Why is it said that the great plague will be followed by the great plague?

One of the main reasons is water pollution, under normal circumstances, after the catastrophe, the phenomenon of water pollution is very serious, especially in ancient times when transportation and productivity are extremely backward, the corpses everywhere are not cleaned up in time, and the breeding germs will pollute the water source.

In addition, after the catastrophe, there was a shortage of food, and rodents such as rats were prone to flooding, carrying a large number of germs and fleas, and humans preyed on rats with germs, or were bitten by fleas on rats, resulting in plague infection.

The plague is terrifying, highly contagious, and the infected die within a very short period of time. The Black Death, which wiped out two-thirds of Europe's population in history, was the plague. The fall of the Ming Dynasty is not unrelated to the plague, the great plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty, more than 100,000 people died in Beijing alone, which makes people shudder.

It is precisely because of this truth that Xu Jin has not drunk a sip of the polluted flood since last night. Of course, if it is fully boiled water and fully cooked vole meat, Xu Jin is still quite relieved.

At this time, Xu Jin and Li Shizhen were eating vole meat in large pieces of clay pots, and you drank the broth one by one. Although there is no salt and the soup is very light, the two still eat and drink with relish, compared to raw snake meat, this vole soup is simply delicious in the world.

Xue Bingxin was holding a broken wooden basin with about a bowl of broth and a few pieces of meat. Smelling the fragrance of the broth, and then looking at Xu Jin and Li Shizhen who were eating in large pieces, Xue Bingxin only felt that her stomach was even hungrier, and she didn't care about the image of her daughter's family, so she drank it "boldly" with a broken wooden basin, and drank the broth in one go.

The warm broth entered the stomach, Xue Bingxin only felt that her whole body was comfortable, and her strength seemed to have recovered a lot, and she learned from Xu Jin and Li Shizhen, she grabbed a piece of vole meat with her hand and put it in her mouth, only to feel that the more she chewed, the more fragrant it became, and she quickly ate the few pieces of vole meat in the basin.

A few pieces of vole meat were naturally not enough to fill her stomach, but the girl's face was tender, so she was embarrassed to ask for it again, and asked, "What kind of meat is this?" ”

"Rat meat!" Li Shizhen replied sincerely, just with a vole tail in his mouth.

Xue Bingxin's face suddenly changed greatly, like a little white rabbit who had been stepped on by his tail, covering his mouth and running to the side to retch, it seemed that he even vomited tears.

Xu Jin and Li Shizhen glanced at each other, and the latter looked innocent, and ate the vole's tail with a snap, as if he was eating noodles.

It is estimated that the stomach is empty, Xue Bingxin retched for a while, but she couldn't spit out anything, covered her lower abdomen and walked back with a pale face, and without saying anything, she picked up the half jar of wine and poured it violently.

"Miss Xue......!" Xu Jin originally wanted to say that there was only this half of the jar of wine, so that Xue Bingxin could save a little, but when he saw the latter hiding tears and looking at him with murderous eyes, he immediately closed his mouth very interestingly.

Xue Bingxin poured half of the jar of wine, only then did she feel better in her stomach, and put down the jar of wine, her originally pale pretty face became red and drunk, but it was beautiful.

"See what?" Xue Bingxin saw Xu Jin and Li Shizhen looking at each other with strange eyes, and suddenly said with a sinking face.

"Ahem...... Little plum, it's dark in more than an hour, let's continue to salvage some miscellaneous wood. Xu Jin commanded, decisively picked up the embroidered spring knife and dagger and walked towards the bush where Xue Bingxin had changed his clothes before.

After Xu Jin turned to the shrub, he first cautiously looked into the distance, and after finding that the white-fronted insect was lying on the grass dozens of meters away and sticking out his tongue, he took out the embroidered spring knife and prepared to cut down the tree. As a result, when I looked down, I saw Xue Bingxin's wet Hu clothes falling to the ground, and the dirty clothes inside were torn by sharp tiger teeth.

Xu Jin couldn't help but sweat secretly, I have to say that it is really fateful for this ice girl to be able to pick up a life.

"Huh, what is this?" Xu Jinzheng used an embroidered spring knife to pick aside the Hu suit, but an object fell from the clothes, which turned out to be a piece of mutton fat white jade pendant with high quality.

This thing is worth a lot of money, Xu Jin picked up the white jade pendant and looked at it, only to see that the front was carved with a delicate Fengxiang pattern, but the back was engraved with three traditional characters: Zhu Tingyu.

"Zhu Tingyu?" Xu Jin frowned thoughtfully, this piece of mutton fat jade pendant seems to be a royal thing, is it Xue Bingxin's own? Or did you get it from somewhere else?

Xu Jin pondered for a moment, put away the jade pendant casually, and then waved his knife to chop a few wrist-thick shrubs, cut off the branches and carry them back to the fire. The deadly tiger is afraid of fire, so it is the safest and of course the hottest by the fire, but it can only be endured.

Xue Bingxin couldn't help but be a little curious when she saw Xu Jin cut a few tree trunks back, but she didn't ask with a cold face. Miss Xue was first chased by a tiger when she was changing clothes, and then she ate disgusting rat meat, so she was in an extremely bad mood at the moment.

Xu Jin naturally didn't want to take the initiative to provoke this aunt, so he cut a few tree trunks into sticks about half a meter long without a sound, and then sharpened them with daggers to make short spears.

Now that tiger is the biggest threat on the island, Xu Jin feels that he must kill it as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no safety at all. In addition, this flood does not know when it will recede, and the food on the island is only seven or eight wild deer and tigers, Xu Jin does not want to watch the wild deer being eaten by the tigers, and finally eat everyone who is hungry and has no strength.

It was obviously unwise to confront the king of beasts head-on, so Xu Jin decided to dig a trap and give full play to the advantage of human IQ to "trap" the tiger.

However, just when Xu Jin mobilized his intelligence, the tiger had already used its savage "force" to bite a wild deer to death, and then dragged it out of the bushes like a demonstration, tearing it in broad daylight, blood and internal organs flowed all over the ground, extremely arrogant!

Xue Bingxin's fine willow eyebrows straightened, and she reached out to take Xu Jin's embroidered spring knife, looking like she wanted to step forward to fight the tiger. Xu Jin hurriedly said: "Miss Xue, the tiger is the king of all beasts, and he can outwit it, so why bother with it!" ”

Xue Bingxin said with a slight sneer: "How does Lord Xu want to outwit?" ”

Xu Jin said indifferently: "Come slowly, you'll know when the time comes?" ”

Xue Bingxin hesitated for a moment, and finally put down the knife, although she had a good martial arts, but she was not completely sure to kill a tiger, if she had a bow and arrow in hand, it would be another matter.

"Is this jade pendant yours?" Xu Jin suddenly took out a jade pendant from his arms and asked.

Xue Bingxin's face changed rapidly, and she hurriedly reached out and snatched the jade pendant back. Xu Jin glanced at Xue Bingxin thoughtfully and said, "Who is Zhu Tingyu?" ”

Xue Bingxin's pretty face was slightly cold and said, "What's the matter with you!" There was a flash of panic in her eyes, and she stood up and ran quickly to the bushes, presumably to clean up her suit of clothes that had been bitten by the tiger.

Xu Jin frowned, there are many people surnamed Zhu in the Ming Dynasty, but judging from the color and specifications of the jade pendant, it must be a royal thing, that is to say, this "Zhu Tingyu" has something to do with the old Zhu family, and it is also a woman.

"Forget it, why do I care about so much idle work in the old Zhu family?" Xu Jin shook his head and continued the work at hand.

The sun gradually set westward, setting towards the distant horizon like a red goose egg. At this time, Xu Jin had already sharpened a bundle of short spears, as well as several spears that were nearly two meters long.

Li Shizhen and Xue Bingxin had stopped salvaging the debris that had drifted downstream, and sat by the fire staring at the tiger in the distance.

About thirty meters away, the tiger was also staring at Xu Jin and the others, the pair of yellow and indifferent tiger eyes made people frightened, and there was still half a bloody wild deer left next to it.

At this time, Xue Bingxin suddenly stood up, holding an embroidered spring knife in her right hand and a burning wood in her left hand, and then walked towards the tiger.

Xu Jin and Li Shizhen glanced at each other, and each took two pieces of wood that were on fire and followed very tacitly. Seeing this, the tiger stood up vigilantly.

Xue Bingxin suddenly screamed, rushed forward like a predatory female leopard, and smashed the firewood in her hand.

Oh......

The king of the beasts roared and retreated, Xu Jin and Li Shizhen took the opportunity to approach with torches, and Xue Bingxin rushed forward and hurriedly retreated after rushing forward.

Only then did the tiger understand the intentions of Xu Jin and the others, and he couldn't help but be furious, and he was about to pounce on him, but Xue Bingxin kicked with his left foot, kicking the wood that had been thrown on the ground before and flying towards the tiger. Although there was no open flame in this piece of wood, the charcoal was still red, and under one foot, it suddenly shattered into sparks all over the sky, and the tiger was scalded a few times, and ran away with a whimper.

So the three of them succeeded in snatching half of the wild deer from the mouth of the king of the mountain, and retreated to the fire, and to-day's dinner was over.