Infinite Disaster Survival

In ancient times, there was no good way to solve the plague. The most common method was to gather people in the plague outbreak area together for isolation to prevent the plague from spreading outside.

Often, without the development of effective drugs, those infected with the plague were doomed to die. There were also those who were not infected but were trapped in the area where the plague broke out. Even if they were not infected, they would be infected later, and eventually nine out of ten houses were empty.

Plague was an extremely terrible disaster that made ancient people shudder.

Just when the Yangning prefecture was organizing people, the news about the plague spread to some people.

As a merchant with a high status in Yangning Prefecture, the Shen family naturally received the news from the prefect. Due to various concerns, they still prepared guards and a lot of financial resources for their son and sent the child out.

As soon as Shen Jiafu came out, he looked for Wen Zheng and others. After informing them of the news, he would talk about other things later and asked them to pack up their things and leave as soon as possible.

"The clan leader asked the outsiders to pack up everything." The villagers who had not yet sorted out the news responded subconsciously.

Several guards looked at the villagers in surprise, looking for the person who was most likely to be the patriarch. Shen Jiafu was not surprised. He pointed to the carriage with space left and asked the slow walkers to sit in his carriage.

The villagers hesitated at first, but after Shen Jiafu insisted again and again, several clean women took their children in the carriage, and the old people and the rest of the slow walkers sat in their own ox carts, donkey carts and wooden carts pulled by mules.

These guys have accompanied them all the way to escape from famine. They can help them haul things, and they can sit on them to rest when they are tired. No one has ever thought of eating them, but they are particularly caring and dare not let them work too hard. They are fed with rice husk powder, which is bran, grass roots and non-toxic leaves every day.

"Old buddy, you have to work hard again." They have not rested for long and have to set off again. Both people and animals are a little tired, but they have to go. They say thank you for your hard work, wave their braids, and set off again.

The carriage was in the front and led the way, deliberately slowing down the speed. It not only needed the ox carts and donkey carts behind to keep up, but also took care of those men who could not take the carriage and could only run to escape.

Shen Jiafu sat in a carriage alone. He was big in size and weight, and there were a lot of things in the carriage. With the guards driving the carriage, the weight reached the weight that the horse could bear.

This man was not at ease sitting in the carriage. He stretched his head to talk to Wen Zheng who was running beside him, saying where they would go to hide next.

They were unable to go to other prefectures. Even if they stayed in the nearby county today, they would be driven away and isolated after the news of the plague spread. They also had to avoid being infected with the plague. They definitely could not go to crowded places.

In this way, the only place that could be avoided in their minds was the mountains.

Yangning Prefecture is located in the south, with mostly plains, but there are also mountains. The mountain behind Fengnan Village was not small. Near Yangning Prefecture, there was a mountain range that stretched for nearly 100 kilometers, called Guan'an Mountains.

Guan'an Mountains had a large area and abundant vegetation. It was the cradle of all kinds of wild animals. Humans did not dare to set foot in it easily without sufficient military force. No one wanted to go in and die. The place Shen Jiafu mentioned was a small peak that was almost connected to Yangning Mountains. His family had a farm at the foot of the mountain.

The hardworking farmers showed unimaginable tenacity when they fled. They gritted their teeth and ran for several miles before stopping to rest when someone almost fell. In fact, there was not much danger at that time.

The soldiers in the prefecture city would consume a lot of manpower and military force just to gather a large number of disaster victims together and send them to quarantine. The only distance they could take care of was a section around the prefecture city. It was not worth chasing any farther.

The subsequent road was walked for a while and then rested. The road after leaving the main road and turning to the small road was even more difficult to walk. It took nearly five days to reach the destination. Just after arriving and before settling down, someone in the team had a high fever.

There were more than one person, five people, three elderly people and two children.

The villagers who found out about this did not dare to speak out, but informed the clan leader of the matter. The clan leader asked no one, and immediately stopped the ox cart and went to the front to say goodbye to Shen Jiafu.

"At the beginning, we saved Mr. Shen's life and sent you back to the capital. Mr. Shen first gave us silver and money, and then informed us of the important news and helped us get here. The favor has been repaid, and we will not bother Mr. Shen anymore in the future."

"You want to leave, where are you going if you don't go to the manor?" Shen Jiafu said in surprise.

The clan leader pointed to a small path leading to the mountain not far away. They were forced to hide in the mountains for a long time during the flood. They were not afraid to return to the mountains and live again. They thought they could survive in the mountains.

Several guards did not say anything, but their eyes were always looking at the vehicles behind. When Shen Jiafu continued to persuade them to stay, they spoke for the clan leader, took out the best bows and arrows for Yang the hunter, and took out the things on the carriage, saying that they were gifts from the head of the Shen family to thank them, wishing them all the best in the mountains.

This made Shen Jiafu unable to continue speaking. After being coaxed into the manor by the guards, he asked them dissatisfiedly why they did not help him keep the people of Fengnan Village.

"Sir, I see that someone in the donkey cart is not in a good condition. His face is red and hot, and he may have been infected with the epidemic. Fortunately, you have not been in close contact with them these days, so you should let the doctor treat you well and drink some soup medicine." The guard shut up after saying that, and did not say the rest of what he was thinking.

If they were healthy, the master and his wife would not mind letting them stay in the manor and give them some land to settle down. But they also said that if someone showed symptoms of the plague, even if they were ungrateful, they would protect the safety of the young master.

They chose to go to the mountain by themselves, which was self-aware. If he really had to come out to drive them away, it would be too embarrassing.

"Someone has the plague? Why didn't you tell me earlier and call them back to the manor for the doctor to treat them."

"The master has instructed that the young master should not be exposed to anyone with the plague. Before the plague is resolved, the young master cannot leave the manor."

Not knowing that Shen Jiafu was trapped in the manor, the people of Fengnan Village were staying under the shade of the trees at the foot of the mountain. Several people with fever were gathered in a car. The villagers were unwilling to give up on them. They shared the hardships along the way, and all the conflicts in the past were suppressed, especially this time the sick were the elderly and children, and they all hoped that they were just ordinary fevers.

The patients were full of panic. If only one person had a fever, it would be fine. But they all had the same symptoms, which was just like an epidemic. Even so, the villagers were still unwilling to give up on them, but they didn't want to implicate the villagers.

The clan leader ordered all the people with fever to move to the same car. Wen Zheng carefully looked at their faces. Most of them had fever, but no one wanted to vomit. He stepped forward and held the patient's wrist to take his pulse carefully.

The old man held by Wen Zheng saw Wen Zheng coming forward and tried to shrink back, but he couldn't avoid it. The third master comforted him from the side: "Wen Zheng learned medical skills from me on the road, so let him see you first, and I will diagnose it later. If it is really an epidemic, we have been traveling together and eating together all the way. How can we get through it? If not, we need to diagnose it earlier."

After saying this, the patients stopped retreating, and the villagers felt at ease. Even if they really had an epidemic, it was their fate.

Wen Zheng paid special attention to the villagers' food hygiene along the way. It stands to reason that the probability of being infected with the plague is extremely small, but the possibility of getting sick due to extreme joy and sorrow, traveling day and night, etc. is greater. The elderly and children are the type with weak resistance, so it is not strange to get sick together.

Patiently identifying the pulse in his hand, Wen Zheng's experience in this area is actually much higher than that of the third master. He was relieved to confirm that it was just an ordinary cold.

"It's a cold, not an epidemic." This statement from Wen Zheng's mouth could not completely convince the villagers, but it just gave them a little more hope, and all the remaining hopes were placed on the third master.

Giving up the good position of taking the pulse to the third master, Wen Zheng jumped a kitchen knife and called Yang the hunter who was cherishing and stroking the new bow and arrow, to go up the mountain first to check the situation, and it would be best to find a place to stay at night as soon as possible.

The Shen family's manor is at the foot of the mountain. They had sent people to explore the mountain before and gave them a simple map. The first place they went to see was the cave marked on the map.

The continuous heavy rains that caused the floods happened two or three months ago. Not even a drop of rain fell these days, and there was scorching sun. After entering the forest, it felt much cooler instantly.

We successfully found a cave. There was only one and it was not big. This was not as good as the mountain in my hometown, but there was a flat land at the entrance of the cave. It had not rained recently, so we could stay there temporarily.

After Wen Zheng and Yang the hunter dealt with the cave, they went down and took the villagers who stayed at the foot of the mountain up the mountain. Everyone remembered the experience of living in the forest in a strange and familiar environment. Without Wen Zheng's words, they did what they had done many times before.

The result of the third master's diagnosis of cold made the villagers feel much more at ease. They settled down in the mountains and their daily meals became better, especially the patients' meals would have more meat every day, which made the ignorant children willing to get sick.

A few days passed, and none of the villagers showed the same symptoms. The two sick children gradually got better, but everyone did not become happy, because the three old people had suffered from the disease, and they had something in their hearts. They lost the desire to live. Their old and weak bodies were like a river going downhill, and they stopped breathing in two days.

It was not that no villagers died along the way, and they were in the same uncomfortable mood every time.

The corpses could not be left for too long in the hot weather, so everyone found a place with good scenery and worked hard to dig, and put the corpses of several old people in it. Just as everyone was burying them, they heard a sound.

Hearing the sound, they looked over and saw that several servants who were carrying things up the mountain threw the things on the ground and ran down the mountain.

Thinking about what happened before they came up, and looking at their current actions, everyone guessed that these servants might have misunderstood and thought that there was really an epidemic among them. They looked at each other and hesitated whether to chase them and explain clearly.

"I'm afraid that if we chase them, they will run faster and fall down easily."

"It's probably hard to explain now. Wait for a while. When they see that we are all fine, they won't misunderstand us anymore."

After communicating, continue to do what needs to be done.

After the burial of several elderly people, Wen Zheng made several suggestions in succession. Now they are temporarily living in the cave. They need to clean up the weeds around the cave quickly and cut down the trees that are too close.

The area of ​​the cave is not enough to live in. Many people are temporarily living in the car. They need to find other places to stay. The villagers think that they should build a shed at the entrance of the cave, and they can go down the mountain when it gets cold.

Wen Zheng would go around the mountain several times every day, kill many wild animals, and catch two live pheasants and bring them back, one male and one female, just right for keeping in captivity.

After finding the water source on the mountain, the drinking water problem was solved. Wen Zheng discovered that the water source flowed from the Guan'an Mountains bordering the mountain peaks. The stream was not too wide, but it was extremely clear, and many animals would come to get water.

Looking carefully at the soil near the stream, the stream was originally much wider than it is now. The current reduction in water flow is closely related to the days of exposure to the sun. Wen Zheng still remembers that in the mission introduction, there were famines and wars after the plague.

He brought the villagers here to get enough water for ten days and a half months. The defense mechanism built around the cave was all completed. Wen Zheng became very familiar with the area, so he took some dry food and prepared to explore the Guan'an Mountains along the water source, and store more supplies in his portable space.