Chapter 340: The Plague
The father said, "The food is rotten, and people eat it, and they are poisoned." ”
"What about Wu Shu's legs?"
"Pickles are also made from this dish, so ......"
Wu Shu immediately became nervous: "I ate the pickles, do I want to be like them?"
"No, they didn't have timely treatment. Father said.
I said, "That means the problem must be with these dishes, but there is no problem with the dishes themselves, is it soil?"
"No, it's water!" said my father firmly.
It dawned on me that our Xinshui Village relied on the water of Xinshui Creek to survive, and if there was a problem with the water, it must come from Xinshui Creek.
"Let's go, the food here needs to be destroyed as soon as possible to avoid others getting infected. ”
I pulled up my martial arts and went around the hillside to the upper reaches of Xinshui Creek.
In our village, in the valley near the left side of the Ten Thousand Bones, there are two springs from which the Heart Water Creek gathers.
We went up the stream and didn't find anything wrong along the way.
"Father, can you do an experiment with glutinous rice?" I asked.
My father asked me, "What do you think?"
"Since glutinous rice can remove corpse poison, but glutinous rice will turn black, we can completely use glutinous rice to test it little by little at the source of Xinshui Creek, if the problem does not appear at the source, we can continue to look down. ”
"Well, very thoughtful!"
I took some glutinous rice from my father's hand, divided it into several packets, and put it in the stream water in different areas.
After a while, we took out all the glutinous rice buns, and when we opened them, we were all stunned.
Because all the glutinous rice in the bag turned black, and it exuded an extremely cold air, I couldn't help but shiver: "Could it be that this water has deteriorated when it comes out of the spring?"
"It's a bit serious, we drink water every day, it's the same in the village, it's the same with the animals in the village, it's broken. ”
I immediately pulled up Wu Shu: "Go back to the village quickly, cut off the water source, and my father and I will solve the water source problem as soon as possible." ”
Wu Shu gritted his teeth and stood up: "Don't worry, even if you try your best, you can't let the people in the village have anything to do." ”
At the same time, the father took out a turtle shell, put in the copper coin, and closed his eyes in prayer.
The copper coin fell to the ground, and a pair of water and fire hexagrams jumped in front of me, and I suddenly felt a chill in my heart.
"Father, the water is above and the fire is below, which means that the virus comes from underwater. ”
"Hey, it seems that something big is going to happen, both fire and water, the beginning of the auspicious and the end of the chaos, I'm afraid that a disaster in the village is inevitable. ”
I said, "Then since the virus is coming from underwater, then ...... down here" Speaking of this, my heart jumped and I felt a chaos in front of me: "This is a graveyard with ten thousand bones down here!"
"You must have touched the mechanism of the cemetery, is this providence?" said my father, looking up to the sky.
I immediately became anxious: "Since it is because of us, then I will have another ten thousand bones withered, and I can't let the people in the village suffer because of us." ”
"That's it, it's useless, if I'm not wrong, it turns out that the water of Xinshui Creek comes from the aquifer above the cemetery, but now it should be the aquifer and the cemetery, so ......"
"So there's going to be a catastrophe for the whole village?"
A strong sense of guilt rose in my heart, if it wasn't for the fact that we entered the cemetery in the first place, if it weren't for the vicious dog, we would still live a peaceful and carefree life, and the second elder of the Li family would not have died like this.
My father came to persuade me: "Forget it, since we can't solve the problem, we should find other water sources as soon as possible, and let the villagers drink clean water first." ”
For two days, my father and I found a river in a ravine ten miles away from the entrance of the village, and helped the villagers get water to drink here.
But from the day we returned to the village, people in the village continued to fall, and many of the livestock had died of disease.
"Xiao Mu quickly gathered all the sick villagers, and we concentrated on treatment. ”
In the past few days, Wu Shu has made a water interception canal at the upper end of Xinshui Creek, which will lead the stream back to the vicinity of the spring, and through the infiltration of the ground, it will flow into the stream again.
"Don't stop me, I can't stay in this village, I'm going to go out and hide, if you don't leave, I'll go!"
The lame man in the village shouted and ran towards the entrance of the village.
I immediately stopped him: "Where can you go?"
"It's better to go anywhere than to wait here for death!"
"Come here, I'll look at your legs!" I immediately checked Sun Cripple's leg and found that his leg had begun to fester.
"You can't go, you're poisoned, you have to be treated, or you're going to bring the plague out and you're going to kill more people. ”
Hearing me say this, Sun Cripple was dumbfounded, and sat on the ground with his ass, staring at me with straight eyes.
At this time, someone carried the dead body to the back mountain to burn the body.
"It's dead again!" After Sun Cripple saw it, he burst into tears: "What's the matter, this is already the third person who has died, can you still cure it?" No, I have to go out to eat something good before I die!"
At this time, no matter how I tried to stop him, Sun Cripple still limped out of the village entrance and headed towards the city.
In this way, for seven or eight days in a row, many people died in the village one after another, and the rest of the people had given up hope of survival.
"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!"
On the ninth day, a group of people came from somewhere and entered the village shouting such slogans.
"I heard that you have a plague here, and General Tiangong has mercy on the people of the world and has sent us here to preach. ”
The people in the village have long been numb, and they are not surprised to hear such a sound at all, because after our treatment, except for Wu Shu and a few younger people who have recovered, the old and young, the sick and the disabled have all fallen down, and some of their conditions are even continuing to deteriorate.
"Who are you?" Wu Shu asked as he stood at the entrance of the village.
In this group of people, almost all of them were yellow cloth buns, yellow shirts and yellow boots, led by a soldier as strong as an ox, with a single knife at his waist, standing in front of Wu Shu.
Wu Shu stopped and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but the plague in our village is not an ordinary disease, please go back, don't infect you with the disease again." ”
"Brother is joking, our Tiangong General is a divine general sent by the ancestors of the Yellow Emperor, what kind of strange things can we do?"
I saw people entering the village, and I followed my father.
His father was in and out of the city a lot, and he could see at a glance the origin of this person: "Yellow Turban Army!"
"Good eyesight, since someone knows where we come from, please take us into the village for treatment!"
I saw that these people were somewhat taboo in their hearts, because when they were in the city to do goods, they were coerced to participate in two battles, and then they returned to the village as deserters, but I didn't expect a plague to attract them again.
"Well, you can cure the disease, but I'm going to be foolish, if you get sick because of the plague in our village, we won't be responsible. ”
My father looked at me in amazement at what I said.
The soldier looked up to the sky and laughed: "Since the beginning of General Tiangong's crusade against the Han Dynasty, there is no disease that we can't cure!"
"Dare to ask this general's name!"
"Zhang Hao!"
I smiled lightly: "All surnamed Zhang?"
"The Yellow Turban Army is surnamed Zhang!" I don't know how much meaning there is in this sentence, and the soldiers immediately led people into the village.
Although his father and Wu Shu tried their best to stop them, they didn't stop them.
I pulled my father: "These people still have some strange skills, it's better to let them try, maybe we didn't find a good way, maybe they have." ”
"How do you know this?"
"Uh!" I told my father what had happened, and he nodded silently.
After a few days of treatment, there are really people among the old people who have recovered, and besides, this soldier actually took water from the Xinshui Creek to drink, and for half a month, these Yellow Turban soldiers did not have any physical discomfort.
I was stupid, how could these people be so powerful, my father and I were doubting their physical functioning.
But in the end, the soldiers still said their most fundamental intentions: "The current Han family is mediocre and incompetent, and General Tiangong has led his troops to rise up, and the road to happiness for the common people in the world has been opened, this is the will of the ancestor of the Yellow Emperor, and I hope everyone can join the Taiping Dao." ”
"Poof!" I immediately felt that God was teasing me, I had just escaped from the Yellow Turban Army, and I was recruited again, so I sold them to them?
"What are you still watching, don't hurry home and hide. "Father is going to push me away.
But before I left, I found that many villagers had already participated, and Wu Shu also took the initiative to receive a set of yellow scarf clothes, and after putting on the clothes, he showed it to me.
"Young man, don't you want to do something for the common people in the world? Come, join our Taiping Dao, there are still many unsaved people waiting for your help. Zhang Hao said to me.
I didn't know for a moment how to answer: "Ugh!"
"He's not going!"
"Then you want to be the public enemy of the people in the village and continue to be a subject of the Han family?"
I said, "No! Actually, ......."
"Actually, what?" said the soldier, handing me a yellow turban suit.
"Then forget my father, his health is not good, and he can't follow you to fight in the east and west!"
As soon as my father heard me, he immediately started coughing.
The soldiers didn't embarrass my father, but Wu Shu and I became members of the Taiping Dao, and after the people in the village were almost healed, we set off with the Yellow Turban Army.
Before leaving, my father squinted at me: "Mix well, if you don't feel well, look for a chance......" He moved his fingers.
I understood what he meant, and let me see the opportunity to escape, but after all, these people really helped us solve the problem of corpse poison, so it was a favor to them, or something else, just follow them.
However, I still have doubts about the identity of these people, and I feel that they seem to have some special background, but I can't say what they are at the moment.
Out of the village, we went straight south to Shouchun, where we continued to recruit members of Taiping Dao.
"Help, someone is going to kill me, save me!" Just as we were less than ten miles from the city, a young man with a terrified face ran towards us.