Chapter 140: The Plague (3rd Watch)

Gao Changgong stretched out his hand and pulled An Ren up, and said to the family who came in a hurry: "Take him back and take good care of him." ”

Where do the family members dare to slacken, not to mention that the person in front of them is the legendary person, and this person who is full of sadness and crying is their eldest young master, if the master sees it, he doesn't know how to punish them.

After An Ren was taken away, Zhou Gongjin said to the little official beside him: "Take someone to put away the remaining pork, cut it into pieces, and boil it into rice porridge." ”

The little official took the order and left, and Gao Changgong looked at Qin Ke and Abu, who were stupid in the porridge shop, and raised his voice: "Let's go, things here will be arranged for others to do, and you have other things to do later." ”

Qin Ke and Abu nodded, walked out of the porridge shed, and followed behind Gao Changgong.

Gao Changgong and Zhou Gongjin walked ahead, and the two talked softly, and every word they talked about could point to the center of gravity after this catastrophe.

Qin Ke and Abu walked slowly, behind them, Zhang Fu, who had been silent since getting off the boat, lowered her head and followed suit, whether it was the disaster in front of her or the chaos just now, it didn't seem to have any impact on her.

"Now the situation in Wu County is basically under proper control, but after the catastrophe there will be a major epidemic, a few days ago some people have begun to fall ill, the symptoms are almost all fever, vomiting, and then it is fatigue, saliva is yellow, eyes are red, and even bleeding to death. ”

Zhou Gongjin took out a few white scarves from his arms as he walked, handed them to the four of them, looked at Gao Changgong and said, "Although I know that your body is indeed very strong, the plague is often as unpredictable as a ghost, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to do more prevention." ”

"Are ghosts and gods unpredictable......" Gao Changgong nodded, it just so happened that he didn't have to use the hat to cover his face, and after the square scarf with just the right thickness covered his mouth and nose, his whole appearance was not so conspicuous.

After a while, I saw the camp guarded by countless masked soldiers in front of me, and now the sky was dark, and the torches were burning in the camp, reflecting the simple tents.

With the help of thaumaturgy, Qin Ke's eyesight could see far away at night, and naturally he saw someone in the camp carrying a stretcher covered with straw mats, and then stacked the corpses on it neatly one by one into a corner of the camp.

He had seen plague patients back then, and when his parents took him to escape to the middle of the famine, many people vomited yellow water on the way, as if something had possessed them, and some of them would bleed and howl like a mad dog, and his parents said that it was the plague god, and they did not even dare to stay for a moment, so they fled the village with him and his sister overnight, and they survived.

After reading with the master, he naturally understood that the plague was not caused by some plague god, but he still didn't want to see this terrible thing a second time.

He felt a hot breath in the crook of his arm, tilted his head slightly, and it turned out that Zhang Fu's body was leaning on his shoulder with some weakness.

"Scared?" Qin Ke said softly, yes, after all, Zhang Fu is just a woman, and she probably won't have the opportunity to see such a tragic situation, so he said: "If you're afraid, don't follow us in, you go to the post house." ”

Zhang Fu looked at him and shook his head firmly, but his voice was still a little trembling: "I'm fine, just hold me up, I'll ...... I'm just a little tired. ”

Qin Ke looked at her with a smile, thinking to himself You are obviously already scared and your legs are weak, what are you still doing with your strength? If you get close to the camp later, I am afraid that the situation you see will be even more terrible than now, so don't really cry out at that time.

But thinking so, he still reached out to support Zhang Fu, and he could feel Zhang Fu's soft hand holding his arm tightly, as if this would relieve some of his nervousness.

"There haven't been many deaths these days, thanks to a girl from Qunfang Country, who claims to be Qiao Feifan, if she hadn't proposed to isolate the sick person first, I'm afraid the situation would be more troublesome. Zhou Gongjin mentioned this Qiao Fei fan, and his eyes showed a bit of relief and softness.

Gao Changgong glanced at Zhang Fu, and he clearly felt that this weak woman's eyes suddenly flashed when she heard this name, but her lips were still tightly closed, and she didn't say anything.

Gao Changgong nodded slightly, and said thoughtfully: "The girl of Qunfang Kingdom, but there is a little surprise......

"The original war was all about the upper echelons of Tang Guo and Jing Wu, Qunfang is just a small place, Tang Guo has not destroyed it for so many years, I think it is all for the sake of that Yang Taizhen's face, right?"

As everyone knows, Yang Taizhen, the noble concubine of the Tang Kingdom, who is now a collection of thousands of honors and favors, was born in Qunfang Country, and it is rumored that her beauty is like a fairy, dancing like a shock, and when she gets married, there are hundreds of birds making a pilgrimage, which can be called a thousand phoenixes.

However, it is obvious that this pilgrimage of the hundred birds is a strange news made up by those literati in order to curry favor with Li Qiuhuang, the lord of the Tang State, but at least the description of Yang Taizhen's beauty is relatively pertinent.

Perhaps because of this, it only took her a few years to monopolize Li Qiuhuang's harem, and even mastered nearly half of the Tang Dynasty as a woman.

In the early years, the war between Jing Wu and Tang was dominated by Yang Taizhen's faction, if it weren't for the Gao Changgong and Zhuge Wanling in Jing Wu at that time, I am afraid that this huge Jing Wu would become the shortest-lived country on this continent.

"Are you afraid of what I think of her?" Gao Changgong smiled and raised his eyebrows, "I'm not ...... yet will anger the country because of the war......"

Zhou Gongjin smiled a little embarrassedly, knowing that his mind could not be hidden from Gao Changgong, and continued: "These days, I have transferred all the medicinal materials from the surrounding counties and counties, according to the prescription prescribed by Miss Qiao, many of the victims with relatively mild illnesses have gradually improved, but those who are serious ...... The situation is still very unoptimistic, the medicine basically does not work for them, what I can do is to try to make them less painful......"

"We've done a good job...... Gao Changgong could see the severity of the situation, and comforted: "If someone else comes here, I'm afraid that this plague will continue to expand, and once it becomes a trend, the entire Jingwu may even be in chaos because of this, and if the Tang Kingdom takes advantage of the situation to invade, I really don't know how to end it then......"

Zhou Gongjin nodded, and was about to say something, but suddenly a commander in iron armor rushed over in the camp, his bare eyes were full of anxiety, and before he could gain a firm foothold, he shouted: "Report ...... Report to your lordship, something has happened!"

He shouted so hurriedly that he choked on his throat and coughed violently.

Zhou Gongjin frowned and looked at him, his steps had already moved forward, and he asked as he walked, "What is so in a hurry?" ”

"I can't say it slowly, anyway...... Miss Qiao, please come over, hurry, there is a problem with the patient's condition......" The commander said urgently.

Zhou Gongjin didn't ask any more, and quickened his pace and ran to a tent in front of him, behind them, Qin Ke and Abu followed closely, probably because Zhang Fu was wearing a women's skirt and her body was weak, it was really impossible to run, so Qin Ke carried her.

Zhang Fu, who was lying on Qin Ke's back and bumping up and down, blushed, and suddenly felt that the fear in her heart had dissipated cleanly at this moment, she lowered her head and put her chin on Qin Ke's shoulder.

"What's the situation?" As soon as Zhou Gongjin opened the tent, he saw three patients lying on a stretcher in the middle of the tent, their eyes were red, and the corners of their mouths were bleeding yellow pus, and all three of them were tied hand and foot with strips of cloth, but they struggled desperately, their eyes stared to an incredible degree, and their eyes looked empty and frightened, as if there was a nightmare of evil ghosts in front of them, but they were powerless to escape.

Qiao Fei covered her face, her eyes were as clear as a lake, she lowered her head, and regardless of the madness of these patients, she held one person's wrist tightly, cut her pulse, and her eyes were full of solemnity.

After cutting her pulse for a long time, she shook her head, stood up and said, "It's not clear, obviously these patients have improved after taking medicine, but today, for some reason, the condition suddenly worsened, even more severe than those previous serious patients." ”

Zhou Gongjin understood what she meant, waved his hand to a few subordinates outside, and motioned for them to carry these patients to the seriously ill area, in fact, this is equivalent to letting them fend for themselves, but the plague is so far, it is really difficult for manpower to return to the sky, and what he needs to consider is the safety of more people.

Zhou Gongjin asked, "What about the other patients?

"It's not good...... Qiao Feifan's height is not high, even only to Zhou Gongjin's chest, but she looked up, and the words she said seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, which made everyone's hearts sink.

"Prepare for the worst," she said, "Prepare for the worst......