Chapter 220: 丧尽天良的狗官

[The Heartless damned (dog) official]

After making a decision, he hurriedly asked people to prepare a sedan chair, packed his luggage, notified his wife and children in his house, and prepared to take advantage of the early hours of the morning when there were fewer people to escape overnight.

The movement (activity) in the county government is not big.

But the families of those innocent people who were wrongly accused and beheaded by the County Magistrate have long hated him to the bone.

They’ve been watching him day and night for the past few days.

They are afraid that this dog official will run away.

“Everyone come out quickly ah, that dog official who was struck by lightning is going to escape. Quickly stop him, don’t ever let him escape!”

Someone on the empty street shouted at the top of his voice.

In the silence of the night, this voice seemed extraordinarily loud and abrupt.

Not long after, the residents on the street opened their doors and ran out.

There were those with rotten chinese cabbages in their hands, those carrying rubbish, those with rotten eggs, and those with slates (wall bricks).

They had long hated this dog official to the extreme.

If it wasn’t because of him.

How would their Tai Ling County have ended up in such a state?

For the whole day, he is worried and fearful, afraid that they and their family members are infected with the terrible smallpox.

As long as there is an infected person in the family, almost the whole family will be infected.

If lucky, there will be several people who can survive, but if you are unlucky, your whole family will be destroyed.

That kind of despair, that kind of fear, that kind of deep sense of powerlessness.

Day in and day out, it enveloped them.

But after just two months of work, their Tao Ling County seems to have turned into hell.

And the main culprit of all this is all caused by this dog official in front of me.

Cao Zhi Da looked at the street, and more and more people, his heart knew it was far from good, so he hastily urged the subordinates to put ten thousand taels of gold on the carriage.

If it was usual, the guards in the mansion could still help him block a bit, but right now, almost all of the manpower in the mansion had been transferred away by Prince Chen to help out in the infected area.

There were only a few servants left in Nuo Da’s county residence.

Stinky eggs, rotten cabbages, stones, bricks, no matter if it was something that could or couldn’t smash, all of it was smashed into Cao Zhi Da’s body.

Among the crowd, he also saw someone coming with a knife.

He was afraid that the people would hurt his baby son, who was still only three years old in the palanquin, so he hurriedly told the driver to go to the city gate and wait for him, and after instructing him, he hurriedly escaped before the people surrounded him.

Everyone, quickly chase! We can’t let this dog official escape!”

After waiting for more than ten days, it was not easy to finally see this ‘dog official’ come out from the county government.

How could we let him escape so easily?

A large wave of people chased after Cao Zhi Da.

More and more people joined in.

Several times, Cao Zhi Da was almost caught.

He was exhausted from running.

It was still a long way from the city gates.

He knew that going on like this was not a solution.

His eyes fell to the thick smoke and fire in front of him at the corpse pits, where the burning of corpses killed by smallpox infection was concentrated.

He ran over and grabbed the torches from the hands of the two guards.

These two guards were acquainted with Cao Zhi Da, although they didn’t know why County Magistrate Cao snatched the torches from their hands, but after all, they were only guards and had no qualifications to ask about the magistrate’s business.

After Cao magistrate got the torches, he lit one place every time he ran to a hidden place.

Only if more than one caught fire, this group of people would focus on extinguishing the fire and would not come after him.

Sure enough, as he kept lighting fires, the people chasing him behind him became less and less.

Finally, he casually threw two torches into the cesspit where the people had been pouring the excrement bucket for years, and immediately fled to the city gate.

There, the palanquin of his mansion was parked.

Jumping onto the carriage, he shouted, “I am the magistrate of Tai Ling County, open the city gates!”

The heavy bronze gate slowly opened.

The coachman went down with a whip, and the carriage drove towards the city gates.

Behind them, a group of people chasing after them.

In the end, they were all blocked from the city by the slowly closing gates.

Cao Da finally escaped Tai Ling County.

The order was given that without his permission, no one would be allowed to open the door.

The county was in chaos, with fires starting in many places, with a tendency to spread.

“Fire, everyone put out the fire!”

The fire spread and grew bigger and bigger.

At this moment, there was a ‘bang’ sound. 

There was an earth-shattering sound, and a huge mushroom cloud rose somewhere in the south of the city.

In a matter of moments, though, there were flames in the sky and mournful screams fell incessantly on the ear.

It spread all over the city. 

The fire had taken on the momentum of a prairie fire, and it could not be reversed.

In the early hours of the morning, Lu Yunluo was already up and ready to leave for Tai Ling County.

When she slept last night, she saw that there would be heavy rain tomorrow morning.

Although it was a bit slower to rush in the dark, it was a bit more convenient than rushing in the rain.

Anyway, this Tai Ling County was close by, and all the way was a public road.

If you get up a little earlier, the sky will be bright in the past.

I ordered the people underneath to prepare.

Then arrange for Grandfather and Sister Zhou to stay in Gu Cheng County.

The infectiousness of smallpox is extremely contagious. 

Grandfather and Zhou Mama were both older, so she didn’t want to endanger them.

Naturally, her maternal grandfather did not agree to let Lu Yunluo go alone.

Lu Yunluo went through a lot of trouble, so only after she left a mission for her maternal grandfather did the Duke of State stay behind.

Yesterday night, the county magistrate gathered women from all over the city and made a total of about 10,000 pairs of gloves and 30,000 pairs of simple masks.

Lu Yunluo, according to the price of 15 wen for a pair of gloves and 5 wen for a mask, had the people underneath deliver the silver taels to Grandfather, so that he would make sure to keep an eye on County Magistrate He, and send all the money to the people’s hands.

Furthermore, the promise to undertake these days will be in accordance with the same price of a large purchase, the daily done directly sent to Tai Ling County.

After handling things here, Lu Yunluo led a large group of people towards Shang Yuan Prefecture.

When the group was almost at the entrance of Tai Ling County, she ordered the accompanying group to stop, and had her subordinates hand out masks and gloves to all the accompanying people.

Five masks and two pairs of gloves for each person.

“Your Highness, do these things work?” Imperial Envoy Liu’s face was ugly as he looked at whatever type of thing was in his hands.

It was unknown where this empress had heard of it.

Surprisingly, she came up with this kind of unorthodox thing.

After putting it on, the whole person was incongruous and it was difficult to breathe.

Shang Yuan Prefecture and the capital are different.

The capital has long since entered autumn, but this side is still as warm as spring.

Wearing something like this for a long period of time was really hard to bear.

Lu Yunluo was thinking about how to explain the use of this mask to make the crowd accept it, the accompanying Ge Lao had already helped her explain, “This kind of thing is something that I only know a little bit about, I once had the honor of discussing with the Divine Doctor Liu from the Divine Medical Pavilion, it seems that this kind of thing is able to reduce the risk of infection by covering up the nose and mouth when encountering an infectious disease.”

This Ge Lao is the 7th ranked official under the Department of Imperial Medicine, the Chief of Imperial Medicine, he is in charge of medical matters throughout the country.

His position in the Department of Imperial Medicine was second only to the superior Imperial Doctor’s Order, Tang Lao.

Ge Tian stroked his beard and slowly recalled.

If it wasn’t for the Empress taking out something like this, he almost forgot about this.

The plague in Tai Ling County was so serious.

With these two things, there would at least be some protection for them.

But how did Niang Niang know about such things?

One must know that this kind of thing, even the average doctor wouldn’t necessarily understand it.

Even he only learnt about it from the famous Divine Doctor Liu of the Divine Healer Pavilion.

Ge Tian glanced at Lu Yunluo in slight doubt.