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Chapter 6 Epidemic

It was only when Dou Qingchuan reached the hardest-hit place that he realized that this flood was not trivial.The torrential rain fell for half a month in a row, and there were many landslides in the surrounding mountains. The rice was flooded and died in the ground, and there was no harvest for a year.

Dou Qingchuan and his subordinates live in the homes of wealthy businessmen in the city. Even the best houses in the area have mold stains on the walls due to damp.The servants served the meals for the distinguished guests, which were nothing more than a plate of dried tofu and a plate of green vegetables.

The rain was still falling, and Dou Qingchuan lay on the bed for a short rest.After getting up, I talked with the local governor in detail, and learned that the place with the most casualties was not in the city, but the village near the river.The river broke its embankment in many places, and the number of missing and injured could not be ascertained at all.

"Can you send someone to look at it?" Dou Qingchuan asked coldly.

The governor knelt on the ground trembling, "The lower official once sent a team of 20 people to investigate along the river, but... but no one returned it. I'm afraid..."

"I'm afraid there is an epidemic." Dou Qingchuan's heart shuddered, and he clenched his fists.

Dou Qingchuan ordered half of the troops to stay in the city to help resettle the victims, and the other team went down the river, and he personally led the team.

On the eve of departure, Dou Qingchuan wrote two letters and handed them to the emperor's personal guard who came with him, "This one is for the emperor, and this one... please take a detour and deliver it to the palace."

On the yellowed envelope were four words carefully written by Dou Qingchuan, which was signed by his wife.

Fang Jizhan and Dou Qingchuan were going forward, but the rain was too heavy on the way, and walking in the mountains and forests was frightening.The team had to stop and recuperate.

Fang Jizhan filled Dou Qingchuan with a cup of hot water, and said in a low voice, "My lord, why bother?"

After taking this life-threatening job, I still have to trust my life to do it well.

Dou Qingchuan laughed, "It's already here, how can you leave without saving people."

The team walked slowly, the road was blocked everywhere, and it was difficult to open a way.Finally saw several villages connected in the distance.At noon, there should be smoke from the kitchen, but these villages are as silent as dead.Walked in and heard crying.

Once you entered the village, you could smell the smell of corruption. The villagers hiding at home heard the sound of horseshoes and stumbled out, "Is it from the imperial court? Someone is here to save us!"

Hundreds of villagers ran out at the sound and fell to their knees on the muddy street with a plop.

"But you're in charge? Come and talk." Sitting on the horse, Dou Qingchuan said loudly, with his legs, feet and waist tightly tied to the saddle.

Everyone in the village elected a middle-aged teacher. The old man was so thin that only his bones remained. He knelt in front of Dou Qingchuan and wiped his tears, "I thought no one would come..."

Dou Qingchuan asked his attendant to help him sit in the wheelchair, stepped forward to support the old man's arm, "stand up and talk."

Dou Qingchuan asked the accompanying doctors to deal with the trauma first, and all the villagers who were febrile and fainted were temporarily isolated and placed in the school at the entrance of the village for intensive care.

"Some people have been buried...they haven't had time to bury them yet." The old man pointed from Dou Qingchuan to the field ridge not far away, where flies and insects were flying around the blackened corpse, "No one wants to get close. The water source here is far away. Some, it's always better."

Dou Qingchuan turned sideways and told his subordinates, "Cover your mouth and nose, and bury those quickly."

When the two returned to the village, they saw that the doctor was ordering people to burn the herbal medicine, which was a kind of plant with slender stems and pointed leaves.Dou Qingchuan has seen it in the army, and it is the most common herbal medicine for fever.

"This is an epidemic," the imperial physician came over and whispered to Dou Qingchuan, "I won't be able to think of a cure for a while, and I have to try it on people."

After eight days of such a trial, the officers and soldiers barely repaired the river channel that broke the embankment.But this method of treating the epidemic has achieved nothing.

A small half of the village's population is also infected with the epidemic, and many people have to go to the mountains and forests with their families.Fang Jizhan told Dou Qingchuan that when they went up the mountain to collect herbs, they saw the buried bodies of those fleeing in the sand.

At this time, Dou Qingchuan received an order from the palace to withdraw with the army and set fire to the village.

The smell in the village is stronger these days.That foul and horrible smell.

Dou Qingchuan looked at the kneeling bodyguard in front of him, he let go of his thoughts for a moment, and said, "Come closer."

The man took two steps on his knees, suddenly Dou Qingchuan clamped his throat and twisted his neck.

When Fang Jizhan came in, he saw Dou Qingchuan throwing someone on the ground, "My lord?"

"Help me deal with it." Dou Qingchuan's eyes were ice-cold, "Just treat him as being buried in sand on the way."

Dou Qingchuan sorted out his emotions, knowing that this was a death penalty for resisting the decree.If...

He thought for a moment, wrote a letter of reconciliation and separation with Bai Lian, sealed it and handed it to Fang Jizhan, "If I return to Beijing as a sinner, you will be one step faster than me, and hand this letter into the palace and hand it over to Fang Jizhan." My concubine mother. She knows how to deal with it."

Dou Qingchuan went outside in his wheelchair, the sky was blue, he missed his family in the capital.I don't know if I can go back.

"My lord! My lord!" The teacher held a baby in his arms, "Dumb... Dumb, he doesn't have a fever anymore!"

Dou Qingchuan was so shocked that he almost trembled, and took the child from his husband's arms. With a small and thin body, his eyes looked round and big, and his thin fingers tremblingly grasped the front of his shirt.

"You... what did you eat these two days and where did you go? Tell me everything!"

The child froze for a moment, held his mouth shut, and burst into tears.Dou Qingchuan hugged him in his arms helplessly and anxiously.

The light rain stopped, and everything finally turned around.

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