Chapter 3: The Great Plague

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Cai Yaoyang's face sank, and he was about to have a seizure, when suddenly a crack opened in the city gate, and several soldiers and civilians covered in black scarves pushed a dilapidated cart, on which were lying five or six patients, all of them were ragged, bloodstained, and a thick white cloth was wrapped around their heads, revealing large scarlet bloodstains. Some of them were stiff and straight, while others were still moaning and writhing, their nails scratching hard at the plank, and the sound sounded horrible and harsh.

The masked man did not say a word, but pushed the cart to a deep pit that had been dug under the city wall, and in pairs, lifted the people up, and threw them down one by one.

Cai Yaoyang pointed at these people and asked the head of the city: "You said you can't enter or exit, what's the matter with these people?"

Li Daidao: "These are the corpses that were burned and buried in the city by the order of the county magistrate Master Xi. Lord Metropolitan Eunuch, you have also seen that the epidemic is really urgent, and it is definitely not a rumor of despicability. What's more, not letting you into the city is also Lord Xi's compassion for you. ”

Cai Yaoyang's eyes were like torches, swept towards those people, and shouted in a deep voice: "The person is clearly still moving, how can you say that it is a corpse?"

"Catch quickly" Li Dai said: "I really don't hide it from the Lord Metropolitan Eunuch that this plague is very urgent, and the infected people are afraid of light and water soon after they get sick, and their minds are out of control, and they are fierce and blood-devouring, and there is no cure at all." What's even more terrifying is that after a few hours, they don't recognize their relatives and bite people when they see them. And the person who is bitten is immediately infected. In desperation, Lord Xi had no choice but to order all the infected people to be dug and buried to prevent the disease from spreading. ”

A thick smoke rose from under the city wall, as if the corpses were already on fire, and a foul smell rushed to them, and everyone couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses. The group of masked men in black set fire to the corpses and hurried into the city, leaving the "corpses" who were still not exhausted, screaming in the dirt pit, turning over the earth and rocks, which sounded thrilling.

Cai Yaoyang waved his sleeves, swept away the turbid qi in front of him, and said contemptuously: "Xi Qinggu's idea is really clever. Some mad dogs burned me, but General Ben was free from the disaster, but he ordered me to be kept outside the city and live with the mad people, and such compassion was really merciful. ”

Li Dai laughed twice: "Whether you are sick or not, it's not a lowly job." When this disease was just obtained, everything was no different from ordinary people, but after six hours, a green dragon would appear on the forehead, just like ......" He stretched out his hand and pointed, but the gesture was suddenly stunned in mid-air, trembling: "This, this ......"

Cai Yaoyang said: "What is this, could it be that your Li Dabantou's tongue was also bitten by a mad dog?"

Sheng Jintang, the county secretary office who was brought back, had a green and hideous dragon mark on his forehead, which had already protruded more than an inch of skin.

"That's it!" Li Dai shouted loudly, "Just like a green dragon's claws...... Since Sheng Xiucai has been sick, you are walking with him, it is very likely that he has been infected, and now I order you to kill Sheng Xiucai immediately and bury him, and live outside the city, and our daily movements are monitored by us, and if there are no green dragon claw marks on his forehead in the future, you can enter the city. In the meantime, if you want to leave here or rush into the city, you will be killed!"

Cai Yaoyang's subordinate troops were already in an uproar, and they were about to rush up and knock the city gate open. Cai Yaoyang raised his hand to stop the noise and said, "Didn't you say that you would only be infected if you were bitten by a patient?"

Li Daidao: "Although this is the case, human life is at stake, and for the sake of safety, there are only a few military masters who have been wronged." ”

Cai Yaoyang snorted heavily in his nose, and said, "You dare to imprison General Ben?"

Li Dai at the head of the wall did not answer, and waved the command flag in his hand, only to hear the sound of breaking the sky, and countless feathered arrows were like an impermeable rainstorm, under the hood of the box soldiers. These feathered arrows are numerous and accurate, and they are clearly prepared.

The neighing of horses and the sound of screams in the surrounding night were endless. Although Cai Yaoyang was born in the army, he was agile and shot down a lot of feather arrows, and many of his soldiers were injured by feather arrows. Although Cai Yaoyang was furious, he didn't dare to rush forward again.

Leng Ruoya walked up to Sheng Jintang, looked at the green dragon claw marks on Sheng Jintang's forehead, her expression was extremely solemn, and said: "I have heard my brother mention this plague, the strange poison travels with the blood, until the mind, and reverses the patient's mind, although there is no precedent for human salvation so far, but-" The girl was silent for a moment, and said: "It doesn't mean that the precedent doesn't start with us." ”

Mei Chao said tentatively and madly: "Miss Biao, you are a master of medical Taoism, have you seen any signs of this plague?"

Leng Ruoya smiled: "Sister Mei is a senior in the medical country, but she came to make fun of the girl...... If the girl's expectations are correct, the 'sick' Gongsun Bai, who has disappeared from the rivers and lakes for nearly a hundred years, has come out to make waves again!!"

Mei Chao's crazy expression moved slightly, and there was a commotion inside the city gate, mixed with the sound of crying.

The side door creaked open, and a group of officials and 100 residents walked out of the side door. There were men, women and children, most of them dressed in tattered clothes, and their expressions were sluggish, and many of them kept raising their sleeves to wipe away their tears.

Li Dai, who was shrewd on the battlements of the city wall, poked his head out again, changed his smiling face, and shouted to the below: "Lord Metropolitan Eunuch, your opportunity to make meritorious service has come." These people were all family members of the sick and were expelled from the city by Master Xi. They will also have to live temporarily outside the city before they can return to the city when the epidemic subsides. Master Xi just ordered that during this period, these people will be under the care of the capital eunuch, and those who are ill or disobedient will be killed immediately. As for the drinking water, it was brought down from the city by hanging buckets at noon every day. Master Xi loves the people like a son, and he will never treat you badly. ”

Cai Yaoyang's eyes revealed the luster of a falcon-like yin owl, and he said slowly: "Master Xi really let us live here, then we have to send some bricks and iron frames, which can be used to build tents, so that we can't let us sleep in the wild, right?"

Li Dai said: "Master Xi said, in extraordinary times, everything is simple, and seeing that there are many pine forests nearby, Lord Metropolitan Supervisor can completely drive his group of residents to cut some bamboo and trees and build tents." ”

Cai Yaoyang snorted: "Li Daban is really worthy of the name of 'careful and fast', are you afraid that I have a masonry and iron frame, transform weapons, and counterattack the city?"

Li Dai in the city snorted: "Don't scare the villain, the villain is talentless, incompetent, powerless and courageless." ”

Cai Yaoyang sneered: "If there are really sick people among these residents, wouldn't we all be in danger? ”

Li Dai said with a smile: "The danger is indeed dangerous, but Master Xi said that with the extraordinary wisdom and superhuman ability of the capital eunuch, a solution can always be found." ”

Cai Yaoyang's eyes were like lightning, swept Li Dai's face, and said with a smile: "One day, I will definitely let you and General Ben live in a different place, and see what you can do?"

Li Dai's face changed on the wall, and then he forced a smile and said: "If this matter can be handled by such a mediocre person, the county magistrate will not appoint you as the capital supervisor?"

Cai Yaoyang no longer answered, turned around on horseback, and immediately assigned his men to escort the residents to cut down trees and build scaffolds.

Saibei Songhai, Hugh said pine, even the wild vine has not been mined by humans for hundreds of years, and the stems are thick and thick, and it is extremely difficult to cut down. But under the urging of the long knife and leather whip, the group of residents finally set up a hut for the army to rest before sunset. Then the residents were exhausted, so they had to pick up some of the remaining broken wood and grass, and spread some simple straw bunks under the big trees nearby, and the old and weak women and children leaned against the trees to chat, and the young and strong men were arranged into three pairs by Gou Yuhou to guard and patrol respectively.

During this time, the gates of the city were opened several times, and dozens of corpses and hundreds of residents were escorted out one after another. More and more refugees gathered outside the city, and the old lady Guan and a few concubines were also among them, and the residents grabbed the land with their heads, and they were already crying.

A miserable cry came from a corner suddenly, and everyone turned around in shock, only to see Sheng Jintang's ten fingers like hooks, dead embedded in the flesh of Old Lady Guan's shoulder, and he opened his mouth to bite his blood-soaked neck.

Leng Ruoya was shocked, her right hand flicked in the air, and she saw the indifferent light purple starlight flashing behind Sheng Jintang's head, and Sheng Jintang's entire body was paralyzed. Mei Chaomad stepped forward to catch his body, and with the other hand, he used three silver needles to go straight down from the acupuncture point on the side of his head on the top of his head.

Mei Chao said madly: "This scholar has been infected with the plague, what should I do?"

"Of course, it will be killed and burned immediately!" I saw Cai Yaoyang approaching quickly with more than a dozen van soldiers.

Leng Ruoya smiled and said: "Although this disease is dangerous, it is not impossible to restrain it, once it is infected, it will be burned and buried, don't you think it is too cruel?"

Cai Yaoyang looked at Leng Ruoya with a sneer, and said, "Being cruel to him is merciful to us, and the situation is urgent, so we can't care so much." Girl, you are a smart man, hand him over quickly, so as not to hurt everyone's peace. ”

Leng Ruoya looked at Sheng Jintang, who was unconscious, sighed softly, and said with a cold smile: "This nerd asked for the people's life, so he risked his death to go out of the city to seek medical treatment, why do you force people too much?"

Suddenly, a sharp shout broke the silence: "Saved, saved!" I saw the old lady Guan, who was bitten by Sheng Jintang, waving her hands on her back and stumbling towards this side.

"Stop!" Cai Yaoyang waved the hilt of the knife, which hit the old man's waist, and the old lady Guan suddenly couldn't stand, knelt on the ground, and retched on the ground.

Cai Yaoyang shouted in a deep voice: "What is saved, say it quickly!"

Although the muscles on Old Lady Guan's face were distorted by pain, two extremely bright lights of ecstasy flashed in her eyes: "Our illness is cured!"

Cai Yaoyang frowned: "What?"

Old lady Guan smiled mysteriously and said to Cai Yaoyang: "My lord, the secret of heaven must not be leaked, you come over and I will tell you in a whisper." ”

Cai Yaoyang was just about to lean over, but after a change of thought, he pointed to the two subordinate soldiers beside him and said, "You two go over together to listen to what he says, and you can witness to each other." If he can really cure the plague and make great contributions, this general will be rewarded. ”

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