Chapter 430 Diseases, people's choice
A lonely yellow dog was walking slowly outside the fence wall... and occasionally saw walking figures in his lifeless eyes, flashing crazy biting.
Suddenly, the wooden stick stretched out from the side hit the beast's head. The black shadow that was about to bite fell to the ground, and blood flowed from the gap between the dog's mouth.
"…San'er, which one is the first today?" The farmer holding a wooden stick was in his thirties, kicked the dead yellow dog with his feet, and asked the young man opposite him as bait.
The young man came over, looked at the corpse on the ground, licked his mouth, "…. It's the seventh one, uncle.... Isn't my niece bitten? Do you want to kill the dog?"
The farmer shook his head, looking a little angry, "...I don't want to do it either, but Xiao Ni'er has been unconscious since she was bitten and her whole body is hot. I feel so angry that I want to beat the dogs to death with one stick..."
"... But, I think it's a bit weird. Recently, there seem to be more and more dogs, biting people everywhere... like crazy." The young man was thin and gave people the impression of malnutrition. He looked at the corpse of the yellow dog on the ground, "... Don't mess it up... Uncle, let's peel it and eat it.... Cough cough..."
The man looked a little dazed and coughed a few times to attract the attention of the farmer, "What's wrong with you?"
"…I feel a little uncomfortable lately, I feel hot and breathless... But it's all a little bit... I can still withstand it, but I'm so hungry that I can't withstand it anymore." The young man smiled.
Since the Jurchens occupied Datong Prefecture, they were mostly harsh on the Han people under their rule. However, they were aboriginal people, and they were better. The Han people who came back from the south a few months ago were truly miserable. There were 200,000 or 300,000 people, but only one-third of them survived, half died on the road, and the other half lived inhuman treatment when they arrived in the Jin Dynasty, and those who could not survive died.
Although the local Han people are better, they are just that better. If they really have to hold a steel knife around their necks, no one dares to resist. The ones who can resist were basically dead when the Jurchens occupied Datong Mansion. The ones left behind have been sorted out by the other party.
The farmer was about to say something, but in the distance, a doctor carrying a medicine box walked past his sight, threw the stick in his hand, and hurriedly chased the other party and stopped him.
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In the dilapidated room, the hand that had cut the pulse was retracted. The doctor who looked not old last year shook his head and said to the anxious man, "...I can't delay it, I have to send it to the clinic in the town. Now, there are such diseases everywhere in several towns around me." Then, I began to organize the medicine box.
The man sat in front of the couch, held his daughter's hand, and fell silent, "...Doctor, you see, how can my family have the money to treat Ni'er..."
His tone was slightly hoarse and choked.
“….her mother was killed when the Jin people came….”
"Now, I am the father and daughter who depend on each other for life. If Ni'er has a long and short life... this family will be completely gone... it is gone..." His callused hand tightened the little girl's hand and looked at the pale little face.
The turbid water slid across the corners of vicissitudes of the eyes, and then he turned his back to the doctor to wipe away the tears. The doctor had already carved the doctor's box again, looked at the tall and hunched back silently, sighed, and prepared to turn and leave.
When he walked to the threshold, the man sitting on the couch suddenly ran over and hugged his legs, "... Doctor... Please save my daughter... Please save my daughter, I will make you a cow and a horse..."
"I can't save it... I'm just an apprentice... I've not yet started my master, so you have to go to the town to find my master, but there is no guarantee that I can save it..." The young doctor looked at the man in embarrassment, while trying hard to retract his legs.
But here, I didn't seem to hear the other party's words, "...I kowtowed to you...I kowtowed to you, save her... She is only nine years old."
The man let go of his arms and knocked his head to the ground over and over again. He cried and cried with his head that was constantly knocking down, and he could no longer hide his wail.
But the doctor fled in panic, leaving behind a man who cried like a child.
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The sky is bright, the clouds pass through the blue sky, and there is a faint stench in the hot air.
It seemed like something was rotting in the air.
There are only a few streets in Chaoyun Town, Datong, and there is only one clinic in the whole town. The street is crowded with people, and a large group of men, women, young and old with patches of clothes are staring at the clinic. You can vaguely hear the patient's weak moans inside.
Most of these people have dull eyes and sobbing in a low voice. The patients inside are probably their relatives and friends. It is not uncommon for diseases and insect breeding in spring and summer. At this age, poor families probably can withstand it if they get sick. If they can't bear it, they will treat it as saving a bit of food for their families, and rolled up straw mats and threw it into a pit.
But in the past ten days, more and more people have been sick. Almost every household has one, and even a family has this strange disease. For a moment, people become panic within a radius of dozens of miles.
"….. The whole family was in trouble in the family. The old lady in the family fell ill before and thought she was going to die... but she suddenly jumped up and bit her son..."
"Not... I really don't know if God is blind. After the military disaster, this kind of disaster happened again. My family's wife... I feel uncomfortable when I think about it... I work hard in the field, and suddenly, the dog from where suddenly bit her ankle. She didn't say anything after she came back, and fell ill the next day... The family is about to pass by... Now...ah..."
"... My family is the same... I really hope God has taken back the plague god... Don't cause trouble for us so much haha."
"It's not just us, but I heard that several wealthy families were also affected. The servants in the family got sick and passed it to others. I heard that they are now preparing to move out of here to see a doctor in Datong Mansion..."
People whispered in a low voice, roughly putting together what happened in the past half month, but it was just a rough idea, and it would probably only be blamed on the gods.
Outside the crowd, a young man carrying a medicine box squeezed in. He was originally pushed open and wanted to curse, but when he saw that it was a primary apprentice in the clinic, he shut up. After entering the clinic gate, a middle-aged man who was busy grabbing medicine inside moved his mouth to him. The apprentice nodded, opened the curtain and walked in.
I saw an old man with a hunched back on the beds examining patients. In the corner next to me, two small stoves were burning warm fires and boiling medicine. The smell of herbs filled the whole room.
"Master...how's going on?" The young man put down the medicine box and went to help.
The old man turned around slowly, and every movement seemed a little difficult. His eyes were a little red in his deep eyes, as if he hadn't closed his eyes for two or three days.
"The plague... is not that easy to cure..." The cracked lips trembled for a moment, and then sighed: "There are two more dead today... I asked them to burn the body, but they refused... If this continues... it won't take long for this to die here."
He staggered a few steps, "…The problem here is also very strange... It doesn't look like a plague... Those people will bite people crazy when they get sick, and then pass it to others... It's so strange."
The young man standing there did not move, his eyes looked at the patients who were moaning and moaning twice from time to time. After a while, he suddenly laughed, "Haha... it should... it's not better if they all die together. It's better to pass it to Shangjing to let those Jurchens get this disease together... Hahaha..."
"Little Fish...How can you say such things..." the old man yelled at him in a low voice.
The young man with a smile suddenly turned into a hideous twist, and his veins crawled on his neck, "...Master, my parents are dead... They were killed by those Jurchens when they entered the city... And my sister, who was only eleven years old... They... They ruined her..." The young man's eyes were tears flowing, and he scratched his hair, and suddenly squatted on the ground and cried, "She... was only eleven... those beasts ruined her... I saw them ruined with my own eyes... Hearing my sister crying... 'Brother save me'... 'Dad... Save me'..."
The spit splashed out from his mouth, and the young man raised his eyes to look at the old man with red eyes: "...My sister died in the end...Those beasts chopped off her head...Master, do you think they should die?"
"They deserve to die..."
The old man roared at the figure on the ground, trembling all over, and pointed at the patients on the sickbed around him, "But... what about these people? They are all people, should they die? Do you know... If this disease spreads... no one will be spared... Do you know how many people will die... Do you think there are not enough people?"
"That's the government's business... How many can we save?" The young man stood up against the wall, "... You asked me to spread the disease, I didn't say a word to those people... I just wanted to make everyone sick, bite people like mad dogs, spread this strange plague, and let those Jurchens get this disease... Let him die, I don't care how many others die... Hahahaha."
"Hahaha"
The young man leaned against the wall and opened his mouth and laughed. In his eyes, a figure crawled up on the sickbed behind the old man.
He went downstairs and then rushed towards the old man's back.
"Hahaha"
"...Hahahaha... bite... bite..." The young man laughed loudly, tears flowed out from his red eyes.
Chapter completed!