At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 269
Is the plague terrible?Of course it is quite scary, its fatality rate can reach 500% to [-]%. Compared with SARS and the new crown, it is simply a little brother. Even in modern times with advanced medicine, countries still list it as one of the highest level of Class A infectious diseases , and in the feudal ancient times where medicine was extremely backward, the fatality rate was almost [-]%. Once infected with rat madness, it was basically a dead end.During the Yuan and Meng Dynasties, the Black Death was a kind of plague that was prevalent in Europe. It almost wiped out one-third of the population in Europe, and [-] more than [-] million people died, which is shocking.

Fortunately, although the fatality rate of the plague is high, the transmission route is not as abnormal as that of the coronavirus. It is mainly transmitted through rat flea bites, direct contact with patient fluids or sick animals, so as long as the environment is clean and hygienic, and the disease source is not directly contacted, the chance of contracting the disease is low. Will greatly reduce, of course, the best way is to isolate.

Although the ancients didn't know the way the plague spread, they also summed up a set of experience in dealing with the plague, that is, burning and isolation. When a plague broke out in a village, the whole village was blocked, and when a plague broke out in a city, the whole city was blocked In the city, as for whether the people inside can survive in the end, they can only resign themselves to their fate. This method is quite cruel and inhuman, but it is also quite effective.

Most of the fear in this world comes from the unknown. The ancients’ understanding of the plague was undoubtedly very superficial, and they even regarded the occurrence of the plague as a punishment from the heavens. In addition, people who suffer from the plague usually fester all over their bodies. He coughed up blood and died horribly, which deepened people's fear of the plague. The key point is that this thing can still be transmitted silently. No one knows that bad luck will come to them that day. Up, whoever is the next one will be unlucky.

At this moment, Gao Shixiong and the others were terrified, fearing that they had already been possessed by the "Plague Ghost" and that death was about to come.

After Gao Bufan shot and killed more than a dozen vultures, he waved his hands and shouted: "Go quickly."

It is undoubtedly quite unwise to enter the epidemic area without any protective measures, and now it is better to leave here as far as possible.Gao Ren led the five horses in front tremblingly, while Gao Bufan and the other four followed one by one, and followed at a distance.

Gao Ren felt apprehensive, and turned his head to look at the crowd from time to time, as if there were some evil spirits behind him, while Gao Shou and the others kept looking back, fearing that the plague ghosts would follow.

"stop!"

About two miles away, Gao Bufan, who had been silent all the way, suddenly shouted, and finally heard the boss speak, and everyone subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. There was no way, the atmosphere along the way was too depressing.

"Shixiong Shiheng, Gao Da, you go to the hillside over there to get some firewood, Gao Er, go to the river to get some water to boil." Gao Bufan's voice was calm and steady, and he arranged things in an orderly manner, and everyone felt more at ease after hearing the words Alright, let's split things up.

Soon, Gao Shixiong and others came back with a lot of dry firewood and hay, and Gao Bufan asked them to divide the firewood into four piles and light them, each pile of fire was several feet apart.Gao Bufan stood in front of a pile of fire, and said solemnly: "Whatever I do next, you do."

Gao Shixiong, Gao Shiheng, and Gao Shou nodded their heads like chickens pecking at rice, and stood in front of a pile of fire holding their breath, staring at Gao Bufan in the middle.

Gao Bufan first put his left foot into the flames and burned the sole of his boot until he felt the heat, then retracted his left foot, and then switched to his right foot, repeating this several times.

Gao Shixiong and the others followed suit. After ironing the soles of their boots, they began to take off their clothes and bake them on the fire. As a result, Gao Bufan took off until he was naked, and even baked his underwear. At least he "roasted" his whole body. The picture of burning the bird's nest is too gorgeous, and it is really difficult for the author to describe it in words.

Everyone couldn't help being dumbfounded, and thought to themselves, the "dharma work" of boss Changqing to exorcise the plague ghost is too shocking, and it is still a technical job, because if you are not careful, you will become a "flamingo".

Fortunately, all the people present were men, and there was no one else around, so although it was a bit embarrassing, everyone followed suit. I baked my whole body up and down.

The five horses stood in the distance and stared wide-eyed, bared their teeth and snapped their noses from time to time, the scene was extremely weird.Gao Ren would draw inferences from one example, and held up a torch to roast the horse, but was almost kicked into the river by the big green horse.

"Livestock really don't know what to do, grandpa is not happy to drive away the plague ghosts for you!" Gao Ren walked away cursing.

The plague is mainly transmitted through flea bites. Gao Bufan roasted himself up and down, and was still worried. He jumped into the river and washed it thoroughly. Then he went ashore and soaked his hair in boiling water again. Just stopped, Gao Shou and others naturally followed the steps. After everyone finished tossing, it was already dusk, the sun was setting, and the twilight was getting darker.

Gao Bufan finally drove the big green horse into the river, brushed it violently with a branch several times until it was spotless, and then allowed it to go ashore.The big green horse was tossed hard, probably angry, and ran away as soon as it landed.

"Don't go to the hillside, or your legs will be broken." Gao Bufan shouted, the big green horse snorted dissatisfied, as if angry with Gao Bufan, ran straight to the hillside, and ran back and forth. The demonstrators turned their heads and looked back, seeing Gao Bufan not chasing him, he turned his head dejectedly and walked back to the river to graze.

Gao Shixiong said enviously: "I don't know how you, Boss Changqing, trained you. Qingyun is too spiritual, even smarter than my second child."

Gao Shiheng was furious, he punched and hit, the two brothers fought back and forth, Gao Shou and Gao Ren were happy, hey, the daily routine "show" performance has begun, cheering and betting who will win today win.Obviously, after Master Gao's "unfathomable" exorcism of plague ghosts this round, everyone has calmed down and is in the mood to fight again.

After Gao Bufan put on his clothes and whistled, Qingyun rushed over and kissed Gao Bufan's hand. It seemed that the unhappiness just now had been thrown away in Guwaguo.

Gao Bufan took out a handful of beans from the cloth bag, and Qingyun rolled his tongue into his mouth, happily chewing.

Gao Bufan patted the horse's head, turned on the horse's back, and lazily said: "You guys continue to fight, whoever wins is on duty tonight, I'll go over there to have a look, and come back before dark." Run to the black rock mountain to the west.

Gao Shixiong and Gao Shiheng stopped fighting when they heard the words, and everyone jumped out of the circle and said in unison: "You are good, you won!"

"you win!"

"Obviously you won, you punched me in the chest just now!"

"You kicked my ass too!"

"Gao Da Gao sophomore, you come to judge, who among us wins?"

Gao Shou and Gao Ren could not help but roll their eyes.

Let’s talk about Gao Bufan rushing to the foot of that black stone mountain, got off his horse, pulled out his waist knife and tapped on the rocks at the foot of the mountain, after searching half a circle, he finally found a piece of weathered limestone, couldn’t help being overjoyed, and hurriedly Looking carefully nearby, I found that the surroundings were indeed limestone, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Since there is limestone, it will be easy to deal with. At that time, get some quicklime to deal with the corpses. After all, I want to open a horse farm here, and this hidden danger must be eliminated. Otherwise, how can I raise horses with peace of mind?
Of course, this plague has undoubtedly brought a great benefit. The Xi people grazing here must have been scared away, and they will not dare to come back in a short time. It will be built, and even if it is necessary to negotiate at that time, it will be more confident.

As the saying goes, how can we know that it is not a blessing?Sometimes bad things are not necessarily bad things, haha!

(End of this chapter)