ebookland Chapter 137 Rescue the Village Chief's Granddaughter
Chapter 137 Rescue the Village Chief's Granddaughter
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Li Erlang, wearing a mask and his coat turned inside out, pointed at the girl in the crowd and said, "Did you see that? There are so many red rashes on her arms! Just now when she fell, her arms were exposed! She has smallpox!"
"Ah!" The woman standing closest screamed immediately and jumped away quickly like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
The crowd exclaimed and quickly moved away from the three people.
"Smallpox can kill people! This vicious old hag not only wants to sell her granddaughter but also wants to harm people!" An old man pointed at the old woman and his beard was shaking with anger.
"Let's call the police!" someone suggested.
Smallpox is an infectious disease that can be fatal if it spreads.
"Yes, yes, yes! Report to the police!" someone said, and ran to report to the police.
"You go and report to the police! We'll stay here and watch them!" After saying that, the man stared at the old woman, afraid that they would run away.
"Don't report it to the police! Don't report it to the police!" The old woman was terrified and begged, "It's not smallpox. I pricked it with a needle."
The crowd was silent for a moment, and then erupted into even greater anger.
"This old hag is so vicious! She's more poisonous than a venomous snake! How big a needle must it be to prick someone like this!"
"Let's send her to the government!"
"No! Grandma beating her granddaughter is a family matter, the government has no right to interfere!"
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Li Erlang whispered to Li Yuer, "Yu Baoer, what should we do?"
Li Yuer hooked her finger at him and said, "You do this, this way..."
"As expected of you, Yu Bao'er. Don't worry, just look at your dear brother."
More and more people gathered around, and Li Erlang led the crowd, shouting, "Don't be fooled by this old hag! The rashes on that little girl's hands couldn't have been caused by a needle. Who has such a big needle? Besides, the rashes have all turned to pus and ulcers. How could they have been caused by a needle? That must be smallpox!"
There was also someone with sharp eyes who noticed the red rash on the little girl's arm, but he didn't think about it that way at the time. After Li Erlang's reminder, he instantly understood it.
"Yes! I saw it too. The girl's arms were covered with dense red rashes, and she had a few broken arms from the fall just now."
"Look! There is pus and blood on the ground!"
"what!"
Anyone who was nearly stepped on quickly ran away.
"You vicious old hag! How dare you spread smallpox! You are a heartless old beast! You deserve a bad death!"
Since her own life safety was involved, the old woman naturally became the target of everyone's condemnation.
Li Yuer quietly walked behind Li Laosan and whispered something to him. Li Laosan nodded, turned and left the crowd.
"Report to the official! Report to the official!"
"Yes! Report to the police! Send this old hag to the government! Put her in jail! She can't come out and harm anyone!"
"We can't let her go! Maybe she's already infected! She wants to kill us!"
Someone took a white pine from the basket, stripped off the old stems, and hit the old woman with it.
"Oh my! Who threw me?" The old woman covered her head and kept explaining: "This is really what I did, it's not smallpox! Believe me!"
"Pah!" Another rotten vegetable leaf, this time it was a pickled cabbage stalk, still stained with salt and dripping sour water down the old woman's head.
"Report to the official!"
"Report to the official! Report to the official!"
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Upon seeing this, Da Jin Ya turned around and tried to run, but he was blocked by the crowd and couldn't get out. He was almost desperate.
If I had known that this damn old hag was not a good person and even sold her own granddaughter, I would not have been so greedy for cheap things!
"Don't call the police!" A loud shout came from behind the crowd.
A man covered in a gray robe and with his mouth and nose covered with a strange scarf walked into the crowd.
"You can't report it to the authorities. My master and I have heard about what happened here even though we are far away in Tianshan. If you report it to the authorities, they will find out that you have all come into contact with this sick little girl. Then I'm afraid... I'm afraid that you will all be implicated and forcibly detained."
Everyone was silent, and soon they realized what was going on.
"This person is right. With the person in the yamen now, if he knows that we have had contact with her, he will definitely lock us up without any investigation." Someone said in panic.
Since their own life interests were involved, everyone quickly figured out the situation.
"I think it's more than just detention." An old man recalled, "I still remember that many years ago, a great famine occurred in the northwest. Many victims died. No one cleaned up the bodies, and they could only rot under the scorching sun. Finally, a nationwide plague broke out. The imperial doctors could not find a way to save people, so they could only seal off villages and cities, gather the infected people together, and burn them collectively when they died."
The scene froze in an instant, and many people were so scared that they wanted to run away.
Some people still remembered the disaster and couldn't help wiping away tears.
"What should we do?" someone asked, "How about we lock them up first?"
"Will it be useful to lock him up? If it is really smallpox, the government will find out sooner or later."
"Then what do you think we should do?"
The grey-robed man waved his hand and said, "Everyone, please be patient. I know a little bit about medicine. Why don't you hand this little girl over to me? I will take her back to Tianshan and give her to my master. I believe he may be able to solve the problem.
You have just come into contact with the patient, it is not serious. I happen to have a medicine here. Although it cannot cure smallpox, it can prevent the early stage of infection. You can have someone cook it and distribute it to everyone, so you don't have to worry about infection."
"What a kind man! We are saved!" someone shouted with gratitude.
Then, more and more people began to praise the gray-robed man for his kindness and medical skills.
Someone whispered, "Can he really cure that little girl?"
The people next to him said, "Who cares? As long as we are fine, it's fine. If the government knew that we had contact with someone with smallpox, they would definitely not let us off. The man now is a murderer and robber."
"Shh, stop talking, let's wait until we finish drinking the medicine and leave." Some people thought that less trouble is better.
The man in gray robe took out a large bag of medicine from his bag, untied the hemp rope and oil paper bag, took out a piece and licked it in public.
"As you can see, this medicine is non-toxic. You can take it without worry."
Someone immediately stepped forward to scramble for the medicine. Regardless of his purpose, the man in gray robe directly handed the medicine to the old man who had just spoken.
"Old man, I see that you are highly respected, so why don't you arrange the decoction and distribution of the medicine?"
The old man took the medicine and said with emotion: "Don't worry, I will definitely get it done."
Then, the crowd surrounded the old man and discussed the matter of making medicine.
The gray-robed man walked up to the little girl and said to her gently, "Little girl, let's go. Don't worry, my master will definitely heal you."
"Why! My granddaughter is not sick at all. You are trying to steal her, do you know that?" The old woman jumped up and down and cursed in anger.
He wanted to go forward and scratch the gray-robed man's face, but was immediately pushed to the ground by the onlookers.
"You old hag, you did a good deed that almost killed the whole town, and you still want to hurt a good man! Believe it or not, we can beat you to death with one punch each!"