas-" An exaggerated sigh came from behind Ruan Zhan and Wan Li, "what a poor girl! ”

When did someone have someone behind it? Why didn't anyone notice the two of them?

Ruan Zhan and Wan Li were shocked to follow the prestige.

I saw a young man of medium stature standing in the pergola behind them, with clear eyebrows, smiling eyebrows, and hanging eyes, exuding such an indescribable chic energy from top to bottom.

The two looked at each other and recognized the uninvited guest at the same time.

Bao Datong!