Chapter 42: The End of the World
Li Xi was really angry, and at the same time very scared. Don't underestimate the ancients, this kind of biochemical attack can be used.
But it's normal to think about it, the ancients have long understood the essence of this biochemical warfare. In that year, the Mongols threw the corpses infected with the plague into the garrison city, and it is said that the black plague in the European Middle Ages originated here. And the use of lepers as biological weapons is not unique. More than 100 years later, during the Opium War, the Hunan army entered Guangdong, because of the corruption of military discipline, plundered the place, and hated the locals to send the leprosy woman to the "comfort army". 【1】
"If I don't say it, I have a ruthless method, clean up you people, I won't have a little pity......"
Li Xian's light words with murderous intent seemed to blow out of the ground, which made Pan Yinling really shudder.
"Yes...... It's ...... Lau."
Pan Yinling trembled, and he was about to confess to the mastermind behind the scenes.
"Sister!"
Pan Jinling in the back didn't know where he got the strength, and suddenly shouted.
"You have one mouth, but you can hang the lives of dozens of sisters' families!"
Pan Yinling not only closed his mouth, but his body did not tremble.
"No one points at your mercy! Our sisters are all people who have been given up by God, and we don't know what pity is for a long time! It's not for my family, and I won't come out for this trip! ”
Pan Jinling hissed and shouted mournfully.
"Just for the family? Isn't it for yourself? If you remember correctly, just kissing the mouth and hugging it, that's not too much of a leprosy. ”
Li Shi's words made Pan Jinling speechless for a moment.
Stretching out his hand to greet the slightly taller Yao girl, Li Xi was sure that she was the person in charge of the group of women. Pan Jinling looked before and after, Pan Yinling was still at Li Xi's feet, their boat couldn't run fast, Li Xi was going to notify the government, and he couldn't escape.
Gritting his teeth, Pan Jinling walked over and followed Li Shi's gesture to take off his face-covering hat.
is in his early twenties, with a delicate appearance, dignified eyes and eyebrows, if it weren't for the pockmark-like scars on his cheeks, he could really feel a little bit of everyone's beautiful taste.
"You're already past leprosy, no wonder it doesn't matter."
Li Xi was a little surprised, the leprosy on this plate of Jin Ling had been cured, but it only left some scars, why was it still mixed with other lepers?
"Don't speculate! I...... I'm still ...... Innocent daughter's home! ”
Pan Jinling whispered angrily.
"Okay, then, innocent Han girl, why are you together with this row of Yao girls at my feet?"
As Li Shi spoke, he began to exert force on his feet again, and the silver bell screamed again.
Pan Jinling also whispered, as if he didn't believe what he heard, this Li Shi actually saw that he was not a Yao girl, and Pan Yinling was not a mountain Yao, but Pai Yao.
"Don't say the accent, your ear piercings are still inflamed...... Oh, red, it's newly expanded, right? The pierced ears of the girls of the Han family are not as big as those of the Yao girls, and they have to endure hardships to wear their big earrings. As for the origin of this girl at my feet, hehe, Pai Yao will not be swaying outside. Afraid of revealing Pai Yao's identity, outsiders will be more suspicious, so it is better to pretend to be familiar Yao. The idea is good, but why do you have to wear Pai Yao's headscarf with her surname? ”
Li Shi calmly explained.
Li ...... Well, you know how ......."
It took a long time for Pan Jinling to clean up his mind, and his eyes looked at the young man in front of him who should be younger than himself.
"Tell me, what kind of cruel methods are there, maybe we will be really afraid."
I don't know what psychology it is, Pan Jinling asked tentatively.
"That kid actually said it just now......
Li Xi seemed to be talking about what to eat for lunch.
"Break the bones and scatter the ashes! This is the mine, and the iron in the furnace can be melted, let alone people! It turned into fly ash and floated into the sky, and then fell to the ground with the rain. Eaten by pigs, dogs, cows and sheep, sucked by plants and crops, with heaven and earth, and with the moon......"
"Shut up!"
Pan Jinling's chest rose and fell violently, and his pupils were full of moisture, which was an obvious threat. Regardless of the Yao and Han people, they all talk about going into the soil for peace, and if they say it in front of anyone, they will abuse him so badly behind him, and no one can be stable.
"If you all are stuffed into the furnace and burned, the official master will not say a single, but will be grateful to me!"
Li Shi lowered his tone and forced his eyes to look at Pan Jinling. His words were not false words and intimidation, until the Republic of China, there were still debates in Guangdong, whether to directly "dispose" the leprosy patients collectively with guns. In this Ming and Qing dynasties, killing a group of leprosy patients will not be treated as an ordinary homicide, or even ...... There will be no case.
"Family is life, you are also life, if you lose your life, your family may not be able to save your life! Silly girl, I'll only give you ten seconds...... Rest time to consider! ”
Li Xian was not interested in continuing to play hide and seek with her, so he accentuated his tone and said in a deep voice.
"Tell me, what the hell are you from!? Who told you to come here to leprosy!? ”
Pan Jinling swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and the layer of defense in his eyes was suddenly penetrated by the cold gaze projected by Li Shi.
"We ...... It's a group of heartbreakers......"
Large tears slipped out of her eyes, and she whispered.
In the west of Yingde, the Lianjiang River from west to east, twisted a meandering river like a tangled Jiao, just at the narrowest neck of the Jiao, a row of wooden fences crossed the river, the wooden door in the middle was just opened, and the river boats of different sizes were like rats out of the hole. Swarming towards the gates. The big sand boats, the small ones, the rowmen in front of the boat and behind the boat are shaking vigorously, and the boatmen on both sides of the boat also use poles to fight against the boats approaching left and right to prevent the other party from colliding with them, and the boatmen and rowmen of each ship also shout and curse back and forth in various dialects. A few leaves of sampan were leaving the big boats and rowing towards the shore, and on the sampan, whether it was a soldier wearing a "patrol" gown, or a bookkeeper with a book, all of them looked like they were routinely full of food and rubbing their bellies.
Just in the north of this wooden gate, a small town is crowded with people, bustling, this is the city of Xunzhu, Muzha is a pass of the Yingde branch of the Taiping Banknote Pass in the Hun Huan. Outside the town, at the junction of the wooden fence, one person watched the wooden boat leaving the customs with his hands in his hands, and the other person was bowing slightly, standing beside him carelessly.
"Master Yang, I went to take a look this morning, and they are hooking up with those mud legs in the mine."
Although the man on the side deliberately bent his body, the violence between his eyes and eyebrows could not be concealed, and his thin figure was also full of ferocity.
"I'm just a clerk [2] now, not a master."
Yang Chun was still wearing the black silk copper coin dark pattern robe, and he said lightly, glancing at the person from the corner of his eye over and over again.
"Look at the master's words, he just treats me Lao Er as an outsider, if it is not for the care of the master, can I still live to this day? Even if Mrs. Yang is white, let alone Yingde, the brother of the entire Nanlian Shaodao has to be your talker. ”
Na Lao nodded his head repeatedly, and Yang Chun also hummed with satisfaction.
"Thanks to your gratitude, if this thing is done well, I am short of men and fast hands on my side......"
Hearing this, Lao Er's waist seemed to be about to break.
"Don't worry, Master, this time I must have watched those crazy girls steadily!"
Yang Chun's idle tone suddenly turned cold.
"If something goes wrong, don't say that you can't get the other three hundred taels of silver, you and your brother, don't want to mix in northern Guangdong, and work at both ends ......."
Lao Er's head was pecked at the rice, and he responded vigorously, and then his eyebrows wrinkled, and he complained bitterly: "Master, this is the place where you settled...... There are no dilapidated temples around Fengtian Village. There are also flood soldiers guarding the mine, and the brothers are sleeping in the open, and it is not important to suffer some hardships, but they are afraid of hiding in the open.
It's a big deal for the master. ”
Yang Chun also frowned, pondered for a moment, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"On the west bank of the Tianxin River to the west and north, there is a river bay, which was originally the former Ming Dynasty. After it was abandoned, it became a reed, and it was only ...... away from Fengtian Village Thirty or forty miles. Seven or eight years ago, I followed the flood soldiers to clear the remnants of the red-headed thieves, but now there should be no one, and the flood soldiers have long ignored the river patrol, you can hide there. ”
Lao Er's eyebrows also flew quietly.
Saying goodbye to Yang Chun, Lao Er hurriedly ran to the riverbank, got on his sampan, and a strong man with a goatee came up and asked, "How is it?" ”
Lao Er laughed: "Our brothers, we finally have a place to start again!" ”
In Fengtian Village, on the bank of the river north of the mine, Pan Jinling seemed to be relieved, and looked at Li Shi with a dead heart.
"That's the way it is, our sisters are this life, what to do with it, I don't have anything to say, I took this thing at the beginning, and I also had the mind of gambling on my life, since life is thinner than paper, there is nothing to complain about."
Pretending to be Shan Yao, he did not commit any royal law, deliberately spread leprosy, and there was no provision to punish him in the Qing Dynasty. Successive anti-epidemic measures have only limited to isolation, and the practice of "humane destruction" of the source of incurable diseases has never been put into writing. But they are lepers who make people smell and change, and as long as Li Shi reports these leper women, their boatload of women will become prisoners. The government was kind, found a place to live and fenced it off, sent some food, and planned to bury the body as soon as possible. The belly is darker, driven to a place in the wilderness, left to fend for itself, and finally reported to death. Kindness or black-bellied depends on the mood of the official master's spleen, and Li Zhushou here is obviously not a Bodhisattva.
Li Yan pinched his chin and pondered, it was a safe way to report to the official, but he didn't gain much...... It can't shake the enemy who is cowering behind the scenes.
"Mountain Bandit ......"
I really didn't expect that what Li Xi had just seen in the book would happen to him so soon.
[1: The Hunan army was completely wiped out by a leprosy, this is just a legend, it is estimated that there are still things, but the scale is not so large. 】
[2: There are superintendents at the banknote gates, and commissioners at the sub-customs and gates, and the scribes are the managers under them, just like the state and county officials, who are mostly hereditary. 】