Shuozhou City, railway station.
There was a huge crowd, and countless Shuozhou people carrying large and small bags crowded outside the station and slapped the wooden fence.
"Stationmaster Wang, just let us pass, please!"
"Yes, Wang Liulang, none of us are sick and we are in good health. I hugged you when you were a child. Since your aunt is my sister-in-law, please let us go."
"Wang Liulang! I am the manager of Shuozhou Liuguang Bank. Now I have to go to Luoyang with important account books. If the reconciliation is delayed and Shuozhou taxes are delayed, can you bear this responsibility?"
Inside the fence, Wang Liu, the stationmaster of Shuozhou Station, was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and explained loudly: "Dear fellow villagers, the order to blockade Shuozhou Station was given by General Yanhu, and the prefect also agreed.
Vehicles passing through Shuozhou will not stop here, and there is nothing I can do about it. Please go back."
His explanation was not recognized by the people, but instead aroused the anger of the crowd.
"General Yan is unconscious. The prefect ordered his soldiers to block the main traffic route, but he hid in his mansion and stayed behind closed doors. Even your superiors are not paying attention, so why do you need to hang on here?"
"How many people have died of illness in Shuozhou now? You still let us stay here, you obviously want us to die!"
"Stationmaster Wang, please!"
A young peasant woman holding a baby in her arms and holding a child on her hand squeezed through the crowd and cried: "My parents, brothers, sisters, husband, father-in-law, and mother-in-law were all infected by the plague and died of the disease.
My eldest sister was married a long time ago. When she learned about the death of her parents and brother and sister, she was deeply saddened. She refused to listen to the dissuasion in the letter and insisted on coming to the village to mourn. She also died.
My two children and I are the only ones left at home, and there is no one else.
Stationmaster Wang, please let us go by car."
The peasant woman burst into tears. She took off the swaddling clothes from her arms, placed the baby on the ground, and kowtowed heavily to Wang Liu.
Her forehead fell on the stone bricks of the train station, making a banging sound, and soon her forehead was covered in blood and flesh.
Wang Liu's mouth was dry and his fingertips were numb. The people around him also showed unbearable expressions and tried to help the peasant woman up to prevent her from knocking down.
However.
"Ahem——"
Perhaps she was in a hurry while kowtowing, or perhaps she had not eaten or drank for too long. When the peasant woman got up, she coughed violently.
The crowd around them all changed their expressions, like ripples in a lake, pushing back and giving way, forming an empty circle in the crowd.
"She's sick!!"
Someone shouted sharply and panicked, and the crowd looked at the peasant woman, no longer showing sympathy and pity, but full of hostility and suspicion.
"I'm not, I'm not. It's wind chill."
The peasant woman picked up the swaddling clothes and tried to explain to the people around her, but she coughed even more violently.
"Hit her and drive her away!"
"If you dare to come out even though you are sick, do you want us to die? Don't you know how scary this disease is?"
"Retreat, retreat, retreat!"
The villagers who had shared the same hatred just now suddenly changed their expressions and yelled at the peasant woman,
The young man waved a stick from a distance to intimidate.
The women took eggs from the basket and threw them at her,
Even the white-haired octogenarian tremblingly raised his crutch and waved it at her, opened his mouth with only a few teeth left, and cursed in a dialect that not many people could understand.
The peasant woman, who was like a mouse crossing the street, could only shrink her body to protect her two children.
The infant child cried loudly, while the older children seemed dull and confused.
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Wang Liu looked at the scene in front of him and felt unbearable. He turned to his subordinates and said: "There is a small door behind the station. You can go out through the small door and take her away from here first."
"Webmaster, this."
The subordinates looked at each other in confusion, and no one stood up to answer. Everyone avoided Wang Liu's gaze, as if his gaze were the fangs of a poisonous snake.
The people of Shuozhou have a deep understanding of the horror of the plague in the past few days.
Once the disease develops, patients will suffer severe pain, chest pain, coughing, difficulty breathing,
He will inevitably die within two or three days. His skin will bleed when he dies, and his body will be purple and black. There is no cure.
According to the Academy's publications, "infectious diseases" will spread in different ways.
The spread rate and intensity of this infectious disease far exceed that of all previous plagues. It is even more incurable than malaria before the emergence of effective drugs.
As station employees, they can usually fight against the gangsters who come to look for trouble. They can even hunt down bandits who steal the railway tracks and road bullies who set up private checkpoints.
But they are just ordinary people with only this ability. How can they fight against invisible and intangible infectious diseases?
They also have families. If they throw themselves in to save a peasant woman, who will save their own family?
Seeing the subordinates looking at each other and hesitating,
Wang Liuyi gritted his teeth and turned to dissuade the people outside the fence: "Don't embarrass her, please let her go. I will edit another letter and send it to Daizhou. I believe someone will be responsible."
Before he finished speaking, a loud whistle sounded in the distance.
At the end of the horizon, I saw a spiritual motorcycle speeding towards me.
"The car is coming!"
"Quick, everyone, work together to flatten the fence, everyone get in the car!"
"If the train doesn't stop, we'll stand on the tracks to see if he dares to stop!"
No one paid attention to what Wang Liu was talking about anymore. The people swarmed forward, pushing the wooden fence like crazy and hitting the barrier with their bodies.
The wooden railings made a squeaking sound, and the wooden piles were pushed out of the soil bit by bit under the force of brute force.
Boom!
With a loud noise, the wooden fence collapsed, and the crowd carrying large and small bags clamored up the steps and rushed into the station.
The few dozen soldiers who stayed behind at the station were unable to stop the overwhelming crowd.
"Let them pass."
Wang Liu looked gloomy. He stepped over the collapsed wooden fence, lifted the peasant woman who was covered in egg liquid and egg shells from the ground, and handed her a handkerchief.
Woohoo!
The whistle sounded again from afar. The driver of the Lingqi locomotive seemed to have seen the people crowded on the railway track and kept blowing the whistle.
However, the people who believed that this was their only chance to escape Shuozhou stood on the railway track hand in hand, cheering and encouraging each other.
"The car will stop, it will."
"This is the Kingdom of Yu, and we follow the laws of Yu! Even if there are princes and nobles sitting in the car, they would not dare to actually order the car to run over."
"Don't panic, everyone! We must stand firm! We will be saved when the bus leaves Shuozhou!"
This chapter has been completed!