Village chief Li hurriedly knelt in front of Yun Ruoxi and Xiao Jingrui with his family.
"Thank you for saving my life, I will not look around. Even if we get to a safe place, we will not say anything."
Xiao Jing stepped forward and helped Village Chief Li up. "I wonder what Village Chief Li's next plan is?"
Village Chief Li stood up shakily and replied, "Dashan Village has been flooded. My family has relatives in Qizhou. Every time Yongzhou floods, all the villagers go to their relatives' homes in Qizhou to take shelter."
Yun Ruoxi: "Where's the best place to hide?"
Village Chief Li explained, "Because every time there's a flood, the water is filled with corpses, which makes it very easy for plague to spread. Similar things have happened before. Many villages have been burned down because of the plague. In some villages, villagers were even burned to death. This was because some people in the village were infected with the plague. The court hadn't found a cure, but the plague spread too quickly, so they had no choice but to burn the village. Alas..."
After Village Chief Li finished speaking, he began to sigh.
Yun Ruoxi and Mu Ruxue looked at each other and realized that their previous guesses were not groundless.
Mu Ruxue: "As Xixi guessed, Qizhou has probably already started defending against the plague."
Village Chief Li hurriedly advised, "Don't dare enter the city! Every time Yongzhou floods, the nearest town, Wuming Town, prepares its defenses early. Anyone fleeing from Yongzhou is not allowed to enter the city. Furthermore, if discovered, they will be detained in a thatched hut outside the city."
Xiao Jingrui: "Detained in a straw hut? What does that mean?"
Village Chief Li: "Because many refugees were infected with the plague, but there was no way to detect it in the early stages, and by the time it was discovered later, many people had already been infected, and by then it was too late!"
Yun Ruoxi: "Do all the refugees go directly to Wuming Town after escaping Yongzhou? Or do most people, like Village Chief Li, choose to go directly to their relatives?"
"That's not the case. Basically everyone would choose to go directly to Wuming Town. As for Xiao Laoer's family choosing to seek refuge with relatives, it was because Cao Laoer's grandfather once said that if there is a flood again, you must not take the official road and go directly to the city, but choose to hide in a village in the countryside. Because at that time, Xiao Laoer's grandfather was also the village chief of Dashan Village. He took a few villagers and hid in the village where his relatives lived, and successfully escaped the disaster."
Mu Ruxue said worriedly, "If corpses soaked in red water are prone to causing plague, then if you flee, won't you bring the plague with you to the village? Then, won't it harm the village where your relatives live?"
Although everyone knows that if a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth, but they also feel that what Mu Ruxue said makes some sense.
Village Chief Li explained, "I don't know if it was luck, but none of the villagers who escaped from Dashan Village were infected with the plague."
Yun Ruoxi frowned, "Village Chief Li, are you sure no one has been infected with the plague? Even the elderly and children, are you sure?"
"Yes, the same thing. I heard from my grandfather that many elderly people and children soaked in the water and quickly caught a cold. So, apart from the cold, no one on this journey contracted the plague."
Mu Ruxue: "If only a few people didn't get infected, that would be fine. But if the entire village didn't get infected, wouldn't that be too much of a coincidence?"
Yun Ruoxi continued to ask, "Are all the villagers in Dashan Village not infected with the plague?"
"Yes, none of the villagers in Dashan Village were infected with the plague. But almost everyone in other villages died. I was only five years old at the time, and I experienced that biggest flood with my grandfather. Although we've experienced floods of varying sizes since then, they've always been confined to Yongzhou because of the dikes. Only one as severe as this one was during my grandfather's time."
Xiao Jingrui: "Since the probability of contracting the plague is so high, why are only the villagers in Dashan Village safe? Could it be that the villagers in other villages are almost extinct?"
The village chief shook his head. "That's beyond our comprehension. Villagers from other villages also chose to stay with relatives. Those villages that were burned probably suffered such a disaster because of these people who stayed with them."
At this point, Village Chief Li was a little hesitant. Should he choose to stay with relatives?
Now is different from the past. Maybe what happened before was just a matter of probability, and I was lucky enough not to be infected with the plague.
Village chief Li would feel a little guilty if he were to be infected with the plague this time and bring the virus to the village where his relatives live.
Yun Ruoxi asked curiously, "Village Chief Li, can you think carefully about what the villagers of your Dashan Village often eat, but people from other surrounding villages don't? In other words, what are some commonly used foods that only people from your Dashan Village eat?"
Village Chief Li thought about it carefully and shook his head. "It seems there is nothing."
At this time, the village head's wife answered, "Yes, there are. The hills behind our Dashan Village are full of black mushrooms, so the villagers of Dashan Village have been eating these mushrooms since childhood. It's the same dish that the old woman made for you guests when you stayed at our house."
Because Yun Ruoxi and the others didn't eat the dish, but served it directly to brothers Liu Yong and Liu Gang, so both brothers finished it.
Yun Ruoxi looked at Liu Yong and Liu Gang, who nodded affirmatively, "Yes, there was indeed a mushroom dish in the menu that day, and it tasted quite good."
Yun Ruoxi: "Madam Village Chief, are you sure that this black ground mushroom is only found in Dashan Village and not in other villages?"
The village head's wife nodded affirmatively. "I can be sure of this because I married into this village from another village. When I saw this mushroom, I went back to my parents' home and told them how delicious it was. I could pick some and eat them as wild vegetables, which would also add something to the family's diet. Life is not easy for every household in the village, so if we could have one more kind of food, everyone would be able to fill their stomachs, right?"
Yun Ruoxi didn't care too much about the intentions of the village chief's wife. No matter whether what he said was true or false, at least this black mushroom should be the medicine that can cure the plague.
In other words, after eating this kind of mushroom, the body's resistance to toxins should be increased to a certain extent, and the body's immunity should also be increased. This is why the villagers in Dashan Village did not get infected with the plague.
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