Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 4 Chapter 4: The Rise of the Plague
As soon as the team of yachamen rode their horses across the bridge, they saw Wang Dahei, and all of them reined in their horses and stopped. A leader looked at Wang Dahei and asked loudly, "Where is Huliu Village?"

Wang Dahei has lived in a small village for a long time, so he has little experience. Whenever he sees an officer, he shrinks back in fright. Now he is still being questioned by the officer, his legs are shaking.

"I'm asking you something!" The leading officer frowned, urging in displeasure.

"In...in..." Wang Dahei tried his best to straighten out his tongue, and pointed in the direction of the field, "Working in the field."

The leading officer ordered: "Send him to the village office quickly!"

"Yes... yes!" Wang Dahei stammered back, and rushed away like being chased by a dog.

A group of officials dispatched Wang Dahei, and rode towards the village on horseback. Two young officials saw Li Hao tug-of-war with the donkey, and couldn't help laughing.

With a bang, the rope that tied the donkey broke, and the donkey was free. It spread its hooves and screamed happily, and rushed to the old man Hu's house. Li Hao threw the rope on the ground angrily, and chased after him with all his might.

However, the speed of the donkey was too fast, and it rushed into the village in a blink of an eye. When Li Hao ran to the old man Hu's house, he heard the rapid braying of the donkey. This guy has already started to work, Li Hao slapped himself on the forehead, and sighed helplessly.

The donkey brayed so loudly that it spread into the house, and a person came out of the house, a boy about 12 years old, wearing a black old cloth coat, holding a torn book in his hand, this is Hu Dashan, the eldest son of old man Hu, At the age of 12 this year, Hu Dashan saw Li Hao standing outside the donkey shed. He walked over to take a look and found that there was an extra donkey in the donkey shed. Breeding." As he said that, he bowed to Li Hao in a dignified manner, but his movements were rusty and immature, obviously he had just learned it not long ago.

"Don't!" Li Hao hurriedly jumped to the side, "Let's speak carefully, I didn't come to breed your Cuihua, but I brought a donkey to breed your Cuihua."

Hu Dashan blinked his eyes and thought for a while: "Is there a difference?"

"Of course there is a difference!" Li Hao exclaimed excitedly with his eyes wide open, "It's my stupid donkey's fault, don't put shit on my head! As a scholar, you have to be reasonable, right?"

"Eh..." Hu Dashan was stupefied. Li Hao was too out of touch. He couldn't keep up with his rhythm. He obviously wanted to thank him, but he turned into a scumbag. He felt that the chat could not continue. He I could only change the subject and ask, "Daozhang Li, have you seen my father?"

Li Hao shook his head: "I didn't see it, but I ran into Wang Dahei at Jinshui Bridge, he said your father has gone to the ground, oh, yes, your father seems to be a village official."

"Yes." Hu Dashan nodded.

"Then he should go to the village office now. Just now a team of officials on horseback came. As soon as they entered the village, they shouted to see the village official. Isn't it your father?"

"Official servant!" Hu Dashan was startled when he heard the words, "Did my father commit a crime?"

"Who knows." Li Hao raised his eyebrows, with a smirk on his face, "Maybe your father was caught peeping at the little widow in the next village taking a bath..."

"Don't talk nonsense! My father wouldn't do such nasty things." Hu Dashan was so angry that his cheeks puffed up, and he stared at Li Hao with his big eyes, "As a monk, why are you so shameless!"

Seeing that he was angry, Li Hao said with a playful smile: "I'm not a monk, I'm just a layman in Taoist robes, just kidding, it's so serious, I have no sense of humor."

Li Hao's harmless smile instantly calmed most of Hu Dashan's anger, Li Hao did not forget to remind: "Aren't you going to visit your father at the village office?"

"Oh, yes." Hu Dashan dragged Li Hao and ran to the village office. Li Hao yelled depressed all the way, "Hey, why are you dragging me there? It's not my father's fault."

The village public office is located on the wasteland in the north of the village. It is actually a dilapidated house. It is mainly used for the village to gather and discuss affairs, and it is usually idle.

There is a notice board in front of the gate of the village public office. At the moment, there is a notice on the notice board with the official seal printed on it. Many villagers gathered around the notice board to discuss. In fact, most of them could not read. Several literate people in the village told them the content of the notice.

Li Hao saw so many people from a distance, and guessed in his heart that something serious happened, otherwise it would be impossible for an official notice to be sent to such a small village, so he rushed up in two or three steps, pushed aside the crowd and came to the notice board, There were not many words on the notice, and he finished reading it in a while. After reading it, he frowned and said to himself: "There is a plague in Henan Province!"

This notice was issued by the Linbei County Government. The notice said that there are already four states and counties in Henan Province plagued by plague. Xuzhou where they are located is one of the states and counties affected by the plague. Plague sufferers.

This time the plague came very suddenly, why did I say suddenly, because it appeared in four states and counties at the same time, which had never happened before. If it was not controlled, it would be the most harmful plague since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

After the local officials discovered the plague, they rushed to the imperial court eight hundred miles away. Li Shimin, who was already frightened by the natural disaster, felt his head hurt again. Going to Henan Road to fight against the plague, he also strictly ordered in the decree that if the governors of those states and counties could not control the plague, they would all be dismissed and imprisoned.

Li Shimin attaches great importance to this plague. There is no other way. Li Shimin killed his brothers and killed his brothers, and he has been stabbed in the back. Unfortunately, after he took office, he caused natural disasters year after year, and the people complained, saying that God punished Li Shimin. The people suffered.

Li Shimin wants to cry but has no tears, and the baby feels bitter, but the baby doesn't say anything, he can only be diligent and love the people, and be a good emperor. He defeated the East Turks in the fourth year of Zhenguan, and finally let him counterattack. The whole country celebrates, and the people of the Tang Dynasty Finally gave him a big thumbs up.

Li Shimin is not afraid of anything now, only natural disasters.

There are only two purposes for the Linbei County Government to issue this notice. First, to tell all villages and towns that all villages and towns in Linbei County are temporarily closed to restrict all livestock from going out, and residents in the village should not walk around at will to prevent the spread of the plague.

Second, tell all the villages and towns that doctors sent by the imperial court will come to each village soon. I hope that the villages in each village will actively cooperate with the work. If anyone is found to have symptoms of the epidemic, they will immediately notify the doctors and treat them. If it is useless, the dead body will be burned to prevent infection.

Li Hao was stunned for a long time after reading the notice, and suddenly thought of a major problem. The village was blocked, so how could I go back?

Li Hao ran out of the village as soon as he thought of this, he didn't even care about the donkey's eggs, but when he ran to the village, he sadly found two warriors in military uniforms guarding the Jinshui Bridge with long soldiers in their hands.

"Fuck, you're moving so fast!" Li Hao yelled in despair, rolled his eyes, thought of the idea of ​​swimming across the river, quietly turned his direction, and ran north to the Jinshui River. The flow is very slow. Although his swimming skills are not high, he thinks that there should be no problem swimming there. He was just about to go down the river when he suddenly saw movement on the other side of the river. When he looked carefully, he suddenly felt that his whole body was not well. On the other side of the river, there was a warrior riding a steed slowly along the river, his eyes swept over the river, if it wasn't for the willow trees by the river, he might have spotted Li Hao long ago.

These warriors who sealed off the village looked like members of the army. In order to control the plague, Li Shimin even dispatched the army, which shows how much he attaches importance to this plague.

Now Li Hao was forced to go back to the village with his head drooping, and he returned to the old man Hu's house before he knew it. At this moment, the donkey egg was done, and he was rubbing back and forth with Cuihua in the donkey shed, feeling extremely happy.

Li Hao became angry when he saw this guy. It was because this guy couldn't control his lower body, which made him trapped in Huliu Village. It's already afternoon, so why should he sleep at night?

"You perverted donkey!" Li Hao picked up a willow stick from the ground and wanted to go up and whip him twice, when suddenly he heard someone calling from behind: "Xiao Daoist Li, when did you come?"

Li Hao turned his head when he heard this, and saw the old man Hu and his eldest son Hu Dashan coming back across the fenced yard. The two entered the yard in twos and threes. That, haha, haha..." Oh, I feel so ashamed and ashamed to say such a thing.

Old man Hu also chuckled, spread his hands and said, "Go into the room and drink some water." Li Hao nodded with a dry smile, and followed him into the room.

Old man Hu pushed open the back door after entering the house, and called out: "Mother, little Daoist Li is here, boil some water for the guests."

"Good!" A woman's voice came from behind the house, it was old man Hu's wife Liu Shi.

The old man Hu searched in the three rooms, but he couldn't find his youngest son, so he turned his head and asked Hu Dashan, "Dashan, where is your brother?"

"Go out to play." Hu Dashan replied, "You just went out for a while, and he went out."

"You bastard." Old man Hu snorted coldly, and sighed, "I know how to play all day long. I finally paid Shu Xiu for him to study in a neighboring village, but he didn't work hard."

Li Hao persuaded from the side: "Children are all playful, and I was like this when I was young."

"How can it be the same." Old man Hu squeezed his eyes and said with a trembling mustache, "The emperor just started the scientific examination to select officials, and I still expect them to study and become a master. You are a Taoist priest. I don't expect to be an official."

Li Hao: ...

Li Hao really wanted to explain to him again that he was not a Taoist priest, but he knew it would be a waste of effort, because he didn't know that he had told these people hundreds of times that they belonged to goldfish and blinked a few times The time was forgotten, Li Hao was so tired, he turned his head and looked around in embarrassment, and said flatly: "Ah, Uncle Hu, your family is so big."

"What's the big deal." Old man Hu shook his head and sighed softly, "There are only three rooms in total, this main room is one, my child and his mother have one, these two bastards have one, just enough to live in, alas, if the two This bastard is worthless, and our family has no vacant house for them to marry a wife, and we have to build another house, which is very worrying."

Li Hao blinked and said flatteringly, "Uncle Hu, I heard that the village is blocked."

Old man Hu nodded: "Well, it's blocked. The officers and soldiers of the imperial court are guarding it. Not even a chicken feather can fly out."

Li Hao pretended to be surprised and asked: "Then I can't go back?"

"Well, I can't go back." Old man Hu nodded again.

"Hey...hey..." Li Hao's smile grew stronger, "Father Hu..."

"Don't, don't, don't call me daddy." The old man Hu found that he had changed his address suddenly, and felt that something was wrong, he shook his hands, "I'm only 35, they call me old man and they call me old, you call me old again Dad, it feels like I don't have many years left to live."

"Yes yes yes..." Li Hao nodded with a flattering smile, "Uncle Hu, you said that you are the head of Huliu Village, such a big official, can you help me solve my accommodation problem?" He finished Looking at old man Hu affectionately, his blinking speed was comparable to that of a sewing machine.

"Uh... this..." Old man Hu pondered for a moment, and said with a embarrassed face, "Now our Henan Road is suffering from a plague, I'm afraid no one will dare to take you in, and our house has no vacancies."

Li Hao thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Then can I live in the village public office?"

The old man Hu looked at him in surprise: "There is nothing in that place, how can people live there?"

"At least there are walls and a roof, which can keep out the wind and rain." Li Hao looked at him pleadingly.

The old man Hu sighed helplessly, bowed his head for a while, nodded and said: "Well, you and the little genius doctor are kind to our villagers, and we can't refuse to repay the kindness. You just stay there, and I will let the child go to him later. Mother will send you some hay and bedding, but don’t catch a cold, I heard that people who are sick are more likely to catch the plague.”

Li Hao's eyebrows twitched, can you say something auspicious, can you chat, can you chat!

Although he was upset, he still wanted to thank Old Man Hu, after all, he had done this matter very carefully.

That night, Li Hao lived in the village public office. The place was very spacious, but there was a bit of air leakage. Fortunately, it was late spring and the weather was not too cold. A thick layer of hay was spread, and then a mattress was laid, which was soft and comfortable. Comfortable, but I don't know if there will be grass lice. Although Li Hao has no cleanliness, he is still afraid of such things as lice, but now is not the time to be particular about it. It is very good to have such a place to sleep.

(End of this chapter)