Chapter 12: Before the City

"Next!"

There were several long queues in front of the Jiangning City Gate, and many refugees who had already stepped into the Ghost Gate forcibly lifted their last breath to come and line up at the back, and everyone looked at the front with anticipation, thinking that there was the food they needed the most.

But wandering near the city gate, the refugees who were lucky enough to be at the front soon found that this was not a soup kitchen, and the doctor, dressed in a strange white coat and covering half of his face, picked up a sharp knife: "Take off your clothes." ”

"What?" The refugees were stunned.

"Take off your clothes," the doctor repeated, "for a full body examination." ”

Now the refugees are even more confused, in the past few months, the Jiangning government has hardly come forward to manage them, the luck of fleeing here at the beginning has long disappeared, but this kind of undressing requirement... That's a lot of publicity.

In the end, the fear of death prevailed over the shame, and the refugee who had taken off his clothes stood tremblingly in place, and the doctor from a distance only glanced at it, and his brow furrowed.

"It's almost all over his upper body," his expression softened eventually, "It's okay, go over there." ”

I didn't get the expected food, and I took off my clothes for some reason, and the refugees' angry scolding had already reached their mouths, but they were still afraid of the sharp knives and guns in the hands of the soldiers, and retreated to the side.

The next refugee had far fewer traces of infection, only a small piece of the shoulder, and the doctor skillfully cut open the abscess with a knife, and waited until the pus was gone, then opened the vial and wiped the penicillin off.

Let the refugees who have been treated go to the other side, the young doctor wiped the sweat from his head, looked at the long line and sighed:

"Next!"

……

Compared to the men who could strip naked and check in public, the women's team prepared tents very intimately, and one refugee after another got the final diagnosis, or walked aside after a simple treatment, or was nervous under the complicated gaze of the doctor, but no matter what, the breath of death spreading outside Jiangning City was finally dispelled.

On the towering city gate, watching more and more terminally ill refugees standing in the open space, Gu Huai's face became more and more heavy, about one-third of the refugees could not be cured with this home-made penicillin, which meant that one or two thousand people were destined to die outside Jiangning City.

It's still too late...

probably saw Gu Huai's state of mind at this time, and his eyes were not as high as the city wall, and he changed the topic:

"Why didn't you mention the Li Mansion?"

"It's too anxious, it's too early," Gu Huai retracted his gaze, "Speaking out at this time, it is to win people's hearts, and when the group of people in the official mansion react to all this, there is the Li Mansion behind all this, and they will refer to a few books... Although it is harmless, it is more reasonable for someone to leak it 'unintentionally' when the time comes. ”

Qingming nodded slightly, and Gu Huai suddenly asked, "Are you sure you can make this kind of decision for your lady?" ”

Obviously just a maid, this kind of thing is actually done as it is said, and the Li Mansion is not as difficult to move an inch as imagined, although the channels on the official side of the government were opened by Qian Lao and Li Di, but it was only a few days before things were on the right track... It seems that Qingming's identity is not simple than she thought.

Qingming didn't answer, and looked a little cute on tiptoe at the city wall: "What should I do next?" ”

"At the beginning, I really wanted to do the treatment and resettlement of refugees together, after all, I can make more money this way," the wind was a little strong, Gu Huai raised his sleeves, "It's a pity that some people in the government really don't want to give up this opportunity to make a profit, with us in front, tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of mouths, what does it have to do with them if they die a lot?" ”

"Don't tarnish the reputation of the Li Mansion."

"Don't worry, it's not the turn of the Li Mansion to carry this pot," Gu Huai's eyes drooped, "It's destined to die one or two thousand, and the rest can die a little less." ”

……

Wei Laosan, who was in line with his mother, soon discovered that the doctors at the front of the team were not much different from what he did a few days ago, except that his movements were much more accurate and the amount of medicine was more.

Thinking of the old lady who had passed by the ghost gate these days, and her better and better complexion, Wei Laosan was faintly excited, he didn't know the identity of the prince on the city wall that day, but now it seems that the prince is undoubtedly a person in the official mansion - the official government is finally going to take care of the continuous refugees outside the city.

The team moved forward very quickly, after all, the treatment was simply to cut the wound and apply penicillin, of course there were refugees who wanted to resist - but it only caused a little commotion and was suppressed, the refugees outside the city had waited too long and too hard, and now someone was willing to take care of them, who would care?

Wei Laosan's tall figure in the women's team was very conspicuous, and when he arrived in front of the tent, he helped the old lady in, and the old lady's wound that had obviously scabbed and healed made the doctor look at him more, Wei Laosan's heart tightened, but he didn't say anything.

Clean the wound, change the new medicine, and only then get out of the tent, there was a commotion in front of the city gate, Wei Laosan turned his head to look, it turned out that someone pushed out porridge buckets one by one.

Whether it has been treated, or the refugees in line are desperately squeezing over, the hungry and crazy people have long left those inexplicable doctors behind when they see the food, and even Wei Laosan, who is supporting the old lady, is excited, the little food given by the son has long been eaten, the old lady is already weak, if there is nothing to eat, can it last a few more days?

Helping the old lady to sit on the ridge on the side, Wei Laosan quickly squeezed to the front with his tall man, but when he arrived in front of the porridge bucket, he found that the porridge in the bucket was so thin that he could show his face.

Wei Laosan was a little anxious: "Just eat this?" ”

The little official who was forced to go out of the city to give porridge was obviously a little resentful: "You fucking you, and you picked it?" Love to eat, don't eat! ”

After scolding Wei Laosan, he glanced at the refugees around him again: "The boss said, from today onwards, two meals a day, no waiting!" When you have finished eating, stay away from the city walls, and when you are healed, you will be let into the city!" ”

"Two gruel a day..."

"There's not even a place to shelter from the rain outside, so you can't let us into the city?"

"My sick aunt has already gone, if I stay outside the city any longer, won't I also get sick?"

"Who the hell said it would be okay to flee to Jiangning? The people in the city clearly want to see us die! ”

A series of discussions rang out, but the little officials who were surrounded by refugees did not panic at all, in front of those officials, he was indeed a small person who was called to come and go, but these refugees outside the city, he knew what kind of goods they were.

I saw him kick over the porridge bucket, half a bucket of gruel fell to the ground, and the splashing porridge scalded several refugees screamed again and again, and the little official gritted his teeth and sneered:

"Don't want to eat? If you don't want to eat, don't eat it! Angered uncle, from now on, if you don't want to starve to death, you have to lie on the ground and lick it! ”

In the dead silence, the refugees who were still talking about it just now lowered their bodies, and Wei Laosan, who was the most burly, looked at the little official for a long time, and then looked down at the gruel flowing on the ground, and finally took out a bowl and slowly squatted down.

And Gu Huai, who was watching all this from afar on the city wall, only narrowed his eyes slightly.