Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

The two men came to a house with a locked door. If it weren't for the occasional painful groans from inside, Deng Shifa would not have known that there was a patient lying inside.

"What are they doing?" he asked puzzled.

Yun Wu said, "The patients living here are more seriously ill. We are afraid that they will walk around freely outside and spread the germs. So we lock the door and come to check on them from time to time and give them fumigation and medicine."

At this time, Brother Pi, who was leaning against the window with a pale face, greeted Yun Wu with a smile.

"Doctor Yun Wu, is it time for the fumigation?"

"It's almost done. The medicine boy will grind the medicine and bring it to me soon."

Deng Shifa was surprised. Is this the seriously ill patient they were talking about?

He was clean, and except for his pale face and thin body, he seemed to be in good spirits. The key point was that there was no strange smell coming from the house!

Think about their Cangwu County. Anyone with serious sores on their body would be carried out and burned to death even if they had a breath left.

Back to the doctor's office.

Deng Shifa asked Lin Yinan impatiently, "City Lord Lin, can you sell us some of your healing herbs?"

Lin Yinan looked at Doctor Lin, who was in charge of the medicinal material reserves of Longtan Medical Clinic.

Doctor Lin said readily: "Of course no problem."

Then Lin Yinan told the two of them about the serious epidemic in Cangwu County, and she left the decision-making power to them.

"The situation here is basically stable. Once they recover, they can leave. Who do you think will go?"

This epidemic is dangerous and takes a long time to recover. Doctor Lin said before Yun Wu could speak: "Then let this old man go with Young Master Deng."

He watched Yunwu grow up, so it would be safer to leave him in Longtan.

"No, I'll go!" Yun Wu knew what Doctor Lin was thinking. He said, "It's freezing cold, your old bones shouldn't travel around."

Doctor Lin was choked by him and was speechless. This kid really doesn't know what's good for him.

"Doctor Lin, let Yun Wu go." Lin Yinan made the final decision.

Deng Shifa: "Then shall we set off now?"

Doctor Lin glanced at him and knew that the situation was urgent.

"Not today. We still need to prepare and get the herbs out."

Lin Yinan glanced at the sky and said, "Don't worry, Master Deng. Let's rest in Longtan for one night. Once we have collected the herbs, we will set out early tomorrow morning."

"I was too anxious!" Deng Shifa said with some shame.

After confirming the departure time, Deng Shifa and Lin Yinan returned to the county town.

Doctor Lin took Yun Wu to hurriedly sort out the pulse records, and they went over the various symptoms of the epidemic and the responses.

Finally, Doctor Lin sighed and said, "I said I was going, but you, young man, insisted on competing with me!"

"Don't worry! I can handle it." Yun Wu patted his shoulder and comforted him.

"If the symptoms are too severe and cannot be cured, life and death are determined by fate. Your own life is more important, so don't try to force yourself into it."

Doctor Lin was worried and kept nagging and admonishing the patient as if he was teaching his son.

In a remote manor outside the city of Cangwu County.

Zeng Xiaofeng had a high fever and was lying on the bed in a daze.

Her personal maid was lying on the couch. She also had a fever, but she was conscious. She opened her eyes and looked weakly at the dark sky outside.

There was a crisp "click" sound, and the room was locked from the outside.

The maid was so startled that she sat up from the couch, and then the window was slammed shut from the outside.

Then I heard the manager outside the yard saying, "Hurry up, seal all the windows for me, bring some dry firewood over and pour tung oil on it..."

What are they trying to do?

The maid had a bad feeling in her heart, and she hurriedly reached out to grab the window that was about to be closed.

"Butler, why did you lock up the young lady and me like this?"

Only then did she see clearly that the steward was holding a torch in his hand. The steward expressionlessly scolded the servant, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and close the window. Are you thinking of being infected by her?"

In order to protect other people in the farm from being infected, the master has ordered the young lady and her maid to be burned together.

They didn't want to do this, but people who were infected with the disease had no way to survive.

The two old women who were responsible for serving porridge to the refugees in the porridge shed every day passed away two days ago. Their deaths were miserable, and their children who served them also fell ill and could not get up.

They want to live too!

The master was afraid that the people on the farm would cause trouble and attract government officials, so he reluctantly ordered the young lady and her maid to be burned to death.

After hearing what the steward said, the servant pushed the maid away with the wooden board in his hand, slammed the window shut, and then nailed it shut with the board.

The maid was running a fever and was extremely weak. After being pushed by the servant, she took a long time to get up and staggered to the bed.

"Miss, wake up! Wake up quickly, the steward wants to burn us to death!"

However, Zeng Xiaofeng was shaking with fever all over, and her mouth was opening and closing as she muttered something.

Outside the house, flames shot up into the sky, as bright as day, and thick smoke billowed inside the house.

The maid kept coughing, and now she placed her hope of survival on Zeng Xiaofeng. She screamed until her voice was hoarse, and she simply opened her hands and slapped Zeng Xiaofeng left and right.

"Ahem, miss, please wake up! Ahem."

She really doesn't want to die!

Perhaps he heard her inner voice, Zeng Xiaofeng opened his eyes unconsciously and his breathing became more rapid.

"Miss, you're awake!" The maid came forward happily.

Unfortunately, Zeng Xiaofeng, who responded to her, had her mouth and eyes wide open, and she couldn't breathe and died!

At noon the next day, the support ship carrying medicinal materials from Longtan County to Cangwu County docked at the pier.

With the support of Longtan County, the Deng family immediately mobilized the soldiers of the military government to fully cooperate with Yun Wu's treatment arrangements.

Half a month later, the death toll in Cangwu County began to decrease.

One month later, the epidemic was effectively controlled and there were no new infections.

Unfortunately, the weather was not good. On the second day after Yun Wu's arrival, the whole Cangwu County and even Longtan were covered with cold weather, and heavy snow fell from the sky.

The sudden drop in temperature resulted in the death of more than half of the seriously ill patients.

The fire at the mass grave outside Cangwu County never stopped, and there were endless corpses to be burned every day.

Regardless of whether they were children or the elderly, poor or rich, all the bodies of those who died of the disease were burned uniformly.

If the deceased has a family, as long as the family members spend some money, they can collect the cremated remains and bury them back.

If no one claims it, we will dig a pit and fill it with garbage.

The heavy snow fell day and night for nearly forty days, and even the ponds outside Longtan County, which rarely froze, were covered with thick layers of ice.

Lin Yinan took out the thermometer from the space from time to time to measure. Since last winter, she found that the temperature started to be several degrees lower than in previous years.

She knew that this was a sign of disaster.