The first-level Zhaohua Thousand-level Hall

Chapter 47 A fire destroyed everything

Some people are still glaring at Xu Qingluo, some gloat, but more people are full of nervousness, staring at Xu Qingluo's words and deeds without blinking, even though they keep saying that these people are plagues, come to find Xu Qingluo settles the score, but no one really wants these people to be a plague. No one wants Huai County to have such a disease. It is the most terrifying reminder of Hades that can directly turn a city into a dead city every time it breaks out.

Xu Qingluo stretched out his hand halfway, thought of something, tore off a few pieces of clean fabric from his skirt with a tear, wrapped it in his palm, and held down the man's pulse.

The pulse condition is weak, internal cold and external heat, all internal organs are weakened to varying degrees, Xu Qingluo's eyes become more serious, she does not want to really face the plague, but this pulse condition.

Xu Qingluo put down the wrist of the man who was already powerless to twitch, and was about to look at the other's eyelids. The next moment, the man under her palm trembled violently, his eyelids rolled violently, and a lot of white foam suddenly appeared from the corner of his mouth. As soon as Qing Luo's face changed, he subconsciously pulled out the silver needle to protect the opponent's heart, but it was obviously too late.

The patient got up heavily, and landed on the stone slab with a bang, without breathing.

"Dead, dead."

"Zhang Yang is dead!"

"Dead!"

Someone screamed, and the situation that had stabilized just now was on the verge of breaking apart again.

"She lied to us, she put people to death!"

"This quack doctor, it's not the plague, but her medical skills are not good!"

Someone really died, and everyone was on the verge of collapse. No one wanted to admit that it was a plague. Everyone just wanted to vent their panic and push all mistakes to Xu Qingluo. A silver needle coated with anesthesia, everyone didn't care about her method of bringing down the strong man before, and didn't care about her words. They seemed crazy thinking of her, and hammers, benches and even knives rushed over. , They really wanted to kill her to vent their anxiety.

But there are still some rational people who are persuading. After all, not everyone is willing to see such a scene. Anyway, Xu Qingluo is still a doctor. After all, the Xu family has accumulated a good reputation in Huai County over the years. of.

Because someone suppressed it, the noise was much quieter.

Seeing the dead man, Xu Qingluo's palms were sweating, and a trace of misery could not help showing in his eyes.

She is not afraid of death, but she doesn't want to die so worthless. At that moment, Lang Cheng's face flashed in her mind. Last night the man accompanied her to sleep, last night the man combed her hair. He said he wanted her to wait for him for two years. At that moment, Xu Qingluo's heart was full of regrets, she was about to break her promise.

"Woo, vomit!"

A thin man suddenly staggered out of the erupting crowd. He lay on the ground, spitting out white foam, his face was pale and pale, and his limbs were trembling constantly: "Yes, it's a plague, it's really a plague, I'm infected Oh, ah, help, Miss Xu, help me!"

That man was clearly the skinny and troublesome man who was slapped several times by Xu Qingluo in the hospital yesterday and then escaped several times.

He stretched out his hand, trying to pull Xu Qingluo, but he couldn't reach it at all. In an instant, the man's body was already wet, and a foul smell spread.

The shouting, shouting and killing stopped, step by step, the people who had rushed towards Xu Qingluo to vent their uneasiness backed away, muttering: "It's really a plague."

"It's really a plague."

"Don't die, let's not die!"

"Isolate them, no one can let them take a step away!"

Someone yelled, yelling at the pile of patients lying in front of the pharmacy waiting to die, as well as Xu Qingluo and the skinny man, the dark space outside Xu's pharmacy was emptied in an instant.

Xu Qingluo didn't try to get out of the so-called isolation circle. She looked at the despair, panic, fear and crying in the eyes of the people who were some distance away from her, raised her eyebrows, knelt down and walked to the dead person, and pressed The opponent's abdomen, not only does not feel firm, it is even soft and there is nowhere to apply force, which is very abnormal.

The plague, also known as the plague, has a fever-based plague and a cold-based plague, but whether it is cold or fever, the plague does not die so quickly. The medical books she has read are still some cases that she saw by chance. The plague infection rate is very high, but the fastest death time is three days. From the shouting of the people in the crowd just now, it is known that the other party was not good last night, and now he died in less than a day. This is almost impossible.

Xu Qingluo frowned, checked the symptoms of several people in succession, and stood up.

"Miss Xu, Miss Xu, please, please help me."

The skinny man spoke with difficulty, his eyes were full of fear, and his body trembled even more.

And those patients who were originally put on the ground by their relatives, some of them with mild symptoms also started to cry and moan, the plague, it will really kill people, many people will die.

"There are medicines in the pharmacy."

Xu Qingluo paused, left behind these words, and strode towards the pharmacy.

She didn't want to die, so she had to save people!
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Lang Sheng originally decided to leave early this morning, he didn't want to say anything to Xu Qingluo before he left, because he was worried that he wouldn't be able to leave.

But when he led his soldiers to the gate of the city, he encountered a group of people with their families, and there were sick people in their families.

And before leaving the city, they were told that the official road they dug had been sealed by heavy snow, and now it was impossible to get through.

Therefore, it is wise to postpone their return to Beijing.

Lang Sheng's eyes fell on a family of people pulling an ox cart. A gust of wind blew by, and he saw the man lying on the ox cart covered by a white cloth. .

As for those people who were still crying and wanting to leave the city, almost all of them were sick in their cars, and the familiar scene made Lang Sheng's body shiver.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

When Lang Wei saw Lang Sheng stop his horse, his expression was extremely serious. He followed the man's gaze and saw groups of people blocking the gate of the city.

"Serena."

Lang Sheng's voice was deep: "You go to the county office immediately to see the county magistrate An—"

-

Lang Sheng didn't care about the pedestrians on the street, and almost galloped towards Xu's pharmacy on his horse.

Along the way, his face was tense like a string that was about to break. At this moment, he only wanted to see Xu Qingluo, and he was worried about her.

Faint cries, curses and moans came from the front corner, and Lang Sheng from a distance saw many people surrounding Xu's pharmacy, and also saw the 'weapons' in their hands.

Lang Sheng's eyes were full of coldness, he got off his horse and headed towards the place surrounded by those people holding 'weapons'.

"Don't go there, it's full of plague patients!"

"It will kill people!"

"The little lady of the Xu family is going to kill everyone. She is a disaster star. Whoever touches her will be unlucky!"

"To shut up!"

Pulling away those so-called well-intentioned people, maybe it was Lang Cheng's cold demeanor, maybe it was the chill on his face, where Lang Cheng passed by, those people couldn't help but give him a way back.

Lang Cheng saw Xu Qingluo at a glance. She was half kneeling on the ground, and was giving a needle to a patient. The girl's face was full of seriousness, and there were faint traces of sweat on her forehead, and the silver needles fell one by one. The dying patient twitched and vomited out a pile of filth, which even slightly stained her skirt, but she didn't seem to notice it, and turned around and ordered a few less sick people to make medicine.

The place that should have been dead and isolated, was a little more alive because of the girl's existence, and everything was in order. She just stood there, as if she was the only pillar that everyone could rely on after despair.

Lang Cheng looked at the girl's thin shoulders and pale complexion. That was the woman he cared about, the woman who said he would fight against all dangers side by side with him. Before he could react, the man had already stepped forward to help the girl treat a patient. lift up.

"How did you come!"

Xu Qingluo's eyes widened, there was surprise in his eyes but even more panic: "Aren't you going back to Beijing today, hurry up!"

She was pleasantly surprised to see him again, but she was even more terrified that Lang Sheng was infected with the plague. People are selfish, and Xu Qingluo couldn't accept that Lang Sheng also became one of the patients around her who were shrouded in death all the time. .

Xu Qingluo wanted to push Langcheng away, but the man's body was as stable as a rock, and he had never been moved: "The road outside the city was blocked by heavy snow, and the official road just dug a while ago was blocked by an avalanche, so no one can leave. I saw people outside the city dragging their families away, all of them were sick with the plague, at this time, I will not leave."

Xu Qingluo's eyes widened: "Don't talk nonsense, what plague is just a common fever, and I can cure it. As a general, you should go back as soon as possible if the court asked you to report on your duties."

Lang Sheng looked at Xu Qingluo, sighed, and reached out to help the girl wipe the sweat off her forehead: "Does what you said last night still count?"

You said to fight all dangers with me, so how can I abandon you at this time.

Xu Qingluo was dumb, and wanted to say something more, but he couldn't say a word when facing the man's firm eyes.

"How can you be sure that these are plague patients?"

No matter what she said, the man would never follow her wishes and leave. Xu Qingluo wiped his face and smiled helplessly: "Even I can't diagnose it, and I haven't found such a case in medical cases—"

"Because I've seen that this kind of disease is indeed a kind of plague, and it's extremely rare. It attacks quickly and violently. It's almost like getting sick yesterday and dying today. It usually appears on the battlefield where there are a lot of dead people. Three years ago, I led the The soldiers fought against the barbarians in Rehe, and the epidemic broke out in the army, and thousands of people died—”

Xu Qingluo didn't expect that Lang Sheng had seen and experienced such a rare plague, so she couldn't help asking: "Then how did you finally contain the plague?"

There were so many soldiers in the army, and thousands of people died in a plague. She grabbed his hand, her eyes full of urgency.

Lang Sheng's eyes were filled with sadness for a moment.

"That time the plague spread among the soldiers too quickly. Almost before I noticed it, thousands of people were infected and died. There were also military doctors in the army, but more than half of them were infected. I asked the imperial doctor to come to the capital. Not enough, I was only able to isolate them—”

The man's hand slowly clenched into a fist, his eyes were full of sadness and pain, Xu Qingluo's hand fell on the man's hand, at that moment, she wanted the man to stop talking, she could see the man's heart at the moment The pain, this memory is obviously not very good, and she has even guessed the ending from the man's attitude. What Xu Qingluo needs now is information, any information that can help her solve the current situation, but she I don't even want the man to suffer: "You—" Stop talking.

Lang Sheng held Xu Qingluo's hand instead, raised his eyes to stop her from speaking: "I want to tell you."

The man smiled bitterly: "That time I isolated those who were confirmed to be infected with the plague and those who had contact with them with suspicious symptoms in a forest north of Rehe for three days. I remember it very clearly. During those three days, no one was healed, only one buried corpse, more and more every day, everyone was desperate. On the night of the third day, a fire broke out in the forest, 870 five The soldiers, plus five military doctors, and seven nearby doctors voluntarily recruited, all died in the fire, and none of them survived!"

Lang Sheng's voice was very low and deep, and he clenched his teeth tightly. At that moment Xu Qingluo clearly understood the guilt hidden under the pain and desolation in the man's eyes.

"One thousand eight hundred and seventy five soldiers, all of them were soldiers trained by me. They didn't die on the battlefield, but died in the plague and sea of ​​fire, and that—"

"You have tried your best. I don't believe that if someone else encounters this kind of thing, they will do better than you."

Even though Lang Sheng didn't say much about what he did at that time, but just listening to the man clearly remember the number of people who died, and just listening to the man's few words, Xu Qingluo was able to understand the man's concern. She believed that he must have been I did my best.

Lang Cheng felt the temperature on the back of his hand that belonged to another person, closed his eyes, and opened them again. The sadness on the man's body had instantly turned into firmness, and there was a decision in his eyes: "Luo'er, we can't delay any longer. The symptoms of these patients are almost the same as those of the infected soldiers under me at that time, and those who have been diagnosed must be dealt with immediately, so that the lives of the rest may be saved!"

As soon as Lang Cheng said this, before Xu Qingluo could speak, a skinny man rushed in from the door, and he yelled at Xu Qingluo and Lang Cheng: "You damned bastards, what are you doing? We got this disease because of this bastard, do you think you can live if you deal with us? Let me tell you, you don’t want to live even if I die!”

While cursing, this skinny man violently threw the filth spit out by the patients in his hands at Xu Qingluo. As long as one accidentally gets a little bit of something like the plague, he will die. Xu Qingluo Just now I told those with milder symptoms to bury the filth spit out by the plague patients or burn it directly. Who would have thought that this skinny man would bring it in, let alone throw it on himself frantically? , Xu Qingluo's face changed, and he wanted to avoid it, but he couldn't dodge it at all.

At that moment, Lang Sheng violently embraced Xu Qingluo's body, hugged her in his arms, tightly hugged her head and face, and faced the spilled filth head-on: "Lang Cheng!"

Xu Qingluo screamed, and the long sword on the man's waist was unsheathed instantly.

Xu Qingluo only heard the sound of the sword cutting through the air, and the table next to him was picked up by the man's long sword and blocked in front of him. With a weak scream, the filth splashed by the skinny man was splashed on himself .

He yelled in horror, trying to clean up the things on his body in a hurry, but the more he was busy, the less clean it was, and after only a while, the whole person collapsed and fell to the ground: "I don't want to die, I don't want to die!" die!"

"Miss Xu, you, you and us are also together. If you really want to deal with it, you can't escape. You must also be infected with the plague. To save me is to save yourself. Miss Xu, please help me, please You save me."

His voice was low and weak, his breath was dying, and he could feel the threat of death all the time, causing this person to completely collapse. As he spoke, his breathing became short of breath, his face became paler, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat. Symptoms within the controllable range have become such a half-dead look in such a short moment.

He crawled towards Xu Qingluo, and stretched out his hand to grab the girl.

Xu Qingluo looked at this skinny man who almost killed himself and Langcheng just now, the poor man must have something to hate, and the man who was crying at the moment acted like that just now.

Xu Qingluo deftly avoided the thin man's attempt to pull his hand, and under the increasingly desperate expression of the other side, a silver needle was aimed at the other side's neck.

The skinny man's body froze, and the strong dizziness made him even more frightened, but he couldn't make a sound anymore. The only thing he could do was to look at Xu Qingluo with begging and desperate eyes.

"You should know a lot, so I will try to save your life."

Xu Qingluo said lightly, and as her words fell, the skinny man completely fainted.

"It is not possible to deal with all these infected people according to your wishes."

Xu Qingluo turned his head, Lang Cheng was full of coldness because of the skinny man's behavior, he subconsciously frowned when he heard the girl's words: "Luo'er, I know you have a kind heart, but this is the only way to curb it the fastest .”

There is no way to treat people who are infected. One more source of infection will be added every day they are alive, and one more person may be infected. Maybe there will be a small drop among the next people who are lying there waiting to die like those patients. Lang Sheng couldn't accept it.

"I'm not kind."

Xu Qingluo took the man's hand, and fixedly looked at Langcheng's face: "Except for you, those people outside are just like him. If they can hold me to death, I believe they will never be relentless." So she Really don't care too much about those people's lives anymore, Xu Qingluo is not a face-to-face person who likes to be sent up by the right cheek after being slapped on the left cheek.

"I won't let you down."

Lang Sheng subconsciously said that he didn't understand Xu Qingluo's meaning for a while.

"I know."

Xu Qingluo smiled, just now the man chose to block her at the first moment, she knew it, since the man didn't understand, Xu Qingluo thought about it and still didn't tell the other party that he was indifferent to those people's lives in his heart: "I object to you directly One of the reasons for dealing with those who are infected is that they have not yet been diagnosed. There are tens of thousands of diseases in the world. Even if the diseases look similar on the outside, they are not necessarily the same disease. The plague has only just been discovered, and I have not tried my best to deal with it. How can we be sure that we will die without a doubt, neither you nor I can carelessly ignore human life."

Lang Sheng really couldn't do it, he smiled wryly: "But I can't even risk everyone's life."

Especially the life of Xu Qingluo was also included in it. Xu Qingluo is currently treating those plague patients nearby. If it is infected, Xu Qingluo must be the first to be infected.

"Most of the recruits you recruited came from Huai County or nearby counties. Among these sick people, how many of them are their relatives. If you really issued a killing order, I am afraid that those recruits will mutiny and attack you. Its prestige has been greatly damaged."

"What's more, the infected people may not only be those outside the pharmacy."

Xu Qingluo's last words shattered the strong determination in Lang Sheng's heart. He is a soldier, and if he could save more people by "disregarding human life", he knew how to choose.As for people's hearts, Lang Sheng was a great general in order to serve the country and protect the people. If he could curb a plague that could cause a catastrophe, Lang Sheng could give it up, but Xu Qingluo's last sentence forced him to compromise: "Then what do you say?"

He really wanted to listen to Xu Qingluo's opinion. The girl's behavior made Lang Sheng treat her not just like an ordinary boudoir girl.

"Do your best to obey the destiny."

Xu Qingluo uttered these six words slowly, looking at the somewhat dim sky outside, the mountain rain was about to come and the wind filled the building, her eyes narrowed slightly, the eyes were full of coldness and determination, Lang Sheng had already returned, Once she came back, she couldn't leave, no matter what, she had to protect the man beside her.

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Outside the pharmacy, Xu Qingluo talked with Lang Sheng, which was completely different from just now. When Xu Qingluo came out, he saw that the people who were still stalking outside the pharmacy were controlled by soldiers in batches. Many of them were in contact with the patients, and some of them changed their expressions and wanted to make trouble, but they dared not speak out because of the swords in the hands of the soldiers.

In the open space outside the pharmacy, soldiers were already setting up tents and going in and out, and the patients who were lying on the ground just now were moved to simple wooden boards.

At the same time, Xu Qingluo also noticed that the soldiers who came in and out of the patients were wrapped in cloth scarves and their faces were covered with face scarves. They were more orderly than she imagined. Xu Qingluo looked at Langcheng in surprise. But he was still telling her that he would get rid of the person as soon as possible.

"Do your best to obey the destiny."

Langsheng helplessly avoided Xu Qingluo's gaze.

At such a heavy moment, Xu Qingluo felt her heart suddenly relaxed, and this kind of Lang Sheng was the man she knew and loved.

Maybe it's pedantic, maybe it's soft-hearted that shouldn't be there, maybe it's upright that makes people helpless, but it's the one and only Lang Sheng.

Lang Sheng used to work with Fei Tian to appease the people, while Xu Qingluo stepped up to test the medicine.

There was a sudden commotion from the west, Xu Qingluo looked up, but saw a person he did not want to see.

(End of this chapter)