Glued up by my father's nemesis

This was the first time Qi Jingsi realized that although Yan Yi and Yan Fei were not related by blood, they were truly brothers.

Stubborn is exactly the same.

Yan Yi looked like he was still timid and timid, he didn't say a word, he hung his head and didn't dare to look up at people, but he insisted on dragging Yan Fei and dragging him to a side room in the small courtyard before he was willing to speak .

"Although this plague is fierce, it looks terrible, and it spreads quickly, but it's actually not difficult to cure." He whispered after entering the room, "Brother Ge's erythema has just grown on his neck, so it can be cured. "

"He looks sicker than ordinary people, and his breath is so weak that Zhang Fa can't breathe, probably because he started to be hungry before the onset of the disease; Mrs. Ge also said that now he is fed some mush every day. The family is poor, presumably. The body is fundamentally damaged."

"Then your village back then..." Yan Fei was careful when he always brought up the sad stories of other people's families being ruined.

"Our village is not as big as Youxian County, and there are several medicinal materials shops." Yan Yi explained: "The disease spread very quickly. At first, the price of medicinal materials only increased, and the poor couldn't afford it; I can't buy it anymore."

Hearing this, everyone in the room was thoughtful.

Now that You County is blocked, even if the village has medicinal herbs to treat diseases, they are still waiting to eat; once the medicinal herbs are exhausted, everyone is still waiting to die.

In this way, how to prevent the plague from spreading in a large area in the village is the top priority.

Qi Jing thought about what Yi Yi said just before exiting the room——

"Maybe it's us who should stay away."

There is something in this sentence, and it seems to have a deep meaning.

"Is there anything else you didn't say?" He asked straight to the point.

"I'm not a doctor, so I don't understand the truth, and I can't be sure, but as far as I can see, it's the same as the rumors in this village." Yan Yi took a deep breath between the words, trying to keep his tone as calm as possible, and pronounced the words Clearly, "People in the village say that the 'God of Plague' catches young men because—"

"This disease only infects young adults, not the elderly or children. The order of infection is also that men are more dangerous than women."

"At first in my house, my father was sick earlier than my mother; and then most of the people who escaped from the village were children like my sister and me, or some people who asked for medicine to cure their diseases, and the old people could no longer walk. , while those in the prime of life, like my parents, mostly died of illness."

Qi Jingsi looked up at Yan Fei, the room fell into silence again.

According to Yan Yi, the three people in the room are the most dangerous.

"It's useless to worry about these right now." Yan Fei took Qi Jingsi's hand, raised his head and smiled, and then said to Yan Yi: "You were so young at that time, can you still remember the prescription?"

"I remember." Yan Yi's voice was heavy and firm, "The prescription is not complicated, but it is a life-saving thing."

It was no secret that the prescriptions for curing diseases were in the village at that time. The medicinal materials were simple and a few flavors, and almost everyone had a copy.

It's just that the piece of paper with the medicinal materials on it alone can't save lives.

At that time, his parents were sick one after another, and Yan Yi was taken by his sister to walk around the streets to ask for medicine. Neither of them had read and could not read. They may not understand what the medicines mean, but the pronunciation No matter how you read it, it is engraved in your mind.

Yan Fei asked Mrs. Ge to borrow a pen and paper, and when Yan Yi finished writing the prescription, they went to the patriarch to ask for medicine. The journey was heavy, and no one said much.

There were no obstacles on the way to seek medicine, and the patriarch cooperated very well and asked someone to take them to the largest medical center in the village to get medicine.

As soon as the two entered the hospital, they were suddenly dumbfounded.

All the medicinal materials inside were knocked over and turned into a mess, as if they had been looted by thieves.

"I'm sorry, gentlemen." The young man who led the way here was quite polite, and he explained apologetically, "When people first died in the village, it wasn't that they didn't treat them as illnesses. All the doctors are sick, so no one dares to take care of this matter."

"After several doctors died, everyone in the village was in danger and went to the medical clinic to grab medicine and grab whatever they saw."

"The magistrate Cheng of Hui County was still there, so he ordered the soldiers to seal up the medical clinic until now."

"It's okay." Yan Fei shook his head, smiled politely, turned to Qi Jingsi and Yan Yi and said, "Anyway, we only need those few medicines, and it's not too troublesome to find them out and share."

While Yan Fei was speaking, Yan Yi walked to a row of medicine boxes in a daze, staring at a label on it, stretching out his hand and retracting it.

On the label of the medicine box was written the word "Choice".

Qi Jingsi saw something strange, stepped forward and pulled out the medicine box——

Empty.

"Chomic cohosh..." Yan Fei looked at the empty medicine box in Qi Jingsi's hand, his lower lip trembled, and whispered, "There is a saying in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", the master cures all kinds of poisons... and prevents plagues."

He suffered from eye diseases since he was a child. Although he did not become a doctor for a long time, he also read a few medical books after he became literate.

"This little brother." Yan Fei turned around and bowed slightly to the person who led the way behind him, "Can I trouble you to go back and ask the patriarch if you can find someone in the village who can know medicinal materials and search for them in this mess. We can find out this medicine called cohosh."

"Besides, I will trouble you to take me to another pharmacy."

After the looting of the medicine shop in the village, all the medicine shops and clinics were closed down by the government to protect the medicinal materials; The so-called master has exaggerated several times, which convinced the desperate villagers.

Therefore, after the pharmacy and medical center were closed down, no one opened it again.

After Qi Jingsi, Yan Fei and others worked hard all day, they finally found out that all the "living hemp" in the entire Youxian County had disappeared long ago.

At the core of the plague in Youxian County lies the secret of Qi Tongfu's illegal encroachment of land for grain.

When they returned to Ge's small courtyard, the atmosphere was already very heavy.

"This... that's all we have in our house..." Aunt Ge awkwardly rubbed her hands on her apron as she looked at the rough steamed buns and side dishes on the table, "I've wronged some benefactors..."

Her eyes were full of apology, but still couldn't hide the anticipation inside.

Behind her, two half-grown children grabbed their mother's legs and kept poking out, swallowing.

"You haven't eaten yet?" Yan Fei greeted with some distress: "Together?"

"No, no, no!" Sister Ge waved her hands, while stopping the two children behind her, "There are still plenty in the kitchen, so women and children can't serve the table, we just go to the kitchen to eat."

Without waiting for Yan Fei to say anything else, she pulled the two children and limped out of the house.

The three teenagers in the room looked at each other, silently went to the small table and sat down, poking the chopsticks in the small dish, but couldn't swallow it.

Qi Jingsi's chopsticks accidentally collided with Yan Fei's, and when the chopsticks fell off, a small piece of cured meat was brought out.

No wonder the child behind Mrs. Ge was drooling while staring at the table.

Yan Fei really couldn't bear it.

Unlike Yan Yi and Qi Jingsi, he has never seen such a hard life. Even if he suffered crimes on the embankment of Ting County last year, it was because of the disaster.

It is really the first time someone has suffered like this in life.

"I'm going to pour some water!"

He stood up suddenly, turned around and ran out of the room after speaking.

Walking lightly to the kitchen door, he quietly lifted the cotton curtain, and saw Mrs. Ge coaxing the two children, eating a few shriveled old corns on the stove.

From the moment she entered the door, Mrs. Ge's eyes were full of anticipation, but she probably saw that the three teenagers were depressed. She was careful not to ask, probably because she was afraid of offending her man's last hope.

The side dishes and a few rough steamed buns in the room are not good things, but they are already the best food in this family.

The bridge of Yan Fei's nose felt sore.

Mrs. Ge regarded them as her last hope, like a bodhisattva who was afraid of offending her, but he could only let this helpless woman down.

"Sister Ge..." He lifted the curtain guiltily, almost choked up, "I'm sorry..."

Sister Ge turned her head when she heard the sound, and seeing Yan Fei's guilty and painful face, even a fool could see something was wrong.

Trembling, she put the corn back into the small bamboo basket in front of her, picked up the child on her body and put it on the ground, and stood up tremblingly while leaning on the stove.

"You..." Her lips trembled uncontrollably, unable to utter a whole sentence.

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Ge, I'm going to bother you all night in your yard tonight."

There was a familiar voice behind him, Yan Fei turned his head and saw Qi Jingsi's powerful big hands had naturally embraced his shoulders.

"Today I went to the village to look for medicine and didn't find it all. We'll go digging in the field tomorrow if we're missing something." Qi Jingsi said politely, "I'd like to trouble you to prepare some tools for digging medicine, hoes, baskets and so on."

"Hey, eh, eh... ok... ok..." Mrs. Ge responded again and again, rubbing her hands back and forth on the apron helplessly, "Then I...I'll make the beds for you...I..."

The hope that was almost extinguished just now was rekindled at this moment, making this simple country woman a little incoherent.

"Oh, by the way, things... I have prepared all the things at the door of the room, and you can see them as soon as you go out tomorrow..."

"What else..." She lowered her head to look around, and quickly ordered to the children beside her: "Big cub, go, you hurry up and take your brother to bed."

"It's okay, Sister Ge, please do your work first—" Qi Jingsi replied politely, then gently pushed Yan Fei in his arms, "Let's play with the child for a while."

"Okay, okay." Mrs. Ge hurriedly responded, turned around and limped out of the kitchen.

Yan Fei was stunned by the door from the beginning to the end, until Qi Jingsi gave him a slight nudge before he came back to his senses.

He waited for Mrs. Ge to leave before he said in surprise: "You really have a way?"

"The solution is someone's idea." Qi Jingsi smiled naturally, and then pushed Yan Fei, "Hurry up and take the child to the house for dinner, two pieces of bacon are precious, and it will be cold if you wait any longer .”

Seeing Yan Fei staring at him blankly as if he didn't react, Qi Jingsi pushed the man forward.

"You also know that even Yan Yi is afraid of me, and scares the child. Hurry up and take the child to the house for dinner. Yan Yi is still waiting."

"But..." Yan Fei was pushed away, but he was still uneasy about the day's events.

"Eat first." Qi Jingsi coaxed into Yan Fei's ear, "I'll tell you when I finish eating."

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