He Chunmei was a little reluctant to part with it at first, but when she heard about smallpox, she was so frightened that she threw the dry food in her hand away. She also quickly asked the groom to stop and find someone to tell the people in front of her about the matter. She suspected that the dry food had been touched.
Don't even eat it.
Lu Ziyuan was a doctor, and the Bai family had no doubts about her medical skills. The Bai family would definitely believe what she said. With an order, all the dirty dry food would be thrown away, and the carriage would continue on its way.
However, no one expected that when they arrived at the small village where they would temporarily stop for the night, another scene would be waiting for them.
The entrance to the village was tightly surrounded by a high wooden fence. There were officers and soldiers standing there with knives outside, guarding the village at all times. Inside the fence, the trapped people kept trying to climb over the fence and escape.
As soon as the officers and soldiers holding knives saw someone afraid of the fence, they would immediately use the knives to scare those people.
Seeing the carriage from another village parked at the entrance of the village, an officer and soldier immediately came forward to inquire. The person who came down from the capital directly took out the princess's token to identify himself.
The carriage had stopped. Lu Ziyuan and others got out of the carriage to get some air. Because they were parked farther back, they didn't know what happened in front of them that made the carriage stop. Then they went forward to join the Bai family.
"Mr. Bai, what's going on with these people? Why are they locked up in the village and not allowed to leave?" Lu Ziyuan was puzzled. Looking at the eyes of those people, her heart was deeply touched.
The people wandering around the edge of the fence all looked frightened. Under the dusk, at a glance, the road at the entrance of the village was crowded with people, some sitting, some standing, and even some lying with their heads up. They didn’t move very well.
One, however, has the same look in his eyes, indifferent, indifferent with no hope, his eyes are dull, like a puppet on strings.
"The plague was also discovered in this village today. Dozens of people have died. It is more serious than the place we knew before. In order to prevent these people from escaping from the village and infecting others, the county magistrate had to order people to stop them.
They are not allowed to leave." Mr. Bai replied.
"This plague is very frightening. Those who died from the plague died in horror, and their whole bodies turned black. Everyone, since you are going to the capital, you should hurry up and leave this place." The officer and soldier continued.
"I don't think those people inside are sick? If you lock up the whole village, some people are sick, some people are not sick, and all are locked up, wouldn't that mean that everyone will get sick?
?" Lu Ziyuan asked.
"There is nothing we can do about it. We don't know who is infected or not. If someone who is infected accidentally escapes, wouldn't it harm more people?" The officers and soldiers were extremely helpless, "People in this village are also infected.
Quite a few, there are five or six hundred people, but there is nothing I can do to make anyone unlucky. Even if there is a severe drought, there is also a plague, hey."
"By the way, you just said that people who are infected with the plague will have a terrifying death appearance and their whole body will turn black?" Lu Ziyuan paused, "Do the people who are suffering from the disease have cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, expectoration, foamy or bright red bloody sputum?
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"Yes! Yes! That's about it!" The officer and soldier nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.
"It seems to be the plague, commonly known as the Black Death." Lu Ziyuan remembered that the plague had been a destructive contagion in history. In the history of the world, there have been three pandemics of plague, with tens of millions of deaths.
European countries that are slightly more technologically advanced are at a loss for the time being.
"Plague? Black Death?" The people nearby were very unfamiliar with this term.
Lu Ziyuan nodded, "It's not an option for you to lock them up like this. Even if all these people die here, what then? The plague is very contagious. After people die, the germs can still hide in the bodies of animals and in the soil.
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"The county magistrate said that when we have no choice but to set fire to this village." The officers and soldiers shook their heads and sighed. They couldn't understand what Lu Ziyuan was talking about about germs, but they understood what she meant.
Even if the person dies, the disease will not disappear.