Chapter 6: A Bleak Scene
Some of these people were in tears and their mood was agitated, some were terrified, their faces were distorted, some of them grabbed their chests with their hands, and fell to the ground softly, as if they were drunk and infatuated, as if they had not woken up from a dream, and some of them were smiling and unable to help themselves.
Chen Shengyi, An Ziteng and others have deep internal strength, strong concentration, and their minds have never lost control, and it took more than half a day for the rest of them to recover their senses, as if they had a dream.
Qin Langchuan said angrily: "I have never seen a martial artist who can turn all beings upside down, Xiaohao, since Datong, in less than a month, I haven't seen how you practice, I didn't expect your martial arts to advance to such a realm!"
Chang Sihao was a little stunned: "Have I made any progress in my martial arts? I don't feel it myself, and I really haven't practiced, I just think about the posture in the pile gong when I usually walk, sit and lie down, always keep calm, and occasionally think about the scene when I was fighting against Sonam Gyatso, and fight him in my mind." ”
Qin Langchuan nodded: "You usually keep your body in a pile state, and you have become accustomed to nature, others walk, sit and lie down, they are all walking, sitting and lying, but your walking, sitting and lying are all practicing, naturally you get twice the result with half the effort, judging from the realm and charm of your fist, you are much higher than the old man." The world's martial arts, in the god but not in the form, you have entered the mind from the form, to reach the realm of divine practice, do not practice and practice yourself, there is no teacher and the fist is self-understanding, this kind of understanding, is really rare in the world, and look at your upper and lower one, the whole body is like one, I am afraid that this skill is not much better than when I was in the prime of life. ”
Chang Sihao thought to himself, what can it be? It is still far from what the old man Baofu said about the infinite body without pulses and holes, and the rivers become seas. smiled and said: "Martial arts boxing, I don't understand, everything just let it be." ”
An Ziteng twisted his beard and praised: "The future is terrifying!"
Qin Langchuan said: "There are Xiao and Xiao in the next life, and they are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and there are not many people who can be eyed by the old man, like Yin Ruju and Guan Yiyan, who can also be mixed with a young swordsman, it can be seen what the current rivers and lakes have become, in this generation, those who really rely on their own strength to speak instead of living with the ancestral spirit card, I am afraid that except for Xiao Jinyue, I can't find a few." As the so-called world is chaotic, heroes are born, the world is governed, talents are produced, and the world is not chaotic and unruly, and the whole is a wreck!"
The crowd laughed. Qin Langchuan patted Chang Sihao's shoulder: "Xiaohao, you are okay in other aspects, but if you want to be truly mature and be able to stand alone in the future, you still lack one thing." He paced two steps forward and turned back with his back: "What you lack is the decisive word." Manly man, it is okay to be cautious, but you must act decisively and decisively, you can't hesitate to procrastinate, you move your hands steadily and ruthlessly, but you seem to think more about things, always waiting for others to decide for you, maybe it is the character habit formed by always following behind others and obeying orders in the army. ...... later"
Suddenly hearing the noise and crying on the street, Qin Langchuan asked his side: "What's the matter?"
Someone went out to visit, and after a while, they reported: "Old lady, there is an outbreak of epidemic in the city, and General Yan is sending people to carry out compulsory quarantine. Qin Langchuan was startled, and hurriedly led the crowd out, only to see that the sergeants on the street were all wrapped in cloth towels, rushing to the patients they had arrested, some of them couldn't walk, and they were carried on stretchers, and some of the sergeants were pulling a flatbed cart, and the patients were stacked on top of them, with spots on their bodies, all of them were weak and weak, and they were dying, which made people unbearable to look at. After asking the sergeant a few words, everyone followed the team to the side of Huayan Temple, only to see that there were many simple white cloth tents set up here, with a table and two chairs, each with a masked doctor inside to inspect the patient, and Xinlu was also among them, dressed in black and bald, very eye-catching. A person dressed in red, with his hands on his chin, squatted next to her, looking up at her with interest in his face, it was Qin Juexiang. Qin Langchuan frowned, thinking that he wanted you to accompany the head of Xinlu, but you kid squatted beside her like a puppy, what did it look like!
When Qin Juexiang saw his group arriving, he hurriedly straightened up and stood up, and when he saw his grandfather's face, he knew that he was blaming himself again, and he was busy telling about the epidemic situation. After hearing this, Qin Langchuan exchanged glances with Chen Shengyi, Chang Sihao and the others and said, "How could a good person suddenly break out of the epidemic? It must be Mo Rigen who is playing tricks, and he has the source of rat urine on his body to spread everywhere, so that we can reduce our combat strength and destroy ourselves." ”
An Ziteng said: "I have not attacked the city for the past few days, it seems that I must have received his message, and I will wait for the outbreak of the epidemic." ”
Chen Sheng pressed the handle of the knife with one hand and locked his eyebrows: "Mo Rigen, this guy is more slippery than slippery, more ghostly than a ghost, I have led people to search everywhere every day for the past few days, and Lord Liu, the prefect, also sent a servant to arrest and help, and I couldn't feel a little shadow of him." ”
"Hmph!" Qin Juexiang looked at the patients who were sorrowful and sorrowful, and said hatefully: "A group of us are played by him alone, and if we continue like this, we will lose all our face!"
Chang Sihao said: "He is now alone in the city, drawing pictures everywhere to arrest, food and shelter are two problems, now that the epidemic has broken out, everyone can be infected, he will find a place with food, clean water, secret and safe to hide, or wait for an opportunity to escape from the city." ”
An Ziteng nodded in agreement: "In my opinion, he wants to escape from the city, and the second manager of Chen Er leads people to search for it in a dragnet style, it is not easy for him to find a place to hide quietly, and now that I am besieging the city, the people of each family are very close to the food, and he wants to kill and rob, and he will also leave traces." Qin Juexiang snorted coldly: "He'd better not run away, when I catch him, catch hundreds of mice, and squeeze urine for him to drink every day!"
Xinlu and the doctors were busy for four or five days, and only then did they complete the investigation of the infected people in the city, and all of them were moved to live in the Huayan Temple. The wells in the city were also guarded by soldiers to prevent Mo Rigen from poisoning.
Because there is no medicine, all rely on stiffness, some of the patients continue to die, every day there are corpses in the hospital on the spot incineration, the living help each other, all feel desperate and desolate, some people who are less ill want to escape over the wall, are killed on the spot by the sergeants, the people who see it are shocked, so they dare not do anything. However, although the sick people have been isolated, the epidemic has not been completely controlled, and there are still people who have been sent to Huayan Temple one after another to die. I sent people to write a lot of persuasion letters to surrender and shot arrows into the city, saying that the epidemic was the will of heaven, and the army and civilians could be saved from death if they surrendered early. Autumn is cool and cold, the days are short and the nights are long, the frost and dew are miserable in the morning and evening, and the whole Datong City seems to be shrouded in a layer of death. Although several large-scale searches were carried out in the city, there was still no trace of Morrigan, and everyone was resentful and could not help but secretly praise the clever methods of this Tartar.
Due to the spread of the matter of the corpse pile to protect the city wall, Chang Sihao has now been regarded as a hero in the army. On this day, he and Qin Juexiang led a few rudder people to patrol the night, and a sergeant saw it and hurriedly greeted him. When Qin Juexiang saw that one of them was carrying a bamboo basket, he asked, "What are you doing?" and the sergeant said, "Here are the dead rats we have hit, and we are going to gather and burn them to prevent them from spreading the disease." Qin Juexiang nodded, and several sergeants lit a fire on the side of the road and started a fire.
Smelling the smell of meat wafting from the burnt rat pile, Qin Juexiang smiled and said, "I heard that some people in the south eat rats, I feel disgusted just by listening to it, but now that I smell this taste, I really want to taste it." ”
Chang Sihao said: "The rat meat is delicate, and voles can be fed with less diseases, and those who live in gutters and other places are dirty and sick, so they can't be eaten." ”
Qin Juexiang was extremely surprised: "It turns out that you have eaten." ”
Chang Sihao smiled: "When I was in my hometown, I ate all the bark and grass roots, catch the mouse, that is a good meal, can you let it run?" Qin Juexiang shook his head and sighed. The sergeants had another business trip, and when they saw that the fire was almost burning, they parted with the two of them and left, Chang Sihao and Qin Juexiang led people to continue patrolling the street, and after walking a few steps, they heard a sound behind them, and looked back, a few black shadows came out of the dark corner of the street, lying on the ground, and they were burning the rat pile.
Qin Juexiang shouted: "What person?" The black shadows raised their heads, all of them were in rags, their faces were dirty and they couldn't see their faces clearly, they were pulling the burnt rat skin in their hands, stuffing blood and flesh into their mouths, some of their cheeks were full, and half of the rat's tail was exposed at the corner of their mouths.
The beggars glanced at him, and continued to bow their heads and gobble them up. Qin Juexiang couldn't help frowning when he looked at their eating appearance, and Chang Sihao shouted loudly: "These rats may have epidemics on them, don't you want to die?"
The beggars only ate and no one paid attention to him. Chang Sihao shouted: "Catch them!" Everyone behind him rushed up with their swords, so frightened that the beggars grabbed a few scorched rats in their arms, and ran away, everyone wanted to chase them, Qin Jue said: "Wait!" In a slow time, the beggar had already run away without a trace. Chang Sihao said: "Jue Xiang, what are you doing?" Qin Jue Xiang said: "They sleep on the streets every day, they have ringworm, sores and scabies, cough, wheezing, tuberculosis, and tuberculosis, and they don't have any diseases? Death from starvation is death, and death from illness is also death, so they don't care at all, let them go with what they want to eat? Can they still be sent to Huayan Temple if they are caught? They have no family, who will provide food to provide for them? Do they still have to give military rations to eat?"
Chang Sihao said: "They have the epidemic and spread it around the streets, so what about it? Even if they don't care about their lives or deaths, what about others?" Qin Juexiang rolled his eyes: "I didn't expect this, hey, since they all ran away, forget it." These people are squatting in the gutter every day, and the infection is also their own infection with each other, and there is no big incident, and it is not too late to catch it next time, this is not far from Huayan Temple, let's go over and see Sister Xinlu!"
Chang Sihao had no choice but to follow him, and the two turned around the streets and alleys to greet the defenders outside the temple, left their entourage, and walked into the temple. At this time, the night was dark, the temple was as lonely as the sky, there was not even a light shadow, from time to time there were one or two painful **, cold and desolate and weird, Qin Juexiang's scalp was a little numb, and he wanted to see Xinlu, but he couldn't take care of it, and suddenly heard a slight door sound, and a black shadow flashed into the monk's room on the side of the temple, and his steps were as light as a ghost.