Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1888 The Abandoned Corpse
Everything in East Branch Seven Alleys remains the same, as if Zhao Gui just patrolled yesterday. If we want to talk about changes, the road on the ground is smoother than before, and there is no garbage
"Ah Gui, look over there!" Shopkeeper Xie patted Zhao Gui on the shoulder, and pointed to a pile of things covered with reed mats in front of him, Huo Junming suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Looks like it's a corpse!" Zhao Gui's expression was ugly, "Go and have a look."

Shopkeeper Xie stood far away, Huo Junming and Zhao Gui had their responsibilities, so they could only get close to them, and used a stick to lift a corner of the covered reed mat: it was indeed a corpse.

"MD, how old is this?" Huo Junming cursed and pulled away the reed mat garbage covering the corpse with a stick, and shouted at Zhao Gui, "Ah? Go to the side! Do you know this person?"

"Looking at the sight—to be honest, it would be strange if the sight was familiar. It looks like it died of illness, and the symptoms match. Whoever throws sick corpses at this time will throw them in their own area, or they will go to other places to throw them secretly." Zhao Gui. With a look of disgust, he beckoned Shopkeeper Xie to come too.

"Is it from your street?"

Shopkeeper Xie shook his head to express that he did not know him.Judging from the clothing of the corpse, it should be a poor man.

"I'll pull the cordon, you hurry to call someone." Huo Junming took the cordon and said, "Since he died of illness, it's my life."

Although the Senate had taken in the refugees and beggars in the city not long ago, the roads have decreased significantly compared to previous years, and most of the dead were emergency patients.After the police issued a notice to find the body, family members must collect the body within three to five days.However, after the plague appeared, because of the fear of contagion, the number of unclaimed road corpses began to increase.

Then, there was a new situation that Lin Motian didn't expect.After the announcement of quarantine regulations for plague infected persons and contacts, the number of unknown corpses on the roadside increased further.Later, after the report of the grass-roots quarantine officer, he realized that because the regulations required that once a plague patient or death was found, those who had close contact with the patient or the death should be quarantined.This often means that a large family, no matter how old or young, can't escape-they will all be sent to Cheung Chau Island for isolation and quarantine.

After all, this isolation is similar to being in a prison. The isolation camp on Cheung Chau Island is not a sanatorium. The whole family lives in thatched huts, no matter rich or poor, high or low, eating porridge to get by. It is said that it is a wealthy family, even ordinary small households can't bear it.The elderly and children were too weak to hold on, and within three or four days some people fell ill, and some died of it.

The bad situation on Cheung Chau Island spread throughout the city with the return of the previous batches of people whose quarantine period had expired. As a result, the common people, who were already afraid of the quarantine, were even more reluctant to go—it was impossible for the people in the late Ming Dynasty to With such a deep understanding of "isolation", they will simply think that they have been placed in a separate book and regarded as the source of infectious diseases, not to mention being "under house arrest", even if they go out in the future, they will be discriminated against, let alone they are still facing Death threats: They don't believe that people can deliver food and medicine after being quarantined. They only think that quarantine means being locked up and waiting to die silently.

Under this trend of thought, a large number of family members abandoned the dead bodies of patients and patients without permission. Therefore, from time to time, they could "pick up" dead bodies in a sitting position, and they could tell at a glance that they were sent out by their family members before they died.In order to prevent the corpse from being recognized, these people often choose to quietly throw the corpse away from their homes.

In the past, it was very difficult to do this. During the day, no matter whether you carried a living person or a corpse on your back, you couldn't run around. At night, when the street gates were closed, no one could get through.But since the Guandi Temple was banned, the "street watchers" who used to guard the street gates have all gone to Cheung Chau Island for "retraining".The police cannot send so many people to manage the street gates, and the Baojia organization in the city is not strict enough. In many places, no one manages the street gates, and the gates are open.This gives an opportunity to throw the corpse.The night patrol has repeatedly caught people throwing corpses at night.

This is not bad!Lin Motian was furious, and issued severe punishment regulations, and stipulated that any missing person in the resident would be regarded as a missing person who died of illness, and followed the isolation procedure, and this chaos was restrained a bit.At the same time, all Baojias were ordered to send people to guard the street gates in turn.However, due to the lack of manpower, not all the quarantine officers who rushed to the battle can strictly check the checkpoints. Although the phenomenon of privately dumping corpses has been greatly reduced, it has not disappeared. Unknown corpses will appear every three days.The household registration management in Guangzhou can only barely guarantee the permanent population, and the unregistered population has no time to take care of it. Trying to find the source of these corpses is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

"Comrade Huo, what do you think we should do?" Zhao Gui brought someone back and asked.

"After patrolling as usual, let's see who is missing people. I guess I can't find the source..." Huo Junming said helplessly, "According to the regulations, after 24 hours, regardless of whether they are claimed or not, the corpses have to be burned—hmph, really It would be hell if someone claimed it... They are dealing with it here, let's continue patrolling, let's put it in the disposal center first, and deal with it after today's patrol."

The so-called treatment center is the so-called "corpse treatment center" - in fact, it was originally the incarnation factory on the banks of the Liuhua Bridge that specialized in processing anonymous corpses.In the past, the unidentified corpses of the two counties attached to Guoguo in Guangzhou Prefecture were cremated here.There used to be a group of Wu workers under the jurisdiction of Guandi Temple.The Louze Garden in one prefecture and two counties of Guangzhou is also located here. It specializes in the management of "death" in "birth, old age, sickness and death". To bury the corpse in a graveyard, if you are lucky, you will meet a rich family doing charity and donating a coffin, and you can even get a thin-skinned coffin for burial.

If there is no one to claim the deceased or the widows and widows who have no family or friends, then they can only be burned and collected in an earthen jar.

Lin Motian took over here because of the needs of epidemic prevention work.The dead bodies found during the quarantine patrol, whether they were found on the road or identified by the residents, were gathered here for incineration.

The corpse collection team arrived soon. Like Huo Junming, they belonged to the epidemic prevention brigade and took turns to collect corpses.Although some people suggested that Lin Motian use the gangsters from the original Guandi Temple who had completed the quarantine, Lin Motian still vetoed it.The reason is that these beggars have long had the habit of stripping corpses of clothing and belongings—this is a moral issue in ordinary times, but it is fatal during the epidemic, so before they have completed "training and transformation", He decided to only use the epidemic prevention brigade for the time being—at least they have been trained for several months.

The corpse collection team all wore full-body isolation gowns, large masks and oilcloth gloves.Holding hooks, ropes and stretchers, the corpses were put into tarpaulin body bags before being transported to reduce secondary infection during transport.

Covering the dead body, the reed mats and other debris were also put into rattan baskets, sealed, and sent to a designated place for burning.After the corpses were cleaned up, the anti-epidemic team sprayed them with disinfectant.

Seeing that the corpse collection team was busy, Huo Junming wrote down in his notebook that "a corpse suspected of No. [-] disease was found and abandoned", followed by the time and place, the person who found it and the result of the treatment. "These gangsters..." He closed his notebook and muttered something, put his hands behind his back and followed Zhao Gui to the next alley.

"Master...! Two masters! Help!" After walking a few steps, they heard a crying voice shouting, and saw a young man stumbling towards them.

"Isn't this Laifu?" Zhao Gui was taken aback, "Isn't your family already quarantined? Why did you escape?"

Neighbors of Laifu’s family reported that No. [-] person died of illness yesterday, and the neighbor’s family was quarantined, because it was discovered that the Laifu family had been in and out of the deceased’s house during the period of the deceased’s illness, so his family was also quarantined.It will be transferred to the isolation camp on Cheung Chau Island this afternoon.

In order to prevent the quarantined people from escaping, once they are declared as "persons waiting for quarantine and isolation", the police or the national army will be sent to stand guard and house arrest, and they are not allowed to enter or leave until they are sent to the ship.

"It was the vice master standing guard at the gate who let me out. Something happened at home!" Lai Fu cried and said, "My grandpa hanged himself..."

"Ah?!" Huo Junming and Zhao Gui were shocked when they heard the words, "What's going on?"

"Grandpa has seen a lot of dead people in the neighborhood recently, and the corpses and tombs are not left behind, and they are all burned. He was unhappy at first, and he didn't speak for several days. After the family was quarantined the day before yesterday, he always talked to himself, saying something like 'put into the earth' "For An' and the like, just now...just..."

"Hurry up and take us there first!" Huo Junming and Lao Zhao followed Laifu and ran into the alley in a hurry.

There was nothing special at the scene——at least Zhao Gui didn’t see any special problems. The deceased had a certain level of education and left a suicide note. The meaning was very clear. The old man thought that being quarantined meant that the plague had come to his family, and he was an old man half buried in the earth. It is impossible to escape such a disaster. Anyway, even if you escape the plague by chance, there is not much time left. Rather than being burned to ashes after dying of illness, it is better to give yourself a good time, and die on your own while you are not sick, and you can still be whole. The dead body is buried in the ground...

"This..." Zhao Gui felt inconceivable, "Because he was afraid of illness and cremation, he wanted to commit suicide? Could it be a disguise?"

For the pure proletarian Zhao Gui, if there were no Australians, his future would be nothing more than hard labor and part-time jobs. It would be impossible for him to marry a wife and leave children. Epidemic", died.Liuhuaqiao was cremated by Baojia.

"Ah Gui, do you think this family is isolated, no one goes in and out, and there is no shortage of food or medicine, who is free to kill an old man?" Although Huo Junming's face covered with a big mask cannot be seen, Zhao Gui can feel Seeing that he seemed to be smiling wryly, "I think this matter is basically certain, it is suicide, these people...you, you have lived a good life under the Senate for a long time, I don't know-what do these people think gone."

　PS: Volume 6 - Guangdong and Guangxi Raiders Chapter [-] will be updated tomorrow

　　
　
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