It was the same day, the morning was so clear, and in the afternoon, it was still clear, still blue, and the winter sun was still hanging high. However, under the sky, Dabeizhuang in the snow, there is no bustle and hustle and bustle in the morning, and there is nothing else except for the sentry figure still standing solemnly in the cold wind.

A very small temple, located just outside the village, is so dilapidated that it has no roof, only three walls remain, and there is snow everywhere.

A beautiful figure stood silently in front of the mottled shrine, the cold wind that passed by was swept in by three walls, occasionally rolling off some of the snow on the walls, swirling, lifting her neck-length hair, blowing it away, and then falling on her pale cheeks, but there was no flush that should have been caused by the cold.

After a long time, she gently lifted one foot and gently brushed away the snow under the shrine with the sole and tip of her foot, revealing the ground under the snow and revealing the pit that had been dug up.

I was wrong. She said in her heart: I was wrong from the beginning.

Then she turned away and walked towards the snow-white village. The snow creaked beneath her feet, but she had no pleasure in listening.

Walking through the path in the snow, into the silent village, the frozen sentinels saluted her, as if she didn't see it, passing by coldly, cold like a cold wind that lifted her hair.

She stared at an earthen wall in front of her, and on the surface of the pitted wall was a chalk drawing of a sheep's head, and next to it were four crooked words, the mountain god appeared.

It is Xiao Hongying's handwriting, this girl has completed the task brilliantly, according to Su Qing's instructions, the sheep's head has been redrawn in the original position where there was a sheep's head pattern, but it is no longer written 'good as water', although so many days have passed, the chalk drawings are still there.

She stopped in front of the earthen wall and took a deep breath in front of the sheep's head pattern, and a white breath drifted over her shoulder, and disappeared in an instant. Lift her toes one more time, brushing away the snow from the base of the wall beneath the pattern. The snow was so thick that pieces poured into her shoes, and she tried harder and harder to remove the snow from the base of the wall.

The ground under the base of the wall appeared, not flat, but several small pits adjacent to the root of the wall, small pits that had been dug by people, just like in the mountain temple.

She stopped her movements and couldn't help but reach for the wall, her face even worse.

This message was not left to Li Zhen at all, and Li Zhen and himself mistakenly thought that it could be a pun. For the other sheep's head, the meaning of this sheep's head mark is a landmark! It was the devil who left something for him before he left! So the sheep's head was looking for it, and he first went to the mountain temple to look for it according to the hint of the mountain god's apparition, but of course he didn't find anything, and then he woke up and secretly looked for it under each pattern.

It all made sense, he must have found it, and then waited for the time when most of the independent regiment was there, like now, he threw what he got into the well.

It must be well water, there are only three wells in Dabeizhuang, and no one in Jiulian has become ill so far, because Jiulian has its own well, in the yard, outsiders have no chance to approach, and Luo Fugui, who was not worried at the beginning, instigated the stupid Wu Shi to dig it.

She leaned against the wall, and it took a long time to lift her head, and as if she felt a little more comfortable, she tried to pick herself up and continued walking, walking towards the next sheep's head motif.

......

The health team was busy, overcrowded, the fire was still on the stove, and the boiling water vapor was wafting in the room, but every face was not warm, and everywhere was cold and pale. There was also a weak moan in the sound of boiling water, and there was also the sound of painful vomiting from next door.

The hygienist is in a hurry.

"He's in shock! come and help me......"

Sunflower had just settled a seriously ill patient when she heard the shouts of her colleagues, and she didn't have time to wipe her sweat.

The stretcher team was also busy, busy carrying patients who were already critically ill into the health team, and there was almost nowhere to stay in the health team, and stretchers were everywhere. Moreover, they have also begun to have a new job, carrying people out, and three have been carried out, which have become corpses.

Sunflower was helping to save the shock, and another stretcher was carried past her, to be carried out of the door, this was the fourth, and the corpse's arm hung down the stretcher, stiffly scraping the ground. Sunflower turned her face tiredly, too depressed to show any expression, and the cold arm lying on the stretcher was the long arm that had only won the second place in the grenade competition in the morning.

Seeing the door open, the cold air poured in, and at the same time, it also obscured the back of the stretcher bearer who left heavily. A figure staggered in, it was Su Qing.

Zhou Wanping opened her eyes and saw the person standing next to her stretcher, but she still tried to show her a pale smile.

"I'll ask Bao Si to send you back to your quarters, and Sunflower will take care of you alone. The cold air that Su Qing brought in from outside had not yet dissipated, and his face was also pale, only the snow on the upper of his shoes was melting in the cold.

"I love the atmosphere. This is my territory, and I have to say it. Zhou Wanping on the stretcher was very weak, and she pretended to be very relaxed.

"There should be a problem with the two wells, and the devil left something in the village after the last sweep!"

Zhou Wanping's reluctant smile couldn't be maintained, and finally closed her eyes weakly, and after a long time, she whispered: "Last sweep...... To put it this way...... This shouldn't have happened in the winter...... Actually, we should be grateful for this winter, you have added another option to me...... It's a pity that I can't do anything right now, so I can only advise you...... Escalate the level of martial law. Anyone who has symptoms should be isolated! Dabeizhuang should be divided into ......"

Doctor Zhou said in a calm whisper, one by one, one by one, no one around cared, but Su Qing's expression had turned from pale to stiff, she was not a doctor, but she was from Shanghai, and Zhou Wanping's suggestion made her sensitively think of two words: cholera.

A chill ran down her spine, and a sense of terror enveloped Su Qing's eyes and heart, others didn't understand what cholera was, but she had seen and experienced it in it, those desperate escapes, and desperate struggles, making the living become ghosts. She couldn't stand, she couldn't even feel the lip that was about to be bitten by herself.

After Zhou Wanping finished speaking, she couldn't get a response for a long time, she had to open her eyes again on the stretcher, only to find that Su Qing had changed as a person, and only then did she realize that she understood, so she tried to sit up on the stretcher, glanced around, confirmed that no second person paid attention here, and added: "Don't worry, it's just that there is this possibility." I still think it's poisoning, but be prepared with the utmost caution. ”

......

The martial law level in Dabeizhuang has been upgraded, but what everyone doesn't understand is that the patrol posts have been withdrawn, and they are all positioning and guarding.

Su Qing did not go back to the regiment headquarters, she sent someone to convey her judgment and Zhou Wanping's suggestion to the regiment commander and political commissar, although it was impossible to determine what kind of poison it was, but the synopsis of the matter had come out.

Soon after, Ma Liang's investigation results were also sent to the regiment headquarters, and the personnel of each unit were there, but one of the villagers in Dabeizhuang was not there, and the old bachelor Ma Ershu, who lived alone, went into the mountains to hunt last night and has not returned.

In the regiment headquarters, Commander Lu squatted by the stove and pulled his hair, the villagers did not count, the list of patients in the independent regiment alone has exceeded 100, and four people have died so far, and the most painful thing is that these two numbers are still increasing with the passage of time, and Zhou Wanping's name is also included. He couldn't stand this feeling, he, the regimental commander, was in deep pain, and he would rather his soldiers fall in battle, that was different.

"Lao Ding, I can't live anymore...... Can you encourage me? If you don't talk anymore, I want to fight the county seat! No matter how many people are left! Even if it's me!"

"It's not the worst outcome, Dr. Zhou said it's just a precaution against the worst outcome, and we have to be thankful for the cold weather and the large volume of those two wells. I'm thinking about it now...... Only devils can prove what this is!"

"Devils?"

"Yes, they left something behind, and of course they know what it is. The people have already run away, and the devils will get the news. If it's the worst, they're not going to come and wait to be infected, right? If it's poisoning, then they should come and see the results, or at least they should take advantage of our weakness to drive us into the cold and increase our casualties. You want me to encourage you...... I now have a good reason...... Old Lu, I have to get out of here. ”

Head Lu turned his head and found that Ding Deyi's complexion was worse than just now, so he stood up in a panic: "You ......"

"I have to go to the health team, and under the new rules, I have to go there and wait. ”

......

Before the new martial law was issued, she was last seen outside the gate of Jiulian's residence.

She stood more than ten meters away from the gate, her beautiful face pale, stamping her numb feet in the cold wind, looking at the snow-covered honey locust tree in the courtyard wall.

He walked out of the door with a look of surprise on his face, for he didn't know why she was standing so far away.

"It's your nine most chaotic people! I'll ...... It's to emphasize to you again, you must restrain your uneasy soldiers! Especially the girl, you must watch her. I've given a strict order that the sentry has the right to shoot if he finds anyone who walks without permission!"

He thought she was a little strange now, and she spoke hard, but her tone was not as cold as usual, and this feeling of distance made her look like a squirrel wary in the snow.

"You're sick!" he said suddenly.

"No! That's not what you should worry about. Do you remember what I said?"

"Which one?"

"You-"

He laughed suddenly, making her realize that he was still a jerk, and turned around in feigned indignation and walked in the direction of the health team.

She felt that her steps had never been so heavy, and she could feel that he was still looking at her back, but she did not dare to look back, for tears were flowing down her pale and beautiful face.

He still stood in the cold wind, and wanted to ask her again if she was sick, but her distant back looked as stubborn and strong as ever, so he didn't dare to say anything more, just looked at ......