Chapter 368 Saliva
After the order was given, Zhao Kangjie immediately transferred some people from the military camp outside back to the city.
The soldiers who had surrendered before were isolated again and occupied two separate camps from the previous Su family army. After the separation, they each conducted internal inspections. Anyone with fever, sore throat, or dry eyes would report it voluntarily and be isolated automatically.
Just after the flood, an epidemic broke out.
This epidemic, which was raised by Duke Xue like a poisonous insect, broke out overnight. As the scope of the investigation continued to expand and the methods of investigation became increasingly stringent, the final diagnosis result was that nearly half of the people showed symptoms.
The people who had been able to move freely in the city when the city gates were closed before, suddenly all stayed in their homes with their doors and windows closed.
Those who are sick are afraid of dying, so they stay at home and dare not go out.
Those who are not sick are afraid of being infected and stay at home and dare not go out.
Huicheng Street, which used to be bustling with people, was now deserted, like a dead city. Only occasionally a patrol team of the Su family army passed by the street, bringing a little bit of popularity to this dead silent city.
"What are you doing!"
Suddenly, a sharp cry was heard in the silent city, followed by a chaotic shouting.
"Someone come, someone come quickly, someone is climbing over the wall, someone come quickly!"
Su Qingqing and Jixiang were inspecting the place when they suddenly heard shouting. They hurriedly followed the sound and saw the door of a house open.
In the yard, seven or eight men, women, old and young were standing against the wall.
At the base of another wall, separated from them by a courtyard, there was an old man squatting there, and a soldier of the Su family army was standing next to the old man.
"What's going on?"
Jixiang asked as soon as he entered the door.
Without waiting for the Su family soldier to answer, seven or eight people standing by the wall said in unison, "Queen, please make the decision. This man is sick. He spit in our yard."
Jixiang frowned and looked over in confusion.
ha?
Why would he spit in your yard if he was sick?
Before I could even think of complaining, I heard those seven or eight people continue, "We are all healthy. Our family has accumulated good deeds and Buddha has blessed us. None of us has been sick.
He was afraid that he would die because he was sick, so he spat into our house, hoping to infect us with the disease.
This old man is so evil!
Queen, please make the decision for us!"
Su Qingqing frowned and looked at the old man, then looked at the soldier next to him. The soldier immediately said, "When I rushed in, he was already spitting. As for the rest, I don't know."
"What's going on?" Jixiang shouted at the old man.
The old man raised his head and was about to spit at Jixiang.
Fortunately, Jixiang reacted quickly and dodged.
"Damn it, how could you be so mean? Why did you spit at me?"
The old man said confidently, "Why should you live well while I am sick? This doesn't make sense. If we are sick, we should all be sick together."
After saying this, he turned to look at the person on the opposite wall.
"Your Er Ni promised to marry my third son. Don't try to deny it. My third son is now unconscious from a fever , your Er Ni must be buried with him. You can't say that my third son died of illness while your Er Ni is still alive and well."
Jixiang looked at the old man in astonishment.
Before, she always thought that the Queen Mother of the Great Yan Kingdom was stupid and unreasonable enough, but she didn't expect that there are always people better than you.
This guy is even more disgusting than the Empress Dowager.
Su Qingqing frowned and looked at the old man. Without saying anything, she leaned over, picked up a stone on the ground, and threw it at the old man.
When his acupuncture points were hit, the old man rolled his eyes and fell headfirst.
Su Qingqing waved her hands in annoyance and said to the soldier, "Take him away and send him to the prison set up by the government. Also, publicize this matter. Anyone who spreads the virus maliciously will be held accountable according to the severity of the crime."
This epidemic and flood is already enough to cause trouble, how can there be such people?
After Su Qingqing gave the order speechlessly, she left with Jixiang, looking as if she had eaten shit.
As soon as the old man was taken away, before Su Qingqing and Jixiang left the yard, the people in his family started to make a fuss.
When the old man spat at someone here before, his house was quiet and no one was there. But when he was about to be taken away, two people came out from there.
An old woman was crying and screaming and was about to climb over the wall.
Next to the old woman was probably her youngest daughter, a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old. She looked young and thin, but she quickly lay down on the wall and rushed towards Su Qingqing, specifically hitting her stomach.
Jixiang was startled and stood up to block her. The girl seemed to know what Jixiang was doing. She didn't stop but spat at Jixiang.
Bang!
Su Qingqing swung the long whip in her hand past Jixiang and whipped the girl.
The girl was hit unexpectedly, her body tilted and she fell to the ground.
The spit towards Jixiang was deflected because of his leaning body, and Jixiang was pulled away by Su Qingqing, barely avoiding the saliva.
Su Qingqing looked at the little girl on the ground with a cold look in her eyes, her brows furrowed because of being whipped.
Miraculously, the little girl didn't cry.
When he was only twelve or thirteen years old, he was whipped so hard by Su Qingqing that his skin was torn and flesh was exposed, but he didn't cry.
Is this normal?
Jixiang was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately. He took two steps forward, stepped on the person, and chopped her on the back of the neck with his palm.
The common people standing by the wall over there were so frightened that they dared not even breathe.
They didn't dare to vent their anger, but some people dared to do so. The little girl was beaten by Su Qingqing and knocked unconscious by Jixiang, and the old woman who climbed over the wall with her was so frightened that she started crying and cursing at the top of her lungs.
All the dirty and obscene words came out at once.
She stopped climbing the wall and just kept crying and cursing. Her voice was so loud that it could be heard throughout the street.
Su Qingqing glanced at her coldly, threw a stone at her and knocked her unconscious on the wall, then turned to the common people and asked, "Do you know him?"
The people all nodded in unison. The oldest old man licked his lips and said, "This is the fourth girl in his family. There are four girls and three boys in his family. The three girls have all married off, and the two boys have also married off, and both are married into the wife's family. Now, the only ones around the old couple are the third boy and the fourth girl.
The third boy is proposing marriage to my daughter Ni'er."
Su Qingqing nodded. "Have they always lived here?"
The old man shook his head and said, "No, they escaped here three years ago and are doing some small business here."
If you want to run a small business, this house is not small enough.
Perhaps sensing Su Qingqing's doubts, the old man said, "His family had some savings before, and the two sons didn't need to ask for money to marry into the family, and the three daughters married far away, and the in-laws gave them a lot."
