Pei Yungui walked to a pedestrian with a stomach full of doubts, and asked softly, "Uncle, it's so late, why don't you go home."

What's more, if you're still sick, you should rest at home.

The uncle sighed, shook his head, and bent on his way on.

"What can you do in the middle of the night, naturally I went to see Langzhong."

After saying that, he turned pale and whimpered, looking very painful, and then fell to the ground and vomited.

The change came suddenly, Pei Yungui stood aside helplessly, but he didn't care about the sour smell of vomit, and reached out to help the uncle pat his back.

Gu Rin also hurried over, but the solemnity on his face was even worse.

After vomiting for about a quarter of an hour, the uncle took a long breath as if he had exhausted his energy, and sat on the ground gasping for breath, looking in pain.

Pei Yungui couldn't ask any more, so he could only glance at Gu Rin for help.

What to do?

Gu Rin straightened up his uncle and said to the man on his back, "Where is the medical hall, you show me the way."

The uncle was surprised for a moment, and then thanked him again and again with gratitude, and commanded Gu Rin.

The two of them sent the uncle to the hospital together.

Although it was late at night, the hospital was still brightly lit and overcrowded.

The large hall was filled with patients, all sallow-faced, hunched with their torsos, and their wails one after another.

Only one Lang Zhong was hurrying to grab the medicine, and the other doctor boy was guarding a dozen medicine stoves, so busy that he was at a loss.

Gu Rin put the uncle in an empty seat, and then stepped forward with Pei Yungui.

The two originally planned to come to the hospital to inquire about the situation of the epidemic in You County, but they didn't expect that Lang Zhong was as busy as a spinning top, and it was not easy to disturb others, so they didn't speak.

Pei Yungui saw the small one of the medicine boys, spinning between the dozen or so smoking medicine stoves, and couldn't bear it, so he simply pulled Gu Rin and joined the ranks of boiling medicine in a muffled voice.

You can't just sit on the sidelines.

The medicine boy was surprised for a while, and saw that both of them were healthy and normal people, and their hands and feet were also quick to work, so they didn't say a word, and let them help.

With the assistance of the two of them, the process of boiling the medicine was much faster, and soon, the steaming medicine was brought to the patient's mouth, and the lamentation finally subsided somewhat.

Lang Zhong wiped his sweat and leaned on the chair tiredly, and the medicine boy brought a bowl of water to his mouth, "Master, moisten your throat."

Lang Zhong took it, touched the medicine boy's head, and looked at his face that had lost weight because of a few days of busyness, and could only sigh, "You've been busy for so long, go and rest."

After taking a sip of tea, Lang Zhong felt that he had recovered a little, so he got up and gave a thank you gift to Pei Yungui and the others, "Thanks to the help of the two tonight, Jiang is very grateful."

"Jiang Langzhong's words are serious," Pei Yungui hurriedly stood up, supported Lang Zhong, and finally found an opportunity to pour out his questions, "I don't know what the epidemic in You County is, why it has infected so many people."

She glanced around the hall.

The patients in the hall were so crushed that they almost filled it.

Jiang Ci shook his head and said weakly: "The two of you should be from other places, listen to the old man's advice, and go back quickly while you are not sick...... Thanks to the fact that it is night, there are not many people, and what the girl has seen is only the tip of the iceberg, and when it is daytime......" he looked into the distance, revealing some fear, "The line for medical treatment can be lined up from the gate to West Street."

Pei Yungui was surprised and said, "With so many patients, you are just one Langzhong, and the county master doesn't care?"

Jiang Ci said: "Originally, there were three doctors in this medical center, but as the plague became more and more serious, those three doctors also fell ill, and they went to one yesterday." He sighed again, as if there were countless knots accumulated in his heart, "Now only me and Xiaozhou are still healthy, as for the official government...... That's it, so far no reinforcements have been sent, and I don't ask the higher authorities to pay attention to it, and the county lord doesn't mention anything about asking for reinforcements from the outside world to send more doctors, but only sends rice porridge in the East Market every morning."

"The matter of healing the sick must be left to the people themselves."

Pei Yungui could only comfort, "Lang

I heard that the capital has sent a doctor, and it is estimated that it is still on the way, and it will arrive the day after tomorrow at the latest, and the imperial court will not let the people of You County suffer in vain."

"I hope so......" Jiang Ci rubbed his head, and before he could fully relax, he heard the medicine boy Xiaozhou exclaim and stumbled in from outside the door.

"Master, go and take a look, there's a new patient outside, and he's already fainted!"

Jiang Ci suddenly became completely tired, bounced up from the chair, and rushed out in a hurry.

Pei Yungui and Gu Rin hurriedly followed behind, their faces changing.

The patient in the hall shrunk back in his chair and glanced out the door in a panic, and there was already the sound of intermittent crying outside.

There was a young man lying on the ground, who looked like he was only in his twenties, his limbs were atrophied, so thin that only a layer of skin remained, his face was sallow, a layer of white foam floated on his mouth, his eyes were closed, and he had lost consciousness.

The cry came from a woman next to her, and when she saw Jiang Ci running out, she seemed to see a savior, and she swooped and said, "Jiang Langzhong, come and take a look, my husband is somehow ...... Somehow, I fainted, and I couldn't wake up no matter how I screamed."

Jiang Ci didn't say a word, he gave the young man a pulse, and the woman hurriedly made a gap, looking at Jiang Ci with hopeful eyes.

After a long time, Jiang Ci sighed and slowly got up.

"It's gone, let's take care of the aftermath."

Some people are sick and short, and it happens from time to time that they die halfway, and Jiang Ci is no longer surprised.

The woman's crying voice froze, she glanced at Jiang Ci blankly, and then she was at a loss to probe the young man's snort, and her mouth kept muttering something.

As if she had finally reacted, an even more mournful cry came from her throat, and she hugged the man's already cold body tightly, crying into a tearful person.

Jiang Ci couldn't, and entered the hospital with staggering steps, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be much deeper.

The mortal body, the feeling of powerlessness in the face of illness is vividly manifested at this moment.

Pei Yungui wandered around the place, wanting to step forward to comfort the woman, but he hesitated.

She knew that even if her tongue was as bright as a flower, she couldn't bring the dead back to life, and before the yin and yang were separated, no matter how many words she spoke, it would only be futile and innocent.

It didn't work.

She found an unused handkerchief from her sleeve, placed it silently in front of the woman, and then turned and entered the infirmary.

It was the first time I watched a person die under the torture of illness, and it was also the first time that I felt the helplessness of the living who survived.

There was a sour feeling in my heart.

But nothing can be done but empathy.

Gradually, a suppressed cry came from the hall, first first, then four or five.

Slowly, sad weeping filled the entire hospital.

"What's the use of coming here every day to see a doctor, anyway, it's a dead end anyway!"

"It's better to die, even if you jump into the river and drown, it's better than becoming this ghost and getting out alive."

"When is this disease a head, I can't stand it!"

"The plague god is going to kill us......

Complaints resounded in the hospital, and the death of the young man gave everyone a blow to the head and completely buried everyone's hope for survival.

Pei Yungui raised his head and asked Gu Rin, "Is the epidemic in You County eleven years ago as serious as it is today?"

Tonight's Gu Rin was particularly weird, without revealing or gloomy emotions to the outside world, nor sneering from time to time.

Even when Pei Yungui pulled him to give the medicine Tong Xiaozhou a hand, he obeyed and cooperated without saying a word.

It seems that in the face of illness, all the minions have been reined in.

So he asked Pei Yungui to connect the epidemic eleven years ago with him for no reason.

Although he hadn't heard of Gu Rin or heard about the epidemic in the past, and he hadn't heard him mention it, Pei Yungui always had a strange premonition in his heart - Gu Rin was a first-hand witness of the epidemic in You County eleven years ago.

"You County eleven years ago...... It's about the same as it is today.

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Regarding Pei Yungui's inquiry, Gu Rin did not deny it, his voice was always careless, but the depression in it was still captured by Pei Yungui's ears.

He snorted and looked at Pei Yungui, "Haven't you also experienced the epidemic in You County eleven years ago, ask *** what?"

Pei Yungui frowned and said carefully: "Don't hide it from the general, after I was separated from my father and mother, I had an illness, and when I woke up again, my memory began to be confused, and I don't remember many specific memories in You County."

It's just that those strange dreams I have had recently seem to have signs of recall, but they are too chaotic, and Pei Yungui doesn't know if those pictures are true or false.

In the second half of the night, no one fell asleep, and kept their eyes open until dawn.

Early the next morning, Pei Yungui and Gu Rin rushed to Dongshi.

As Jiang Ci said, there are indeed people from the government who open warehouses to distribute porridge, and there are crowds of people who line up in a long line.

Nine out of ten people in the team were sallow-faced and sickly, and normal people could count them on their fingers, which showed the breadth of the outbreak of this plague.

Because almost everyone is sick, the crops in the fields are gone, the food supply in You County is insufficient, and money can't buy it, so the family can only wait for the government to release grain every day.

But it's only one time in the morning, so almost the whole town comes here to line up.

The procession meandered with no end in sight, and those who had not yet arrived were full of sadness, and those who had arrived drank the rice porridge on the spot, regardless of the filth and the disgusting smell floating in the air.

The queue was already green with hunger, and beggars squatted on the side of the road, gobbling up rice porridge into their mouths.

The rice porridge was in the stomach, but the faces of a few people changed suddenly, and then they threw down the bowl and vomited wildly.

All the stuff they had just poured was spit out, and the light on their faces quickly faded, and they were covered with a layer of dead ash.

At this moment, there was a sudden shout from the front of the team.

"Today's rice porridge is distributed, let's come back tomorrow."

Then, the crowd sighed, and the expressions of those who didn't get the porridge dispersed lonely.

The crowd gathered was like a bird or beast that had not found food, and could only return home with empty bags.

Without the rush of queuing, everyone has a gap for long sighs.

Pei Yungui gathered outside the crowd and listened to a few ears of useful information.

For example, the plague was a disaster brought about by the evil gods, and many of them joined the Purification Sect organized by the county lords; For example, the rice porridge is not to satisfy hunger, but to add the god of purification to it, and drink the divine water to ward off the plague brought by the evil god.

The more Pei Yungui listened, his face sank more and more.

She has never believed in gods and ghosts, so naturally she doesn't eat the evil gods, and the county commander, as the parent official of the people, does not want to resist the plague in a serious way, but advocates evil ghosts.

It's ridiculous!