No one is allowed to enter the Leprosy Mountain, especially the current prince. If anyone finds out, he will probably be impeached in court.
Leprosy Mountain was an unlucky existence for the Northern Tang Dynasty. When leprosy broke out five years ago, an official in the court suggested killing lepers and then burning their bodies.
Because leprosy has always existed, but it is rare to have such an intensive outbreak in Beijing.
This official, named He Ruxiu, was a regular servant of Zuo Sanqi in Menxia Province and is now a disciple of King An. This He Ruxiu was born in the imperial examination and was promoted by Di Weiming. He came to Menxia Province six years ago when leprosy broke out.
At that time, because he was rampant with evil diseases and undermined the power of the Northern Tang Dynasty, he secretly told the emperor to kill all the lepers and then burn them to avoid future troubles.
Because it was a secret report, no one knew about it. Yu Wenhao would know because he happened to be waiting at the bedside of the Supreme Emperor at that time and heard Emperor Ming Yuan go to discuss with the Supreme Emperor.
The Supreme Emperor was ill at the time and had great empathy for the patients, so he disagreed with He Ruxiu's proposal. In the end, he chose a compromise method and imprisoned these patients in the mountains. In the place where there were thousands of people at that time, there were only
Ten acres of mountainous land, one side faces cliffs and one side is dense forest, which is filled with miasma and cannot be entered. The other two sides are surrounded and guarded by soldiers.
The supplies inside are all provided by the imperial court, but these are all patients who have been abandoned by the world. The imperial court is only responsible for life, care, death and burial. As for the quality of life, there is no quality at all.
They are just locked up here like dogs, and the food is the worst. The yamen responsible for supplying them never gives them a piece of meat all year round.
This is the real situation on Leprous Mountain today. However, the money allocated by the imperial court is enough to provide one meal of meat every day. As for whose pocket the money allocated by the imperial court falls into, it is not known.
Yu Wenhao had never asked about Leprosy Mountain before. In fact, no official in Beijing would think about paying attention to these patients who were abandoned on the mountain, and no one was willing to mention it.
If Grandma Xi had not contracted leprosy, which attracted Yuan Qingling's attention, Leprous Mountain would never have appeared in anyone's eyes.
There is no one guarding the bottom of the mountain because no one can come up here.
The soldiers on the mountain were not there to prevent outsiders from coming, but to prevent the patients from running down.
Therefore, it is not difficult for Yu Wenhao and Yuan Qingling to go up the mountain. However, if they want to go in, they must pass through the dense forest. However, there is no need to really go deep into the dense forest, they just need to go through the edge.
Around the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone in the capital and various state capitals are celebrating reunions with great fanfare. However, from the moment I set foot on the mountain, I felt filled with a dead silence and strange atmosphere. It was clear that the sun was high in the sky, and there was always a strange feeling
It gives people a cold feeling, as if this place is a hell where the sun cannot shine.
The situation here is completely different from yesterday at Wanfo Mountain.
After walking around the edge of the dense forest, you will see a flat land with densely populated small buildings, which are wooden houses, built very crudely and without any rules.
There is a mountain breeze blowing here, but there is a smell blowing from the other side of the house. Take a deep breath, and it seems to be the smell of rotting corpses.
Xu Yi soon discovered that the rotting corpses did not come from that way. He, who had always been shouting, now became sad and silent, "There are many corpses over there."
Yu Wenhao and Yuan Qingling looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a mass grave-like hill outside the fence, with bones piled up on top, corpses lying on the ground, and smelly flies buzzing around the newly rotted corpses. , the stench came from this hillock. At a glance, there were at least four to five hundred corpses including bones.
Because it is close to a dense forest, no one burns the corpses, and there is no wind or sunlight in the forest. When the corpses rot, they smell very bad, and you can even see rotting corpse fluids on the ground.
Yuan Qingling almost vomited. She held on to the tree trunk next to her and retched, and tears came out. In this leprous mountain, human life is very cheap.
No one even buried him when he died, he was just dumped here casually.