He found an older brother who looked more friendly and asked, "Brother, are you also fleeing here?" After hearing this, the older brother immediately chattered to him, "I came from Ancheng in the south. I originally thought that the people in the capital would not ignore them, but I didn't expect that the person in the capital would actually kill us all!" As he spoke, his eyes were filled with hatred and helplessness about reality.
Wu Zhuang was very disappointed when he heard this. He had walked for two days to reach Cangzhou, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even get in. Now the city gate was closed and only opened at noon a day. After receiving the relief porridge, the gate was closed again. Moreover, when the officers and soldiers came out, they would seal their mouths and noses with cloth, which looked a bit weird.
Moreover, they would bring out pots of medicine every afternoon. If they didn't drink it, the porridge on the next day would be reduced by half. Wu Zhuang also queued up to drink it. The medicine was too bitter and he wanted to spit it out, but when he saw the guard at the city gate looked at him, he swallowed it back.
Several other guards also spread lime around, which Wu Zhuang found very confusing. He also felt a little cold when he slept that night, and someone in the crowd coughed from time to time, which made him very uncomfortable, but he couldn't tell where he felt uncomfortable.
Although he felt better after drinking the medicine, he still felt uncomfortable. The man sleeping next to him was called Bian Yang. He was also awake at this time. Seeing Wu Zhuang looking at him, he said, "Brother, you are not asleep either!"
Wu Zhuang saw that he was tall and strong, and with the intention of making friends, he said, "Yes! This is too uncomfortable, and they won't let us enter the city."
Bian Yang said, "Why don't we wait for the soldiers to come tomorrow and ask them for an explanation, otherwise it will be a hassle every day." After he finished speaking, his stomach growled. Wu Zhuang glanced at it and pretended not to hear it.
"Do you have any food in your pocket?" Wu Zhuang was pulled over by him and was so scared that he quickly said, "I don't have any food. If I had, I would have eaten it long ago." Bian Yang didn't believe it. He had been paying attention to this kid since the first day he came here. Sometimes he would run behind a tree alone, probably to eat secretly!
Bian Yang reached out his hand to his chest, felt around, and found something bulging inside. He took it out and discovered it was a small bird egg. He sneered, "Oh, you said you had nothing to eat, what is this?"
Wu Zhuang saw this and tried to grab it back, but Bian Yang was too big and strong, so he blocked his way and ate the egg right in front of him. Seeing his only food being eaten, Wu Zhuang bit his hand fiercely, and Bian Lu threw the egg into his mouth and hit him on the head with his free hand.
Although Wu Zhuang felt a sharp pain in his head, he did not let go and instead bit even tighter.
"Ah! You damn well die!"
Bian Yang raised his foot and kicked him out, but Wu Zhuang retreated repeatedly due to inertia and directly bumped into someone else.
Suddenly, the scene became chaotic, with people fighting each other, and Wu Zhuang was the main target of the beating. In the end, Wu Zhuang even crawled out from under the feet of several people, while the group of people continued to fight each other, and it was unclear who was beating whom.
On the city wall, the prefect frowned as he watched the crowd surging below. Ever since he learned about the epidemic, he has sent people to guard the city gate day and night, for fear that if someone entering the city was carrying the disease, it would infect the entire city. Fortunately, the doctor from Huichuntang told him what to do, otherwise he would really have a headache!
He thought that if he found people below him getting sick, he would take them away and burn them. Now the city gate has been closed for two days, and there are more and more refugees outside the gate. There is only
In the past, whenever an epidemic was discovered, the village and the people would be burned down together. Unexpectedly, this time it would be so serious that the epidemic in the south was brought here.
The huge scale makes it difficult to know where to start. Now people among the refugees die every day. He has separated the refugees. Those with symptoms are on one side, and those without symptoms are on the other side of the city gate.
"Sir, the refugees on the right are rioting. Do we need to take action to stop it?"
Magistrate Zhao looked at the fierce quarrels and fighting below and shook his head. "Wait a little longer."
After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the people below stopped arguing and the scene suddenly became quiet. Lord Zhao looked at the young man who was talking big below, his eyes darkened, and he said, "Remember that man and bring him to meet me at the city gate tomorrow."
He had to recruit someone who could walk to this place and calm down a group of people who were fighting.
After Zhu Luo stopped the noise, he said, "Now that we can't enter the city, we need to find a way. Otherwise, those who are not infected with the disease will be infected."
He has observed it during this period and made a simple mouth and nose protector with cloth. This can give him some psychological comfort. Although it is sometimes difficult to breathe, it will be fine once he gets used to it.
Bian Yang said, "Tomorrow, let's just rush into the city! That way we can rob them of their things."
Seeing him, Zhu Luo cursed inwardly, "What a brainless thing! He rushed in! He'd be lucky not to get stabbed like a hornet's nest!" He looked around at everyone and said, "Tomorrow, we'll go find them together and ask them to give us an explanation, otherwise we'll cause trouble!"
After hearing this, Bian Luo quickly agreed: "Yes, that's what I think. If you don't give us an explanation, we will make trouble!" Wu Zhuang looked around and found that Zhu Luo had left them and was hiding aside to observe secretly.
Since he fell into the trap, he has learned a lesson, so when someone makes a fuss, he will guess that the person making the fuss is acting out of altruism, and looks at the benefits of doing this from his own perspective.
If a quarrel breaks out, how will the officers and soldiers handle it? He even thought about taking the people back to their village. After all, the Tong family is so rich that they have opened a spicy noodle workshop and even gave mutton and rice to their subordinates during the Chinese New Year.
Thinking of his mother's death, his mind became active again. If he took these people to Changjiang Village, he could also avenge his mother.
As soon as the sun rose, those at the gate could no longer wait and began knocking on the gate. Some of the braver ones even shouted to the officers and soldiers on the wall, "Give us an explanation!"
Because they were making a lot of noise, many people gathered around them and started shouting at the city wall.
"If you don't give us an explanation, we will break into the city! After all, with so many people, someone will definitely be able to get in."
"That's right, we've been given porridge for the past few days. If anyone wants it, let us into the city."
"When the soldiers come out, we will surround them and demand an explanation. We must be settled down. We can't be left in the cold wind at night and hungry. Otherwise, we will rebel against the prefect."
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