Jinshui County is divided into two districts: the north and the south. The north is the rich district, where dignitaries live with large houses and large courtyards. The south is the poor district, where there are a large number of low mud houses. They are muddy and dirty, and there is a stench everywhere.
The team passed through the west gate. Both sides of the main road were fine, with shops facing the street. Crossing two streets to the south, you could see a shabby scene.
The county magistrate Bai Qiufeng was hiding from the plague at home and did not dare to come out. He asked two clerks to open the door to greet them. The clerks were fully armed and wrapped themselves tightly in clothes. They looked at the procession entering the city as if they were looking at the god of plague again.
Bai Qiufeng's method of fighting the epidemic was to close the city gates tightly, fortify the walls and clear the fields. If anyone was found to be infected with the plague, he would throw them out of the city.
According to the laws of Daxia, the army cannot enter the city. The officers and soldiers of Yulinwei and Mianningzhou can only camp outside the city, and the leaders can enter the city.
Jian Dongcheng went to see Bai Qiufeng. Bai Qiufeng was hiding in Sandaoyuan and talked to him through two doors. Two servants stood in the middle to help convey the message.
Jian Dongcheng was extremely angry, but he had no choice but to do anything. He was the commander-in-chief of the Yulin Guard holding the sun flag, and Qu Yipiao was the commander-in-chief of Mianning Prefecture. A military attache from the capital and a military attache from other provinces could not control Bai County Magistrate, the head of the civil service. I can only take out the paperwork and ask for help.
Bai Qiufeng was willing to help: "There are several big houses on the west side of the city. They are all empty. You can live in whichever one you find best! As for the City God, you go and get the sacrifices to worship the temple. If there is an invasion by the bandit army, I will Naturally, ask him to meet the enemy."
He still sent the two small officials from before to take everyone to the house in the west of the city to settle down.
There used to be many moderately wealthy families living here, but they are all dead. The courtyard is empty, and there are waves of musty yin.
After the Battle of Fengxiang Gorge, Liang Xingyang was respected. Jian Dongcheng asked him: "Does the little master want a separate small courtyard, or does he want to live in a large courtyard with other sects?"
Of course Liang Xingyang wants to live in a small courtyard by himself. The advantage is that he doesn't have to interact with others and cause trouble. The disadvantage is that there is no one to serve him.
He didn't need anyone to serve him, so he did it himself, using his sword energy to collect and dispose of all the dust, mud and other garbage, and then used the Xuanyang Pearl to set off real fire to bake the room, making it clean and refreshing in no time.
The team was going to rest in Jinshui County for a while. Liang Xingyang was worried about the plague. He went out and caught a young man in a hurry on the street and asked: "There is already a plague here, and there are so many corpses outside, why don't we organize people to collect them quickly?" Was it burned?"
The young man lowered his head and looked at him. Seeing that the child was clean and well-dressed, he said, "You came here with that group of officers and soldiers today, right? Most of the corpses died of the epidemic. Even if they were not, there would still be the disease after death. Who dares to go there?" Touch? I can only rely on God to accept it!"
"Does the county magistrate not care? Shouldn't he send someone?"
The young man sneered: "The county magistrate is hiding in his home. He stopped working a few months ago. Except for a few necessary minor officials in the yamen, the rest are ordered to stay at home during the holidays. Who will take care of it?"
Liang Xingyang waved his hand and asked him to leave. The body could not be left to soak in the mud, otherwise it would trigger a larger and continuing epidemic.
He came outside the city, dragged the corpses out of the mud pits, and piled them together. He worked until dark, collected 456 corpses, piled them into a small mountain of corpses, and took out the mysterious corpses. The Yang Pearl emits the sun's flames for burning.
Most of the corpses were rotten, infested with maggots, wet and smelly, and could not be burned by ordinary fire. The flames of the sun shot over and spread out to wrap the entire mountain of corpses, burning them continuously, first drying out the water. Then incinerate.
The night in Jinshui County was eerily quiet. Within a hundred miles around, there was complete silence. Only this mountain of corpses, with its flames soaring into the sky, illuminated the wilderness north of the city. There were many shacks nearby, in which were huddled the infected people who were still breathing. They looked at the corpse fire quietly, with numb expressions and as quiet as chickens.
It wasn't until midnight that Liang Xingyang finished burning the entire mountain of corpses. He turned around and looked at the shack in the darkness. He sighed and went back to the city to rest.
The next day, he went out to collect corpses and burned them. He burned the east gate in the morning, the south gate in the afternoon, and the west gate after nightfall.
After all the corpses outside the four doors were burned, he went to the shack area to check immediately. Many infected people were sent out, lacking medical treatment and medicine, and soon died in the shacks. Some shacks were occupied by those who came after them, and those who came before them. The corpses were dragged out and thrown away, and some were rotting in the shacks. He simply set out real fire and burned the shacks together.
There are still survivors in many shacks, most of them are dying and not far from death.
Liang Xingyang checked their pulses. Most of these people had vomiting and diarrhea, and high fevers that persisted. He had some elixirs in his Qiankun bag. Only two bottles were effective, and they were all distributed quickly. The rest were not symptomatic, and many elixirs could not be taken by ordinary people. , not to mention these patients who are weak and unreplenished, even healthy people may not be able to bear it after eating it. There are some types that cannot be eaten until the foundation is completed. If the foundation is not established, you will die if you eat it.
He prescribed medicine according to the symptoms. The city gates were closed, so those infected with the epidemic could not enter. He flew into the city to find pharmacies, but every one of them was closed!
It turns out that as early as the beginning of the epidemic, all the doctors in the city were invited by people with power and money to keep them at home. Those with more money and power could keep up to four doctors at home, and they could even sneeze. Expert consultation, even if it is a poor one, several families can share one doctor.
As for the medicines in the pharmacy, they have long been sold out. Except for a few main medicines for treating diarrhea, the remaining ones treat lung diseases, fevers, colds, gynecological diseases, pediatric diseases... Rich people are all about weight. After buying them, some companies simply cleared out a few separate houses to store medicines.
Not to mention the county, even the famous doctors and medicines in the villages and towns within ten miles and eight villages were moved to the homes of the rich in the north city. The poor in the south city had no choice but to fight and wait to die!
Liang Xingyang felt very angry. Ever since he passed through Fengxang Gorge, he often had this kind of blockage in his heart.
Without medicine, he couldn't cure the disease. He went to Jian Dongcheng and asked him if he could find a way to get some medicine. Jian Dongcheng shook his head: "I am a capital official and I can't care about things here. If anything happens, I will give Bai Gu It's not good if thieves can take advantage of it. Besides, the plague is not only happening here, but also in the entire Mingzhou. There is also a small part in Zhongzhou. We can't control it. Instead, we have to save our energy to prevent our people from getting infected. There is a human heart. We have to use it on the edge of the sword, our mission is to escort the White Bone Evil Queen to the capital, we can’t make unnecessary mistakes, and we can’t make a big mistake out of a small gain!”
Liang Xingyang went to see the three thousand Taoists from Baiyang Sect again: "You are a well-known and upright sect, so you must have medicine."
Qianshu and Qianhe were both silent. Taoist Qianlang coughed lightly: "Our elixirs are all made from precious elixirs and have been refined with all kinds of painstaking efforts. There are not many that can cure the plague. Even if we take them all, We can’t save many people.”
"Every one can be saved!" Liang Xingyang shouted angrily.
"Part of our medicine was given to the county magistrate and county magistrate yesterday, and the rest has to be kept for General Jian Qi and General Qu Bing." Qin Junlin said next to him, "There is no way, otherwise, we would have taken it long ago. Went out to save people.”
