Chapter 70: Plague Outbreak
A group of infected homeless people rushed out like crazy beasts at this moment, after slamming open the door of Anminzhai.
The officers and soldiers in charge of the guards hurriedly stopped.
However, Xie Yunzhou did not give the order to kill on the spot, so they did not dare to draw their swords rashly, but resisted with their bare hands.
Xie Yunzhou saw that the situation was uncontrollable, and when he thought of the emperor's words, he had no choice but to give a death order.
"Kill! No one should be allowed to enter Shengjing! ”
When the officers and soldiers heard this, they immediately raised their knives and aimed them at the homeless people.
Whoever runs away kills one on the spot.
In a short time, the officers and soldiers were red-eyed, and the displaced people who tried to abscond also lay on the ground.
Seeing this situation, Dr. Mo stood beside Xie Yunzhou and shouted evil.
"Brother Xie, if you are like this, you will be punished by God in the future!"
Xie Yunzhou said indifferently: "If they don't escape, they won't end up like this at all, do you think I don't want to protect them?" ”
He's done his best.
It's a pity that human nature is unpredictable.
Dr. Mo listened intently, and knew that he was forced to do so, shook his head, and asked the officers and soldiers to start digging pits and burning corpses.
These infected people should not be buried on the spot, but must be burned and smoked with vinegar to prevent the disease from spreading.
However, no one expected that after Zhu Wei counted the number of the dead, he was stunned to find that there were two patients missing.
"It must be that Fang Cai is in chaos, they took the opportunity to escape, Lao Xie, we have to hurry up and chase it, in case they are allowed to sneak into the city, the entire Shengjing City will be finished!" Zhu Wei said with a serious face.
Xie Yunzhou immediately turned over and got on his horse, not daring to delay a little.
However, it was still too late.
Along the way, they didn't find the two infected people at all.
After patrolling around the city, I still didn't find anything.
Fu returned to the city gate and asked the soldiers guarding the city, but still found nothing.
Zhu Wei's intuition was not good, "Didn't they dress up in disguise?" ”
Xie Yunzhou pursed his lips and shook his head, "They are weak and weak, they can't go far at all, not to mention that they don't have any money on them, how can they dress up, I think they should have gone into the forest outside the city to hide." ”
Zhu Wei hurriedly said: "Then let's continue to search, no matter what, we must find those two people!" ”
As he spoke, he flicked his horsewhip and rushed out of the city first.
Xie Yunzhou explained in a deep voice that the soldiers guarding the city followed after keeping an eye on the people passing by.
He and Zhu Wei were both masked, and they had also taken the antidote pill given by Dr. Mo in advance, although it was not a cure for the epidemic, but it could have some effect on protecting one's body.
But those two wandering people are the biggest hidden danger.
If you are not careful, the whole city will suffer.
For now, the only way to do is to do everything possible to find those two people as soon as possible.
At the same time, Dr. Mo was asked to develop a prescription for treating the epidemic as soon as possible.
Xie Yunzhou rode out of the city while thinking about it.
Unexpectedly, in the woods outside the city at this time, an old couple chopping wood was pulling the two unconscious homeless people to prepare to go into the city to see a doctor.
The old couple found them at the bottom of the mountain, and both of them were wounded, and if they were not saved, they would have been eaten by the wild wolves of the mountain.
"Old man, let's take a shortcut and hurry up."
"Gotcha!"
The couple pulled the cart and turned into a small road, and Zhu Wei and Xie Yunzhou, who hurried to the right, just missed it.
After a short time, the couple led the two homeless people to the city gate.
When the soldiers defending the city saw that they had come to see a doctor, they didn't ask much and let them go.
The couple dragged someone to the nearest pharmacy.
The doctor in the hall looked at the injury and asked for 30 yuan.
It's really a bit too much for the couple, but saving one life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, not to mention that they still save two lives.
"Thirty wen is thirty wen, next month I will go to the mountain to chop firewood for a few more days!"
The couple gave the money, entrusted the two homeless people to the hospital, and then left.
Unexpectedly, that night, the two of them had a high fever for no reason.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the medicine boy hurriedly boiled some medicine, but before it could be fed to their mouths, the two of them suddenly spit a mouthful of blood on the medicine boy's face, and then collapsed on the bed without breath.
"Ahh Master! Come on, master, something is wrong! ”
When the medicine boy saw the dead man, he shouted in fright, and he couldn't even bother to wipe the blood on his face.
When the doctor came down from upstairs when he heard the sound, he learned that the two people were dead, and subconsciously thought that he had killed them by prescribing the wrong medicine, and immediately sat down on the ground in fright.
After a long time of being out of his mind, he slowly got up from the ground.
"When the old couple sent them during the day, they didn't know the identities of the two, so they didn't know each other, and if so, then there was nothing to be afraid of, let's throw people into the back alley overnight, and if the old couple came to ask, they said that they were cured and had gone, understand?"
The medicine boy hesitated: "This, can this work, master?" If the government investigates in the future, won't we .........?"
Before he finished speaking, he received a solid slap on the right cheek.
"If you do what I want, you'll be fine! You go to the backyard and wash your face first, and then bring two straw mats! ”
Seeing that the doctor was angry, the medicine boy didn't dare to say another word, so he crawled to the backyard.
After washing his face with clean water, he went to the storeroom to find two straw mats.
The master and apprentice wrapped the two homeless people in straw mats, and while the night was dark, they threw them into a deep and secluded back alley.
For the next few days, the city of Shengjing was uneventful.
The streets are still bustling with people coming and going.
Zhu Wei and Xie Yunzhou outside the city were in chaos, and they were immersed in deep anxiety every day.
"It's been five days, and I've searched all the places within a radius of twenty miles, but I still haven't found those two homeless people, where do you say they went?" Zhu Wei sighed.
Xie Yunzhou leaned against the trunk of a thick tree and looked up at the empty sky quietly.
A dark cloud slowly drifted over, blocking the scorching sunlight, and the entire scorched earth was instantly covered in a shadow.
Xie Yunzhou stared and said, "I have a bad intuition. ”
"What intuition?"
"Perhaps, it's too late."
He slowly lowered his eyes, and looked at Shang Zhuwei's face in an unprecedentedly serious tone.
Zhu Wei's shoulder shook violently, "Don't scare me, if something big happens, you and I will have a few lives to cut off!" ”
Xie Yunzhou also didn't want an accident.
However......
"Xie Shilang, Lord Xu, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, sent someone to deliver a message, saying that there was a riot in Beijing and some people were infected with the epidemic!"
A small soldier hurriedly came from a distance, and the loud voice made Zhu Wei and Xie Yunzhou's faces change at the same time.