The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

Widow Chen buried her face in her daughter's arms as if she was holding a treasure that had been lost and found again, and tears could not stop flowing down.

God knows how many times she has wanted to just follow her daughter these days!

Fortunately, fortunately she persevered.

Now my daughter has woken up!

From now on, both mother and daughter will be fine.

Widow Chen, who was overwhelmed by the huge surprise, only felt it now.

The girl in his arms was almost just a bag of bones.

No, her daughter has suffered a lot these days, she has to make something delicious for her.

Thinking of her daughter's favorite white flour sugar-coated steamed buns, she lit some mugwort and walked out of the mosquito net.

After carefully closing the mosquito net, she went to the kitchen to get busy.

Although things here are quite warm and friendly, the situation in Yining County is completely the opposite.

The whole city was almost in a dead silence, with only the occasional tightly wrapped official appearing on the streets.

They were pushing a cart sealed with thick cloth, which was filled with corpses of people who had died of the infection.

These days, they have to pull out countless corpses every day and have become numb.

In the backyard of the county government office, County Magistrate Qiao and his wife were sitting in the house, both with blank expressions.

Their son died yesterday!

This heavy blow drained the energy and spirit from both of them.

Mrs. Qiao has not eaten or drunk anything until now, and has been holding a white porcelain doll of her son.

County Magistrate Qiao was also in pain, but he took responsibility in the end.

In addition to being sad every day, I also have to keep myself spirits up and preside over the work in the county.

At this moment, someone came from outside the door to report the number of casualties today.

When he heard the number 1,621, he felt a pain in his heart as if it was being squeezed.

Since the widespread outbreak of the epidemic, the daily death toll in the city has been increasing.

Today, it has reached the highest value in these days.

He really didn't expect things to develop to this point.

I dare not even think about what will happen next.

At the beginning of the epidemic, he saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately sent people to block several city gates.

At the same time, troops were sent to control the looting and maintain order in the county.

After sealing off the county town, he also banned all movement for two days.

But the blockade lasted for a long time and the people had no food.

Not to mention those who are sick also need to buy medicinal herbs.

During this period, many struggles broke out.

Seeing that the riots were getting more and more serious, he confirmed that the epidemic was caused by mosquito bites and lifted the ban.

In the next few days, most of the people in the county would still come in and out.

Some went out to buy food, while others went out to buy medicinal herbs because their family members were sick.

People knew that epidemics were caused by mosquito bites, so they often carried moxa sticks with them when traveling.

Only a very small number of people are accidentally bitten by mosquitoes.

Most people carefully avoid mosquitoes and nothing happens.

This leads to a perception forming in everyone's mind.

This disease is not contagious to humans.

A few days later, County Magistrate Qiao received an order from the provincial capital to quarantine the entire city at home.

But the news came too late.

There is a large flow of people in Yining County, and the virus mutates much faster than in Fucheng and Baoshan Town where people live.

On the day that County Magistrate Qiao ordered the entire city to be quarantined at home, a large number of people in the city fell ill.

Among them, the police officers who most often maintained order on the streets were almost wiped out.

The epidemic broke out completely in the city.

The outbreak was so sudden that in a panic he had to ask the city defense for troops.

But many of the soldiers defending the city also fell.

In the end, only a thousand soldiers were sent into the city.

These thousand soldiers barely maintained order in the county.

What they do every day is to transport food and medicinal materials to a certain street and then distribute them on the street.

But in this case, cross infection is inevitable.

Soon, some of the infected people became ill.

Those with a short course of illness may die in three or two days.

If the disease lasts longer, it may last up to six or seven days.

Among those infected, only about 20% survived.

These days, the soldiers who entered the city to maintain order have been burying bodies outside the city.

After a few days, almost all the forests near the city gate were used up.

Now they have to walk a lot further to bury the bodies outside the city.

Now, every family in the city is in danger.

At the beginning, some people tried to go out to buy medicine and seek help.

Soldiers were on the streets and occasionally caught people.

Now, there was no one to be seen on the entire street except for the soldiers carrying corpses or supplies.

The people in the city hardly dared to leave their homes, let alone their rooms.

If you look down from above, the whole city looks like a ghost town exposed to the sun.

Inside a textile factory in Yining County.

Zhenniang and Widow Meng were lying on the gate. When they heard crying and shouting outside, their hearts trembled.

Someone has died again, and the relatives of the deceased are crying.

These days, they kept the door locked and hid quietly in the yard.

During this period, the city experienced great chaos.

Many people rushed to grab supplies, and some people came to knock on their door.

They stayed in the house in fear, listening to the banging of the door.

Later on, someone even used wood to bang against the door.

Fortunately, the gate was very strong and withstood this wave of attacks.

Fortunately, the wall of the courtyard is high, and it is difficult for people outside to climb in without the right tools.

They were lucky to escape the attack.

Not long after, the disease began to spread.

This happened because they heard the noise outside and climbed up the wall with a ladder.

Only when I saw soldiers pulling corpses out of the street did I realize that the epidemic had begun to spread.

At this point, they were even more afraid to go out.

They even made several sets of protective clothing, imitating the soldiers outside.

Every day when there is a noise, people wearing protective clothing will come to the gate to listen.

Therefore, they never went out.

But I also have a general idea of ​​the situation outside.

Zhenniang and Widow Meng listened to the crying and shouting gradually disappearing. Just as they were about to go back to the house, they heard footsteps outside.

In fact, the footsteps were getting closer.

Zhenniang and Widow Meng looked at each other and saw panic in each other's eyes.

Now, in their compound, except for Dagen, a strong man, the rest are all young women.

If someone really targets you, you'll be in real trouble.

The two were just about to slow down their steps and retreat slowly.

Then I heard a familiar voice coming from outside the door.

"Is anyone there? I'm Tian Yongnian from the raw materials factory."

When Zhenniang heard Tian Yongnian's name, she suddenly remembered him.

Isn’t this Manager Tian from the raw material factory?

She was about to reply, but when she thought of the many people hiding in the factory, she forced herself to hold back.

Manager Tian had helped her once before, but he had only helped her.

She couldn't risk the lives of so many people in the factory.

Zhenniang thought so and shook her head at Widow Meng who was looking at her.

The two of them walked into the house quietly.

At this time, the voice of Manager Tian came again from behind, and it was louder than before.

"Jane!

Is Zhenniang here?

I’m Tian Yongnian. I came here to ask if you have any antipyretic drugs?

My son has a fever and is a little confused.

Don't worry, he is not infected with the disease.

He had been staying in the house all these days and got too hot.

He's only five years old. I, I really have no other choice, so I'm begging him!"