Chapter 81: The Plague
However, on the second day, Yu Yu was unable to return home as he wished.
The east was dawning, the rooster crowed, and there was a quick knock at the door.
"Xiaobi, Xiaobi, something happened!"
Because of Yu Su's inconvenience, the maid shared the bed with her last night.
The knock on the door became louder and louder, waking up Yu and Yu who were still asleep on the bed.
Xiaobi got up sleepily and went to open the door, complaining, "Who is it......?
As soon as the door opened, it was the little guy next to the young master.
At this moment, he stood at the door with a panicked face: "You and Miss Yu hurry up and pack up, we have to get out of the city immediately." β
Xiaobi said with a blank face: "Now that you are in such a hurry to go out of the city, is something happening?"
Because the little guy came here running, he hadn't eased his breath yet, and said breathlessly: "There is a plague in Chiba City, and the officers and soldiers seem to have ordered the city to be closed, and it will be too late if you don't leave." β
"What?!" Xiaobi obviously didn't expect this to happen, and her tone was full of shock.
"Don't be shocked, auntie, hurry up and clean up, wait a minute, we have to follow the young master to pick up Miss Ping, hurry up, I'll go and inform others." After saying that, the little guy left in a hurry.
Xiaobi closed the door in a panic.
"Sister Xiaobi, are we leaving now?" Yu Yu didn't sleep after being woken up by a knock on the door, so he heard the conversation between Xiaobi and Xiaowu clearly.
Xiaobi said to Yu Yu while putting on her dress: "You heard it, let's clean up and leave immediately, why did you encounter this incident, I haven't heard of a plague in Chiba City before." β
Yu Yu fumbled to put on her clothes, Xiaobi saw that her eyes were inconvenient, and she helped her quickly get dressed after she got dressed.
The two of them didn't even know each other before they hurried to the gate to gather.
Because it was an emergency, everyone was woken up in their sleep, and they were a little embarrassed, and they didn't have time to prepare any bags, so they only ran out with some valuables that they could carry close to themselves, after all, life is much more important than money.
Several carriages were already waiting at the door, and the people from the Zhen Mansion set off as soon as they arrived.
Yu Su, Xiaobi and a few servants were crammed into a carriage, although it was a little crowded, but it was much better than yesterday's wagon.
"Ouch, I have to go to Hei's house now, what a waste of time. One of the servant women in the car complained.
Xiaobi reminded: "Miss Ping is the young master's fiancΓ©e, if Steward Liu, if your words are heard by the young master, be careful that you can't eat and walk around." β
Steward Liu was just flustered, so he was a little unscrupulous, and he knew that this was a little inappropriate when he heard Xiaobi's reminder, so he covered up his embarrassment: "Miss Ping is really a blessing, when she meets the seed of infatuation like our young master, she doesn't forget to pick her up in Pingfu at this time, which shows that she is very affectionate." β
The women in the world are not asking for such a lover, and Steward Liu's tone can't help but carry a little envy.
"It's a match made in heaven!" the others in the car chimed in.
While they were talking, they had already arrived at Pingfu to pick up Miss Ping's family, and then drove to the city gate together.
Although the people in the car kept trying to distract themselves by talking about something else, there was still a maid who said uneasily: "What is that plague, we didn't hear anything about it yesterday." β
Hearing this, the people who were originally chatting fell silent.
Steward Liu said hesitantly: "I heard that the plague seems to have broken out suddenly yesterday, and it spreads very quickly, and the sick people will gnaw on others like mad dogs, and some people even ......."
Steward Liu paused at this point.
"You said yes!" the crowd urged when they heard this.
Only then did she say with a look of trepidation: "I heard from my family that someone's head was gnawed off." β
As soon as he finished speaking, the car fell into a deathly silence.
Xiao Bi trembled and said, "This is too terrifying." β
"It's not, and no one knows the cause of this illness, but it is known that this kind of patient has appeared in several places in Chiba City since yesterday evening. β
"Then you can't just lock down the city, it's too hasty. Xiaobi said.
"Alas. Steward Liu said, "I think so too, but my family said that it was because they would be infected if they were bitten by someone who had this plague, so in less than a day, most of the people in Chiba City were infected." β
"Ahββ!h
"Are we going out after the city gate is sealed?" Xiaobi asked, which was also the one thing everyone was most concerned about.
"The Zhen family also has some thin noodles in Chiba City, and it should be okay if they don't use money to smash it, it should be fine. Steward Liu said, but the more he talked about it, the quieter his voice became.
A few thin noodles depend on whether the other party sells them or not.
Unfortunately, the good spirits did not work, and the bad spirits were stopped at the gates.
There was a crowd of people who wanted to leave the city at the city gate, but the gate had been closed directly, and the soldiers guarding the gate were already standing on the city wall and looking at them indifferently, as if they were looking at the dead.
The people of the Zhen family tried to negotiate with the soldiers, but the soldiers on the city wall did not say a word, obviously not ready to sell the face of the Zhen family.
When the surrounding crowd saw that the city gates had been sealed, the atmosphere began to become tense, and they either panicked, cried, pleaded, or cursed loudly.
A young woman held her child and complained bitterly, "Do you officers and soldiers want us to fend for ourselves in Chiba Castle......? I can't live anymore......"
Seeing this, a burly man shouted loudly: "Since we are not given a way out, we will make a way out of our own!"
"Yes, we're making our way out!"
"Forge your own way out. β
There are constantly people who echo the Tao.
"None of these officers and soldiers are good people, we will break down this city gate ourselves!" The burly man brought a firewood knife from nowhere, and slashed at the city gate as he shouted.
"Rush!"
"Break open the gates, rush!"
For a while, the crowd was furious, and they rushed to the city gate to slash with their weapons.
"Go to the passage on the left, where you can go up the walls. Somebody shouted, and a large crowd rushed towards the entrance to the wall.
The non-commissioned officer on the city wall changed his expression and shouted, "If you do this again, don't blame us for being rude." β
The mood of the people is indignant, where will anyone take his words in their eyes, and their minds are full of how to break through the city gates and make a way out for themselves and their families.
Seeing that none of the people in Chiba Castle listened to their words, the non-commissioned officer could only order a defense, and the soldiers began to throw stones under the city walls, and several people who were close immediately saw blood on their heads.
When the ordinary people saw this battle, they immediately panicked, retreated and fled directly, while some became even more angry, and smashed the city gate with weapons desperately.