Although the victims were a little frightened after hearing Shi Lei's words, these dead people were their relatives after all, and none of them could bear to be burned. There was hesitation and struggle on everyone's faces.
"Can't we bury it directly? Let's bury it far away and it won't affect the people in the city..." There is no condition to hold funerals now. When the famine is over, they can go and bury it again.
"Bury them farther away? If there is really an epidemic on these dead people, you think you can just bury them far away. By then, more people will be infected. By then, if the famine is not over, the county magistrate will still have to treat you!"
Seeing how stubborn they were, Shi Lei's face almost became angry.
"Whoever disobeys me will not receive the daily porridge. If you get sick in the future, don't seek treatment from the county magistrate. Just fend for yourself!"
These words were so serious that the victims immediately panicked. Without porridge to drink, they could only wait to die. Moreover, they were also afraid that there was really a disease on the corpses. The little luck they had before was completely worthless in the face of life and death.
"We are obedient, we are obedient..."
The victims took one last look at their dead relatives, with tears in their eyes. The death of a loved one was already an unspeakable pain, but now they were burned to ashes without even a coffin.
"Well, you are lucky to be alive. I believe your relatives can understand your difficulties. Cheer up quickly. After checking your body, the county magistrate will let everyone work. Don't think that you can have food now.
Everything is going well, the food will eventually run out, everyone has to work and make money if they want to survive."
As soon as Shi Lei's words came out, it was like a stone suddenly thrown into the calm lake, and the crowd exploded.
"Working to make money, sir, what are we going to do?"
"Yes, Mr. Guan, except for the strength to cultivate the land, I don't know anything else. Moreover, we all fled from other places and have no land to cultivate..."
"Okay, the county magistrate will allocate these in the future. There is so much wasteland outside the city that you can't cultivate? And not only farming, you also have to build your own houses. There will be a lot of work to be done by then. Hurry up.
Take good care of yourself."
"Okay, we will take good care of you."
Shi Lei's words gave hope to the victims. Houses and land are their foundation. With these, they are no longer homeless, but have homes again.
Some people cried with excitement. They were about to have a home. After being displaced for a long time, the victims finally regained hope. They must get better soon and build their own homes.
Shi Lei didn't know that his words had such a big effect. He and his men piled the corpses together. Hundreds of corpses were piled together like a hill. The stench was so overwhelming that several people almost vomited.
"Hurry up and cover your mouth and nose with a cloth!"
Shi Lei ordered sternly, the corpses had been dead for a month at the longest, and flies were flying around them, making them really messy.
Several people dug a big pit and put all the corpses in it to burn. The victims looked at the flames soaring into the sky and cried with tears on their faces.
The dead have passed away, and those who survived will live a good and better life in their stead.
The fire burned for three days. Not only the victims, but also the people in the city were consciously silent these days. The atmosphere was solemn for a while. Fortunately, good news came from Li Biao.
"Sir, I found a total of two doctors and a warehouse of herbs in the city."
These herbs were stocked by the drug store before, but when there was a drought later, everyone in the drug store ran away. Herbs are not food, and you can't go hungry after eating them, so no one took them just enough to survive.
"Okay!" Shen Yanqing was overjoyed. It would be nice to have a doctor, and his plan can be implemented quickly.
"You take the doctors to the outside of the city to conduct physical examinations on the victims. Report the missing medicines in a timely manner, and I will have people go purchase them."
"yes!"
The important task of epidemic prevention was entrusted to him. This is because the adults trusted him and valued him. He must do it well. Li Biao looked high-spirited and walked with his head held high and his chest full of energy.
The two doctors were already old, and their beards and hair were all gray. That was why the other doctors in the shop had fled, and they could only stay in the shop.
When Li Biao found the two men in the drug store, they had not had a drop of water for two or three days. They were so weak that they were waiting to die and had no hope of being rescued.
However, just when their consciousness was about to dissipate, Li Biao appeared. Seeing the appearance of the two of them, Li Biao quickly asked his men to prepare food for them. After they had eaten and drank enough, he told the reason why they were looking for them.
"As long as we provide medical treatment to the victims, we can have enough to eat every day?"
The eyes of the two old doctors suddenly lit up. They knew the discomfort of hunger after being hungry for several days. Now that they had enough to eat, they were willing to do anything, let alone treat the victims.
"How can I lie to you? This is the order of the county magistrate himself."
Li Biao now has great respect for Shen Yanqing, and his face is filled with pride when he talks about him.
The two old doctors hadn't been out for a long time. They didn't even know who the county magistrate was. They thought they were the previous mob leaders. They were very disapproving, but they didn't say anything and just followed Li Biao out of the city gate.
The victims have already lined up waiting at the city gate. They don't know what they want to check yet. Everyone's face is frightened.
Although their bodies are only weak after being hungry for a long time, they are also afraid of having symptoms that are not shown, and are afraid of getting sick and being driven away. These people have finally survived the period of hunger and never want to live a homeless life again.
"My lord, what if we are really sick? Will the county magistrate drive us away?"
The officer guarding the gate sneered, "Don't worry. If the magistrate wanted to drive you away, you would have been driven away a long time ago. Is there any need to raise food and water for you? This time, the doctor's inspection is just for a look. If you were sick, we were treated together, and you didn’t have to pay for the medicine. You just couldn’t be more grateful, and you still questioned the adults’ hard work!”
"It's because we, the villains, have misunderstood Mr. Shen and deserve to be beaten..."
As he said this, several victims of the disaster slapped themselves in the mouth. They just didn't dare to think that there were such good officials who were dedicated to the people, and they met them. It was really God's foresight that he had not forgotten them.
"Get in line, the doctor will be here soon. Once the examination is over, you can enter the city with no problem..."
"well!"
Being able to enter the city, there are places to eat and live in, and there is no need to eat and sleep outside. The victims suddenly felt that their physical examinations were better, and everyone became more active, and the pressure of official duties dropped sharply.
