However, the next scene was far from what she expected, the rats suddenly became silent, and after confronting the white cat for a while, they all retreated backwards, and after only a few moments, they disappeared behind the tombstones.
The white cat glanced back at the two stunned women, and there was a hint of unruly taste in the pale blue eyes.
Then, with a steady catwalk, it turned its head and walked towards the depths of the cemetery.
"I want to know about silkworms," it wasn't until Fan Qing fell asleep that she accompanied Mrs.
Fan out of the house, and Jiang Xixi asked the sentence that had been held in her heart for a long time, "What happened more than ten years ago, madam, please tell me everything in 1510." ” Mrs.
Fan took her hand and sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard, she stared at the moonless night sky, and sighed deeply, "Actually, this matter is not unrelated to your brother, if it weren't for him, it is estimated that there is no place in Tamsui Town in this world now." ” Sixteen years ago, there was a big epidemic in Tamsui Town, this epidemic started with the death of a large number of silkworms, at first there were a few, and then gradually spread, the silkworms in each household are decreasing, and even more, all the silkworms in the silkworm room were gone overnight, only the tray full of blood stains remained, and the cause of the death of the silkworms was mice, they took advantage of the night to crawl into the silkworm room, and devoured all the silkworm seedlings.
I remember very well that during that time, the rats in the town gathered more and more, and sometimes walking on the road, one could accidentally step on the tail of the rat, and these beasts were not afraid of people, and often swaggered through the market, which was very scary.
The townspeople were deeply disturbed by the rat infestation, and they did not dare to sleep at night, holding sticks in the silkworm room, you know, the growth and quantity of silkworm seedlings are related to the income of the next year, if the silkworm seedlings are bitten to death by these animals, then next year everyone will have no rice to cook.
After a few days, a lot of rats were killed, and everyone didn't understand it at that time, so they threw the corpses of those rats next to the Nanzhou River and covered them with soil casually.
However, although the silkworm seedlings were kept, the people began to get sick.
At first, some of the townspeople suddenly developed a high fever, some babbled gibberish, behaved uncontrollably, and some woke up from their sleep with unknown speech; Immediately after that, their necks, armpits, legs, and other areas will swell, and fist-sized blood bags will grow.
After that, most people experience severe chest pain, coughing, and even vomiting blood.
Of course, most of them ended up in death.
In the later stages, the epidemic became more and more intense, and even more terrible things happened, sometimes people were talking on the street or at home, and people suddenly began to shake, became delirious, and suddenly fell to the ground and died.
Without warning, people collapsed in droves, and the streets, downtown areas, and houses were littered with dead bodies that had been left unburied, with swollen bellies, red eyes, and pus constantly flowing from their gaping mouths.
At that time, Tamsui Town was like a ghost town, and outsiders did not dare to come in, for fear of being infected with the epidemic, and the government also sent people to guard the entire town with heavy troops to prevent the residents of the town from escaping outside.
The town was full of mourning wails, miserable, miserable, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was purgatory on earth.
Later, there was a rumor that the man in white hooked the soul, some people said that they had seen a tall and thin man wandering at night, in front of him and behind him, followed by a group of rats, everyone said, that is the silkworm, of course he is not a human, he is a monster that brings diseases and sucks people's spirits.
However, my lord did not believe in this evil, he said that the townspeople were all sick and died, and since it was a disease, then there must be medicine to cure it, and they could not sit and wait for death.
So, in the dead of night, he sneaked out of the town under the noses of the soldiers, walked for a month, and came to Bianliang City.
He heard that Cheng Dexuan, the imperial physician at that time, had excellent medical skills and could cure diseases and dry bones and raw flesh, so he inquired around and found Cheng's mansion, but what disappointed him was that Cheng Dexuan was not in the mansion at that time, because the queen's mother was about to give birth, so he had been waiting in the palace and had not returned to the house for several months.
My lord was paralyzed on the ground at that time, crying and crying, is it true that God wants to kill Tamsui Town, and leave no way to live?
The Cheng family's family knew that the old man had sneaked out of the town, and he was afraid of causing trouble, so he drove him out of the Cheng Mansion, and the old man was like a lost soul, wandering aimlessly in the streets and alleys of Bianliang, walking and walking, he saw a well in front of him, and the tendon in his head couldn't turn for a while, he suddenly ran towards the well, and his feet stepped on the edge of the well, and he was about to jump into it.
But at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded behind him, gently crisp, obviously a child who had not yet grown up, he said, "Do you want to go back to save people, or let me save you first, this well is not deep, but it has already dried up, you can't die if you jump in, but if you have to lie in bed for a year and a half, and then go back to the town, I'm afraid you will really have no skills to go back." ” The old man hurriedly turned around and saw a young man in his early ten years old standing behind him, he suddenly remembered that this young man had seen him in Cheng Mansion, and when he was talking to Cheng Dexuan's eldest son Cheng Qiuchi, the young man was standing aside and listening carefully to the conversation between the two.
"Do you really have a cure for this?"
The old man quickly came down from the edge of the well and walked to the young man's side, although he didn't believe it, after all, he was only an underage child in front of him, but now in this situation, he can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
The young man smiled faintly, "I don't have medicine, once this disease is infected, there is only a dead end left, but if you follow my method, you can control the spread of the epidemic, do you want to give it a try?"
” "Try, of course I want to try."
"Well, when you get back to town, you will burn all the corpses, not a single human or a rat, and they will be burned clean, not even ashes.
Then tell the townspeople that from now until the next month, they must keep their doors closed, prepare enough food, and seal all the rat holes in the doors and windows of their homes to prevent rats from entering.
After that, everyone has to do one thing every day at home. ” "Fairchild, what are you talking about?"
At that time, the old man had already regarded this young man as an immortal sent down from heaven.
"Take a bath, mash the honey locust, put it in a basin, and soak it for an hour before coming out.
In addition, all clothing, shoes and socks should also be soaked in honey locust water to dry.
Finally, all the water to drink must be boiled before it can be used, and the food can only be eaten when it is fully cooked, pay attention to these points, and after a month, the weather will be warmer, and the epidemic will naturally be eliminated. ”