I didn't intend to become a fairy

Chapter 241 Don't ask where is the way home

It is the season of heavy snow, and it is getting colder and colder.

Coincidentally, the name of this place is Wuxue.

Gui County has seven counties under its jurisdiction, and besides Xueyuan, there are six remaining counties. Wuxue is the first county to enter from Beifeng Pass.

Song You and his party walked for two days.

As Liu Junshou said, when you arrive in Guijun, you can hardly see the mountains, and even the ground rarely sees ups and downs. When the weather is good, you can see the edge of the horizon at a glance. If it is dusk, the setting sun can pull people's shadows all the way. Until it is blurred and invisible, and there is no end.

Passing through a village, I also met pedestrians.

Some villages are already empty, while others are still inhabited. If there are people living there, when outsiders come, the doors of every household are closed tightly, and the windows are not even dared to be opened. It is no different from an empty village.

So far, apart from them, there are only two types of pedestrians on the road.

One is the postman officials who communicate between counties, and their identities can be seen from their clothes.

These people usually come and go like the wind, covering their mouths and noses tightly, riding fast on horseback, no matter what Song You and the swordsman say, they will never stop for half a step.Even those who are vigilant, if they see them from a distance, they will ride their horses under the road and bypass them from the fields.

These people ensure the connection between the county government and the county government.

One is the medicine collection team of each county.

The Dayan court did not choose to end the plague by massacring the city and burning the city. Instead, it set up a drug application bureau in Angzhou, dispatched teams from the outside world to Guijun, and sent the medicine to Beifengguan. People come to pick it up, and then take it back to the county seat.

These people would occasionally ask and answer questions with Song You and others from a distance.

There are roughly three kinds of medicines sent by the imperial court, Ganoderma Lucidum Baidu Powder, Jindi Jiukudan, and Bodhisattva Jishi Pills, which are currently commonly used medicines for treating epidemic diseases.It's just that it doesn't work against the demon epidemic in Guijun, at most it only delays the death of people who would die in nine days to more than ten days.

This epidemic is called the demon epidemic.

Song You walked for two days and got to know it a little bit.

After the outbreak of the infection, the eyes are bloodshot, which can be easily identified, and then there are symptoms such as coughing and nosebleeds, vomiting and diarrhea, high fever, vomiting blood, pale complexion, hair loss, atrophy of limbs, and erosion of the whole body. Almost every day there will be one Brand new symptoms, until the final coma, people are no different from ghosts, most people will die on the ninth day after the onset, a total of [-] days.

Therefore, it is also called nine-day epidemic.

The epidemic is so fierce that there is no cure.

Fortunately, transportation is inconvenient these days, and epidemic prevention mainly relies on inconvenient transportation these days.

After the wars and demons in the north and the severe drought, the land is even more sparsely populated. The nine-day epidemic mainly broke out in the city, and officials from all over the country almost quickly blocked the city, not allowing entry and exit. Most villages were not affected much, only a few were inexplicable. He was infected for a strange reason and died.

This is another great way to deal with the plague this year besides the inconvenient transportation——

dead.

When people die, the plague will naturally end.

Even sometimes the government will take the method of massacring the city and burning the city, which is cruel to say, but it is really helpless.

At present, Guijun has not done this. Instead, the city has been strictly closed, and sick evacuation workshops have been set up to actively isolate people. If someone dies, some will be burned or buried deeply. A layer of lime will be laid on the burial. When people entering and exiting the city gate, the virus should also be eliminated by various methods such as fire and smoke.

The family members of the deceased will be subsidized by the imperial court.

It is said that if a family of more than six people died in the epidemic, the burial money would be [-]; if the family had more than [-] people, the burial money would be [-]; Subsidies for the living.

Although it is a backward era, people have shown great wisdom to deal with the virus and tried their best to survive. Their attitude is not inferior to that of later generations.

Therefore, in the past few months, although countless people died in several small counties, the epidemic did not continue to spread.

It's just that Song You went to read it carefully. Although it is rumored that the Nine-Day Demon Plague originated from Xueyuan, it is not a simple demon or sorcery, but a real disease, and it is extremely ferocious and terrifying. The common plague disease in the world can reach it, and the sick people die terribly, which is really like the handwriting of a big demon.

I don't know medical skills, I can only get rid of demons and sorcery, but I can't cure diseases with complicated pathologies.

Although the spiritual power of the four seasons has many wonderful uses, the illness is too complicated. Spiritual power is not omnipotent. It can make healthy people healthier to avoid illness, and help people recover from injuries. These are just magnifying the human body's own ability, and cannot be accurately solved. Get rid of the different symptoms of the sick person.

That is the ability of a divine doctor.

Maybe if you go to Kawasaki.

However, Song You didn't take the vines away from disasters, the patriarch who was proficient in this way is no longer alive, and all the vines from disasters that exist in Fulong Temple can't save even half of the people in the village.

However, there are ways to prevent it.

Among the 24 solar terms, rain, valley rain is full of vitality and is the most nourishing. Although it cannot heal people who are already sick, if it turns into spiritual rain and falls, or melts into wells and springs, although it is not like that in Changjing, it is just right. During the season, seducing the spiritual power of the season can benefit the entire Changjing and its surrounding areas, but it can also benefit every village and every city.

If you are sick, maybe you can feel better because of it.

This is what he can do.

Song You thought of the miracle doctor.

All the way forward.

Gradually from Wuxue County to Yuluo County, and then to Yuntai County, the closer to Hansu, the more serious the plague.

There are more and more empty villages on both sides of the official road. Occasionally, there are people living in them, and there are often sick people. When passing by in the middle of the night, I hear coughing.

People use all methods to cure diseases.

All kinds of folk remedies, praying to gods and worshiping Buddha, fasting food, doing good deeds, even eating earth and swallowing gold, cutting flesh and bleeding, don't think it is ridiculous, they are all people's cherishment of life and struggle in the face of death.

Occasionally, I heard that some villages were not connected to the outside world, but for some reason, some people were infected with the disease.

Some said that the disease was brought by the wind, some said that someone sneaked out at night and came back, some said that the dead people in other villages were not buried properly, and the graves were dug up by wild dogs, and some said that it was caused by ghosts.

We often hear rumors about Dr. Cai.

The further you go, the lonelier you become.

You can't enter the city, and even if you meet pedestrians on the village road, few people are willing to communicate with them, and the world seems to have become much quieter because of this.

Soon into the winter moon.

Entering the seventh day of Guijun, night.

A village called Wujiacun.

The sky was hazy, and the whole village was full of coughing. An old man with bloodshot eyes stood opposite the young Taoist priest. The strange thing was that the old man suffering from the disease was more afraid.

A few zhang away, a swordsman was looking at this side, two horses, one black and one red, stood quietly behind him, and a three-colored cat in gray linen and hooded was also watching this side from a distance.

"I have to make an agreement with the old man. The water made from the elixir may not be able to cure the disease. At most, people who are not sick can drink it, so that they are not so easy to be infected by the disease. If people who are already sick drink it, at most it will feel better. Some, live a few more days, one bowl a day, drinking too much is useless." The voice of the young Taoist came from a distance, accompanied by the whimpering of a dog in the distance, "If it is used together with Cai's medicine, it may be suitable for those who are sick. People also have some healing effects."

"Thank you sir thank you sir."

Muramasa bowed again and again, sincerely thanking him.

In fact, how can a mortal know what medicine is useful?What medicine didn't work?
It's just that ordinary people also have true feelings.

There is no cure for this disease, and it will almost kill you in nine days. It is very contagious, and sometimes you don’t know where it came from. Ordinary people dare not even go into the village. Even if you don’t hear the cough, you will have to go far away when you meet people on the road. Avoid it from a distance, and if you hear a cough, you will be afraid to avoid it.

How can anyone who knows about Bancun's patients and sees that he is obviously sick, dare to come and talk to him?
Not only talked, but also brought medicine.

People often say that rushing to the doctor in a hurry is not only an act, but also a state of mind.

People are willing to take the risk of sending medicine, even if it has no effect, it is also the heart of a Bodhisattva. If it is really useful, it will be a god.

What's more, mortals only take a sip of this water, and already feel that their dizzy brains are much better.

That alone has helped a lot.

"If it doesn't work when taken together with Miracle Doctor Cai's medicine, please don't be offended." The Taoist continued, "If it works, it is a blessing, and the credit belongs to Miracle Doctor Cai."

"Thank you sir."

"You're welcome, just ask Muramasa one more question, where did Divine Doctor Cai go after he left today?"

"I heard it's heading north."

"Thank you."

Song You thanked him and set off on the road.

The swordsman and cat next to him followed, and Muramasa hurriedly stepped back, covered his mouth and nose with a cloth, and watched them go away.

A group of people walked along the village at dusk.

The village was filled with a strong sense of death, which seemed to be three points thicker than the evening mist. I don't know how many people died during this period, and I don't know how many people will die in a few days.Against the smoky twilight was the heavy stench, and death was an undignified thing.

Song You walked slowly, looking left and right as he walked.

The three-flowered cat took small steps, followed the Taoist, and turned its head to look left and right, its eyes were clear.

"Squeak~"

Suddenly a door was opened.

"Sir."

A cry came.

Song You stopped and turned to look.

For a moment, the wind here stopped.

The old woman who was standing at the door, even though she covered her mouth and nose with a cloth, could tell that her face was wrinkled, her clothes were tattered and dirty.In this troubled time in the north, I am afraid that I have tried my best to live, but I have encountered this plague.

I saw her standing across a yard from Song You, her eyes were bloodshot, her complexion was as pale as paper, and most of her hair had fallen out. At dusk, she couldn't tell whether it was a ghost or a human being.

The nine-day epidemic is probably already seven or eight days old.

Song You stared at her, was silent for a moment, and then asked:
"What's the matter, old lady?"

"Cough cough..."

While coughing habitually, the old woman raised her eyes to look at him, not daring to take a step forward: "Mr. is capable. I don't ask Mr. for help, but I can't save him. I'm just coughing. I heard that people will die when they die." Become a ghost, go to the underworld, I want to ask Mr. Xiao, is it real or not?"

"Maybe."

Song You thought for a while before answering.

Glancing at her again, he saluted and left.

Coughing all over the floor, accompanied by howling and crying, one after another.

The crows cry constantly, and the dogs cry when they hear it.

People contain ghosts, and ghosts take people's spirits.

Most of the people you meet during the day are ghosts, but you meet ghosts at dusk and turn into suspects.

But in fact, it is not clear whether it is a human or a ghost, and it is not only a human, but even the ghost itself can't tell the difference.

Song marched to the entrance of the village, looking back and still sighing.

I just ask everyone to go first, don't ask where the way back is, life is so bitter, what is the difference between heaven and earth?

(End of this chapter)